Fnday, April 3, 1964

The Irresponsible Are_Also Heard

Stalled in N.Y. Traffic

There, is no suitable^ term 'other than irresponsible to describe the recent charges that the American .Medical Association is trying to play politics by refusing to support the ^proposal that the government require warning labels on cigarette packs.

Dr. Alton Oschner of New Orleans, a leading anti-smoking advocate, made the charges against the AMA at a panel session of the American Cancer Society. The implication was that the AMA, by withholding support of the labeling proposal, hoped to make political hay by attracting support for its position against a medical care plan financed through the Social Security program.

In its reply to the charges, the AMA made it clear that its reason for not supporting the labeling proposal were sound, nonpoliticai, and indeed, in what it felt was the best public interest.

. Among other things, the AMA executive vice president pinted out that Dr. Oschner's opinion that all the answers on tobacco and health are now available as a result of the report of the Surgeon Generals committee is an extreme viewpoint which is not universally shared.

Further comment on the AMAs position on labeling of cigarettes by its executive secretary is

important, in our opinion, to overall consideration of the smoking-health proposifion. It was pointed out by the AMA spokesman:

K *No one knows whether tobacco smoke is a direct cause or a triggering agent of lung cancer. We believe if is vitally important to find out if possible exactly how tobacco smoke doe.s affect health.

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All Its Citizens

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES TRIBUTE North Carolina q)aritly U the first state to kivlte all its citizens, in all walks of life, of all faiths and ciweds and of all political belief a to take part in the states fflcial tribute to the late John F. Kennedy.

Other states, groups and or-ganizatlODS are planning tributes to the fallen president in various way.^*

North Carolina has chosen lo go about it dlfferenUy. sura Oov. Terry Sanford. A committee named by the gov-n>or will ccKvduct a statewide campaign to raise more than $230,000 for the John F. Kennedy Library Fund.

**We felt It would be much more algnlflcant for a large number of pe<H>le to take part. Sanford said. He said such an effort, would be more appreciated by Mrs. Kennedy than uncoordinated naming of streeU, airports, bridges ,and junior high schools to honor her husband.

PROGRAM A apeclal me-tnorial progrwn has been scheduled May 17 at Kenan SUdium In Chapel HiU where, on a sunny October day in 1961. Kennedy made his last visit to North CaroHna.

All who contribute $10 to the library fund drive wlU receive tickets to the program. Evangelist Billy Graham will deliver the tribute address.

He was the president of all American. says Hugh Morton, chairman of the state fundraising drive. "He Ux^ the two bullets at Dallas for all of It.

LIBRARY - Nationwide, a . goal of $10 million has been set to establish the proposed Kennedy Library and leadership institute at Harvard University.

The library and institute, along with a series of scholarships to be established, is a favored memorial project of the presldenfs widow. San- ford said.

It is Intended that the Kennedy Library will combine in one project the simple purity of such memorials as the Washington Monument and the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials with the vitality of scholarship and education and be a living center of atudy of the times In which he lived. Sanford said.

FRINKS The governors press secretary. Graham Jones answered the doorbell at the executive mansion on Blount Street when Negro demonstration leader Golden Prinks called on Gov, Terry Sanford.

He came to the door and rang the bell. Jones says. I

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2. Labeling reguation.s will aiiHwer no problems and offer no protection for the millions of citizen.s who_ will continue to smoke regardless of such action.

3. Those who share the opinion that labeling is the immediate answer are really advocating that an agency of the federal government be granted the power to destroy an eight billion dollar industry on the extreme theory that the American people need to be protected from themselves in the matter of smoking.

For whatever charges may be leveled at the AMA, there is nothing to substantiate that the organization'of U. S. physicians, puts anything ahead of what it believes is in the best interest of the health of the^Americau people. Obviously many people disagree With the official position of the AMA on many programsand that includes some*^ of its own members. Biit charges that it is trying to play politics with the nations health in the present tobacco controversy is wholly without foundation in our opinion.

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wu t the mansion and I answered it. No, I didnt recognize him. He introduced himself and said he wanted to see the governor.

Frinks, a leader to racial disturbances in WiUiamston, was invited in and talked for some time with Sanford. He and a caravan of about 50 demonstrators had participated in an Easter - eve protest at Chapel Hill and were returning to WiUiamston. Jones said the other demcmstrators remained in their care parked behind the nearby State Legislative Building. He went out and deUvered a message from Sanford which said;

The ovemor has asked me to assure you he has already taken steps to provide proper poUce protection. He urges you to leave law enforcement to the state,

SMOKIES The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established 30 years ago this year.

