Thursday, April 23, 1964

Vifond^rfuf-VIHzanlt Of Wastiingfdn

Door Left Ajar By Economizing

For all that may*be said about the cut-back in production of nuclear explosives, perhaps the moi?t significant is that both President Johnson and Premier Khrushchev have come to the concltjsion that their respective countries should produce fto more than they think .they need. -

It is evident that President Johnson came to the conclusion some weeks ago that the rate of production of nuclear materials by the United States far exceeded the nations needs. Rather than continue to produce and stockpile the material far beyond any needs which could be anticipated, the President reached the decision that production should be curtailed. Evidently Premier Khrushchev reacted to President John.sons decision by staling that Soviet production of material for nuclear

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES DIAGONAL It Ls being demon.stnted again rather vl* vldly that hlghwayi pack a powerful -potttlcal waUop in North Carolina.

The ca.sc In point Ls Sen. Robert Lee Humber'a proposal for an Interstate Eastern Dlagcmal highway, a proj e c t which at best might not materialize for eight to 10 years. Yet this Instantly boiled up tal fresh controversy, feeding on sectional jealou.sles and previous commitments.

It brought outcries and protests from both expected and unexpected quarters and for a wide range of reasons. A groat many of these were political.

It has been called impracU-cal. a pipe dream and a hollow political promise," a reference to an endorsement of the project Humber extracted from Oov, Terry Sanford.

POLITICAL The fact la that Senator Humber himself is a political candidate with primary oppo.sltlon and advantages of the Eastern Diagonal find favor in the erne smator district of Pitt County.

But this local situation affecting Humber personally is pale In comparison to the political overUmes and implications seized upon elsew here acrovss the state.

The key to this lay in a letter from Sanford telling Humber that I endorse this pro-pasal. and have requested the State Highway Commission to take the necessary steps to recommend the Inclusion of this highway (Norfolk to Pay-ettevUle) In the interstate highway system."

This makes clear that San-1 ford finds favor with the Eastern Diagonal. The thing to remember, according to sources close to the governor,

Ls that he did not attach priority to the project.

DISSENT The first dissent to Humber's proposed Eastern Diagonal came not from promoters of the rival U. 8. 17 Ocean Highway bn from a newspaper In the

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Sharp-eyed editor Jay Hu.s-kln.s of the Statesville Record and Landmark, a day before outcry wa.s raised by U. S.

17 promoters. WTote this: Senator Humber's proposal deserves close scrutlng, not so much because of the things It would do as the things It wouldnt do."

For several years now ef-foits have been underway to obtain an East-West interstate highway (across North Carolina). . .the only state in the union which does not have an Interstate highway Unking Us population - Industrial areas with Its seaports.

Husklns contended that the Eastern Diagonal might prove a tremendous boost to Norfolk as a port, but It W'ould not help either of North Carolina's ports or Its great ma.ss of people."

This was a voice in the Piedmont placing priority on an East-West superhighw a y. rt- mirMiif'm -------- msm,

The second strenous dis s e n t came frrtm the U. S. 17 interests pushing a project to four-lane the north - south coastal route.

PRIORITY - Rep. Alden Baker of Elizabeth City, who la also opposed for re-election in the primary, rushed to aee the governor on behalf of U.S. 17,

Baker, after a conference with Sanford, said top admin-IstrftUon priority atlU lies with four-lanlnf of . S. 17. He obtained a letter from 8anf0rd stating that this project has proceeded beyond the prtmary stages, and wlU be started before any new federal inter-tale program can be enacted. I have made it clear to ^the highway commisaion that we ore to move as rapidly as possible to have XJ. 8. 17 four* laned In Its entire length acroee North Carolina. ^

Ctmtracts are echeduled for letting this month for f o u r-lanlng of U. S. 17 through Washington, N. C. Albemarle area intere.-sts. with Elizabeth City mayor Levin Culpepper M spokesman, are plugging for a 40-mIle Interstate spur leading from the new Chesapeake Bay bridge - tunnel to U. fl. 17 in the Elizabeth City area.

After establishing priority for four - lanlng U. S. 17. Sanfords letter to Baker added, I see nothing tnconslst e n t now in also looking at U. S. 1.3 and think We should. This is my posltlMi." . 8. 13 is .situated almg the route of Humber's proposed East e r n Dlagcmal.

C0NP8ED Immediate effect of the controversy stirred by the Humber prcH^osal appeared to leave everybody In a state of confusion.

