rhursday, February 6, 1964

Her firsf Visit To His Aoartment

Airport Arguments On The Record

Official arguments on ttie proposed centralized kir service for Eastern North Carolina are now all in the records of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Now begins the tedious wait while the CAB considers the matter before handing down its final decision.

The CAB could hand down ]ts deci.sion in a few weeks, or it may be several months. ;

But when the decision comes, it will .set the pattern for future development of commercikl^^air service for this section of the state.

The period between now and the time the CAB dcision is handed down should provide the communities of this part of the state time to reflect on what his transpired in recent years.

For a decade now there has been alternately cooperation and controversy between the various to\Mis and counties in the effort to acquire better air service for this section of the state. There has been a sharp cleavage between the communitie.s in the pa.st couple of years on which approach off<red the most practical method of assuring in the future the calibre of commercial air .service this part of the .'^tate needs.

(ireenville and its associated tbwn.s and coun-tie.s have favored the centralized air servdce at one well-chosen location. Kin.ston, Rocky Mount, Golds-and Wilson have wavored the present system by which air service is offered on a limited basis at several community airport.s.

When the CAB deci.don is handed down, it should mark the end of the controver.<y, but not the end of efforts by this area to acquire a better calibre commercial air service. It should mark the beginning of a new era of greater cooperation on the part of the various cities, towns and counties which make up Ea.stern North Carolina.

If the CAB decrees that the present pattern of community airports i.s the approach that should be followed, the communities should enrdeavor^to-asaure the be.st possible air sendee to the area on this basis.

If the CAB decrees that ocm.mercial air .service for this section should be centralized at an area airport, the individual communities should bind them.selves together in a cooperative effort to carry out the recommendation of the CAB.

The Reflector, of course, favors the propo.'jal for centralized air sendee for thi.s section of the state. We believe that the greater weight of evidence pre.'^ented to the CAB points conclusively to this approach a.s the be.st answer to the areas quest ^or better air .service now and in the future.

Whatever the recommirndation of the CAB in this ca.se, however, it behooves the communities of this section to put their collective shoulders to the wheel to make it work to the best advantage for the area*.

Proving Space Science .Mot HaDhoZQld Still In Its Infancy

y. rrni Tlie sixth .straight failure of the Ranger serie.s

f O iTfioon shots was all the more--4ts^pointing be-

.. CziZ) cHLi.se it came on the heels o fthe succe.SvSful Saturn

shot in which the Cnited States launched the largest satellite on record.

In the Saturn success the U. S. took a giant .step in the perfection of the vehicle which could i)ut its astronauts on the mon. In the failure of the Ranger .shot, it suffered a postponement of the day when it will obtain vital information on conditions of the moons surface which must be knowm before a manned moon ship can be attempted.

Thus the U. .S. space experiments of last week point up again that the space science is still in its infancy. There are still many problem.s to be overcome before deep probes into space can be made wdth the confidence that everything wdll go perfectlywhich it must if the shots are to be succes.s-ful.

In spite of the many failures it suffered since it began its space experiments, the United States ha.s forged .steadily ahead. The failure.salthough they have been discouraged at time.shave been used for .stepping stones for more advanced achievements. Perhaps the same will he true of this latest experience with the Ranger series.

And w'hen one considers the fact that the Ranger shots have averaged a cost of some $28 million each, it is not difficult to under.stand w'hy so many tax dollars are required from each years budget to keep the U. S. in the important space race.

Mixed Picture Of Renublicans

By WI1.IJAM A. SHIRES AMEND Amending the constitution of North Carolina Ls not .something that is done haphazardly.

Thore is a very definite, rigidly pre.scribed proced u r e which must be followed after those occa.sions in which an amendment is approved by the voters, with .safeguard.s to see that It is done exactly right.

An amendment which became part of the state con.stl-tutlon this week, dealing wdth property rights of married women. Is a good ca.se In point.

Getting an amendment to the votens in the first place requires a two third.s vote of both hoii.ce.s of the General A.s.sem-bly. When thl.s Is done, the proposition goe.s on the ballot at the next general election.

