/f.i lUonday, October 21, 1963

Small Counties Have The Votes

It is evident that leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties in urban counties of North Carolina are going to wage intensive efforts to defeat the constitutional amendment that will be presented to the voters on January 14.

It is also evident, we think that the Republicans will seek later next year to make a campaign issue ^ of the constitutional amendment that was passed in the special session of the General Assembly, On the basis of early statements by State Democratic party leaders it appears that the Democratic Party will not officially take a position on the constitutional amendment prior to the referendum.

The Reflector in recent months has frequently stated its preference for a little federal system x>f allocating representation in North Carolinas General Assembly. The program that is offered by the proposed constitutional amendment presents a fair and equitable program for allocating representation in the legislature. It has sufficient merit to warrant its adoption by the voters of the state.

It must be recognized, however, that the amend-

ment faces an up-hill battle, at least in the more populous areas of North Carolina. Throughout the state as a whole, however, we believe the amendment has a better than even chance of receiving approval of the voters.

In spite of the fact that urbanized counties of the state will garner all the votes they can against the measure, it should be remembered that mcrci than 60 per cent of North Carolinas citizens still live in rural areas or in communities of less than 2,500 population. In spite of the fact that North Carolina has a few counties with very large populations, it has not yet become a state dominated by large city or county votes, at the individual voter level.

If, as seems to be the case now, the constitutional amendment battle is fought out on the basis of large county vs small county votes at the ballot boxes, there is every reason for supporters of ^he amendment to be optimistic rather than pessimisfic.

Adoption of the constitutional amendment by the voters will, in our opinion, be in the best interest of all of North Carolina in the long run.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES SURPRISE - The big surprise of the historic four-day special session oi the General Assembly was its approval of the little federal constitutional amendment.

The odds, while not o v e r-whelming, had been against it.

Gov. Terry Sanford had sounded sentiment in the legislature prior to the session and decided against pushing for a specific amendment plan. He found much sentiment for a constitutional change affecting future apportloiment of legislative seats but this varied greatly as to what the change should toe.

Sanfords primary interest and objective was in enacting a Senate redistricting bill under the present constitution. The administration pushed this and claimed a sufficient majority in both houses to enact it. to enact it.

QUESTION The question that remained was the matter of how many of these promised voies were conditional upon simultaneous approval of a con-stitutiwial amendment.

There was noway to tell. Sanford himself said he felt some type of amendment would be justified, but left the question of what sort trf amendment to the legislature itself. In the absence of administration backing and because legislators themselves appeared sharply divided, chances of ap-pi*oval (rf an amendment ap-I>eared slim indeed.

When the special session convened, most observers felt that any constitutional amendment move was dead. It appeared almost certain that a hastily-formed coalition of large county Democrats and Republicans could and would block it.

WAGED Supporters of the little federal plan waged a strenous uphill fight with skill and political know-how.

Their task was to marshal and solidify support of the small counties and win a few votes from the Piedmont and Republican c o a 1111 o n In the House. They gathered strength and steam slowly, maneuver by maneuver and finally vote by vote.

They won by wily the nar rowest of margins one vote when the crucial three-fifths roll call w^as taken In the House on the fourih and final day. It took the vote of House Speaker Clifton Blue, voting as the representative from Moore County, to pass it in the lower chamber.

Amendment supporters fell short of sufficient strength by three votes when the first test came in the house committee of the whole on the third day of the session. This, however, was a vote to report the bill out of committee and required only a simply majority Instead of the three-fifths. 72 votes, that It would require later.

DIRECT The pro-amendment fight, finally staged and won in the House, was quarter-backed and directed from the Senate.

The pro-amendment Senate bloc was led by influential Sen, Torn White of Lenoir and included such powers as Staton Williams of Stanly, Cicero Yow of New Hanover, Ray Walton of Brunswick and the Senates presiding officer, Clarence Stone of Buckingham.

This group dealt with t h e Senates redistrict now forces led by Sen. Lindsay Warren Jr. of Wayne, Ralph Scott of Alamance and Perry Martin of Northampton and avoided a showdown in the Senate until after the House acted. In a Senate showdown, the Warren-Scott-Martin gourp along with strong anti-amendment senators such as John Jordan Jr. of Wake and Robert F. Morgan of Cleveland probably would have held the edge.

STRATEGY Pro-amendment senators knew that If the Senate passed a redlstrict now bill, the House was ready to pass it to and the chances for the amendment would vanish.

