FVday, November 1, 1963

Significant Comparative. Figmes

Any Sign Of An SOS?

As another tobacco sales season draws to a total sales of $45 million last year, close'in Eastern North Carolina, there are significant Although Pitt has seen its industrial commuijitj', comparative figures between 1962 and 1963, par- grow in recent years, in terms of plants, jobs and ticularly for PiU County. payroll, the agriculture of the county is still the

Through Wednesday of this week, the Green- mainstay of the economy. And tobacco is still the vile market had sold more than 62 million pounds of big money crop in Pitt County agriculture, leaf and paid out almost $36.5 million dollars. Thi. The fact that the tobacco markets of the represented 9,6 million pounds more tobacco than county have paid out considerably more money this the market sold during the entire 1962 season and year tj[ian last points to higher income this year for $5.9 million more the market paid out during the tobacco farmers of the county. This higher agricul-1962 season. tural income for Pitt this year suggest a generally

Through Wednesday also, the Farmville to- stronpr economy for the county throughout the * bacco market had sold 1.3 million more pounds of remainder of 1963 and the early part of 1964. tobacco this year than it did during the 1962 auction season, and it paid to farmers $947,000 LOH^ BcfOfC LH

than was paid put by. the^ market during the full season last year.

The combined figures mean that the two tobacco markets in Pitt County this year have paid v.out since late August almost $7 million more than they did during the 1962 season. This figure represents an increase of more than 15 per cent over the

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

OFFICE A long, dark corridor on the third floor of the Agriculture Buildingin Raleigh, down past the entomology divi-si(xi and insect laboratories, leads to the two-room suite of offices of the State Board of Elections presided over by secretary Raymond C. MaxweU.

It is down this long hall, smelling of formaldehyde and whiffs of chloroform, that would-be candidates for state-wlde public office must walk to pay their filing fees In person.

In ever-increasing numbers, hopefuls, challengers, newcomers. daric horses, and incumbents wUl be taking this walk In the next few months. The deadline for filing for next Mays primaries falls on Friday. March 20.

Maxwell reports a slight stirring of Interest in obtaining filing forms and applications and required procedures. Two candidates. both relative unknowns, have walked in unannounced in recent weeks and filed for the Democratic primary m* gover-nor.

PEES In addition to certain qualifications, the required filing fees fw* candidates in the primaries range from a high of $250 for governor to an economy rate of $21 for lieutenant governor.

The fees are fixed at Mie per cent of the annual salary of the office. The governors salary Is $25,000 a year. The lieutenant governor gets g salary erf only $1,100 a 5^ar, but also draws per diem and expense and travel allowances.

Filing fees for Congress and chief justice of the Supreme Court are $225. The fee for an associate justice of the Supreme Court is $215.

Salaries of members of the Council of State were Increased this year to $18,000 and the filing fees went up accordingly, to $180, for the offices of Secretary (rf State. State Auditor, State Treasurer, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and commissioners of Agriculture, Insurance and Labor.

Fees for superior court judges are $170 and for district soUcitors $115.

LOCAL Candidates for legislative, county and township {rffices file with local county boards of election. The law provides that filing fees be one per cent of the annual salary with certain exceptions. These include flat $10 fees for county commissioners, $5 for county boards of education and $40 plus one per cent of annual income above $4,000 for sheriffs, clerics of superior court and register of deeds.

Other county offices on a fee basis carry a filing fee of $20 plus one per cent of annual Income over $2,000 except $10 plus one per cent trf annual in

come over $1,000 for justices of the peace and township constables. Filing fees for county and township offices on a part salary and part fee basis are one per cent of first annual salary and do not include fees.

LEGISLATIVE The filing fee for candidates for the legislature is $18.

The law provides that candidates for the State Senate file with the chairman of secretary of the board of elections in the county of their residence. These officials, in turn, are charged with responsibility for notifying proper election officials in other counties of the district.

In this connection, some question may arise between now and next Spring about rotation agreements between counties In the varimis senatorial districts. Enactments of the new Senate redistricting law by the General Assembly in Its special session invalidated all prior rotat 1 o n agreements recognized by law except perhaps in three districts in which the countees were not changed, but the number of the district was.

These three districts are the old 15th, Caswell and Rockingham counties making up the new 20th; the old ninth, Duplin, New Hanover, Pender, Sampson making up the new IMh with two senators, and the old 18th, Davidson, Montgomery. Richmond and Scotl and making up the new 22nd with two senators.

