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Trial Balloon Proves Inconclusive

Speculation that Commerce SecreUry Luther Harold Makepeace who managed Hodges success-Hodges will leave his cabinet post to seek another ful campaign for high state office, have brought term as governor of North Carolina can at this point inconclusive results concerning prospects of Hodges be nothing more than pure political speculation. returning to state politics as the Democratic guber-

It seems to us that the possibility of Hodges natorial norninee. ^

seeking another term as the states chief executive We seriously question whether Bert Bennett,

will depend heavily on what other potential Demo- Dr. Henry Jordan and others will step aside and craUc candidates decide to do within the next few offer their support to the former governor if he will months. It is highly doubtful, in our opinion, that seek the partys nomination. It is even more un-the former governor would place himself in a race likely, in our opinion, that the fo^er governor

for the nomiLtion against such men as Bert Bennett, wou d enter a wide-open race for the Democratic state party chairman, Dr. Henry Jordan, whose nomination for governor without the present list of brother Hodges appointed to the Senate, or some possible candidates being na^owed considerably, other prominently mentioned Democratic hopefuls. Even then, we would suppo^ that most of the drop-Although there have been recurring reports outs would have to be counted in the Hodges camp that Secretary Hodges, as a cabinet member, has before the former governor would seek the nomi-been out of step with the Kennedy administration, nation with the prospect of a t^gh battle in the nothing so far has developed to support recurring general election if he won the party s nomination, rumors that he will leave the cabinet. The fact that . . _ mm m ^

he has not spoken out on the civil righ^ legislation Vn.rlV YOT

now before Congress, as it pertains to interstate IvlUUU XW J-iUlXj * wX

commerce, may precipitate a controversy within the w , rij.

administration which would lead to his resignation TL

from the cabinet. But even this, at the moment, does i WXX^XXXy n

not ^ ^ wapWs hv It is far too early to jump to the conclusion that

The trial baloons sent up in recent weeks by acreage allotments for the 1964 growing

season should be reduced below those for the current year.

The sales season on the huge Eastern Belt has not yet begun, and already there have been a few assertions that 1964 allotments should be reduced.

Both the quantity and quality of tobacco which appears on the Eastern Belt in the current season will determine to a large degree what stabilization stocks will be at the close of this season, and what foreign sales of flue cured leaf from the current crop will be.

While a surplus of tobacco has long posed as a problem for the tobacco industry, the crux of

No Meeting Of Minds To Report

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Guessing Game

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

HODGES It hM long been a favorite poUtlcal strategy of Luther H. Hodgee to keep everybody guessing.

If not a deliberate strategy, tt Is at least a trademark aa familiar as the white carnation Hodges wore every day of the alx years he served as governor of North Carolina between 1954 and 1960.

Hodges, who learned poUce In a hurry, learned the ke>-them-gues&ing technique well * This was applied especially to his political enemies, but oc-caslonahy Hodges had his own aides and associates and even his wife. Martha, guessing about what be was gobis to do.

The guessing game abmit tbe future political Intentions of the volatile former governor to on again.

GUESS Once more the question is whether Hodges is considering seriously the idea oi becoming a candidate for another term as governor.

It is safe to say that this Is causing discomfiture among an-tl-Hodges politicians whether they believe Jt or not.

Just guessing about it and repeated dlscusak) d the poeslbl-ty amounts to a genuine trial ballon which, if successful, just might bring the man from LeaksvUle into the 1964 campaigns. There are a great many who would like to see it happen. The effect of recent reporte has been to renew their urging of Hodges to return to the political wars In persm.

Since he has been Secretary irf Commerce Hodges has squelched recurring reports to this effect on several occasions. But after a poUte Interval they have cropped up again.

DENY Hodges has denied the latest reports. He stye he has not told anyone that he would run for governor or that he Is considering It. He denied that be has been sampling the political climate or has authorized anyone to do it cm his behalf.

This statement was Issued after a close friend and associate ot Hodges. Harold Makepeace. told newsmen that Hodges was looking over the situation.

It Is. of course, all known that Hodges has kept in close touch with North Carolina political developments and trends. He has a keen interest in politics and It to not diminished.

But Hodges said nearly a year ago at a special newa conference in Charlotte, called for the express purpose of commenting on hU future political Intentione. thot he could not forsee the poaidbllity d a situation arising in which he would again become a candidate for governor.

