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Spring Is For Clean-Up, Paint-Up

Spring is the natural time of year when people to see. , ,

think in terms of improving the appearances of their Weed-grown lots may not catch the eye of a homes, their businesses, their communities in gen- person who passes them every day, but they cer-eral. Because of the beauty of the season, perhaps, tainly catch the eye of a stranger and leave an mere people seem to be aware of the beauty pr impression on him.^ Shabby or unbecoming ap-lack of itin their community as a whole. proaches leading into a community, an unkept bus-

It behooves the citizens of Pitt County com- iness section, are likely to be overlooked by the munities to take a careful-^and objective look at person who has seen them hundreds of times. But their respeOtive localities, and this spring is as good to the stranger visiting the community, they are a time as any. Most of us, familiar with the towns sure to raise the question of whether or not the in which we live, the streets we pass along each day, community really cares about its appearance. , see the pretty places and overlook the places that Spring is a good time for citizens to take a

laqk beauty. Too often, we fail to see our own com- good, close look at every part of their home town,

munity in the same manner that a visitor, unfamiliar It is a good time for them to take stock of the ap-w ith our city or town, would see it. pearance of their community compared with that

Every community, large or small, takes a cer- of others in which they have been visitors. It is

tain pride in its appearance ... or at least its a good time for evaluating the kind of impression

people think it does. But in far too many com- the appearance of ones own community may make

munitie.s, the picture that a stranger sees is far. on those who visit it from time to time.

Most of us have the feeling that the cities and towns in Pitt County are all pleasant communities with pleasing appearances. But we should remember that we see our owm communities through eyes

that are accustomed to remembering the bright

spots and overlooking the unsightly.

There is no better time than now for the citizens of each community to begin a determined effort to improve the appearance of every city and town in Pitt County. Unless we do it ourselves, it certainly will not be done.

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different from that the local citizen expects him

Word Of Truce Via Grapevine

WILLIAM A. SHIRES TRUCE The governor office, which has been keei>-tng close watch on the tense aituatioo in WUUamston. learned by the grapevine that a truce had been called.

There was no official word of It.' The governor's office checked news dispatches for confirmation but for several days early this week there was no public menticm of a truce.

It was evident, however, that a calm had settled over the altumtlon. Wllllamstoii was quiet and there were no reports ctf further civil rights disturbances.

After checking for several days, a governors aide said we know Its true. The out-of-staae ministers havl gone home. They're all gone.

Even if unannounced, it was apparent a truce existed.

CONFIRMES Later. In mid - week, Negro Integration leader Golden Prinks owifirm-ed to newsmen at WiUiamston that a 30 day truce had been caUed.

Prinks said it was to allow a calm study oi the situation^ and to determine what progress. If any, had been made.

Whatever the reason. It was noted that the 30 - day period coincided with the time needed for Frinks' am>eal to the State Supreme Court on several arrest charges and convic-ticms in ccxinection with demonstration indioents in the Ed-enton - WUliamston area. He posted bond during the week to . remain out of Jail while the high court considers the appesU motions.

PRECEDENT - Edwin Gills speaking out this week on the question of a possible state surplus was not wlttiout precedent.

It was not the first time that the state treasurer had taken issue with admlinstration budget officials even the gov-emw* himself on whether the state would finish a fiscal biennium in the black. He had done It before correctly.

Gill, alone among top state officials, forecast that the state would pull out of a recession and end the 1959-^1 biennium with a healthy credit balance. He did It In rather dramatic fashion, and the credit balance he predicted amounted to some $74 milhra.

FORECAST It was in late Fall of 1958 that then Gov. Luther H. Hodges and the Advisory Budi^t Commission received bad news from the Budget Bureau and were saying the states revenue picture was bleak.

Hodges, as director of the budget, and other officials were saying a $40 million tax increase would be necessary to balance the 19.59 - 61 budget and maintain state services at existing levels. The gov^emor and advisory budget commission were preparing new tax proposals for the 1959 General

Misgivings In Parts Of The

Other

Nation

Whatever the interpretation placed on the fact that Gov. Wallace of Alabama was able to garner more than a quarter million votes in the Wisconsin

Assembly. This gloomy picture confrtmted legislative nominees at a dinner in their honor by the Goldsboro Rotary Club and Gill was invited to be speaker.

He dr(HH>ed a bombshell by saying I wish to sound a note of hope and (H>timism.

