Thtnrsdty, September 12, 1968

October 14 As Good A Day As Any

October 14 is as good a day as any for North General Assembly. The proposed constitutional Carolinas General Assembly to take up anew the change for automatic redistricting may likewise recomplex problem of redistricting the State Senate, fleet changes that have been brought about in recent T. O fft fVia and its oeonle how- months as the governoi and legislators have dis-

fVio loirUUfnr* who return to Raleigh in cussed informally means of breaking the deadlock ever, that the jegislatow who return to ^ ^

districting be done in a logical redistricting^ oYlhe'sllall'^irhe

Through two regular sessions of the not accomplish the task in this new session, certainly

the matter of ^nate last ^he courts will redistrict the state before the elec-

stalemated. At the outset of tions next year. It will be far better for the state

February there was y7 and its people if the legislators do the job than if

seats would be redistricted. But this confidence gave

W'ay to bitterness, confusion and favor.

into sp^lariession^ln^ Gov. ^anford Powell Bill Funds Are

Laid tM legialatora will be aaked to consider two * measures:

1. A bill redistricting the Senate on a strict population basis in accordance with the present constitutional provisions.

2 A constitutional amendment to be submitted to the voters providing for a more workable plan of redistricting to operate automatically

^^In a sense this is where the matter stood when the legislature adjourned after asking the governor to call a special session. A primary difference is that the plan for redistricting now will difier from that considered in the regular session of the

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ROAO The big story of road building In North Carolina In 1963 is being written In the rugged mountain country of northern Htywood County, along the Pigeon river route to the Tennessee line.

Men end machines are blasting and tunneling through solid rock, sherrlng the faces of steep mountainsides, bridging streams and backing through snake-infested forests.

They are carving mile by mile the roadway for what will be a 21-mile segment of four-lane Interstate 40, the superhighway which eventually will connect the two states through a previously Inpenetrable barrier of mountains.

It Is a Job that rivals and exceeds the building of the Old Port-Rldge-crmt superhigrway across the Blue Ridge In McDowell County more than lo years ago.

MAGNITUDE - Grading of the Pigeon river route from Cove Creek to the Tennessee line near WatervUle began early this summer.

The project location Is remote, and few officials not on the icene were aware of the magnitude <A the Job until a f e w daya ago. Engineers and highway department staff officials returned to Raleigh with reports and packets of photographs showing progress of the work.

The pictures show huge graders and bulldozers dwarfed by the slopes and men tolling in the crevices, placing dynamite charges, are antlike. Some of the fills are 300 feet deep.

ROUTE The Pigeon river route through Haywood County was chosen for location of the long-planned Interstate superhighway several years ago.

It was chosen on the basis of surveys and extensive engineering studies and reports which said it wcAd be a better, more feasible route thwi one suggested donw the valley of the French Broad river through Madljson County.

It will be one of the last segments of Interstate 40 to be completed in North Carolina. This superhighway now extends from near Greensboro, through Winston-Salem, and via Statesville. Hickory and Morganton to the Buncombe County line at Ridgecrest, wrlth only two gaps one in Davie County and one in Catawba.

Work is progressing on another segment of 140 west of

Asheville, from the Haywood County line to Clyde. The route then will swing northwestward to Cove Creek.

WILD - The photographs ob-Ulned by the highway department show stretches of the Pig-era river In narrow mountain and part of the stream along WatervUle lake.

The mountains along the route, Seay mountain, Oak mountain. Grassy Knob and Buzzard's Roost, are not the highest in Western North Carolina but they are some of the wUdest.

We are having to knock copperheads and rattlesnakes off of every rock." an engineer making transit surveys reported.

Already with Fall approaching, the nights are cool and the mornings crisp In the mountains and the timber rattlers and copper-heads are found sunning on the rocks during the day.

WORK - Contracting for the grading work on the Pigeon river route is divided into seven separate projects.

In some areas, engineers say the contractors have encountered 90 per cent rock which has to be blasted. There has been re-routing necessary to eliminate tunnels and only two major tunnels will have to be built.

