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Msy , 1964

President EchoediAn 'N.C.

President Johnson said many things concerninj his anti-poyerty program during his visit to eastern North Carolina. But throgh it &\l ran the keynote that education and opportunity wilt^ruvide the combination for leading individuals and areas out of the poverty cycle.

Listening* to the Presidept^one might liavtT thought he was hearing a new arrangment of the old theme that has become so familiar to the ears

me

where there are better job opportunities^ ih \4iich they might use their talents. Secondly, they point out that many of those who decide to stay in their nati\e do not have^the skills to commanc

good jofjs. or the job opportunities are not available in which tney may use their highest skills, x' ha>tern North Carolina, we think, has come to retognue it must improve the quality of educational opportunity it is offering its young people.

wrinkles, new points of emphasis, new overtones. But the central theme remained the same.

Many of the underdeveloped couniies of North Carolina have seen two primary factors on their plight. First, they point out that the piost capable of their young people, after having completed their education, find opportunitiCivJimited in their native counties and move to other areas or other states

Warmth In' The

ohnson

By WILLIAM AT SHIRES VISIT President Lyndon B. Johnson arrived late and aiayed later.

And the throngs lining the route 0 the presidential motorcade to the spotlighted, \nhite fronted city hall in downtown Rocky Mount loved It. They cheered, shoutedr waved and applauded.

Bands were playing a n d banners were ilyhig.(ypolice estimated the crowds^ along the way at 12.5,(XKi people. Thats more than the combined populations of both Nash and Edgecombe counties.

It wa.s getting dark when

of President of the United States and curiosity be g a n meltiftg Into warmth for Lyndon B. Johnson the man.'

The crowd liked his folk s y style and plain talk and camp meeting fervor when he talked about poverty and giving the poor a break.

There was sincerity and pleading and determination in what he said, and many of these people were seeing and hearing this in Lyndon John.son for the first time. They decided then and there that he was talking their language.

He talked about farming and being poor, and being caught

the preaklehl ftaally reach e d -downtown Rocky Mount and he was about an hour behind his schedule then. The sun went down while he was out

farm prices being- too low and operating costs tod high. He talked about what moth e r s want for their children.

of Tar Heels in recent years. There were- new Af fhe same time it must provid^ new training for

tho.se who did not take full advantage of the educational opportunities they have had.

As thi.s is being done theYe mu.st also be developed new employment opportunities that will enable these people to be gainfully employed within the area in jobs that mea.sure up to their .skills.

Eastern North Carolina still has a long way to go in many of its .schools to provide the calibre of education needed its young people. It also has a long way t( go in .seeing that sufficent job opportunities are provided for its citizens who at the present are either unemployed or under-employed.

The theme the President used Thursday was one w'hich has been ringing in North Carolina for year.s. His visit added new emphasis to the urgency of filling these needs long recognized in the state.

School Support Sound Basis For Judgment

Citizen.s of every county of this state should take careful note of what happeneti to the request by Davidson County for one of the comprehensive community colleges being e.stablisbed about the state.

At the meeting of the Stale Board of Education last week the C^munity College Committee deferred the Davidson County request because, in its words, the county^^ranks well below the state average -in .sui)port^of its public schools.

No doubt the citizens of Davidson County vC^hre disappointed, and perhaps irritated by the action. Particularly so in view of the fact that approval w'ak given for the estahli.shmnntof -comnwnity-colleges in Lenoir and Rutherford Counties. The people of the state as a whole, however, should applaud the action or lack thereof by the committee of the State Board of Education.

The community college system is certain to be an important part of higher education in North Carolina in the years to come. Under the plan of organization for these colleges, a large measure of the re.spoiisibility for their operation will rest with" the counties in which they are located. A county in which the people have shown better than average support for their' public schools in the paat may be expected, to lend support not only to the public schools but to a community college as well in the future. In those counties where support of the public schools has been indifferent, there is always the cTiance that pubTfc support for additional educational facilities may likewise be indifferent in the future. N/ . /

The action of the Committee on Community Colleges suggests that the committee has taken the view that action of a county in the pa.st .speaks louder than words of those reprcsenting-the countys effort-to aeuuire^ c-ollege. In tiie interest

of better education in North Carolina, nd ip^ the intore.st of the wi.sest possihle investment of funds available for th,e c<)mmurtify college system, it is the attitude the State Board of Highel' Education should take.

Agriculture Is 3eina Studiec.

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Thatx$50 Million Action

In the country visiting sharecropper William David Marlow on a dirt rwtd farm near Eas-onburg.

On the way Into town, John-, on stopped the motorc a d e , and got and walked along the

* roadside shaking hands.