MEET ~ Then following the election of the law sets forth the day, the hour and the place for the State Board of Election to meet and certify the re.sultfi.

The day Is three weeks after the date of the election. The lime Ls 11 a.m. and the place is the Hall of the Hou.se of Hopresenlatives. The board of elect ions met for the fir.st time in the new Stale Legislative Building to certify results of the Jan. 14 election on con-.stltut.ional amendments, meet-tiv! there a.s required by law. G.S UV3-04.

Board chairman William Jo liii took note of the fact that the law requires the board of elcction.s to meet in the LccLslatlve Building which othcrwLsp i.s under firm control of the State Legislative Building Commission Wo are grateful to the leg-l.siature for providing .such a fine place for us to meet and requiring that we meet here, Jo.slln said. He also welcomed reporters and added that, according to cu.stom we are plea.sed to allow the pres.s on the floor.

PROCEDURE The law requires that ab.sti-acls of the officiaUy canvas,scd. county bv county retum.s he certified by the txard of electinn.s. sicncd by board members and affixed with the Great .Seal of North Carolina It i.s one of few In.rtances in which the Great Seal I.s used by anyone othei- than the governor and Secretary of ftate.

The return.* are 1hu.s certified to the Secretary of .State In turn, the Secretary qf State certifies the lesults to the governor and the governor certl fies back to the Secretary of

State the amendment exactly as submitted by the General A.ssembly. When thlf; certification by the governor is received, it is clock - stamped In the office of Secretary of State and the amendment becomes effective as of that preci.se moment.

Secretary of State Thad Eure points out that the law specifically provides that it Is the duty of the Secretary of State to receive, enroll and safely pre.serve the Con.stltution of the slate and all amendments thereto.

CHECKED - In tlie ca.se of the property rights amendment, each document was check e d carefully for w'ording, punctuation and legal accuracy. The povemor.s erttflcation wa.s .studied by the Attorney Generals office before the chief executive signed it.

The property rights amendment. while mastly non - controversial and technical In nature. nevertheless was con.sid-ered Important. Eure said he had received at least half a dozen Inquiries as to effective date becau.se of pending legal transactions.

The amendment, which authorized married women to dl.s-po.se of personal prof)crty without written consent of their hu.sbands. was approved by a state-wide vote of 274,291 to

The other amendment, proposal voted on Jan. 14 the highly controversial little F'eder-al plan for legislative apportionment, wa.s defeated by an official count of 224.488 to 12.'.. 334.

COSTS Executive Secretary Raymond Maxwell told the board of election that cost.s of the Jan. 14 election will nin between $.373,000 and $4fK).0(Mi This is aboiit five per cent higher than the $303.000 cost of a 1901 statewide referendum. Maxwell .said wintry weather in many counties was the principal rra.son for incre a s c d costs, Polling places required heating, he said, and some .schools which serve as pofling places had been clo.sed because of iee and snow and had to he opened for the election He estimated some additional eosts Involved in an extra meeting of county board.s of eleetions under the states new ab.sentee ballot law.s Mecklenburg County, w h Ich polled the heavle.st vote !4,r also submitted more ab scntee ballot applications than any other county. But for the .state a.s a whole, only about 700 ab.sentee ballots were cast

HoldOn

By ART BUCHWAL

Oh Bobby, You Shouldn

We have this aide who works for us and we mu.st say he's becoming quite a problem.

Just the other day we .said. Bobby, take these photo-grapns dowTi to the po.st office and mail them for me.

Yes, sir, he said, but before I go, I would like to give you and Mrs. Buchw a 1 d this beautiful hi-fi stero for your lovely hou.se.

Thats very nice of you,

Bobby, but It Isnt Christmas.

I know, sir. but working for you means so much to me I dont know how to re p a y you.

Well, thank you veiT much I rn sure Mrs. Buchwald will be thrilled.

A few days later we said. Bobby, go out and get me a cup of coffee and a doughnut.