The chief strategy was based on an argument that the Senate would not accept a redlstrict now bill without House approval of a con^itutional amendment.

No one knew whether this was a fact or a bluff. To keep the House guessing, the Senate must not act. And It didnt. The upper chamber, faced with the uncertainty of a two-thirds vote to get a bill out of a Stone appointed subcommittee, stayed In recess for most of the four days. Its sessions were brief and perfunctory.

The amendment bloc in the Senate thus fought a successful delaying sictlon. It lost a preliminary round on the first day when redlstrict now*^* ivrt-es pushed through a rule for the Senate to consider redistricting as a committee of the whole. There was a loophole though, and the Senate stall succeeded with a vote to allow Stone to appoint a subcommittee.

FORCED This forced the issue onto the House floor and, in effect, pitted small counties againfit the ones.

The power play worked when this pro-amendment bloc chipped votes off the anti-amendment coalition, picking up two votes in the Wake County delegation, one from Cumberlands Rep. John Henley and finally Blues vote.

The amendment pa.ssed in the House amid predictions that It would suffer resounding defeat when submitted to the people in a called general election Jan. 14. There were warnings that it would backfire and damage the Democratic party in next year's elections.

The victors, however, figured they had beaten the odds in four days and the election is four months away.

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Approval by the State Board of Higher Education of another two-year resident center of East Carolina College in (Goldsboro marks another step in ECCs becoming a regional institution in North Carolina.

The Gold.sboro center is the second two-year branch of East Carolina College to be officially e.stablished. The other, at Camp Lejeune, has been in operation-for several years.

Already at the Goldsboro center there are more than 350 students enrolled in the fall term, approximately one-third of them civilians and the other two-thirds military personnel from Seymour Johnson Air Force base.

Through the establishment of such centers and through its exten.sion program, East Carolina College is making college work available to a constantly increasing number of people throughout this section of North Carolina. It has not confined its effort? solely to serving those who can be accommodated on the campus in Greenville. The positive approach East Carolina College has taken toward offering off-campus coTirses through centers and extension programs has placed it in a position of leadership in North Carolinas effort to make higher education available to as many people as possible.

Approval of the Board of Higher Education of the two-year center of ECC at Goldsboro is another significant step in the advancement of East Carolina College, and it is also another significant step for Goldsboro and its surrounding area.

By WINFRED L. GODWIN

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Colleges & Agency Aid

Seventy - four college and university science teachers from the South W1 return to school for graduate study in the sciences during 1963 - 64, supported by the federal government through one program of the National Science Foundation.

Another 13 faculty members will receive support from NSP while they pursue advanced research in selected fields with senior post - doctoral fellowships.

Wilson Home Is

These faculty members are but a few of the many who receive direct of Indirect help from the federal government through programs designed to Improve the competence of teachers and to counteract the rapid obsol

escence of knowledge.

Several agencies of the government conduct programs providing support to elementary and secondary school, college, and university teachers through the payment of stipends. Most of these programs are In scientific fields where the Increase in knowledge is most rapid. Other fields now receiving support are guidance, with emphasis on the college-oriented student: and foreign languages with emphasis on the use of new teaching techniques.

Pour federal agencies spent a total of $74,906,000 on faculty support in 1962. Some 6,000 faculty members from colleges and universities of the nation

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Vegetable & Truck Crops

By J. W. DAVIS

WASHINGTON (AP) Beginning today, there is another shrine for Washington tourists: Woodrow Wilsons last home.

Its a handsome red brick Iwsuse of Georgian design at 2340 S. Street in northwest Washington. There the World War I President lived from March 4, 1921 when he left the White House until he died Feb. 3, 1924.

It is a memorial to a marriage as well as to a statesman.

Among the relics the visitors Win ee .is the hiBh - backed, leather - covered chair used by Wilson at White House Cabinet meetings. On the back is a card in Wilsons handwriting Which reads:

Presented to my dear wife whose Inspiration meant so much while I occupied this chair, Woodrow Wilson.

She was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whose will on her death in 1961 gave the house to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to be a memorial In honor of her husband. The National Trust has now prepared It for the public.

Wilson bought the house sight unseen in 1920 as he was preparing to tun the White Hou.se over to Warren G. Harding. He knew' Mrs. Wilson wanted It: she haid found it w'hile house* hunting, The one house I felt would qualify in every particular.

Mrs. Wilson wrote in her memoirs 18 years later:

Bless his dear heart: I was overcome.

