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Thursday, June 4, 1964

Yet Another Reason For Optimism

Okay'Bang! Bang! We're All Dead'

Now Run Along And Play"

Announcement of another major industrial plant to be constructed in Greenville is further reason for optimism about the future economic outlook for Pitt County.

Although details on the new industrial plant are lacking, we are confident that Greenville Industries would not have sold 60.5 aereas of its land at the Dail Site without adequate assurances that the move would lead to another major industrial step for this community.

It is the third major industrial announcement _lor Greenville ta-the past five months. On the last day of December it was announced that Carolina Leaf Tobacco Company would construct a new tobacco processing plant here to serve the eastern market area. In February, Empire Brushes, Inc., one of the leading brfesh manufacturers in the world announced that it would build an industrial plant here. Both these facilities already are under construction and expect to be in operation in the fall. Empire Brushes, Inc. already has begun training employes for its new operation here.

To these new industrial citizens of the community is now added another major plant which

Magic Of Sco ; Marne Lingered.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Bcxyrr LBu father, like eon and last Saturdays show* ing by Rnbert W. (Bob). Sc^t_ definitely stamped him as a comer tn North Carolina politics.

Rls 275,000 first primary votes for lieutenant governor matched or bettered the first primary efforts of his colorful father far governor and U. S. Senator a decade ago.

And remember, this election was a baptism of the 34-year-old son of the late Gov. Sen. W. Scott In public office-seeking. It revived and reasserted the magic of the Scott name In a contest largely overshadowed by the furious gubernatorial campaign.

Scotts whopping total was piled up In a three-way Democratic primary which had figured to be close, making it doubly impressive. Needless to say, the size of the Scott vote Instantly captured the attention of the states politicians.

VOTE The first primary result was close enough that runnerup H. Clifton Blue was entitled to call for a second primary. But the Scott margin of 48.000 votes was a big one and few observers, even those In the Scott camp, had foreseen such a sizeable Scott total.

Scotts statewide total exceeded that of L. Richardson Preyer, the first primary leader in the governors race.

In fact, the Scott total was the second highest for any statewide candidate in the May 30 primaries, exceeded only be the more than 301,000 votes given State Insurance Coanmis-sioner Edwin S. Lanier against token opposition.

COMPARE Kerr Scott won nomination for governor In a second primary in 1948 with a total of 217,620 votes.

Then the Squire of Haw River polled just under 275,000 votes in Ids first bid for the Senate in 1954. Kerr Scotts vote-getting power later waxed to its fullest in the 1954 bid for a regular term in the Senate with 312,053 primary votes and 408,312 against a Republican opponent in the 1954 general election.

Bob Scott was 24 years old at that time, and only 27 when his father died.

But he had already lived four years of his life in the governors mansion in Raleigh and In recent years has made no secret of the fact that he Intends to run for governor himself someday.

PURPOSE Young Scotts purpose in running for lieutenant governor was to gain political experience, to learn about campaigning and vote-getting

and to serve In an important statewide public office.

He pledged to make the lieutenant -gnvernoraMp a wQrJfe_ Ing office and a full-time Job.

And Just as important for his political future was the goal of holding the loosely-knit far-flung Scott "branch head boys" political organizatlOTi together. This could be done, be felt, only if Scott himselif ran for a statewide office. Otherwise, the old Scott organizat 1 o n would go in different directions behind various candidates for governor, break apart and crumble.

Scotts decision to run for lieutenant governor gave the organization cohenslon in a ' race other Uian that for the governorship. It did not. and Scott did not, become aligned and identified with any single candidate for governor.

PLEASED The strength of the old Scott organization came largely frimi the rural areas of North Carolina.

But this time one of the things which pleased Bob Scott most was the showing of support in the cities and urban areas. He ran well in most of the populous areas, although trailing Blue by small margins. The vote-counting on Saturday night gave Blue the lead early but Scott forged ahead as the rural and small county votes came in.

"I am extremely pleased," Scott said. "This has been an overwhelming experience. Its my first time on a public ballot and the people of North Carolina have given me a tremendous vote.

Scott said he was ready for a second primary if one should be called, and predicted his second campaign effort would be stronger. "We just hit our stride in the closing days of the campaign. We know much more now what we will do.

