Friday, March 27, 1964 .

Pitt Drawing Political Attention

We have been pleasantly surprised at the Raleigh and the coast, tremendous amount of attention that candidates for We hope our tneighboring counties will for-governor have paid to Pitt County during the pre- give us a little self back patting, but Pitt County sent gubernatorial campaign. frequently furnished the leadership for area pro-

Each of the top three Democratic candidates jects which work for the good of all Eastern have paid several visits here already . . . and there Carolina.

is still two months of campaigning to go. Indeed In many ways Pitt is a typical Eastern Caro-they come so frequently that it is not rare to have lina county and in other ways it is not. For Pitt two candidates in the county at one time. has shown itself willing to throw off old ways of

Last week, for instance both I. Beverly Lake doing things where necessary to embrace new and Dan K. Moore were here at the-same time, methods more adaptable to the modern world." In This week both Lake and gichardson Preyer found short Pitt is the leadership county, themselves in Greenville. So really there is .no reason to be surprised

Oldtime political observers say that Pitt is that the candidates are paying so much attention to seeing more activity in this years gubernatorial Pitt. We congratulate them for their astuteness campaign than ever before. Many express surprise and urge them all to come back more often, that the county is getting so much attention. We know that only one will become governor,

Yet, it is not really so suprising that Pitt should but whichever it might be and this includes the be courted so strongly. After all, Pitt is one of Republican we invite him to return frequently Eastern North Carolinas largest counties from a during his four years in office. For those who lose, population standpoint. And a look at the map we want you to come back too. shows it is centrally located in what is generally ' ~

regarded as the east. Pitt is almost dead center between the Virginia arid South Carolina Borders.

If you look at Raleigh as the boundry of Eastern Carolina, Pitt is at the center of the area between

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Science Up For

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES GOAL The time .haa arrived. says the president of the American Cancer Society, to make resolution of the cancer problem the urgent objective of basic and medical research.

Science now is tooled up for an all-out assault against cancer, according to the ACS president. Dr. Wendell 0. Scott of St. Louis. It is on the thresh-hold of eliminating some of the causes of cancer and learning more about the chemical processes by which cancer takes bold and spreads.

The goal, he said, ts "full understanding of cancer and its eradications from the human race.

Given adequaie support, he aid. science can do the job.

TASK It cannot be too aoon Dr. Scott warned bluntly that things are likely to appear worse before we see any great overall improvement in the frightening cancer picture.

Cancer, he said. Is creeping ever closer to becoming the No. 1 killer.

In our enthusiasm over the gains being made against cancer, we are Ignoring almost completely the gains be i n g made by cancer against the American and worldwide populations. he said.

Not even mentioned among the top five killers in the early 1900s, cancer now is second only to heart disease as a claimer of human life In well-developed countries.

It is now claiming the lives of 290,000 persons a year one every two minutes In the United States alone. Cancer costs the U.S. economy a staggering 50,000 man-years of productivity a year and piles up annual hospital bills of $400 million,

ENCOURAGED Many of the worlds leading medical scientists were gathered here this week to report on what Dr. Scott describes as bold and brilliant experiments blazing the trail toward our urgent goal.

He called the experiments and studies contained in various scierttiflc papers the blueprints for new.surgical procedures, new radiation techniques. new drugs and new immunological appr(Miches In the management of malignant tissues.

He said research already Is finding many things about viruses and their prob able role In human cancer and "intriguing new evidence In casual relationship of various cancers and environmental factors."

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mg made in both the laboratory and the clinic," he said, . And Dh, Scott referred to the role of the Cancer Society in promoting and backing the research effort.

It was just 19 years ago that the ACS initiated the first organized program of cancer research in the United States, he said pointing out that, at that time, cancer was seldom mentioned, a dreadf u 1, whispered word rarely used in public print.

Since that time, he said never In the hUtory of medicine has a greater or more formidable research effort been developed and put Into action against any disease. WORK While gains are being made, the incidence of cancer Is Increasing too. Dr. Scott said, and there is no reason for complacency

Our hope lies in applying the enormous potential of our science, he said. Total employment of these intellectual resources calls for money money for laboratory space and personnel, developm e n t and production of equipment and experimental materials'. ACS lists actual expenditt"" for Just one adequately equipped cancer research laboratory for 25 technicians at $1 million. The societys annual budget for research, more than a third of Its total budget, is only about $13 million.

