Tuesday, May 5, 1964

Important Study For EachjCiti^en

:Trn";:4A>out Is Fair Play

Extensive evaluation of Pitt Countyschool ystem authorized in April by the County Board of Education is an undertaking In which each citizen of the county should take special and continuing interest

The study should become an important milestone in public education in Pitt County

It is tKe first attempt in many years to seriously, evaluate the organization of the countys school administrative unit with respect to the individual school districts and the separate Greenville school administrative unit. The data which is compiled by the special committee being formed to make the ^study should afford citizens of the county more information in depth on the status of the school system than previously has been available. It will provide members of the county board of education vital information on which to base recommendations that are certain to have a direct and far-reaching influence on the school system for many years 'to come.

In authorizing the study which will be under the direction of A. S. Alford, assistant superintendent of county schools, the Board of (Education "stipulated th^t the committee look into such matters

No Debate, But A Furious Fuss

By WIL1.1AM A. SI1KE.S DEBATE One thing which will be remembered about thus Spring's political campaign will be the furious fussing that went on about a debate.

Whether the three major Democratic candidates for governor ever face each other before the cameras or not. the matter of trying to reach -oa a debate bsr-s-

Candldate Don Badgley of Oreensbojo criticized Strong^s actions in the 1963 General Assembly which Badgley said hurt the Republican minor 11 y in its effots to present a united front on legislative m a t-ters.

Both Gavin and Strong called for relief from the food tax.

SHOT The appearance oL

occupied a good bit of center stage of the campaign for several weeks now.

The only result has been disagreement. In one respect. H has been diversionary. It has added a lot of noise, but accomplished nothing.

In fact, amid all the sound and fury of this disagreement It is possible that some sight of the central Issues has been lost. And time before the May 80 primary*^15 running out.

Several of the state's daily newspapers already have ask-d wh^her anything that could be salvaged at this point would be worth the trouble.

CANDIDATES Negotiations for a so-called grand debate to be aired on a statewide television hookup have been In progress for nearly a month, hitting one snag after another.

The negotiators have been In the spotlight and their names have becwne nearly as well known as the candidates they represent. The candidates themselves, in effect, have been shunted to the sidelines to wait to see what would develop.

The three candidates involved have seized occasion, of course, to make charges and countercharges about attempts to block and scuttle the debate, and hurl accusations of b a d faith.

But debate between them is still unlikely. Chances that a debate program might be arranged at all dimmed considerably last weekend and the negotiators were ready to throw up their hands and call the whole thing off.

GOP The three Republican candidates for govern o r meanwhile appeared on the same platform, spoke and answered questions from an audience last week and the occasion barely .stirred a ripple.

It was not a debate, but there was a joint appearance of the candidates at a p r o-gram at the high school in the Burke County town of G 1 e n Alpine, near Morganton.

Candidate Charles Strong of Greensboro said he favors a statewide liquor referend u m. Robert L. Gavin of Sanf o r d. who was the GOP nominee for governor in 1960, disagreed, sa.vlng he favons the local option system on liquor.

the three Republican gubernatorial candidates was not without at least a minor incident.

A pistol shot was fired at a motor caravan preparing to drive the GOP candidates to Glen Alpine. The incident occurred on the outskirts of Morganton where Republican volunteer workers were stick! n g signs and posters on vehicles In the caravan.

The bullet hit^ the front bumper of one of the cars, a few feet from a man who was pasting stickers on the car. No one was wounded.

JORDAN Sen. B. Everett Jordan has served notice he will oppose any action by the Federal Trade Commission to require labeling of cigarettes as harmful.

Says Jordan, .such action by the FTC would be most dra.s-tic and in my opinion is completely uncalled for on the basis of what Is known at this time, A great deal of vague and unprt)ved information has been spread about tdbacco" 4n recent years, and It would be a mistake to take punitive action against the entire industry until more data Is available.

UTILITY - Utility bodies in both Carolinas have approved rate reductions filed April 8 by Carolina Power and Light Co. which CPL says will save its customers $1.15 million a year.

The new schedule, which is effective as of May 1. makes uniform all residential, commercial and small Industrl a 1 rates over the entire two-state region served by CPL. It also wipes out higher minimum monthly charges for rural customers and equaliz/es minimum monthly bilb at $1.30 for rural and urban custom e r s alike.

