Wednesday, Mardi IT, 1964

Possible Only By ModificationWhat's The Greek Word For This?

First round of debates on the controversial civil rights proposals, now before the Senate point up clearly there is Ittle likelihood of the measure being adopted in its present form.

This factor, in our opinion, is a tribute to the wisdom of the Senate. There are a number of provisions in the measure whch if written into law under the guise of protecting the rights of minority groups would be giant steps toward denying individual rights of all Americans. In some sections of the measure there is the clear attempt to legislate emotions, to prescribe by law the attitude of individuals and to tie a tight knot around the feelings of individual citizens. Such things obviously cannot be legislated.

There are in the measure sections which would pose a serious infringements on individual rights by the government; although the overall purpose, according to proponents, is to protect the rights of individuals from bcin gdenied by other individuals. There are sections of the measure which stretch far afield from the concept of race relations to set forth an incomprehensible maze of regulations governing employment that could eventually put

Preyer Cheerec.

By N.C. '

under complete federal control the individuars ability to get or not get a job.

In spite of assertions by the administration and other proponents of the measure that it will be passed without compromise, this seems far from a realistic appraisal of the climate of public opinion. The administration does not have, at the moment, in the Senate, sufficient support for the measure to pass it in its present form. The delegation from the Southern states forms the core of resistence to the measure. But there is likewise opposition to many of its provisions from other sections of the nation as well. The Republican leadership in the Senate appears unlikely to lend its support to the measure unless it is severely modified in many of its provisions.

The anticipated filibuster by Southern Senators, in two steps, will afford Senators time for sober consideration of the measure in spite of political pressures which will be upon them for hurried enactment of the bill.

It may be possible for the Senate to come up with a reasonable measure dealing with some of the subjects in the present measure. But the bill thal is now before the Senate does not have sufficient merit to warrant its passage. In spite of the chorus of voices raised to contest such a statement,, it is becoming increasingly apparent that a majority of the members of the Senate are not inclined to support the measure in its present form.

our Local Airport Should

Bj WILLIAM A. SHIRES

PREYER L. Richardson Proyer emerged from hie first dip into the deep waters of state political campaigning refreshed and confident in the future of North Carolina.

In fact, aaya Preyer. be la BOW "a great deal more confident" about the future of tlM state than when he set out on a S.OOO-mile county by county tour hi hla campaign for the governorship six weeks ago.

He also returned a more seasoned and knowledgeable campaigner, which was a major objective of the tour. The former federal Judge from Greensboro, a relative newcomer to North Carolina's political war, went out on the campaign trail with a lot of pre-cwiceived idea and little practical experience in politic. He learned a lot.

Hi political philosophy is unchanged. But Preyer quickly acknowledges the value of the experience. Im sure I learned a great deal more from the people than they learned from me. he says.

UNIQUE Preyers almost uninterrupted county by county tour was somewhat unique in North Carolina political annals.

Many candidates for the governorship go into all or almost all of the state's counties during a cunpaign. But seldom is It done on such a scale.

Preyer began a whlrtwlnd type tour from le end of the state to the other immediately following a Jan. 25 kickoff rally in Greensboro, He adhered to a rigid schedule.

During the six weeks, he crossed that state visiting every county seat, every town of consequence, shaking hands with untold thousands.

He made more than 100 speeches, most of them impromptu and off - the - cuff, addressing more than 20,000 people.

SENSED ~ Preyer adds that he met and talked with many hundreds more of our people at textile mills, furniture plants, on the farms and in the courthouses and along the streets." This gave him a new sensing North Carolina and its thinking, Preyer says.

At no stop (Hj the tour did I encounter people who think that North Carolina Is tired and ought to rest awhUe." he says. I found not one person who thought that we should go backward and fight battles lost long ago."

And if I sense the mood of the people, I think that they want a North Carolina with a future equal to the future of any part of America; a North Carolina that measures* its schools and Its farms and Its Industry not against the region

but against the nation. Were a great state, but we can be greater. We can have a future equal to our past."

Preyer predicts that North Carolina "can lead the natlm" In every way.

CONCEIRNEDPreyer paint- ad a picture of what he encountered as the needs <A North Carolina in summarizing the 100 county tour.

"We visited counUes with only a MnglB doctor," he said.

We drove on roads so poor that even in normal winter weather, schools had to be shut down because the buses couldnt run."

We met people who have to bum cornstalks for fuel... farmers who want to learn how to get new sources of Income."

And we talked with family men without Jobs, or prospects of finding work.