Cancer research still commands a mlnlsule portion of the nations research and development budget, Scott said. It may never launch a missile, but It will save babies. children, husbands, wives. fathers and mothers.

ACS research grants include eight totaling $165,300 at Duke University, two totaling $24..575 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and one at Wake Forests Bow man Gray School of medicine. Winston-Salem. totaling $12,000.

FACTS There is no more challenging field than cancer research, said Dr. Hayden C. Nicholson, dean of the University of Naml medical school. Understanding cancer Involves processes of growth and even of life Itself, he said.

The scientists believe that perhaps as many as 70 per cent of cancers may be environmentally Induced. There is strong ev idence concer n 1 n g some environmental factors cigarette smoking, for example but only guesses about others. The Cancer Societys official poslti(Mi Is that evidence beyond reasonable doubt shows cigarette smoking is the cause of some 75 per cent of lung cancer cases, but It con-(Continued on Page 5)

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By ART BUCHWALD

Gov. Terry Sanfords visit with farmers of Pitt County Tuesday and Wednesday vividly pointed up two things:

1. The governor is confident the present crisis in the tobacco industry caused by the health scare will be overcome and the long-term outlook for the tobacco industry of the state is good.

2. The governor and other officials strongly feel that North Carolina farmers should find in the present crisis new incentive for greater efforts toward developing new sources of agricultural income.

* It should be reassurin gto the people of the state to know that their top officials are devoting, full attention to problems which face this commodity j that accounts for a large part of the industrial and agricultural income of the state. It is evident that -L Gov. Sanford and other officials have planned carefully the course North Carolina will follow in deal- it has not been released yet

ing with the crisis, and it is evident also that they the Surgeon Generals of-

are actively participating in efforts to attack the ^

problem on a broad base.

It is significant also, that these officials were careful to point out that it is up to individual farm-er.s to determne whether they will seek new crops and commodities to supplement their agricultural income.

The officials can do a great deal to marshal resource.s to carry out research and other programs that will help remove the shadow that has fallen across tobacco. It will be the responsibility of farm- other organs of the body,

ers themselves to tap the undeveloped potential that can make North Carolina an even more vigorous agricultural state than it now is.

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a top secret report in the files proving that prejudice causes cancer.

The statistics show it also causes ulcers, heart disease, and liver trouble.

Doctors studied 14,678 cases and discovered that prejudiced people died earlier than those who were not prejudiced. The nervous system Is apparently affected as well as the bile

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that people who w'ere prejudiced on race, color, and religion had a much shorter life span than people who showed no prejudices. It also indicated that people who had three prejudices a day were far more affected than people who had only one prejudice a day.

It is believed that when the

report Is reltased, prejudiced people all over America wiU protest the finings. They are expected to point out that prejudice is one of the big industries in the United States, and the report coold cause unemployment and great financial loss to the economy.

Prejudice gives people pleasure, and anjdhing that gives people pleasure should not be outlawed, the opponents of the report say.

You cant outlaw prejudice by law, a spokesman for the prejudice Industry told us when we discussed the report with him.

But this Is not only a moral question but a matter of health, we said. Dont you think people should be warned that they will die much earlier if they are prejudiced?

We are conducting a study of our own, the spokesman

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By JAME.S MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the most poweriui Democrats in Congress has suggested, in effect, that President Johnson stop playing to the gallery in his handling for foreign affairs.

Sen. J. W. Fulbrlght of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in an 8,tMM)-word .speech Wednesday criticized the Johnson administration for yielding to the malady of chronic and excessive caution.

He said an effective foreign policy is one which concerns Itself more with innovation abroad than with conciliation at home. It is sometimes necessary for leaders to do unpleasant and unpopular things.

Fulbright ranged the world-COMMUNISM, Russia, Red China, Viet Nam. Cuba, Latin America, Panama calling for this country and its leaders to abandon ancient m3ths, do .some re-thinking and face realities.

But on some of the problems he mentioned Fulbright didnt .seem to have any new ideas him.self.

Nevertheless, all this got a quick and c\TiicaI re.sponse from Rep. Melvin R. LaW of Wi.sconsln, chairman of the platform committee at this summers Republican convention.

In a House speech answering Fulbright he called the senators talk a trial baloon launched with the blessing, support and probably at the In.stiga-tion of the Johnson administration.