DATE ~ Gov. Terry Sanford sought the advice of var-lous county commissioners and other officials and that of .school and legislative leaders on setting the date for a $100 million state school bond issue. The consensus was that Nov. 3. the date of the 1964 general elections, was the best date. There were warnings against calling a special, perhaps costly referendum.

There was agreement too that It might be unwke to schedule It on the same date as any of the primary elec

tions.

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as the cauniy units.finanees, its relationship to the Greenville school administrative unit, facilities and curricula in the county school system and other aspects of school operations.

It must not be expected that such a study will provide a panacea for all the needs of public education in the county. It will not provide the solution to all the problems that face the county now or in the future as greater demands are made year^by-year on its public schools. The study should, however, clearly reflect the most pre.ssing of the public school needs and possible courses that may be taken to overcmbe those needs in the years ahead.

Tho.se who are given the task of conducting the .study will shoulder the awesome responsibility of directly helping to shape the course of ublic education in Pitt County in future years. They will need and should welcome the con.structive assistance of people from every section of the county in conducting the study. .

At Best, The Economy Picture Looks Hopeful

It is too early to measure with any degree of certainty the effect of recent federal income tax rduction.s on either business activity or federal tax revenues on a long term ba.sis.

Report of tax recipts by the federal government for the first three months of the year hold out hope that the experts may have been right in predicting that the decrease in income tax rates will not be reflected in a correspondmg^ decrease in federal revenue.s.

According to official reports, tax collections for the first quarter of this year were up $1.5 billion. The withholding tax reduction which went into effect late in the first quarter had some effect on he amount of revenue received by the government. From the standpoint of overall collections, however, the change in the withTordihgfte could ex

pected to influence greatly the general trend of tax collections for the entire quarter.

Federal tax collections for the second quarter will give a better indication of w^hat effect the withholding tax rate reduction may have on federal revenues in the short term. After the second quarter there may be a better indication of what effect the income tax reduction is having on the base of business across the nation. But even then it will be too early to be eertain how much of the revenue loss from the reduction in the tax rate will be made up through greater employment and a higher level of economic activity. ______

The best that can be said at the moment is that the picture looks hopeful. But you can't tell how a horse will finish the race by watching him break from the starting gate.

ohnson Great Scene-Stealer

S}it4witek tab'

By ART BUGHWALD

Selling Through Fear

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Actors wouldnt like to work with President Johnson. At 55, he is the greatest scene-stealer of our time except maybe for Soviet time except maybe for Soviet Premier Khrushchev and French President De Gaulle.

But Khrushchev at 70 has quieted down and De Gaulle at 75 makes only an occasional appearance.

In the Senate the civil rights fights, weeks old and far from settled, seems as remote as a debate in a cave compared with the single picture of Johnson holding a beagle by Its ears till It yelps.

The United States says it will continue its U2 flights over Cuba, and Khrushchev Insists there will be trouble if he tires, but at the moment that's not half so real as Johnson making a si>eech to people in his garden.

Republicans torment t h e m-vselves wondering about the pres idential chances of Goldwaier. Rockefller, Nixon, Lodge and Scranton but on the day Johnson exceeds the speed limit who remembers about the Republicans?

The Vietnamese war is going badly.' de.^pite all the American help But thats haid to visualize. It's a lot easier to remem-bei^ Johnson on television and radio announcing the end of the rail dispute.

This country wants to s e e democracy in Latin America but, while a new military government runs Brazil with an iron hand, Johnson chewi n g tlie fat with newsmen sticks in . the mind.

The Sovict-Chine.se split may 1)0 one of the turning points in history but. with all its com-of another tax cut. if and may-harder to underetand than Johnson dangling the promise -.-ThrC^pais..

be.

Who is going to remember the dispute with Panama over the Canal Zone, lingering and unsettled, when his head is filled with stories about Johnson dancing?

It is simpler to imagine that picture of his boyhood home, which Johnson says he has hanging in his bedroom, than it is something as big and lumpy as the war on poverty and the medical care bill, now bouncing around on Congress, statement that he rarely reads growing ill will between Greece and Turkey, two American allies. But what that ill wi can mean to the alliance, If it gets bad enough, is a lot vaguer in the memory than the Johnson statement that is rarely reads novels because his mother often used to say: If theyre not true, Im not interested.

