AAoday, April 20, 1964

Heavier By The Minute

Public Housing Now Nearer Reality

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Another significant step iii Greenvilles toward providing low-rent public housing facilitiej for some of its citizens will be taken nekl monthi when the local Housing Anthority;receives bids for construction of the first 160 units included in the

local program. * .

Actual completion of any of^ the units is still many months away, but if the bids are acceptable the program will move from the planning stage to the construction stage in a relatively few weeks. This in itself puts public housing facilities in Greenville much nearer a reality.

It has been almost three years since voters of the city indicated their approval of the public housing and urban renewal programs for Greenville, It has been almost three years since the local Housing Authority was appointed and began what turned out to be a tedious and time-consuming job of planning this major undertaking. In the past year the progp-am has moved forward with considerably more speed than was the case during the first two years of the liife of the Authority.

The importance of the task of the Housing Authority now, however, is no less important and

no less exacting than it has been all the time. The Authority moves now to the point where it will have the respornsibility for investment of mow than a million dollars in housing facilities and will have the responsibility for managing and operating thi low-rent projects.

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There will still Ije major decisions for the

Authority to make and perhaps,, as in the past, major hurdles for it to overcome in carrying to completion the program which has been so carefully planned overea period of years.

In spite of the obstacles wlych have confronted the program from,time to time in the past three years, the Housing Authority has done what in our opinion is a commenjiabJe joh -UP to this point We have every confidence the Authority will continue its efforts to see that the low-rent housing units provide the greatest possible long-term benefits to the city and its citizens. -------

Safer Highways Still

Largely Up To Drivers

Second Primary

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

PREDICT A consensu of key political sources around the state shows unanimous agreement In predicting that a sec-wid primary will be necessary to choose the Democratic nominee for next governor oi Nwth Carolina.

The same sources re also onanimous. according to a survey. in predicting that L. Richardson Preyer will be one of the two candidates in a runoff in June.

These, however, were t h e -only areas of unanimous agreement rightly or wrongly found among sources In 20 key counties across the state. On other survey questions, opinion was avlded sharply in some cases.

The consensus in a majority of the 20 counties 14 counties or 70 per cent was that Dan K. Moore would be In the econd primary. Consensu.s in the remaining seven counties, I per cent, waai that Dr. Beverly Lake would oppose Preyer In a run-off. Nqne of the counties reported a consensus for a Moore-Lake run-off,

SURVEY The survey to compile a consensus of political thinking was conducted by editors and political writers of member newspaper of the N. C. Association of Afternoon Dallies.

These newspapermen submitted a consensus report alter checking their best, most reliable local political sources.

Counties included In the check were Rowan, Ouilf o r d. Randolph, Iredell. Beauf o r t. Lenoir, Gaston. Henderson, Mecenburg, Alamance, Ca-barus, Lee, Cumberland, Hoke, Hanover, Wake and Durham.

It was agreed that counties would not be identified to compiling results of the survey, nor would names of the various sources be used.

RESULTS The consensus of thinking was that Preyer is leading In eight of the 20 counties. Lake is leading In five and Moore in four. Three coun-. ties reported the race was too close to obtain a clear consen

sus.

To a question of consensus thinking on which candidate would carry the county, the sources said Preyer In seven counties, Lake In six and Moore In five. No ctmsensus was reached in two.

A questitm as to consensus thinking on which candid ate would win in a second primary brought these replies: Preyer 7. Moore 4. no clear consensus In nine Including one rep o r t that it would depend on who's No. 2 In the first primary.

Preyer had an edge In replies to a question as to which candidate most of the local political leaders are supporting.

Nine county reports said Preyer. Pour said Moore One said Lake. The others reported their local political figures were evenly divided. Preyer appeared to have the most active local campaign organization in seven of the counties. Lake in three and Moore in two. Others were about evenly divided on this point.

ISSUES Most of the sources contacted felt that both political philosophies and personalities are Involved in the gubernatorial campaign. Only Mie county report Indicated philosophies were not Involved and only three said personalities ^^re not.

There was a wide range of listing on major issues. The replies included such things as taxes, machine (politics) and civil rights. Terry Sanford, light-to-work law," stand on 85-ccnt an hour minim u m wage, civil rights, Sanford, roads, evil rights, tobacco, state pay raises, education, roads and scTjooIs,^ liberal vs. conservative, conservative. less conservative.

