Friday, March 6, 1964

School District System Outdated

Educ:itors and rank and file citizens of Pitt rather than the county as a whole, many Pitt young-County should make a realistic evaluation of the sters will not be offered as good educational oppor-handicap to future development of our public schools tunities as they should have. The longer the school caused by the fact that Pitt is one of the fetl^ re- bond district lines remain in Pitt County, the greater maining counties in the state that finances its cap- obstacle they will become to the development of ital improvements for schools under the antiquated our public school system.

school district system. An arrangement, satisfactory to all parties con-

Through the leadership of the boards of ed- cerned, has avoided a serious crisis between the

ucation of the two school administrative units in Winterville and Greenville school districts. But this this countyin conjunction with the several school does not mean that the matter of bond district lines district committeeswork should begin immediately should be ignored until another similar crisis arises on developing a program by which the county can in the county. The time to begin work on a per-eliminate its school bond districts. manent program which would prevent such crises

So long as Pitt remains a county in which there from arising in the county is now. The matter should are many school bond districts, it will be handi- not be shelved for another year or two. It should capped in planning for the most efficient use of not be shelved even for another month or two.

monies available for school construction. So long as The greatest contribution the school boards

the financial responsibility for capital improvements and school district committees of Pitt could make to schools rests largely upon the individual district to the future of public education in the county would

be to begin immediately the development of a program to eliminate the several school bond districts. It is not a simple problem to solve. It may take several months of careful and concentrated study before such a program can be developed.

But the sooner a positive effort is put forth to find a solution to the problem, the sooner the solu-

tin will be found. The sooner the county is able to put the financing of capital improvements for

schools on a county-wide rather than a district basis,, the sooner other problems connected with the development of the countys public school sy.stem can be solved.

The public education system of Pitt County has struggled under the yoke of the antiquated Cleveland County act far too long. Most other countie.s of the state have long since thrown off this impediment to the development of their public school systems, Pitt County should not delay any longer in taking positive steps to overcome the serious handicap being imposed by its system of school bond districts.

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psets In Our 2nd Primaries

By WD.L1AM A. SHIRES

NOTEBOOK PoUtlcal notebook:

Without question the most notable occasions In recent North Carolina political history in which a first primary runnerup won nomination in a runoff ocurred in 1948 and 1950.

The first was the upset victory of W. Kerr Scott in the Democratic primary for governor in 1948.

The second, climaxing an even stormier camiMdgn, was the triumph (rf Willis Smith over Dr. Frank P. Graham for the U. S. Senate nomlnat 1 o n two years later.

Second primaries have been relatively rare items since those days of the late 40s and early 50s. but in each <me for a major statewide (gflce since then the leader tn the first primary has prevailed.

BACKGROUND Thers were six candidates in the 1948 Democratic primary for governor and Scott and Charles M. Johnson of Raleigh polled nearly 80 per cent of the first primary vote.

Johnson, who had been state treasurer, received 170,141 and Scott who had left his post as agriculture commissioner to become a late entry in the race, received 161,293.

R. Mayne Albright of Raleigh had a limw share (g the rest of the first primary turnout of 423,125 but was far back with 76.281.

Scott came on strong In the second primary and wai with a vote of 217,620 to 182,684 for Johnson.

SMTTH-GRAHAM - Wherit as the 1948 first primary attracted a turnout of only 423,-n.'). the Smith-Graham campaign of 1950 was so intense that a then-record 618,479 went to the polls.

Dr. Graham, who had been president of the University of North Carolina and was Scotts appointee to the Senate, received 303,605 votes in the first primary and Smith trailed by a COTsiderable margin with 250.222.

This came close to being a clear first primary victory for Graham but not close enough. Robert R, Reynolds came In with 58,752 In the first primary and a fourth candidate. Olla Ray Boyd, received S.900.

Smith called for the runoff and went on to unseat Graham by a vote of 281,114 to 261,789 In June of 1950,

Smith called for the runoff

RUNOFFS - These results in 1948 and 1950 established the econd primary as a significant and Important part of political life of the state,

It was something that no candidate engaged in a campaign against two or more opponents could overlook.

On the night that Terry Sanford led In returns In the first primary in 1960 hLs campaign leaders assumed that a runtrff would be called and there was no let-tip In the Sanford cam

paign pace^jpie assumpt 1 o n was corredt. Dr. I. Beverly Lake called for the second primary but was unable to match the feat of Kerr Scott and WUlls Smith in com i n g from behind.

The Sanford-lake second primary struggle was similar to those classics of 1948 and 1^ In (me way, however. It Indicated again that runoff campaigning is likely to be fiercer.