* It drives the Secret Service wild but Johnson likes to do

o this. He did the same thing

* back in the Pall of 1962 when ^ he was vice president and on , a political tour of the states

Ninth District. He hopped

* from his car on the outskirts ^ of Salisbury to shake hands

* and say hello all around.

* ENTHUSIASM - It was the

* first visit of a president to , Rocky Mount w'hile In (rfflce, t and police said LBJ attracted ' the biggest crowd in history of

* the city.

Some 50,000 or more jam-

* med Cpter street which was

* roped off in front of City . Hall.

* The motorcade and entour-" age of four big buses, and j Becret-Serv4ce^~-merv lojrLn-g-

along beside the cars, moved slowly into the jam packed

* streets and Johnson waved to the crowds.

There were many babies In

* arms and small children on the shoulders of their fathers and tugging at the hands of their

- mothers. They listened on loudspeakers rigged outs i d e

* while Gov. Terry Sanford and the pre.sident talked about pov-

- erty prop t arns in an upstairs courtroom. Linda Bird John-

son, the presidents daughter had a few words for the teen-

apers and young people too.

i Then the presidential party and the governor and state clipnataries came outside to a

* platform on the street for

- Johnsons speech. A lot of peo-

* pie missed upper, but they waited to hear it.

A few blocks dovra the railroad tracks which split Center Street, gn Atlantic Coast Line train was held at the station for the president to ' finish speaking.

SPEECH After fiddlhig with the microphones for a

- minute or two, the president . began speaking. And what had

been enthusiasm for the office

Hr^alked about the-La-vft> family he had vi.sited out. on the flrt road near Easonburg.

POLITICAL It was political but John.son made no bones about that, either. He pleaded for political support for his anti poverty program in Congress, and singled out Rep. Harold D. Cooley who is embattled in a campaign . for re-election ~ as a champion of the federal food stamp program.

The Marlow family which the president had visited has participated in the food stamp Pilot program in Nash County, which is Cooleys home,

Johnson had warm words too for Governor Sanford and praise ior SantoriTs JmUatiye^ and fore.slght in develop i n g state programs to com bat poverty on many fronts.

But primarily Johnson was pumping for support of his administration and LBJ p r o-grams on the federal level. I, was a large helping of pure Lyndon B. John.son. both the

A few weeks ago 20th Cen--turyrEox^Announced they were suing Elizabeth Taylor' and' Richard Burton for $50 mii-li(m in damages in ccmnectlon with the motion picture of Cleopatra. The couple were charged with preach of contract and difpreciating t h c commercial >4lue of the movie by their ffcandalous conduct before, arid during, the filming of the movie.

When the news was published, Bob Hope said, Gee, thats going to spoil their honeymoon.

As (me of the many combat correspondents who covered the sinking of Cleopatra from beginning to end, we were deitainly interested in the figure 20th came up with. All of us In R(ime knew the Elizabeth Taylor - Burton romance WAS hot one, but we never fg^red It was WArth $50 million./'.;;\>'

So wf went back over our notes to see if the $50 million

w;as Justified.

There was one night t h e coupia went out in Epme^ and Mr, Burton almost socked ah Italian photographer. That certainly was worth $5 million to 20th. Then there was another evening when several reporters tried to climb over Miss Taylors stone wall while Mr. Burton was presumed to be in the house. That was worth $3.500.000 of injury to the reputation of the picture.

On another occasion the couple went for a picnic to the beach with Miss Taylors children. This cost 20th $4.-900.000 in bad publicity.

And then there was that week end when they went off together and Miss Taylor came back with a swollen eye. We put dow'n $6,100,000 for that incident.

Of course, the big damage w as done when they were photographed on a raft together. This WAS terribly costly to the studio and probably re-

' man 'and th^'politiciari. It was strong medicine.

MARLOWS A fleet of big Marine Corps Jet helicopt e t ,s brought the president and his party whirring into Nash Coun-iy from Seymour Johnson APB at Goldsboro. It reached the sharecroppers home and an adjacent hayfield just as the suns last rays slanted through the pines at the edge of the cleared land.

Johnson alighted and walked down the dirt road to the house where Marlow', 39. lives with his wife, his mother and seveii children on a cash income of about $1,500 a year. The president, his daugh ter and Gov. Sanford went in the house.

After they stayed longer than expected, someone in the crow'd of newsmen waiting outside said he believed that Marlow probably had a pack of-beagles .and theyre talking about going hunting.

When he finally cam e out. Johnson looked briefly at the collard patch behind the clapboard houvsc.* /

They may want him to siay for supper, someone ^d.

suited in their losing $7,800,-000 in business.