Some say there will be carryover effect from the Lake-Sanford campaign" of 1960. one report said. Big government was listed as a major Issue in another report.

ESTIMATES - Estimates of the statewide first primary vote total varied considerable.

The biggest figure listed was 800,000 although one report said shcHild be the highest vote in ^te election history without listing an estimate. Another report said sources expected the statewide vote would fall short of the total in 1960 because not as much Interest this time.

The smallest figure given to the replies was 600,000 with most.estlmates pegged at about 700.000. .

CLOSE Returns were Incomplete in the survey on consensus thinking about the contest for lieutenant governor in the May 30 primary and there was no clear Indication. A number of reports said, however. that the race for the No, 2 post might be as close or closer than that for governor with a good possibility that a second primary may also be required for that nomination.

NEWSPAPERS - Participating newspapers were asked if they had endorsed one of the candidates for governor editorially and 1 so which one. Only two have endorsed candidates The High Point Enterprise which is for Preyer and the Statesville record and L a n d-mark which Is for Moore. A third mernber newspaper, the Shelby Daily Star, has given its editorial endorsement to Moore, but did not participate In the survey.

North Carolina drivers must face up to the fact that any significant step takea to reduce the staggering highway death toll for 1964 will be largely the responsibility of the drivers themselves.

During the first three and one-hall months of 1964 there have been more than 400 fatalities in highway accidents in the state ... an increase of 100 or almost one-third over the same period last vear.

Highway patrol officials staged an all-day meeting last week in an effort to come up with a program to cope with the situation. From this meeting there is expected to come an intensified vigilance on the part of the patrol to apprehend violators of the law and to encourage greater safety among drivers. But the Highway Patrol alone has neither the manpower nor the facilities to stem the tide of rapidly rising highway tolls across the state.

If the sharp increase in traffic fatalities is to be stemmed during the remainder of this year, it is going to be up to the motorists of the state through more cautious drivingto do the job.

There are more vehicles on the highw^ays of North Carolina this year than ever before. These vehicles are running up many more thousands of miles of travel than ever bbfore in the state's hi.s-tory. The ratio of highw'ay deaths to miles traveled may not have gone up. But that i.s attti little consolation for the fact that 100 more people were killed on the highways of the state in the first 100 days of thjs year compared with las^ year.

Law enforcement officers can do a number of things to help make the highways safer for people who travel. In the final analysis, how^ever, the highways of this or any other state are going to be as safe or an dangerous as the drivers make them.

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Why Teachers Teach

Defense Costs -

Why teach?

The stimulus which flows between teacher and student . . .a students face lighting up with understanding. . .to prepare our students to meet the i>roblems our fathers did not face. . .to help them learn to think for themselves.

University of Florida professors recently listed these as reaswis for followtog their profession. And much can be said for the benefits of the academic life, intellectual pursuits and living in a campus community.

However, monthly bills make their way to the college professors mail box as readily as to the average

w'orkers home. And a cold cash recwnpense must support other reasons for teaching.

The college faculty sala r y picture is gradually brightening In the South, two new surveys reveal.

One. compiled by the U. S. Office of Education, gives the first specifics on faculty salaries over toe natirni broken down into teaching fields. The other, a biennial project of the National Education Association, offers a comparison of pay scales in the l^uth writh those in other regions.

The NEA report shows that Southern college teachers currently earn a mean salary of

$7,500 a year, to the nations $8,200 , 700 less.

Comparisons between salaries in the South and in the nation at large are: the full professor, $9.600 in the South to $11.^ for all regions: the associate pjofessor, $8,000, to $9,000; the assistant professor, $6,800, to $7,500: and the instructor, $5,600 to $6,100.

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scales rose faster in the South in the past two years than in the nation, an 11 per cent increase to nine per cent for the nation.

And Tax Burden

Other Editors Sayirxg.

Means. Much

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By GEORGE HAGEDORN

Nothing is certain in the world of national and international affairs, but the odd s seem to favor a gradual dow^n-trend in federal defense spending. The Administrations budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 calls for a cut of more than $1 billion In defense expenditures. Some analysts foresee further cuts of up to $5 billion over the next five years.

The prospect of a reduction in defense spending raLses a number of questions. The one Which will be discussed here is its impact on the total federal budget and, through it, on the tax burden.

