Monday, February 17, 1964

Less Western Unity In New Issues

While there appears to be a lessening of tensions between East and West in international affairs, there are storm clouds on the horizons of the world which could bring new crises of a serious nature in the months to come.

At the same time there appears to be less unanimity on the part of the free world leaders as to the course of action Western nations should take in meeting these possible crises. One reason, perhaps, is the changes in the heads of government that have taken place among the leaders of the free world in recent months. In the United States, in Great Britain, in West Germany there are new men in the top positions of government. They have yet to form the strong personal relationship which in recent decades has played a major role in the

Major Addition To Road Maos

By WIIJ.IA.M A. SHIRES

PEATURE Lake Norman, a big splash of light blue color in the middle of the Piedmont, is the most irtrlking new feature on officiai 1964 state highway m)s Just off the presses.

Creation of this many-armed Impoundment, largest man-made lake ii North Carolina, constituted the biggest topographic change for the states mapmakers in years.

Actually It isn't altogether new 1 the map. The highway department got a bit ahead itself when impoundment began in the Pall of 1%2 and showed the outlines of the lake on

1963 maps. But it wasnt filled until last year and now the little town of East Mtwibo In Iredell County has disappear e d from the 1964 edition.

Impounded on the Catawba river by Duke Power cwnpany's Chowan's Ford dam. Lake Norman now sprawls over parts of imr counties, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Catawba and Line o 1 n. and nearly touches a couple of others, Gaston and Rowan.

MAPS The new maps show omethlng new for every section of the state.

On the coast there's the new bridge at Oregon Inlet and a black line Indicating hard surface on the highway down Hat-tcras and Ocracoke. Previo u s maps showed a broken blue line, easily mistaken for indicating a gravel or dirt road and the Hatteras - Ocracoke road also carries a number, N. t. 12, for the first time this year.

The 1964 map shows the completed loop of the Raleigh Belt line on U. S, 1 and another section under constructlwi from U. S. 1 north of the dty to U S. 64 east.

It shows the new four lanes of U. S. 52 from Win.ston-Salem to Pilot Mountain and a striking color photograph of this scenic road adorns the front cover of the 1964 map.

In the west, the map shows the newly - completed stretch of Interstate 40 from the Buncombe County line to Clyde, bypassing a congested bottleneck in the town of Canton. It also shows parts (rf 1-40 and 1-36 under construction near the Tennessee and South Carolina borders in Hayw'ood and Henderson counties.

COVER The most stflking changes in production of the

1964 maps, however, have been wrought on the cover side.

It Is decorated with a pine bough, needles and cone and the captlMi, North Carolina your year - around playground. There are w'ords of the Tar Heel, toast, a motorists prayer. a me.s.sage from Gov. Terry Sanford and the governors picture. and word pictures of the attractions of each of the at ates three major regions.

Then the cover aide has a coloi-ful display of 18 magnificent photographs These are new and some are breathtaking.

In the center is a grouping of four pictures of Interior scenes In the new State Legislative Building, flanked by an exter

ior picture of the Legislative building on. one side and the historic State Capitol on t h e other.

Other pictures chosen Include the following: a scene of autumn color in western North Carolina, a picture of lovely Lake Lure, tapestry weaving at Penland school, and a snow covered ski slope at Blowing Rock.

There is a picture of a new Industrial Education center at Burlington and a pastoral scene alwig a section of the states vast secondary road system,'

Eastern and coastal North Carolina is represented by a picture of grain elevators on the Pasquotank river at Elizabeth City, of St. Thomas Episcopal church at Bath, the State Ports terminal at Wmington, the beach at Port Macon State Park and fountains on the campus of East Carolina College at Greenville.

SIGNS In addition to the new maps the State Highw a y Commission is preparing for the 1964 travel and tour i s t season with large, new and attractive Welcome to North Carolina signs.

These signs will be displayed along all major highways entering the state.

REPORT The HIghw a y Commission has Issued a progress report for 1963 showing that it let to contract 1,199 miles of improvements to highways, streets and second a r y roads during tha year with a contract value totkiing $59,233,-755. I

A detailed breakdown of expenditures accompanies the report, Some $15 million went for stage construction projects on 50 miles of Interstate highways and the remaining $44 million was for trunk system routes, trunk feeder system, rural collector system and second a r y system. Carryover projects let in previous years and completed in 1963 totaled nearly $68 million and active contracts totaling $66.5 million were in force but n<rt completed at the end of the year.