When Eddie Fisher left Rome~aTiiL^s?r Taylor -refused to an.swer his teleph one calls, 20th went into a spin. It was a $2,200,000 breach of contract.

Then there were the love scenes at the studio, and W'hile the pre.ss agents pretended they were good for the picture, and that people would break down the doors of the theaters to see them on the ./-screen, we knew all along it was costing the Pox people embarrassment to the tune of possibly $5 million.

Then we had several miscellaneous items marked down, such as the couples being photographed in Roman night clubs, holding hands on the set, and walking down the Via Venetb. Under miscellaneous, we noted $6 million damages.

But this only comes to about $40 million, and for the life of us we cant figure why 20th tacked on another $10 million.

Were sure the studio, who would never take advantage of --a puhlicity stunt, can justify

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1%4, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

This is the year of the noncandidate in politics. It is al.*^o the year of the non-award in Pultizer prizes. No play, no novel and no musical composition were Judged .worthy of Pulitzer honors,

There is, of course, no disputing tastes, but I find tlM growing tendency of the Pulitzer trustees to skip awards in controversial cases to be just one more manifestation of tht timidity that is coming to pre^ vail more and more in aca* demlc and cultural circles. Unusual teachers are not wanted (see the Tufts treatment of Professor Woodrow Wils(Mi Sayre). Dance choreographers who work in the indigenous American giAin are passed over in favor of stereotjq)ed European ballet (see the Ford Foundations refusal to aid anybody in the newer American tradition when it Is giving away Its millions). We live in an agt of Establishraents very mucH like the Greeks of the late Hel* lenlc period who could only at tempt to imitate what had had vitality in the brave Periciean days.

I didnt see many plays during 1963, but Arthur Miller^ After the Pall was certainly worth a Pulitzer Prize if there werent better bits of dramatic writing around. Quita Aside-from-the^uestion of tasta (Mr. Miller may have rushed things a bit in putting episodes from the life of his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, on the stage), After the Fall happens to ha the only mature play Mr. Miller has ever written. It marked Mr, Millers emancipation from an old tendency to .sea human life in-4erms_of the popular Leftist cliches thaT'sb^C'-

muse the modem intellectuals. Inasmuch as Mr. Miller never fails to be theatrically effective, it must rank as quite an oversight that such a combination of good thinking and good drama as After the Fall should be considered non-award material.

The failure to honor Arthur Miller WAS quite in line with the Pulitzer refusal to give the 1962 prize to Edward Albces Who's Afraid of Virg i n i a Woolf? Admittedly, the Albce play wallowed a bit in the gutter through a couple of acts^ but it ended up on a grand note of compassion. Like th Miller play, it sent you home

furiously thinking.......

The refusal of the P'uilzef board to give the 1963 novel award to Mary McCarthy for The Group is another example of timorousness. Like Mr. Miller, Miss McCarthy is a refugee from Leftist cliche thinking.

Campaign Yet To ,Je

it or they never woOltnrave ^_4onXjuppose that Miss

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

In 1940, one out of three jobs in the South was a farm job. Today, about one put of 10 Southern families are non-farm familie.s, yet agriculture Is a-growing and increasingly complex industry.

American agrtculture stands as a martiel of cientic accomplishment. n efficient farming practices and sWam-(lined food production. Our colleges of agriculture have played a major_{X)le in that accom-plishmenti^ut with the chanjjcs'" in this field particularly in-the pa.st 30 years higher institutions that deal with agriculture have had to re-examine and re-vamp their curricula and philasophy.

For example. Virginia Polytechnic IiustiUiie reports that more than half of its freshmen studying agriculture come from non-farin homes; and only 12 per cet of the VPI students graduating in agriculture return to the farm. Nevertheless. there are plenty of non-fann agi iculiinal jobs foe- its graduates, this InstituticBi reports.

A national study, supported by a Carnegie Corporal i o n grant and headquartered at the University of Maryland, alms to define the current teaching, >rest'arch and extension activi-

ites of those colleges of agriculture that are a part of land-grant universities. Its finding will influence all institutions offering, tiAlning in agriculture, including some 35 located in the South.

Both the agriculture that the colleges have served and the universities of which these colleges are a part have changed radically during the past two decades, explains '"Dr.

Charles E. Kellogg^ Uv S-partpient of Agriculture offi-'Cial on leave to direct the* study. When the colleges were established, the words agilcul-ture and farming were nearly synonymous." '

The aim of these colleges was mainly the application of the natural sciences to Improved farm production.