TRIAL There is much speculiUlon in Raleigh about the meaning of the Hodges trial balloon. If Hodges himself did not send It up. who did and why? Was It lofted on the hope held by Hodges support-

f^d^vo'5,leS"?h.'%lof the problem has been poundage surpluses of leaf By ALVIN TAYLOR the present uncertainty about which lacked the quality purcha.sers wanted. It ha?.

also been pointed out time and again n recent years that potential foreign purchasers of U.S. flue-cured tobacco could not have their orders filled either because of quality or price factors. The result has been the lo.ss of potehtial overseas sales for U.S. flue-cured tobacco.

Factors which develop during the current sales .season may indicate it will be wise to reduce acreage allotments next year. But there is the probability

the Deroocrttlc primary for governor now only eight months away? If so, to there beside for this hope on the part of the Hodges people?

R is apparent that there are already many trial bolloons In the North Carolina political mtnd. Most of them, like that for Hodges, are up for so-called middle-ground or moderate pos-

Notes On This And Tha

If you dont think times have changed, try parking todays long automobiles in yesterdays short garages.

______ ^____________And Future, the Jaycees mag-

slble candidates men whose fUuf i-Vic fartnra will nrtinf to tho wisdom of holdiniT ^zine, jioints out in the current

polttlcal phUosophies lie some- that the lactors win point to me wisaoin oi nomine Richard Nixon and

where between those of the two allotments at their present level. Decisions with re- jyk. speechwrlter Ted Sorensen

spect to next years acreage allotments should not met at the 1962 Ten outstand-

he made until all aspects of the situationin the Ing Young Men awards banquet.

front-runners, Bert Bennett and Dr. I Beverly Lake.

RISING An effect of the numerous middle-ground trial balloons already has been to Increase the chances of a Democratic coalition candidate, and to almost assure a third candidate In the race If the unexpected Benhett-Lake duel materializes.

Those middle-ground posslbl-UUes whose balloons have been rising quickly In recent days are for Thomas J. Pearsall of Rocky Mount, Judge L. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro. Judge Dan Moore of Sylva.

Hodges himself Is reported to favor Pearsall and to believe that Pearsall would be t h e strongest coalition candidate avaable. and one behhid whom most of the states Democratic party might unite provided Pearsall can be persuaded to run.

There is continued support for Dr. Henry Jordan of Cedar Falls as a middle-ground candidate. and Jordan supporters and Jordan himself have been active In sampling the political current*.

FUTURE During the Hodges administration as governor, the guesswork about his political future was even more Intense than It has been since he went to Washington.

A recurring report during the late 1950s was that Hodges would someday be called upon as a candidate for the vice presidency. This report has not been heard with any frequency of late, but It is stUl circulated and concerns a passible running mate for President Kennedy next year. This man preferably would be a Southerner, a moderate, someone who would help heal the civil rights wounds In the Decocratic party and someone who stands high In the eKn. nedy administration. The man, whoever he may be, eventually will be named by the President himself.

light of thi.s years experiencecan be carefully studied and evaluated.

Premature assertions that 1964 allotments should be reduced serve only to confuse, and perhaps jeopardize, a sound decision being made on the important questi-^n atrthe proper time later this year.

Self-Conscious About New Era

The conservation came around to Kennedys inaugural.

Nixon: I wish I had said some of those things. Sorensen: What part? That part about Ask not what your country can do for you. . .? Nixon: No. The part that starts. I do solemnly swear . .

Well, first it was the Profumo affair and now It to The Great Robbery. England may have become a second rate power in this world of rocketry, but she sure manages to stay in the limelight.

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BY JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) The United States to walking softly and a little self-consciously, like a soldier In gym shoes.

It doesnt know whether it to entering a new era with the Soviet Union.

For 18 years it talked of wanting some atom controls. Now the Soviets have agreed to a nuclear test ban forbidding all tests except those underground.

Last week the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to cooperate in space projects involving weather and communications satellites.

They have agreed on a hot line link between Washington and Moscow.

That agreement provides for direct communication between the two capitals as one means of preventing an outbreak of war by accident.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk indicated last Friday a next step might be agreement with the Soviets on safeguards against surprise attack.

