Tuesday, May 19, 1964

Polio Vaccine Drive A Big Success

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By any measurement the Sabin polio vaccine campaign in Pitt County must be termed a succep. The Pitt County Medical and Dental Society which sponsored. the campaign and the more than 600 volunteer workers who helped with the three Sundays of feeding the vaccine are to be commended for their efforts.

At the outset of the campaign, officials expressed the opinion that if at .least 70 per cent of the countys population participated in the operation by taking the vaccine, dreaded polio would cea.*e to be a threat to the entire population of the county. These officials estimate that by the end of tliis week almost 80 per centwf th^couiitys pop^ ulation wTM have received the conftpktte aeries oi= vaccines for the three types of polio.

It was a relatively few year ago that polio took a heavy toll of ^victims in North Carolina as well as other states. It did not spare Pitt County as it struck unexpectedly leaving its victims crippled or even dead.

Thanks to the local Medical and Dental Society "ivhich .spon.sored the recent mass immunization program, and to the people of the county who responded to the plea that they particjpate in the program,

the threat of .polio has now' become a thing of the past for this county and its peop-le. '

Every citizen, whether he participated in the campaign by helping with the feeding of the vaccine or by merely receiving it, should be proud of the succe.ss of the program in this county.

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Rising From The Ashes

With Little Lost Time

We like the attitude of tred Cox, owner of

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By Wn.IJAM A. SHIRK.S WORD - Slowly at first but In ever-wWenIng circles, word La spreading across the nation about the work North Carolina has been doing in the area of antl-povcrty programs on the state and community level.

The recent visit of President Lyndon B. Johnson in North Carolina served noticeably to call attention to the state's efforts on Its own Initiative. The president, of course, was seeking support for his federal anti-poverty legislaUon pending In Congress but took occasion to give North Carolina d u e credit for acting on its own.

. In effect. Johnson held North ^Carolina up as a miiror.

I The rest of the nation looked and became interested In an obvious example of how federal anti-poverty propos a 1 s might work to buttress home-grow'll programs,

NOTICE Evidence of this Intere.st elsewhere is found in an editorial by the Memphis. Tenn., Press-Sclmltar entitled North Carolina's Self-Help. It calls attention to the fact ;that North CaroUnt'begwi its programs more than a year ago and that on his recent visit President Johnson was Impres-ed.

eral program.

"And this is exactly what North Carotina Is- trying to^ avoid by forming homegrown programs, adapted to the exp es needs of the locality.

AMENDMENT It Isn't called a little Federal" plan, but a state constitutional amendment proposal to be voted cm in Oklahoma this month should be familiar to N o r t h Carolinians,

"t^bfTrHiler Manufacturing Co. of Grifton following a disa.stroils fire which struck thi.s thriving home grown industry during the weekend.

Eire gutted the companys main building causing an estimated $150,000 damage. It would have appeared that the plant w'ould be closed down while rebuilding operations were underway.

Cox, however, was quick to assess the sit-uaiion. lie found some of his equipment was un-damaged_, and qf^ a camper trailer divkdon

escapear damage in the'tire.

Monday morning many of Coxs 80 employees were at work cleaning up the debris. Whats more he said that he would keep his camper trailer division operating on a 24-hour basis to help keep the employees busy.

All-in-all Cox said, very little time would be lost by employees because of the fire.

Thus an industry which provide.s employment for 80 people rises from the ashes with hardly any lo.st time. Cox said he even has plans to resume his boat trailt'r operations witlun 10 days.

Cox boat trailers can be found far and wide. The local industry has built good trailers that have won w'ide acceptance as the boat boom has been underway.

It is good to see these positive efforts on the part of the management of home grown industry to maintain employment.

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Its a proposal to change the present legislative apportionment formula in the Oklahoma constitution. It would increase the size of the state senate from 44 to 48 and provide that each county would be entled to just one senator. It weuld base representation In l|h e House on populatlcHi and the Senate on geography.

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Copyright. 1964. King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.

IT WAS A "GOLDWATER OR ELSE RALLY

The tremendous outppurtog to hear Barry Goldwaier weak at the Madison Square Garden rally in New York City 18,000 paid admissions. wlOi a total tiike oi Iround $100,000 offered a crowning irony In ao irony-studded campaign year.

