Frdy, Jun 12, 1964

Natural Spot For A Beautiful Park

"On Second Thought, Maybe I Oughfa Turn Back

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Through the years, everyone who has ever walked over it, has agreed that Green Springs Park has tremendous potential as a park area.

The property, with a natural bowl in ite center suitable for a lake, was deeded to the city many years ago specifically for use as a park.

From time-to-time efforts, have been made to develop the property, located on East Fifth Street; but, alas, every time money has run out, or interest has lagged and the park has returned to the wdlderness.

Back in 1955 the American Home Department of the Womans Club retained a landscape architect to develop; a plan for it. The plan was drawn, including a lake in the center basin. It included walkwftis, picnic areas and a small building for re.st rooms and other facilities.

Director of Public Works Kenneth Beaty has long had an interest in the park and as labor wa.s available he cleared out underbrush and made limited improvements. But as time went by, lack of funds curtailed the project and Green Springs Park once again fell into disuse. ^ *

Now, at long la.st, it appears that a real effort will be made to develop the park as it wa.s intended.

City Manager Harry Hagerty pread the plan

developed in 1955 byGodwih and Bell before the council last week and said he expects to work toward its development. .

I find it feasible and possibly desirable to start the deA^elopment," he stated.

/Hagerty said the city wdll collect old telephone poles to lay out a parking area. Some $2,500 in treated lumber isi to be purchased to construct picnic tables for the park. Summer labor will be used to clear out underbrush. Most important, the city is looking into the cost of dredging out the lake area which will be the parks center.

Green Springs Park can be one of the citys beauty spots, but it will take the cooperation of all those who will u.se it to make this so. In the past azeleas have been ripped up by the roots a.s fast as they were planted. Trash cans placed in the park for the public's convenience have disappeared overnight.

Greenville can have one of Eastern North Carolinas unique municipal parks, butthe public will have to cooperate to bring it about.

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Congratulations Due For Greenville Moose

Lostern N.C.

By Wn.IJAM A. SHIRES

SWING The campaign trail for Dan K. Moore this week took him through more than 40 Eastern North Carolina counties which now hold the key to his hopes for the governorship.

It w'as a tremendously Important swing because time is short scarcely two weeks remains before the showdown second primary voting.

And Moore must carry thl.s Eastern bloc or most of it while holding firm to his support in the West and Piedmont in order to overcome the 23.558-vote first primary lead of L. Rlchards(m Preyer. This is a tall order for the tall mountaineer and. desfrfte the help of Dr. I. Beverly Lake, the most difficult part may be carrying the East.

Thirty-six of the Eastern counts went for Lake on May 30 .and piled up the bulk of Lakes 217,000 first primary votes. Lake gave Moores chances a boost by voicing his person-aJ endorsement.

VAGARIES - StUl. because of the vagaries of Eastern North Carolina politics, thl.s Ls no iron-clad guarantee of a Moore triumph.

A large number of Lake's t<H> aides snd Eastern support- > ers followed their leader and flocked behind Moore. But a good deal of the East remains to be convinced. It may be, as some say, on the fence.

Some political observ'ers sty Lakes endorsement without binding his people may have had the effect only of evening the scales a swinging of wily enough votes to Moore to send Moore and Preyer Into the runoff neck and neck.

(Xher, of course, say the Lake endorsement had far greater effect and definitely tipped the scales In Moores favor possibly delivering fiO or 70 per cent of the Lake vote to the Moore column.

No one really knows, The answer lies in Eastern North Carolina.

FACTORS The fact may he, according to reliable reports, that political enthusiasm has waned In the East since Dr. Lake was eliminated.

It 1 true that the Easts farmers are busy with plow and tractor and mule, that the com is up and tobacco Ls doing well, that the fishing is better after a cooLSpring. In the East and elsewhere acro.ss the state, school is out and vacations have begun and the talk of politics, especially among die-hard Lake voters, has lost some flavor.

Few observers believe that the total vote turnout on June

27 will match the record first primary total on May 30 although this was not the case in the first and second primaries of 1960.

There is also the fac t o r of what effect Lakes endorsement of Mooreand Moores pledge to give Lake a voice in the Moore admlnbtration ^ Vill have upon Piedmont voters.

Added together, these factors Indicate some attrition of the first primary Lake vote the solid core of which might be expected to go to Moors; because of Dr. Lakes endorsement.