It is probably that the bulk of our citizens would elect to use any reduction in the defense budget as the basis of further tax reduction. It is clear, however, that a vocal and persistent group will regard the reduction in the defense burden as an opportunity to initiate or expand government programs in non-defense areas. They will base their pleas on alleged need for roads, schools. park.s, and welfare programs: on ill-effects that they can forsee for the economy if government spending is reduced: and on the need for offset structural dislocations that will accompany a reduction in defense spending.

The most likely course of events is that the issue will never be crystallized and debated in clear-cut terms. There Is always a collection of new spending proposals waiting in the wings. Fiscal limitations may discourage their enactment at present, but they could

quietly move on to the stage as shrinking defense expenditures make room for them. If this should happen, the result will be that, while defense expenditures are falling, total government spending will either remain constant or continue to Increase, without the nation ever having made an explicit decision in favor of this course.

Whether or not the problem is posed directly, however, it is certain to underly nvany discussions of our future economic growth. The nation can bear whatever burden is necessary to finance defense or other essential expenditures for a limited period. Nevertheless, in the long run our economic grow th and further increases in - our living standards will depend on the technological development. investment, and profit incentives that aie needed to expand the private economy.

It seems clear, then, that an effort to shift the benefits of any reduction in defense ex-penditures to an expansion of non-defense projects is fundamentally self-defeating. Temporary gains for particular ai-eas and indi\1duals will be made only at the expense of the countrys long-range growth. A better solution is to reduce our present tax rates, cut total govemmcn spending, and rely on the states and local communities to provide necessary community public services.

A further substantial tax reduction in this decade could do much more for the American economy than any alternative use of the funds released by declines in defense spending.

(Washington News)

We just wonder sometimes if the people of any given area ever really sit down and study the economic effects of increased industrial employment.

When we look at the future phosphate prospects today in Beaufort county, we are highly pleased with the announcement that 300 employes will be hired, looking at these figures alone and looking at them from the standpoint of the minim u m wage, we can say with full assurance that 300 people employed at one plant w'ill mean at least a payrool of $15.000 per week or $780,000 per year. Since these are minimum figures, we are sure that the payroll will exceed a million dollars the first year.

Then take a look at what that million doUars will do to the economy here. It means that more groceries, more clothes more electrical appliances, more automobiles, more of this or that will be sold. It means that more insurance, more savings, and more bank deposits will be forthcwrii n g. It means that more homes will be built. It means that more taxable base in Beauf o r t county will become larger

The employment of 300 more people in one industry also means other things. It means that three or four new clerks W'ill be hired in the grocery stores and department stores and in other bu.siness places. It means the service stations will be employing more people. It

means that more people wdll be using public Utilities, and more people will be living here and more will stay here.

It means that there will be more scho<rf children to educate, and it means that our church membership will increase. It means that out of 300 people in that one industry we will find several outstanding community leaders.

We are told that before a dollar bill comes to rest, it Is turned over seven times. When we look out over the entire rea of our economy and think what new employment means to everybody In every walk of life, we can begin to understand what new industry, new lifeblood, and new spirit of progress can and will do for our county and for the various oom-munlties of our county and area.

The hiring of 300 people wl mean that less unemployment .will be realized. It serves as a vitalizer to us all, and if we forget for one minute that when our economy improves, we all share in that improvement. Sometimes we seem to take it for granted and never realize what is really happening. Sometimes we lose complete sight of the vision.

Yes. new Industrial opportu-nites mean a great deal to us as a people and a great deal to our area. And regardless of what some people seem to profess, there is nothing in t h e world wrong with our own Pamlico area that more new Job opportunities will not go a long way toward remedying.

Teachers of engtoeerlng In the region come closest this year to national stand a r d s, earning 97 per cent of the average salary across the country. ^

One of the largest discrepancies between the South and the nation is in the field of junior college teaching. These teachers average $7,5(X) nation-aUy and only $5,8(X) in the region 23 per cent less.

In a time when efforts are being made to bring women into college teaching, it is interesting to discover that women college teachers are paid about 17 per cent less than men nationally and 20 per cent less regionally.

The Office of Education report, covering the academ 1 c year 1962-63, shows that nationally law teachers top the scale, averaging $12,000 for the academic year.

Faculty salaries'In the South vary from field to field: biological sciences, $7,400; business and commerce, $6,400; education and related fields, 6,-600; engineering, $8,400; English and journalism, $6,600; and fine arts. $6,200.