Qubematorlal candidate Dan K. Moore, who includes 8an-foi*d in almost oU of his attacks <Mi rival candidate L. Richardson Preyer, occus e d Sanford of making a secret commitment" to gain support for Preyer along the . S. 13 route while Preyer was promising priority to four - lanlng of U. S. 17.

The Fayetteville Observor noted editorially that the Eastern Diagonal endorsement by Sanford "butts heads'* politically with PTeyer's endorsement for four - lanlng U. S. 17. Of immediate politic a 1 Impact," the new.spaper said, is an Import that there is something less than the complete rapport between Governor Banford and Candid ate Preyer, alleged by opponents of Candidate Preyer.

Humber, meanwhile, said he saw no basis for "conflict In his proposal, that to four-lane . S. 17 and for an E a s t-West superhighway from the ports to the mountains. H i s interest, he said, was to .stimulate economic opportunity and development for Eastern North Carolina and felt that the vaiious pro.iects. In their proper place and role, all are needed and would compliment each other in an overall pro-gram.

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weapons would likewise be cut back.

For the Soviet leader to react otherwise to the announcement he knew the President was going to make would have been for him to concede that the Soviets felt thy were short of nuclear weapons, or else they were unwilling to curtail production even though they had more than they needed. Neither position would be tenable for Khrushchev.

Small though it may be, the cut-back in nuclear production puts a.iar the door which has been shut tight so far as further progress toward a disarmament agreement is concerned. It i.s the first significant change in the policy of either nation with regard to military preparedness in many"month.s.

It is to be assumed that both the United States and the Soviets will continue to produce materials for nuclear weapons. It must be as.sumed that they will continue to produce the weapons themselves. The only c}iange Is in the rate at whjch the weapons will be produced.

Though the step may not ease International

tension or reduce the threat of a nuclear conflagration some day engulfing the world, it-at lea.st will reduce the cost of each nation having more than a sufficient supply of nuclear weapons to destroy the other. . ^

Time Is Ripe For New Major Effort In East

If Eastern North Carolina is to take full advantage of the anticipated growth in its industrial development during the remainder of this decade, it must give more, rather than le.ss, attention to its efforts to attract industry.

The area of the state must give more attention to the development of home-grown industries, a phase of economic development to which far too little attention has been given in the past.

When projected figures suggest that the ea.s-tern section will experience a greater industrial growth during the remainder of this decade than any other section of the state, it cannot help but create excitement in thi.s area. But in order for the growth to be realized, this excitement mu.st In turn stimulate greater efforts on the part of communities, counties and the area as a whole to prove the stati.stlcs to be right.

In spite of what projected statistics may show% Eastern North Carolina cannot expect to sit back for the next few' years and W'atch new Industrial plants fall into its lap. That w'ould be the sure.st w'ay to guarantee that the section would be last rather than fir.st in the rate of indu.strial development during the next several year.s.

If. as the projected figures indicate, the time is ripe for eastern North Carofina to experience a period of unprecedented industrial growth, the time is also ripe for the area to put forth an unprecedented effort to assure that this grov\th becomes a reality.

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By HAL BOYLE

7hose Were THe Days

NEW YORK (AP) Forget now. There's always time to worry about it later.

Lets take another walk dow^n Memory Lane, a sentimental stroll back through the time that was years of glory and dream that passed our way but once.

Remember when?

Girls carried their coins knotted in the end of a handkerchief.

ohnson Usina

Farming was a long duel between the purpose of a man and the stubbornness of a flopeared mule.

Every ambitious Amerjcans goal was to found a small business oi his ow'n and then make it grow bigger.

An Intellectual radical was a fellow who bragged publicly In the barber shop while getting his hair cut on Saturday night that he believed in the theory of evolution, and that

there were worse things in life than having apes for cousins on your family tree.

Men worked so hard they worried more about their feet than women do now. They took off their shoes at every opportunity.

What real estate dealers now call family rooms or dens were then known as rumpus rooms usually just a glamorized place in the basement.

A big spender was a g u y who bought IP-cent cigars on pay-days histead of the unual six-for-a-quarter brand; a sport wa.s a fellow who could light a kitchen match with his thumbnail Instead of striking it on the seat of his pants.

A well-to-do family in a small town had one dog; a poor family had two; a shift-le.ss family might have up to half a d(en.

A banker would have thought

you were out of your head if you asked for a personal loan in order to go on a vacation trip.

Americans thought the Eng-glish dreadfully quaint and inefficient because they had tea breaks twice a day during office working hours.

The nation had more bams thai garages.