He called these thing evidence of great needs in North Carolina.

POLITICS - All through the tour Preyer talked about and learned about politics.

We talked Issues, he said. We didnt attack the other candidates. We were able to put our programs and policies before groups of people in every county In North Carolina.

Our meetings were attended by thousands of dedicated people who are vitally concerned about the welfare of the state," he said. And he adds, the people have made me confident that we can renew our raergles and get moving to a more prosperous future. PHILOSOPHY - The Preyer philosophy which has made him the choice of the present state administration and the Sanford-Bennett organization of 1960, in the current campaign emerged unscathed.

He remains convinced that the people of North Carolina want to keep moving forward" and building on the foundation of programs already started. Preyer believes that most North Carolinians want to preserve a feeling of pride and have a desire that the state maintain its image of enlightened leadership and pro-greasiveness.

Preyer expressed this philosophy as long ago as last Fall when he announced as a candidate for governor. He found nothing on the 100 - county tour to alter it.

nKow Preyer candidly concedes that a primary purpose of the tour was to become known throughcnit the atate.

"I think one of my main problems Is simply getting to be known throughout the state, he said last December. He was anxious too to learn the political ropes. He looks at the tour Just finished as Just a beginning.

The Daily Reflector

INCORPORATED

Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Established 1882 DAVID. JULIAN WHICHARD, Publisher

Itotered at Port OOloo. OroenvUle. N. C as second dess mall matter.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier (In Towna) Week 3Gc

By Carrier (Motor Routea) Week 35c

BY MAIL, Payable In Advance

JreenvUJe Poet Office. Pitt Ooun^, RobersonvUle., Vanoctxiro, Washington and Chocowlnlty.

Three Months $ g.7

Six' Months .......................... JM

One Year ... Ujqo

North Carolina (other than listed above)

Three Months ....................... $ 4.00

Six aionths ............................. 7ji

One Tear ............. mjq

Plus S% N. O. Balaa Taa All Other Ouulde North Carolina

Three Months ..... | CM

Six Months ................ CM

One Year ................................ li.Ot

MEMBER AC80C1ATRD PRESS

The Associated Press ts excluslveiy entitled lo use for pubU-catloD all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news publlsheo herein. AL rlgbU of. puMicatlon of special dispatches here are also reserved.

Member Audit Bureau of Circnlatloo.

All advertising copy must be received at least .one day bafort pubiicsUon date.

Be Kept In Good Shape

Pitt county commissioners and the Greenville city council have acted wisely in appropriating $1,000 each for maintenance and operation of the Pitt-Greenvlle Airport.

The funds were appropriated by the two governing bodies to cover expenses for the remainder of the fiscal yearanother four months.

The airport commission explained to the commissioners and councilmen that they were finding it necessary to pay a subsidy of $400 per month to retain a competent operator for the airport.

They also pointed out that maintenance of the airports runways must begin immediately if permanent damage is not to result.

In some cases asphalt runways have cracked and weeds-are growing through to further widen the cracks. Correcting this will be a matter of de-weeding the runways and tarring the cracks.

It was also pointed out that adequate personnel is not on hand when private planes land at the airport. Airport commission representatives noted that office and rest room facilities are entirely inadequate for visitors to the airport.

Representatives told the governing bodies that regardless of what happens to Pitt, Greenville and Eastern sector parties application for central air service, now pending before the CAB, this valuable air facility should not be allowed to deteriorate.

We agree. The Pitt-Greenville Airport should be kept in usable condition and there should be adequately trained personnel on hand to assist private aircraft w'hen they land, offer gas and servuce, and in every way give the impression that this a community which welcomes them.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Paging Nimble Family

The Rev. Bill Quick, pastor of St. James Church, was bursting with pride yesterday. During the night his wife had given birth to a baby boy.

But have you ever thought about the problems of naming a child? tne reverend asked us.

We want to call him David and we thought about Paul David Quick, but that comes out PDQ, he Informed us.

He also considered David Burke, but he could Just hear the kids in a few years calling out: David be quick.-

Then he ccmsidered Quicks fathers name David Douglas. This, of course, would bring about the initials D. D., which for a ministers son, would become Doctor of Divinity.

And how about David Rodney? Well, naturally, this would soon become Dr. Quick.

The Quicks have two other

children and they solved the problem for them by naming them Steven Kellon and Katb-rjm Elizabeth.

When we left the reverend he had yet to come up with a suitable name for his most recent child.

