. Wednesday, January 1, 1964

Reality Must Tetnper Optimism

Twelve Bright Pages

Last year is history.

Today each community be^rins to write a new chapter in its history; the chapter entitled 1964.

Whether the chapter is good, mediocre or poor for each community will depend largely upon the people of the community. Twelve months from now the year will be measured by the number of goals accomplished, the number of community needs ful-- filled, the manner in which citizens faced their daily challenges and coped with them.

What kind of year, then, will 1964 be for Pitt County and its communities?

All. of course, hope that it will be a good year, * and most sigd point to that end. But the natural optimism at the beginning of any year must be tempered with reality. It is one thing to sit back and wait to see what the year will bring. It is quite another to set out to make the year-produce those things which will meet or at least partially meet the 'more pres^ng needs-of the county.

Pitt, like many other counties, ,needs to improve its general level ofeconomy. Comparatively speaking, it has enjoyed prosperous years, and the level of its economy has moved steadily upward. But there remains far too muoh poverty in the county. Far too many of its people are unemployed or under-employed much of the year. There is the need for more job opportunities. There is the

Sanford. V\^nts Goals Definec.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

IMAGE Putting pen to paper for a series of written year-end reports. Gov. Terry Sanford had several purposes In mind ncH the least of which was to project a clearer image of his first three yeare to (rfflce.

The reports now being pub-Uahed deal primarily with an assault on poverty on many ' fronts which Sanford has set as his chief goal as governor. The articles also review accomplishments and set out his thoughts about the future and what is immediately ahead during Sanfords final year in office.

It is through this definition of goals a.nd purposes that San' ford hopes to achieve keener public recognitio.. of the slgni-hcance of his administrat ion. The key word chosen is poverty.

VAGUE - Genefally, in the public mind, the image of the Sanford administration is still somewhat vague and undefined. >

It has lacked the color and saltiness of the Scott administration, and had little of the flamboyance of the six years under Luther H. Hodges.

Somehow it has failed to de-* velop a flavor and personality easily recognizable In the pub-lie eye. No one seems to know ~all of the reasons for this, although many tilings are blam-' ed. Some say poor public rel^a-tions, aloofness, public apathy and misunderstanding. S 0 m e feel the goals have been too broad and general to strike^^ spark of-public awareness?""'^'

It may be, however, that an Image of the Sanford administration will take definite shape In the coming year.

INFLUENCE The series of articles, which Sanford wrote himself on a pad of yellow legal paper over the holidays, may help overcome certain of the failings which have resulted in an ebb and flow of Sanford administration popularity.

Failure to strike an image has been perplexing to many of those in the administration.

They know that the Sanford administration has been moving and forceful. Its Influence has been felt across the state In many ways. It has been strwig politically perhaps stronger and more closely knit than either Scott or Hodges.

PRIDE It is also a proud administration. The Sanford administration and the governor himself count numerous ao-complishraents worthy of pride.

Sanford writes In his series that we can take great pride In these accomplishments which have brought many benefits to

many people.

The states industrial program, the focal point of the Hodges administration, has been tremendously success! u 1, Sanford writes. He says that North Carolina occupies a top national position in new Jobs created, new industrial development, and the expansion of home Industry. Figures .sowi to be released will show new records in industrial gains for 1963 in the state.

In the first of the series of five articles. Sanford says pride-fully, we are on our way.

EDUCATION - Sanford cites tremendous gains in education and says we have provided support as never before.

For education advances. Sanford says, we have provided the necessary funds by means of a new tax which didn't make anybody happy, including me. This, of course, was the 1961 extension of the sales tax to food ' a tax which none of the major candidates for governor advocates repeal.

Sanford says this tax has made all of our other advances possible, and this is the key to the success we re enjoying today in improving the quality of our education. Quality education was the key phrase used in projecting the Sanford image to the voters in the I960 election campaigns.

If we will keep it up, for the next eight or 10 years, Sanford predicts, "we will have an excellent education system, possibly the best In the natlen.

LIST In addition to education, Sanford ticks off a list of advances during the last three years improved economy, moi% economic opportunitles, the best road and highway system in America, a balanced budget and top credit rating.