By the time the legislature convened. GUI said. I am confident that we will see evidence on all sides M eccHiomic

recovery, He predicted that -j i .....

this would result In the search presidential primary, the fact will not be ignored by

for additional revenue being party officials or rank and file citizens across the

nation.

Gov. Wallace state against the civil

in the Senate. He had asserted that if he got as many as 25,000 votes in Wisconsin it would be significant.

Gov. Reynolds of Wisconsin, had asserted that if

Wallace got as many as 100,000 votes in the state it would be a catastrophe.

Any evaluation of the results of the Wisconsin

met substantially.

SCRAPPED Hodges telephoned Gill the next morning and asked him to appear before the Advisory Budget Commission.

Gills appearance before the commission was behind closed doors, but afterward Hodges told the state treasurer privately that he had shed new light on the situation and I believe we agree with you. The new tax proposals being drafted were scrapped.

As it turned out, the 1959 General Assembly enacted a state Income tax withholding windfair which fattened the credit balance to its robust

By HAL BOYLE

s campaigned in the northern, T) .^1 T.- ^ ^ *

ivil rights bill now being debated "SI J | T ( iTS S 1

ad asserted that if he got as many ^ v-X 1 J. XL vZJ

'Diet

NEW YORK AP) Burl Ives, who used to be as wide as a forest, has slimmed down so much that now he can hide behind a single full - grown

primary must take into consideration that under the laws of "the state members of either political'

party may vpte in the preferential primary of the to drop another75 pounds by other party. It must be assumed, therefore, that a of the year, said the

number of Republicans probably marked ballots ^ooiai actor and folk sing-either for Wallace or for Gov. Reynolds. It must also be recognized, however, that in spite of the fact

er.

After completing his latest

film, a fantksy in which he plays a fat Arabian nights genie. Burl decided to peel off some of his 300-plus poundage. He went to Duke University in North CkroUna to try its famous rice diet treatment.

According to Ives, the fat melted from him magically.

"For 10 or 15 years I was on a high protein diet and I kept gaining weight, he said.

windiaU, however. Gills pre- ^ traditionally been a progressive state, C*

diction that Improved econo- that it has a Democratic governor, Wisconsin LJinfer r^nVlPrT

wo^d meet has not given a majority to a Democratic presidential y 11 . , ,

nominee since it voted for Harry Truman in 1948,

(Greensboro Dally News) Since Dr. Beverly Lake has

new taxes proved correct It voted tor Harry Truman in 1948. 7^; O /^T__ t

Difference, a distinct dtffer- The question of civil rights legislation, which X 1C. C (jL C_-^.^OOS0 LQW^ ence this time Is that Gills Gov. Wallace took as the issue in his campaign is

^ foremost interest throughout the nation. But in

pius at me ena of the bien- nlum June 30, 1965. comes In the thick of a political campaign in which the question is a prime .Issue.

0111 cmitends that he was pulled Into taking a position

on the matter of a surplus. ________ __________

I have ntk Injected myself reflected support for his position against the civil ^ proposed to wear the shoe

'Pols." rights leghslation, considerations other than those N"cs't1t e

His prediction, however, had on race relations were present in the minds of symposium appearance with

the effect of supporting the pos- many voters. It further suggests that in parts of the Moore and Richardson

itlon of gubernatorial candidate nation other than the South there are misgivings quoted

I *i* about the proposed civil rights bill which stem from ^ 3dng:

mediately drew fire from can- oonsiderafinns ntVipr tbar flipap ^ j .1 will encourage prompt

directly associated repeal of that very unwise and

^ shall

not. . .undertake to enforce any

Wisconsin one would guess that it is not as creat a local issue as in many other states. Wisconsin, with SI^'^itituT o?^L c ^ some four million people numbers only 92,000 non- rights demonstrators, his com-whites among its citizens, approximately 2 6 ner Raleigh Sunday on

This factor suggests that if the Wallace vote ling and moie consistent

didate L. Richardson Preyer.

Speculation Preyer referred to a lot of speculation about the reveiiue {^ctiire and said Moore U anxiously trying to justify spending about $67 million on state employes In the next biennium, and he needs a huge sun^us to do it.

"I do not know what the surplus will be 15 mcHiths from now... Preyer said. The present administration does not know, the states treasurer doe.s not know and Dan Moore does not know. The very fact that the states fiscal experts are In disagreement points up uncertainty..

