Friday, March 20, 1964

Favorite Pastime 'Round The World

An Opportunity Beyond Dreams

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Sunday Pitt Countians will have an opportunity for which many people living today would have given all they own only a few years ago.

From 12 until five Sunday every Pitt citizen may visit any one of 33 stations about the county to obtain their first dose of Sabin oral polio vaccine. On April 19 they may return for the second dose and on May 17 fot the fin^l one.

On each visit the recipient will swallow one small lump of sugar on which, volunteer pharmacists have placed a couple of vaccine drops. These tasteless drops will offer immunity to one of mankinds dread diseasespolio. Only a few years ago an epidemic of infantile paralysis struck fear in the hearts of all in the community w'here it hit. Children who happily played one day were struck down the next, doomed forever to a life as a crippled.

Only two decades past, the man who as president, led this country through depression and war, was himself a victim of this terrible disease. Frank-' lin 1). Roosevelt could not stand without the help of steel brace.s.

Then with dramatic suddenness came the Salk vaccine which promised to end this scourge on mankind. But humaiivS were in for a bonus, for soon the Sabin vaccine became a part of medical sciences arsenal. Now even the hypodermic was not required. The dosage could be swallowed just like candy.

Can we in Pitt County wipe i)olio out forever? All it will take now is for each individual to present himself at a station on each of the three Sun-

Platforms Are Addina Stature

Bjr WnXIAM A. SHIRES

PLATFX5RM The i>ar t y platform Is assuming Increased Importance in North Carolinas political affairs.

Reflecting this trend is a new idea a public hearing scheduled In Raleigh next week by the platform committee of the state Democratic party.

"To my knowledge this is something that has not been done before." says Tom I. Davis. the i>arty's executive secretary. "It is the first public hearing on writing a platform ever held In this state by any party.

"It Is evidence that writing of the platform is becoming increasingly Important, Davis says. "Its a healthy thing for the party. It is coming closer to the theory that party nominees run on the party platform and that. In theory, voting in November te for a partys platform.

HEARING The public hearing on March 25 has been called by State Sen. N. Elton AydieU of Elizabeth City, plAtform ctanmittee chairman.

Aydiett some weeks ago Issued a blanket invitation to party members in general and wrote to party leaders and primary candidates in particular asking for ideas and suggestions on what the 1964 platform should contain. The re-spwise has been good and the decision to hold a public hearing was a result of this interest.

Aydlett's committee hopes to hammer out its proposed platform in time .for county conventions on May 9.

"In this way there will be opportunity for full study and discussion and time to think about changes that might be suggested prior to the state ccMivention." Davis says. The state cwivention will be in Raleigh on May 2(i.

MEATY The paity plat-fomus adopted in recent years have been becoming both shorter and meatier

The 1962 state Democrat 1 c platform was the shortest on record. Davis says. "At the same time It contained quite a lot,"

For example, it called for honest elections and thp elections plank led to Democratic party support of ab.sontec ballot refoiTns In the 1%.T General As.sembly. The absentee ballot legislation was pushed by both parties. So was Senate rcdi.s-trlctlng.

With official party backing of Senate redlstricting, there might have been a great deal more embarrassment when the 1963 legislature adjourned its regular session unable to break a redlstricting deadlock except for a party - Inspired move. The idea of a resolution adopted by both houses just before adjournment asking the governor to call a special session later in the year was a state Democratic party idea.

It was heading the Republicans off at the pass. Davis says. "It was saying were just taking a breathing spell and well come back later and do the job

CX)NTAIN Democratic party leaders believe their platform this time will be equally challenging and vital.

Davte predicted last week that there will be a plank endorsing a new $200 to $300 million state highway bond issue because of general agreement on such a bond issue by the major Democratic candidates for governor.

It is likely that there will be planks OTi highway safety Including possible reference to the State Highway Patrol, and on the status of women. There are three women on the 11-member platform committee. In 1962 there was only one.

"I believe we will come up with a platfoi*m that will reflect the views of rank and file Democrats in North Carolina, coming up from the gras.s-roots and precinct level, Davis says.

"There will be .some strong planks. Davis says. "T hey should represent all factions in our party.

Davis said he has heard "on mention" of a possible public accommodations plank. As for endorsing a federal medicare program for the elderly, he said "possibly.