She also told how, the first day they visited the house together, the President had a Secret Service man scoop up a small piece of sod which, with a key to one of the doors, my husband presented to me the sod representing tlie land, and the key the house.

It was an old Scotch custom. that the Scotch - de.s-cended Wilson remembered. Mrs. Wilson, whom the Pres

ident married in *^1915 after the death of his first wife, described in her memoirs the suffering that Wilson went through after his paralytic stroke in 1919.

She stood guard at the White House between him and all the' troubles she could, and some politicians jealously accused her of interfering in matters of state.

By her own account:

I studied every paper, sent from the different secretaries or senators. and tried to digest and present in tabloid form the things that, despite my yigilance, had to o to the President.

I, myself, never made a single decision regarding the disposition of public affairs. The only decision that was mhie was what was important and What was not. and the very Important decision of when to present matters to my husband.

In the pleasant house on S, Street there were no great matters of national urgency, but Mrs. Wilson maintained to the end a close watch over her beloved Invalid.

One of the memories she treasured over the years was of their arrival in S. Street just after Harding had been inaugurated, and the Wilsons, days of glory w'ere over.

A crowd of 20,000 people filled the street in front of their new home, full of affection and warmly cheering.

We almost wept, Mis. WU-son said.

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

Opinions

In Brief

"The South, particularly Mississippi, is becoming industrialized rapidly. The rapidity with which indu.strial growth continues will depend to a great extent on educating our children for industrial and scientific pur.sults. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call.

If you have any land which has a superior quality for production of vegetables, truck crops, small fruits and berries, hold on to it.

Vegetable farming will make a comeback in Eastern North Carolina.

That is true because of the population explosiwi and population shift to the Pacific coast. Pardon us for using that hackneyed phrase, population explosion but it says what we mean.

California growers, although dependent largely on Irrigation took the early Irish potato crop and most of the varied truck crops of eastern Carolina away from us.

Using proper grading, cleaning, packaging promotion and processing the smart Californians have been shipping their truck across the continent and taking our markets. They were 2,000 miles farther away from the populous metropolitan regions of the Eastern Atlantic, but they did such an efficient job and offered such a superior product that they pushed Eastern North Carolina truck farmers almost out of the market.

The Californians organized cooperatives. With these knitting together thousands of farmers, they could and did finance processing plants. If there was no fair - return market for their crops as they came to harvest, the Californians canned them, or dried them, or juiced them. Any new Invention or improvement in food processing, marketing or promotion the Californians took to like a duck to water.

Most of us can well remember the solid train loads of early spring Irish potatoes which used to move daily from Mt. Olive, Calypso, Faison and

Goldsboro to New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington. Now this section grows only a handful of potatoes. In Carteret and Pasquotank there survives a hard core of potato growers.

California took our potato market because she put out cleaned and graded potatoes that with their attractiveness caught the eye of the housewife.

Down this way we still put our potatoes on the market clogged with dirt from the field. We stiU put them on without grading. Pleas for grading and cleaning potatoes to meet the Western competition went unheeded except by a few hardy souls.

Well, why do we say that we shall see a revival of truck crop production in East e r n North Carolina?

Because the population of California and the West is increasing so rapidly that the Californians will be able to sell their production near home. No longer wUl they have to ship their stuff across the continent for a good market. There will be a big enough market to take their production right In their own back yards.

The population of the metropolitan Atlantic seaboard also is incresising but at a slower rate.

With California selling closer home and more millions of mouths to feed, the man with quality produce to sell, backed by processing plants, will be In the money.

But the revival will and must be accompanied by a new emphasis on quality. We have learned our lesson that we cannot expect the consuming public to buy stuff that Is still enci-usted with the soil of the field, that is ungraded, unattractive or inferior in quality.

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participated In the programs, sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Education, and the National Institutes of Health.

Each agency offers support to teachers in its own field of activity. The Atomic Energy Commission prevides support for faculty in fields related to nuclear energy. Its primary training method has been the use of summer institutes for high school and college teachers: and in 1962 these were held in the fields of nuclear science and engineering, radio-biology, and the study of ra-diosotopes.

F\inds for these institutes are given to colleges and universities which then select the teachers to attend. The Commission pays the full direct cost of operating the institutes, with an allowance of eight per cent for overhead.

The National Science Foundation provided educational support for more than 4,(X)0 college faculty members in 1%2. The NSF programs operate in a number of ways, but the summer institutes and academic year institutes are the most heavily used. The Foundation also provides faculty fellowships, support for research participation by faculty members and secondary school teachers, and sponsors faculty seminars and conferences.