Plans are being made for special observance of the anniversary date on June 15. Park headquarters Is at GatUnburg Tenn., and the park Itself sprawls along the border of the two states including parts of Svaln and Haywood counties in North Carolina.

Approprialely, one of the leaders to planning the anniversary celebration Is Dr. Kelly Bennett of Bryson City, former chairman of the N. C. National Park, Parkway and Forest Development committee. Dr. Bennett also Is known as the father of the Great SmiUcy Mountains National Park.

NOTES - Mrs. John B. Chase of Eureka has filed for a second term to the House of Representatives from Wayne County and wUl be opposed in the May 30 primary by Col. Ivey B. Harris of Goldsboro.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has vowed _^no compromise In the medical profesiones stand against federalization of medical care and says that Kerr-Mllls medical aid to the aged is needed. The AMA News cw-cedes editorially that "there is room for Improvement in the Kerr-Mills law but that It has proved to be a firm ally of the needy and near - needy elderly. AMA Is continuing to urge Implementation of Kerr-Mills In all states.

Democrat Robert M. Bob) , Davis of Salisbury, oppaslng RepubUcan Rep'. James T, Broyhill of Lenoir for Congress to the Ninth District, kicked off hto campaign this week with a native son rally in China Grove.

7o Get Action

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) It was like putting a firecracker under President Johnsons chair.

Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, John ons successor as Democratic m.ijority leader of the Senate, calmly told reporters:

The Senate, because of the Southern Democrats fUibust-ering opposition, may not be able to finish the civil rights fight untU next faU.

The fight on the civil rights bill began a couple of weeks ago, droned along, and then got seriously started this week.

No finish till fall would carry the struggle though the summer with just time out for the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions.

Mansfield, unlikeJohnsm, Is a relaxed and easy - going man whose attitude on filibusters. including this one. seems to be:

"Oh, let the boys talk.

But Johnson has a lot of programs hanging in Congre&s, from foreign aid to war on poverty.

Some of them could get jammed, hashed and massacred If a long civil rights fight delayed action on them till the last minute.

Yet, Johnson almost certainly will want the Democratic presidential nomination so he can try to get glected to the White House on his own.

But he will need some positive accomplishments to campaign on, like a lot of good legislation passed.

Without that, he will be just a man who made big promises but couldnt produce.

He wont be the only sufferer if Congress Is still in session next fall. All 435 House seats ai-e at stake.

So the rapmbers of Congress will need time next faU to campaign for re-election.

One way to speed up action on civil rights, if thats pos

sible, Is to keep the Senate In roui)d-the-clock session for weeks until the filibuster e r s wear themselves out.

But In the process the pro-clvU rights senators, and cv-en the indifferent ones, will wind up worn out, too, and jLhat could be dangerous f o r some in the upper-age bracket.

Mansfield wants no part of such a survival contest. He wants everything, as usual, done in a kind of gentlemanly way.

John.son hasht expre.ssed himself on Mansfields lat e s t statement but it can be guessed how he feels' for a couple of reasons:

1. He was a hard - dilver himself. He didnt let the fight go on for endless months when he was steering two civil rights bills through the Senate to 1957 and 1960, the only two to get through in this century.

2. Nowjie has an even bigger stake in the outcome than when he was majority leader. The civil rights program is his administrations program. He endorsed it. said he wants It. and needs It to point to.

Riiiht here is where the Southern strategy may be most effective in putting pressure on Johnson to make compromises on the civil rights bill, since he has more than civil rights to worry about..

This, of course, was the Southern strategy from the beginning but Mansfields statement should give their chances a boost.

Theres another side to this; The longer they tie up John-fons other programs, the more excuse they give him to compromise on civil rights.

But if he does compromise,1 on any kind of excuse, he will be pn the spot anyway since Negroes and white supporters of civil rights wlU be watching to see who yields an inch.

By JOHN ABNEY

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1964, King Feature Syndicate. Inc.

Truly, the Involution oi U. S. politics in 1964 are enough to tax the comprehension of the immortal gods on (Hynkt pus.

Item One cwicems th* strange behavior of four I* portant Far Western Democrat tic Senators. Here we hav Wayne Morse of Oregon, Mike Mansfield of Montana. Ernest Gruening of Alaska, and fTank Church of Idaho going Senator Pulbright of Arkansas one better in voicing their dissent frwn the foreign p<riicy of thetr^ own Democratic Administration. They want us to get out of South Vietnam.