He called It the first gun in an administration drive to extricate Itself as painleasly as possible from the morass of foreign policy blunders of the past three years.

This writer asked Laird Wednesday night If he was imoly-4ig that Johnson and Pul-

bright cooked up the speech between them. Laird said; Thats the implication.

The Fulbright speech created such heat in the Senate that practically all work on the civil rights bill .stopped.

Here are some of Fulbrights views:

Cuba He said invasion 1 unthinkable, a blockade is out of the question since it might lead to war, and that even the present American trade boycott aimed at trying to topple Fidel Castro is a failure.

He suggested acceptance of the continued existence of Castro as a distajsteful nuisance, but he neglected to say how this country should, or could, do business with him, if thats what he had in mind.

South Viet Nam He w^as for continuing aid. But he was a little out of date here. The Johnson administration said last week It would do that.

Red China Fulbright said we are committed to inflexl-' ble policies from which we hesitate to depart on Red China and other areas of Asia. What would he do about Red China?

He wouldnt recognize It, or agree to let it in the United Nations, or enter normal relations with it until it gives up its designs on Formosa.

But Fulbright belted the John administrations hamdling of the Panama crLsis and It hairsplitting: Its willingness to

discuss a revision of the 1963 Panama Canal treaty but not to "negotiate about It.

. The senator suggested Panama got a pretty raw deal when the treaty was signed 61 years ago and Johnson should be willing to "negotiate.

He said the President and his advisers have a responsibility In a situation like this to "exercise their own best judgment as to where the national In-(Contlnued on Page 5)

Other Editors Sayipig. Saueeze On Cattle

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The U. S. cattle industry Is finding itself in much t h e same predicament as the domestic textile industry which has long suffered the handicap imposed upon it by the U. S. government of allowing foreign competitors a subsidy in purchase of American cotton.

The cattle industry, in short, has been taking a lacing by the pi-esent administratioiiwrA flood of meat jmports is pushing the livestock Industry to the point of bankruptcy. Just what the motive behind this policy is has not been fully determined by those not on the inside.

Only this month, White House arm-twisting forced the Senate to beat down a bill limiting beef imports into the country. Even Majority Leader Mike Mansfield from meat-producing Montana, knuckled under and urged his Democratic colleagues to vote against the legislation.

Meantime, the administrations farm program is putting a cost-price squeeze on cattlemen. On Jan. 23, 1961, for example, cattlemen received $28.-75 per hundred-weight for cattle in the Chicago market. By late February of this year the price had dropped to $22.25 per hundredweight. And soybean meal used for cattle feed, which sold for $51.50 a ton in 1961, had climbed to $72.50 a ton by February of this year.

While the cattle industry is

being driven deepr into trouble by the administration, government officials recently were glow ing over agreements reached with New ZealaiKi and Australia in which those nations agreed not to send unlimited beef to the U. S.

But less hearalded was the provision which gives them an automatic increase In the beef, veal and mutton markets of the future. The result: by 1966, Australia and New Zealand will be shipping 7.4 per cent more meat into the U. S. than they are today.

Some 38 nations at the present time ship meat into this country, butnearly all of them have re^rl^ve regulat ions which prevpiit the U. S. from selling meat in their markets. It is time the U. S. realizes the economic threat posed by he rising o meat imports faito this country. Such Imports are depressing livestock pric e s throughout the country, costing jobs in the packing industry, bankrupting farmers and hurting every business which depends on the livestock Industry.

Helping our domestic meat producers will In no way raise the price of products to the consumer. It would, how ever, save ranchers and farm ers and any allied Industries from bankruptcy. It seems the time has come to reject the flood of uninspected foreign meat, produced under inferior conditions. under lower standards of hygiene and by cheap labor.

said. "Its quite possible that the people in the government study may have died anyway. We have many elderly people w^ho are prejudiced and they dont seem to be suffering at aU.

Then you dont thlfik the government should pass any laws against prejudice? Absolutely not. Its up to the Individual to decide whether he wants to be prejudiced or n(H,. This is what the civil rights battle is all about. It is one of our American rights that we are not going to have taken away.

"But the big danger of prejudice, according to the report. we said, "is that it can be inherited from one generation to another. Dont you think this Is dangerous?

Its one of the prices we have to pay for enjoying^ prejudice. Heck, life wouldnt be worth living if you didnt hate someone.

