Wednesday, May 13, 1964

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Constructive Despite Motivations

There can be no question about the politica even though it may prove embarrassing to some of

overtones in the proposal by Republican Senator Chase tha\ each member of the Senate be quizzed mbout any business and political dealings with Bobby Baker.

Even with all its political implications, however, the proposal stimulates the imagination. If it is followed it would offer a first in American politics and a first in the Senate's taking a penetrating look into the activities of its own members. It may bring to light nothing new. On the other hand, it may bring to light some most interesting

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Members * of Congress, Jn carrying out their .official duties, have subjected many citizens to

severe examination on many subjects. While these investigations have at times been subject to criticism, they have brought to public attention a great volume of information on various activities which otherwise would have remained behind a clouded veil. These same investigations have led to enactment of important and much needed legislation.

Perhaps an inquiry such as that proposed by Sen. Chase would also provide constructive results

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

APPOINT In the space of a few hours on Friday, Gov. Terry Sanford will prside at oath - taking oeremon-iea for two members of his cloae official family, the Sanford team, moving into new posts.

The two are Sneed High of Fayetteville who becomes the tates comml^loner of revenue and W. A. Johnson of Lll-Ungton who Is leaving a $17,-500-a-year revenue poat to become a Judge of Superior Court.

Johnson, a longtime personal friend and staunch political supporter, received gubernatorial appointment as revenue commissioner shortly after Sanford took office In 1961. High, from Sanfords home city. Is a veteran Cumberland County legislator and a lead er for Sanford programs in the General Assembly.

The two appointments call attention to the gubernatorial power of appointment which, in absence of the executive veto, gives governors of North Carolina much of their political power.

NUMBER There are literally dozens of gubernatorial appointments by statutory and constitutional authoritysome big and some small.

They range from non-salar-led but Influential and p r e s-ttge"-n?ackerf^obs omthe State -Highway Commission and policy-making board of Cwiserva-tlon and Development to welj-paying top administrative posts and even political offices and judgeships when vacancies occur.

Herein lies patrwiage, which is widely recognized and accepted in political systems of this and other states. But in additlcHi, the extensive power of appointment available to, governors of North Carolina works to assure the chief executive of teamwork and close liaison and understanding in his department to carry out his programs and policies.

NAMES - The Sanford team, like the teams of previous governors is a close-knit one despite its numbers.

The names of various Sanford appointees In execut 1 v e department posts are well known.

In addition to Johnson and now High, they Include director of administration Hugh" Cannon who fw some time also worked a.s budget director. Cannons office is regarded as the most powerful in state govern m e n t s execut 1 v e branch aside from the governor himself, and the director of administration is frequently referred to as the assistant governor. The department Itself was created in the

Hodges administration and the first director was a tcv Hodges aide, Paul Johnston.

Other top Sanford appc^tees Include Highway chair man Merill Evans whose post was made a salaried one ($17,700) by the legislature, and of course members of the Highway Commis-slon and C.& D board: CADs fulltime director Robert Stallihgs Jr.; Paroles chairman N.F. Ransdell; Pro-baUon director Charles Ca-hoon: Seashore commlss 1 o n director Rqv Wilder Jr. who formerly was assistant director of CAD: personnel director John Allen who also moved first from a CAD post and later from a department of administration job; ABC enforcement chief William Hunt; Budget director Andy Jones.

AIDES Other top Sanford appointee - aides Include another former legislator from Sanfords home county. John Henley, who did yeoman service In senatorial redlstrictlng efforts in the 1963 General Assembly.

Sanford tapped Henley to replace another Sanford team stalwart. Bill White, as director ef Purchase and'Contract last year when White resigned to return to private business interests.

Ben Roney of Rocky Mount, who with White, Wilder and others worked In the I960 Sanford - for - governor political campaign, received the post of secondary roads direct o r. This, too. was a post first created during the Hodges administration and filled by a Hodges associate, Harold Makepeace, Former Hertford County legislator Roger Jackson Jr. is assistant to the chairman of the Highway Commission and public relaticxis director for the Highway Commission.

