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Friday, December 20, 1968

Its Still Heavy Here

The Siirface Is Barely Scratched

EJastem North Carolina, if it looks at the population shifts in the state in recent years, must recognize the fact that those counties which have placed greatest emphasis on agricultural diversi-fcation and industrial development are the ones which have gained rather than lost population.

It is also evident that a similar situation prevails in the 1960s as economic pressures and economic opportunities continue to influence people in choosing the places where they will live.

While Eastern North Carolina communities generally recognize their need for more year-round employment opportunities for their people, and while they continue to push for industrial development* it is important that the un-realized potentials of agriculture are not overlooked.

With its climate,, soil conditions and other natural assets. Eastern North Carolina has the natural resources for a much more productive agricultural economy than it has yet achieved. The surface has only been scratched with the development of truck crops, for example. The state still has

3everly Lake An

ager Entry

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES LAKE It was a hard de> cisin but Dr. L Beverly Lake approaclws his second cam-pidgn for the governorship Just as eagerly as he did in 1960.

He faces the coming months with more confidence and added determination. It adds up Ut aest and zip.

This is a paradox because Lake was defeated twice in the hard fought primaries of 1960. Two defeats would appeal to dampen political enthusiasm. But this is not the

case.

He puts 1960 down as experience in the political school of hard knocks.

Lake supporters and Lake himself are just as enthusiastic. but in a quieter, more serious way. There is just as much conviction on Lakes part that his views on government are right.

DECISION - The decision to run again was not an easy one. The easy thing. Lake says, would have been to stay out of the race.

There were many things that pointed that way. His conviction was one. And Lake was convinced that he has support

There were things like stacks of letters, many of them In pencil and on tablet paper, from housewives, farmers, factory workers and former students asking htm to run. There were no letters from politicians.

One letter from a woman begins, "Im not a politician, and the road in front of my house 1s paved. ..."

EB'FECT No one thing no single circumstance, issue not personality persuaded Lake to run again.

Some things, like the letters, gave him a tug. They had an effect. There were promises of financial support, and some Lake supporters launched a campaign to raise money hopeful that they could get enough.

Some things that happened to 1960 also affected Lakes de-cisi(Mi. Lake considers the vote he received in 1960 a def-totte encouragement for 1964. He believes the experience of the stormy campaigns of 1960 will be helpful. He has the advantage of organizational work that was done in 1960 with key workers in every C(Hinty.

15pa>ERIENCE In 1960, the former Wake Forest College law professor entered the four - way primary campaign late only 10 weeks before the balloting.

He had little in the way of a pc^tical organizati(M3. He bad a campaign manager. State Sen. Robert Morgan of Harnett, and a secretary in his Raleigh law offlce and she became ill m the day of his an

nouncement. Lakes wife came to Raleigh from their home in Wake Forest and pitched in on secretarial and office chores.

Lake considers that he was a political novice in i960 facing formidable political opposition. His opponents included ,a former state YDC president and manager for the late W. Kerr Scotts senate campaign, a former state Democratic party chairman and the candidate backed by then Gov. Luther H. Hodges.

DIFFERENT Lake laughs and recalls that his hastily organized supporters in 1960 were referred to as "Lakes amateurs," And. he says, thats what they were.

But in the months of the i960 campaigns. Lakes amateurs became political , veterans Lake was proud of them and in recent weeks, he says, they have proved their loyalty.

Things win be different this time, Lake believes. He is better known politically. His supporters have political experience. And he announced with an enthusiastic organization ready to go.

This situation, too, had a definite effect upon Lakes decision to run again.

SITUATION - Situations have changed and thus Lake believes the campaign of 1964 will be different.

He is asked frequently whether he will wage the same type campaign as he did in the two primaries of 1960. His answer is that the principles of conservative, constitutional government are unchanged but that situations have changed and this will affect emphasis and specific Issues.

Lake hopes that an Inflammatory, emotional type campaign can be aviided. He hopes that the real issues may be presented in a clear - cut manner unclouded by personal attacks, fallacies and distortions.

CAMPAIGN - Lake feels that in 1960 there was overemphasis of certain issues and ignoring if others.

