Wedneidty, Aufirust 21, 1962

Factors Sure To Influence Prices

No one knowg, of course, what tobacco prices higher priced tobacco on warehouse floors during trill average tomorrow when the huge Eastern Belt the early sales days, and without the better tobacco begins its 1963 sales season. to offset the lower grades, the opening prices cannot

On the baris of the experience of the border mi^ht^bl

belt, it may be expected that opening prices may son average might be.

be less than they were a year ago. If the quality There is every indication that this years tc^ of offerings on the Eastern Belt this year shows bacco crop m Pitt Comity has better ^

aufficient improvement over last year, this better better yield than the 1962 crop, the ou^t of the ouality of leaf may be reflected in the opening day new sales season, thew factors stoongly point to ^ ^ larger income from tobacco for Pitt County farmers

tt Is important, under any circumstances, that this year than was the case last year, people of this area recognise that the first seven When the auctioneers begin their chants t<^ sales days of the auctton season on the EasUm Belt momw morning, another sales season for tobacco this year will be devoted primarily to the sale of will be underway in full swing.

untieiHeaf. By and large, tobacco sold during the 1.

first week of the season will represent lower pricedeo1lHntlOH POllCV leaf from most farmers purchaaea. The untied leaf Jf

will carry a support price of six cents per pound ^ ^ . j

less per grade than tiea tobacco of the same quality Qf ^ A g Jg KG-OtOLlGCl And grade.

THe Trouble With A Thaw

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These factors are sure to influence price

A new Civil Aeronautics Board plan for con-

averages on the Eastern^Belt markets as they dbl golidating at central locations airline service for

smaller cities is another indication that the CAB may yet officially look with favor upon the proposal for a central airport facility for Eastern North Carolina,

Last week the White House announced a plan submitted by the CAB in response to the administrations request for sharp reductions in subsidies paid airlines by the federal government. The new CAB plan proposedamong other thingsthat air ser

n the border markets. There will be little of the

State Dry Vote No Longer Sure

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

CHANGED In not too distant iMuR aeuhxui of the North puoUna legislature, "all or nothing" liquor referendum bills stirred majm^y reaction akin to quiet panic or Uie plaque.

They were picked up gingerly with ateriie glovea and quickly toaaed over to be dlspoeed ot In some obecure subcwnmlttee.

It was felt that the less that was said or done about them the better and demands from dry forces for a vote were Ignored and proved futile.

It Is still felt by a majority of legislators that there la nothing to be gained by bringing such a bUl to a vote. But perhaps the reasoning and the poll > tical background of the liquor question has undergone changes If not a complete reversal in recent years.

BILLS Once Introduced with monotonous regularity, the "all or nothing" referendum bills would have called a atate-wlde referendum on the liquor Questlai simply should North Carolina be all wet or all dry.

They were mesaurca sponsored by organlied- drys. t formW-able political force when united on such an issue.

R was widely recognized political axiom that If such a bill came out of commUtee for a vote, chances were good that It would pass. And then chances were even better that North Carolina soon would be all dry.

Seldom, however, did such a bill have a chance to reach the floor because most lawmakers did not want to stand and be counted (X) the issue.

VOTE Liquor referendum bills stUl die quieUy In legls-. latlve committee, but there Is evidence that in most cases It la no longer considered political aulclde to vote publicly for legalised liquor.

In fact, according to present polttlcal thinking, it Is no longer certain that the state would vote dry in a statewide referendum. There are reliable political tndicators which make It appear that the state now might go all wet.

m what amounts to vindication of the ABC "local option" ayktem. no one really puahei any m<w to find out.

The strident demands by drys. a knowing as well as powerful political force, to get a vote on the question have not been heard in several years.

CREDENCE Credence to reports that most of the stittes voters now favor ccmtroUed local optl(xi Is given by the fact that wets have piled up a 2-to-l margin In local ABC elections In the past two mcmths.

In six local electicms, ABC stores have been approved In four towns and counties and defeated in two.

Eight more local ABC elec

tions are to be held during the next numth or ao.

The legislature approved holding ABC electicms in 14 localities and turned down proposed liquor votes in three localltlea. The three that were turned down were Brevard, hometown of Republican Rep. William Leonard who peeved his colleagues by writing a newspaper gossip account of a legislative party: Blowing Rock, where the bill was opposed by the local representative after being introduced by a Rowan County legislator, and Lexington, where a massive bloc of opposition developed.

LOCALITfES ABC elections were approved for Morganton, Mt. Airy. Roseboro, Hot Springs Lenoir, Pender County, Lllllng-ton, Wade&boro, Valdese, Monroe, Btmn, Granite Palls. Hamlet and Burnsville. Oxford voted in A^ stores in a Granville County referendum during the session.

