Thursday, October 3, 1963

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Tragic If Session Were Not Called

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Regrdless of the'number of legislator signatures which can be secured for a Senate redisricting bill, Gov. Sanford^should follow through with tentative plans to calf the General Assembly into special -session this month to deal with the pr )blem.

- There are rumors around the state that a special^ session of the legislature will not be called as planned on* October 14 unless sufficient legislator signatures are secured for the proposed redistricting bills. It would be ^tragic' for North Carolina if^the special session were not called to hammer out a Senate redistricting plan this fall.

It is entirely possible that there will be no uniformity of thought as to^ details of redistricting when the legislators arrive iii Raleigh for the special session. It is quite possible that it would'take a session of several weeks rather than a few days to work out a redistricting plan that would gain approval of both

Vague Dates On Raleiah- Plans

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH Political notebook:

There are several stUl rather vaaue and indefinite dates circled on political calendars around Raleigh.

The first of these dates falls ^

In a few days now, povssibly over the coming weekend. Sources predict that Rep. Charles R. Jwias of Llncolnton Is planning to say on or about Oct. 5 whether he intends to be the Republican candidate for governor.

What Jonas says and as of this writing there was still no real inkling of absolute certainty will answer the states moat burning political question.

LAKE A date has now been attached to the second biggest question. The date is Nov. 15.

Reports say this Is the approximate date set for Dr. I. Beverly Lake of Raleigh to announce for governor in the Democratic primary next May. A number of sources considered reliable have indicated during the last few _ days that > question about Dr.^ Lakes candidacy is settled and that he will run. Lakes 1960 assistant campaign manager Archie Taylor of Lilllngton, said Lakes candidacy has been assured. V

Dr. himself said that he had received not only encouragement but Insistence that he seek the governorship.

DATES Mid-October Is the target date set by Gov. Terry Sanford for the forthcoming special session of the General Assembly on Senate redistricting Sanford mentioned Oct. 14 specifically although until a formal proclamation Is issued this could be delayed and pushed back.

Later dates thatare being pTicssed about concern such things as the naming of campaign headquarter.s and the pos-, sible entry of additional candidates.

" These dates, vaguely, are mostly around the first of the year. Some sources look for late starters in the gubernatorial race to delay their decisions and announcements until possibly February. One of these is Robert W. (Bob) Scott of Haw River who would like his announcement to coincide with the date. Feb. 4, chosen by his father, the Late Sen .-Gov. W. Kerr Scott,

BILLS There may be more than one bill or package of bills Introduced during the special sesin to deal with Senate re-districting. In fact, sources say several such measures are likely.

It is recalled that there were even separate senate redlstrlct-Ing bills introduced during the regular session of the General Assembly last Spring.

Two of the seven were Republican-sponsored and as a mattw of practical politics had no chance of approval. Of the five redlatilctipi bill? offered by Democrats only two would have done the job under the present state constitution without re-qulrtaig a constitutional smend-- ment. These were bills by Sens.

Claude Currie of Durham and P. D. Midgett of Hyde.

The other three, all proposing to amend the constitution and increase the size of the Senate, were the Humber bill, the Clark-Jolly bill and the Crew bill.

ACT The House accepted an amended version of the Currie bill, but the Senate insisted upon a "piggyback typing of the Humber bill to the Currie biU and this resulted in the deadlock.

The Humber bill provided for a constituticHial amendment to Increase Senate membership of 60 and draw districts according to related area and geographic ^terestfl Instead of strictly-according to populaUon. It would have limited any single county to two senators regardless of population.

JORDAN State Sen. John R. Jordan Jr. of Raleigh, begin-toild up his campaign f<W feutenint governor, says he does hOt mtgnd to choose sides in the gubernatorial race.

Jordan says it is traditional that candidates lor lieutenant governor should not participate actively in the primary campaigning for governor.

In the meantime. Jordan has expressed definite, ideas on the subjects of political financing, state taxation and utility rates.

He believes the Democratic party advocate allowance of tax a fresh approach on political financing and suggests that the party advocate allownace of tax credit or deduction on state income taxes for political donations.

It would be In the Democratic tradition for our party to offer this encouragement for more direct participation in the political and governmental affairs of our state, Jordan says.

On taxes and utility rates. Jordan favors an equitable revision of our Individual tax schedules In view of surpluses each biennium and adoption of the prudent investment base for fixing public utility rates.'"