FIGURING It is conceded that a second primary this Spring is figuring in campaign strategy erf the Democrat i c candidates for governor.

R is not a certainty, of cmirse, but neither is the possibility or probability of a runoff being overloerfted. Campaign plans Include any eventuality.

This Spring may also see a runoff called after the first primary In the Democratic contest for lieutenant governor, and this would be a novel development. But such a second primary for the No. 2 nomination Is being regarded as a strong possibility too with three fairly strong candidates already in the race.

JOTTINGS One of the old guard Republican party "regulars national committeeman J. Ed Broyhlll of Lenoir, called the ^ot correctly on drafting Robert L. Gavin as a Gop candidate for governor. Broy-hill predicted prior to last weekends convention, even while Gavin was saying he would not run. that Gavin would accept a draft.

There are reports that pulling and tugging between supporters of opposing candidate.^ for governor resulted tn a sud-~ den withdrawal of at least two previously-announced candidates for the legislature In Cleveland County. The situation there is fluid.

J. A. (Andy) Barker, developer of the dude ranch town of Love Valley In Iredell County, has announced as a Democratic candidate for the State Senate in the 27th district, Iredell and Davie counties, and may oppose Incumbent Sen, Jimmy V. Johnson of Statesville. Johnson was finance . chairman In the 1963 Senate.

Apparently little possibility exists that Republican party regulars can persuade the Rev. Criarles M. Strong and Rep. Don Badgley to withdraw as GOP candidates for governor and accept other spot.s on the party's ticket. However, one previously-announced GOP gub-ematorial candidate, 0. H. Doggett. did withdraw this week and endorsed Robert L. Gavin. Unlike Badgley and Strong. Doggett had not paid his $250 filing fee.

A question left unanswered at last weeks state Republican convention Is what p r o-cedure will be followed In submitting a GOP slate for statewide offices other than the governorship. Primary' fil I n g deadline for these offices for both parties is March 20.

Strife

By ART BUCHWALD

Hoffas Future Is Far Swimmina From Being Settled

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As part of our war on poverty we decided to i n s t a 11 a swimming pool in anew house we're buying.- We didnt realize how complicated the

Conviction of Teamster leader Jimm/ Hoffa

on charges of jury tampering is another setback for _____

the militant labor leader who ha.s had a running purchase of a swimming pool battle with the courts for years. can be. Next to used car deal-

It remains to be eeen however, whether the S tSTSf conviction means that Hoffa has come to the end businessmen, and one tends to of his rope. There will be appeals and other com- belieye everything they tell plicated legal maneuverings by the Teamster Presi- ^

dent before he accepts the conviction and the sub- ed a swimming pool salesman sequent punishment ordered by the U. S. district and you cant imagine what an court in Chattanooga. The verdict Wednesday in education it was. the Hoffa case was the most severe blow yet to Hoffas career up the ladder to the most powerful labor leader in the nation today. It has seemed before that Hoffa was in spots from which h/P could not extricate hjrmself and retain his power, but in each in.stance he emerged free to continue his activities that long have been under attack by the courts and by other segments of organized labor as well.

Barring a higher court setting aside the conviction of Hoffa, all signs would point to the be-

ginning of the end of his reign as head of the ^

Teamsters who have been attempting to remove the * I

union from Hoffas control. But unfortunately, on -^1 1^1 1 TID

the basis of past experience, it is too earlv even now J- Lax x JL

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After looking over the property he said, I can put In a pool complete for $8,-400."

"That Includes everything? we asked.

"Of course. Thats my price complete.

"Well, it Is a little high, we said, "but perhaps I can make It, Wed like a rectangular pool.

"A rectangular pool? I wish

very difficult to dig a rectangle In the ground.

"That brings it up to $9.-000, we said.

"Yes. but that will be complete with eve^hing. Now Id like to asir you a few questions.

"Yes, sir.

"Did you plan on putting water in the pool? he asked, "I thought it would be fun." "That will be an extra $250. You see, if we put water in the pool, we have to get a permit from the District of Columbia and that, takes a great deal of time."

"I knew I shouldn't have asked for water, we said.

"Did you want concrete In the pool?

"I think so. Why do you ask?

"Well, the pool gets so muddy otherwise. The concrete w'ill be $350 extra. Of course, if you want gunlte, it will be $500.

"Whats the difference?

"If you use regular concrete.

to jump to tho conclusion that this is the end of the line for Jimmy Hoffa.

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And Hiking Pay

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON lAP) - This economy - talking Congress is getting ready to vote on a $10,000-a-year pay raise for itself: from $22.500 to $32.500. an increase of 44 per cent.