Sanford feels that all of the progressive programs must be continued and developed enable-ed to expand, because they relate directly to what he calls the most pressing and depressing remaining problemwidespread poverty. Half of the families In North Carolina, he says, fall In the category of poverty according to cert a i n definitions. In terms of dollars, Sanford says that 37 per cent of North Carolina famll 1 e s are caught in the chains of poverty.

He feels that the extent of poverty can be measured in terms income, housing, education and other criteria. In the last of the articles, he says qiink what It would mean if we could eliminate this burden of poverty which holds us all down.

need for better job opportunities. There is the need for greater effort toward developing the agricultural, industrial and commercial potential of the county in order to help create those opportunities.

Lil^e' many other counties, too, Pitt and its * communities must give attention to the needs of its schools in order to better equip its young peoplo to meet the challenges which lie before thm in future years. School construction has not kept pace with the growing neds,' and another year should not^be lost bifefore the catching-up begins.

In Pitt County, fortunately, there has been much better relations between the races than in many areas of this state. But there exists the need for even better understanding," better communication between citizens of the different races, and greater effort toward resolving amicably the mutual problems which face the citizens of the* county.

The list of needs could go on and on, but these examples suffice to illustrate the point. What the new year brings to Pitt and its people will depend to a large extent on the effort put forth by local citizens to make the new year produce what they want most.

Strengthens Position As A Tobacco Center

Announcement that Greenville has been chosen as the headquarters site for the new Carolina Leaf has also announced that it expects to have available in Greenville by next season a new tobacco processing and redrying facility that is estimated to cost approximately $700,000, exclusive of equipment. Although no figures have yet been announced a to the number f employes of the new plant, its payroll or its working schedule, it is evident from the initial announcement that the new plant will be a major tobacco processing facility in* this tobacco growing region. Its location in Greenville will add another boost to the economjT of Pitt Cunty as well as to that of the immediate community.

The selection of Grspenville as the headquarters for this new comparry, w'hich is the result of a consolidation of four tobacco compames in eastern North Carolina, further strengthens the position of Greenville as one of the leading tobacco centers in this part of the state. It also points to continued development of the community from the .standpoint of the tobacco industry.

The announcement by Carolina Leaf President B. Glenn ye.sterday provided a welcomed New' Years greeting for Greenville, and set an optimistic note for the beginning of T964.

Greater .Sense Of Forbodinas

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By ALVIN TAYLUK

New Year

Lady called Just before Christmas and wanted to talk to womans editor Rosalie Trc^ man.

Can you tell me if .

is having a party tonight? she asked.

The womans editor replied that she had no information on it.

"Well, he called and invited me, the voice continued. But he sounded a little tipsy and I was wondering if he really meant it.

That must have been a party that was. ,

We In the news business ponder at the first of each new year just what stories will unfold in the upcoming 12 months.

It is fashioable among the many columnist to make predictions of things to come dur

ing the new year how business will be, the shape of world affairs in future months, the cdrse of politics all of these things are predictable, right or wrong.

Other news, however, spot news we call it is totally unpredictable. Thus events are to happen in'* 1964 that none of us in our wildest thoughts dare predict on this, the first day of the year.

For proof of this go back to Jan, 1, 1963. The world had Just come through the frightening experience of two world powers, armed to the teeth with enough nuclear power to destroy the world, confronting each other over missiles in Cuba.

This had been resolved and the world had relaxed a bit. The year 1963 appeared bright.

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What responsible man one year ago would have dared utter an absurd prediction that President Kennedy would be shot to death before the years end?

On the local scene who would have expected the arrest of James Boykin during 1%3, or. the Moose Lodge fire, or the State Bank robbery?

The year 1964 will see events just as startling good or bad, for better or for worse.

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By JA.MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The little guy, any little guy going -home on New Year's Eve. felt like a man blowing feathers. He tried to clear his head of a lot of things but they floated back and stuck.

It had been a good year for him, in a way. He had a job, which millions didnt. 'There hadnt been any war. or even fear of war, at least in this country. Next year 1 op k e d peaceful, too;

But he felt a little uneasy. He didnt have any illusions about peace in the world. Peace, he knew, was like a blanket on a -nest of tigersr Even when they were quiet they were hungry.

That wasn't really what made him uneasy. There had been other New Years Eves when he went home, just as he was going now, and thinking just about the same thoughts, most always about himself.

Now it wasnt so much about himself. That was the difference. Something outside himself and bigger than himself had troubled and hurt him like a pain ever since that day when President John F. Kennedy was killed.