There is no flnn date for completion of the rdute. Officials say North Carolinas section should be completed ahead of that In Tennessee, although some preliminary grading is being done on the Tennessee side. Some doubt that the route will be ready for traffic for another two or three years.

RONEY North Carolinas director of secondary roads, Ben Roney, is author of a len-ghty, detaUed feature article on county road administration in the state, appearing in the September Issue, of Better Roads magarine.

Roneys article traces development of North Carolinas 57,340 mile state-maintained secondary road system, probably the nations largest.

North Carolina was the first state to assume full responsibility for the secondary road system and the first state to malntalnt his entirely by vehl-cular-user tax revenue. The article points out that when the state took over the secondary sy.stem in 1931 there were only 654 miles of paved roads, mo.st of them graded and stabilized for all-weather use. Roney also notes that 800.000 of North Carolinas citizens live on secondary roads that are still unpaved.

Important To Budgets

Slicing up the Powell Bill pie among North Carolina ~ municipalities has made a considerable difference in the financial conditions of many cities and towns of the state in recent years.

This year it will be an $8 million pie that the 420 municipalities of the state divide for street maintenance and improvement work. Without these Powell Bill funds most incorporated cities and towns of the i^ate would have higher local tax rates and fewer miles of paved streets than is now the case.

By use of these funds over a period of years most of the communities have been able to accelerate their street paving programs and at the same time reduce the cost of upkeep on their unpaved streets.

Nine incorporated towns of Pitt County are slated to receive approximately $146,700 in Powell Bill checks about the end of this month. That in itself is an impressive amount, but it becomes even tj a t T>r'\vT TT more impressive when one considers the extra by HALi nUlLi]^ pennies which would have to be added to municipal tax rates to bring in that amount of -revenue.

Greenville, by way of example, is to receive $89,426 in the Powell Bill distribution this year. If local officials had to raise that amount of money with additions to the citys tax rate, it would require a tax increase in the neighborhood of 25 cents per

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Controversy Finds Him

NEW YORK (AP) - Producer Otto Preminger is a man of controversy who says he

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WASHINGTON <AP) The problems which have suddenly piled up on President Kennedy have b(en accumlating, seeking .solutions, for the greater part of a decade.

They Just happened to land In his lap all in a bunch although they seemed Invisible to him earlier in the year. There are ban treaty, the civil rights bill and Viet Nam.

Just a little over 10 years ago tlie Rus.slans exploded their first hydrogen bomb.

Since then this country ajid Russia have set off many atomic explosions, talked of ways to end them, did stop them voluntarily for three years, resumed, and finally this summer decided to agree to stop them except underground.

At this moment, despite all the talking the United States has done to the world about want-hig a suspension of tests, Kennedy cannot be ab.solutely positive the Senate will approve, although It piobably will.

It was only nine years ago that the Supreme Court set in motion a whole scries of unpredictable events by declaring public school segregation unconstitutional.

It has taken nine years to break down opposition to compliance with the court In every state, even to only a token degree. Mississippi, for Instance, has had one university desegregated but no grammar school.

But it wa.s that school decision, which said in effect segregation by its very nature is unconstltutiinal, that gave Negroes heart and support in demanding an end to all forms of segregation.

The result has been demonstrations, riots, and some progre.ss Tuesdays feeble effort at defying school desegregation In Alabama by Gov. George C. Wallace, until Kennedy federalized his National Guard, was Just an annoyance.

The real drama shifts now to Congress and a fight over the civil rights bill which Kennedy offered only late in this session. and then only after he had been pushed into doing so by Neg-

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roes militant demonstrations for civil rights.

It is also nine years since the French, learning nothing after keeping the Vietnamese people In subjecti(Mi for generations, finally collapsed in their war ag alnst the ifits and left them.

To save the rest of Indochina, now called South Viet Nam. and the rest of Southeast Asia from communism, the United States has had to help with men and supplies and money, supporting the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem.

He has run it as a dictatorship. The United States didnt get tough but just played the role of willing helper in the fight against the Reds. Ill will ag-ain.st Dclm has been piling up in Viet Nam.