DISTRIBUTE - Additional evidence of the Increasing usefulness of the party platform

lies in thr fact that the 1962

Democratic document, which was mimeographed, received widest distribution of any .tate platform on record. Democratic headquarters in Raleigh has filled more than .lOO requests for copies of the 1962

platform and continues to ve-ccive'rcquc.sUs for it each week.

Party headquarters plans to publish the 1964 platform in t>ook)et form complete with pictures of the party's nominees for slate office.

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days. Thysicians, nurses, pharmacists and many others will be donating their services to man the .stations. A 25 cent donation will be asked for each does, but even that is not required from those who cannot afford it.

So participation by every Pitt Gountian is to make certain polio is never a threat again. And this can be done. Greenville County in South Carolina proved thik when it carried out the project. The county has a population of 209,776. On each of the three Sundays the participants were as follows: 180,200; 193,300; 202,600. Pickens County with 46,030 population had the following participation: 33,200; 39,400; 39,900. Anderson County with 98,478 reported the following: 66,000; 72,500; 74,400.

No Pitt Countian need ever fear polio again. There is .so little effort needed and absolutely nothing awesome about the innoculation. All any of us have to do is be at one of the 33 stations Sunday. For any of us not to do so could become an individual tragedy. -

Appreciation Week Is Long Overdue Gesture

Plans for an Industrial Appreciation week in Pitt County next month is a long over-due gesture toward manufacturing concerns which have meant so much to the economic progress of this county and its people.

In recent years great empha.sis has been placed on the acquisition of new industry for the county. Pitt has been fortunate in that a number of outstanding manufacturing concerns have chosen to locate plants here. Considerable excitement ha.s prevailed throughout the county each time a plant location is announced or a new firm begins its manufacturing operations. Too often, however, the official welcoming and handshaking at the formal opening have been the only expressions of appreciation heard from local citizens. A concern goes on with its operations here, often expanding, employing additional people,, growing in economic importance to the community year after year without any official acknowledgement of its presence except for the regular tax notices.

It is highly fitting that the Pitt Board of Commissioners has set aside a special week in which to call attenton to industries operating here, and to express officially the appreciation of the people of the county for what these industries mean to Pitt. The county expects to continue to acquire new industries year after year, but in the excitement over the prospect of new plants, it must not lose sight of the importance of the industrial operations that already have become so much a part of the life of Pitt County and its people.

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Preparing For A Supreme Tes

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The pat-tern of Lyndon B. Johnsons presidency in 1964 is now pretty clear. The patteni includes preparation for the supreme test of his life: election to the presidency on his o^^ti.

This is it: At home be cautious; seek the broadest public appeal and approval: dont give the critics ammunition; be plain, hiunble, and homey. Abroad; Be nice, pleasant, but stiff.

He showed what he was aiming at in a recent interview when he said he wants to be a "peoples president. Whether in the long run all this is good leadership or just accommodation to public mood remains to be seen.

As of now Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency without winning it. seems certain of the Democratic nomination. Would-l)e Republican presidential candidates trail him In tlve polls.

Thanks to his tactics, their criticism of him has been weak. Mo.stly, they've been thrashing around among themselve.s. It may be different next .sunimer when Republicans pick their candidate and the campaign begins.

President Kennedy wa.s an extremely cautious executive, too. with .some early exceptions like backing the disastrous invasion of Cuba and his fight with the steelmakers.

It has been reported that Kennedy was cautious because, due to his hair - thin victory in 19tU). he ft'lt he lacked a full mandate from the people. That wasnt much excuse for fail-. ins to push some of his programs harder.

His election was a full mandate. no matter how slim his victory. If this was tnily Kennedy s feelings. Johnson by the same reasoning could claim the right to even more caution. He wasnt even elected.

Whether or not this is Johnsons feeling, his natural caution, or his experienced political policy, he has sought public approval step by step from the beginning. For instance: His big emphasis on economy.

It was popular and at the same time undercut the Republicans old criticism that Democrats were big spenders although President Eisenhower went in the red more than once.

Then Johnson followed his preachment by offering a $98.8-billion budget, less than Kennedys last year, and even got publicity about his economy-mindedness by turning out the White House lights.

Now hes following up by asking far less than Kennedy for foreign* aid, a program always under criticism. Last year Kennedy asked $4.9 billion. Johnson is asking only $3.4 bUIlon.