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By J.\.\1ES MAKLOW

W.ASHLNGTON APi Rc-publicaiLS are at sixxes and .sevens, or eights.

Four have announced they want their party.s presidential nomination although why two of them think they have a chance is a mystery.

Pour others, more reticent, deny they seek the nomination but dont deny theyd accept a draft. In fact, three say they would.

Some of the eight are jibing at one another and most are Jibing at President Johnson and his programs.

The harshest critici.sm so far i.'< from Sen. Barry Goldwater. of A'liz.ona. He called Johnson a highwayman of the bureaucratic spoils system.

Goldwater. .3."), and the.se three are the active candidates, all campaigning in the New ilampshiri' primary:

New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. .3.3; Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, oldest of the candidate.s at (Hi and Harold E. Stas.s('n. 36, now a Philadelphia lawyer, who made a big pitch for the nomination in li>48 but lost.

Goldwater. far to the right of the others, likethe others claims he could run things better.

Rockefeller, whose prasfh'cts (lipped after his divorce and remarriage. Is on the liberal side. He is critical not only of Johnson but of Goldwater, too. and for good measure he ha.^: taken a swipe at former Vice Piv.'^ident Richard M Nixon, who is one of the reticent four

Nixon, who .shows plenty of .sian.s- of hoping for the nomination while steadfastly insi.st-ing he wont .seek it. only re-c-ently said he would accept a draft.

Its hard to figure out why Stamen is in the race He was the tvoy wonder " goveinior of Minnesota - from 1938 to 194.3 but has never been eU'cted to anything since

Why i,i he trying (or the

nomination now? To enlarge the debate, he says, and to try for the nomination. This week he promised New Hampshire an inteniational airport if he geLs elected.

But then Its hard to say why Sen. Smith a charming woman and excellent senator and politician who has been in Congress since 1940 and has never lost an election thinks she ha.s a fiddlers chance for -Hk' pre.sidential spot.

She herself is extremely vague on why .she's even trying.

Its from the four reticent Repuhlu-ans that the party may actually pick its candidates Besides Nixon, now 51. the others are; Pennsylvania.s Gov. William W Scranton. 47; Michigans Gov. George Rom-ney. ;36; and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr . .American ambassador to South Viet Nam.

After losing the presidency to John F. Kennedy in I960, Nixon tried his luck again, this time for the govemor.ship of Califoniia in M52, and lost again. Immediately atei^wards. in bitter criticism of the treatment he got from the press, h( told reCKirters that was his last news conference.

He even said that under no circum.stances would he accept a dl'aft. Thi.'^ seemed final enough.

As Ii63 wore on both Roike-feller and Goldwater said they though Nixon was acting like a candidate. And 12 days ago he said he would accept a draft

Scranton frankly .says that while he wont seek the nomination he'd accept it but would < nter no Primaries. He has one big handicap' Ho and hLs qual-ifieatioiis are hardlv known outside Pennsylvania, He served om* term on Congress

Lodge, appointed ambas.sador to .South Viet Nam late la.rt VI ai by Pre.sident Kennedy, has not held elective office since Kennedy took his Senate

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We have said very often that we want to see the time when evey child In North Carolina, regardless of where he lives or regardless of hLs economic conditions, has the same opportunity to get an education that is afforded every other child.

Does 'not that condition exist now? That question ha-s been a.sked several times, and It Is a good question. Our answer is this. Not every child today in North Carolina does have an equal opportunity In the field of education.

The child in Mecklenburg county is given far greater educational opportunities than are given in many count i e s which are smaller and far less populous. We have made some improvements in recent years, but we have not arrived at that point yet where we can say that opportunity Is equal.

Take a high .school where there are only three or four teachers. In such a sch(K)I the teacher must teach about four or five subjects. She might be an excellent teacher, but nohuman being can excel In four or five different education a 1 field.s. In the larger .schools one teacher might teach four or five clas.sps of eleventh grade history. Another teacher might teach only civic.s. An o t h e r teacher might have four or fhe classes of tenth grade EnplLsh. In the larger .schools one teacher usually teaches in one field That means better preparation for one subject and not four or five preparations In four or five subjects.