Living costs have gone up only about 15 per cent since Congress last boosted Its own salary in 1955, That was also a $10,(KX) Increase, from $12,-500 to $22.500.

The measure approved Wednesday by the House Rules Committee, thus clearing it for a vote, would raise the salary of most other federal employes, including Supreme Court Justices, Cabinet members and top officials.

All this had the blessing of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. hi his next years spending budget, which Jolinson handed Congress In January, he asked $455 million to take care of such salary Increases.

Earlier last year two groups the National Civil Service League and a special 12-man advisory panel appointed by Kennedy recommended raises. One recurrent theme in tlie push to boost salaries Is that present salary scales prevent the government from getting the kind of men needed to run it efficiently.

But today an important House member found an even newer way for Congress to spend more millions on itself. This was Rep. Wright Patman. D-Tex., the House Banking and Currency Committee ch a I r-man.

Patnian suggested "Congress needs a vast increase" In the number of its technical consultants and legal and economic advl'-ers. He proposed still another new office building for the 4,35 Housi^ members.

That would be the fourth for them They already occupy two. and a third is nearing completion at an estimated cost running up to $122 million.

Not all members have the giggles at the thought of more take-home pay. Looking at the work done by this Cong r e s s. which in 1963 was one of the laziest in historyi Rep. J, Arthur Younger. R-Calif . said In October that If production wa.s to X' the yardstick, "wp should be returning part of the salary we are now receiving He .said the cost of living wouldn't Justify an Increa.*^ of the size being considered.

Sen. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio. long enough in Congress to understand the members, told the Senate that, despite all the talk about Congress being underpaid, "if you came in here with a shotgun, you couldn't get the members of the Senate and House out of the Capitol.

He challenged any member of the Senate to cite "one instance where an appointment to the Supreme Court has been declined by a lawyer because the salary is inadequate. Economy was the favor 11 e Republican s(tg last year and this. Before the House passed the tax cut bill last year It has been passed by the Senate. too. and Is now law Republicans triad but failed to put a .string on it: no tax cut un-les.s .spending is cut.

When Johnson in Janu a r y submitted his spending budget for next year $97,9 billion, which was less than Kennedys of a year ago Republicans called it a "figure - juggler's dream.

They announced It could be cut by $6 billion to $8 billion but they .said little or nothing about cutting out the $455 million Johnson included for federal Day raises <clndlng raises for members of Congre.ss.

But one Republican who Is always urging economyRep H. R Grovss of Iowa said Wednesday after the Rule s Committee approved the pay raise It is "nntncttded, inequitable, and ""ctravapant.

Here are some of the other Increases proposed by the committee, compared with present .salaries*

Vice pre.sident ithe^;e Isnt anyt, spt'aker of the Hou.se, and justices of the Supreme Court: from S:55.000 to $45.000; chief justice: from $35.(XX) to $45.5<K) Cabinet members: from $25,000 to $35,000.

Opinions

"Midle age Ls when yon can do everything you iLsed to do. but not until tomorrow. Elliottville (N.Yu Post.

To the Editor.

A few weeks ago after consuming alcoholic beverages, a fourteen year old boy was found dead from exposure in a roadside ditch. This occurred in our town so it concerns all of us. Where the greatest burden of guilt for this tragedy must be placed is a matter of conjecture, Perhaps in the final analysis the environment was the greatest contributing factor. However, some of the guilt must be assumed by the community, the school, and authorities who allow the sale of alcohol to minors.

Your newspaper too. must assume some of the guilt along with any publication which advertise liquor and beer. The Daily Reflector serves an area where a much larger percentage of the population is young and Impressionable because of the college. They come to Greenville for four years or longer, .so we owe them the best environment possible. All people are very susceptible to advertising. This fact is proven by the millions spent on advertising media.

The newspaper not only serves a community, in a sense It belongs to a community. It is" reprehensible to find each page of the paper on which ads appear extolling the different brands of liquor. How can you make a liquor consumption appear as the debastating evil it is when it is attractively advertised side by- side with the favorite brands of wear

ing apparel, entertainment etc.? BraiKl names and the use of them are a status symbol with the young. We may deplore status-seeking too, but it exists in a very big w'ay.

Our continuing to glamourize the products of evil is simply adding to our moral decay. Dr. Billy Graham as well as many of our top diplomats have said that our enemies are waiting for this decay from within to become complete to effect a take-over of our coimtry without firing a shot. According to them we are going right along with their timetable.