Item Two concern* the predictions of iMindits concerning the fate (A Barry Goldwater in the coming Oregixi primary. Some of them have both Goldwater and Rockdfeller running behind Nixon to Oregon. Othcre speak of a second /upset victory for Lodge.

The point that must perplex the gods is that both Nixon and lodge would certainly jupport the Johnson Administration policy in South Vietnam as against the Morse - Mansfleld-Gruening - Church positlwi. Indeed, both Nixon and Lodge would presumably go beyond the mere protection trf South Vietnam. Nixon, just prior to the French capitulation In In-do - China, was for sending American forces to hold the North Vietnamese bastion of Dlenblenphui and Lodge, so It

FORTYTWO. Mexico Go ahead and snicker but thats the real name of this village of some 60 souls. Cuarentaydos in Spanish because it is located at Kilometer 42 on the highway from Acapulco to Mexico City.

And there we sat in the shade of Senor Manuel Lozano Gallos auto while a local gep-tleman rounded up s<Hne livestock to transport us over the mountains to Manuels sapphire mine.

The cavalry finally appeared and everybody got aboard and headed for the straight-upset mountain. Senor Lozano and

Luis, a young gentleman who shuffles out diamonds and emeralds for him: Mr. Raymond Wright, the travel gentleman, plus an assortment of small boys owTied by Senor Lozano and myself. And me.

There was a cool look! n g clear river and some of the village ladies looked lip from their - family wash when we crossed the ankle-deep water.

From there the trail goes UP. And the enthusiasm of horses goes noticeably down.

Let it be said at this point that they were the small, springy types instead of hefty cow ponies like you see on TV.

Other Editors Saying. Communism In Siesta

Strength For Today

By EARL L. IM)U(iLASS REAL RELIGION

Jesus declared to the woman whom he met at the well of Samaria: Whosoever drink-e.th of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinkcth of the water I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water I shall give him shall be In him as a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14).

Iri other words, Christ has given us a religion which operates at the very center of our lives and is designed i dominate every thought, act and purpost\

Christianity is more than a set of teachings. Certainly it Is more than a great organization known as The Church. It Is the presence of God in mens hearts, the enriching of their

Inner life by the coming of Gods unseen power upon their souls. Christiftiiity is something which operates at the center of our lives if U operates at all.

Extenial religion is worse than useless. A mere devotion to the organizations corinect-ed with Christianity means nothing at all if it does not accompany faith and the wholehearted devotion to God's will.

God is not the God of the dead but the God of the Uvtog. If our religion is not making us happier, more confident, more purpaseful in our actions, kindlier and more righteous in our daily living, then what we call religion is not religion at all but a most dangerous var-letv of delusion.

'True religion is living religion.

(Christian Science Monitor) Too many Americans formed their opinions on Castro and CXiba to the earlier stages of crisis. They havent opened their minds since. They know that CXiba went Commu n i s t, which is true. So the Istereo-type of communism all the implacables of rigid control from Moscow, the comp 1 e t e takeover by the disciplined cadres, etc. becomes dogma. One doesnt have to look at the news: its obvious to advance what will happen.

But is it? The roll of countries outside the Iron CXirtain that were once written off to Communist control because of Initial Communist successes, and that stubbornly remain independent today, is a long! s h ^ one.

The controversy over Cuba Is between those who think they know what wlU happen complete takeover with all the consequences and those who think the returns are not yet all to. The news suggests that for the moment, the latter are nearer right.

There Is considerable evidence that the Soviet military will shortly tuin the air-defense system over to the CXibans who are now trained. Soviet military withdrawal, except for an advisory mission of mod e s t size, will presumably be complete. This wasnt to the stereotype.

Castro is presiding uneasily over one of those factional disputes that dictatorship are heir to. Signs are that some old-guard Communists are being eased out of key positions and that a few may actually be purged. The outcome Is still uncertain. Fidel seems entire

ly In control. He is likely to preserve some sort of balance but he seems to be favoring the opposing faction, the young, so-called Castro Communists. This isnt to the stereotype.

Domestically the CXibans are harvesting lots of sugar but this isnt what they wanted. They are becoming dependent on that one crop again instead of freeing themselves from it. They are heading into stiffly increased government control of collective farms, which not even the most powerful Communist countries have made to work. Their todustrializat i o n program lies to fragments around them. They had to abandon it outright. Russian advisers are reported contempt-ous.

The allies of the United States are supplying some loans and trade but this is not an entirely unmixed advantage. It keeps that much trade away from the Russians. Meanwhile the United States 'boycott still bites, though it cannot topple the Cuban economy from without not as long as the Soviet Union stands ready to fill the gap.