Interstate highway prbjecU completed during 1963 included the Haywood Buncombe project on 1-40, projects in Gaston, Guilford. Alamance and Durham on 1-85 and in Robeson, Halifax - Northamptwa counties on 1-95.

INTERSTATE - The Virginia State Highway Commission this week adopted a resolution asking the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads to approve allocation of about 18 additional miles of Interstate highways in the Richmond metropolitan area. The Virginia action was taken after requests by governing bodies in the Richmond area. North Carolina highway director W. P. Babcock put in a formal request during 1963 for federal approval of additional Interstate spurs at a number of critical points In North Carolina. including the Raleigh-Durham area

Raleigh remains one of the few .state capital cities In the nation which is not on the federal Inter-State system.

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forming of Webtern policie.s.

In time, perhaps this will come, but in the meantime there will be decisions which must be reached, policies which must be established and new situations which must be' met individually and collectively by the Western alliance.

- The situation on Cyprus is serious' even now for the Western alliance, and could become more grave in the immediate future. In Asia, particularly in'South Viet Nam, a decision must soon be made whether to abg^pdon the tiny country to communism or to take firmer measures than in the past to a.s-sure its freedom. The fires of warefare have broken out again in the brush of Africa and could be fanned into another major crisis for the world.

There is still the Cuban situation and the dispute between the United States and Panama. France's recognition of Red China and the subsequent break in diplomatic relations between Franca and the Nationalist Chine.se government poses prb-lenris for the Western alliance. And, of course, there is Berlin where the crisis Is present almost daily.

Any one of these situations or any combination of them could bring another serious confrontation between East and West. It Is imperative that the leaders of the Western World push forward as rapidly as possible in re-evaluating their international po.sitions and in establishing new unity of policies that will enable the alliance to act with unity and decisiveness should the occasion demand.

Real Achievement Foi The Area And College

The announcement this week - end that the Ea.st Carolina College Summer Theatre will be a reality this year i.s another .significant achievement for the college arid the people of this area of the state.

Without the leadership of Dr. I^eo W. Jenkins and others at East Carolina College, the sumnier theatre would not have been possible. Without the support of the people of Pitt County and surrounding area who have underwritten the project through the purchase of season tickets, the idea would not have been brought to fruition.

The e.stablishment of the summer theatre is another outstanding example of the manner in which East Carolina College and the people of this section of the state can join forces to provide new a.-i.sets for Eastern North Carolina. Through the program, East Carolina College will become this year the fifth college in the nation to sponsor a professional summer theatre. The presentation of six outstanding musicals by the theatre during the summer months will provide for people of this area a kind of entertainent that his not been available before in this part of the state. . ^

In addition to providing this additional asset for the people of this area, the summer theatre will also attract people from other areas to see the productions. With continued support in future years, the theatre could become a major attraction in this part of North Carolina.

The college and its officials are to be commended for offering this area the opportunity to have its own professional summer theatre. The people of the area are to be commended for coming forward with the financial support in advance to assure the succe.ss of the undertaking. It is a joint venture which adds another feather to the cap of the college and the area of the state it serves.

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By ART BUCHWALD

A. Scientific Handshake

By ROGER BABSON

BABSON PARK, MaJSS., Upturns in selected commodity prices, especially noiiferrous metals, are causing concern In some quarters. These could be the first signs of a broad price breakthrough on the upside within a few years. Many are wondering whether this might be the forerunner of a new wave of inflation

WHAT IS I.NFLATION?

No two authorities define Inflation in exactly the same way. The economist takes one point of view, the banker another. the manufacturer a third and so on. But they all boil down to this; Inflation eomes when the supply of money ex-reed.s the supply of goods.

Such a situation occurs whenever there Is a big enough increase In goveniment or private credit to trigger higher price.s and higher wages. It can also occur when there is an Incroase in the circulation of money, because this has the same effect that more money would have. In very recent years, careful money and credit management by the federal government p.specially the Federal Resee System has kept Inflation pretty much In check. Now that taxe.s are to be reduced substantially, it will be harder to hold inflation back.

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T forecast that domestic wholesale commodity prices will show further strength in the months just ahead. I base this prediction on the following convictions: (U Costs are high and will rise further, especially during the first half of 1964; I2> profit margins are unrealis-tjcally small in certain instances; 3) demand, which is already heavy, will broaden considerably when the tax cut becomes effective.