Foreign language and literature, $6,400; home economics, $5,900; mathematics, $6.500; physical and health education, $6,200; physical sciences, $7,-500; religion and theology, $6,000; and social sciences, $7,-000,

All figures are for the academic year of nine to ten months.

National figures show that salaries vary by size of institution. For example, public universities with enrollments above 10,000 average $8,900, those between 5,000 and 10,000 average $8,700, and those with less than 5,000 average only $7,800. The non - public universities average some what more than 5,000. This pattern is approximated in the South.

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Bv JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Said Topsy to Turvy, Its good the UN is taking hold in Cyprus to keep the Greeks and toe Turks from knocking each other to the head. Well get a raUonal world yet.

Maybe *we will, said Turvy to Topsy. But consider the strange business that makes India one of the peace keepers to Cyprus when the C^ riots, or smnebody else, ought to be keeping the peace to India. Have you thought about that?

I suppose you are alluding to the fact that the commander of toe UN forces in Cyprus Is an Indian. Lieutenant General Prem Singh Gyanl from the Punjab? Or at least he was the commander the last time I saw the papers. Exactly, said Turvy. And what beats me is why Nehru .should export his peace keepers when he needs them so badly at home.

Come to think of it. said Topsy. India Is a little bit like Cyprus. The Hindus kill the Moslems. The Mosl e m s kill the Hindus. Just like Turkish and Greek Cypriots, only on so much grander a scale. The UN doesnt do anything about that.

This man Nehru, said Turvy. beats me. I remember when he was a noble, put-upon fellow. The British had him In-jail. It was a terrible thing. They finally let him out, yet he kept right on talking about the need to detach India from British rule. Oh, he was a patriot, this Nehru. When he was In jail he wrote a big book about history. But what he didnt say about history Is that he. Nehru, seems to be condemned to repeat it.

How so? asked Topsy. Havent you heard of the Kashmiri leader, Sheik Mohammed Abdullah? Hes been a noble, put-upon fellow. Nehru clapped him Into jail ten years ago. It was a terrible thing. They finally let him out, and he started to talk all over again about the need to let Kashmir vote wi self-determination. Oh. he is a patriot. this Sheik Mohammed Abdullah. I havent heard that he wrote a book In jail about history, but not everyb o d y can be as cultivated as Nehru, who was educated by the British. Or maybe the' Sheik dl.strusts words after noticing what Nehru does to belie them.

I suppose you are referring to the fact that Nehru did not send his friend Lieutenant General Prem Singh Gyanl from the Punjab into the Portuguese Indian colony of Goa to keep the peace between the Goans and the Invading Indians, said Topsy.

Well let that one pass, said Turvy. Only I must say that what happened In Goa may have given Red Chinas Mao Tse-tung an Idea. Could be that the Himalayas are just Goa to Mao Tse-tung.

Speaking of Mao, said Topsy, *.T see where hes been calling Khrushchev a Trotsksdte. Thats just what Khrushchev Is now call 1 n g Mao, Khrushchev also says that Mao is guilty of Stalinism. Does this mean that Trotsky and Stalin stood for the same thing? If that is true, then If Khrushchev is a Trotskylte hes also a Stalinist. What gives with these name - callers, anyway?

Its this way, said Turvy. Trotsky believed in world revolution. Stalin believed in Russia First. As the Marxists say, this makes Khrushchev objectively a Stalinist. Yet he hates the memory of Stalin. Mao loves the memory of Stalin, but he ^doesnt believe in Russia First, Hes for the permanent world revolution. You figure it out if you can.

Ive been trytog to, said Topsy. But when Khrushchev said the Red Chinese were following a course of petty bourgeois adventurism and thats' an exact quote I lost my way completely. I (Continued On Page 6)

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By EARL L. l)OUGI..\i ^ GODS GREAT Gll-T

Recently I had the privilege of sitting in with a group of scholars ai^, scientists who were discu^if?' a book on \ ir-uses by Di, Wendell M. Stanley I a Nob?l Prize winner, and Evans G. Vaiens. It is written in amazingly simple English which even the most non-scl-entiflc mind could compre-' hend. If Indeed such matters can be comprehended by anyone. Those of us who have po scientific competence sat with our eyes wide open 'and our ears also as the .men who had given Iheir lives to scientific pursuit argued the pros and cons.