His recent repressions, against Buddhists and students rocked his hold, showed dlm-Ishlng public confidence in the Diem regime. But the United States still backs him. still is afraid to get tough.

Kennedy said this week the United States must pursue a policy of patience in Viet Nam and avoid getting tough because that might collapse the government and open all Viet Nam and Southeast Asia to communism.

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The real damage that Is being caused to our economy, and to our business opportunities. is due to our high tax rate structure. I have been pointing to the need for lower taxes for many, many years, and so have others. Rep. Thomas B. Curtis, Missouri.

like America Its still the freest country in the world."

There were those In the motion picture industry who j)re-dicted Preminger would run into endless controversies in filming his latest production, The Cardinal", the storv of a young American priest'j rise tr the rank of prince of the church.

But Preminger himself expressed surprise at the cooperation he received.

The Vatican made no attempt to control the script." he remarked. "There la much more freedom and autonomy in the church than I had thought.

Preminger, an ex-actor and lawyer who trained under the famed Max Reinhardt in Vienna. is a painstaking, all-around craftsman who likes to handle every aspect of his theatrical ventures. Everything has the Pemlnger personal touch.

He helps in the preparation of the script, picks the cast and costumes, directs the film, sells it, even goes into the major theaters to see that the lighting and sound effects are right.

"Many producers today like to do that. he said.

Otto credits television with Improving the quality of modem motion pictures.

"It broke up the mass production of pictures. It goi the Industry away from the wholesale treatment and force it to become more selective, to try harder.

The trash is now being shown on television. But television too, will emerge eventually when it gets out of the hands

of the advertising agencies, and people start paying for seeing what they really want to see.

At 56, Otto, who is balding and blue - eyed, shrugs off with Austrian aplomb either praise of criticism of his efforts.

"Money doesnt overwhelm me," he observed. I dont consider it a power, nor do I want to become a slave of it, as I have seen many men become.

"Talent and brains Impress me more. So does hcxiesty. So does charm.

"I like charming people, and I can forgive them almost anything. But I forgive charming women more easily than charming men."

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Nature certainly does some Inconsistent things. It places ears at Just the right places to hook eyeglass bows on them. But often it doesnt some within Inches of fitting feet to shoes."Clinton (111.) Journal-Public,

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Person County Rep. James Ramseys prediction that Gov. Sanfords senate redistricting plan is in trouble is a shocker. If true, it means trouble ahead for the Democratic party and perhaps, for the state in general.

Redistricting will be done either by the Democratic majority in the General Assembly or in spite of it. The special session planned by Gov. Sanford la the Democratic majoritys last chance to do the job by itself.

If it shuns this constitutional duty now, redistricting will almost certainly be carried out for North Carolina by federal court orders. There Ls no telling what kind of a plan court action would produce. But there is no doubt that a suit to get fair representation for the majority of people in North Carolina would have "OOP" stamped ail over It.

The Republican party would thus be given by Democratic default, the chance to bill itself as "the" party concenied with fair, constitutional government in North Carolina. Rep. Ramsey believes this near-sighted folly will result because Democratic legislators wont accept the "fractional losses" In representation the Sanford plan would produce in some counties. But by now it must be clear even deep in the piney woods where so many senators represent so few people, that the losses from not enacting this plan will be more than "fractional."

Once the federal court gets

h)volved In redistricting. It willl be concerned with seeing that senate districts Include equal numbers of people. The "factional interest of Person. Dare, or Watauga counties in getting hometown boys in the senate from time to time will get li1> le or no attention.

We believe the people of North Carolina approve of concessions to small county interests. The Sanford plan goes as far as possible to insure that the senate wont become just a big-city, big-county legislative club, But there is a limit to how far concessions can go without making redistricting a phony plan for maintaining the present rotten borough representation in the senate.

Rep. Ramsey is one of the first Democrats to declare publicly that the Democratic majority wont accept the facts of life about redistricting. His prediction that there will be no redistricting and no special session of the General Assembly Is at odds with officially inspired reports that adequate support is developing.