In the governors office itself, Sanford has such aides as press secretary Gra ham Jones who was publicity chief for the 1960 Sanford campaign. Torn Lamberth, Joel Fleishman. John Ehle, George M. Stephens Jr. and others.

OTHER There have been other areas in which the power of gubernatorial app o i n t-ment has figured prwninently Sanford chose former Orange County legislator and UNC official Edwin S. Lanier for interim appointment as State Insurance Commissioner. Lanier won election to the unexplr-ed term of the late Charles F. Gold a few months after his appointment. Also, a titular head of the states Democratic party Sanford chose the new state chairman, W. Lunsford Crw, who succeeded Sanfords 1960 campa 1 g n manager, Bert Bennett Jr., in the paity post last September.

the individual members of the Senate. In the long run, we cannot help but feel that the Senates prestige would be strengthened

Obviously such an inquiry could easily become a political circus if ft were carried out on a partisan basis. It would be difficult to prevent it developing into a circus. But with proper attitude on the part of members of the Senate, carefully laid ground rules and carefully followed procedure, the inquiry could be most helpful to the Senate itself as well as the American public.

~ ~ We dont delude ourselves by thinking that of an* overwhelming majority of members of the the inquiry proposed by Sen. Chase has the support of the Senate. It is not likely to come about. But that doesnt mean the proposal isnt constructive even if political motivations are behind it.

Reason For Pride In

Tfieif Nw Plant Here

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The Consumer Products Division of Union Carbide Corporation, one of Greenvilles oldest industrial citizens, is the proud new occupant of the most modem battery manufacturing plant in the world.

It is evident that officials and employees of Union Carbide are proud of their new facility in Greenville. It is eviclent also by the thousands of people who toured the plant yesterday and today that the citizens of this community are equally proud of the new facility and the fact that it is located here.

During the 21 vears that Union Carbide has operated a plant in Greenville, it has been one of the communitys outstanding corporate citizens. From the relatively small beginning with a plastic bag manufacturing plant here during the days of World -War II, the Ineal^ReratioAs^-irave gr^wn inte one of the key battery manufacturing plants of one of the nations best known and respected corporations.

The major investment Union Carbide has made in its new Greenville plant shows not only the confidence the company has in its own future, but likewise the confidence it has in the community as a favorable location for the continued successful manufacturing operations. --

The Reflector joins with the thousands of other citizens of this community in saluting Union Carbide and its personnel on the formal opening of its new facility here.

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By JAMES MARIJ)W

WASHINGTON (AP)NATO, bom In peril, quivers in C(n-fort.______________________________________________

The foreign ministers of the 15 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meet at the Hague today to discuss their problems, of which they have plenty, and mostly of their own doing.

They have splits just at a time when because the Soviet Union is occupied by its ilit and Red China they might be solidifying themselves for the future.

But NATO has had an uneasy history: fright created it and, when It wasnt tormented by problems from the outside, it manufactured them from the Inside.

Scared by the fear of Soviet power after the Communists took over Czechoslovakla-Brit-ain, France. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg formed an alliance for mutual defense. They wanted the United States in, too.

That was in March 1948, three months before Stalin tried to 'grab Berlin with a blockade. It took the United States a year to smash the blockade with an airlift. By then this country had decided to cast its lot with Europe.

NATO was formed April 4. 1949. The United States had a marvelous protective umbrella over Western Europe then because it alone had the atomic bomb.

This meant the Allies, ground troops could hold off a Soviet attack, if it came, until American planes went to work with the bombs.

This kind of thinking had to be altered for by August 1953. the United States and the Soviet Union both had nuclear bombs. But ground troops were still needed.

It was agreed NATO would have 50 divisions for defense. But the United States was the only member which ever lived up fully to its commitments.

NATO didnt really get going on a defense force until the Commiusts began the Korean War in 1950 and Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower was made commander.

But the desire of the Allies to relax their vigilance if war didnt seem too likely, they

Last week we wrote about the little walls along the walkway which leads over the hlU from Fifth Street into the college. _

We wondered just what they were there for.

WeU, F. D. Duncan, college vice president, explained it to us.

It seems that the hill not only slopes down toward the street it also has a decided sideways slope. This would mean that water would drain not only dowji the walk, but also across It.