We suggested meeting the problem head-on. Name h 1 m Jack B. Quick, was our plan. Then move next door to a Nimble family who, of course, would also have a son named Jack B.

He didnt take too kindly to the Idea, however.

Frank Diener. our Dogs Head political observer, decided he would settle once and for all who is ahead in the big gubernatorial race.

Obviously, Prank decided, the way to do it was to count bumper stickers, since the auto owner is not going to sport

a candidate's sticker if he Isnt for him.

So Frank, conscientous poU-tlcl observer that he Is, began his survey.

Some overzealous supporters of candidates got wind of it and promptly began plastering the stickers on both frcmt and back bumpers,

Frank solved this problem, though. He wy counted one sticker to a car.

Well, the guaranteed accurate results were handed to us Just before deadline.

The winner and next governor of North Carolina:

Tweetsie Railroad.

his Is Almost

Other Editors SayirxQ, Trouble Not In Boarc,

One of the younger set has -nt been captured by Great Britains principal export. The Beatles.

Robin, age 7, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Beddlng-fleld took a look at the singing group.

Her comment: Give them a costume and theyll be all ready for Halloween!"

The world Just isnt ready for that Robin, even on Halloween.

iranquil lime

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Some of the problems taking up President Johnsons time, like Jobs and poverty, bear testimony that world tensions liave diminished a bit.

This may not last long, of course, since mankind stUl does not have enought sense to live in peace, more or less, indefinitely.

JohnsOTi does have some unpeaceful problems to worry about, like how to win in Viet Nam. But to many Americans largely concerned with themselves, at the moment the war against Conmunist guerrillas in Asia must seem far off.

Yet, even some of the crises that poured over Johnstm like a tide in his first 100 days have subsided.

Fidel Castro is left with his feet in the water he shut off from the U. S. naval base at Guantanamo; and Panamanians have become patient about a revision of American treaty rights to the Panama Canal Zwie.

It was in the midst of this comparative quietude that Johnson announced Monday a natiwial manpower policy intended to cut down high unemployment which, he noted, averaged 4.2 mlUiixi last year.

He will soon send Congress a message about eliminating poverty, or trying to. Some advisers recommend the draft registration be lowered to give his war on poverty an early start on rehabilitating needy youth.

All this plus Americans, preoccupation with the presidential primary in New Hampshire today or with gettl n g ready for fishing, baseball or Easter makes this seem an almost tranquil time.

But not quiet, even though the dirty little war in Viet Nam Is far away. It is not only far fnn finished but the South Vietnamese, despite American backing, have been losing ther shirts steadily.

The United States isnt fighting the war itself. The South Vietnamese are doing it with the help of American money supplies, weapohs and military men to teach them how to do

In a general way the American approach tokhls war is similar to that of Rie French who fought the Cc themselves for their own

clock and give the Vietn^ese Independence until the last minute, fought the North Vietnamese Reds with one hand behind their backs.

They never sent their draftees into that war. In the later stages of it they didnt even pay their own way. The United States had to bail them out for years.

By the time they were crushed and had to quit in 1954 the United States was paying three-quarters of the costs.

While this country wants to see the South Vietnamese win, and has promised to back them so long as they are willing to fight, there is no mood in this country for any kind of all-out war on the Reds of North Viet Nam.

For instance: by carrying the war to North Viet Nam or throwing American troops directly into the battle, anything like that might bring Red China or the Soviet Union in on the side of the North Vietnamese.

Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara is over there now, on his second inspection trip since December,, to see what he thinks needs to be done to reverse the defeats being inflicted (Ml the South Vietnamese.

One of the big troubles no matter how Americans might wish they could get out of South Viet Nam altogether, is that American prestige ia at stake. This country went in there to crush the Red guerrillas.

If it quits or withdraws all of Southeast Asia lo<rfcs like a pushover for communism. Yet. Johnson and McNamara have to wonder: how long can the United States keep this up if the South Vietnamese themselves wont do a better Job of ghtlng?

(The Smlthfieki Herald)

Welfare administration at the county level undoulHedly has much room for improvement but it is difficult to see how improvement could be achieved by placing county welfare programs under the direct supervision of county boards of commissioners.

A San Francisco cwisult i n g firm, employed by the State Association of Cwmty Commissioners to study welfare administration, has recommended that county commtesioners be given administrative responsibility for maintenance welfare work.

The recommended plan would abolish county welfare boards as administrative agencies. The boards would be retained as advisory groups.