He feels this resulted in failure to put total platforms and positions in proper perspective. He hopes that proper emphasis can be given to each and every point put forth by the candidates without regard for preconceived ideas and stock political labels, and without trading on fear, threats and pressures. He favors a full, open debate of the issues. **

Lake has pledged to wage "an active, clean campaign." He told his first rally audience that "we are not campaigning against our opponents. We are campaigning for good government and for an opportunity to build a better North Carolina for all her people.

' the potential for much greater production of livestock just to reach the point where Tar Heel farms supply the needs of meat packing plants located in this area.

The list of opportunities for increasing farm income in Eastern North Carolina is far too long to attempt a complete listing here. Suffice it to say that the East, while it continues its industrial development, must likewise place a greater emphasis on the development, of its agricultural potential. The further development of agriculture in this section will not eliminate entirely the migration of people from the farms. But it will provide higher farm income for those who remain. At the same time, the further development of our agricultural potential through diversification will increase the potential for industrial development.

There is little likelihood, for example, that additional meat packing plants will be constructed in the area so long ,as those already here find ,it necessary to import livestock from other states to keep the North Carolina plants operating at anywhere near capacity. It is not likely that additional major food processing plants will spring up in Eastern North Carolina until the agricultural interests of the area show that they are willing and able to supply the raw materials necessary to keep those plants in operation.

Eastern North Carolina cannot afford to put less than the present emphasis on its industrial development and diversification program. But it sorely needs to place greater emphasis on the development of its untapped potentials in agriculture.

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by JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Most people think of many things at the Chri.st-mas season . . . decorated trees, gaily wrapped gifts, family gatherings, bright faces of excited youngsters ... a hundred pleasant scenes flash across the minds eye.

But there are other things the Christmas season brings, and one of them is the tragic toll on the highways of the nation as hundreds of thousands of families move from one place to another.

For most, the Christmas season is not the time for thinking of tragedy. The mind closes itself to thoughts of the possible screech of tires,, the ripping of metal, the shattering of glass . . . and the moans of injured and dying persons lying be.side the highway.

The scene doesnt fit at all with the Christmas season.. Rut it has become far too much a part of the holiday story all across the United States.

With the approach of Christmas Eve* traffic on the nations highw^ays will increase sharply, and with this increase, the traffic hazards will also multiply. Most drivers will exercise extreme caution as they travel during the holiday season. Most will have a safe and happy journey. But for others there will be the split second which spells, the dif-will be the momentary lapse of vigil at the wheel that will mean the difference between a safe journey and an accident.

Every driver on the highways at this season

should drive as though his life - and the lives

of those with him depended upon his ability as

By ART BUCHWALD

What Do Fathers Want?

Kids these days have no appreciation of the real value of Christmas. All they talk about is how many presents theyre going to get. None of them are aware of the sacrifices their fathers have made to make their Christmas a pleasant one. We fathers dont want much in exchange. All we ask is that our sons let us play with their toys on Christmas morning.

Last Christmas we bought our ten-year-old son an electric racing car set. It looked like a real si^edway And came complete with a scaled model of a Ferrari and a Lotus racing car. There were banked curves, bridges, fences, and pits. You couldnt ask for a better present.

Christmas morning we said to our son, "How about playing with your racing cars? We could have a race."

"I don't want to," he said

unwrapping an aircraft carrier.

"What do you mean, you dont want to? You know how much that thing cost?".

He was adamant. "I dont want to play with them now.

He doesnt want to play with his cars," we said to our

WifCi

"Its his Christmas," she said. "Let him play with what he wants to."

"Youre always taking his side," we complained.

"Play with the cars yourself, she said.

"Its no fun. You have to have two to race."

The boy opened a fort we has especially selected. We started placing soldiers in it.

"I dont want the soldiers placed like that, he whined.

"Thats the way they should be placed, we said. "I wasnt In the Marines for nothing."

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*BY JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson says he will decide when and how to hold news conferences according to what comes naturally."

What has come naturally to him so far is something between the news conferences of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman and those of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

Roosevelt and Truman met with newsmen far oftener than Eisenhower and Kennedy in their offices but what they said could seldom be quoted directly.

Eisenhower and Kennedy held their conferences in full view of cameras in Kennedys case, before live television cameras and what they said was the public record,

Johnson, like Roosevelt and Truman, has met twice with newsmen in his office, without benefit of television or radio, but. like Eisenhower and Kennedy, what he has said so far haa been directly attributed to him.