The best known form of automation was the penny gum machine.

A girl who wore mascara at a dance usually was planning to leave town anyway.

You could always draw a big crowd at a county fair by holding a flagpole sitting con-testor announcing that William Jennings Bryan would speak.

Those were the days: Remember?

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By JAME8 MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)~ Watching president Johnson and the Republicans would-be TJi-eiitdents is like watching tr bedside lamp trying to compete for attenticm with an all - night neon sign.

He has been getting bounder and livelier, talking more and more, ever since he moved into the White House, perhaps as his confidence increased. But something which happened recently really seemed to charge his batteries.

He has been a politician 24 hours daily since he came to Congress in 1937 but never more so than w'hen he repeats he jtist "wants~to he president s all the people and indicates he wouldnt think of talking politics until the campaign begins.

President John F. ' Kennedy stayed buey trying to keep the public reminded of him. But in this Johnson is outdoing Kennedy who was a master at it.

Other Editors Saying.

Cake Or Crumbs?

Opinions

In Brie:

While public opinion polls put him away in front of any Republican, la.st Wednesday visiting newspaper editors decided It wa.s not a question of whether he w'ould win in this election year but only by how much.

He has been outdoing himself ever since; A new conference the'next day, a meeting with the editors Friday, a news conference Saturday, handshaking Sunday, a>big foreign policy speech Monday, another news conference Tuesday.

Mo.st of the time on these occasions he made announcement that got headline.s.

The Republicans are whirling around and popping off practically every day.

They criticize him or they offer solutions for the ills here and elsewhere, all the time talkiuf politics, and playing It His advantage Ls that he can play politics without mentioning it.

While they sound like a voice in the hllLs. he gets a big play Just by .saying .something or doing something as Pre.sident. If Its only shaking hands with tourlsUs or walking in the White House roe# iraeden.

This lucky political po.sition of a president In an election year has been tnie of every president but none ever i-e-alized it better than John.son or sought to make more use of it.

He can get more attention just dancing, and he loves to dance, than a Republican presidential hopeful flke Harold Staflsen If he shouted thrmigh a bullhoni all day.

Johnson is probably the greatest White Hou.se dancer since Theodore Roosevelt. If Roo.sevelt danced. If not Roo.se-velt. then it w'ould have to be .someone back in the 19th century.

Although, come to think of It. if Calvin Coolidge danced that would have been an exciting .spectacle.

A good example of how Johnson keeps him.self in the new.s Is to check the front pages of new.spapers for the past two weeks. There was hardly a day when he didn't do or say something to put him there.

He got a lot of mileage out of the threatened rail strike alone: calling labor and management together, getting the .strike pushed off. getting agreement on another 15 days of negotiation, making hopeful statements about the outcome. ... Be.sldes that, and going backward for the past two weeks day by day, here Is part of what Johnson did:

Warned , Ci}ba,. to . dowm American planes flying over to make a check: announced cutback In material for nuclear weapons: shook hands with tourist.s after church: ral.sed the possibility of ending the draft within 10 years (Continued on Page 81

(Hertfiird County Herald) The day when eastern North Carolina could afford petiness in public policy and short term outlooks on economic affairs is past if ever there was such a time. The east is by national standards an underdeveloped area. It is behind in Its economic development and must work hard with all pulling together, If it Is to pull itself up from thlfl backward position.

The announcement last week that an Effort was being made to cross the east with an interstate highway at some distant date brought this need for inter-sectional cooperation Into clear focus. The fact that Dr. Robert Lee Humber had received support in Raleigh for his idea of M3 as backbone of an ea.stem diagonal on the order of the highly prosperous and much talked about piedmont industrial crescent was taken almost as disaster by some. The east desperately needvS more of this type long range thinking and planni n g, yet, hardly was the word announced before some saw it as economic ruin for their bu.v Iness and others saw it as a vague political plot.

Fortunately there are those in responsible position in eastern North Carolina w'ho are able to keep their composure under stress such as news that something good might happen sometime that would be of benefit to someone other than themselves. Two who come to

mind in the hub-bub over 1-13 are Ehzatieth City y o r Levin Culpepper and W. P. Jones, president of Albemarle Area Highway.,^8sociat ion, Edenton. Said ^Ipepper, If the people on U. S. 13 want an interstate route and they can get same, more power to them. And from Jones, Were not mad with a n y-body. I say lets go back to our fishing.