QUOTESQuotes on" current political topics;

House Speaker H, Clifton Blue on senate redistricting under the constitution; I think from the House standpoint It is looking good. I do not know exac^ how it stands on the Senate side. -n

State Sen. Thomas J. White Jr.. 1 whether he will be a

the House-a^nd the Senate,

If this proves to be the case, it is all the more important that Gov, Sanford move ahead with hi.s plans for the special, .session' by mid-October.

North Carolina cannot avoid*, redistricting its Senate representation indeiinitely. Action already is more than a decade overdue. If the legislature does not redistrict Senate representation between new and next year, there is little doubt that th-courf>" will do the job. The proposition is one which should be handled by the legislature rather than the courts, and we believe the- people of the .state expect the legislature to do the'job.

The package proposal that would include redistricting now uncier the present con.stitution, and providing for a constitutional amendment establishing a '"little fe^efal system of representation in the General Assembly appears to us a logical approach to North Carolinas problem. A majority of the legislators may not give their unqualified approval to such proposals before a special session convenes, but that should not prevent a special session being held.

, The*legislature, before it adjourned early last summr, asked Gov. Sanford to call a special sessi(m this fall for ironing,out the Senate redistricting dispute. Even if prospects for I'eaching agreernent appear dim^wnich they-do not in our opinionthe

special session still should be convened in^ Raleigh this month.

Valchi Story Enough To Curl Anyones Hair

Storing

Vital' Goods

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright,^ 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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carididate for lieutenant governor: Theres been a lot of speculation in the newspapers that Im not going to run. Now where do you suppose they got that idea? I might just pay my filing fee one of these days and then theyll know.

Robert W. Scott of Haw River, on reports that he is under pressure to endorse cme of the already-announced candidates for governor:

*Some TTR dtmt Rkr It because I havent fallen to line with them. Theyre accusing me of kicking at the traces and I reckon I am."

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By JOHN ABNEY

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MEXICO CITY Every time I come home from a top level

The story of nation-wide crime syndicate operations being unfolded in testimony before a Senate committee la enough to curl tichair of Americans who have known vaguely about big-time^angsters and their operations for most of their lives.

That tlie gangland operations pose a threat to the nation and to society cannot be disputed. That their operations feed on the passive cooperation of the public upon whom they prey is fairly obvious

That low enforcement officers alone cannot stamp conference with my witch tlie out the crime syndicate operations without active l**

cooperation from the public at large becomes in- ..^f,at kind of perfume is that creasfngty videnrw arfy one who Ints~fohkrw^ the- ruDbe(i~oiT on -

te.stimony before the Senate committee. _ ^

Whether the Senate investigation ot crime syndi- perfectly well it is incense to cate operations> will lead to any major arrests is a ^vard off evil eyes and hexes, moot question at the moment. But the information i dont go around with people coming out of the Senate investigat^^sHouid open more widely the eyes of the American public to this menace which exists in their midst. It should drive home fallacy of the idea that crime was big

business only in the days of the roaring twenties and ^ 7-. . tt t

early thirties. It is even bigger business in the United W VTl Q illlC States today and has spread far outside the old

,-Uongholds of New* York, Chkmgo an other major (Greensboro Daily News)

cities. Since the people of North

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The big question is whether the punlic will ahead, about the speaker such activities to trans-,

continue its passive cooperation with the crime .syn- ban bill, it might be well to pire or hired Communists to dk*ate or give its active cooperation to law Unforced- examine ciintrasttog positions ment efforts to wipe out the big crime operations nt^North*ci-o^^^

who wear perfume, especially

the type you are thinking about. So the Lady from Puebla snortvs, Big deal, going to visit that woman again. I notice you are in a real jolly mood when you get home.

"^his^ is a result of the ccto-sultation, I say. It is her duty to conjure up good moods for me as well as advise me on numbers for jottery tickets and other important matters.

Of course this has no effect

on the Lady from Puebla. She made up her mind .as a child on things and the decision stands like Mt. Everest. '

Then she wants to know how come I go discuss matters with my witek instead of sitting (town and going over things with her.

An I tell her, You arent gifted with occult powers. Anyhow, when we talk about things you want me to do all the listening. For ten pesos-1 get to talk now -and then with my Witch and she

Other E(ditors Saying

Reason

-What-does this have to do with the speaker ban bill? And when have university officials

in the country?

Success Story

Of A Maaazine

By J. W. DAVIS

WASHINOTN (API - A great American success stoyy is being celebrated here this week.

Its the 75th anniversary of the National Geographic, a . magazine that many Americans have grown up with in their homes. Many others have whiled away apprehensive time reading it to doctors offices.