When the mood seizes him, Johnson may meet the press before live televlslOT cameras. He has foreclosed nothing, promised nothing specific. *

Asked what kind of conferences he planned to hold, ^ said: "Maybe it wUl be a meeting of this kind today; "Maybe it will be a meeting

of this kind today; maybe a televised meeting tomorrow; with maybe a coffee session the next day.

His first new conference, Dec. 8, was a coffee session. If he keeps up his present pace, two conferences in 10 days, he will outdistance Eisenhower and Kennedy and be more in the Roosevelt-Truman tradition.

Roosevelt held 998 cwifer-ences In 12 years, an average of 83 a year; Truman, 324 conferences in almost eight years, averaging 41 a year; Eisenhower, 198 conferences in eight years, averaging 24; and Kennedy, 64 in just under three years, an average of 21 a year.

While the Eisenhower-Kenne-dy conferences were televised, Eisenhowers could not be re-lea.sed until after the conference. Kennedys were live.

Reporters rushing to a phone after an Eisenhower conference could not quote him directly. Permission for this was given only after White House aides went over the transcript of the presidents remarks for errors.

Kennedys statements, since they were on television as he gave them. Instantly were public property.

The apoearance of Eisenhower and Kennedy on television had a great public advantage.

All the people of the nation could watch their president In action and form their own (Continued On Page 7)

Now Russia is ready to do business with us or any nation that can supply entire fertilizer plants. But there are two conditions. The West must not try to exact political concessions andithe Russians want credit. f

Now look at the wheat deal. If was to be a regular trade agreement with Russia being treated like any other cash customer who can strike a bargain with private American merchants, as the late President John F. Kennedy said.

But the Russian demands became so exacting that yesterday the House voted to ban credit to'Russia through the Export - Import bank to finance the wheat sale. Credit through the Export - Import bank amounts to subsidization by the taxpayers. And our representative, L. H. Fountain voted to ban credit to Russia to buy American wheat. through the Export - Import bank. And we are certain the majority approve of Mr. Fountains position.

Why cwit Russia get credit? This nation lacks goods to trade in return. The Kremlin has gold and oil but little else on a large scale basis. Russia does not want to pay for huge fertilizer plants at the price these will cost. So the nation is looking for credit.

Why Should the United States finance its main opponent in the cold war? Congress and Presidents before Mr. Johnson have opposed Soviet credits. While other countries, some allies. with less responsibility are trading with Russia and on

a credit basis. Cansulas sale of wheat to Russia was for 25 per cent cash and the rest by 18 months from shipment. But notice it is short term credit Russia is getting from Canada.

A British firm financed a big plastic plant for Russia (m a five year credit basis. The money came from private British bankers. The question is being asked as to what stand American firms should take.

America is in an entirely different position from the other nations. Khrushchev has said Communist Russia will bury us. If we had any assurance that the tension would c(mtinue to ease that would be a different matter. But we do nc^ have. Russia owes this nation more than $8(X) million in lend - lease debts today.

What America needs to watch Is this business of credit to Russia. If we are not careful we will be financing our greatest enemy, and with our tax dollars. Russia should be made to toe the mark as to credit. All credit should be on the short term basis and private loans should not be backed by government credit. If private companies take the risk that is their responsibility.

This natlOTi should have no part in one of the contracts Mr. Chairman draws. And we are certain it will take American capital to finance a $46.2 biUlon economic revolution in Russia. Russian contracts should be on U.S.A. terms.

We should remember the economic truism, that when you owe a small loui you are at the mercy of your creditors. When you owe a'big sum your creditor Is at your mercy.

"I want them another way.*

"I said they should go like

that."

He ran off to ccnnplaln to his mother. She said, Why dont you let him put the soldiers in the fort the way he wants to?

All the soldiers will get killed if he does," we said.

"Well, thats'his business. Why dont you open up your own presents?"

We opened up a box and all that was in it was a cashmere pullover sweater.

Our son opened up another gift to find a hockey game.

"Lets play a game of hockey," we said excitedly. "I used to play it when I was a kid.

"Im waiting for Butch to come over," he said, "Ill play it with him.

"What does Butch know about hockey?" we cried.

Our wife gave us another box. It contained a wallet.

"Open up that package," we told our s(Hi. It contained a gasoline-driven airplane that cost us $14.

The boy took out ttie air p 1 a n e. "I wonder how It works," he said.

"Ill show you," we said. "Lets go outside.*

"Its too cold, he replied. "WeU fly it t<Hnorrow."