It had spoiled the taste of life for him a bit. Christmas* hadnt been the same for him as any other Christmas. 'Now New Year's Eve wasnt, either.

A brilliant young man, a fa-' ther and a president, a good man, for no one could say he wasnt, suddenly dead, shot like a tin can and maybe for just about as much reason.

To this day the little guy didnt know the reason and had never even heard one. Nobody seemed to know. That made everything worse. Even a completely crazy reason would, have been more understandable than none.

Sor far as he knew the president had been killed for ne^hing. Lee Harvey Oswald had been chained with it but Oswald had been killed, too, before his stQicy could come out and foi; a rea

son that also isnt clear.

It made the little guy think about the things he had managed not to think much about as the years went by and he grew up.

It was the things about the world he lived in. the real one, not the little one he Inhabited which was pretty much limited to the office and the people cm the street where he lived and' a few friends.

In the office,, on his street, among his friends he had seen spats and spites, some of them veiY unpleasant.

But the people he knew somehow managed to get along or, when they didnt, they backed away from one another and walked another road, even If it had been made lonelier by a harsh word that could never be i withdrawn.

But the little guy knew the big world Is overloaded with people sick, or stupid or stuffed with hats for whom violence is a form of conversation.

He couldnt help thinking, and this was what gave him the uneasy feeling: if this can happen to a president, what else can haw>en? He had a greater sense of uncertainty than any he had knowm in his whole life.

He thought of his wife, his kids, himself, of the kind of world hed like to Uve in as he went home this New Years Eve hoping life would be the way he wanted but pert at aU sure any more it ever 'would be.

Other Editors Saying.-. Cant Afford Stand Pat

(The Raleigh Times)

North Carolinians have received a timely warning from the Governors special assistant on economics: North Carolina wont be able to afford a* stand pat attitude or a hold- the-line administration for a generation or fRore.

The warning comes from George M. Stephens in an ar-'ticle written especially for the North Carolina Association of Afterfioon Dailies. It would have been much to the point at any time, but is especially so at this time when we are beginning the campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination: The* tone for North Carolinas growth, or.lack of growth, wUl be set during the next four years by the next Governor.

Mr. Stephens warning isweU based. He cites facts and figures to'back up his opinion, but the basic truth of the matter is that^ no Uving thing can stand still and a state is a Uving thing. A person or a tree or anything with Ufe either grows or withers. It cannot just stand stiU. Once the growth process stops, the withering process begins.

North CaroUna as a state 1 growing now in aU aspj^cts. It is growing in per capita income, it is growing in the kind of educational opportunities it affords its young people. It is growing in the kind of services it pFovldra aU its people. It has done this growing with remarkably Uttle change In the tax base, the only one consequence in a generation having* been the imposition of the sales tax on foodj.

Mr. Stephens notes that the entire nation is entering an era when technological advances

are being appnra rapidly. He cites the fact that 60 year passed between the invention of the electric motor and its use and 30 years for the use of the vacuum tube. In contrast, the transistor was invented and appUed within three years.

With such rapid changes being made, it is vital that North Carolina keep abreast in the fields of education, Mr. Stephens points out, because wily the educated wiU be able to lead the technical revolution and only the trained will be able to work in the industry of the Immediate, future. The matter of educsition and training is es-peciaUy important for North CaroUna, because so many of its pe(H>le>are now being forced out of agricultural york because of crop COTitrols and technological advances In agriculture. Those people . must be trained, for work in industry if they are to be able to maintain themselves.

Mr. Stephens sums up our situation well in his article:

The chart of prosperity for aU North Carolinians \ show the way but promises anything but an easy journey. Successful passage will take a long time for our ship of state and wiU require resourceful and dedicated captains and tough crews willing to make sacrifices in the knowledge, that their children will know a state richer than the one they know.

Will the state stand still, or drop behind, as predicted? I think not. Tar Heels fjiave always .been at their best when faced with great chaUenges. Im betting on North CaroUna.

The peoplq^of North CaroUna must bet wi North CaroUna, too.

Every CHiristmas we see stories about the lady who mailed her Christmas Cards, but forgot to stamp them. So everyone on the mailing list has to pay five cents postage due to see who sent the card. -

We notice the lady is never Identified in these stories and we often wondered why the reporters could be so spineless.