In elections held thus far, AVC stores were approved in Morganton. Roseboro and Hot Springs and turned down in Lenoir and Mt. Airy. The Oxford ABC store opened July 15. Pen-

vice to two or three cities be consolidated at single airports in 44 speciic cases.

This new CAB plan follows a pattern similar to the policy statement issued about a year ago in which the agency saia it lavored consolidation of air service at central locations whenever feasible, rather than continuing air service on an individual

community basis. A similar policy statement was HAL BOYLE

issued about the same time by the FAA, which ^

allocates federal funds for airport construction.

The proposal that air service on a basis for Eastern North Carolina be assigned central airport is now before a CAB hearing examiner. The Bureau of Economic Regulation, an agency new york (AP) As he

of the CAB, has repeatedly recommended, in con-

nection with the hearings, that central air service biggest little firecrackers

for this section of the state be assigned to an area that ever exploded on Broad-

airport near Toddy. This recommendation would way. , . ^

seem to be in stride with the new general plan the millional his Me S

CAB has presented to the administration. some years ago, and probably

It mav be some time yet before the hearing haifwp there.

. *> 4-Vi IToofavvi XT/1'r.+Vi Right pow, however, one of

examiner issues his ruling m the Eastern North pleasures is raising

Carolina case, and even longer before the CAB pigeons on a five - acre island

makes a final decision in the matter. With the pas.s- he owns off Connecticut.

age of time however, it becomes in^creasingly ^i- ,

dent that the po.sition taken by Greenville, Pitt East side," explained

der County approved legal liq fouYity and several others fora central airport BUiy.

uor, beer and wine. fopilifv fnr area is in aten with the emeririnir I* raising some dec-

There are now ABC systems facility for this area, la m step witn tne emerging ^erd ot spot-

operating in 36 counties and in policy^ of the Civil Aeronautics Board and the ggr."

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21 municipalities in counties which do not have stores outside the municipal limits.

ROW The biggest row over liquor during the 1963 legislative sesslcm occurred when Sen. Wilbur Jolly of Franklin introduced a bill to abolish ABC stores In populous Guilford County a Guilfords Republican Sen. Charles Strong, a minister, signed It. The Guilford House delega-ti(i opposed It, and it was blocked and killed In the House.

r-.u-ln., the Guilford County maneuvering, Sen. Ralph Scott of nearby Burlington calle dthe JoUy-Strong bill "the Alamance County revenue act." This re-fered to the fact that If liquor stores were abolished in Guilford, sales in Alamance's stores would skyrocket.

Little attention, however, was paid to the "Madison County revenue act." 1. c Rep. Liston Ramaey's bill for an ABC referendum In the tiny mountain town of Hot Springs, population 720. Hot Springs subsequently vetted In a store, which is about to open.

This store wU be i a mountainside. downhill and about six miles from the Tennessee state line, bordering on a large area o East Tennessee which, except for the city of Knox-vUle, Is "bone dry" Insofar as legal liquor Is concerned. Hot Springs and Madlscm county therefore expect to reap a bonanza from out-of-state sales.

Hot Springs also becomes the first community west of Asheville to approve legal liquor stores.

administration.

Rose had no time when growing up for the ordinary joys of childhood. At 17 he was the

worlds shorthand speed champ.

In the years since then he wr(tte 500 songs, ran 11 cabarets, produced shows that over a 30-year period played to 100 million people, turned out one of the most successful columns in the history of journalism, made a fortune in Wall Street, assembled a noted art collection, and had three wives.

Today he lives alone In his huge, five - story Manhattan mansion "I dont know how many rooms it has, I never counted them with a 31^-pound Yorkshire terrier named Jumbo.

"She gets three tablespoons of minced chicken once a day, he said. "Ive had dogs for a long time. If you overfeed them, you lose them.

Billy dwells quietly on a sln-

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Democrat* have run Congress since 1955 but they paid a lot more attention to business under President Kennedy.

The present Congress, which some people think may be here until Christmas, probably is the greatest do . nothing Congress in a generation. The reason primarily seem* to be lack of tough leadership.

For six of his eight White House years, Elsenhower had to depend on a Democratic Congress to put his programs through. It got a lot of work done, although not always to his satisfaction.

None of those Congresses finished later than mid - September. Most were finished before September.

Kennedy has expressed approval of Congress work so far In his administration but it has left a lot of people cold. And it takes longer and longer to get its job finished.