BLUE For veteran legislature Clifton Blue, the first primary was the first time he had failed to lead in an election. But it also w'as his first bid at a statewide office.

The Aberdeen newspaper publisher, one of the most popular Hou.se Speakers in legislative history, decided to try for the lieutenant governorship last Pall at the urging of frlend.s. He campaigned across the state tirelessly.

His 228.000 votes demonstrated solid support, and Blue himself could not decide whether to seek a runoff. He asked that the people themselves decide by communicating with him. The third candidate in the first primary race. John R. Jordan Jr. of Raleigh, polled 127,000 votes more than enough to affect the outoora.e of a second primary.

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will provide still additional employment opportunities, additional capital outlay for facilities, and additional payrplls.

These three new industrial plants that have been announced since the last day.of last ye&r have pushed Greenville forward significantly in its in-dihitrial development. They represent a part ^ of the diyidends thejcommdJiity and the county are receiving from the years of diligent effort that have been put into the' local development programs.

Certainly Dr. Sylvester Green of the Pitt County Developnient-jCommisaionand the members of Greenville Industries w'ho culminated the efforts to locate this new industry here deserve the commendation of the citizenry.

Brave, Inspired Plan For Clubs Program

All too often our civic clubs and other community boosting organizations fall into the deadly meet and eat cycle.

The club members gather at an appointed time, members socialize for awhile and then gather at the tables for more often than not, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and garden peas topped off with cheese and appU pie.

This is followed by w'hat shows up in the news report.s of the meeting as routine busine.ss. Perhaps there W'ill be a speaker to describe his hobby or to push some cause or other.

Well, we are happy to report the Greenville -JKiwanis Club has come^ to realize how-deadly this cycle can be. So they have arranged a comprehensive series of programs emphasizing the potential of natural and industrial resources in Coastal Plain North Carolina.

Those -in charge of DT^gi*ams are brave souls for they have scheduled this enlightened series for the summer months when attendance is traditionally low.

The Kiwanians will hear top specialists in food science, seafood and animal husbandry from N. C. State during the seven meeting series. They will hear a di.stinguished farm editor, the chairman of the state Soil and Water Conserv^ation Service, the chairman of the N. C. Good Neighbor Council and the news director of the North Carolina Fund.

In short the Kiwanians will be bringing in .speakers w'ho can discuss solutions to Eastern North Carolinas mo.;t pre.s.sing problems.

We commend the Kiwanis for this perceptive program planning. It is our hope that upon completion of this series of speakers, the Kiwanians will follow through with projects to utilize what Jhey have learned.

A Big Quiet On Southeast Asia

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By HAL BOYLE

Disaster And 5th Grade

By JAMES MARI.OW

WASHINGTON AP) - A quietness has settled over the Johnson administration on the subject of Southeast Asia. Yet, It cant afford to sit and rock.

President Johnson hims e 1 f has said the whole area is at stake. And the situation has been going from bad to worse. Tuesday there was a double vagueness.

1. Johnson had ordered some of his top people to a Honolulu conference on w-hat to do. It ended Tuesday with no recommendations announced. This was to be expected.

2. Johnson told his news conference nothing new Tuesday. He did say the United States "cannot fail to do its full share to meet the Communist challenge.

This studied obscurity may mean John.son himself w' i 11 annoimce it if this countr> has decided on a more vigorous and far-reaching policy in Southeast Asia.

While the United States has been giving South Viet Nam $1.5 milliwi a day in aid, ancT more than 200 of the 15.5(k) American military men there haVe been killed, the fight against the North Vietnamese Communists has deteriorated.

By last week all Southeast Asia looked in peril with the Reds stepping up their attack in Viet Nam and rampaging in Laos next door.

The United States could take a definitely new' step by bombing the North Vietnamese supply depots. But what would the Red Chinese do in that case?

The Johnson administration not only didnt know that but it didn't know' what the reaction in this country might be to enlarging the war.

It wa.s at this point that Johnson ordered the H(iulu meeting. Present were*

Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara: Secret a r y of State Dean Ru.sk; Gen, Maxwell D, Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:

Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, and many aides and advisors.

This South Vietnamese war had turned McNamara into a regular commuter. In the past two and a half years he had made five trips to Saigon and six to Honolulu, including this one.