None of these developments fit the preconceived and implacable pattern. The case f o playing it flexible and carefully watching the turns of events Is surely better than thinking that all is preordained and ignoring a good many interst-tog facts and opportunltles. We do not suggest that CXiba is about to become non-Com-munlst. We do think Its erratic course still outside the strict pattern of Moscow or Peking control ought to be watched and 'subtly encoufaged.

And my mount kept look! n g around like, All right heavy, my turn to ride now.

After a mile or so I w a s ready to try it. The horses were equipped with wood e n saddles that had a slot down the middle. And for this reason I ate standing up that night.

The guide stayed busy keeping kids from galloping off on side trails. Herding them to the paths of righteousness while we clop, clop, clopped up the winding rut to the, warm Mexican sun. Through jutting rock formations and across bushy slopes with dead grass. The dry season grey color was everywhere.

After a while Manuel looked aiound and asked, Is that you grunting, Juanito?

So I said, The horse Is grunting. Thats me groaning. Then we creaked up to a flat spot and into a cooling, salty breez from the Pacific. The horses slipped to give us a look at the scenery.

A thousand feet below was Fortytwo. The highway winding along to a dark ribbon. You couldnt see the river but there wits the streak of green and splotches of coco palms that fringe Its course.

It.felt like we were on top of the world peering down at Fortytwo but on the other side the big grey mountains kept going up. We rode across slopes a bulldozer couldnt clim and the sure-footed little nags wheezed patiently along the skinny trail. Off to the right w'as the faint blue of the big Papagayo Lagoon and on the horizon you could see the Pacific.

Down through deep ravines and up the other side. And after shifting back and forth in the wooden, saddle a thousand times we suddenly wcre at the mine. A big pit to the yellow earth, .some of it red. some a charcoal grey and a lot of It sparkling with mica.

And inside the open pit they were choptog away at the sapphires. Real, live sapphl res. Senor Lozano permitted your greatly revived, correspondent to bang away with a hammer and chi^l at the gorgeo u s grey and blue crystals.

Next to a honeymoon, friend, there just aint anything like digging out a sapphire crystal as long as your hand and watching It glisten in the sunlight.

It is an inspiring experience. Look at the crystal, inhale deeply arid say, "I am hi!?ding a hundred thousand dollars in my hand. Repeat ten times and exhale.

Then you have lived.

has been stated by his friends to Washington, would like to se the current war to save South Vietnam carried Into the north against the "privileged san(v tuary of the Communist infiltrators. This Is on the assumption that the Johnson - McNft-mara policy of fighting a defensive war on South Vietnamese soil cannot assure victory. '

The question, at this point, is: does Senator Morse read his maU. and if so. are the letters that reach his office a good indication of sentiment in Oregon? If Morse really knows what the Oregon consensus is, how will it spill over Into the Republican primary?

One doorbell ringer in Oregon, Mr, Samuel Lubbell, In quoting people as saying that Goldwater might get us Into a war. Inferentially backs up Morse. But no Republican candidate on the ballot In Oregon am>roximates the Morse positimi in the business of running away from war. By Mor standards, which the Senator would have us believe are Oregon standards, all oi the Republican candidates are dangerous warmongers. Even including Scranton, who has kind words for brinkmanship.

The doorbell ringers and pundits make much of specific Oregon objections to Goldwater as irresponsible <m the military Issue. This is curious when one looks over the whole Republican field. The Lodge caravan, which Is currently moving into Oregon armed with 350.000 pamphlets ready for distribution, counts on its tigers appeal as the man who .stood up to Vishlnsky In the UN and who Insists wi victory in the Par East today. Yes, as Goldwater said (to the title of one of his books), Why Not Victory? So why any Oregon dlstlnctiim between Goldwater and Lodge? Yet the doorbell ringers in Oregon profess to have found a distinction.

To the south, to California, Goldwater has the Inside track precisely because he'Is campaigning as a patriot who Is tired of seeing the U. S. sold down the river abroad. This makes the attempt of the Rock-efellerltes to brand Goldwater ^ as the victim of extremists* ' a futile tactic. It Is not consld-to be aggressively patri otic* But how about the states of the Far Northwest that are represented by Senators Morse, Gruening, Church, and Manleld?

TIm w'hole business smacks of -Alice in Wonderland. But underneath the confusion one senses a polarization. The four Democratic Senators from th

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More Tax-Saving Reminders

Gainions In Brie:;

People wno want ttie Government to do .something for them shoufd reflect that thOvse mo.st .suoceiisfuhk have lived without it Elizabethtown (Ky.) New.s.

speed and because there was no other traffic present, Fit'derlck (SD.) News.