The 1%1 st^ssion, ending Sept. 27 was the longest since 1951, when this country was sighting the Korean War. The 1962 scs-Sion wound up Oct. 13. the longest peacetime session since 1949 and the longest in an election year since 1942. This one will be longer still.

The Senate In Elsenhowers time was under the guidance of Lyndon B. Johnson, now vice piTsident. Speaker Sam Ray-bum, a Texan like Johnson, bossed the House. He will still boss for part of 1961 but died that year.

These men were tough, hard-driving masters of detail. Johnson seems unquestionably to have been the best Senate leader in the country.

His successor. Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana. Is a mild and gentle man. Immensely liked, but not In the same le&Wb with Johnson for day In and day out hammering. Rayburns successor. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts Is well liked, too. But hes no

Rayburn.

There also is the question of presidential leadership to g e t Congress, no matter what i t s mood, to act on White House programs.

In one way it Is difficult to draw a contrast between Elsenhower and Kennedy i* this field. Kennedy has followed Elsenhowers technique of never fighting with Crmgress.

Since he had to deal with a Democratic . run Congress through most of his two terms, Eisenhower never was in a position to put on the pressure in the way Kennedy should be able to do. Kennedys own party la limning Congress.

But much of the time Kennedy looks half - hearted in fighting for his programs. A good example was medical care for the aged, one of his major proposals last year.

He made only one public speech for it, and that was off the cuff, and the whole thing melted. And the members of Congress who bottled it up got the kid glove treatment.

This year, until civil rights took first place, a tax cut W'as his biggest program. But that hasnt passed either house and may not get through. He cmh-promlsed on this one early too early, some people think.

It might be argued that Southern Democrats, peeved at the Kennedy administration for Its other activities In the civil right.s field, have been slowing np the works. But thats hardly a full story.

It should not be forgotten that Johnson and Rayburn In Elsenhower's time, over the opposition of southern Democrats, pushed through the first two civil rights bills In this century, got a lot of other work done, and finished early.

Two of the biggest factors In the present stumbling along seem to be undistinguished Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill and a lack of fighting leadership by Kennedy In dealing with Congress.

(Gast<Miia Gazette)

We are developing, more and more, a feeling of ccanpasslon for the harassed media of radio and television. The government, it seems, is tightening the screws. Now any self-righteous Federal Communications Commission employee or official will deny ardently that the government has any Intention of taking over the nations broadcast media for propaganda purposes, or that it will dictate program content; but, unhappily, there is growing evidence the other way.

Newton Minow, when he headed the outfit, found tv a "vast wasteland, and he reminded the stations that their service to the public would be examined when license renewal time came around. The result was a rash of documentary productions, some of which were great, and most of which succeeded in making some of the most exciting Issues of our time seem deadly dull. FCC spokesmen professed to find this an improvement. The public, which was to be served, tuned out by the millions.

Government pressure next was appUed to get a one-sided airing for government views that farmers should vote for the Freeman wheat plan. Now. the PCC has decided that broadcasters must devote time to the race issue which Is racking America a far more specific directive on what must be broadcast than the industry ever has had before.

The FCC "guidelines" specify that broadcasters must provide

air time for spokesmen for all responsible groups," and then ducks any definition of a "responsible group, except in a spokesmens remark to the effect that those who are opposed to integration arent to be considered responsible.

Whether or not they are responsible is beside the point. This would seem, however, to obligate stations to grant almost unlimited time to advocates of minority demands, and give the stations the option of refusing time to those who might have legal or emotional grounds, good or bad, for opposition.

The ideal of free speech never before has hinged on the correctness or soundness of the views of the speaker. This is a mistake, and a serious one. But it is a mistake that was sure to be made once the government began taking a hand in programming.

It is sound and desirable to have an FCC that regulates the industry in the technical aspect of its life, but it is verging on day-to-day governmental censorship when the government steps in to help stations with their program planning. Radio and tv soon could reflect the personal tastes of the rule-makers In Washington, and antennas could soon become towers of babble with little Interest for the listener or the viewer. Even more dangerous, they could become brainw-ashing tools for whomever the viewer. Even more dangerous, they could become brainwashing tools for whomever are the Washington ins of the moment, and make it difficult ever to dislodge them.

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Strength For Today

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS A WAY OF LIFE

We often hear the expi-ession The ChrLstian Movement." As a matter of fact. Chi-lstianity is not a movement but a life. It Involves the use of creeds, the statement of alms, the building up of a huge organization, yet Christianity is more than ny or all of these. Througn the ages It has Indeed moved" like a huge river. Furthermore, it has "moved" the hearts of men and women until we can say with confidence that mllllwis have found their lives changed because of their contact adth Christian teaching and with the founder of the religion, namely, Jesus Christ him.self.