All this could mean the two countiTles finally have learned to be a little more sensible with each other and wiU try to be even more so.

But there can be no treaty without Senate approval.

Questions raised by senators not only show they doubt Moscow tends to keep the treaty but have misgivings about Soviets intentions to agree to it at aU.

Kennedy administration officials, one after the other, a.s-sured the Senate they werent taking anything for granted, either.

They explained they wouldnt be caught napping if the Soviets tried any nuclear tricks.

Yet. this coimtiT to in an extremely self-conscious position on the treaty and the Senate to expected to approve overwhelmingly.

The United States, besides long urging some such agreement, for three years, starting In 1958. refrained voluntarily from atmospheric tests with

out agreement.

This made the Soviets self-conscious and they also refrained for three years. Then they suddenly began again. ^

The United States did, too. Both now promise to give each other at least three months notice if they want to scrap the treaty by new testr ing.

The Kennedy admlnlstration to In the same fix as everyone else: It doesnt know whether this to the opening to a whole new relationship with the Soviets.

More than that: It seems equally puzzled why Moscow has becOTiic so agreeable. Rusk was asked why at this news conference Friday.

He said he thought it a iltr tie dangerous to be a mind reader.

But he said he thought it wise to try to explore other possible fields of agreement, such aa safeguards against surprise attack.

If there has been no real improvement in rclatlcms with the Soviet Unlwi since the end of the war. at least the mood seems better.

George F. Kennan who resigned recently as ambassador to Yugoslavia after 29 years with the State Department, proposed a historic plan' in 1947.

It was adopted and became the basis of American foreign policy In dealing with the Soviets, the "policy of containment.

It called for ringing Communism with military alliances and bases. This was done. One of the alliances was NATO In We.stern Europe.

Mascow tried to match the NATO front In Europe by creating an alliance of Its European satellites In the Warsaw Pact.

The alliances have faced each other since. Last June Premier Khrushchev proposed that the two sides sign a nonagression agreement.

Sunday. Kennan suggested (Continued on Page 5)

Strength For Today

How do you look after an

elephant? Well, Crtotiana-Wal-lace Circus which is showing here Friday, says three times a year an elephants skin to given a full application of the finest grade of neatfi-foot oil a* a means of softening their hides. It is a kind of skin cream or beauty lotion.

Four times a year the girls are given manicures, a 14 Inch rasp to used and, although it seems coarse, they love it. The manicure actually begins with the trimming of the foot pads the bottoms of their feet and winds up with the filing of their nails.

Another betfuty treatmnt which elephants enjoy is their weekly eye and ear bath of a weak solution of salt water.

Important, too. Is their beauty sleep. Whenever possible, the elephants are bedded down in a soft cushion of clean shavings, carefuUy selected from top grade bales. Without proper sleep they would become slug

gish.

The elephants are trained by veteran trainer Oscar Cristiana and his neice, Norma.

When speaking of the elephants Norma refers to them In most affectionate terms.

"You just have to love them. she says. "Prom the very beginning, we babied them and now they expect all the attenticm we can give them.

Sounds to me like an elephant might make a wonderful house pet.

Opinions ^n

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Other Editors Saying. Training Is The Answer

Suppose a preacher called a strike and refused to preach unless the congregation gave him the fringe benefit of attending services? Orlando (Fla.) sentinel.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly natural being? Oscar Wilde.

(The WIls<Mi Times)

So much to written on unemployment that now some facts are coming to the surface. Usually the bare figures are given with little explanation. And the explanaticHis are usually negative, giving the bad side of the picture without the need ed explanations.

Always you read that unemployment to high among the young people. Seldom do you read that many of the young people are looking for summer work only. And never do you read that jobs are available but for reasons best known to the applicant, they are not accepted.

Well there to unemployment among the young people, those who have only finished high school. Often the reason to that they do not have a trade. The Wltoon Industrial Education

are in the real work classification. Some speak of the work as menial, as soliciting, household chores, yard work and other work of this type. But no work to menial if the Job is done well. And the person doing the work will not continue in the laboring division when ability is demonstrated.

Then another reason for Jobless young people can be traced to wanting to work at a given place, parents ideas as to what they should do and how much they should be paid.