DATE There is a state Democratic party rule, not a law, which provides that any rotaticm agreement between counties be filed 120 days prior to the primary date. It Is understood that several of the districts already have at least tentative rotatiwi agreements worked out, but none have been filed with the Board of Elections.

The State Board of Elections is expected to cwisider whether to allow more time for rotation agreements to be reached and fUed.

Questi(Mi remains as to the status of a candidate for the State Senate who files before a rtrfation agreement is reached and resides in a county who would not be entitled to a senator under such agreement Officials say this will have to be answered if and when such a situation occurs. The question; If a senatorial candidate files now, will his candidacy be subject to a rotation agreement filed later?

NICKNAME - One of the two already-filed candidates for governor became the first person to take advantage of the newly-enacted state law permitting use of nicknames on the ballot. Gubernatorial candidate Bruce (Bozoi Burleson will have his nickname printed In parentheses on the May 30 primary ballot.

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After mid-November motorists will be able to travel from New York to Washington on superhighways without encountering a traffic light or a stop sign.

By 1972, the experts say, motorists will be able to drive 1.850-mile jaunt from northern Maine to Miami without worrying about a stop sign or traffic light.

This, of course, represents real progress in highway travel. The idea of superhighways spanning almo.'st the entire length of the east coast of the United States is like a dream come true.

What really interests us, however, is how long it will be before there is anything approaching i superhighway linking the coastal area ,,of North Carolina with the western end of the state?

If there were just some genuine progress toward accomplishing this long-sought goal of North Carolina, it wouldnt bother us if there were a few stop signs between Morehead City and Murphy.

It is fine that North Carolina has a few superhighways slicing north-south through the state. It is a sign of progress that it has some superhighways stretching east-west across the Piedmont. But there remains the dire need for a major east-west superhighway stretching from one end of North Carolin i to the other. Particularly is there a need for superhighway segments leading through the eastern section to the Piedmont and from the mountain section of the state into the Piedmont.

We could get much more excited about driving from the ocean to the mountains on a superhighway than we can over the prospect of being able to drive from northern Maine to Miami without seeing a traffic light.

By HAL BYL;

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xcitement In Big City

NEW YORK (AP) How do you live here, nice as it is to visit? inquired the cozy critic.

Believe me, this place Is for the birds and I do mean pigeons. People no longer have a status here.

Well, she was a pretty girl, and I supposed she meant what she said.

Where Reality Beclouds Dream

BY JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)French President de Gaulle, almost 73 now, said once: Old age is a shipwreck. But, if the waters of time are lapping at his decks, he is still on the bridge, still a captain and very much a critic.

The Kennedy administrations duel with him, compared with De Gaulles ominous and blunt suspicions about American defense of Europe, has an almost delicate elegance in its pointed but restrained thrusts.

Repeatedly the administration has criticized him without naming him, as if still trying to be neighborly with the man next door who keeps honking his horn all night and building fires on the sidewalk.

De Gaulle, dreaming of a resurrected France since his father talked to him about It in childhood, must be realistic enough to know France lacks the resources to be a No. 1 power again, like the United States and Russia.

But reality beclouds a Bream. And De Gaulle, perhaps out of frustration and Injured pride, persists in making France sound bigger than it is if only by the tactics of otxstruction and hostility.

He had blocked Britain from joining the Common Market and endangers the Western Alliance bp^ suggesting Europe cannot depend idefinitely on the United States, its pledged ally, to stand beside it in time of danger.

Nevertheless, the Kennedy adminlstratiHi tip - toes around him. Not so Sen. J. W. Ful-bright. an Arkansas Democrat who doesnt have to deal directly with the Frenchman.

This week in the Senate Ful-brigbt. chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, slammed head - on into De Gaulle.

De Gaulle recently boated that Prance not only isn't borrowing from others, particularly Americans, but is paying off its debts io them and

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Mo.st cf the debased political systems of the world have defended their overt acts by pointing to the goal as an excuse for the means. But true freedom operates under an opposite rule, and even a worthy goal is no justification for unworthy means of achieving it.Dallas Times-Herald.

The re.strained sort of cultural exiilosion going on in this country Is having reverberations in some interesting place.s, A furniture-manufac-turiiia firm in Virginia, for instance, has employed a com-priser to create a small concerto in its behalf. The Wall Street Journal.