De Gaulle keeps on unscrewing the bolts that hold the We.st-em alliance together but the w^ay he does It .slowly and haughtily, doesnt seem half so real as Johnson touring the Appalachian states.

It is harder to understand the dispute In Congress over permitting prayers In publ i c .schools or the day-to-day racial disputes around the country than it is to recall one of Johnson's favorite saying: Come, let us reason together.

Alabamas Gov. George C. Wallace spends weeks In Northern presidential primaries, proving the North has segregationists. too, hut one guess on who captures the eye when Johnson makes one sf>eech at the opening of the Worlds Pair?

The John.son pace, indoors, and outdoors, is enough to make wonder, when they have to stay glued to their books, how he ever finds time for his homework.

The other day we received in the mail a magazine we did not subscribe to. We also received a bill frcHn our favorite credit card company for the magazine. When we called up and protested the bill, w'e w'ere informed that they had sent us a letter the previous month telling us that if they didnt hear from us saying we didnt want the magazine we would automatically be put down for a subscription.

We threw the magazine In the comer with about 100 other items we had been sent without our permlssioi], including books, records, license plates, Indian dolls, bird cages and Christmas cards.

Our wife, who is nervou.s by nature, said, Youre got to send it back.

Who says so?

They do.

Thats how much you

know. I didnt ask for their junk and Im not going to spend the postage to send it back to them.

Im afraid.

They want you to be afraid. They count on It, Theyre selling by fear, we said.

I know were doing something wTong. Im not sure what it is, but we keep getting bills from all those companies and one day somebody Is going to drive up in a police van and take us all away.

In order to calm her we called up a distinguished Washington lawyer, and, after being assured that he wouldnt charge us for the advice, we demanded to know^ our tegal rights in regards to* unsolicited gifts.

What do you do w^hen somebody sends you something you didnt order and demands payment for it or return of the product?

Other Eiditors Saying

East 'Will Outdo Rest

(Goldsboro News-Argus) Ea.stem North Carolina is at the start of a great expansion. Eastern North Carolina today stands at the point where the Piedmont stood at the time this section began to make such splendid growth.

This column has been making this assertion of fact for so long that it sounds like a broken record.

We have pointed out that the regions unexc:elled assets of climate, people, location, water, transportation and raw materials offer background for building an economy equal to that of the rich and populous Piedmont.

In recent days a study of growth for the various sections of North Carolina for the next six years has been is-.sued. It was made by Professor J. C. D. Blaine of the Busine.ss School of the University of North Carolina. The projections were prepared under a grant made by the N.C. Motor Carriers Association, The Blaine report reduces to percentages, based on evaluation of all factors, the prospects for expansion to 1970.

Eastern North Cai'olina leads In all categories cited.

The findings should give encouragement to the new drive forward now getting started in most counties of the section. The report should stimulate all Eastern North Carolina business men to do their part,

to have confidence in their section to cooperate to the end that we may utilize the resources we have.

Here is how the Smithfield Herald sums up the Blaine findings:

Piedmont North Carolina w'ill continue to experience industrial expansion and will continue to be the leading industrial area in the state, but Piedmont industrial growth in the next six' years will be slower than industrial growth In Eastern Carolina.

The East should anticipate a 13 per cent increase hi the number of Industrial plants; the Piedmont. 10 per centji Western Carolina, 8 per cent.

The East should experience a 16 per cent increase in new Industrial investment; the Piedmont. 12 per cent; Western Carolina. 10 per cent. ^

Professor Blaine's proj e c-tions~also indicate that East-cni Carolinas Industrial pay-roE will have a 20 per cent advance between now and 1970; the Piedmonts payroll will rise 12 will increase 10 per .cent.

In making the projections for tlic next six years. Professor Blaine measured indu.s-tri%l growth in North Carolina from 1954 to 1962. The most impressive aspect of the trend i.s the emergence of Eastern Carolina as an industrial region.

Nothing. You dont have to send it back. Nor do you have to pay for it. Of course you cant use it. If you did, that 'would mean you agreed to buy it.

Can I throw It away?

You can after a reasonable amount of time. But it Is your duty to keep the product for the person in case he comes back for it. You also have to keep it in good c(dition.

Do you mean to say If If someone sends me a magazine, I cant locrfc at it. but I have to keep it In case he comes back for it?