Preyer again charged that Moore was fiscally irresponsible" In promising a 10 per cent across the board salary Increase for state employes along with many other pro-giams when he doe.s not know w'bether the m<mey will be available.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Premier Khrushchevs desire for goulash explains why a man in this country can be radicai at 19 but conservative at 45, He had nothing to lose at 19. but a lot at 45; A house, wife, kids to put through school, amblticMis to be company president and a pension if he lives long enough.

As Khrushchev said in a jibe at the war - minded Red Chinese who defame him for not being war - minded enough: We didnt fight the revolution in oixler to'live worse. Goulash was his way of saying he prefers piosperity to revolution. It's a reflection of Russia's growing affluence, which is a good, practical reason for behig less belligerent and reckless. -Like the man of 45, Khrushchev isnt anxious to risk a nuclear war which would wipe out all the Russians have stioig-gled to achieve a better life since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

This makes tlie Russian-Red Chinese spilt in a very deep sense a difference between the haves and the have - nots of communism.

The Russian masses in their revolutionary days, like the Chinese now, didnt have much to lose but their lives and must have felt, as their acceptance of communism showed, that anything was better than nothing.

In time this may prove true with the poor of Latin America and elsewhere for, where there are impoverished millions and the wealthy few resist reforms, communism has an excellent talking point.

Now after two generation.s of work and privation the Russians. as a nation and individually. through the acquisition of possessi^s have won a sense of domestic security, a condition that can dampen revolutionary ardor.

At least it can by this reasoning; Revolution disturbs, peace preserves This doe.snt mean, and Khrushchevs words can't be interpreted as meaning, the Russians have become too placid lo encouiage revolt wIhmp it .suits them if the revolt doesn't risk all - out war.

While he has preached against all - out war, he considered as acceptable the so-called "liberation movements which can take in everything from guerilla wars to uprisings.

The Soviet leadership has toi feel, by its doctrine, that the best world Is a Communist one, and the sooner the better. But even here the leaders must have some misgivings about believing it totally.

They have learned from their unhappy experiences with those renegades from Soviet control Yugoslavia. Albania, Red China that a Communist world might not necessarily be a peaceful one after all.

Such divLsions in a Communist world might put Moscow in a new jeopardy, but this time from its ideological brothers instead of from capitalism.

This is what Red Cniina would like. Judging from Its hos,tility to Moscow now, and what she apparently has been seeking in her attacks on Khrushchev and her appeals to the Russian satellites to cut loose.

Tim condition has Its own Irony: If Red China bec^e the center of a Communist world, no doubt, judging from Russias troubles with her onetime allies, there would be fresh divisions and hostility to Peking.

The reason: Nationalism has been a stronger force tjian communism, eveti within the Communist states. So long as this is true, and it shows no signs of diminishing, It will assert itself to the disadvantage of Red harmony.

The Red diinese, being now In the position of the Russians of 1917, can afford to be cantankerous. adventuresome and reckless, since they have less to lose In worldly goods than their prosperous Russian neighbor.

ied^

eral government. It is not the responsibility of the Governor of North Carolina to enforce federal laws.

It is, to say ^ the least, a novel doctrine tlkt a Governor has no responsibility to enforce the law whether it is state law or federal law. As a strict constructionist of the Constitution Dr. Lake is certainly entitled to the opinion that the civil rights bill if passed would be unconstitutional. But Dr. Lake knows that as a wise judge .said years ago the Constitution is what the judges say it is and laws duly passed by Congress, until set aside by judges, are laws. In this country there Ls, fortunately, no such thing as halMaw or three-quarters-law; there is law and no law.

There is little to choo.se. It seems to us, between agitators in the streets who di.sobey a law they feel unjust and a Governor who thinks it Ls not his duty to enforce laws he feels unconstitutional. These are but two versions of the same doctrine that a law that suits us Is a law but a law that doesnt suit us is not a law.

And setting oneself up as a one-man court to overrule the

Congress, an unsettling Idea for laymen and citizens, is doubly unsettling for lawy e r s who aspire to be governors,

Tlmt way lies anarchy. And we in the South have seen all too much in late months of governors and street demonstrators who set themselves above the ^w of the land in that way help provoke the disorders that follow upon lawlessness.

Of course, there is no point in quibbling over Dr. Lakes view that the pending civil rights legislation is unomsti-tutional especially wbra no one knows yet what modifying amendments may be attached. ButJa^jrecent letter ta a, senator, three former attomeys-general of the U. S. assert the costitutMiallty of that legislation; and their opinion is at least as weighty as the opinion of a former assistant attorney general of North Carolina.