Considered individually,

even on occasion Is granting them certain facilities. Fulbright reminded him dryly that France still hasnt paid the United States almost $6.5 billion it has owed since World War I. Back of Pulbrights attack was De Gaulles news conference slurs last July 29.

But back of that were similar episodes. De Gaulle Inflicted a brutal embarrassment on President Kennedy last Jan. 14 by holding a news conference and this was hardly an accident a few hours before Kennedy sent a highly optimistic message to Congress about this countrys relations with its allies and the alliance itself.

How fares the Grand Alliance? Kennedy asked. Then he answered himself: Free Europe is entering into a new phase of its Icmg and brilliant history.

But before Kennedy could get the words out De Gaulle, at his Paris meeting with the press, slammed the Common Market door In Britains face, rejected this countrys proposal for a multinational nuclear force among the NATO allies and said Prance opposed a Common Market under American leadership and domination. On April 19 De Gaulle, shooting another poisoned arrow, said France could not be sure of the intentions of its allies, much less of its enemies.

To offset the kind of suspicions De Gaulle was trying to arouse about the United States, Kennedy at Frankfurt. West Germany, on June 25 pledged to risk the destruction of American cities to preserve European freedom.'

Two days later, June 27. Frances infonnatlon minister, after newsmen were told he would give De Gaulles reaction to Kennedy, warned Europe against trusting its security indefinitely to the United States.

By this reasoning, of course, how could the other allies ever trust any promises De Gaulle made for France once'' De Gaulle was no longer president?

But while doing all this talking De Gaulle still had not assigned to the NATO Alliance all the divisions France had promised it years ago. For that matter, no other country but the United States has kept its NATO prmnise.

De Gaulle had another nev|s conference July 29 and took another dig at this country by .suggesting that In time of danger from Russia the United States might not imperil Itself by standing beside its allies.

The De Gaulle belittling technique was getting stronger On Oct. 27 Secretary of State Dean Rusk also went to Frankfurt and reassured the allie.s of American loyalty, and almost timidly, it was so oblique, he told them they were not putting in NATO all the divisions they had promised.

This could > be interpreted a.s a slap at De Gaulle. Rusk didnt say it was. But Fulbright was direct. He said for too long Prances voice has been a voice

But oh, dullness: how out of everywhere can you be?

There are several kinds of people who knock New York.

There are the butter and egg men who arrive with a fist waving green and say they wont take any chicken feathers from anybody.

There are those from CTiica-go who say their museums have more places to park chewing gum than any we

have here.

And there are the high-clas ladies from San Francisco who complain they get their tennis shoes dirty riding in the subway,

This is an attractive place to t(wr in a way and why one would want to live on a group basis, they some-many attractions, and getting times remark, but how and

Actually, Manhattan has along isnt too difficult.

The chief idea is that you have to walk a little faster than you do in other cities, and realize that it doesnt make any difference where youre going just so you hurry.

The second thing is to remember that you are a viewer rather than a participant

In life.

The great aim is noninvolvement. It might be your luck, for example, to gaze across an apartment courtyard and see a stranger strangling his wife.

Interrupt him? Not for the world. That might be all right in Dubuque. But here you either look the other way. or break out in mild applause.

One who becomes accustomed to the faster tempo of this city is never quite the same again.

There are calmer spirits who say that the New York pace is a device for getting attention rather than distance.

But that isnt so. There Is a pace of possibility here -- an eelctric sense of anything can

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Other Editors Saying.. Fair And Democratic

Strength

jror loaay

('The Wilson Times)

North Carolina Is made up of 1(X) counties, some large, some small, some rich and some poor, all a part of this great 'State. Now there Is a concerted effort to put all representation on population.

This theory does not give any consideration to geography, and the county units. And the United States government does not recognize this as the fair and democratic plan of representation. The Congress Is made up of two houses, the Senate with each state having two senators, regardless of the population, and the House where the representation is on the population basis.

This is the idea behind the little federal plan now to be presented to the people to vote on as a constitutional arpendment. And if it is voted dbwn in January the time can come when the eastern and western counties will have only one representative in the House and less and less senatorial representation, as the senatorial districts are shifted to take care of the population growth. For under the redistricting law passed by the legislature, representation hi both houses will be based on population.

Redistricting is over until the next census. But that is only six years away, and when the census comes again we could lose more representation and the representation become more and more centered in a few counties. Today, three counties, Mecklenburg, G u 11-ford and Forsyth have 708,509

of the 4,566,155 populatlwi of the state. You can see the proportion and the concentration of representation.