Here was Barry o Arizona daring the Big Town Lions' Den, which was supposedly alien territory. Out West tha hews W'as that he was limping the substantial Nixon write-in vote in Nebraska was being counted even as "We want' Barry was echoing to the roof as punctuation to every third Goldwater sentence. Pros with long memories recalled that Ika Eisenhower, at a comparabla campaign-year time in 1952, had wily drawn 12.000 non-pald admissions to the same spot to listen to "I like Ike chanta and watch Jinx Palkenberg bat out tennis balls. But the biggest Irony was not the fact of the wildly enthusiastic crowd that had assembled to listen to a conservative in the supposedly "liberal metropolis; it was that Goldwater was defending Republican Party regularity before an audience that must be counted as Iwo-Ifilrds irregular and getting away with It merely because the crowd chose to indulge Its hero in a whim.

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"He Johnson) has made it clear his own provei-ty war won't get far without help from everybody, especl ally JeadcTs in AOiLAmtnd the POVi_ erty areas. the newspaper says. It adds that while North Carolina "is a generally pros-perous state it has its pro-blenis and "simply decided, as Gov. Terry Sanford explained, that charity and relief were i) answer.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court earlier this year ordered a reapportlwiment which greatly increases the legislative representation in both houses for Oklahoma County < Oklahoma City) and Tulsa County which together have 33 per cent of the states population. Oklahoma City gets 12 House members and Tulsa 10, and Oklahoma City 10 senators and Tulsa nine.

Nor are schools, unless those who need the schools the mast can attend them. Nor is wealth, unless it is used to i^ari a ensible progi*am which can help the lagging areas. EDITORIAL The editorial goes on to explain the North Carolina Fund which has rais-

ed $14 mllliwi in "seed money foj- pre-Khool teaching centers,

^job "counsellhg and training, adult education, homc-care services and such specific projects designed to meet the specific needs of specific places. It .says the N, C. Fund "is an example of what President Johnson has been asking a local agency to make local in-

.quiries into the causes of poverty and to develop its own programs.

"The federal government, with its borrowing power, cant do the job by merely spending The bureaucracy tends to

lay down uniform patterns, w hich may fit in one place but not in another. This is the major danger In any overall fed-

OPPONENTS ~ Opponents of this propawl, like the opponents of North Carolinas Ill-fated "littled Federal am-cndmeot last Jstmwtry, contend It is a device by rural legislators to "continue rural do-minatiwi of the legislature. The question, to be voted on May 26, was passed on t h e final day of the 1963 Oklahoma legislative session.

Opponents say It would mean that Oklahoma City and Tulsa with 33 per cent of the states population would be represented by only four per cent of the vote in the .state senate.

It would, they say, give a voter in two small imral counties 26 times the voting strength of a voter In popular Tulsa County,

The opponents also charge that the question was put on the ballot on the same date as the states Democratic primary run-off election purposely with the hope that Republicans, a majority of whom reside in the cities would not make the effort to vote be-cau.se there is no Republican run-off.

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (APiSwitch the picture around with the United States in Red Chinas place and it isnt hard to understand why Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara just returned from Viet Nam with a gloomy forecast.

He said the war against communism there is going to be "a long, hard war.

Far less easy to understand Is why this same McNamara could make other trips to Viet Nam five in two years and come back with sunnier statements.

Oklahomas Democratic primary run-off is between Sen. J. Howard Edmond.son and state Sen. Fred Hands for the U. S, Senate nomination. Former University of Oklahoma football co^ch Bud Wilkinson is the Republican nominee for Edmondsons seat.

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He sounded in the past a.s if he didnt luiderstand the prob-lem. as if he considered the Vietnamese war jiist a figlit in' and for one country instead of being a fight for all Asia, one which may continue for years or a generation.

Look at this picture first:

The Red Chinese by their own words are dedicated to imposing communism everywhere. One of the reasons they gave for their split with Russia is that the Soviets were not aggressive enough in spreading communism.

So it can be assiuned they will insist as a minimum upon seeking a totally Conrmiunist Asia, If they have not sought to achieve ...this yet by direct military actions, that Is under-.standable. Theyre not ready yet

They are still In the building-up state, economically, industrially and militarily. They simply do not have the weapons particularly nuclear ones to match the West. Given time, they can hope to achieve that.

Meanwhile, they can be expected to use methods short of direct wai' with the West to communize Asia, even though it takes years, through subversion or aid to Communist guerrillas inside neightx)ring non-Red countries.

T1S thinking is not exclusive with the Chinese. After World War II the Russians, who had been attacked by Germany in two world wars, were not content to have their frontiers up against non -communist countries.