So there are many reasons for the big figures given out by the government on the jobless young people. These figures will begin to decline when school opens. And this is another reason it to not profitable for business to take on applicants who have to be trained.

Skills or training 1s the key to the situation. If we had but one bit of advice to give it

North Carolina should be ashamed of the abuses In its welfare program. Not for the 3 per cent who may have obtained aid without being fully entitled to it, but for the 60 per cent who are being denied cheated, if you willof that assistance to w'hich they are entitled. The Raleigh 'Times.

If the chemical industry really wants to accomplish something it might produce some good substitutes for synthetic clothing.Fort Myers News-Press.

Center, now the Wilson Tech- to go to the Wltoon

nical Institute, could accommodate twice aa many students as are now in the classes.

Jobs are available for the trained. But ability has always been the criteria for obtaining jobs. For as you cannot demand Jobs as your right. Jobs are obtained because of ability. And those coming out of high school as a rule have not had the specialized training for a job.

Then there is another classification where jobs are available, but seldom taken. These

Technical Institute and take a course in a skill of your choice, or prepare yourself to do a special type of work, have something to offer when you apply for a job. You may not always get the job you want, because there may not be a vacancy. But you wUl get another.

And remember qualifications, not privileges or rights or any other false measures will get you a good positlcm. Ability and training are the two requisites.

College campuses ideally falntaln an atmosphere of cloistered quiet, and many institutions, even those without specific restrictions on student ownership and operation of automobiles, have deliberately laid out their campuses so as to limit access to pedestrians. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union.

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

Ever since I wrote a column advocating that we accept the limited nuclear test ban for public health reasons. I have had conservatives praying for my soul. Some of them arc willing to admit that strontium 90 from fall-out can contaminate milk to the extent that it might con-situte a cancer hazard or a menace to the human germ plasm. But they argue that damaged genes or cancer for a few unlucky human beings are preferable to the slavery for a . whole nation that would come In the wake of military defeat in a nuclear war. They ac(jept what to them to the lesser of two evils.

Most of my critic, however, do not think it necessary to set one danger off against another. They make light of the perils that might result from the fall-out Involved in a discreet amount df atmospheric testing. Several of them have sent me a book called Nuclear Ambush: The Test-Ban Trap, written by Earl H. Voss and published by Henry Reg-nery of Cliicago. They point out that Vosss finding have the support of Dr. John A. Wheeler, a Princeton physicist who was a wartime member of the Manhattan Project, and of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Manhattan Project, and of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who says we cannot afford to repeat the tragic mistake we made with torpedoes between World Wars I and n when we had not tested torpedoes with live warheads and Its consequence was to send our submarines into the Pacific with torpedoes that would not explode.

Mr. Vosss credentials for writing on the biological effects of radiation are simply that he is a good practicing newspaperman who to willing to listen to every expert within reach. He quotes liberally from the findings of former Pres. Elsenhower Federal Radiation Council, appointed In 1960, from a report of the Medical Research Council of Great Britain, and from a review of available data made by the United Nations Scientific Committee on Radiation Effects. The net effect of Mr. Vosss reassuring quotations is that the fall-out from tests conducted to date has not been sufficient to do the peoples of the world any ascertainable harm.

The Federal Radiation Council was appointed in time to investigate the fall-out dose rate absorbed by U. S. citizens in Ulinoto at the peak of nuclear test exposure in May. 1959.

If the peak dose of that period had persisted for a full year, the average Ulinoisian would have absorbed one-fifteenth roentgen of radioactivity. According to the council, fall-out would have had to deliver doses hundreds of times greater than that to produce a detectable effect on human bones, marrow, thyroid glands, embryos, genes or bloodstream.

Continuing in his optimistic vein, Mr. Voss remarks that people living In his altitudes absorb much more natural radiation in a years time than that received by seacost dwellers from all the bomb-test fall-out to date. It is more dangerous, he implies, to live In Denver, Colo., or Albuquerque, N. M., at any time than to live in Richmond, Va., or Charleston, S. C., during a period of nuclear testing.

I must admit that Mr. Voss to convincing as long as he depends on statistical demonstration. But the shortcoming of the statistical method becomes apparent when he deals with human errors accompanying certain tests. When a boatload of Japanese fishermen returned to their home port after the U. S. had tested a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini in the Pacific, it was discovered that their cargo of tuna was dangerously radioactive. The fishermen themselves had been dusted with heavy fall-out, as had natives on the Marshall Islands and Americans at a Pacific weather station. These people werent statistics.