The time can come when the big majority of the 20 additional House members are centered in the industrial P i e d-mont, then with the Senate representation also on the pop-ulatiwi basis, this area will have a continuing control on state government.

So this is why we favor the so-called little Federal plan, where the House is on the par with the U. S. Senate In that every county has a representative and the Senate reiv resentation increased to 70 and this is on the population basis.

You are hearing the argument advanced that the big population counties will lose representation under the little federal plan and they will. But they will keep the same proportion of representation with their increased representation in the Senate,

We think the majority will agree that the state has had good government and we expect -this to continue. But it is not healthy for any one section to have as complete control as the present plan is working toward. This is why we are fighting for the constitutional amendment. We can see the picture as It is taking shape for the future. And we know this state can only prosper as a whole,

No the constitutional amendment is not dead as you have read. The East will fight for a fair share In the government of this state, and we expect the West will do likewise.

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BY EARL L. DOUGLASS THE WORD FOR US

Of all the tortue to which one can be subjected, the most terrible is the tortue of hate, N(rf hate directed toward us but hate that wie cherishes for another.

There are millicMis of pe(H)le in the world who hate somebody vehemently and cherish in their minds every day an image of dire punishment falling upon this hated person. With every hater should awake to, and awake to fast, is the realization that hate is doing him more harm than any catastrophe or punishment which may befall the perswi he so heartily despises. Let hate go on long enough and it will burn the inner life to a cinder. It will destroy happiness. It will leave one so miserable that no matter what blessing may come upon him, it will have come too late and without the power of conferring the slightest blessing.

The hate we are talking about, of course, is the hatred of person for person. We are supposed to hate certain things. We are to hate dishonesty, uncharitableness, cruelty, injustice, avarice and sexual sin. But we are not to hate the people who do these things. To do that is to commit evil of stupendous proportions. Our liatred 0 evfl things should arise from our love of good things and our devotion to the welfare of others and the highest fulfillment of our own possibilities.

Hate evil things _itnd evil influences, but never hate persons no matter how evil they may be. God will take care of evil people and their evil acts. For us the word is, Thou shalt love. .

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright. 1963. King Feature!

Syndicate, Inc.

In 1958 and 1959 the CMnese C(nmunl8t Party decreed* that the fields ot China could pro* duce twice as much food if ckjse - sowing of seed were made the rule. But the Con> munist Party, out (rf the depths of its abysmal Ignorance ' of ^farmtog, faUed to provide U)* fertilizer that la necessary to support close - sowing. When a plague of locusts came along to add to the CMnese pea-sants troubles, the result was famine.

In 1960 and 1961, Chlang

In 1960 and 1961, Chlang Kai-shek would have liked* to dare an Intensified guerilla plaese mainland from FcHmoea. But the U. S. State Depart ment, out of Its abyanal Ignorance of pod psycho - warfare and parlmillltary oppoc^ tunltles, refused to encourago Chlang Kai-shek. Just recrti^ ly the State Department haa admitted that a good opportunity was muffed because of our unwillingness to takead> vantage of the Great Flra In China.

But do we ever really leamf Do we really want to at^ Communism anywhere? W# have opportunities now In eastern Europe and in Cuba that have been presented to us on a platter by crop failures deriving frran bad agricultural practices c(npllcated by natural calamities. Instead of Intensifying the pressures on ttit Communists in eastern Europe and in Castroland. we feel sorry for our enemies. As wan the case in 1960 and 1961 vis-a-vis a tottering Red China, we present a picture of good heart, no brains. .

In a letter to Senrtor Frank Lausche, Democrat of Ohio. Dr. Bela Fabian, the exQkl Hungarian, has presented ,s(mie extremely illuminating fguiies bearing (m the failure of Khrushchevs attempt to turn dps-ert into good wheatlands. Since 1954 more than ninety mllUoa acres of virgin land have been put under the plow in the Soviet Union. By deporting volunteers to the dry reach^ <rf Soviet Asia, Khrushchev tripled his new lands farmem. He also provided them with plenty of mechanical harvesters and tractors. But the farm machinery has. In many'Instances been sabotaged, and the farm volunteers hav# Indulged In slow - downs. Not only Is Khrushchev unable to feed the Russians, he is also unable to feed the crop-dett-cient satellites of Poland, Higi-gary, and Czechoslovakia.