The proposal will be studied by county commissioners, county accountants, county welfare board members, and county welfare directors before the State Association of County Commissioners calls for any change.

Important questions are raised;

County boards of commissioners already are oberbur-dened with woric. How can they take wi the extra burden of direct welfare administration and satisfactorily fulfill all their responsibilities?

Dont the politically sensitive county boards of commls-slaiers need the county welfare boards as buffers agalnrt criticism?

Would county boards of conv mlssloners, if charged with the

responsibility of supervte i n g welfare administration directly, be unduly concerned with economy" and insufficiently concerned with humanitarian considerations in welfare decisions?

Are welfare boards to blame for faulty administrations?

As State Welfare cximis-sloner R. Eugene Brown has observed, county commlssiwi-ens already have substantial authority in welfare administration. The commissi(m e r not only have authority over appropriations; they also can review and override any de-clslOT made by a wel f a r e board. The , commisrtCHiers have a strong voice in the appointment of the welfare board.

In Johnstcm County, the commissioners name one (rf their own group to sit on the welfare board. This commissiim-er and the welfare board are empowered to appoint the third member rt the local board.

No Johnston County welfare direction has ever been employed without the approval of the Johnston County Board of Commissiooers.

Weaknees in the Johnston County welfare administration cannot be traced to the welfare board. Most (rf our troubles over the years have stemmed from failure of commissions to provide sufficient competent and well - paid personnel to do the Job of carrying out a well-ordered wel fare program.

And there was the s w e et young thing who was observed purchasing an umbrella 1 a local store the other day.

Hello sweetheart, said a wolf who approached. Buying an umbrella?"

"Yes," sweet young thing purred back, so I wont be all wet, like you."

Opiniorib

In

"Giving things away too often creates only resentment on the part of the recipient because he is forced to accept charity." Harrisonburg (Va.) News-Record,

Too many Congressmen have the idea that everything is accomplished when they appropriate money." cmero (Texas) Record.

The helpful approach to personal morals is not through . law, we think, but through ^ education and the building of understanding, through striking the positive spark within the person, Juneau (Alaska) Empire.

"The pen should remain mightier than the sw'ord for the sword seldom has the power to settle the agitation cau.sed by discussion of the problem.Argo (HI.) News.

Remedies Still On Shel::

Sibin On Sunday

SOS

lunlsts there It years with plus ^/letna-

mese troops.

Both big pown stopped far short of an alltoot effort.

The colwiial-i linded French, too stubborn |> look at the

March 22

By ELMER ROESSNER

If the new tax cut does not cure unemployment and it may not there are plenty of remedies left on the shelf.

Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisors, told a Senate committee last year that the tax cut could reduce unemployment from 5.6 per cent to 4 per cent. However, with the surge of entrants into the labor force, the prosperity generated by the cut may do little more than keep unemployment at present levels.

And if the cut does reduce the ratio of unemployed, here are some other remedies that will be cOTisIdered:

Keep youngsters out of the labor market: To do this. Secretary of Labor WUlard Wlrtz has proposed that compulsory edu(tlon be extended ib the age of 18, and that free public education be provided through the first two years of college. This rtep, he said, would remove tWo million youths, of the S.5 million between 16 and 19, from the labor force.

WONT WORK

This prc^sal is a bit Impossible. The government has not been able to make education compulsory even through the first grade In Prince George County, Va., so how could It force 16-to-19-year-olds to go to school in the rest of the nation? Ert)ecially the married boys and girls?

The shorter work week: This has been talked up in unions for many months now. The prcgxxs-als generally are that the work-week be cut to 35 hours, 32 hours, 30 hours or even less. These proposals are always coupled with the reservation, with no reduction in take-home pay."

If there Is no cut in take-home pay, the cost <rf labor In every operatlwi must rise. To meet this rise, prices must be lifted. And higher prices even with the tax cut wiHild evertually reduce demand and then reduce employment.

Sabbatleal leaves: The Steelworkers have worked out a system whereby workers, after a certain number of years, be given long, sMild vacations.

While a man was away on a sabbatical, his Job would be filled by someone else, presumably previously unemployed.

This system hae two defects: It increases labor costs, with the same ccmsequences cited above, and many vacation era would be tempted to take other Jobs after the initial loafing. AGING COUNCIL FOR IT

However, an official of the National Council cm the Aging is ntjw proposing that this system, which he calls earned educational leave," be applied to all workers. Under the plan advocated by Edwin P. Shelley, one year of leave would be given every worker after 20 years of employment. The workers would be subject to nine months education and training and three months of travel, recreation or leisure.