Titles V and VI of the National Defense Education Act authorize the Office oft Educ'^ tion to sponsor Institutes for guidance directors and teachers of foreign languages In secondary schools. A total of 7,000 teachers participated In these institutes on imiversity campuses in 1962.

A different kind of support, designed to develop research scientists in health - related fields, is provided by the National Institutes of Health for members of university and medical school faculties. In 1962 the NIH supported 936 faculty members at a cost of nearly $12,000,000 through research career awards and fellowships for use in research centers abroad.

In addition to these methods of help for teachers, the government provides indirect sup* port of teaching through a number of federal programs. Including federally impacted school programs and vocational edu-catiOT programs.

NEXT WEEK: Federal Institutions of Higher Education.

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

In January of 1959 Anasta Mikoyan, KJirushchevs trac veling salesman, looked Senator Hubert Humphrey in the eye and said, tn response to a question about 63,000 Hungarians who had been taken from Budapest to labor In zakhstan: We have no political prisoners in the Soviet Union." This biland denial echoed previous statements made by Khrushchev hlmseli that corrective labor camps for political offenders had been abolished after the demise of Stalin, and that o^ 1: inals were being held in Soviet

So, when the Rev. Walter M. Ciszek landed the other day at Idlewd Airport in New York as (me of a couple oi Ameiic^ans who had been exchanged for two Commi^ spies, he made liars of town Mikoyan and Khrushchev. By any computation Father Ciszek remained a poUtlcsal prisim-er even during the latter year of his detention in the Soviet Union when he wa working as a locksmith. Moreover, on his own testimony he had bera kept on at the penal camp of Norilsk, inside the Arctic Circle, for a perio dafter Stalin death - and this at the very time that Khrushchev was first protesting that the Stalin camp were things of the past.

The questi(m of whether is worth - while to take f.h work of any Communist dictator or high party functlmary would hardly be a subject for debate if it were not for the gullibility of certain Americans who are quick to explain examples of Soviet malevolence accidents, or out-oL

Bne zeai"by7n-esponsible lower echelon officials. Adenauer knew what he was talk^g about when he snorted that it wa nonsense to think that the recent Soviet roadblock of the corridor to West Berlin was a lower echelon mistake.

The truth, if it were to be pursued, would certainly turn up example after example of continuing political incarceration and detention in every Iron Curtain land. Just to take one instance, there Is the cw of Istvan Som, a Huhgari^ schoolteacher "who may be d^ ing of a breakdown in one of Dictator Kadars jails in Hungary despite the recent new from Budapest about a widespread amnesty. Som wa originally jailed in 1948 for trying to persuade some peasant to cut the telephone wires in order to stall off the arrival of Soviet troops during a di^ turbance which had resulted in the accidental death of a policeman In the village of Poo-spetri. The accident was not of Soms making; he was mereiy worried, as a bystander, that his whole village would to slaughtered by the Russians.

Released in 1956 by Pro-mier Imre Nagy, Som was Isr ter rearrested and imprisoned by the Kadar regime. The Swiss papers have been full of requests In recent weeks for the transfer of Som to a sanitarium in Davos in tim# to sav# his

hW many mertcan Istvaa Soms are there In Iron Curtain camps, jails and detention areas? There is no <ray of knowing, but the U. S. State Department obviously does not believe in ruffling Khrushchev's or Mao Tse - tungs feathers in an effort to find out. When mothers of Korean War prisoners who disappeared mto Manchuria try to get answer to their questions, they are told that they had better beUeve that their sons are dead. This my be a gentle way of trying to let bereaved people down, but it is fiercely resented by such parents as Mrs. Rita Van Wees of New York aty when the writing off 9 4,000 unaccounted - for prisoners Is o companied by sales of wheat to Khrushchev. As a member of an organization (jailed th lighting Homefolks of Fighting Men, Mrs. Van Wees think that when Secretary of Stat Rusk talks about the deslra-biUty of a free flow of Information between Russia and the U. S., It should be understood that some details about lost U. S. captive troop to part (rf the flow.

Tito, who Is now welcome t visit In Washington, has Indicated that his most celebrated political pris(Mier, MUovasi DJt-las, author of such eye - opening books on Communist s(v ciety as The New Class, wfll (Continued on Pag S)

The Government loses so many taxpayers in traffic accidents on legal holidays Its strange It doesnt abolish such holidays. Cambridge (Nebr.) Clarion.