In Cuba, Fidel Castro waj having a hard tdme with hli sugar, coffee and cocoa harvests. He had also managed to decimate Cuban cattle production. To gethis sugar cant cut and his coffee beans picked. the bearded tyrant had to fall back on school children who were sent to the plan-tions on a get out the harvest or else basis. Then along came Hurricane Flora to play a disastrous role in Cuba coth-parable to the locust plaguo in Chinaand the droughts la the Soviet Union,

From its network of Cuban* sources, Daniel Jamess Fret. Cuba News has collected w mine of information bearing, on what the hurricane has done to put Castro on the ropes. According to Mr. James, the three provinces affected most by the hurricane, Oriente, Ca-maguey, and Las Villas, Contain 16,700,000 out of the total arable Cuban farmland of 22,-400,000 acres. The winds of Flora, blowing at 120 and more miles per hour, brought rain and floods that ruined tho standing crops on some 16,000/-000 acres.

When Castro took stock ot his farm situation after Flora had passed out to sea he found that his cocoa crop had been, wiped out. Seventy percent of the potential ric. Mrfert M been ruined, sugar had been reduced fifty percent, coffen expectations had been cut sixty-five percent. In Oriente and Camaguey, sixty - one sugar mills had suffered heavy daxii-age and, according to Dr. tHi-lio Diaz Rivera, president of the Cuban Econonilo Corpora- ' tlcHis in Exile, may very well be beytmd repair since th# (Continued on Page i)

Consumer Soendina To Increase

By ELMER ROESSNER

^thcy are an aspect ftf the mofor-izort Koojiiiiiu which has got to bp cnntiAIW" The London Sunday Telegraph.

Trio' WeslErffT community And. when ho meant De Galillo, he aid Do Gatillo. Ho sngBCRtod the Frenchman get over his pride.

Consumer spending will go ahead in November, but it will do so under forced draft. The draft will consist of advertising, stunts and other promotion. Merchandisers will increase use of these sales tools because there are only 22 shopping dags between Thanksgiving and Christmas, There were 26 days last year.

Retailers Will be justified in these efforts because:

1. The recent increase in the wage minimum is putting more money in about two million pockets. Those who gain will spend almost all of their net increase because even after the Increase they will not have a surplus to save.

2. Income will continue its increase from other sources.

It has risen in every month but one so far this year. CONSUMERS IN BUYING MOOD

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mlt theniRplvps to further instalment obliaatlons.

4. Hopes for Federal tax , cuts next xgar will make

spenders a little more free with what they have or hope' to get.

5. The tide of new, interest-baiting products cont 1 n u e s high.

6. Christmas season Jobs in sales, transportation, pos t a 1 work, etc., are beginning to open, further swelling expendable earnings.

Plant and equipment expenditures will continue at present rates until heavy weather sets in.

Few labor contracts expire in November and December, so there is little danger of major strikes disrupting business.

The stock market will continue to show vigah. Some Democrats are trying to get the present activity identified as the Kennedy Boom. but others are holding back, fearing prices are already so high there will be an lne*vitable correction, which would be termed the eKnnedy youknow-

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government and it is not selling as much steel to the auto

industry as it expected. The 1964 cars are selling well, but, either because they want to reduce inventories or because they are not confident high demand will c(Mitinue very far Into 1964, the auto makers are not bujdng as much as the

steel industry would like. Auto makers will have to step

up orders for steel and do it quickly if steel shipments *^are to continue moving upward in November, Steel magazine said.

Considerable activity on the commodity markets is likely in November. The sale of grain to Iron Curtain countries and the damage to the Cuban sugar crop by hurricane Flora made riches for investors who were on the right side, and that will tempt many experienced and hiexperienced investors to try for similar wind-

present? Other bnA:eri ar! making similar bids for th! trade of those who may b# tempted by these markets.

And thats what November looks like from here.

SHORT ft SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS

Icelands export of herring oil in the first six montbs ot this year was 17,212 short tons, down 22 per cent from th! first half erf 1962. . . .Australia has decided to call its new decimal currency unit the dollar Instead of the roc^^ . . Many mens belts matted leather are made of substitute materials, the National Better justness Bureau wtHla shoppers. . .Gillette, long a price - fixer where legal, la dec(troling blade prices, which shows that the blade war Is getting hottrt*. . .The Tax Court thinks 15 per cent of Uie net pnrflts is fair pay

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The steel industry has two problems. It is being inve.sti-gated again by the Federal

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