The miracle of this success is that a slim, scholarly pub-Ucati(i that started weakly to October 1888 has grown today to be a giant in circulation (3,535,000), fat with advertising, and with never a compro-mlsc tm principles w goals. The magazine goes to members of the National Geographic Society and is not sold on newsstands.

Its dismaying to think how many magazines once sturdy and flourishing, have folded their pages and silently stolen away.

The man credited with being the builder of the National Geographic Society and ifJi' magazine Is Gilbert Hovey Gro-svenor who, from 1899 to 1954, edited 660 issues of the magazine with more than 3,300 articles.

In a reminiscent narrat i v c that features the diamond anniversary issue this month the largest to the magazines history Dr. Grosvenor. now chairrmn of the societys Board of Traces, tells of the early struggles aild the advances through the years.

For example, even to the first, short - money days, Grosvenor laid down a policy that

still holds there would he no advertising of liquor, beer, wine, tobacco or patent,medicines.

He recalls: J thought of geography to terms of the Greek root; geographia a description of the world. E thus becomes the most catholic of subjects, universal to appeal and embracing nations, people, plants, animals, birds, fish. Here may lie the key to the geographics success:

Long ago I evolved an editorial policy

One principle was absolute accuracy. Others required that each article be of permanent value and avoid partisans h i p and controversy.

I also decided that no derogate r/ material would be printed about any country or people. The Geographic has always dealt to facts, not bias, rumor, or prejudice.

The Geographics leadership in photography, especially color photography, has been generally conceded.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt followed the course of World War II on National Geographic maps, mounted on rollers to a cabinet behind h 1 s White House desk.

Also, the society came to the aid of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was having trouble during the war in getting throftgh the British reserve of Gen. Sir Alan F. Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff. Ike broke the ice by presenting to Sir Alan, an avid bird watcher and photographer, a copy of the Societys book of birds.

In a speech at Dunn the other day Assistant Attorney General Ralph Moody, after erecting and demolishing numerous straw'men, took the novel position that the speaker ban bill and academic freedom are not evert remotely related.

Only Mr. Moody, so far has taken this unusual line of argument, but we are more concerned about his long harangue about auxiliary point some of which are not even re-motely'^germane to the central issue. For example, he insists at great length that the speaker ban bill is constitutional and that U.N,C. officials say. they should hav^ full power to run the university without rules and guides enacted by lawmakers.

Few' critics of the speaker ban bill indeed none w'e have heard have attempted to argue that the bill is unconstitutional! The courts. Indeed, have given the General Assembly virtually, carte blanche authority to supervise ^state educational institutions: 'this they have done for long decades.

The question, r^er, l.s whether the hastily passed legislation is sound public policy.

The assistant attorney general, to a 34-page, single-spaced opinion released last month, also argues that university officials have in recent years paid no attention* to earlier statutes placed on the books in 1941 and 1947. Tftese statutes, if we read them rightly, are aimed only at speakers who. to their speaking engagements, advocate, advise or teach violent overthrow of the government by illegal means. They also proscribe printing or publishing subversive materials, organizing subversive groups or hiring such individuals to state jobs.

state jobs? These are astounding and absurd charges. They should be documented or retracted,

Mr. Moody, then, after wandering far afield and combating all manner of strawmoen, makes the charge that ^certain acad emicians, editors, college presidents and the Communist Party of the United States are on the same side in this matter and are all to bed together to opposition to this act. This is demagoguery, E smears those who speak up for academic freedom. It is unworthy of the 'assistant attorney general.

In decided contrast to the vitriolic rambltogs of the assistant attorney general, both to speech and <*legal opinion, are remarks of Alamance Countys State Sen. Ralph Scott to a speech to the Raleigh American Legion post the other night.

After noting that the speaker ban bill would proscribe the appearance of Robert E. Lee but permit that of Adolph Hitler and Pidel Castro. Senator Scott got to the heart of the Issue.

To support this bill Is to say ihat^^ you <ion4 believe to the power of human reason to seek out errors. This kind of legislation is always the last ditch stand of fearful people who are afraid to argue with their enemies. . .When you .have to resort to the law to_ban the expression of opinion, no matter how objectionable, youre confessing a lack of faith in the system which made us great.

That, it .seems to us. is the essential issue. Is North Carolina .sufficiently fearful of an alien doctrine, when posed in open debate, to allow it to be banned:> or do we believe. In the tradition of Jefferson, that error of opinion may be tolerated where reason Is left free to combat it?

isnt critical nor personal.

The Lady from Puebla says, Well now, we have r misunderstood type in our midst?

So I tell her, It is simply that my witch is able to focus her powers of concentration on the personality in an objective manner. She directs me toward constructive activities and advises of things to be avoided that might prove harftiful.