It is expected that when the report is released there will be an educational program to make people give up prejudice.

A doctor who ha.s been fighting prejudice for years told us, Of course, we dont expect people to give up all their prejudices. All we ask Is for those who wish to continue to do It In moderation. I dont think there is anything wrong in being prejudiced about the wear ther or your boss or your In-law's. But heavy prejudice will kill.

Opinions 'h Brief

Theres nothing like the first Ixorseback ride to make a person feel better off. Kingfisher (Okla.) Free Press.

"Under present law, all an agency has to do is to stamp a secret label on a record in the public interest or for good cause. With such vague, vacuous terms, the agency can raise a fog to hide its mistake or cloak expendl-tions to exceed Its authority. The Norfolk Vlrglnlan-Pilot,

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Social Security Is an employes own money (and that of his employer). He is forced to pay it whether he needs it or not. And that Is precisely the w'ay It should be returned to him. *- Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser,

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By JOHN CHAMBERLALN

Copyright, 1964, King.Features Syndicate, Inc.

Lynd(m Johnson has all the luck. Just when the Republi-. cans think they have him in a comer because of some of the more impractical anti - poverty ideas of his official family, such as Secretary oi Labor Wirtzs proposal to take demonstrably non - university type boys and j^irls off the work rolls by sending them to college at government expense anyway, a group calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution meets to re-cwnmend that everybody in the country be guaranteed an adquate annual Income whether he works or not.

The effect of this aort of thing Is to make even the wil^ est notions of the Wirtzee seem middle - of - the - road stuff.

The Ad Hoc Committee considers that in the coming age of automation, the traditional link between jobs and Income must be broken. Dr, Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist and sociologist. Is one impor* tant backer of the Ad Hoo ers program: Harvard pro fessor H. Stuart Hughes, the grandscm of Cheif Justice CTharles Evans Hughes, is another. Big names, these, to be coming up at this date with a proposal for financing everybody that makes the Town-eend Plan and Major Douglass social credit plan of the Nineteen Thirties seem like piker stuff of the extreme right.

The Ad Hoc-ers didnt define adequate, but it ie known that the rock - bottom figure for adequacy which many of them Insist upon Is $3,0(X) per year per average family. Assuming that men with bigger families would get more, and single people less, the average government payment needed to take care of the 4,100,000 unemployed at $3,000 per year would come to something like $12 billion a year.

Since consumption can only be paid for out of prodction, this would mean that the 58,-000,000 people who are currently on payrolls would have to dig into their owm pockets for the $12 billion needed to give the unemployed access to the products of industry. This Is the underlying reality which links Jobs and income no matter what any theori.st may say to the contrary. The government could temporarily hide the link between the unemployed consumer and the employed producer by an Inflationary issue of money. But prices Tyould Inevitably rise unless...

Ah, theres the rub. To put the Ad Hoc prt^ram Into effect, the government would have to reinstitue price control and wage control. In brief, we would have to do what Htler did in the Nineteen Thirties and Washington did during the war. Tie everybody and everything in industry to a permanent OPA.

We would have to do even more. For who w'ould be willing to work for sixty dollars a week if he could have the equivalent from the AD Hoc-ers government for doing nothing? Even those making more . would quit if the Ad Hoc unemployment payments were to be left untaxed.

No society could put up with this sort of thing, of course. The next step would be to compel people to accept work In order to justify their guaranteed annual Income. This la the reality of life in Soviet Russia today. Compulsory work books for everybody. No work, no eat.

Well, do you like the prospect? If you dont, you had better form an Ad Hoc Committee on the Quadruple Revolution to cambat the propaganda of the 1\d Hoc Commit- -tee on the Triple Revolution. Otherwise youll be in hock to the Ad Hoc-ers or Ad Hock-ens.

What the Ad Hock Triple Thinkers cant get through their heads is that any government relief that Is given the status of a "right automatic-

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Big Toy Sales Slated This Year

Strength For Toda^

SIFFERING By EARL L. IXH GI.A.S.S Darkne.ss! Darkness! Dark-

ne.vs!

It had come dowTi over the whole earth. There had been a great earthquake. Foolish, stumbling, evil man had committed ilie worst of all sins. He had sinned against love, and In this case against the love of God.

The disciples did not understand it. They had hoped that this Jesus would redeem Israel. But now they fled to thtir homes. We can imagine that most of them sat In their homes weeping in despair. This was the end this was the end of everything.