From a number of those jounieys he had returned optimistic, but not recently.

After the meeting U. S. officials hinted military act i o n might be taken against North Viet Nam if it and Red China continue to help the fighting in South Viet Nam and Laos.

Yet, at the same time they .said neither McNamara nor Rusk proposed a plan "to enlarge the war. And here in Washington Johnson said he knew of no plans like that.

Nevertheless, Rusk on May 22. before going to Honolulu, hinted at the possibility of enlarging the war "if the Communists persist in their course of aggression.

Whether" this was Intended more as a psychological deterrent to the Reds than as a reality still isnt clear.

About all that seems positive at the moment is that the United States Johnstm said Tuesday about meeting the challenge has no intention of abandoning Southeast Asia to communism.

In that same talk 12 days ago Rusk said. "We have made it clear that we are not going to abandon people w h o are trying to preserve their independence and freedom.

Theres another good but unexpressed reason for not walking out; It would wreck American influence in all Asia and perhaps with its allies, too.

All this makes up the biggest foreign test to hit Johnson yet. He's a comparative newcomer to foreigh affairs. His specialty was always Congress.

NEW YORK (AP) There is nothing like a disaster to bring a family close together.

That is the only nice thing I can say about the fifth grade of grammar school.

There are wily three of us in our family me, my w i f e Frances and our daughter, Tracy Ann.

As I see it. this Is hardly enough. To get through the fifth grade successfully, you need a larger family. I would think a family of about 12 would be right of whom one would be in the fifth grade. And the other 11 would spend most of their time helping him get through that ordeal.

Naturally, such a family would include a profession a 1 mathematician, a doctor, a lawyer, a judge, an engineer, a lexicologist, an anthropologist. a carpenter, a botanist, an Eagle scout, a musician, a

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To The Editor:

This letter is directed to the thousands of fellow' voters who will not be fooled by the shameful Anti-Poverty chicanery of the John.son Administrat i o n. Particularly relevant to this area because it is local in nature and the facts can be proven, this complete quote of an article in the Goldwater Freedom Special, dated July 1, 1964. (the Goldwater For President newsletter) makes undigestible mulch of Democratic hay. JOHNSON IN APPALACHIA

President Johnsons widely-publicized tour of Appalachia, that region covering parts of the eastern and southeastern United States, plumping f o r his "War on Poverty program. got some news coverage recently the President hadnt planned on.

Mr. and Mrs. William Marlow of Rocky Mount. North Carolina, tobacco and cotton sharecroppers, who were visited by President Johnson, (and several dozen cameramen and reporters) revealed some facts about their interview not previously reported.

First, the Marlows expect to gross about $4,000 frwn their

physical culturist and an all-around intellectual.

As I remember education in my own youth, it crept upon one graduiJly. It was a gathering residue. You learned by degrees.

This is not true any more. Now educators boobytrap the child. And the parents too. They cozy them thrcmgh kindergarten and the first four grades. Kids skip joyously through this prelude to knowledge hand in hand. It Is such fun.

'Then In the fifth grade they suddenly lower the boom. All at once the child is In Harvard Graduate School. And not just the child. The whole family.

Life becomes a terrible'quiz game.

"Daddy, we are studying the multiplication of fractions. Can you help me?

Well, have you ever tried to

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nine acres of tobacco and im acres of cotton this year w'ith perhaps $1500 to start the next year. The President had used the $1500 figure as if it were the familys total income before living expenses.

"We didnt even feel like w'e were in poverty, Mrs, Marlow commented.

If the Marlows were not in abject poverty, the director of the North Carolina Extension Service attempted to make them appear that way.

Mrs. Marlow told AP reporters. "The Governors man tried to make us look poorer than we are. She said the state official told me to be sure and have a washing on the line when the President came and also be sure the children were barefooted w'hen the President arrived.

Mr. Marlow commented, "I hope we helped the President to get his anti-proverty bill passed. I'd hate to have wasted all of the time weve put into it since the President was here.

Sincerely yours, William H. Morris, Jr.

President, E. C. C. Young Republican Club

multiply a fraction after the age of 40? It simply cant be done.

"Daddy, give me an example of a collective noun.

Well, If you mention the finance company or the loan department of the bank, it turns out that Isnt what the teacher meant.