Because of ^ this drain cross ways, of cour.o. the walk would have constantly been covered with sand and dirt. So the little walls were Installed. Catch basins are provided at intervals along the way downhill so

He recalled a friend of his Who was making a trip to Cuba by ship back In the pre-Castro days.

The man was standing midway the ship looking forward enjoying the view. Suddenly the bow of the ship rose up several feet.

The man rushed up to the captain and asked for an explanation.

Oh dont worry, said the captain. "We just passed the 12 mile limit and the bar in the rear of the ship opened. Everybody rushed to the stem.'

Everything was ship shape at the new Union Carbide plant when we toured it Tuesday. There were special park i n g areas for the visitors, officers to direct autos into the lot and plant personnel outside the

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up early, as early as September 1950.

At that time it seemed the Korean war might be over soon. President Harry S. Truman had to warn NATO that the greatest danger to the West would be ever letting down its guard.

Even in those early years, although he was then In retirement, Gen. Charles de Gaulle was a force for disunity. He complained the identity of French troops would be lost in the combined armies of NATO.

By 1955, with Stalin gone, the Soviet Union began to propagandize the West about its peaceful intentions. Secretary of State John Poster Dulles had to warn the NATO members not the let themselves be weakened by this.

NATO suffered an internal convulsion in 1956 when Britain and France, without telling its partners, invaded Egypt. The Russians jolted the West, but good, by warning they w'ould hit Britain with missiles, although no one was sure the Soviet Union had missiles then.

The United States turned on Britain and France, told them to quit in Egypt. They did.

On May 31. 19.58, De Gaulle returned to a power as a premier and within a month began dismantling the unity of NATO by telling the United States France would make Its o w n nuclear weapons.

Then he had a new idea; that the United States, Britain and France should be the bosses of NATO. The idea was a directorate. The United States wouldnt buy it. saying this would mean less participation for the smaller countries.

He went on from there until now. as president, with dreams of a tremendous France, he talks in terms of a Europe of fatherlands. a loase association of fuUy sovereign states as independent of the United States as possible.

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And one Mr. Abel Warren, Clinton businessman. aw>ear-ed before the City Council the other night to make a pitch for the Pleasure Route . S. 13.

side.

At the front door, and the lobby inside plant officials W'ere all spruced up to greet the thousands who came to see the fascinating battery making (H>e ration.

Everything had been plan-

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ned for. A route through the offices and production area had been roped off and arrows pointed the way for tourists. As you followed the marked route you found that you had seen the offices and the entire production area from beginning to end.

The big machines were stamping out Eveready p e n-light and transistor batteries at top speed even as the Unw of visitors moved through.

At the end of the tour there was a penlight flashlight, complete with two batteries made in the local plant, for eveiry one who came through. O u t-slde there were refreshments waiting.

It was a tour well worth making to see one of Greenvilles most interesting industries In operation in Its new building. If you missed it j^ou passed up something w<^tB-while.

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(Christian Science Monitor)

Vietnam is the most immediately pressing international dilemma facing President Johnson. Two coups and several months after the fall of t h e Diem regime, the campaign in South Vietnam in which American servicemen are now so deeply involved still seems little more than a holding oiv eration. The White House would presumably prefer to put off any radical change in United States policy in Indochina in one direction or the other until after the presidential election in the fall. That is understandable. The quest i o n is: will the Viet Cong give the administration that much time to postpone things?

In the guerrilla campaign in South Vietnam, General Nguyen Khanhs attempts to reverse the downhill slithering of the ami Communist cause seems not to have gathered anything like enough head of steam to rob the Communist Viet Cong of the initiative held by them so long. Yet the United States has so committed itself to General Khanh that his failure now would be an American failure. Recognition of this almost certainly lies behind President Johnsons announcement that Secretary McNam ara would be on his way to Vietnam again this weekend for the second time in two mcm-ths.

The United States has wisely recognized that in the long run only the Vietnamese themselves can settled the Vietn a m problem. If the Viet Cong are to be defeated, only Vietname-can defeat them never Americans without whole-hearted Vietnamese support. And Vietnamese will continue to fight against the Viet Cong only if they are convinced that they are fighting for something better than what the Viet Cong have to offer. That something -better can be organized again (mly by the Vietnamese themselves. nm by Americans or any other outsiders.