We were just about to grab the plane when we g(A a call from our friend, Ed I^lliams.

"Hows your Christmas?" he wanted to know.

"Lousy. Hows yours?*

"The same. Jobie wont even let me play with his rock collection."

"I got an Idea. Ill send Joel over there to play with Jobles toys, and you come over here and well play with Joels toys."

"Do you have a racing car set?"

"Of course."

"Ill be right over. Can I have the Ferrari?"

Opinions In Brief

"Democrats and Republi* cans in Congress are accusing one another of playing politics. Thats like accusing Daniel Boone of carrying a gun."Albany (Ky.) News.

If soaring deficits should set off a major new wave of inflation some leading authorities think is almost certainthe loss in the dollars purchasing power would far of set any tax cuts."-Kennett (Mo.) Dunklin Democrat.

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Strength For Today

Cuba's Sugar Marke

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS

AVOID THAT VITAMIN

A young man was described recently as suffering from an overdose of Vitamin I.

The inferiority complex is an Instrument of torture. Lack of self-esteem creates a mood which renders happiness impossible no matter what advantages (me may possess. But there can scarcely be anything which more completely distorts the mind, ruins the possibility of happiness and precludes the making of firm friendship than does self-conceit.

People who suffer from this affliction are confident not only that they know everything worth knowing and can do everything worth doing, but that the rest of mankind is pretty much dirt under their feet. People of this sort have been feeding themselves for years on Vitamin I. They have been looking at themselves in the mirror. They have been taking

their little accomplishments and puffing them up into amazing triumphs. They have overlooked their faults and have had excuses for themselves every time they failed. They have put themselves at the center of their universe.

If you have been partaking too much of this vitamin, cut it out. Wake up, or to change the figure, get out of the boat before it goes over the falls. For the person who puts himself at the center of his universe is bound eventually to be crushed by that universe. His self-esteem will vanish when he realizes that no one has any esteem for him but himself.

To awake to this realization is about toe most harrowing experience cxie can ever have. We should prepare ourself against it by seeing that our feet are placed to the right pathways and best of aU, that we never try to pep ourselves up with Vitamin L

By ELMER ROESSNER

The longer time runs, the more it seems certain that Fidel Castro has destroyed Cuba's greatest asset. This asset was not its production of sugar, which can be restored, but its world markets which may never be regained.

Castro did a lot to destroy sugar producUon. He seized the sugar mills, largely American owned. Replacement parts were soon difficult to obtain; mills constantly ground to a hali. Political commissars placed in charge o the industry mlsman-ged it. Anti-Castroites sabotaged fields and slowed down producUcm. The United States banned purchase of Chiban su-gar.

Then came hurricane Flora which destroyed much of the 1963-64 crop.

MARKET GAP FILLING

But Cubas biggest loss was customers.

Barring of Chiban sugar was a tremendous stimulus to production of both cane and beet sugar In the United States.

Thousands of acres were added to sugar growing. A bumper crop was harvested this year. Given good weather, next years harvest will be even larger. New mills have sprung

up.

Meanwhile, Chiba is reported to have withdrawn from the world market until next May. The island appears to have no hold-over production to seU and it cannot tell what the harvest, soon to start, will bring.

In Europe, the Iron Chirtaln countries have been buying Chiban sugar; domestic beet crops have largely failed. But both Eastern and Western Euf-(H>ean countries are planning to Increase sugar beet plantings. Neither sled wants to be dependent on Castros Chiba. OTHER NATIONS GROWING MORE

All around the world, other countries have been increasing sugar iH*oduction. Cubas failure created new markets for Australian sugar. Exports to Japan rose from nothing to

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After many months of backing and filling by the Interstate Conunerce Commlsri(m, some of the big railroad mergers are at last becoming a reality. The Atlantic Coast Line has been allowed to merge with the Seaboard Air Line, and the Chesapeake and Ohio has picked up the Baltimore and Ohio. ^ ^

The "Chessy - B. and O. wedding, which will give profitable employment to C. and O. cash, is a tribute to tha economic foresight of old Cyrus Eaton (rf Cleveland, Ohio, C. and O. board chairman who decided the railroad buslnesa was worth an extended flier for himself when the late Robert R. Young achieved control of the C. and O. Young, over the years, achieved much more fame as a railroad man than Eaton ever did but of the two, Eaton mads the best bet on the future.