Except for one thing. It wmuld be difficult to believe Democratic legislators would balk at fractional losses now when the alternatives are greater losses for small county interests and possible diaster for their party later. Rep. Ramsey is talking about the same legislators who refused to face these alternatives in the regular session of the General Assembly. They chose to do nothing then. They may well choose to do nothing again in spite of what wUl certainly follow.

We seem to be progressing towards an era where larceny is becoming accepted. Not big thefts or crimes, but the small cancerous type of larceny, that can do nothing but ruin our society. The worker, who while paid for 40 hours of labor, is proud of the fact that he only worked 32: the motorists, who skips the parking meter, and brags he wasnt caught speeding; the income tax finagler; the bargain hunter buying shoddy merchandise at fantastically low prices, all are outsmarting themselves. You only get what you pay for in both merchandise and life. Warwick (N.Y.) Advertiser.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

COPYRIGHT, 1963, KING features SYNDICATE. INC.

The time has come to talk about Vice Presidential candidates. I say this because of the widespread feeling in Republican circles that "Goldwateri got It" meaning, of course, the Presidential nomination. It is not so much that Republicans are certain that Barry is the man with the potential to beat a popular Kennedy. There are differences of opinion on that. But many possible local Republican candidates for state and Congressional offices are sure that, even with a losing Barry Goldwater at the head of the ticket, they themselves would have a better chance of pulling through. "Barry." says one pro, "would put steam behind local tickets."

With Barry "In" so far as first place on the Republican slate is concerned, as seems to be conceded even by New York Times Washington balancing the ticket becomes uppermost. It goes without saying that a Vico President on a Goldwater ticket must be differentiated from Goldwater on both a regional and a philosophical basis, plotting the choice mechanically, the Vice Presidential nomination should go to Governor Nelson Rockefeller or to Senator Jacob Javits. both of "liberal and undeniably eastern New York State. However, the cut-and-dried mechanics of the situation break down in this partl-clar case. If women have been truly outraged by Rockefellers divorce and remarriage to a divorced mother, they would object to ha mas a second place man no less than as head of the ticket. Moreover, Rockefeller has the Achilles temperament: if he cant be the leader, it is doubtfvri that he would be willing to take a position as second in command.

Javits, of course. Is something else again. But Javits has been so blatantly at odds with everything that Goldwater stands for that a Goldwater-Javits slate might seem offensively cynical. The Democrats w'ould be able to make an inordinate amount of election day yardage merely by playing up the ideological clash between Goldwater and Javits as is proved by their respective Senatorial voting records.

So write New York State off, then as good quarrying ground of Republican Vice Presidential timber in 1964. That is, write off if senator Keating, who w'ould provide a good geographical and philosophical balanc, still insists on running again for the Senate, as he seems so wholeheartedly intent upcm doing.

With New York out for such special reasons, the choice narrow's down to any one of thre or four populous industrial states in the northeastern quarter of the nation. Senator Case of New Jersey shares the shortcomings of Senator Javits; he is too blatantly liberal" to seem like a sincere offering on a Goldwater ticker. Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania, a liberal with just enough protective coloration in fiscal matters to be palatable to conservatives, -would make a fair choice for a Goldwater running mate.

Ohios Governor Rhodes Is another possibility, though his personality may seem at first glance to be too colorless and unobtrusive to generate election day sparks. Illinois own "Ev" Dirksen, Senate Minority Leader, comes appropriately from a state that can be considered on the outermost edge of the industrial Northeast and hence would provide geographical balance to Arizonas Goldwater. But the philosophical blance here would manifestly be missing.

My own feeling is that the best running mate for Gol d-water would be the man from Michigan, Governor George Romney. As a Presidential possibility he has been running way ahead of Governor Scranton in the public opinion polls. This popularity could rub off on him as Vice Presidential timber. A-though the United Automobile Workers did not endorse him for Governor of Michigan. Romney has pulling power In labor circles because of the generous profit-sharing contract with the UAW local w'hich he helped write when he was head of the American Motors Company. He has been against Industrial "bigness, which should endear him to the liberals who fear the power of the corporations. Inclden-(Contlnued on Page 6)

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BY EARL L. DOUGLASS

MEANING OF AN IMPORTANT WORD

We* hear the word atonement" used frequently by the mhiLster as he preaches or by some earnest Christian who feels that Jesus Chrl.st has Indeed saved him from his sin. What Is the meaning of this word atonement?