What makes a non-scientlflc reader uneasy to his feeling that when truly monster bombs are tested, the danger to Individuals, (Continued on page 8)

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS BEST PROJECT IN LIFE

Develop your pcrsonalltiy. You may not be able to accumulate great wealth. You may not be In a position to get a top-grade education or to run for important office suid win the election. Your social status may be what you regard as humble.

There are certain aspects of life about which we can do very little, but there is one thing everytHie can doeveryone can develop hto of her personality. Some of the most c banning people in the world draw low salaries all their lives and cone to the end without much accumulation. Others are well educated and known among their fellows for their scintillating personality, It to a well-known fact that gills of outstanding personality are sometimes anything but beautiful. Boys positively

lose their heads over these ordinary-looking girls who can have their pick of a dozen or more men for a husband.

A well developed personality depends first of all on the ability to be oneself. You may be a bit on the solemn side or you may be an extrovert and a back-slapper. Start from what you are. Dont try to be something you are not. Then take a groat and real interest In other people. Be sparing in your criticism. Try to find out every time you come in contact with something novel and unusual Just what it to that gives this situation Its appeal.

Touch life at many points. Be generous and understanding. This may seem like trite and obvious advice, but it to the kind of thing that develops rich, charming, overwhelming personalities.

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By ELMER ROESSNER H the test - ban pact was the first step In a journey of a thousand mUes. the second step may be an increase in trade between the United States and Russia.

Nothing has been said about it officially. Perhaps nothing will until the treaty to approved or vetoed by the U. S. Senate. To suggest It now might result in votes against the treaty.

Yet it seems certain that more trade with the Soviets to a logical. almost unavoidable, consequence of better relations be-twee*. the East and the West. WHY ITS LIKELY Here are some of the reasons why more East - West trade to likely:

1. Russias relations with Red China are cutting off China as a raaiket for Russian goods. And here may be the key to the split between China and Russia: China to a lousy market. It has Uttle gold to exchange for Russian products. It has almost no surplus to barter for Russian goods, and what surplus produce It has to little needed by the Soviets,

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increase In Trade

2. Chinas big surplus to im-trained manpower. Thats one of Russias surpluses, too.

3. China to making overtures to increase trade with Japan. In this instance, China may be a better market. The mainland communists can offer coal, iron ore and minerals (products that Clna can spare but that Russia does not need) in return for manufactured goods. The U. S. faces the fact that unless it can take more of Japans gpods. It cannot sell it more American products nor can It forbid Japanese trade with China.

WE WANT EVEN BREAK

4. America's allies are preempting sales. Machines and factories which Americin manufacturers are not permitted to ,sell to Russia are being freely sold by English, German, Bel-' gian, French and other Western nations. This tends to create Jobs abroad and not aid unemployment in this ccHintry.

5. American foreign traders are eager to open new export markets and they and their lobbyists are urging the Administration and Congress to permit greater sale o uoucrltical ma

terials behind the Iron Curtain.

6. The Common Markets increase In tailffs on chickens has aroused chicken growers In America and created a chicken bloc in Congress. While Russia to not likely to replace Germany and France as a market for U. S. broilers, the Soviets may be willing to increase U.S.-Soviet trade as a means of punishing the Common Market.

Note that many of the giant U. S. corporations have nwicri-tical products and services Russia would eagerly pay for. MAY HIT UNEMPLOYMENT

7. Labor economist* may c(mi-clude that expanded trade with Russia would create more jobs in this country. This would activate the labor lobby.

8. And this to the BIG point nobody ever bombs a good customer. If the U.S. becomes a better customer of the Russians, and the Russians become big buyers of American products, in each country there will be large and powerful groups who will be opposed to any shooting or bombing because it will hurt their set-ups.

The entrenched bureaucrats

behind the Iron Curtain, growing more powerful and perhaps more wealthy on international trade, will use every means to keep East . West relations peaceful. And In the U. S., the big Industries and corporations selling to the Russians will lobby and propagandize for West-East trade.

The bird carrying buy orders between Moscow and New York may be the genuine dova of peace.

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