But having appreciated that, it is still cruelly hard to know what is the wisest course to safeguard United States and indeed free world interests in Southeast Asia. Precipitate American military withdrawal would be disastrous and undermine confidence in United States strength and purpose throughout Asia. Yet somehow a safe way must be found to lessen rather than Increase United States direct milit a r y involvement in a war which can never be won by military action glone.

The clue is to find some way of reconciling differing priorities. Americans want an anti-Canmunist government in Vietnam. Vietnamese want above ail decent government.

During the summer, think just a little bit about your United Fund and be ready to support it wholeheartedly when the campaign begins in September. The Raleigh Times.

"If the heavyweight boxing championship can be taken from a man for reasons of bad manners or unpopular opinions, we shouldnt give it to prizefighters at ail. Foreign service officers would make much better champs. Charlotte (N.C.) Observer.

"There's one benefit in Inflation. ChildrMi no longer get sick on a nickels worth of candy. Vimta (Okla.) Journal.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Arthur Krock, the veteran editorial page political columnist for the New York Times, has just given the child who called attentlMj to the kings nakedness a run for his money.

Quoting an article by Cambridge University Professor Alfred Avins in the 1964 Winter issue of the Cornell Law Review, Mr. Krock cites the ban of yie 13th Amendment against "involuntary servitude, which-guarantees to every person the right to refrain from working for any other perswi. According to Knocks presentation of Dr. Avinss argument, the "right to refrain from working covers barbers, hotel clerks, shoeshine men, sales clerks, waiters and waitresses just as much as fieldbands, cotton-pickers and farm laborers.

In other words, if you run a~ store or a hotel or a restaurant or a barber shop, you dwit have to render service to anybody against your will. The 13th Amendment says so. So we need, ncrt a mere enactment of Congress to force a civil rights public accwnmodat i o n law. but a new Constitutional Amendment to define an excei>' tion to the 13th Amendment.

I dont know where this leaves you. but it leaves me strung up between my humanitarian feelings and my fears that the causa logical rigw 4h

use of language is lost to modem man. The truth is that the child who called attention to the kings nakedness eould have a field day if he were to go to work for Dr. Avins and Arthur Krock.

For example, what would the child be compelled to say if he were to stack the Draft Act legislation (which President Johnson Is going to get rid of in the next decade) up against the 13th Amendment? The truthful child would have to observe that any young man inducted Into our armed forces against his will Is not enjoying the protection of a law against "involuntary servitude. I once heard no less a person than Martha Taft.^the wife of Senator Bob Taft, make this point at the home of Alice Longworth. As a social creature who did not enjoy emulating the child who said the king was naked. Mrs, Taft hastened to add that she wasnt urging her husband to press the mat-^ hr -the Senata.

Vivien Kellems, the Connecticut Industrialist, once did try to Imitate the truthful child. She refused to collect the social security tax on her employees for the government on the ground that nobody could legally cnpel her to be a tax collectw. But the 13th Amendment did not serve to keep the federis from attaching her bank account.

Then there Is the anti-gun law that Senator Twn Dodd is trying to get passed. There is also the New Yorii Sullivan Law. Personally, I dwit go for guns, and would Just as soon have laws on the books to protect me from gangsters carrying concealed weapons, or to keep an assassin from ordering a rifle through a mail order hwse. But my sense of logic tells me that anti-g u n laws are uncwistitutlonal. Our ancestors wrote it into the basic law of the land that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.. The child who called attention to the kings nakedness would have to tell Senator Dodd that he should be asking for a new Constitu-tioan Amendment to def i n e excepticms to a right that is 170-odd-years old.

The recent anti-prayer decision of the U. S, Supreme Court outraged me for several reasons. One of my (rfaject-ions to the Court decisicm was based on my concern for language. The First Amendm e n t to the Constitution merely says that Congress shall pass no law establishing a religion or preventing the free exercise thereof. It does not say a single word that contravenes the right of a school board or a state or a municipality to permit voluntary prayers. Where is (wr protection if we have judges who cant read?