Then we must look at another xital factor. In some of our high schools today In North Carolina'." smaller counties where .school population Is also .*;mall. the hlghe.st math offered might be algebra, the highest .science offered might be biology, and then we realize that geometry, calculus, and fusion math are not offered nor is chemistry and phy.slcs.

What chance doe.s a boy or a girl have In college when the high school Is so limited?

Surely it is not the fault of the boy or the girl who enters college and finds him.self or herself under severe handicap. It is the fault of tho.se of us In our state who provide educational opportunity. If we fail to provide the full concept of opportunity, in a real sen.se we are failing that boy or that girl.

We ai'e satisfied that In our rural communities of North Carolina, where our high .schools are small, giving full opportunity to every youngster Is far more difficult than it is In a large high school.

Then larger .schools have a lot of fringe benefits usually denied to youngsters in .smaller .schools. Such opportunitie.s as bands, choral groups, full athletic programs, and art are often found missing in smaller .schools. We can look around us right here In East-eni North Carolina and .see so many high schools without high school bands.

Improving educational opportunity for all our child r e n costs money. Somewhere along the line we. as adults, mu.st make the choice. The children cannot make it today. They will be the ones on the tomorrows ahead who will make the choices, but today we must make it for them. Are we willing to pay the difference?

We have brought Ihe.sp children into the world. We have given them our full mea.sure of love and devotion. We desire better things for them than we ourselves, every enjoyed. Yet all too often we want advantages and opportunities that we are not willing to dig down and pay for.

We shall never be satisfied here in far Ea.stern North Carolina until everv child, that of the tenant farmer as well as that of the financier, has equal educational opportunity. That is a continuing fight which must be made.

. He took the quarter, but when he I'Cturned he was struggling with a large crate which was almo.st bigger than he was.

Sir, I know all you wanted was coffee and a doughnut, but I w'ould like you to have this electric barbecue pit as a token of my esteem. he groaned breathlessly.

Bobby, we said gently, I appreciate the gesture, but are ou sure you can afford something like this on your $40-a-week-salary?

Certainly, sir. Youre the finest person I ever worked for and youll hurt my feelings if you dont take it.

.A w'eek went by-and one day Bobby came into the office and said he was finished filing all our old columns, and asked if we would take a drive with him.

We were very annoyed, but he wa.s persistent. Bobby drove us out to our house, and, lo. right in the backyard was a new swimming pool.

Bobby smiled.

What's going on? we demanded.

Sir, the last person I worked for was mean and cniel and always yelled at me. You v e never raised your voice and I appreciate it. The only way I can demonstrate how much this means to me is to present you with this Olynipic-si/c heated swimming p>ool.

Tliank you .so much, Bobby, I m terribly moved. Now youd better gel back to the office and fill the water-cooler.

For a month Bobby w'orked very hard and we didn't see t(K> much of him. though oc-ca.'^ionally w"p found a gift from him on our de.sk. One time it wa.s .30 .shares of A T AT .Another time it was a gift cs-rtificate from Tiffanys or Mrs. Buchwald. A third time it was a go-cart for the children. But we thought nothing of It.

After all, we had exchanged gifts with Bobby for years. Once we gave him a ball-point pen, another time we presented him with two tickets lo a Wa.shington Senators game, and only a few' weeks ago we had bought him a key chain with a likenes5t^bf the Capitol In silver plate Mangling from a link.

But w'e did get worried laM week. We had just come back from being examined for an in.surance policy when we found Bobby waiting excitedly at the (ioor of the office.

He said. I know Im just an office bciy around here, but Ive learned a great deal from you and I have to .show you how much I appreciate a 11 youve done for me

You don't have to do that. Bobby.

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o ine ;orses

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Feature Syndicate, Inc,

As between Polish peasant and the planners in our State Department, the peasants show the greater horse sense.