La.st year Congress, after whittling, permitted exactly $3.4 billion, including $400 billion in carryover money. So Johnson is not asking a dime more. Republicans and the economy - minded cant find much to criticize there unle.ss they want to abolish foreign aid.

John.son has cultivated both business and labor, praised free enterprise, offered an antipoverty program, backed civil rights, and is all for medical care for the aged.

That covers a lot of the population. most of them voters. Southern w^hltes may get mad about civil rights but there may not be much heat on the iTst. particularly since C o n-press may not act on them this year,

Johnson has been proper but stiff with Premier Khnish-chev hardly an unpopular performance In this country. E\-en in the dispute with little Panama. Johnson has managed to deprive Republicans of (8 aSisj uo panuquoo)

Streiigth For Today

Bv KARL L. IH)U(;i ASS 1.M1H)KTA.\CE OF

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In the fifteenth chapter of I Corinthians. Paul gives a list of those people to whom Jesus appeared after his re.surrection He was seen of Cephas. Ihtm of the twelve, then by about five hundred brethren at once. ".After that, he was seen of James, then of all the apostles. And." udd.s the Apostle with great significance, "last of all he was ieeti of me also.

That, of course, was t h e most important appt^arance so fai a.N Paul himself was con-ctMTied Paul had heard about these other appearauees During his minlstrv he heard them recounted timeand again by people who had actually wit-ins.sed Christ in his re.surrect-ed .state. But the things that turned Saul the persecutor into Paul the Apsotie was the fact

By HAL BOYLE

Hoarding Of Memory

NEW YORK (AP)

Mem

ory is a strange miser. It hoards the oddest things, and in moments of reverie parades them before your inner eye in a seemingly haphazard fashion.

You've been thi'ough lifes mill yourself, if you can look

back and remember when

You could be the life of any party by imitating Chari i e Chaplins duck-footed waddle.

Ladies were so delicate and fainted so often that every well-run household kept a bottle of smelling salts handy to revive them.

A w'ife who held a job out-

Other Eiditors Saying.,, 3ehin(d The News

(Christian Science Monitor)

The most serious problem of the independent. non-Commun-ist world today is one of the least noticed. It is the central issue of the cold war, once military defense is in good order. It is the Intemal conflict of the free world between alignment and nonalignment. It is partly a matter of attitude toward the cold war. It is partly the passionate desire of the independents to stay clear of the cold war.

Few Americans w'ould even identify this as a major problem. To them, as to most of the other North Atlantic peoples, carrying the burden of the cold war is by now second nature.

Few persons in the developing countries would fail to take the opposite view. They question the motives and the agenda of confrontation. So it behooves the peoples of the big Western powers to listen to such an overwhelming number of dis-senter.s. And to think about those whom they would wish to have as friends.

Each side magnified the abuse of the others po.iition. Typical Africans, for example, genuinely fear the return of colonialism under a new guise that of the nece.ssities of power in a cold-war world. They resist the idea of American invasion of Cuba so strenuously because they see themselves next. Come a Comniun-ist threat of some sort within their borders and some b i g Western power wUl In the name of prevention march in.

Typical Americans, by con-Uast. see the nonaligned peoples trading with governments dedicated to their overthrow. They consider this a betrayal of the security of the non-Com-muni.st world and a weakening of the defenses of everyone.

Similarly, each side fails to appreciate the positive aims of the other. The American under-

Hiaher

estimates the desire of the newly liberated peoples to stay free, and to buUd their own society with outside help but not outside control. The typical African, for example, has never thought in terms of the responsibility of thp Western powers to keep armed revolution and subversion in check. He considers the crude power move that result from this duty to be militarist and provocative, instead of aimed at keeping the peace.

Neither side has fully examined the good points of the others position, nor fuUy faced the shortcomings that plague his own. And this complex of misunderstandings is further snarled by the ways in which Westera powers manage to find themselves intervening on behalf of local forces which are the opponents of the forces of national liberation, and by the ways in which the nonaligned peoples often lean toward the Communist powers because they think they can keep them at amis length and because their history leads them to fear the West more.

The first steps toward order Inside the non-Communlst w'orld ought to begin w'ith some careful listening. The next step i.s candid self-examination, based on what has been learned.