What bothers me In all this Is that my temperament is forced to quarrel with my feel-(Continued on Page M

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Strength For Today

Consumer Debts Will Go Higher

' By EARL L, DOUGLASS

TRY SELF-TREATMENT

The word "probe is a medical term. As a noun it describee a slender instrument for examining the depth or other conditions of a wound. As a verb tfie word "to probe means to investigue thoroughly, to probe, to penetrate, to pierce deeply.

The ixrobe is used thousands of times every day ' in the hands of skillful surgeons. But the body is not the only thing in the world upon which a probe can be used. We can probe our minds. We can probe the miiids and motives of others. We can probe opr soulsF''* .....

We are all glad enough to avoid the surgeons prob 1 n g, but we are in sad^ way if we do not use the probe bn oui'seives and use it frequcnl-

ly. Many people keep on being unhappy most of their lives simply because they have not probed down into the cir-ciunstances of their lives and found what was causing their unhappiness. Successful business men have to be skillful with the probe. It Is the type of man who knows what to expect In the market and what to expect from his associates and competitors who comes out with satisfactory balances at the end of every year. Psychiatrists are mental probers. Much of our psychiatric treatment can be self applied We would not have to run to the psychiatrist as often as many people do if we would simply go about probing our'hearts, minds, and souls without mercy'

Dont seek the help of others until you have dwie the you can for yautsell.

By ELMER ROESSNER Consumer Indebtedness, now nearing a record $70 billion, is certain to go higher. The Christmas shopping season will, probably send it above -$75 billion.

There is some confusion on consumer debts reports from Washington. In March, after the increase in take -home pay due to the taX' cut, consumers paid off more than $4.9 billion in debts, anew monthly high. Reports on this pay-off led to the assumptlwi that coDsumbrs are using the tax cut to pay off debts.

Some surely are. But while they were paying off that $4.9 billion, they were adding $5.5 billion to their indebted ness with new charge and instalment purchases.

WHY DEBT WILL RISE There are other rea s o n s than that for expecting c o n-.sumer indebtedness to zoom higber;

1. The tnv cut Is Bivlnff

many families a feeling of opulence. They regard $3 .50 more a week in pay envelopes not as $182 more a year, but as monthly i.ayments on Instalment purchases of several hundi-ed dollars.

2. The number of families of ages characteristically among the most active users of instalment credit is increasing and will increase further.

3. The feeling of prosperity generated by the tax cut will stimulate consumer wants even further, leading to stiU more buying on credit.

5. New model autos, with striking new lines, will tempt many consumers to plunge into debt again, The three-year instalment plans entered into in 1961 a big auto year will be paid off this year, making millions ol families ready and eager to take oh a new round of payments,

. inflation has been increasing prices and will increase thpm mn.ri this vear. This

will have a double effect. With higher prices, many consumers will have to charge more' to maintain present standards of living. Others, seeing prosperity in higher prices, will be eager to commit more of their future Income.

7. The rise in consumer income to be boosted fiulher this jrear by wage increases will make more families able to commit more futlire earnings to instalment payments.

Once again the question will be raised: (Tan consumers support this tremendous debt and the heavy interest, more than half a billiixi a month?

The Federal Reserve apparently thinks it can. In its annual report for 1963, the board said. "Th proportion of consumer income devoted to repayments on Instalment loans rose to a new high but there was little evidence of rising delinquencies or of other signs Qf over - commii-

With this the Fed brushed aside the fact that perscmal bankruptcies were 139,190 in the last fiscal year, mostly due to Inability to keep up instalment payments.

DECOMPOSABLE DETERGENTS IN SUPERS NEXT YEAR ' ~

With the first plant to produce decomposable detergents so<M to be (H>erating at Richmond, Calif., the Department Agriculture says that many manufacturers will have similar detergents on grocers shelve next year. Present detergents do not decompose and get into wells and streams, foaming the water.

As manufacturers switch to new compounds, they will probably keep old names, in which millions of advertising dollars have been invest e d. ..qome, of course, may add the word "new, and New Skew adtt friSfniM New Bkew1/