But I w'ant to point mit too that these plus factors are very nearly offset in many cases by large world supplies of raw materials as well as by strong competitive pressures in individual industries, both In the U. S and in leading producing nations abroad CROI* PRICES TO FIR.M ALSO

Public spending power could be increased by nearly $6 billion this year, once the tax bill becomes law. At flrM. this will spur the effort to raise the price level. But later, as the government applies the brakes in the form of higher intere.st rates and perhaps some credit restrictions, manufacturer.^ will likely have .some second thoughts. I forecast we are not now headed for runaway price inflation.

However, in addition to price firming in Industrial commod-

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOlGL.ASS LIVING vSTONE

David Livingston Wu>. ou** of the Greatest miNsionarles and discoverers modern life has produced He went to Africa a little more than 100 years ago, set him.self to the task u. pi caching the gospel and be-caiuse he was a physician and a .student of the .sciences, Jieal-ed the bodies of the phuple and made long jounieys into uncharted arca.s. He discovered the famous Victoria Falls.

When Livingstone was reported lost, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald sent Henry M. Stanley to Africa to find Livingstone. Their meeting in the jungle Dr, Livingstone. I prp.'^ume")) constltute.s one of the ino.rt th.illing and important .sagas in world hl.s-tory.

Livingstone was found di'ad by hi.s atpmdants one morn-tna He wa.s kneeling iiy the side of bis cot and bad db:ci in

prayer. His body was returned to England in triumph and buried in Westmbuster Abbey. Punch, the humorous weekly, went serious on that occasion and displayed in large letters on their cover this statement; "Cathedrals may crumble, but this is Living Stone.

Men of this sort and quality appear occasionally in history. Sometimes they are recognized by their generation. Livingstone was without fame or fortune druing much of his career. When Stanley returned with his report there wa.s a terrific argument among scientist and many disbelieved Stanley's story. but he was vindicated at last and him.self tumed from a man indifferent to ivlgilon into an ardent Chri.stian.

The men made ot living stone! The granite like char acters who set themselves up against opposition, evil, difficulty and at last win a ro-.soundine victory these are indeed Gki'a oobkiucn.

Politicians by nature are big handshakers, but very few can be put in the class with Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin.

Sen. Proxmire Is the handshakers handshaker. Almost every week-end, for five years since hes been in the Senate, he has flown back to his home state with one purpose in mind to shake as many hands as possible. Last year he shook 300,000 hands and this year, since he is running for re-election, he hopes to better It.

While most politicians will shake a hand when they .see it. Sen. Proxmire searches out hands to shake in an almast scientific manner. It's almost impossible not to shake hands with him if you happen to be in the same town,

A typical Proxmire week

end, as he explained It to us, goes something like this. The Senator leaves Washington at 6:45 in the evening and arrives in Milwaukee at 8 p.m. He Immediately heads for a shopping center and starts shaking hands.

fen. Proxmire always stands Ini front of the center so he cal(j shake hands with people as th^ go in as well as come out. He usually says, "Im Sen. Proxmire and I just wanted to say hello. Then he hands Them a piece of campaign literature.

"If anyone throws away the literature, I pick it up, he said. "It looks very bad to have your campaign literature littered on the sidewalk.

On very cold nights a kindly .shop owmer may let the Senator stand in the entry area.

After shaking hands at the

Other Editors Saying. Civil Rights: An Alert

fChristian Science Monitor)

Tlic next .stagi^ in the civil-rights controver.sy is so dangerous that it would best be , described, witli deliberate effort to be constructive, as a proportionally big opportunity.

A strong civil-rights bill, pa.s.sed by a broad bipartisan coalition in the House, will be subjected to a filibuster in the Senate just as the unofficial, voluntary, popular civil-rights movement in the United States has sunk into deep frustration. the mixture of the two could, imle.ss there i.s im-usual restraint on both sides, be explosive.

Most Americans are not aware of the danger. There Is considerable doubt that Washington, speaking generally, is sufficiently alert.

The plain fact is that the advance guard of Negroes and their crusading friends who swept into civic action in schools and public facilitie.s with highest hope.s and the banners of nonviolence flying have largely been stopped. At the out.set they drew on the techniques of independence movements in colonies over-.seas, and their first succe.sse.s were like those of any initial attack due in part to the suddenly kindled zeal of their followers and in part to the unpreparedness and mistakes of their opponents.

Both .have subsided. Police techniques in the Deep South are much more adroit and less spectacular now. W^ay.s of Jailing leaders of organized demonstrations and quietly putting them out of the w'ay have

been shrewdly developed. Labor unions that discriminate have often proved unyielding. The Negro leaders and their friends have passed from the easier locations and su.'X'esses to those which reflect either the basic social and economic problems that do not yield to a.ssault. or to areas where local police power is more obstinate. Reports from a variety of conferences and grass loot.s meetings of CORE. SNCC, and the NAACP show spreading disillusion with the earlier promise of quick results. Local voting last November only confirmed the impression that large numbers of formerly sympathetic whites were becoming w'ary and cautious, thinking that the advanced Negro organizations were moving too fast.