But we must always i-em^-ber that above everything ^e Christianity is a life, or. as

.some express It, a way of life. Christianity addresses itself to persons W'ho If left to their own devices would go down either gradually or perclpitant-ly Into indifference, melancholy despair, or actual and flagrant sin. Christianity a thing of creeds, orginlzation, priesthood and a Divine Being standing at the center Is a powerful, unrelepting force proceeding against all that is evil in human hearts and gathering up into its mighty power all that Is good.

We wonder sometimes what the world would be like If Christ had not come. Would we have any free countries ^oday? Would there be any beauty to home life? Would men be willing to die for ntttile causes?

Christianity Is not a movement." Christianity Is a life a Way of Life.

By ELMER ROESSNER Almost unnoticed, business Itself had whittled away some rights of Americans. They are the right to refuse to testify against oneself and the right of privacy.

The Federal Communications Commission and the Supreme Court have outlawed wire-tapping, except in certain circumstances. The FCC, in fact, requires a 15-second signal for recorded telephcMie conversations, which has led to some mighty silly i-adlo broadcasts, A sheriff. Interviewed by telephone, is heard to say. "I rushed over to they dying man and heard him say BEE P. Please get my wife. I said. Weve sent a squad car and a BEEP jeep to bring her to your side. Then the fire got hotter and BEEP. . . Well, youve heard It too. OLLY-OLLY-OUTS IN FREE The Supreme Courts ruling against evidence obtained by wire-tapping has been so broad that Federal, state and county district attorneys have been crying that they are powerless to prosecute kUlers and gangsters. and some have gone scot free.

gle floor In his big museumlike home. The rooms have a barber chair, a gymnasium, and an old high desk on which Jonathan Swift is reputed to have written "Gullivers Travels.

Once or twice a week Rose has a couple or two in for dinner. Once 0 rtwice a week he goes' out on the town.

Id rather be hit with a baseball bat than own another night club, he remarked.

"On Thanksgiving I have a party for all the strays I know, and on Christmas Eve I have a bustup for maybe 100 people and their kids."

His stock maricet Investments, running his two theaters, and writing occasl(Hial magazine articles take up most of his time.

Hes also flirting with the idea of producing a musical with Bert Lahr called "Foxy." And hes building an outdoor art museum in Jerusalem to which he is contributing his million - dollar collection of sculptures.

The public image of Rose, which he himself created, is that of a jack-in-the-box showman, flamboyant and a bit wi the shrill side. But he rejects the idea that he Is either "a tough guy or unduly cynical.

Rose says wealth hasnt made him Icaiely and that the only money that really counts is "the 11 bucks you have in your pocket when you really need It,

But theres something Billy would like right now to be married again.

The single life," he said, "is like a red and gold box of Christmas candy. When you open it, all it holds is a couple of lousy bon bons."

Opinions '.n Brief

"At every step of the way children are enjojriried to stut^ harder, achieve more and prepare themselves for an ever more exacting and perilous future but in an environment which has no use for them now. It is no wonder they are bored, fretful and desperate. -- Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Ma.

"Since the beginning of time, more human voices have been lifted against something than have been lifted for something." The Asheville Citizen.

"A lie is not a very good substitute for the truth, but its difficult to find many others." Dove Creek (Colo.) Press.

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

When I first heard that there were plans afoot to build a Nar tiwial Chiltural Center for the Performing Arts in Washingtim, D. C.. my well-trained libertarian hackles rose predictable. Mindful oi my friend Leonard Reads Insistence that opera cant be grand if It is subsidized by the State by raiding the pocketbooks of people who are allergic to mezzo-sopranos, I thought we were threatened with Just another boondoggle bearing DO relation to fiscal Justice.

Well, it turns out that In this particular instance I emoted before I was hit. To my Intense surprise, I discover that the U, S. Congress, in giving a green light to the supporters of a National Chiltural (Center, has voted for a change to get something off the public cuff Instead of on it. This must constitute something of a record.

There will be a Natiimal Cultural Center, all right, and it will be built on publicly owned land hard by the Potomac River above the Lincoln Memorial. But Congress has told the Cultural Center Board Chairman, Roger L. Stevens, the New York real estate tycoon who doubles in brass as Broadways most successful angel, to go out and scratch for the $30 million needed to turn architect Edward Durrell Stones designs into reality.