The dictionary defines atonement as the redeeming work Christ wrought through his Incamatlon, suffering, and death thus bringing God and men together." It is all this and more, but when we have thus defined atonement we are not much better enlightened than before we tried. For this language U Involved, and even If we In some measure understood It. the proces.s of spiritual transformation which comes about when Christs life touches ours a<id changes it Is a thing

tremendously mysterious In every way.

The best way to understand the meaning of the word atonement Ls to divide it into syllables. When the word is broken up into at - one - ment, we arrive at the true meaning of the word. The word attme-ment refers to the death of Christ on the cross and what it did for the souls of men and women everywher and in every age. It made them "at one" with God. It put God into their lives and put their lives into the life of God. It took the person who was off the path way that leacLs to satisfaction and fulfillment and brought him back again to the pathway that leads to happiness, achievement and peace. It took the life that was broken and put the pieces back together again.

Atonement is the basic reality and achievement of Christian faith.

BY ELMER ROESSNER

Leasing the business of renting things to people who will not, or cannot, buy is stUl growing both in the consumer and in the business fields.

Everything from a garden chair to a multimillion - dollar electronic computer can be rent ed for an afternoon or a decade. And anyone can rent, from the out - of - towTi tourist to giant corporations.

Some of the more recent twist include rented sales forces, rented yachts and rented space-age facilities.

The sales force can be rented from, among others. Advertising Distributors of America Inc.. which claims It can put 2.50 men in the field overnight to sell a product on a nationwide basis. R; will also conduct more modest efforts for companies who want a limited sales push In a particular area.

The rented yachts -are a ser Tice of Alitalia Airlines, which will fly the client to Italy, and

rush him to the waters edge where a yacht awaits. It can be a small boat , with berths for four and costing $56 a day on up to a 138 - foot motor yacht, with 20 berths and rent-in for as high as $1,000 a day. BLUE - CHIP LEASE

The space age facility Is the one being planned for Florida by General Eleclc, w'hich has decided it would rather rent than buy.

Leasing to consumers , has tended tow ards items that have a one - time, or infrequent short - tenn use, such as a tuxedo for a formal dinner, a RolLs-Royce for a wedding, a wheelchair for a broken leg or a bed for an unexpected guest. There are exceptions, however. One ari gallery rents paintings by the month.

Business and industrial leasing tends towards longer-term arrangements such as truck fleets, testing equipment and specialized tools and machinery which the lessee needs for a

particular order or contract but doesnt want to buy outright.

Lasing has become more prevalent in business for spveral reasons. It Is an excellent way to expand operations quickly without getting involved in heavy financing.

Leasing has become more presaver in businesses with seasonal or erratic operations where idle equipment can be costly. It also has a tax advantage In some cases because it can be deducted as an operating expense whereas purchased equipment must be depreciated over a number of years.

The rental field seems to know no bounds. Despite the rapid growth of eJasing, It is still only a fraction of Its potential. One of the most highly developed rental fields has been automobiles. Estimates place last years fleet at more than 500.- 000 vehicles.

Yet the market is still far

from saturated. As one of th major car - renting companies pointed out, it has only 500.-000 customers yet there are more than 90 million licensed drivers in the U. S.

DEMAND FOR VARIETY FOILS AUTOMATION

Disillusionment with the Golden Age of Automation, was expressed by some top production men in an article In Production Magazine. The consensus of the experts was that th completely automated plant that converts raw material Into finished product hi one long continuous process Is, and will continue to be, rare.

Among the reasons given for their viewpoint was the "short-order" economy In the U. S. in which onsumers demand wide range of designa, oolora and other variations in producta. Moreover, the experts said, there are too many and too fr^ ,-quent changes In products and product mix.