Yes, thats the law. Of course you can charge him a storage fee. After all, you are keeping the magazine for him, and It is taking up space. The more magazines you keep for him the higher fee you can charge. Why dont you send them a bill now?

What worries me though is. if I dont pay for the subscription, theyll mark me down as a lousy credit risk.

Good, then you can sue them for slander. If you didnt order something and you refuse to pay for it, they cant very easily say your credit is bad.

The lawyer said that one of the biggest rackets was companies sending out trink e t s under some foundation name and indicating that the p r o-ceeds went to charity. About .30 per cent goes for charity, the rest goes into the pcokets of the sponsors. The whole bu.siness would collapse if people refused to pay for the product and refused to send it back.

Of course, he said, I go dffe step fuither. When I w'ant to get even with someone who has sent me .something I didnt ask for, I take the business reply card or envelope which says, No Postage Stamp Ncc-e.ssary If Mailed In the U. S. and paste it on the largest and heaviest package the Post Office will permit, and send it back to the company. By obligation they have to pay for the postage on the package. I know its a .small thing but I try to strike a blow for freedom w'henever I can.

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A mother of seven boys was .struck by lightning but not seriou.sly injured. It's .surprising that she even noticed it.Bangor (Me.) News.

A fool and his money are always invited places. Oxford Register.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964. King Peaturei Syndicate, Inc.

SenatiK Kenneth Keating. RepubUcan of New York, would like to know who owns tha State Department. As a member of one of the coordinate arms of the federal government, he is, presumably, entitled to a ^ralght answer from another arm. But he finds the effort to get anything that Is meaningful out of Dean Rusks minions Is like punching a feather pillow. Or like asking Casey Stengels wlniwi on the weather.

For almost two months the Senator prodded the State Department on the subject of those Ind(Hiesian military and police people who were, or were not, being trained In the U. S. Then, thinking he had nailed down some positive Informa-tim. he passed the word along to his fellow Senators that sane of the 280 Indonesians to ques(xi were being trained in counter-insurgency which is the latest $64 word for guerilla warfare. Nothing wrong In that, of course. If the Indonesians happened to be prepared to back up U. S. foreign policy. But training In guerilla warfare In the case of Indonesia means setting things up for boss man Sukarno to threaten our friends in the new federation of Malaysia, which the Indonesians have sworn to destroy.

No sooner had Senator Keating let slip the news about U. S. schooling of the Indonesian soldiers and police than the State Department tried to weasel out of what it had said already. Counter-insurgency. It seems, may not mean gu-erialla warfare; it may merely cover rural rehabilitation in depressed areas. Though the State Departanent did not deny that Indonesians were getting some sort of training In this country, it was not necessarllv In techniques that would bo used against Malaysians. No, indeed. The Indonesian military and police personnel were just getting some instruction in operations and l(lstics, which are never, never, never used In warfare.

The State Department wixild have us believe that Napoleon heard of the subject of operations. Or that Douglas Mac-Arthur would have had to go to the dictionary to look up logistics. If you cant follow this, dont blame Senator Keating. He tried.

More serious than the semantic fog that tops every other kind of fog in the State Departments home of Foggy Bottom is the fact that this nat i o n seems to be forever throwing bommerangs at itself,- The case of the Indonesian rural re-habilitators who will not use a knowledge of operat ions and logistics against Malaysia (no, indeed) is just the latest in a line of U. S. boo boos. Before we ever had rural rehabilitators we had agrarian reformers in gred China. And it wasnt many years ago that we provided the Cuban dictator Batista with some T-33 jet trainers. With beautiful consistency, however, we refused to provide Batista with enough ammunition to make his T-33s effective. Never mind; the State of Israel let Batista have some ammunition. which reached Cuba in unopened U. S. containers.

Thus having hit ourselves with a couple of bommerangs in the T-33s to Batista and the ammunition to Israel, we .*;at back and watched Castro take the T-33vS over. It was the T-3.3s which sank the supply ship which was absolutely indispensable to the anti-Castro Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.

In a recent speech to t h e American Textile Manufacturers in Palm Beach. Chairman Gerald Phillippe of the General Electric "Company mentio n e d U. S. tax money which has been used to rebuild the economics of Europe and Japan. Usl n g the newe.st machinery, t li e We.st Europeans and the Japan-ese now sell us radios, cameras. electronic components and textiles at prices that undercut our own companle.s. Mean while, so Mr. Phillippe told the textile manufacturers, fully-two-thlrds of the metal cutting (Continued on Page Si

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. D01GL,4.SS WHAT WAS IT?