The plans for the building are impressive. When it is completed it will consist of three halls under a single roof. There will be a 2.750-seat symphtmy hall, a 1,200-seat theatre, and a 2,500-seat hall for ballet, musical comedy, and opera. Under a retractable section of the roof there will be space for restaurants, childrens puppet shows, art exhibits, and band concerts. Since Washington draws upwards of 9,000,000 visitors * year, the potential audience for first-run movies and shows, visiting ballet troupes and touring college dramatic exhibitions should be large enough to keep the Cultural Center In the black. Mr. Stevens has already landed $5 million from the Ford Foundation. Ernest Breech, former chairman of the Ford Motor Company, Is expected to dig up $6 million more as head of a business committee. To bait those who yearn for a limited approach to immortality the center will hraior contributors of $100,000 or more with plaques on pillars surrounding the Center. The $15,000 contributors will have their names inscribed in marble in one of the Centers halls. As for the fifty States of the union, they will be rewarded by a representation of State flags and seals provided they can contribute a penny per person In accordance with populations.

The truly Interesting thing about all this is not that Washington is going to get culture. To us dwellers In the sticks, culture is as culture locallv and from the performing arts standpoint it Is doing very well In my neck of the woods. I have only to drive an hour or more from my home to hear a Brahms recital at the Yale School of Music summer digs in Norfolk, Connecticut, which is up in the Berkshire foothills, or to watch Jose Limons dance company perform at the Connecticut College for Women in New London, or to see Shakespeare played at Stratford-on-HousatOTilc, Off Broadway" is now practically everywhere, so I peraonally couldnt care less about a move to centralize culture In the nations capital. On the other hand, I can see that it is a good idea to provide performers with a stage that will give them national billing.

Quite aside from personal preferences and the performers* need for a national platform, however, Mr. Stevens private money - raising crusade could have a profound effect on the average Americanos notion of what constitutes a legitimate use of the taxing power. H. L. Mencken, whose idea of the proper limits at exercise was to lift a stein of beer exactly two feet from a table top to his mouth, always resented It when he was taxed to support public park tennis tournaments In Baltimore. Multiplied over all sorts of activity, every citizen of the U. S. must resent some (Continued on Page 6)

3y Business

No one has kept score bub the number of criminals turned loose slnjce the courts ruling has probably been greater than those freed when the Bastille was breached on July 14, 1789. Certainly those released have been farmore dangerous than those liberated by the French revolutionaries.

But. unchallenged, business had created the means by which police, blackmailers, business spies, suspicious husbands, pro-vacateurs and others can trap victims more adroitly than the slickest wiretapper in town.

There are now devices that can be built into an attache case or a briefcase that can record conversations up to a range of 20 feet. Furthermore, they can be built in so they cannot be seen, cut into books or sheaves of paper, even if the case Is opened.

OTHER TRICKY TRAPS

There are other types of devices in which the Interviewer carries a small microphone in his pocket, tie pin or lapel, and a minature broadcasting station broadcasts (or narrowcasts) the conversation to a recording device In a briefcase left outside

the door.

* These can be great in political campaigns. A genial interviewer can coax a candidate into telling an off-color story. When replayed at a rally or over radio the next day, the victim Is dead. Of course, they can be used to trap the dishonest, a cheating husband, a blackmailer or a robber. They might even cinch the case against some of the Lavender Hill mob that robbed the British mall train last week.

But they can Invade the privacy of an honest man, even you. Furthermore, tapes can be spliced and sections erased so that even an honest man can be blackmailed or convicted.

This cwnmentary is prompted by the fact that a new pocket microphone is being marketed by Klnematix, Inc., Chicago, because an FCC ruling, effective July 1. authorizes the use of the 88-108 megacycle bond for low-power wireless microphones. This device is available for less than $50 with a buUt-ln mlcngihone, compared with $250 or more for other devices. It weighs 7Vi ounces, can be concealed in a cigarette pack.

and can transmit up to 200 feet.

Kinematex suggested many legitimate uses, in stage and TV productlwis, for attention getters in outdoor promotions, for inventories and for checking on babies, the 111, etc. It also suggested it could be used for checking on salesmen.

It did not stress the fact that it could be used to trap the unwary, to Invade privacy or to hear what telephone taps can not. And there are some who hope that the first victims of the device will bo some Federal commissioners caught in flagrante delicto.

HEALTH, EDUCATION, WELFARE COSTS AS MUCH AS . S. BUDGET Public and private spending for health. educatl(m and welfare may top $100 billion in fiscal 1963, according to the National Industrial Confere nee Board. Thats more than th# total Federal budget and a 142 per cent Increase since 1953. These "Causes" now take 18 per cent of the gross national product, and about two-third* of the costs will come from taxpayers yields.