They reduced their nearest neighbors to satellite.s. This served a double purpase. It spread communtsm and, in case of a future war with the We.st. thase satellites would bt' h mdy buffers to blunt the initial attacks.

The Red Chinese can bt^ expected to do IK) less. So. alj me smaller Asian countries particularly Viet Nam, which borders on China are logicaj targets for communisiii through subversion, civil war, or Red Chine.se pressure.

If Viet Nam tumble.s, the

other .small nations in southeastern Asia would be persuaded just that much more the line up with China, not with the West. So it is to Chinas interest to see the Vietnamese war continued, no matter how long it takes, with Chinas aid and encouragement.

If the United States were in Red Chinas position, it probably would never cease trying to bring about such a result, as can be seen by reversing the picture and taking Cuba and Mexico as examples.

Communist Cuba, 90 miles off the American shore, is no direct threat to this country now although it was for the brief time in which Russian missiles^were based^4he re^-Pere -haps in time something like that will happen again.

It goes without saying this country w'ill never cease trying to rid Cuba of communism, as it is trying for the time being by economic boycott after backing an invasion that failed.

Extend the picture to Mexico. which now has a democratic goveniment. Suppose Russia alone had nuclear weapons and the United States w'ere In Chinas present position of not having them.

And suppose Communists In Mexico were trying to -crush the democratic government of Mexico with the help of Russia men and resources. The United State.s would not want to risk a nuclear war which it couldnt fight.

But it would never cease trying to encourage and supply, the democratic forces fighting the Mexican Communists, no matter how long it took. By this reasoning, fighting in Asia willbe a long story.

NEW YORK fAP) Mrs. G. loves her home in Flushing. N.Y. Her neighbors couldnt be nicer, and there is that lovely little rose garden in the back yard.

She loves it especially in the summer when she can while away the hours amid the roses while her grandchildren play nearby.

But this summer Mrs. G. and her husband, Tony, will be far away, perhaps in San Francisco. They havent decided where just yet.

They are certain of just one thing? They must escape from

under tlie shadow of the New York Worlds Fair in Flushing Meadows,

It is a matter of survival, explained Mrs. G. "We just couldnt live through another 1939 and if we stay in Queens, it will begin all over again. What happened in 1939 was another New York Worlds Fair in Queens. The new one is even bigger.

"We had only Angela then. She was 3. We had only a three-room apartment in Brooklyn. It wasnt much but It was nice enough for our needs. 'Then Lou came to New

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For the second time in two months President Johnson has rededicated the United States to the ideals of the Alliance to Progress. We hope the new speech will not be followed by the confusion that sprang up right after the last.

By the end of a week in March that began with the best of intentions, Americans both North and South were upset. Unconfirmed reports of United States policy changes seemed to corroborate a feeling that this administration was less reform-minded than its predecessor. There was a worsening of an atmosphere that had not been helped by Congrees earlier snubbing of the Pan-American Interparliamentary Conference in Washington.

listen to voices that are not

Opinions 'h Brie.:'

"Eight miles an hour l>ehind a good horse is fast enough for anyone to go through hie.The Bo.ston Herald.

"Aggres.vive fighting for the right IS the greatest sport in the world.Theodore Roosevelt.

Mr. Johnsons speech to Lat-In-American ambassadors this week, is not counteracted by new uncertainties of action, should have a clarifying and reassuring effect. He promised to double the pace of progress.

This may be easier said than done. But the President pledged he would fight for the funds from Congress "with every resource of my government and no one now underestimates the Johnson resources.

Greater speed is necessary In pursuing alliance aims. Mr. Johnson quoted Bolivar: To hesitate is destniction.

But along with a recc^nition of this urgency, he expressed a heightened sensitivity to the human equations involved. Having talked with the ambassadors, he said: "I learned much ... This was good to hear at a tiiTie'when it behooves the powerful and the fortunate to

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And the President w e n t a step further in bringing the alliance into forcus as a crusade in common, rather than a case of daddy-knows-best. He noted that the alliance charter "commands a peaceful, democratic social revolution across the hemisphere. Then he admitted the United States was having its own problems in fulfilling its commitment to this revolution its war on poverty, its struggle for civil rights.

The charter "calls upon us to throw open the gates of opportunity to the landless and despised. It "asks that unjust privilege be ended, and unfair power be curbed. the President added, emphasizing the reforms needed by the people of the alliance, as opposed to its remaining oligarchies.