The C. and O. has always made its big money out of coal, which it carries downhill from the mountain covee 0 West Virginia to tidewater in Virginia. But it as happen-ed that dependence on coal bored Robert Young. He thought the future of the ra-road business demanded a renaissance'in the passenger-carrying end 0 things. Accordingly he tried all sorts of gim-icfcs on the C. and O., showing first-run movies on through trains from WashlngUm, D. C., to Cincinnati, Ohio, and doing away with time-consuming waiting at the windows for tickets. But the C. & 0. never attracted enough passengers to give Young any real scope. Thinking, in the late Nineteen Poi^ ties, that coal had seen its best days as a fuel, Young plotted and planned to make his jump to the New York Central. On his second try he suc(!eeded in getting contnd of the Central, whereupon he resigned from the C. and O., leavtog h to his old pal Eaton.

Eaton, though he has praised Bob Young as a genius, thought Young was all wrong In distrusting the future of coal. Before getting interested in all sorts of primary extraction business, such as Steep Rock iron ore in Canada and coal In West Kentucky, Eatcm had been in the* electrical utility business. He knew that the generatitm electrical power from coal-burning steam plants was continually improving at a time when new water power sites were becoming scarce. And he doubted that atomic power would become compe-Utive with coal for a long time.

So Eaton stuck with coal over the decade ot the Fifties whe Youngs New York On-tral contiued an ill-starred at^ tempt to make money on the passenger traffic. Depressed by his inability to restore the Central to toe lurctfltable estate of Cornelius Vanderbilts day, Young c(nmltted suicide. He might be living today if he had only bet (m coal. Ircxiical-ly, if he had lived to head a merger of toe C. and O. and the B. and 0., he would have had ample opportunity to make an appeal to the passenger traffic. The B. and 0., after an, serves sonde pi^tF big cities.

My only quarrel with Cyrus Eaton is that his political acumen faUs short oi hie ec<mo-mlc foresight. As the owner of acres of Inm ore in Ungava, in northern Quebec, Eaton has had the vision of supplying the Krupp works in Germany with enough iron to provide tons o steel for shipment to toe Soviet Union. As always, Eatons economic sense is good: it Is only a short haul from ice free ports in Greenland, where Iron ore from Quebec niight be stor* ed, to the German ports at Hamburg and Bremen. But in hoping that the Soviet Union might become a great peaceful customer of the West, Eaton has let his capitaUstlc common sense desert him.

The truth is that socialism does not rield the surpluses that are needed to support a nations foreign trade. Khrushchev is having the devil of a time finding a surplus of goods oil, gold, and so (m to pay for his needed imports o wheat. There seems to be a vast conspiracy everywhere In the Communist world to keep (Continued On Page 7)

360,000 tons this year and may rise to 500,000 tons next year. Australia for the first time this year exported sugar to the U.S.. 220,000 tons ot it. it.

Throughout the Caribbean and Latln-Amerlcan nations sugar production is increasing. These nations are seeking long term deals with sugar-ehort countries. They are trytog to sew up customers agatost the day when Cuba returns to the world maiket.

Meanwhile, in the U. S., the Department of Agriculture tentatively set U. S. c(xi8umpon for 1964 at 9.8 million tCHis, the same figure it started with last year. Se(aretary OrvlUe Freeman said that it was likely that, to meet this estimate, only 3.1 million tons would have to be imported, compared with 4.6 million tons last year. Presumably, U. S. beet and cane growers would make up the difference.

RICH INCREASES LIKELY

But toe original estimate for 1963 was increased hy mora

troyed

than 1 mlllioQ tons during tha year. With a great rise in population, it is likely that there will be another tocrease during 1964.

It is likely that the quota will be increased around a mll-U(m tons sometime before the November elecUon. This Inr orease would probitoly be awarded largely to American producers, who have a lot more votes here than, say. the Brazilians.

Western beet growers ai^ar* ently think so. The National Beet Growers Federatlcm has launched a big campaign to persuade Congress to give domestic suppliers a larger shara of the controlled U. S. market. At present, 40 per cent of the U. S. market 1^ reserved for foreign producers. The beet men would like that cut 5 or 10 per cent.

They may get action. Sugar beets are grown in 11 western states, and there are lots, of votes thereand there ara more votes in the Gulf States, whara cgna la frown.

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