Of cour.se, the whole discussion came down to the que.s-tion. "What is life? Anyone who has dipped even the e of his fingers into the .scientific sea of knowledge realizes that the scientists in this age are doing a magnificent piece of work. But they can, of course, go Just so far and no further. They break down barriers and advance majestically, but when they reach one horizon they scan another.

The artist MichacJangcIo

st'ems better to have caught the idea of the meaning of life than anyone, else. In his great Vatican masterpiece God 1^ seen reaching out His finger** and touching the finger of man, thus giving him life.

Is this not the answer to the question, What is life?" Life is a supernatural reality, the nature of which we do not understand. It is part of God. It is fundamental to everything else a supernatural something given us by God Himself.

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* Writing illegibly is a method of penmanship invented for people who also havent learned to spell. Nashville Banner.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The American public today seems slightly more Interested in saving those few extra dollars in the pay envelope than in spending them.

Retail sales rose sharply In the first three weeks after lower withholding became effective on March 5, rising to a peak in thq week ended March 28. That was expected. because that was Easter week. It was also expected that they would decline in the next week, because sales normally drop in the week after Easier. In the week ended April 11, the figures, when compiled." will probably show a dip under 1963 sales becau.se that was the 1963 Easter week.

So the pattern.so far indicates that gains .In. sales have been affected as much by the early Easter as they have been by the tax cut.

ME R(HANTS PLANNING

chants problem is to get consumers to put their extra dollars in goods and services Instead of Into savings and the stock market.

Incidentally. retail sales sales from April 25 . to May 30 last year ran $200 million a week over correspond i n g weeks in 1%2. and there was no tax cut last year.

Here are more look-aheads in business:

Horse racing Is now the sport of governors because it brings in n lot of tax dollars. St. Joseph eMo.)

ACTION*

Most merchants will give the sales pattern a little l(Higer to work out. Then if sales do not show a marked margin above 1963 figures, there will be a great step-up in advertising and promotions. The uioney is there;*toe mer-

Falr to rescue hotels: Occupancy of New York Chty hotels has fallen every year since 1945, Despite that, there has been a great surge of building new luxury hotels and motor inns in the city. But' the ri.se In visitors because of the Fair, coupled with rises in rates, will pull most of the hotels and iin out of the red this year and next.

New foreign car boom: Foreign car sales have been lagging since American manu-factupers brought 'out compacts. However, the fore 1 g n makers are watching United Autow 0 r k e r s negotiations closely, and If strikes come with August, there will be a burst of foreign cars in show-

Auto inventories rising:.

Most auto dealers are cautiously building up Inventories against the possibility of a strike this summer. A long strike will stiffen .pew - car prices. But if there is no strike, or only a short one, there will be bargains as dealers try to get rid of inventories. especially slpce the 1965 models will be'tlaarly. Note: If the^ AutbWorkers demands are so much that makers calculate that they must raise prices, they are likely to take a strike to give the public the impression that they resisted both higher Wages.and higher prices.

Steel shortage; Steel, especially structural steel, may be in tight supply by fall. Building and construction plans, inspired by the corporaticm tax cut;-are already swelling de mand. Steel magazine reports that demands may be beyond anything experienced In the present market.

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DEALERS STOCKING UP

More steel imports: Foreign, suppliers are also watch i n g' the steel situation and. if steel becomes scarce or much higher in price, there will be plenty coming In from abroad, New drop in unemploy-

OLD PROMOTER PLANS INDOOR SLIPPER LINE We beat the Japanese, didnt we? the Old Promoter demanded on his visit today. Of course. ^

Then why arent we enti^ ed to take over one of their most sensible' custom? he went on. I mean the custom of taking off outdoor shoes when one enters a home or restaurant.' Its both comfor-table and sanitary. If I can raise the capital. Im going to start making a Itoe of slippers people can change into gitoig indoors. Not those Japanese things with high wooden soles, but ccHnfortable slip - in affairs. something like those old Congressional gaiters.

The Old One's idea Is good, even if he cant raise the monejr.

ment: Coming^ government figures for April 'will show a considerable drop in unemployment. tartly seasonable, partly because of the tax cut. The New York Worlds Fair will help, too. While Pair employment Is limited, the second- '

ary effects in the hotel, transportation, travel, food and other service Industries will be enormous.