And the Lady from Puebla said, How come she didnt tell you to advance about bustin up your car on that truck the other night?

Of course wives always look - for the negative side.

Then the Lady from Puebla said, Did she tell you that you were, going to step on the soap in the shower Tihe"other day and the plumber would have to come over and cut the babys pot off your head?

This is the type of thing we seek to avoid. I said. That why she serves me lizard tea and sprinkles powdered dragons teeth over me after each session. And this new oil with which she annoints me sets up something like a magnetic field that not even the most evil spell can penetrate.

At this point the Lady from Puebla blew up and said I was probably playing checkers with one of Christine Keelers cousins but just let her catch me and she would get a fence post that could penetrate any kind of perfumed magnetic field.

The whole trouble is she Is uneducated to many respects an4 doesn^ behave in wttehes. The ladies in her family were always fooling around raising children and visiting each other so probably they never fully grasped the meaning of science.

But when you get a situation like this on your hands with cracks like, Whats that perfume Night Under A Shanghai Wharf? there is only (me thing to do.

And I told her the other day when we were riding around how about stopping by to say hello to my witch.

The Lady from Puebla gave me a harsh look, and said, Ill bet shes a witch all right. Probably paints her eyes with that green stuff and uses black fin-geraail polish.

Well, I talked her into going

Senator Stuart Symington, the watchdog of the stockirtles, has recently pointed to various abuses which have attended the efforts of this nation to be forehanded to applying the ever normal granary principle^ to the business of stortog strategic .metals. >Since the Senator, who hails appropriately from the show me state ofMissouri Is almost incredibly learned in all things that affect* milite v prepareitoess, I am sure that the excesses he points to are reul. at least to some extent. But. lest we be tempted to toss the stockpiling baby out with dlrtv bathwater, it should be noted that the stockpilers have a good case for most of the things they have done.

The stockpiles, as of recent record consist of close to a hundred items, miinly mineral, that are valued at approximately eight billitm dollars. They were acquired to good part during and just after the Korean War, when It was deemed advisable to keep on hand a domestic backlog of strategic commodities equal to the economys Industrial consumption of them for one year. Lately, guch a backlog Jias come to seem excessive and some $3.4 billl(Hi of the stockpile has been classified as surplus.

Thus the shift to thinking about , strategic safeguards has served to put the government retroactively to a bad light. It seems to have been wasteful to the tune of some four billion dollars. And if the current drive to relax cold war tensions and save on the military budget takes on bigger proportions, the stockpUes will seem even more wasteful. They will take on the guise of costly and unnecessary inventory.

But before we begin to apply the principles of peacetime cost accounting to our backlog of stfatelG mhefSIs,.'' we might reflect a bit on the situation of the U. S, continent to the middle of two potentially unfriendly oceans. Ap-our stockpiled material has our stockpiled mate ral has come to from overseas, or from outside our own borders on our own continent. We are dependent on foreign nations for nickel. tungsten, tin, manganese, and chrome. Much of our bauxite, the raw material for aluminum production, comes from other countries. We have enough high - cost domestic coi>per, but to times of emergency it helps to be able to obtain cheaper copper ore from Chile. Even our own deposits of lead and zinc are hardly enough to take care of local requirements.

Now. it may be that the likelihood (rf a war of (lirect confrontation with the Soviet Union has largely evaporated. The mutual nuclear checkmate may prove a sufficient determent to both the NATO powers and the Soviet and its East European satellites. But this by no means gives the U. S. a guarantee that its access to strategic minerals to the outer world will remain unimpeded.

For it reckons with the possibility of local Titolst or Maoist revolutions to those parts of the world that have - been supplying us with ich things as tungsten, tin, and bayxitei^r'.

In'xthis connection, the story of what happened to our sources of inckle in Castros Cuba is instructive. Most of our nickel has always come from Canada. But the nickel sources to the north of our border are c(Micentrated in Ontario and Nothem Manitoba, and they could be put out of commission with a very few strategically plaoe4 bombs. To decentralize our sources of nlckle in World War II we buUt a nickle plant in Cuba, with a capacity to supply some fifteen per cent of our needs. A second nickel plant was built In Cuba after the War.

Needless to say,- the* have now been swallowed up by Castro. And the Cuban nickel, instead <rf coming to us, is gitoig to ccHintrles behind the Iron Curtain.