Dr. Humber, w'ho started the whole thing, in his usual eloquent way said. Failure to recognize the solidarity of our economy and the absolute necessity to coordinate our efforts for a common goal will certainly jeopardize the fulfillment of our needs. East e r n North Carolina needs unity. Let u.s pull together. A c o m m o n destiny embraces us all.

All three of these men are right. If the East Is to realize the potential in economic progress that is now being predicted for It in coming years, cooperation is absolutely essential. No one area can advance very far by itself. The sooner it is realized that there is room for more than one major highway across the area, more than one good college or more than one good site for any particular Indu.stry the more likely the prospect of reaping the bright potential. H i g h-ways, schools and indu.stry are necessities. Develop I n g them, is more likely working together for real cake^h a n fighting among our.se)|^jpL>for crumbs.

Some people labor under -the - misconception that the more holes they have in their head the more open-minded they are. Atlanta (Ga.) Journal.

Although a youngster four years at college are sometimes wasted, theres no better Way for a father to get an education. Greenville Piedmont.

Either we the motoring public mu.st recognize our responsibility for fulltime self-enforcement of safe driving laws and attitudes or we must accept our responsibility for the increasing highway casualties. The Durham Herald.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1M4, Kbtf Feataioa gyti^aic, Inc.

No doubt the prlmtrlet in New Hampehlre, Wiiconain. Illinois and elsewhere have a meaning that existe quit# apart from their hard cash yield in specific electoral votes. But the efforts to guess the meaning remlnda one of Mam* lets difficulty when he tries to extract from Polontui ah ou t the shape of a cloud. The cloud was, as any BhakCipeirein knows, almost shaped like a ' camel, but backed like a wea* sel, and also very like a whale.

It was undoubtedly a whale or at least so the majority of pundits said when Henry Cabot Lodge won big against Ooldwater in New Hampshire, But when Ooldwater wm big Senator Margaret Chlse Smith in niinois, It was said to be a weasel. The Arizona senator, ao the pundltlnt had It, should have been beating the lady from Maine by ernnething beta ter than a 70-30 margin.

The question d whether a given vote really represents a weasel or a whale can hardly be determined apart from a ourt knowledge of what motivated the vote. Ouessinf at the cloud shape in New Hampshire, ono might reasonably suppose that Lodga did well because he WAi Lodge, a New Englander from neighboring Massachusetts. In Illinois, however, Mrs. Etanith undoubtedly picked up a'aiiO-able vote not because niinois Republicans want a Malaw lady for President but because even in Ooldwater country* there are people against Gold-water. Mrs. Smith happened to be the protest vote Ughtnlflf rod.

The camel-weasel-whale question Will pose Itself in Qregcm three Weeki from now. If Lodge wins in a Pacific Cofust state, as seems possible. Will it be because he is Lodge? Or will it be because in Oregon, he is just the most available lightning rod to attract anti-Gold-water and anti-Rockefeller feelings? Still another factor in the weasel - whale guessing game is the guesUon of what Oregon iteelf represents. Is It a transplanted New England state, as some people aver who recall that it was a Bost o n skipper, Captain Robert Gray, W'hose fur-trading ship, the Columbia, gave its name to Oregons great river? Or i.s it typically Western? And if it Is the latter, Is it Western In the maverick sense (after all. Oregons William U'ren was the original La Follette-Borah type of Progressive), or is it Western In the sense that Ooldwater's conservative Arixona is Western?

All of these questions must be settled before a weasel-whale dispute in Oregon can be assessed in relation to the national-spectrum. ------

Because of the confusion that results from our chaotic primary laws, pundits should ba extremely circumspect tai their eRorts to pin a shape on thi weasel-whale cloud. Personally, this commentator does not know how to judge the Lodge phenomenon at this point. The Oallup and Harris poll taidlcation# that Lodge is sweeping the county or the Republican piart et the country, at any rate juel doesnt check with the stat#-wide Presidential preference poll recently conducted by th# Ohio Information CCcnmltt4# headed by Roger R. fWrgY president ot the CSnelnnatl With qulrer. The poll drew a fOO-ponse from 2.350 out of 8,080 Ohio civic leaders. 74 perooRl of whwn described themaeltot as Republicans, 13 percent oa Democrats, and IS percent a# independents. Barry GoIdwatOf got 40 percent of the votes for the Republican nomlnati o n , Richard Nixon received 28 cent, Henry Cabot Lodge 13 percent, and George Rotnney t percent. Others presumable including Senator MarfON et Chase &nlth got 2 percoiit.