I use the phrase figuratively although it happens also to be literally true. The PolLsh peasants are hanging on to their horses because It iree.s them from dependence on the Communist bureaucrats who control the dispositloo of tractors and the supply of motor fuel. Par from being a mea.v ui*e of backwardness,, thi"? is evidence of high political sophistication and intelligence. I W'ish we could draft a Polish peasant to head up the Policy Planning Council of the State Department.

To speak In pure figurative terms, our State Department is always giving up a hor.e in favor of depending on the other fellows gasoline. It never seems to tumble to the fact that the foreign offices of other nations watch indefatigably for the sign behind the sign. Any time we show a willingness to relinquish a horse we are In for trouble.

The latest bit of State Department obliviousness to psychological dynamics occurred when we allowed our protest of the de Gaulle recognition of China to take on a pro forma flavor. True enough, We didnt like the de Gaulle move. But even as we were protesting, the news wa.s let slip that the State Departments Wzdt Rostow, who ha.*i all along been In favor of finding areas of overlapping Interest with Communist nations, has been deputed to make a new study of the feasibility of getting the Chiang Kai-shek government in Formosa to give up Quemoy and Matsu, those little islands between Formosa and Mainland China.

Now, what Walt Rostow does nt know about p.sychologv would fill more books than Freud. Jung and William James ever wrote. He Ls the author of the take-off theory of economic devR.opment which holds that methods of industrial organization ai'e unimportant, and that consumer plenty depends entirely on the infra.structure, or volume of capital goods, that happens to exist in any given cou^itry. Purely mechanical in his approach to economics. Dr, Rostow doesn't concern him.self with little things like freedom of individual choice. He doesn't seem to realize that only iiu der a free market system can consumers force capital investment into foims that will produce powder puffs Instead of military powclcr. butter Instead of grease for guns, and spoils cars instead of military tanks.

Dr. Ro.stow's approach to foreign policy Ls just as fallacious as his approach to eco-nopiic development. He think The way to encourage the suppressed forces of freedom in-sidc a Commnni.st country is to give ground to that countrys appetite for expan.slon or to endorse the ill-gotten gains of previous expansion

Of course, Dr. Ro.stow doe.snt phra.se it preci.sely this wav. But in his old "ha.sic national .security policy report, he ask-(Hi that ri.sing ten.slon.s in the satellites and elsewhere be ignored in any eritical dealings with Soviet Ru.s.sia. Wp must show a wlllingnes,s to deal with Kadar's Hungary, Ul-biiehfs East Germany, and other CommiinLl .stooge go'i-emmeiits, on the theory that our softness will enrourage .soft,, ne.s.s In the Kremlin, This view of things ignores the fact that the Polish peasants get propitiatory breaks only because they have the will and the power to sabotage farm production by engaging In slow-down Is pres.sod too far. The PolL-h peasants get respect because they hang on to their horses.

When we accompanied our protest to de Gaulle with an Indication that we were willing to reconsider our policy on Quemoy and Matsu, It Wa.*i wigwag to the world that we are willing to propitiate Communism anywhere. We may be sure tha the signal bell rantf In places as far apart as Zanzibar and Panama, and Cam-(Continued On Paga 5)

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B\ KAHI, I.. DOK.I A.VS HKHil SIDE Of THE LINE

Till first conunandmt'nt in llu' decalogue i.s Thou shalft -ha\e no other uod.s bt (ore me. And thi.s is not only the ills', eommandment uumerically. but the commandment which is fir.^t ill tmportdee All .-ound religion resolvc.N it.self into tin.'-choice. Will you pul God fust or suuielhinc else firsi It you put something el.se fir.-'i you aie an idolater You may pride >onr.s(il oh iHung intelleeinally sophistieated. full of wisdom but li von put sonietjiinv else hefoie God. yon ate just as mnch an idolatei .u ii yon pcosirated >oursejf belore an Imag-c caivcd by a 'witch doc-loi.