EFFECT Viewed in thi.s light, the importance of convincing and swinging the Lake vote In the East In unquestioned. The East Is the battleground for both Moore and Preyer.

Preyer has centers of Eastern support and the advantages of political organization throughout the East backed by the Sanford administration and the present state highway commissioners in the East, and with the endorsem e n t of a number of Eastern North Carolina newspapers and the support of others.

Moore, from far Western North Carolina which has not had a governor in a century, must overcome a sectional tag among Trther disadvantages. The sectlwial tag poses an interesting question since the rotation system for the gover-norahlp Is traditionally deeply rooted In the East and this is the Wests turn. Nevertheless, Moore Is blng attacked hi the East as a mountain man w'ho would favor western North Carolina's Interests.

IMPORTANT In the fir.st primary campaign, M o o r es strategy to concentrate on the Piedmont was undisguised. And, on the showing he made in much of the Piedmont, it was successful. 'Preyers expected heavy majorities In Piedmont counties did not materialize and Moore made encouraging inroacte In the populous mid-state.

At the same time, Moore carried only three very small Eastern counties Gates, Dare and Pamlico. It might be said that, in comparison to Pre-yers showing in the East. Moores was disappointing. The only bright spot was that Moore ran second to Lake In a goodly .number of Eastern counties and can expect to be first In those on June 27.

In t^hers in the East, It l.s * question of how convincing Moore s western twang sounds to the softly drawling Eastern voters who can elect him or defeat him.

Taday we again doff our cap to brethren of Greenville Moo.se Lodge 885 to say well done and thank you.

Greenville and Pitt County share in the reflected glory of the organization that won. first place honors for community service among lodges of their fraternity. When one considers there are^more than 1900 lodges in Canadian and U.S. Moosedom,' their feat is truly remarkable.

We find a great deal of satisfaction in this because the local Moose membership represents a large cross section of Pitt; the work w'as done by local men, nd their service paid dividends to our community.

The Greenville lodge has won high honors in the past for civic affairs work, but their 1963-64 acheivement demonstrates they would not rest on their laurels.

Other honors and distinctions on the state and national leyel.s have come their way, each adding to pre.stige and pride of Lodge 885. For all these, and for the future, we tender our congratulations and be.st wishes.

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'Game Stoppec. On Wednesday

If there Is anybody who gets us mad, its someb o d y who w'ants to vote after a computer has declared a winner in a nationally televised election.

Last week, only 23 minutes

after they w'ere on the air, and 48 minutes before the polls were closed, the Columbia Broadcasting System declared Sen. Goldwater the winner in the California primary. While only 2 per cent of the returns

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Almost from the time foreign aid began 17 years ago there has been a kind of game every year between the President, any president, and Congress over money.

Wednesday, suddenly, the game stopped.

But until then this was the yearly routine: Whatever the President asked for. Congress cut down. Then he got along with the money Congress voted. The same thing the next year, and the same resnlt. The big exception was that first time in 1947.

Because Greece and Turkey were threatened by communism President Truman asked $400 million in a hurry,, and Congress gave it to him. Later that year he proposed a much bigger aid program for Western Europe, the Marshall Plan.

It got going the next year when Congress gave him $0 billion instead of the $6 8 billion he asked The game w as on. As the years passed the critical mood in Congress and the country toward foreign aid hardened.

The criticism went in a number of directions, of which thc.se are only a few; The prospering Allies weren't doing their share of aiding backwai d countries; too much waste; some of the receiving countries werent showing enough self-discipline and cooperation. Chi it went.

La.st year the game between President and Congre.ss came to a boll when President John F. Kennedy pulled a tactical boner.

On Jan. 17. l%;t he asked $4.9 billion in foreign aid but thi.s wa.s just about.a month after he had set up a sp<'cial Ih-man committee, headed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, lo study the whole aid pioblem.

By the end of March, which wa.s before the dawdling Congress ever ivally got down to work on Kennedy's request, the (Tlay committee came in with its report.Hit w as a contradic-*-tory and often foggy document.

But it had a lot of critical things to say about the aid pro

gram. which gave support to some of the congressional critics who had practically made a career of being foreign aid economizers.

The C3ay committee seemed to suggest seemed Is the necessary word here because of the fog that Kennedy could get along with $4.4 billion instead of the $4.9 billion he said he needed.