If we value our freedom, the moraLs of our youth, the Christian concept of life and wish our community to be a wholesome place for our children to grow to adulthood, it is time to lay aside our mantle of apathy. We cannot go on in our pattern of non-involvem e n t, taking no stand, trying to appease and to please, and in the final anaylsis standing for nothing.

We feel The Daily Reflector is essentially a good paper with the progress of the community it serv'es constantly in view, but we hold that the liquor advertisements serve to mar its image.

As citizens, parents, and church members we must protest them.

Respectfully.

The Official Board.

St. James Methodist Church.

Greenville. N, C.

Prices

the pool will leak.

He wrote everjthlng down in his book.

"Let me ask you this, he continued, "had you planned on filtering the water?

"I guess so. What are the advantages?

"Well, if you filter the water, there is le.ss chance of the childrens catching typhoid or yellow fever. We can give you an excellent filter for $450. "I guess in the long run it would be cheaper, we said. "Now, what about steps to get out of the pool? "Couldnt the people ju.st climb out over the side? we inquired.

"They could, but that would mean wed have to build coping around the pool. The steps cost $200, the coping $550. Youd better give us steps.

"What had you planned to put around the pool? he ask-ed. ,

"I dont know. What do you put around a pool?

"We could give you a concrete walk for $670.

"It sounds like youre losing money on the job, we said.

"Thats our problem. he replied, "Now what about tree leaves In the pool?

"I dont want any leaves tn the pool, we said, hoping to save some money.

"We dont put leaves in the pool. he said. "We take them out. You'll w*ant a skimmer for $320. Did you plan on a diving board?

"Sure, w'hy not?

"That will be $1,000. he said.

"A thou.sand dollars for a diving board? we asked Incredulously.

"Not just for the dlv 1 n g board, he said. "If youre going to have a diving board, youll need deep water. The price I gave you was for a shallow pool. I thought you understood that. Why dont you get. anything I say straight? "Im sorry. we apologig-ed. "Will you ever foi^ 1 v e me?

He wrote down $1,(XK) In hi.s notebook, "Just thi.s once. But lets have no more haggling.

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"The success of any bi-racial Good Neighbor Council, In In working out peaceful solutions to racial prblems, depends upon the willingness of the people of both races to accept and fulfiD their responsibility to respect the rights of all people. The Smith-fteld Herald.

in me Ranks

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

C(rf>yright. 1964, King Peaturat Syndicate, Inc.

PALM BEACH, Fla. Con. trol of HepubUcan organiza.* tions in the South haz. sine# ' the rise of the life-giving Gold-water movement, come to seem a prize that is very much worth having. Paradoxl* cally, this Is not making thinga any easier for Barry Goldwi^ ter.

This was aptMu-ent at the re* cent dinner In Pahn Beach where, according to a reliahlo smirce, certain Goldw a t e r backers refused to "show until they had a prcxnlse that out-of-State elonents who aro abetting what is described as a raid on the Republican (h> ganization in Florida would not be Invited. Goldwater expreso-ed himself as not being ovei> ly concerned with the Florida intra-party struggle. Nevertheless, there is bad blood to Florida Republican ranks, and it could hurt Barry.

The fight will como to a head in the primaries, when two sets of delegates, both pro-Goldwater, struggle for the right to represent their tiger at San Francisco. On February 18 the regular Republican State Chairman, Tom Brown, duly filed an almo^ complete slate of delegates, with WUU-am Pawley of Miami, one of the most respected of Florida Republicans, as tee presumptive head of It. The Brown candidates, while not pledged to Barry to the last bitter end, all claim to be true Goldwater men. Since Goldwater is the OTly Republican who

could possibly sweep t h South, there is no reason to doubt their word. But U. S. Congre.ssman William C. Cramer of the St. Petersburg area, acting with the blessing of Alabamas John Grenier, the regional director of the southern Goldwater movement, broke off from the regulars to fil# his own pledged Gold water slate. Meanwhile the word waa spread that Tran Browns men could not be trusted to stick In a pinch. This put the fat In th# fire for fair, and Tom Brown is now seething with anger at a report from Pensacola that John Grenier had referred to " the regular Republican slate of delegates as a potential Rockefeller slate. There has already been one defection from the original Brown slate to the Cramer slate, and the whole Republican issue In Florida haa been further complicated by the sudden materialization of a Nixon slate.

It Is Browns contention that Representative Cramer, with Greniers support, is following a rule or ruin policy. "We offered Cramer a place on the delegation, says Brown, with the right to pick the members from his own district. But he wouldnt accept. To calm the waters, Clifton White and Dick Klelndienst were sent to Tampa from the Goldwater headquarters In Washington, D.C,

But the w'atera, locally, are Just as rough as ever. And the two sides are taunting each other. The regular Republicans insist that the Gold water movement was going fine as long as Peter ODwinell of Texas was running It. The y blame some of the pres e n t difficulties over the "Arizona crowd. But mostly they cwi-demn Representative Cramer for putting his personal ambitions first.