"Daddy, I have to write a science essay on Pleistocene glaciation. How shall I begin?

Begin? When a fellow gets a clear field on a fascinating topic like that, how can he ever bear to quit?

Home is no longer home to me. Home Is w'here my wife and I try to help our daughter do her homework.

So far the teacher is giving our family pretty fair grades.

We no longer worry about getting our daughter into a good college. Gur ambition Is to get her through the fifth grade.

Learning is for the young. We cant take it anymore.

ODinions

"n Briet

"Faced with the news that test-tube babies may be the order of the day in the yegr 2000, The State takes occasion to reassert its'basic policy of conservatism. There can be such a thing as too much progress. The Columbia (S.C.) State.

"After years of reform preaching against the company town of another era, we have progressed to towns where most of the homes are company ownedby the mortgage companyand most of the automobiles are company owned too by the finance company." Memphis Commercial Appeal.

"Safe driving begins at age 35. Prom there upward, drivers show less Involvement in all kinds of accidents in proportion to drivers in their age segment. The Marietta (Oa.) Daily Journal.

Perhaps Age Is Lndina?

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyrigtttr 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The death of Nehru, who was as doctrinaire as they come in his socialism, could be one more Indication that the age of Ideology is passing.

Nehru did not belong to the traditicm of Marx, but he did bel(mg to the socialist tradi-tioir of Harold Laski, Sidn y Webb i the London School of Economics. He saw the state taking over private industry everywhere by what Sidney Webb called the "in-^ evitability of gradualism." Be-* ing a gradualist and a believer in free speech, he didnt push his "Sidney Webbical-Ism to the point of no return, in India. But socialism was his working direction. The ideology colored hfe^every move.

With Nehrus . passing, t h names of V, K. Krishna Me-non and Lai Bahadur Shastri were quickly mentioned as the "next prime minister of India. Krishna Menon, a virulent leftist Ideologue, would, of course, have been bad news if he had been able to drum up- any support. But ShastrL is a compromiser, a man who likes to get a working cwi-sensus that balances extremes. If he inherits Nehrus position. as seems probable as I write this. India could bo off on a pragnnatic campaign to raise its standard of living by mearts that are increasingly non-socialist.

The age of Ideology, of course, is not dying all at once, for as the ifluences of Karl Marx on the one hand, and the London School of Economics on the other, wither away in most of the Wes t, they retain their hold In Africa. East Asia, and parts of Latin America. Chile may well be in for a Marxist party takeover in the next election, and Castro still keeps his hold on (Juba even though he cant harvest a good sugar crop. In Southeast Asia a lot of dominoes may fall before Communism Is checked. And the graduates of the London School of Economics, Las k i-dlvlsion, may keep their influence in the new African nations.

But even though we m a y still be in for some big social-"ist waves, the tide is going out by slow degrees. Brazil has been saved; Venezuela did not succumb during its recent election to Castros terrorists. In Mexico, the Party of Revolutionary Institutions becomes increasingly bourgeois in its general tcwie. And the anU-Castroltes, by raising the spectre of raids and guerilla infiltration in recent weeks, managed to hurt Castro ra t h e r badly by forcing him to deflect his soldiers from harvesting sugar cane to chasing invasion spooks all over the Island. Despite buses from Britain, Castros economy Is dying of anemia.

In Europe Marxism could still pack a punch In Italy, or In a France suddenly bereft of de Gaulle. But in England, a Labor Party victory, though It might result in a renationalization of the basic steel industry, would not change things greatly. As for Germany, which is the key to the continent, it is firmly committed to a free economy. Willy Brandts Social Democratic Party, which provides most of the opposition to Dr. Ludwig Erhart's ruling majority, gave up some time ago on its allegiance to the social dogma that the state should own the means of production. The Social Democrats talk like American New Dealers, the difference being that they are definitely a minority group in Germany at the moment.

Talking off the cuff with a throng of surrounding friends and admirers at a recent reception held for him at the Waldorf - Astoria in New York, Willy Brandt, though he is the embattled Mayor of West Berlin, sounded like any give-and-take Western politician. He thought the Berlin wall might be made more "porous by small compromis-(Contlnued On Page 5)

freeman Takes Over Consumers

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ONLY ONE CURE

There is a present day need for money considerably in excess of w'hat we have known in the past, and this may in some measure at least account for the rise in crime and the discouraging prevelance of petty cheating.