Does this mean that an influential bloc of Ohio voters Is not typical In denying the nod to Lodge? R could be. But th# vote in Oregtm will not prov# the case for any particular Ro-publlcan unless "we rally know whether the cloud is shaped like a camel, a weasel or a whale.

Tids Tor TRe '-World Fair "Goer

Strength For Today

By KARL U IKIUGLASS GENKRAI. BOOTHS PRFSt'RIf'TWN

At practically every moving picture performance some men and women, at least, shed tears. The pioducers see to it -that they do. Scenes are interspersed through the picture designed to call forth syuipa-thy and touch the emotions. Authon. and public speakers often attempt to aLso, In a quite legitimate fa.'^hion. touch the heart tenderne.ss of their readers and listeners.

But we do not need to go to fiction to have our heart.s touched. There is plenty of tragedy right on our street, in our office, along the bench where we work In the mill, in the biidge club, to call fbrth aiilhe tears

we have. And as a matter of act, what tragedy needs for its healing is not tears, but help.

We often shed tears as we see poverty and suffering depicted on the screen or on the printed page, anti then w-e go out into the sti-eet and rub elbows with It and step over It and are as

*untouched by/it as we would be twigs. General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, had a clear head as well as a godly heart, and he said on one occasion. One pot of hot gruel, two petticoats, and one wool blanketare worth a lake of U'ars.

And beside these words of General Bootl| should be placed the words of 8ur Lord. "If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them.

By EIJVIER ROKSSNER

So youre going to New York to see the fair. Or youre going to New York and pass it up. Here ai-e some tips from a i*eporter who has been rolled and robbed, wined and dined taken and tuckered in New York:

DO get a guide book if you are going to the fair. Plan visits in advance. Thirty minutes in planning may save two hour In foot-wrenching wandering.

DONT buy books of discount tickets until you have seen the fair and know what you want to see. Otherwise, you may wind up with discount coupons for things you wouldn't look at if tliev were free.

GET A RESTING IM.ACE

DO make sure you have co-flrmed hotel reservations during the fair sea.son.

DONT count on moving In with Uncle Elmer; he ,m a y have other guests.

DO buy packaged New Yoik-and-fair'tour if you have not been able to make better

transportation to New York, hotel, and trips to the fair. See your travel agent.

DONT fail to read the agreement and see exactly what you get for your fee. And after arrival, dont accept any substitutions. Insist on everything the agreement calls for.

DO tiust New' York cab drivers. Most are gruff, kindly and some of the mo.st considerate men in the world. But if they ask extra fees, or appear lo taking you around Mayor Wagner's barn, insist that they drive you to the nearest police station, where the officers will set them and you right.

If guides see you making notes, they will ch op the bunk out of their spiels.

REMEMBER SALES TAX DONT forget the New York City levies a sales tax of 4 per cent on all but food and medicine, 5 per cent on meals over $1 and drinks. Plan your shopping- accordingly.

few Indeed, becau.se the CatlK olic Church insists that tho largely Catholic police department crack down. There is no red-light dlstiict.

DONT be afraid of New York cops. If you are In trouble, a.sk a policeman and youll get almo.st fatherly care. If you aie In any danger, scream your head off for a cop.

DO see other things than the fair. Recommended: the top of the Empire State Building, the boat trip around New York, the sightseeing bu.ses. Take pictures and make notes.

DO remember that while the typical New Yorker Is outwardly brusque (he Is afraid of being called as a witness), underneath he i.s the softest touch in the world. If you are lost or broke, a New Yorker will show you the ^ay and may even give you a subway token, and might possibly take you home to meet his family. The people to beware are those, fiwn out of town protending tf be New Yorkers.

DONT listen to pimps who offer to take you to meet girls. Chance.s are they wlll set you up for smuggling. While there are some places ill-

fame In New York, theV are arraogemvnU. Toura I&cludt

DO see hows, art gallerlet, museums and exhibitions in the city as well as the fair. The c(Hicentration of art \n New York City is tremendous.

DONT be tempted by storefront auctl(ms, even though the Wor.st swindlers have been run out of town. But do visit the legitimate art auctiims In the rospectable galleries.

DO add your checks in all restaurants and bars. R^al Nfw Yorkers do and often find errors. Suckers and drunks pay checks without adding.

DONT create a scene if you are overcharged in restain-ants, bars, hotels or stores. Be calm and polut out the error; correction will be made. Remember. many New Yorkers have little schooling and cant add, and to In.sinuate they deliberately have tried to cheat you will only sear their subconsclousoa.