Kennedy promptly and oblig-' Ingly cut liis original request down to $4.5 billion, which just bolstered the argument of those who had always claimed any Presidents foreign aid request was full of fat and unnecessary padding.

To make a long story short and It was a very long stor>' Congress finally authorized spending only $3.6 billion. Nothing show^s better the dawdling condition of the Congress last year.

It didnt do the authorizing on President Kennedys request until Dec. 9. and by then he w as dead. And the $3.6 billion it approved was $1.3 billion less than he had originally asked.

But when Congress authorizes spending, its just saying what the ceiling must be. After that it must vote the appropriations, the actual amount of money dt w Ul let the President have to spend.

It wasnt until Dec. 30 that It finished the appropriations bill originally asked. This year President Johnson did a complete switch In tl\e routine.

He a.sked for only $3.5 billion and said that was rock bottom. And meanwhile, a real pro in dealing with Congress, he went

Wednesday, the result was almost a miracle. The House authorized practically every penny of the $3.5 billion Johnson said he needed. The Senate still has to act. And after that both houses must decide on the appropriation.

Maybe before -Its over Johnson will get less than he asked. In Its own way this Is as big an achievement for Johnson as getting the railroad dispute settled earlier this year withiHit a strike.

It was the first time anything like this has happened since 1947.

Other Editors Saying... H Makes A

Difference

(Christian Science Monitor)

It was a Democrat who said it, but too many Republicans seem to agree. At a Democratic meeting the other night. Mayor Wagner of New York forecast a sweeping victory for President Johnson in the fall. Then he reportedly said he did not think it makes much difference which presidential candidate the Republicans nominate.

Prom the narrow point of view of victory in November, this may or may ncA be true. But for the health of the Republican Party and. indeed, of the two-party system it is false. It makes a very great difference which president i a 1 candidate the Republicans nominate.

So far only two major candidates have avowedly sought the job. Govenior Rockefeller's defeat in California was extremely slim, but he seems to be written off as a candidate. By the same token. Senat o r Goldwaters California victory was slim, but the bandwagon seems to be rolling for him.

Whatever Senator Goldwa-ter's qualifications for the presidency, the polls have never shown the majority of rank-and-file Republicans in favor of him. Yet few Republican leaders .seem ready to unite in opposition to him.

Former President Elsenhower. who has always preferred not to deal in personalities, has carried this practice to the extreme of outlining the qualifications for a candidate without naming names. His rereported conversation with Governor Scranton and subsequent phone call left his position unclear. Afterwards Mr, Scranton reaffirmed his availability but continued to refuse to seek the job.

At the governors conference in Cleveland there have been Republican rumblings of d i s-content over Mr, Goldwaters nomination. But hardly a n y-one, at least publicly, is doing much about it.

The motives require scrati-ny. Is Senator Goldwiter being cynically sacrificed in a year when no Republican can win anyway? Is his sue cess honestly swaying the previously disaffected to his side? Or do Republicans, like Mayor Wagner, think it does not make much difference?

This is a time for rank-and-file Republicans, as well as their leaders, to make themselves heard. Perhaps, like Governors Scranton and Romney, according to reports, they would like to know more clearly where Senator Goldwater stands on major issues. Yet surely by now he has said and w'ritten enough for them to find out.

Perhaps they feel that, as has been suggested, the Senator will be compelled or persuaded to run on a more moderate platform than he has led them to believe. To do this, however, would undercut the puipose of his campaign for those w'ho have given him his success so far.

The answer is not .so much iot Senator Goldwater to alter his beliefs, but for the Republican Party to decide whether he represents Its beliefs. In narrow terms, the answer could affect the many Republicans seeking state office who will have to decide W'hether to as.sociate themselves with the national standard bearer. In broader terns, the answer could change the direction of the Party with a result that the voting in November would determine.

were In, it was sufficient, as far as the network was concerned, to declare a winner.

As soon as we heard the results, we telephoned a friend of ours who lives in San Francisco.

He said, I cant speak to you now. I have to go out and vote. Ive only got 40 minutes left.

But haven't you heard? w e said. CBS has declar e d Goldwater the whiner. Th e r e is no sense in bothering to vote now.

Gee. I hadnt heard. Its official, huh?

As far as the computers are concerned it is. Anyone who votes now is just wasting his time.

But maybe I ought to vote anyw'ay. After all, I did register.