A <*S?cC^sion i.s a period in which you tighten up your belt A depre.ssion is a time in which you have no belt to tighten When you have no trou.*;ers to hold up., it's a panic Spnpgview iNebr.) Herald

Married women often eat more than single girls, as a look at the current figures will show.Greenville Piedmont.

BLOOD IS NEEDF

Even though taxes give us painwe still demand more services, passing the tax bill on to some other taxpayer, if po.ssiblcMt. Pulaski illl. Times-News.

Driving while drunk i.s a one time experience in Sweden. A fir.st offense^ will oo.st you youf license and a jail .term. A Swedi.sh court reeent-ly fined a inaU $150 for driving. a power mower while drunk. The judge said he was lenient because of tlic tiow

DONOR

By F.1JV1ER ROESSNER

So youre putting your finishing touches on your income tax return

Youve been bombarded with tips, instructions and adv i c e from tax letters, magazines, newspapers, accountants, lawyers and well-meaning friends. That shows you can take It. So here are some more:

1. Make sure you claim all casualty losses. Termite damage is no longer deductible by home-owners, but is still deductible by businesses. But. as Prentice-HalJs Executive Tax Report points out, casual t y losses, in addition to the familiar categories of loss by hurricane. tomado, flood, storm, fires, earthquake or shipwreck are deductible for such loss-, es as:

ALL nEDl't'TTBI.E

Bur.sting of home hot water boiler, accidental damage lo autos, cavp-in.s due lo mines or adjacent excavations, long and unusual drought, explosions. freezing, and bursting of water pipes and damage to floor and funiltnre, trees and shtubs dpstioyed by ice and slrel. lichtning damage, sinking of land caused by subterranean . disturbance. jeL planes,* subsoil shi uika^t after

drought, vandalism, unusually high waves, and wind.

Note that losses must be sudden and deductible only to the extent not covered by insurance.

Some of those Items suggest that tax collections in Alaska wl be sharply reduced next year. Personal and corporate taxes from the 49th state are small: they were only $51 million in 1961, for example. The quake damage is estimated at $230 million.

2. If, in making your 1963 return, you discover that you made an error to 1960, 1961 or 1962. all Is not lost. File an amended return for the year to error. If an individual, you will get a" refund automatically. without a refund form. Corporations must file ref u n d forma,

RjDfunds must be applied for within three years after April 15 of the year# alth o u g h there are .swne exceptions.

If your error cheated the government. better file an amend-anjway. It may

ed

avert penalties.

WATCH ( HARITY DEDIJCTIONS-3. Remember thXt charity dcductiooi can ba disallowed

If you do not have receipts or, at least, a written record of contributions. Including coins dropped in the collection box. Also remember that gifts of clotnr^d food, and the costs of operating ari auto for charitable purposes, are also deductible. But the value of your time is not.

- 4,^ If you operate a business, your state income tax may be deductible. Consult your tax accountant or lawyer.

5. Remember that while the Internal Revenue Service us-ually accepts returns mailed on or before April 15, it doesnt have to. They are legally filed. only when received.

Other tax returns accepted when received are gift, estate and excise tax returns; declarations of estimated t a x e sr partnership and corporal Ion returns; Information returns, and applications for extension of time. .

However, postmarks are evidence of filing for tax elec-. tions: claiiTis for refund of taxes on Form 843: waivers on assessment on Form 870; petitions to Tax Court, and pro-te.sts following a 30-day letter.

IN 1963

If production is a metiur of consumption, Ameri c an drank more gin, vodka, brandy and rum last year and less whiskey, according to Commerce Clearing House. Beer productitm also increased fnnn 96.4 mllli( barrels in 1962 to 97.9 million barrels last year. Wine production rose from 18.8 milli(xi gall(s to 19.6 million.

And its California, not Kentucky, that is busiest distilling potables. Last year there were 106 distilleries to California and 66 in Kentucky, out (4 a tot$l of 306.

The number of brewerlea continued to decline, from 218 to 198. Time was when every ley had Its own brewery with its own distinctive brew

MORE GIN. BEER AND VODKA: LESS WHIKKEY

SHORT A SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS The Japanese are planning

to buUd a 152.000-ton tinker, almost twice the tonnage of the Queen Mary. . A Dallas dealer to publicly denouncing home builders who equip houses with shoddy carpeting and calling for government investigation t . American Machine and Foindry reports cigar maker are Increasing order* for' cigar-making machine-