While we were still a nation of pioneers, weTlved either on the soil or close to It. As a result. our forebears produced by their own efforts much of what they ate and wore. Furthermore, there was some trading of goods and services between friends and neighbors.

With the coming of the large city and the general growth of our country, howev'er, this has largely disappeared. We produce practically nothing that w'e.eaf or wear. We must have

hard cash with which to purchase these things. The result Ls that vast multitudes In our country and probably in other modern countries are willing to do pracitcally anything to get this cash. This is reflected in tlie alarming in-crea.se in crime. Many of the people who do petty chiseling are not criminals: they simply push the criminal clement more into prominence and act as a recruiting pool for serious ventures in crime.

There seems to be no relief from this situation save an educated adjustmept to modem life and the revival and deepening of spiritual values. Every branch of the Church to-, day has its work cut out for it.

We need the Church n.ow even more than our forebears did. Tlie. only cure for present ills is a spiritual cure.

By ELMER ROESSNER

For many years now there have been demands for a Department of Consumers In the Federal government. Business. labor, famtners so the aigument has run each has a pleader In the cabinet, so why not consumers?

When President vJohnson appointed a Consumers Advisory Committee it began to look as if the inciunbcnt administration, especially since an election was ahead, might take action^ set up such a department. '

Secretary Wirtz began to emphasize the Department of Labors interest in consumers, and has all but made his branch of the government the Department of Consumers and Agriculture.

EVER BROADENING INTEREST

In tnith. Agriculture has been interested in consumers, but from a special point of view. It has been helping consumers, not for their own sake, but in encouraging them to consuming more agricultural pi*oducts or, at least, those products w hich the Department was most eager to ge consum

ed. Its campaign, for Instance, to get people to eat more ,

sweet potatoes, largely grown In Democratic, Southern states, has been relentless. Yams for breakfast. Candied sweets for supper. Yam candies for desert.

But now Freemans Depaiir ment has taken over consumers as blood brothers. And. from the looks of things this Thursday, he is the cabincteer for consumers.

The Department has recently started a newsletter. not for readers like you but for writers like me, telling In a sort of aborted Kiplinger style what the Department Ls doing, with heavy emphasis on consumer activities.

OTHER CONSUMER SERVICES

It is also propagandizing its consumer services. It is conducting research into the effects of chloresterol in the diet and food habits of the elderly. "The teen-agers, the dieter and the mother all benefit from the USDAs research and Information bulletins," it says.

It is also bragging about its school lunch program. Its kiddles milk program, and its

help in meal planning, with recipes for dried beans, peas, lentils, tomatoes, turkey and of course sweet potatoes.

There is a new booklet on "managing family finances," which may have some hints on how to survive on Lady Bird Johnsons estate by growing sweet potatoes.

The USDA is offei*ing assistance in buying clothes, too. It has published a 32-page booklet on "Mens Suits How to Judge Quality," originally issued in 1957 and revised In October. 1963. under the label, "This is a Consumer Service of the USDA.

OTHER FIELDS

The Department has also announced that it has developed 90 farm-hwise plans tnst can also be used by city families: that soil and survey maps are available for city planners, road builders and architects; that three energy-saving kitchens have been developed by its specialists; that the Department has developed the snow suit and the sunsuit; that it has developed a wall paneling that simulated bricks and a fire-resistant house paint; that it has compared costs of freez

ers and charted how long appliances may be expected to last, and described scores of other services the Department offers consumers.

Fellow consumers, Isnt it wonderful to be loved? In this election year?

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STILL IN TRUMAN PATTERN

One of the reasons Dwight D. Elsenhower was elected President was his jibes at the Truman Administration and 118 Department, of Agriculture for publishing a booklet on how to wash dishes. One gem was a warning to readers that the dishpan must be larger than the largest dish.

Now the Johnson D. of A., in the time-marches-on spirit, is offering information on the efficient use of automatic dishwashers, including this gem: "Before operating a new automatic dishwasher each user should read the instruction booklet and follow the directions carefuUy,* which shows how Secretary Orville L., Freeman regards the Intelligence of the American consumer.

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