That cliche about the darkest hour being just before the dawn has continued to be uttered through the centurle.s because it is true, Christ and his

followers were only a few hours from celestial glory. Their weeping would be turned into song. Their sorrow would be succeeded by joy.

But on this day they did not know it. They were living In a world in which good had failed, in which even God Himself had appeared to fail. The best of all men who had lived a life of loving service had been put to death. Not in spite of his loving service, but becau.se of it for this loving service challenged the artificiality, the sterility, the selfishness of the world in whlch Jesus operated.

Wednesday was a day when Jesus apparently though things over. Saturday of Holy Week should be a day when we think things over. He died on Friday. Loving hands laid him in a tomb. Perhaps we have done the same.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The population explosion and the income tax cut are almost certain to shoot toy sales this year to another new high.

L. John Swedlin, president of the Toy Manufacturers of America. predicted at the American Toy Fair in New York this month that manufacturers sales, which were $1.14 billion In 1963, would reach $1.2 billion this year. Some manufacturers thought this estimate too conservative and guesse^ up to $1.4 billion were madeT Swedlins guess would make retail sales at $1.68 billion. The more optimistic estim ates would make the retail total almost $2 bilUon.

Toy manufacturers were not without criticism this year. MILITARY TOYS OPPOSED A group of women call i n g themselves Parents Against the Encouragement of Violence carried sighs reading Lets Disarm the Nursery in a demonstration outside the buildings in which the fair was held.

Bernard M. Barenholtz. chairman of the Creative Playthings Foundation, Princeton. N. J., called upon buyers to pass up

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gimmicks and gadgets and buy more educational and imagination - tickling toys.

And Swedlin himself announced that his association had endorsed the amended guidelines for television toy commercials Issued by the National Association of Broadcasters. The amendments are intended to eliminate the excesses of previous years.

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o, The most unusual departure this year was the Introduction of a strong line of moaster toys, a big switch from the trend toward more nearly human dolls

^ In recent years.

Leader of the line Is Rat Fink, a monster with beady. Jeweled eye-balls and about as repulsive a face as plastics can provide. Also in the line Is Rat Fink with Motorcycle, Mothers Worry. Drag Nut, Mr. Gasser and Surflnk.

The line was introduced by Revell, Inc., of Venice. Calif. To head off criticism. Its canny publicity man, Henry Blank-fort, was prepared with reports from psychologists to the effect that the monsters were good for little bumaa monster

In that they helped them to release their frustrations and inhibitions.

Aurora Plastics, Hempstead, N.Y., show'cd plastic hobby kits from which models of King Kong, Godzilla and Frankenstein may be formed. Merry Manufacturing, Cincinnati, offered a Bride of Frankenstein In Its line of paper dolls. WORLDS FAIR MOTIF

Five Worlds Fair games and jigsaws were introduced by Milton Bradley, and Bradley and others will have many more by summer. Bradley also announced a television program featuring Stubby Kaye, starting in September, In which participants will play various action games for prizes.

Mattel. Inc.. Hawthorne, Calif, announced a $9 million advertising program of which $7.9 million wUl go for television.

Once again, there were great advances in electronic and battery-powered toys and, despite the pickets, many more combat toys. Including one by which children can learn to win In Jungle warfare.

IR.S SET.S 5 CENT-A-MILE CHARITY USE

The Interna! Revenue Service in a new' ruling (Rev. proc. 64-15) announces that it W'ill permit a deduction of 5 cents a mile for the use of an auto in charity or medical care.

The rate Is the same for Cadillacs or Ramblers.

The rate is not mandatory. Taxpayers may dedugt Instead actual costs of operation, repair and maintenance, but not depreciation,

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEM

An average New York worker can earn the price of a fifth of vodka In tw'o hours while It would take a Moscow worker nine hours, the National Industrial Conference Board calculates. . .Toledo has a per capita nmnicipal debt load of $85; New York, $413. . .The Department of Agriculture has developed a new high-yield, disease resistant tj'pe of guar, now available to growers in Texas and Oklahoma. Guar seeds are a source of gum for Industrial and food uses. . .Sunglass sales'this year will top $100 million, estimates Bachmann Bros., Philadelphia. The Federal Trade Commission cracked dowm on a record number of 454 firm last year.