Opinions ,n Briei

"One trouble with portable TY is that you can take it with you. pocomoke City (Md.) Worcester Democrat.

"By burning crosses, the race haters make it quite clear just what they are. Northfield (N.H.) Journal-Transcript.

side the home tried to keep that fact from her relativesas if it w'ere a kind of disgrace.

One of the biggest thrills of boyhood was to get to wear the w'ool WTap-around leggins your soldier uncle brought home from World War I.

It was widely believed that business depressions were caused by sun spots and that, anyway, there wasnt much that man could do to prevent them or keep them form runni n g their course.

Every small town had a champion whittler and a champion spitter and a champ i o n liar and sometimes these distinctions were all held by the same man, in which case he was certain also to be the champion idler.

A boys dream of getting rich started by trying to sell homemade lemonade from an orange crate stand in front of his home at a penny a glass.

The first man to buy an electric fan was the envy of the neighborhood.

Every tobacco store had a wooden Indian at the entrance, and harness and hardw are stores often put outside a statue of a white horse.

If your best girl held a spring dandelion under your chin and it reflected a yellow tint, this provided you w^ere fond of butter and she w^as fond of you.

Anyone who didnt think Edgar Guest the greatest American poet since Henry Wad.s-worth Longfellow wa.s suspected of being either a radical or an intellectual, or both.

The richest man In the community lived In the house that had the wlde.st front porch.

If you couldnt afford to pay spot cash for it, you didnt buy It.

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March 22

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Poiitics

By JOHN CHAMBERI^IN , Copyright, 1964, Kmg Features' Syndicate, Inc.

The Goldwaterites got their man endorsed for the presidential nominatlixi at the recent Fresno conventi(m of the California Republicsm Assembly, which is a volunteer body of some 15,000 influential party men. Inasmuch as the Republican Assembly has, in the past, contained its "liberal as well as its conservative elements, the Rockefellerites, who had decided that the best they cmild hope for was a convention declaration of neutrality, are now raising the cry of "Birchite manipulation and "extremist Infiltraticm.

Whether the "Birchltes" have "fastened their fangs on the Republican Partys flank in Canliomia, as one disappointed Rockefeller man has charged, or whether the Fi-e.s-no result was an across4:ho-board victory for general conservatism, I leave to the experts on the tangled subject of Pacific Coast political infighting. But since the Republican Assembly also voted to recommend George Murphy, the former Hollywood star, as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, I can say with, absolute assurance that complete justice was done In at least one Instance.

George Murphy was bom In my own natal town of New. Haven, Connecticut, and I went to college with him at Yale. He has always, to my certain knowledge, been a most dedicated patriot, anxious to serve the best interests of his coun-ti-y. A friend of the late George Sokolsky, Murphy has been "on to what the Communists are up to for at least twenty-five years. He learned about left wing infiltration tact i c s the hard way, by being vice president and president of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood in the early Ninet e e n Forties.

George Murphy wasnt brought up to be a politico. His father, the famous Mike Mui-phy, w'as a college track coach who trained the great Indian athlete Jim Thorpe for the U. S. team which won the 1912 Olympics in Stockh o 1 m. In college George w'anted to be a mining engineer, but he never made it. Like others of his generation In the Twenties, he was beguiled by Wall Street, where he took a conventional job as a runner in hopes of getting a few tips that would make his fortune. He married a dancer, found he had ability as a soft-shoe artist himself, and began making so much money as part of a husband-wife night club act that Wall Street was soon forgotten. After a brief career on Broadway, a departure to Hollyw'ood was inevitable.

Georges fine sense of morality was affronted when, as a Screen Actors Guild member, he discovered that the malodorous Willie Bioff and George Browne, w-ho had a death grip on several craft unions in the Hollyw^ood area, were trying to muscle in on the actors organization.

Murphys subsequent g u m-shoe work, which proved as deft as his old soft - shoe routines, helped lead to the conviction and imprisonment of Bioff and Browne as racketeers.

The Screen Actors Guild, In the early Forties, happened to be a prime national target lor Communist infiltration. George Murphy smelled a rat when certain members of the Hollywood Intertalent committee of writers and actors, which had been set up to give patriotic direction to the film communitys war efforts, began using the lingo and the methods of Communist Fellow Travellers. George convinced his own executive board that the committee must be Communist - manipulated. For his part in insisting that the com-mitt(^/take a stand agaln.st both the Nazis and the Communists, George is still being kicked by the sort of liberal that Lenin referred to as a "useful idiot. His compatriot In the Holl.vwood anti - Communist fight, the Pulitzer (Continued On Page 8)

Meat Prices Possible'

that the Lord had appeared personally to him "And last of all he was seen of me also. .