"As we are finding in the United States, it is not easy to change the customs of centuries. he said. "Some seek to hadt reform and change. Others seek to impose terror and tyranny.

Latin America has its own variations on these problems. Each Latin-American nati o n has the responsibility of doing its best to meet the demands of the alliance charter in its own land. Then the material help of more prosperous neighbors will be most effective.

It requires an adjustment of thought to see a hungering child anywhere in the hemisphere as a responsibility of aU the rest of the hemisphere. But such hard-won adjustments may be necessary stages in all mankinds recapturing a true sense of brothers and keepers.

York to see the fair,

"Lou is Tonys brother from Chicago. Hes a regular guy full of fun and Tony likes him a lot. Hes always playing little jokes like putting the sugar in the salt cellar or taking the screws out of the handle to the refrigerator.

"Well, Lou stays about a week and then he goes back to Chicago and we just about have our little home back to norman when this man and woman come to the door. They tell us they are second cousins from Chicago and Lou told them how much he enjoyed staying with us and that we would be happy to have them stay too.

Now this girl was expecting, you know, and I didnt have the heart to send her to a hotel. So Tony went out and bought an army cot and who do you think slept on it all summer: Tony and me. I was ariittla sbmmei^rthen^ffli _ im-derstand.

"So this young couple stayed for two weeks, and when they left there was another knock on the door. This time it was second cousins on Tonys mothers side.

What could we do? We couldnt slam the door in their faces and have them go back to Chicago and tell Lou and have Lou think that his own brother had no family feeling. So they stayed.

"Most of the relatives were ve^ nii^L^ but there ^s this one third cousin that* kept' telling me I didnt know how to cook minestrone and she just had to have, minestrone every day. She and her husband stayed for two weeks. Every day they would go out to the fair and come home just in time for supper and to tell me how to cook my minestrone.

"So this year when Lou sent us a letter saying he was coming this summer to visit the fair I wrote right back to him and told him to enjoy himself but we were going away for the summer.

Now, I like Lou. After all, he is my husbands brother, but let me tell you, he wrote right back suggesting we leave the key to the house under the door mat. He .said it would be a shame to let such a lovely house so near the fair to to waste.

There are nervy people In the world, let me tell you. Tonys brother or not. the Unisphere should fall on him. Maybe It would teach him a lesson.

Again and again Goldwater recurred to his theme that Republicans should not waste energy in cutting each other up. Again and again he said it was a good party mans duty to support "any Republican* candidate for President, Aside from its implicit criticism of New York's Senator Javits, the speech was obviously aimed not at the local Marihattan audience but at Oregon and California, where Rockefeller, Kuchel and others had been busy cutting Goldwater Into little pieces. The crowd, as It showed when it booed Gold-waters gracious words for th* "liberal Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, was not at all sympathetic toward t h Arizonans plea for party regularity no matter wht the philosophy of a candidate. It wa a "Goldwater or else crowd. And its acceptance of tho "regularity portions of Gold-waters speech was obviously Pickwickian, a mere Indulgence for a heros effort to make some pragmatic hay for the June 2 California primary.

It cannot be reinterated too strongly that the 18,000 in the -Garden^ wjw predominantly a conservative crowd tHai cared nothing for party lables. By its behavior it pointed to the almost certain probability that a liberal Republican candidate for President cannot carry New York State. The warning to the rest of the nation was that the Republican Party could be worse off in a key area in the East If it goes liberal rather than if it goea "conservative.

Sampling the opinions of the audience, this columnist/ had It brought home to him th New York is definitely a four-party. not a two-party state. New York elections go by narrow margins, and these margins can usually be accounted for by endorsements of Democratic and-or Republican regulars by the two maverick groupings, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. Conversely, the potential Con-.servative Party vote of 250,-000 (a figure put out recently by Albany pros) will very poo-sibly lick any Republican candidate for President who fall! to receive the Conservative endorsement for next November* election.