All three major candidates for the Democratic nomination, as they said Sunday, dl.sagree with most or all of the civ rights bill and wish it could be beaten. But it appears that these expressions of disapproval are beside the point. There will be a civil rights bill, It seems. And oaice it passes, it is not conceivable that Dr. Lake will manage to have it repealed or stricken down.

Thus the true issue Is whether a Governor would enforce the law or disregard it. On that more meaningful is.sue the positions of Judges Moore and Preyer are infinitely more appealing, as law and duty, than Dr. Lakes. I believe in enforcement of law, said Judge Moore, "Whatever law is pa.ss-ed Ill see that it is enforced. Judge Preyer, concurring, said. We dont pick and choose between the laws we like and the laws we dislike.

That, we think, is the way of responsibility.

I can walk 10 miles a day now and never get tired. Before that Id puff like a steam engine when I went a hundred yards.

I used to have hot pipes his term for stomach upsets and colds before I went on this diet. Since then I havent had hot pipes or a cold, Ives said,

I used to have to put down a pound of steak before I went to make a recording. Now I can eat a few grains of boiled rice and sing like a bird.

Ives started plucking out tunes on a guitar as a 5-year-old farmboy. Becoming bored on a summer day during his junior year In college, he walked out of an English class on a sudden impulse to see the world. All he toolSbalong was his guitar and 15 cents in cash.

In the years since then Burl has appeared in seven Broadway plays, given hundreds of concerts, recorded 32 albums of songs, made 15 films and written four books.

He is one of the most famous pack rate in show business. His nfaie-room, old - fashioned apartment on the upper West Side here is crowded with souvenirs of his travels revers^btef from bttleship flap to African battle spears.

I think Im happier now tpn Ive ever been and Im 54. When I was younger I didnt have enough sense to be happy Ives said,

I recommend nothing to anybody, but life Is pretty complicated and I think it helps to try to simplify it. Thats what I did with my food problem by going on the rice diet.

I do as I always have; I play life by ear, and live it day by day.

If something come.s along and I want to do it, I do It. Ifnot, I go sailing and spit in the water,

What keeps us from joy is mostly ourselves. We have too many cobwebs in jour minds.

At this point in my life my feeling is to follow my Instincts. to move as things happen rather than according to plan or to achieve any set goal,

I have found that you have to move pretty much as life presents situations to you. Im pretty happy-go-l u c k y. Im not a worrier.

7ell On

School,

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndlciate, Inc. WINDSOR. Cdnn. The politicians answer, to the iUs of American educatim almost Invariably boils down to o n e thing; mwiey frwn Washington. But it may be significant that during two days of a student colloquium held here at the Loomis School with seventy-odd high school and preparat o r y school boys and girls from all over the United States in attendance, the politicians favor-** ite cure was not miUwied Mice.

It may have been the way the key questiwis were phrased, or It may have been that students, who are already hj high school senior year, take tix money end of things for granted. Nevertheless, all the big gripes of the boys and girls centered i the quality of U. S. secondary education, which In many respects they found sadly wanting.

The Loomis colloquium marked what is probably the first instance in the countrys h 1 s-tory In which high school students from points as far apart as Melbourne, Fla., and Los Angeles, Calif., have been brought together to talk about their education. Your reporter visited around, spending some time at each of four panels. The talk produced no final apswers. but it was free, fierce , and uninhibited. A journalistic colleague who publics weekly and monthly papers said w'hen It was all over: What marvelously intelligent kids. Where do they all disappear to when they get out of college? To participant and group coordinator Harold Howe, principal of the Scarsdale High School in New Yorks W e s t-chester County, the most impressive gripe presented by the students concerned current systems of selection for college. The dissatisfaction was expressed in various phases. Students came down hard m the "over-scheduling of cert a I n high school courses that the colleges deem necessary for entrance. A Finnish student who was critical of American over-scheduling remarked that he had actually had more time to (xmcentrate on a specialty in a Finnish school that required him to take twelve courses a year than he had in the U.S. in a school demanding only four. The difference, he said, is that a Finnish professor of mathematics, for example, doe.s not regard his course as the only important thing under the sun. He paces his assignments in such a way that it allows a student time to read an occasional book on his ovm, or to experiment with painting or poetry.