This is personal experience and personal testimony, A 11 sound religion iTsts upon pt -sonal experience. We may have a lot of iTligion we did not experience personally religion we read about, icligion we inherited. religion we have absorbed from our environment. But all such religion Is futile when compared with the religion of experience.

You (lelcare that your experience has not been extensive? What of that. Sonrwhere along ^ the line the spiritual life has bc^ckoned to your .soul. Y'ou ha\ e seen something not a vi-.Sion but an intimation, "A Ii,\nich, an all iiervading f'ri-ing that there mu.sl be .somc-thinw to this matter of relicion.

"Ust of all . to me. Tins is of ultimate impoitance.

By ELMER ROEHvSNER

The chances are that a sirloin steak will cost you more later this year. Your hamburgers and hot dogs may be slightly more expensive, or more probably, slightly .small-er.

Them are two reasons for thinking so. First, those few-extra dollars in pay envelopes may Increase demand a h d therefore prices. Second, the campaign of American cattlemen to limit irriports has already achieved some success and may gain more.

The blp reason why meat prices today are not higher than they are is that Australia and New Zealand have been .sending in huge quantities of beef and mutton. Mexico and Ireland have sent in minor amounts.

The An.strali^^d New Zealand beef is ntrtfhe best. Most of it is cutter beef i *- beef from middle - aginl cows, bulls and water buffalo It goes largely into hamburger, hot dogs arid canned speeial-

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l ast y^ar (he.se two countries pxporied 821,0(Hl.0O0 pounds of beef- \eal and mut-Uui (0 the U.&.

And last year American cattle and sheep prices sank. The cattlemen said they w'ere victims of imports.

However, the Department of Agriculture said there were other factors. Secretary Orville L. Freeman told a meeting of cattlemen that beef and veal reached an all-time high last year and that pork production was larger than In any year since 1944. Broiler production was also at an all-t I m e peak.

Lamb and mutton production declined, or the total supply would have been even greater. Even if all imports had been barred, meat prices would have fallen, he declared.

How'ever, the Administration. in an effort to head off Congressional action, negotiated deals with Australia, New Zealand. Mexico and Ircl and whereby those countries would limit exports of meat to the U.S.

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Under the.se agreements, Australia and New^ Zealand will cut tlieir export.s here to 773.-(Ki.onn pounds this year. Quotas will be a few percentage points hie her for U)65 and 1966.

Wiul rsiluctiDn L& mod

est. the total is small compared to total commerc i a 1 meat production in the U, S, which, including poultry, reached 36,8(X).0(X),(X)0 pou n d s last year, a ratio of 36.800 to 773.

American cattlemen and sheepmen were not happy wdth this deal and they have urged Congressmen from their states to restrict meat imports by law'. Senator Roman L. Hruska (R., Neb.) Introduced an amendment to limit imports to 525 million pounds which was beaten 46 to 44.

Undaunted. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield D., Mont. noted a bill providing free importation of wild birds and animals for exhibition purposes, already passed by the House, and offered an amendment to it limiting the importation of meat blow the Administrations agreements. Cattlemen and sheepmen have been urging adoption, while packers, importers and pork workers have opposed it. JAPAN MARKET FADfNG

M'^anwhile, just as the U S. ha.s lost mo.sl of the European Common Market for our poultry, .so are we in danger of lo.sing much of the Japanese market. We made the same

mistake exporters Down T7n-der did: we exported too

much. Exports to Japan in 1962 W'ere 626,000 pounds: last year they were 7,300.00(1 pounds, a gain of more than 1,000 per cent." Now the Japanese Diet is considering a raise In duty.

WhUe the U. S. Is conald-erlng new barriers to Imported meat, it continues to export meat. Government figures show that last year we exported 171,208,000 pounds of red meats and 158.993 pounds of variety meats. In addition, we exported a considerable amount of lard, tallow, grease, sausage casings, mohair and hides and skins. These represented heavy gains over 1962.

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