Now, Dr. Kellogg believes, new concerns are indicated for colleges of agriculture because some of the principles that brought great agricultural efficiency can be applied to .wafer cqntrol, conservation, the use ef'land for recreation and residential development and other purposes.

The South has felt the technological and organizational revolutions in agriculture later than the rest of the nation. Recently, North Carolina Slate (Continued On Page 5)

(Hen<derson Disptach)

In asking opinions as to the relative stan(ling at tiiis time , of the three leading candidates for goveraor, much de-pehds upon the person to whom o^e is talking. Whatever their felative pofiiti(Mi as of now, it might and may shift by the date of the primary on May 30. a little more than three weeks aways* It is probably as logical to conclude that the campaign Ttis not altogether jelled as yet.

Richafdson Preyer was off to a fast,:ltart after announcing his candidacy last fall. Judge Dan l^oore did not move quite as ybidly; and Dr. I. Beverly L^e, long considered a can-0date, /lid not formally announce himself until after the other two had officially ente^ ed the ccaitest.

.^Opinions differ as to the head man at present. There is fairly general agreement that a second primary w'lll be necessary to determine the Democratic nominee for the November election.

Many people claim that Pieyer will lead and be in the run-off with either Moore or Lake. Partisans of Moore and Lake W'lll tell you their man will lead in the first election, and some go so far as to claim that the run-off w ill be between those two.

This does not throw much light on the situation as of this

date. It does indicate that the status just nowr is to some extent a toss-up. No one has sufficient actual knowledge to make a definite prediction that would stand up. Only the balloting will give the total answer.

Results on election night w'ill be watched with the keenest interest. Apparently the 1 i n e s are not as tightly drawn as in some former gubeniatorial campaigns. People are talking but popular sentiment has not been stirred to the degree it was cm some former occasions prior to the primary. A good deal of heat, naturally, will be generated in the next three weeks as decision day approaches.

It Is difficult to reach a conclusion at this time. All the candidates are active and. if possible, wUl step up their tempo well before the voting. At least on the surface, a 11 three, together with thejr staunch supporters, are bubbling over with confidence. Their outgivings W'ill not change materially from here on. But it will be possible to haza r d guesses with a somew'hat greater measure of confidence, and possibly even accuracy, a few days before the primary. Even last - minute forecasts, however, can mlscue or backfire-wlth the counting of the ballots the night of May 30.

started the suit We also owe the executives at 20th Century - Fox an apology. During the filming of the picture, one of the top men said to us. This picture, in spite of everytnmg, will make $1(K) million.

We scoffed.%,Vlhe,.time.,but wha''. we didnt know wa.s that Fox planned to -get back $.50 million of it by suing t h e stars.

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"A mans wish to own 11 the land he can see from his door has not been an uncommon characteristic in the frontier and it has inspired the labors of a host. The Durham Herald.

Sabin On Sunday

McCarthy 'relisherr-being told that she is a sound exponenet of conservative values, for she still maintains her friendships with many of the people whose mental processes she ridicules in her fiction. Nevertheless, The Group offers a judgment on the sort of education that passes for liberalism in an era that has spurned our traditional moralities.

For several years in t h Nineteen Forties this columnist served on the Pulitzer fiction award committee. We considered many a novel that was nowhere near as good as Miss McCarthys work. Sometimes the final Pulitzer judges turned down our recommendations:

I remember that in one instance they picked James Mi-cheners Tales Prom the South Pacific which we had rejected. We offered no complaints, for Tales From the South Pacific at least had good entertainment-value. Th Group happens to have entertainment value, too, as its long continuation at the top of the best seller lists attests. But it is also a serious, thought-provoking work. Can the Pul-iteer board afford to skip a novel like The Group merely because it doe.sn't shape up as something to compete with Tolstoy or Sinclair Lewis or whoever?' '

The Pulitzer judges gave a prize to Richard Hofstadter for his historiQal work, Anti-In-tellectualism in American Life.

. (Continued on PSge 51

More Glimpses' Into Th^ Future

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-Strength For To(day

B> KARL L. DOl (iL.ASS PKESKM-DAV ( HADS

The particular period of time through w hich we happi'ii to l>e pu.ssing apix ars to many of us to Ih* the mo.si disordered eia we have known for lieeade.s, probably for a lifetime.

Why Is this: One reason,of course, is that we' are liying cUrsi'r together. We live eloser together 1u our large cities. Rapid transportation assembles tis'^iickly into groups.

There is a political reason also why there is more rii.sorder in llie \\(Uid. 'rite ITiiited .Nations gio's earti natiou^one vote In the General Asaiembly. which means that nations having oly a few luuuhed thousand inhal)itanls have equal right.s with the lreesl naiioh.s' on earth.