Always, right under the surface of nonviolence, there are those Negroes who think crockery will have to be broken in order to overcome these new' resiilmccfy. Agonized questions are being asked by tho.se who had assumed that peaceable demonstrations would .suffice.

The greatest skill in social and human relations is going to be needed to pilot the country through the filibuster p>eriod and the subsequent application of the law that results, if there is to be peace and not w'ar In communltie.s both of the South and Ncrih. Now is the time to plan and above all for everyone to understand the fact of the danger and thing constructively about it.

shopping center, the Senator then retires to get up early on the following morning for factory handshaking. He turns up at the gate of a large factory and shakes hands with all the workers as they go in. If there is more than one gate to the factory, the Senaor may come back at the end of the day and shake hands as the workers come out.

During the day he will go to the main street of the town and shake hands on a street corner or in front of a large department store. On Saturday afternoons, during the football season, the Senator searches out the best game in town and shakes hands with all the fans as they go In. He may work several games in the same day, driving from one towTi to another.

"Fottball games give you a lot of hands, the Senator said, "but the people have other things on their minds and youre not sure when they shake your hand if they remember it."

This Is why the Senator likes to w'ork bowling alleys. "People are more relaxed in bow'l-ing alleys and are sitting around doing nothing.

In the evenings Sen. Prox-mire prefers to find an Ice show' or a basketball game or a movie theater to work in front of. Hls greatest evening since hes been in politics, he told us, was when he hit an ice show, a dog show, and a Mormons convention all in the same night.

Although handshaking in the wmter is cold w'ork. Sen. Proxmire says he prefers it to the summer. "You get a brish handshake In the wlnter. People dont W'ant to linger. In the summer people hold no longer and their hands perspire.

Thats when Sen. Proxmire develops callouses.

Occasionally he hurte his hand.

"The bigge.st danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man w'ho Is phy.sically strong, has been drinking, and is viking for the other guy.

Sometimes a woman who shakes hands with him brings the Senators hand up to her bosom and holds it there. Sen, Proxmire doesnt like this be-cau.se. he said, "I can lost four handshakes while Its going on.

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"The Red Chinese might get along better with their Soviet ideological counterparts if they learned to eat caviar with chopsticks. Daily Oklahoman.

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. By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright. 1964, King Featores Syndicate, Inc.

For two cents, so I am Informed by my friends who read Russian, you can get the Soviet newspaper "Pravda or Izvestia delivered to your postbox in the United States from Moscow. It would, so these same friends say, cost you seventy-five cents if you were living In Russia and hankered for the deUvery of an American newspaper.

Some of the two-cent editlwis of "Pravda and "Izvestla bearing on the Panama and Guantanamo crises have Just come to hand. I was curious about them, for I had read reports from Moscow that the Soviets, n(rt wishing to ' throw any road blocks in the way of such mollifying event.s as the Disarmament talks at Geneva, were playing the U, S. troubles in Panama down. It turns out that this Is pure essence of baloney.

I dont read Russian, but I can read a cartoon as well as anybody. The cartoons on the front pages of the Moscow papers are po.sltively ghoulteh. One. from Izvestla for January 12. deplete a tough American army officer draping a Panamanian flag over seven corpses. In the background there Is a ship, pre.sumably moving through the Canal, with a blatant idoUar sign on its smokestack. The caption quote.s the American military man as .saying. "Finally weve found some ii.se for the Panama flag:.

Another cartoon, prominent ly displayed in "Izvestla" for January 15, shows another . S. soldier, ugly as sin, bestriding the Panama Canal with bIood-.spatter feet, he is holding aloft a parody of the American flag. The .stars on the flag are fudged up to look like a cross-hatch of prison bars. The "stripes carry such words as "aggression, "occupation. "robbery, "bloody suppression and "violation of Independence.

If the cartoons hardly breathe a sweet spirit of "detente or "relaxation of tensions. the "news stories are worse. They accuse the Yankees of "executing Panamanian demonstrators. Alongside the stories designed to ship up emotions about Yankee "Imperialslm there are editorials and news features atesting to the Soviet preference for gentility in its treatment of its own neighbors. There is a gusher about "two canals. One, he Panama Cana. is run by thugs. The other, a canal connecting the Soviet Union with Finland, Ls an idyllic waterway. ju.st the placa for honeymooners and .such.