Well, we ran across just such an incident in Greenville this yuletide season. A housewife maUed her cards. Within a few days she began to hear from the recipients. They were each paying a nickle postage due.

Her name? We value our necks, too much. HeU hath no fury like a woman who forgot ,to stamp her Christmas cards.

Opinions In Brief

Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, the former Vietnamese first lady, has something in*^ common with nearly everybody in the United States. She has been called penniless, and al^o the part owner of a family fortune estimated up to $50 million. The wealth of most people can be estimated in a narrower range between zero and one million.Lumberton (N.C.) Robesonian.

Right-to-work laws have no quarrel with unionism or union membership. All they do is to place unionism on a voluntary basis. The Dallas Morning News.

There is one sure way to avoid compulsory arbitration. That Is for labor and management to honestly face up to Issues and arrive at fair conclusions. That Is what railroad' labor refused to do. Let us hope the lesson will be learned. Industrial News Review.

The life line of America is the line of essential pro-'^sses between food in the field and food on the table. More than a quarter of our t^orking population is employed in some phase of the food business. *this make it the largest private enterprise in the world.Henry J. Taylor.

.io, ine Future

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The assassination of J o h n P. Kennedy, which was tragically sobering in all its implications, produced a host of good resolutions that should be reaffirmed this New Y e r Day. In a burst of reflective stock - taking, people swore to forego personal recriminations ^hile conducting political controversies. They swore ncH to let hate get the beteir of them. They swore to be more decent to their fellow men. They cant have forgotten , t h e 1 r high resolves of November this year.

Such good resolutions will, of course, be put to a most rigorous test In an elec t i o n year. They involve walk 1 n g some exceedingly diffi cult tightropes. Where does horor-able opposition leave off and unscrupulous partisanship begin? Where does campaign oratory verge upon hate? How forebearing should candidates and parties be when they are CMifronted with what, in a noT) - election year, would seem to be rather silly vituperation?

To illustrate the difficulties we may shortly be called upon to face as a nation, let us assume that the two candidates for * Presidential office next November are Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater. With the political future of contrasting philosophies at stake, the temptation to sling mud, to resort to hate tactics, will be pretty close to overwhelming. The Republicans, .in the Southern states at least, will be

tempted to portray Ly n d o n

Johnson as a traitor to his

region and class, a man who sold out the old John C. Cal-hoUh conception of states rights, which rely on the senatorial filibuster for their modern defense. The Democrats, on the other hand, will be

tempted to vilify the Republicans as eighteenth century reactionaries who want to starve the less, fortunate or the less gifted among us into abject submission.

If vre had popular satirists amMig TO of the stamp of Finley Peter Dunnes Mr. Dooley, who was the early twentieth centurys Irish - American bartender who let his whimsical wit put outrageous politi cal disputants in their places, we wouldnt have to worry about the.,excesses of rival mudslingers. But satire itself' has fallen on evil days. Wh^i in a self I T kidding vein, my friend Bill Buckley announced editorially in his magaz i n e National Review, after a week of Lyndon Johnson, that his patience with the new Administration was exhausted, the gag was taken with utmost seriousness by liberals who cannot conceive that a conservative editor might have an impish side. Contrariwise, there are conservatives who totally miss the point when a columnist damns a liberal with faint praise. A Mr. Dooley, today, would be condemned as an anti - Irish caricature because of his brogue.

His mock - solemn puncturing of some of Theodore R o o s e- velts vanities which, incidentally, amused T. R. no end would be taken as con- duclve to an atmospHere of 1 hate.

So, with satire being out of a way of enabling a nation to soften election - year excesses, we are thrown back on a need to cultivate self - restraint. Let.us resolve, then, to respect Lyndon Johnsons sincerity when he iirges a national point of view on Southern Democrats. And let us resolve to hear Barry .Goldw-ter to the en<| when he promises a tax system that will be adlnate* pay the bills for necessary government expense's.

As for the leading candid- . ates for office, they owe us, some good resolutions, too. Let them foreswear making * phony calls on their antagcm-Ists to repudiate the support of John Birchers on the one hand, or the A.D.A. (American for Democratic Ac-tlCHi) on the other. In a democracy, both Birchers ahd the A.D.A. have a right to vote.