When Barry Goldwater landed In Palm Beach, he wax handed a memo from a close adherent of Ba.sll LaV e r g n e head of the Draft Goldwate movement in Florida. TTte memo waa a petition for Barry Goldwater to step In and appoint somebody with the authority to force both Brown and Cramer Into line. William D. Pawley was mentioned as one possibility: Victor Hniska, vice president of the Prudential Insurance Company of Jacksonville, was another. But It could be a thankless job for Goldwater to Intercede personally. Pawley and Hruska have Already been approved by Brown as delegate material and might find it hard to ride herd on Brown and Goldwater could hardly undercut Grenier, hie

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nterprise Is Becoming Illega.

'We who dont smoke cigar-cttes or driiik coffee .s\ue make it touah on the doctors when we do get sick, there's so little for us to do without" Woodward tokla.) Journal.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The question of whether too much enterprise may be illegal has become a subtle issue in a case now being considered by Herman Tocker, Federal Trade Commission Examiner. A decision is expected in 90 days.

The FTC has charged Topps Chewing Gum, Inc.. with monopolizing baseball card.s in chewing Gum, Inc.. with field, all right. Children spend $2 million, a nickel at a time, for bubble gum and baseb a 11 players pictures packaged together. in a thi*ee-nionth period

"I dont know whether cards are used to promote the sale of bubble gum, or bubble gum L* used to promote the sale of cards, said Joel Shorin. e.xecutive vice pre.sident of Topps.

Topps has a virtual monopoly on bubble gum with ballplayer cards. It won its position by enterprise. Shorin testif i ^j^d. Evidence showed that as soon as a younc man was signed up in the minors. Topps offered him a contract for e.xchisive use erf his phoU) with gum atid confections. If ajid when

he becomes famous, Topps uses his picture. With Topps holding all the stars, other companies could not compete in the candy and gum field. OTHER FIEL.S OPEN

Topps contended this Is not an illegal monopoly beca use other products are not controlled. One company disbributes players pictures with marbles, and another gum company put_ out baseball pictures with cookies The cookie gamb i t failed, and it was brought out that there were only 66 different cards used and that there were only five cards to a package, compared with six with Topps gum.

Topps attorney. Edwaird W. Kintner. himself a former Federal Trade Commissioner, declared, It has occurred to me that had they set out deliberately to fall, they could not have poisibly done a better job.

And just as the hearing clos^ ed, Topps announced that 11 s baseball cards would be a little late this year. It has signed up the Beatles for exclu-.sive use of Ihetr photo.s with bubble glim and there will be a fling with this monopoly.

This, again, waa enterprise. Some time ago, when the Beatles were first yammering in Liverpool, Topps heard about them and. on the chance they wouJd be famous, had a British agent sign them for exclusive, monopolistic use of their photos on cards sold with gum and candy.

OTHER SUCCESSES

On the stand, Shorin testified that there w'ere many other cards that have been used. "Davy Crockett was like a magic word, he said. Again, running ahead of the competition, he said he bought the exclusive rights to use of Fess Parkers pictures on gum cards from Walt Disney.

"We got in just to time and out just in time, he said. Other enterprisers, he said, were caught with warehouses full of coonskin caps and other Davy Crockett items.

Topps also bought similar rights to Hopalong Cassidy when William Boyds old films were revived, and to Elvis Pre.sly when he was tops.

Ont.ride the hearing room, Shorin said. "Tlic idea that we should let other eum companies use our pictures would be

like allowing two companlee to pubUsb Life magazine.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS The new tax cut will boom the distilling industry, the Value Line Investment Survey predicts. . . .Independent grocers sold 59 per cent <rf the groceries purchased to 1962, the Bank of American found . . .There will be more and longer paid vacati(As thle year than ever before, according to E. M. Ryan, vice president of Management Infonnatloa Center, Deerfield, HI. More than half tee companies report 1 n g now give four weeks off to employes with 25 years eervlce . . .A record shipment of 137 million gallons of C^allfo r n 1 a wine this year is predicted by Bernard Wiemik, president of Cresta Blanca and Roma vineyards. . .The Department of Agriculture has wlthdrawm approval of edrin because of increasing amount of the Insecticide found on cured tohao-00 leaves. . .General Electric, electric that Is, is now mar-keting its first, gas, gas teat is, laundry dryer.

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