As for Guantanamo and Castro, there is the front page of "Izvestia for February 8. It calls the detention of the Cuban fishermen for moving into Florida coastal waters an act of "piracy. The cartow is a wonder. The "pirate depicted therein would make Captain Kidd or Blackbeard cringe and cry "Mama.

Now, none of this Is exartr-ly surprising to anyone who has followed the course of events since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918. What is surprising is that the Soviets can get away with propagating the idea in America that they have decided to be nice to us.

Moreover, it is a truly strange thing that they are willing to mail "Pravda and "Izve.stia to America so cheaply when they are putting on that Potemkin Village show of "detente and "relaxation of tensions.

Another bit which I culled, by way of a tran.slator-frlend, from a Moscow publication is ^ that the U. S. pay.s most of the co.st of the famous "hot wire. The Soviets pay the rent for the Moscow-Helsinki link in the cable, and 50 per cent of the rent for the Helslnkl-London link. The U. S. pays entirely for he Washlngton-London span and half of the rent for the link between London and Finland, Measure this out on a map, and see who Is most eager for the "hot wire. And then pray that the Ru.sslans wont luse the wire to our disadvantage, meanwhile making us foot most of the bill.

A Way To Speculate On Stocks

By ELMER ROESSNER

One way to speculate on the stock market now Is to figure which companies will benefit most from the upsurge in sales resulting from the increa sed spending money because of the tax cut.

Of course, in most cases, when a speculator has figin-ed out which companies are most likely to profit from the tax cut, he will discover that the speciali-sts have already priced up those stocks. Nevertheless. all the effects of the tax cut have not yet been discounted by the stock market, and some fancy rises and a few busts can be expected in the next few weeks OTHER I.OOK-.\HEAI)S

Here are more sightings on the business future:

More capUal spending. Spending for new plants and equipment will rise sharply during the re.st of this year. The tax cut piomi.ses a rise in con.sumer demand, and new production facilities ran help meet it, profitably. Fur t h e r, the cut in the corporate tax rate will give mam compan

ies moro funds with which to xpand.

McGraw-Hill reporte that la.st October corporation heads told the publishing company that they expected to increase capital spending by 4 per cent in 1964; now those companies have raised their estimates to 9 per cent.

Railroad stock rise: Despite what appears to be Johnson Administration frow'ns (hi more mergers, railroads prospects are improving. The roads may he able to lay off more unneeded employes, traffic is likely to improve, and government aid for commuter lines may be forthcoming.

LABOR TROIRI.ES

Workers are reslKs.s: Despite the income tax cut, which will put more spending money in the pockets of every worker, demands w'ill be tough this year. With the rise In take-horne income, there will be a ri.se in lake . home prices at fiupermai kets, and union leadens will ask for rises to keep pace with price.s.

Once asaiii Uicra will be

more demands for fringe benefits. Money, because of the shrinking dollar, means less to working families but future benefits pensions, ser v i c e pay, hospitalization, medical care, etc. have not lost their sheen. Few workers via-ualize the fact that future benefits may be withered by inflation far greater than their immediate pay.

MORE SILK

New glamour push: After

a bad year in 1964, Japanese exporters are realizing that they must promote the glamour of silk In the U S. sale*. Last year, Americans bought .only 23 million square yards, compared with 45 million in 1962. Styles this year lend themselves to silk treatment, there is a rise in interest in silk hosiery as luxury Items, and the income tax cut may help a hit.

Steel demand rising: Blven before the tax cut bill .seemed assured, demand for steel kept ri.ring. Demand is contlnu 1 n g promising a rontlnuatioD ot good times in oeavy industry.

The probable rise in auto sales, bolstered by the tax cut, plus the Increase in plant and equipment, expenditures, may keep the industry happy all year.

OLD PROMOTER DEFENDS HIGHER POSTAL RATES

"You have been making some snide cracks about Uie outrageous rise in postage rates, the Old Promoter observed during his weekly call today.

"Me? Snide? Outrageous? I asked. "Well, to tell the truth, I guess I have. The outrage-osity is awful.

"Walt a minute," he said. "During the depresslwi, the utility companies found it cheaper to have men deliver bill* door - to - door than to mall them First class postage waa then three cents an ounce.

"It has gone up to four, then to five cente. A.s long as first - clas.s mall la cheaper than employee delivery, po.stage ratp.s cant he too bad,

I'll have to think that over. But the Old One may have something. i