The grading systems fostered by college preparatory demands were also attacked. T' e students did not object for the most part to some sort of div tinction between good and bad. But they exhibited a good deal of resentment about the bases for marHng, aach multiple choice quizzes (which are attacked a.s calc"-lated to dLscourage subtlety and fine distinctions on the students part, and hence penalize the brighter students who know that we dont live In a yes-or-no world.) The boys and girls came do^^^^ hard on th .sort of achievement te.sts that have to be scored on a machine, proclaiming that such examinations are no true reflection of ability. Most mod-., em tests, the students argued, produce students who .study teachers, not subjects. The .st' -dent who is adept at analy' s of the type of question that may be expected from a given teacher is the one who receives the good marks. He mav know little about a subject in its broad aspects.

What all this seemed to add up to was a case for the old-fa.shioned e.s.say type of examination. in which the studcn' s comwllhd to draw upon h i .s own ^resources of memory, Inc-ic and creativity. The marking of the essay would, presumably be done by somebody oth^ r than the teachci-, whicii won'1 eliminate in-built favorit i s m toward the type of student who (Continued On Page 6)

Three Causes Of Coin Shortaae

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A teacher should be on the actual Job so long as h e r preseni e* is required; but iearning, hs yet, 1 not sold over or uudrr the ('ounter. iwu' by (he janmd or by thr hour. - Raleigh (N C.) News and Obsehver.

By EIJVIER ROES.SNER

There are three causes for tlie United States coin crisis:

1. Silver coins now cwitain more than their face value in silver because of the rise in silver prices.

2. Vending machines impoimd millions of dollars in coins for up to a week.

3. Many of the silver dollars held in the Treasury have extra value to collectors.

'The first is by far the biggest problem. Should silver take another sharp jump in price, present silver coins might disappear from circulation.

TbP rise In the price of silver has been caused by an increased demand in industry and the Inflation of American money. Another round of inflation. now threatened by the income tax cut. would certainly increase th? price of silver in terms of dollars. NON-vSEKING OFFK'lAIii

The vending-machine trouble i.> the re.sult of official stupidity. For many years now. it has been obvious, evini to me. that the vending niachinc includ ing those that .^ell park 1 n g fl/Sce were tjing ut> an In-

creasing amount of coins. Some machines are emptied two or three times a day; most of them are opened every day or two. but others are checked but once a w-eek. During these periods, the coins are' out of circulation. 1

Some little clerk in the Treasury must have foreseen that the era of automation would require vast increases in the amount of coins; surely some freshman Congressman might have guessed that parking meters would eventually tie up many of the dimes of the nation.

But neither Treasury officials nor Congressmen did anything about it.

Sales' taxes in many areas have added to the penny shortage. Because pennies will buy so few things today, many people tend to accumulate them urttil their hoard grows so big they have to beg some shopkeeper to accept them, or turn them into the bank.

UN(T.E SAM, COIN (OIJ.ETOR

In recent \ttiks, .spectflators and coin collectors have been presenting silver certificates at tlie Treasury and demanding.

as a right, the silver promised. Some may be hoarding dollars in hope that a rise in silver prices might produce a windfall if melted dowm, but most appear hopeful that some dollars released w^ould be of value to collectors. Many dates command premiums, and the Carson City Morgan dollars are very valuable.

The Treasury, with three million dollars left, has stopped redeeming certificates in the^ coins but redeems them in*slfcer Itself.

Senator Mike Mansfield (D., Mont.) has suggested the dollars held in the Treasury be melted down so the government would not ever exchange rare coins, worth many times their face value, for paper. However, If this were done, the value of rare dollars in the ^ hands of collectors would increase, making windfalls either way.

It has also been sugge.sted that the Treasury auctions Its remaining dollars, but there legal objections to this.

WOl l.n SHRINK SILVER ' CONTENT

Senator Tee JVletcaif (D.. Mont.) has <^uggsted Uuti tite

silver in each dollar be reduced from 9(K) grams to SOO grams or less. Actually, oiice the s -vr content is reduced beyo.:d real worth, there is no reasc i for using any silver in at all. The doUar will become simply a token of faith in the soundness of American money which has been less than totally sound in the last 30 years. Perhaps some day we, as the French once did. wUl have coins of aluminum.

Meanwhile, the shortage of lesser coins is restricting business and no effective steps have been taken to remedy the situation. Congress has authorized an-Mansion of the Philadelphia mint but failed to appropriate the money.

Even If it acted today, the coin shortage could not be relieved until CThristmas. 1965.

Unless the law is changed, it is Illegal for the Treasury to contract with private token-makere to turn out coins. But the New York Jmirnal of Commerce RUgge.sts It could have private Industry make blanks from which coins are stamped.

Butt things will probaWy worse bHfofr the/Tfeaeury and the Congres* do eom+hlnf about it.