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Strength For Today You, Too, Con Make A Million?

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

CHECK ON THE

FOUNDATIONS

We need to ask ourselves once in a while what kind of foundations underly our lives and U> what extent we are either strengthening those foundations or Impairing Them.

Jesus spoke about foundations built on saiKj and other foundations built on rock. He declared Uiat anyone who listened to his words and refused to accept them was building his life upon a foundation of sand. Likewise that person who barkened to his words and tried to follow his teachings was building his oundation-s upon rock. Sand foundations would be easily swept away. Rock foundations woul(t endure flood and torna do.

Every homc-owner knows that hr has to keep close watoii on liLs dwelling icst It deteriorate and fall Into hopeless disrepair.

The roof must be watched lest it begin to leak. The house must be painted. Especially the foundation must be examined lest a small crack develop into a great fissure and the very safety of the building be impaired. Jesus loved this figure of foundations. His teadhing was that unless the foundationi^ of life are secure, the superstructure is liable to collapse. And by being secure he meant being sincere, honest, pure In mind and though, given to good works, serious in one's loyalty to religious truth.

Church going is Import ant. Daily devotions are important. Scrupulous care always to be honest is important. Avoidance of temptations is Important. Life must be built upon fimi foun-dation.s else it iir.st gets out of line, then disintegrates, then collap.sc.s.

Wj.sdon bids us check up continua lly on the condition of life's foundations.

By ELMER ROESSNER

In the flood of business books this season there has been an exceptionally large number of a sort of Inspirational book. The themes vary from Get In there and sell! and You, too, are a whizbang, to Its easy to make a million. and so on.

Some of these books tend to exert a hj-pnotlc effect upon the reader. In fact, one by Frank S. Caprio, M. D., and Joseph R. Berger is, Helping Yourself with Self-Hypno-sis (210 pages. Prentice-Hall, $4.95), Even the jacket design tends to put me in a trance.

Most other books In these you-too-can! publications are -^lublished by Prentice Hall which, one suspects, has hypnotized Itself into believing that this is what businessmen want or. following the percepts of some of the book.s. ha.s decided that it, too, can make a million^

QUICK RUN-DOWN

The following are not reviews; if I were to read all these books I would be so charged with ambition and know - how that I would stop writing and get a job selling clothespins, at which I would make a fortune. This Is a listing of books, authors, pages and prices, sometimes with a morsel of additional information;

241 pages, $4.95. A retired Chicago banker tells ways to put the unused two - thirds of your talents to work.

ing mental attitudes and regulating the self conscious can make a man wonderfully suo-

cessful.

FIFTY GRAND A YEAR AT 26

7 Seconds to Success! u 1 Selling, by Willie Gayle, sales training specialist; 201 pages. $4.55.

Selling with PsychoChek, by Eugene Tasset du Pont; 212 pages, $5.35^ PsychoChek starts with divldlitg all prospects into three classes and using separate methods for each. Du Pont, a Harvard grad, has loeen selling for 50 years.

How to Triple Your Talents and Multiply Your Earn 1 n g Power, by A. Gordtm Bradt;.

How I Started Earning $50,-000 a Year in Sales at the Age of 26, by Robert GalUvan; 223 pages. $4.95. By an insure ance man who says he sells 80 per cent of his prospects with his give and get technique.

How I Made $1,000,000 in Mail Order. by E. Joseph Cossman: 230 pages, $5.95.

Cossman reports he started in the mail order business with $276 and made a millUm and now, fearle.ss of competition, he tells his methods and reprints 35 of his most successful letters.

The Dynamics of Successful Attitudes? by Bob Conklin; 2;i7 pages, $4.95. Conklin, a Minnc.sapolis real estate salesman, holds that controU-

Dynamlc Thlnklns:, by Robert J. OReilly; 224 pages, $4.95. OReilly, sales manager for Win - CHiek Industries, ayi the difference between averag and successful people Is tto ability to think dynamicaUy. KEYS TO EVERYWHERE 15 Master Keys to Succcs, Popularity and Prestige, by C. W. Bailey; 205 pages, $4.95. The first step is to understwid the problems of others, says Bailey, a Missouri educator.

10 Days to a Great New Life, by William E. Edward; 256 pages. $4.95. Edwards, a successful businessman, writer and lecturer, advocates writing (Hit the task and letting the subconscious do the work.

Okay, men! Get In there and think, plan, beam, sell, sell, sell and make a milliiw!