Our overseas sources of bauxite could easily go the way of the Cuban nickel. Currently we need about fourteen million tons of bauxite a year for the aluminum industry. There are big deposits of bauxite in British Guiana, In Haiti, and in (Continued on Pag* )

argely Because Of Inflation

Strength For'Today

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS RENOUNCE SNAP JUDGMENT

Animals have instinct, humans possess reason. Both caP' aoities are wonderful. When we ponder the fact that fish will leave their native waters, go thousands of miles to spawn, and then unerringly flncj their way back again to the pool In which they have always lived.

power to reason is a little speck compared with Gods power which is infinite, immeasurable. The Bible assured us that God is the source of all reason. E is utterly beyond our capacity either to comprehend -or fully to utilize that power.

Man is a reasoning creature. This makes and keeps him first to Gods creation. Othei^Planets? Well, we dont know whether

the wonder of such proceedings they are inhabited or not. E ,----- ut i ai-e. then the inhabitant

leave us speechless with amazement.

But reason, although not so .spectacular as In.stlnct, Is va.st-ly more amaztog. We can reason from cause to effect. We belleye that to pos.4e8slng the power to reason we cooperate with God mmself. The highest human capacity is the capacity to rea-.son. God who made toan must therefore have thKs power, to superlative and perfect fqjrm. Our

can't be too far removed from us in basic capacities. They also nin.st have the power to rea.son.

Wisdom and knowledge are different. Wiadom is the result of'our ujug our knovtledge properly! God has eiulowed us with reasonthe pow'er to think logically. It is a legacy to be cherished and used.

X Use the power to reason.* Ra-ripunce snap Judgment.

By ELMER ROESSNER * If you owm your \pwn home, sooner or later you or your heirs W1 sell it. At that point, the government will ,,step to and grab a part of the sales price. The tax laws give the government up to 25 per cent of the difference between the cost and the selling price.

This Is usually a form of leg-aliyred robbery. A house does no orainarily increase to value between the time of purchase and resale: it actually decreases,because it is older, worn and depreciated.

But because qf Inflation, the dollar price goes up, creattog a fictitious gain. And the government. which has created the inflation. turns aroiind and helps it.self to pari of It.

Twenty- four years ago your reporter bought a hou.se for about $10,000. Recently he was offered $:,O for it. If he had .sold, the goveniment would hve dipped in Its paws for about $5.(X)0 - as\ ckpital gains tax. , But there was no increase in value. TbCfliouse to truth,

much more worn, much shabbier, than when purchased. What has happened/ is that the dollar has shrunk. E I sold, the government would penalize me by 50 per cent of my investment simply because it let the dollar fade away.

However, there are ways: by which I and you - can minimize the gnashing tax bite when we sell.

Most Important Is the fact that additions to the initial cost shrink the difference between cost and selling price. That is, the costs of permanent improvement* can be addd to the original cost.

PERMMNENT, YES: 'TEM-

PORARY, NO

In general, the govmment allows the cost of permanent Improvements to be Included In the basic cost, but does n(rt allow .for temporary Improvements.

Thus, the cost of spruce tree planted in the front lawn is part of the basic price; the planting of a row of petunis^v whioh die with the firti iro*w

is not, even though the plants reseed themselves. The cost of a new lawn is part of the capital investment, but the costs having it trimmed and reseeded are not.

Here arq other items that can be added to the basic cost suid therefore be deductible from the selling price:

1. Topsoil, turf, permanent shrubbery.

2. Fencing, walks and driveways.

3. Permanent storm windows.

4. Finishing attic rooms or rufnpus room.

5. Addition of a wtog or single ro|ni

1 llmlltog a plumbing, heat-' tog or alr-conditloningi system, but not repairing an old one.

7. Adding a new roof, but not repairing an old one,

8. Restoration of run-down conditions that existed befor* the ptirchase, bug not for restorations of conditions that oc-cjurred after purchase.

9. The additions of such thing

as swimming pools, patios, awning* *i<L

In genera], permanent Improvements are part of the basic cost: temporary improvements or repairs and restoration are not.

OTHER DEDUCTIBLES

(Dther costs that may be added to the cost of acquiring the property are: attorneys fees, title search, tttle Insurance, broker's c(Hnmlssion, recording fees, scr-vey, appraisal fees and such charges as late closing penalties and cost of removing clpud on title.

When selling, such costs as brokers commission, Peder! stamp Ux, attorneys fees, toor^age satisfaction fees, title abstract, avertising and survey are deductible from ti)e selling price.

Note well; All these deduo-tions must be verified with receipts, checks and other docnj* mentarse evidence. A brlllant lawn dots nt prove an. expend- ' ture for top.soil. So a home owner must preserve records running back 10, .24 or 100 years, which is another outrage perpetrated dy the incom* tax jlaws. i

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