We live in a univer.se which God has made God i.s first in tlial uiuver.so, W'hen we recog-ui/i this tact and put Him first and keep Him first, then we are ui the irue.st .sx-n.-,c relic lou.s When We ^llow any-tluile to i-nme before G(xl. we are idolaiors We have .sol up ai: idol between oursehes and Him \VT have other god.s beside Hun other go(Ls in fact that we place hiuht'r , and when wc do this, the wrath of God will r\entUHlly b<' our portion.

Iliiuc I.s nothing man needs a Inch tie e;uinoi hai r juovided Ie .sia.V'-- on the right side of !hi ' h'le. And 'he I'.ne I,-. tlU'' drclaiation; Thon halt have no other god.'> befoie mo.

By ELMER ROE.S.SNER Here are ideas from all over that may be useful to business readers

. Stop hidden losses by checking freight bills con.sLstently. At a conference at the American Funiituro Mart, Chicago, one dealer reported mast bills coming into hi.s rtore were in error.

.ALso check to make sure manufactiUTis list shipment.s to obtain lowe.st rates.

. Watch the Civil Dcfc;vse market. The Johnson Admin-i.stration is expected to broaden CD to be active in natural disastcr.s, pepping up the onqiT organization. It can be a bigger buyer of supplies.

. Act promptly il you have a tax di.spute ,vou want decided hi the Tax Court, ftcn overlooked Ls the fact that if pe-tititons are not filed on time, the eniire amount mu.st be paid before a hearing. EXPERIMENT WITH PRICKS le.st loniuled pricci- The N.itionat Retail Merehanl> \""--.oriatioii reiwrl.s that one ir.amifaciurcr uied eveu-doilar

and half-dollar price.s and that his markon increased of I per cent the first month and errors dropped 62 per cent,

. Considering starting a franchised business? Write to Small Business Administration, Washington, D. C.. for a free copy of The Pranchi.se Sy.stem of Distribution. and to the National Better Biisine.ss Bureau. 230 Park Ave.. Ne\( York. N, Y 10017, for Fact.c about Franchising."

. Rptiix'd Federal employee; among your customers' Cultt vatc them F>deral pensions are about to be revised to meet higher living co.sLs. Most recopients will get increases. BOOST FOR l*OlT,TRV . Sell poultry *> Send a post card to Office of Information. USD A, Wa.shington. D.C.. 202.30 and ask for leaflet PA-170. It tells about USDA insrH'ctlon and grading .service and open.s up into a 12 by 18 inili po.ster.

If von re worried whether your adverti.siiv i.s working hard enough, ask SB A for a ropy of Suill Marketers Aids No. 96

Its a folder telling how to evaluate adverti.sing and ways to improve It.

For a ILst of Intenial trade fairs this year write Trade fairs Divi.sion. Bureau of International Commerce Wa.<;hing-tun. D. C.. 20230.

. Need talent? Even If your bu-siness Ls small, dont count yourself out of recruiting college grads. Duns Review reports many top men from Harvard's School of Business Administration have an abhorrence of working In the .stultifying atmo.sphere of big business.

. It Ls already late for gathering receipts and other records for personal taxes due April 15 Its Important to gather receipts for entertainment and travel over $25 per item, and all hotel bills from July 31. 1963. on.

BlC.iK.ST IN< RKA.SE> I OM-I.NC; IN I.O( AI. TAX I.EVIK.S

With a Federal tax cut some-wlKTo over the horizon and Presideai Jolinsou acting to

limit Federal expenses, subt*si* tial increases afe expected in State and local taxes this year and the largest will probably be in city taxes.

Costs of urban government, especially in education and home relief, have long been rising and there Is no end In sight.

In the past decade, city revenues have rl.sen twice as fast as other local, state and national government Incomes. Roger A. Freeman, of Stanford University recently calculated. He predicted tiat the California sales tax would go to 5 per cent by 1970. Property taxes, he noted had risen 115 per cent In the last ten years, w hile there was an Increase of ohly 49 per cent in the combined yield of all other laxe of all governments.

In the pa.st decade, be laid, city revenues across the country more than doubled, all other taxe.s. Including Federal, ro.se only 64 per cent. The r1.se In city revenues also pxr.eedpd the combined hirrease In population and price.