As you look back over your life whether you have lived many years or few what is the tiling that to date you are most proud of? Some have won position in the political world or status in the social world Others have been successful in business Other's a multitude In fact - glory over the fact that thc.v have raised a family in which they take pride.

If you think that in order to be {ilstinguished one has to write a poem or a botfk, or pairit a picture, or make a fortune. or attain high office, then get that out of ,vour mind. I knew a man once who attained considerable prominence but whose greate.st pride was that he could whkstlc on his fingers.

There can be no adequate mea.suiTinent df acliievenrent w hich says that such and .<uch action.s rcKi.ster achicvf m c n t and nthci'.s fiiiUire The whole life of Jesus was a iaiiure

which meant the loss of friends, the regard of the multitudes, and at last shameful execution. Yet thLs Christ who failed .so ignominiously according to human standards is by all odds the most successfirl person that ver lived.

The precious mother who molded the character of Abraham Lincoln was one of the most successful figures in world history. There can be more pride in a squai'e inch of parenthood than there can be in a square mile of political achievement.

Now then think back over the thing you have be^n most proud of in your life.

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Did you hear about the gla,*^.*; bIow,Pr who breathed IN and now has a pane in his .stomach? Wa.shingtoxi Stale Euud Dcalci'.

By EIJWER ROESSNER

President Johnson has said that, luider certain conditions, there will be another tax cut in the futur-e.

How can Republicans beat that as an election promise, imless they offer two tax cuts hr the future? At that, there may be the makings there of a slogan that would guarantee \1ctory: Two pheasants in

every pot, two tax cuts in everybodys futurre.

Everybody loves tax cuts. The main trouble Ls that the cost of governments keeps going up. People are told they want more defense against communism, more medical cai'e for the ill. more prosperity in Appalachia, more victories In Viet Nam. cheaper commutation, bigger shares of rent paid by the government, more psychiatry for Juveniless And told they want them, people .so want If they vvert* told they wanted more passes to the World's Pair, they'd want that, too Maybe they want them withoiii N'ing fold SIlNDLNti L'P. KATES

DOWN

And w here Is the money coming from?

Some, perhaps, could result from cutting other Federal costs. A few shipyards could be closed down, some sergeants could be retired, more postal services could be cut, more lights could be turned off in the White Houae. But government spending can rarely be cut much. A government outlay has a way of becoming permanent. Once started it is almost impossible to stop. Total government budgets have gone up. up, up.

If government spend I n g cannot be cut. and if taxes are to be cut agaii/, the only way to close the gap is by borrowing more money. And this is strictly Inflationary, no matter what anyone else tells 'you.

The dollar has already shiiink to half its former purchasing power and as long as government' spending exceeds government rcvcnuc\s, it-s purchasing' potcer will continue to

HIDDEN TAX

So why not have inflation anddet everybody enjoy it. as the Democrats want? B u t there is no something for nothing in economics. And inflation created by spending more than is taken in is a tax on savers, the holders of insurance policies, annuitants pensioners and others on fixed income.

Purthei-more, there are some serious doubts whether tax cute do all that is expected of them.

The tax cut,as far as withholdings are concerned,- is two months old tomorrow. Corporate net profits are up. General Motors has turned in i t s richest quarter in history. Other companies will show fat gains.

But smaller busi.ncsses and the public dont seem so happy' Thp .fafaricd public, of course, has been xctti::e larger pay cnvciop*^ boran.sc of th" cut in wit}iliold!n*u.s Rut sales have gone up jiltlc, about iJi Ci?nt above the cmu-

parable period In 1963.

sitting it out

For the moment, the public appears to be saving most of its take-home increase. However, saved money can always be spent, and eventually spending may rise. Perhaps even at this moment many families, with larger pay-r checks in their damp fists, are shopping around, trying to decide which auto or which house to buy. Eventually, I am sure, about nine - tenths of the tax cut will go to spending, unless prices start to rise. And If they do, the public in the past .has shown a determination to stay out of a rising market. *

And until we know how instant are the- effects of the present tax cut. we had better urge Congress to delay action on future cute 1 e s s spending is commensurate. If they are not, we may find w a IT paying an awfully high price for the momentary exhilaration a whiff of hvflation can bring.