Moreover, let the politicos foreswear playing politics with the office of Vice Prealdent at the conventions. In an age of (Continued On Paee 5)

What The New Yetir WiU Hole.

Strength For Today

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS

LIFE MADE NEW > We stand at the beginning of a new year. In the Bo<dc of Revelation we read that He that that sat upon the throne (Jesus) said. Behold, I make ,alj things new..

The word new is not the word we would expect to hear.

If Jesus had Isaid he would make aU things better, or satisfactory. or thrilling, or creative, or glorious, we would un- derstand that. But'his promise-is that He will make all things new he wiU renew them and give them that quality of finish and perfection which they had in the beginning. When God i created the heavens and the earth He was satisfied with His creation. If pleased Him in every way. But mans sin has

distorted, it defaced it with evil.

The promise of Christ as we stand at the beginning of each new yeareach new day, each new minute is that if we will allow him to do so he will give to life a quality of perfection and finish that Mily He can confer. He will renew life. He will put purpose into it. He will fill it ^ith the happiness of a quiet conscience, of an eagei:, mind, of a tender heart. Hex will cause us to view life in a spirit of love rather than in a spirit of discontent and perhaps anger.

Jesus Christ came to deal with the whole of life. He Is the only figure in the whole of human history sent apparently by the Creator for that purpose. He renews life, fie restores it to its pristine vigor, eagerness and wqitlL

BY ELMER ROESSNER

Printed pages and the air today are replete with prophe-.cies for 1964 involving the gross national product, the Federal Reserve industrial index and Other indices, series and tables. Let's see if we cant take a long look into this year in terms of people and what's in store for them:

The average Americui will pay more to live in 1964. Pood costs will continue, upward, assuming normal weather conditions. Some , foods will be cheaper at times, notably pork and poultry. Beef, now fairly reasonable, will bC slightly higher.

Home furnishings and all but new appliances w^ remain steady in price; the new glamor entries will be costlier. Rents will cease their general rise, and fall in some area. Housing prices, which have ,*been leveling off, will contoue static except where there' has been considerable overbuilding, when further declines ar certain.*

SERVICES TO COST MORE Transportation will continue its current upward trend. Promises of government aid will not slow down the rise in commuters fares. Over - the-road hauling costs will continue their rise.

Costs of other services, especially those of professional men, will ccHitlnue to go up. Hospital and other medical costs will -continue their upward surge. Hospital and medical insurance will advance in many parts of the country.

The cut in Federal Income taxes is likely, retroactive to Jan. 1, 1964. but the conse-, quences will be less than hoped for. The cut has been hailed as an $11-billion drop in the peoples burden, but only $6.5 billion will be effective the first year, the rest in 1963.

Furthermore, much of the decrease win be (rffset by state and local taxes. These will go up a sizable amount. if the ' Income tax rate is not cut; they will rise even more after the cut is cffecUve because

state and local lawmakers', will be tempted to demand a part of citizens and corporations savings. With a tax cut, they will go up $2 billion. More income

Most people will make more money in 1964, and there will be more people making mcoiey. There' wiU be more jobs.

However, unemployment will continue high, perhaps increasing further as the first of the war babies begin locing for j(rt)5.

Wages and salaries will go up. One of the absolute pressure Is the large number' of unliKi contract, that provide for pay Incresises In 1964. Wage adjustments in 1964 under con-, tracts signed in 1963 will average 7.1 cents ai%.hour, according to one calculation.

. This will exert a secondary pressure for similar increases in contracts expiring lii 1964, and in (^Icea and stores where salaries are Influenced by union scales.'' The work teek .will shrink slightly. Organized labor, fearful of automation, will step

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up its drive for the shorter week. President Kennedy repeatedly declared that the United States would weaken its global position 4f it reduced its work week. President Johnson has appealed to labor and Industry to hold the line, although he has not been explicit about hours per week.

Nevertheless, and this would happen If President Kennedy were- alive organized labor will fight harder than ever for fewer hours of work in 1964, The leadership has little choice. Union workers are seeing job lopped off dally by automation. They are told that automaticm will eventually Increase standards of living, but their living is in the preset and they want to preserve It. And theirs 1 no share-the-work concept; they want 40 hours pay for. 86. 85, or fewer hours work.

Some gains will be made in the years ahead. Many daddie will be home earlier In the afternoon.

OTHER income GAINS (Continued on Fagt I)

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