, To say till? is ii(i to t'a; > coudenmation oa the 'Uohed

Nations. There Is real hope for this organization, and the fu-inre .would be grim indeed if it wi're not for this international body. But It also ha its drawiiacks. especially for the large and powerful nations.

The end of this disorder.is not yet, and we can all fervently hotie and pray that we will adjust oursclvr.s to new conditions, and press on toward a better Nvorlri order. This should be both our hope and our determination every day.

A.s citizens we can each knd e\(ry due do hi.s or her pait, fo! (he nation la eiiis with Individuals like ourselves. We can ask the help" of G(^ in this great, prpject. He 'who made all tl>e nations Is surly inlerested In the safety of His creaiun.s and in mans irl-uiiip'h ovrr. any cucumlances he may encounter.

By EL.MER ROESSNER

Here are more glimpses over the business horizon;

Cheaper liquor: At the urging of Governor Rockefeller, New York has passed a law prohibiting the price-fixing 6f liquor and requiring suppliers to sell to retailers at prices no higher than sold anywhere else In the country. This will lowi?r prices and tempt other statles to pass similar laws. vei monopoly states may have to do something about their high prices or undergrtHind ' rail roads will pour New York uor into those,states, just is pouring cheap District of Columbia liquor in now..

Mere homehuHding: The sea sonal rise in home building w ill be greater than u.ual t-hts year. Higher personal tncpmfs, falieued l>v Uie tax cut. jls tiuilding up deniami. ' I

Noisy lampshades; A line of lampshades 'With bidlt-ln loudspeakers will shortly be Intr'o-

diued . . I

AIKWVE PIRATE.S , ;i ' Elertrtiidr invaders:. Succes.s of broadcasting statibus on

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liQ' ai it

ships off the cost of Europe will have Americah enterprisers w'eighing plans to imitate them. Theae pirates beam in radio programs and advertising unfettered by ng.tional law. Ships lying off American coasts could also telecast programs and ads on channels of their own choosing. However, get-ting live programs, movies and other .satisfactory entertainment might lie difficult.

Cracking jawbones: P r e s 1-dent Johnsons campaign to get..business to lower instead of raise prices will fail. This Is a Ijawbonc campaign, they are bnb spoken words ijchind it. Prices caniiot be held down wlthaul Congressional act 1 o n. ind Congress won't act.

Hence prices, along with wag-e.s, ^Wlll continue their upward tiCml.*

Sleel record; Steel demand is^ so strtMig that this will be the peak month of the first half of this jear. Earlier predictions here that a new^ reqord w ill .set this year afe suj'er than rvrr, V

B E.S5 t R ACKDO VVNS

COMING

More anti-tru

torney General dy is on anti-tiTist coming to heads

st drives: At-Robcrt Kenne,-an Li^J spot. More investjigations are and the White

House has indijcated t h e r e should be no leit-up in indictments. If Kennedy falls to get indictments, Johnsonites w i 11

have more ammi

inition In their

campaign to keep him our ijd tlie Vice Pi-esidepcy, If he ge^$ indictments, Johin.sonites w'1II say Kennedji, not LBJ is ,tough on business.

. More cbnstruction: The ris

In construction in March, plus

, commuter lines will IncreatSt tljja investment. ' ^

dlD promoter WOl ld , AID OTHER CARIBBEAN ISLES

Dean RUsk hasnt asked ^e. the Old Promoter said on mis weekly visit today, but I have a plan to undermine Castro/" 4

We alDhave those things,*^ I said. Im smoking Mexican cigars.

He ignored me. My plan Is to build up the attraction.^ of those other lovely Cariblx'au -i Islands. Let's get Pan Amcj-i-cantq build hotels on all of

Hartford to build a report on every" beautiful beach. Lets make Diners Club cards good in .every tap room ,from th Bahapia's tq 'Trinidad. Let's ('lU tlie duty on CaritjU an rum.

the increase, in contracts fpp /rthem Lets pet Huntington months ahead, Insura the pire^ diction that construction ,w 1*11 reach a new high this year.

Railroad spending rising'

Will) a liopq of .saving.s l)v thpV reduction of featlierhcdding, plus what may be a more ie|-lent attitude toward rpergert. railroads are 'increasing their spending fcir cars and equi^ ment.vOrdOrs for new cars have been running more ihqn 40 per cent over last .vear. Atjiy real goverument action to aid

islanders to of sUgar

and help aU thase Improve productlo|i and coffee.,The richer the other islanders get,-the poorer the

aibans ^w^ become, and the akicr,'will' be Ca.siros rule.

Arc JU listening,. Dean Rusk?

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