What the rest of the nation should understand is that, despite Barry Goldwaters plea for Republican regularity behind any candidate a Rockefeller or a Lodge risks a conservative Bull Moose defection that will lose the supposedly liberal east without wlnnlnff the Goldwater south and west. This does not mean, of course, that Barry Goldwater can beat (Continued On Page S)

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Strength For Today

By KAKI. I.. DOlta.ASS PRICE TA(.S

Everything in life has a price tag on it. Do you want to do evil? You may. but you must pay for it. You may pay with a jail sentence You will probably pay with a stricken conscience, a sense of frustration. a little loss of self-esteem, or proliably a great la^-.s^

On the other hand^ all good-ness ha\( price tags attached to it. Do you put self a.sidc for someone else? Some variety of reward w'lll cventuallv find its way into yoiu- life as a result, Do you give the otlrer fellow the benefit of the doubt? Do you speak good alxiiit the other person or else resolutely keep yrtur mouth closed Do you take a .stand on decency and moral principle no matter how much the teenagers In

your house may scoff and protest Do you insist on putting your trust in certain teachings of religion which cannot be proved? If you do. then all these enterprises on the positive side of life have satisfactory price tags on them and bring satisfactory rewards

It cuS'ts something to be good and It costs something to be evil, and both good and evil pay wages, salaries, or dividends. There is no such thing as negative nothingne.ss in the universe, and the p<'rson who tries to find the spot of moral neutrality and stand there is going ih find that liehas to pay a bigger price for his folly than the out-going, loving person pays for his sacrifice.

Price lag.s! They re on everything and they are Important.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The Census Bureau figure.s for retail sales in March, the first month in which the tax cut was effective, have been completed. Consumers m u s t have used the extra bucks for savings or paying off debts. They certainly didnt blow them at the stores.

Total spending for March was slightly higher than in february but w hen the figures were adjusted for seasonal variations and trading day differences, people actually spent more In February. After adjustment. the total for February'w'as $21,533 million and for March. $21,305 million.

However, the March figures were almost $1 billion over the figures for March 1963 MOKE FOR (iOOI), LES.S IN RE.STAIRANTS

The picture of the .American father saying. "We have a tax out, kids, so we'II all eat out tonight," is onteof fbcus. The adjusted figures- showed that eating and drinking places took in .$1.548 million in February and $1,.531 million in March,, a drop of $17 million However. liquoi' .store sales rose from $432 million to $503 million.

The tax - cut celebration at home was mild.

The food group increas e d sales from $4,991 million to $5.157 million. But sales in the general merchandise group, which includes department stores, variety stores and mail order houses, fell from $2,952 million to $2,505 million. The apparel group fell from $1,308 million to $1,229 million.

The furniture and appliance group made a small gain, from $1,062 million to $1,068 million. The lumber, building, h a r d-ware and farm equipm e n t group dropped from $1,348 million to $1,281 million. Drug and proprietary stores increased sales from $666 million to $702 million.

(AR SALES ALWAYS UP?

"But. ah!" you say. "what about autas? Sales of autos always increase! They did when 31-day March is compared with 29hday Febniary, but when the figures were adjusted. they came out: Febniary $4,189 million: March. $:L939

million. Even gas service sta--tions did better in snowy Febniary than in bins t e r y March; $1.658 million in February and $1,654 in Maicb.

Why retail sales in March failed to rise with the increased sums In payrolls may never be fully explained. Even without the tax cut, the probable rise in total person a 1 income should have fattened March sales. But with that and the tax cut, sales, on an adjusted basis, dropped about 1 per cent.

One explanation may be that the consumer may contl n u e being the king (or quein) in Che American economy. Several times since the W'ar the stock market wavered and economists quavered, but the cwisumer went on bujring and predicted recessions did not take place.

There are many reasons for believing that, after consumers accumulate a little more money, spending will shoot up. But It may be that tlie consumer will decide that the predicted boom will not take place and that moderate spending now will tie wiser than splurging. Wild buying, of course, could force prices up and giv(' the consuni'u Jer;s for hj.s ntoiiey than he en.ioy-ed before the tax cut. Tlie consumer aia.v be. much can

nier than people In Washin* ton know.

PRONlJNCIAtlON NOTE FOR REGULAR READER

Recent Increases in interesi In debentures'prompts J. B., a regular reabler, to ask It* Wall Street pronunciation. It* duh-BEN-chures.

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BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS

, i ln honor of termite season, the Department of Agriculture, Washington 20250, offers a booklet on "Subterranean Termites. A post card will hrinf it.. . .Natural gas comp any earnings in the past winter were hit by relatively warm weather, the Value Line Investment Survey reports. . . Contrary to guests belief, hotel and motel phone service la "the biggest single profit drain In the industry, according to the American Hotel and Mo tel Association. . . .American motorists had 71,752,000 breakdowns last year, the American Automobile Associat 1 o a reports Well, .some day somebody will bring out a g(X>d auto.

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