Higher wages: This is a favorite solution of George Meany, Walter Reuther and other AFL-CIO leader. An outline (rf the theory is this: Corporations can afford higher wages. Higher wages will enable workers to buy more goods add services.

nique Role O::

Rioneer

4By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Cc^yright. 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc. SAVANNAH. GEORGIA ft is an article of faith with New Frontier thinkers that what Professor J. Kenneth Galbraith calls the "private seo-Umt" is Incaimble of rehabilitating our cities. But it is a sure bet that Dr. Galbraith has never made the electrifying acquaintance of Mrs. Mary HiU-yer of Savannah. Vflthout waiting on urtMui renewal funds ft'om Washington.Mrs. HiUyer began an operation eight e e n years ago that has transformed downtown areas of this ancient seaport, recovering old architectural beauties that had been hidden for more than a century under sagging roofs, peeling paint and mountaick> ous piles of coal and refuse.

I spent one of the most fas-cinathig mornings of my life listening to Mrs, Httllyer tell her story. An Illinois girl who was trained in C^cago as a singer, she came to Savannah when her husband. H. Hansell HiUyer, a developer of utilities, took hold of the run-down Sa^ vannah Gas Company. Mr. HiU-yers company possessed s I x gas tanks which reared their cumbersome bulk hard by the Savannah River amid some of the worst slums (xi the Atlantic seaboard. There were rooming houses in this old Trustees Garden VUlage area which slept shipyard workers in eight-hour shifts that used the beds around the clock.

Mrs. HUlyer, who was capable of translating her singers love for live music into an equaUy discerning love for the frozen music" of architecture, saw something in the jwoper-ties of the Savannah Gas Company which no one else saw. Looking at earth that had been .poisoned by tar, pitch and coal dust, she saw magnolias and camellas blooming in her minds eye. She envisioned dignified dwellings with eighteenth century lines in tumbled own shacks, and tasteful Insurance company offices in old warehouses. When the gas company razed five of its six great tanks after going over to piped-In natural gas (leaving one tank for a stand-by), she saw trim courts and lawns In their exposed foundations.

Taking her proposition to her husband, she obtained gas company permission to make over one old slum house. The idea was that if she couldnt rent it as a profit, hei- husband could use it as an office. Everyone told her that nobody who was anybody in Savannah would move to a downtown slum area to live in one charming building. but. luckily, she found a tenant from out of town, a doctor who had come south from New Yorks Greenwich Village. This gave her the courage to go on with her plan.

The directors of the gas company, however, couldnt see tying up money In a real estate venture. So, with her husbands backing, Mrs, HiUyer took the slums of the Trustees Garden VUlage area off the directors hands. Bit by bit Mrs. HUlyers imagination became transformed into a new reality. Her method was to photograph a building, then take a pencU and sketch in her own ideas over its surface. She would clean up grounds, fumigate the rooms, tear out the plaster and ramshackle plumbing, cut through to solid heart-of-plne timb e r, and rebuild on a durable skeleton, In one place, where thera was so much pitch and tar that nothing would grow, she dumped in 4,500 tons of dirt flU. She plundered the South for appropriate buUding materials, going as far afield as New Orleans for wide clapboards. When the development began showing a neat profit after seven or eight yeans, she and her husband became conscience stricken. So they sold the whole thing back to the gas company. Today, with twenty-five restored buUdings. the company coUects a $105,000 annual rental on a $750,000 lnve.<toent. Rents that once brought in $11 or $17 a month now go for $75 UP to $500 per month.

What Mary HUlyer did to transform ten acres of filth has proved wUdly cwitaglous, (Continued On Page 8)

The supplying of these goods and services wUl create more Jobs.

And there wlU be many more proposal: prohibiting the employment of married women; compulsory retirement of men at 60 and women at 55; the barring of imported seasonal workers ;the barring of immigration oi other Job seekers, and so on. There wUl even be proposal to disseminate more information on birth control but if that worked, hundreds of thousands of workers in the baby products and services Industries would be thrown out ot worit.

SCARED OF CANCER? rr MAY SAVE YOU M0NE1 Smoking is the biggest sin gle cause of fire losses, ac cording to T. Gerald Magner prominent Chicago Insurano underwriter, hence people whi quit smoidng in fear of luni cancer may avoid fire losses Magner said that so far n( fire insurance companies giv( lower rates to nonsmokers. bu some companies may cpntdf