We got angry. Are you trying to make a monkey out of Walter Cronkite? I told you the vote profile analysis gave the primary to Goldwater. Whats the vote prof i 1 e analysis?

Well, they take a Buddhist in San Pedro, a Mexican in Los Angeles, and a hod - carrier in San Francisco, and find out how they voted. They put it on a card and in a few seconds they know who the Presidential candidate will be. Then my vote doesnt have any meaning? he said.

Well, I wouldnt say that. It's an American custom to vote and, although its gone out of style with electronics, people still like to do it to remind them of the good old days. They call it a raw vote on TV.

What's a raw vote? '

Its an uncooked vote. No one has run it up the flagpole or put it on th train to Westport, if you know what I mean. Its sort of anti - climact 1 c. The CBS television commentators refer to the raw vote with a certain amount of contempt. but some people are still curious about it.

Our friend said. W h a t would happen if I voted now? I believe CBS would get veiy mad. They have all their figures in and I dont think theyd appreciate it if you loused them uif..;

I think ril still vote, That's a pratty crummy (Continued on Page 5)

Wholl Sue The Senate?

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Feature* Syndicate, Inc. Williamsburg, Va. Senator Eugene McCarthy of Min-n^ota has proposed a simple and effective way of ending filibusters against civil rights or whatever in the United States Senate. Just let the U. S. Supreme Court proclaim them unconstitutional.

This idea, which sounds so startling, was seriously proposed here in WUUamsb u r g by the Senator in a talk before the annual Williamsburg InternatI(Mial Assembly f foreign graduate students of American universities. The Senator based hi* proposal on the wording ot the Constitution, which does not direct the Senate to apply the two-thirds rule'to a vote on shutting off debate. If the Founding Fathers had Intended a t w o-thirds vote to sanctlcm c 1 o-ture, so the Senator says, they would have said as much, Just as they did In specifying a two - thirds vote in the case of ratifying treaties with foreign governments.

The Senators theory that any citizen could bring suit to force the Senate to apply majority rule save In constitutionally enumerated exceptions is certainly a novel one. It would raise the hackles of a lot of people who would see In it an unwarranted judicial Intrusion on the Senate's right to make Its own rules. But McCarthy notes that the Supreme Court, in the legislative reapportionment and redls-trictlng cases, has Interfered with the rfehts of the states to set their own voting qualifications and procedures. If the Warren Court did not boggle over telling state legislatures what they must do, It might not be averse to applying its philosophical principles to the U. S. Senate.

The Senator, of course, has good reason under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution for making his propcxsal. For the Tenth Amendment reserves to the states, or to the citizens, all rights and powers that are not specifically dele-gatd to the Federal govern-ent, , And the Constitution, when it provided for the exception of. a two-thirds vote on treaty ratification, clearly Implied that a simple majority vote in the Senate should be enough to pass an ordinary law or deal with an onll-nary situation..

What the Senator does not reckon with, however, is that If the Tenth Amendment were ever to be ta)cen serious 1 y again by the Supreme Court, it might be invoked by litigation - happy citlzen.s to reverse much New Deal and psst-New Deal leglslat I o n and also some of the Supreme Courts ovTi recent decisions.

For example, the Constitution is silent on the educational practices of the .st a t e .s. Strict construction of the tenth Amendment would permit Connecticut and Colorado to determine their own geographical representation In local legislatures.

It was suggested to Senator McCarthy that, if a citizen were to bring suit against the U. S. Senate for infringing upon his rights by denying the application of majority nile to shutting off debate on such topics as civil rights, the government might fall back on the old argument that It dor>,<? not have to recognize suits again.st itself. But when a newspaper reporter for t h e Hartford Couraut in Connecticut brought .suit to compel re-apportionment in hh ho m e state, the action wa.*! accepted as vali(i. .Senator McCart h y thinks It entirely possible that a suit to compel the U. S. Senate to abide bymajority decisions save in the ca.se of an enumerated exception would have to be accepted In court.

The Senator professed to foresee a great clamor in favor, of, hi9 proposition In ca.'e the present proposed civil rights legislation is vitiated by an unwillingness on the part of 6ne - third of the Senate (Continued on page 6)

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By EARL L. IM)l (LA.SS BIG QIESTION INDEED

Thirty-six years from now the generation then alive will be standing at the threshold of a new century. Who will be leading America at that time? What kind of men will hold offices of prominence and power?

Perhaps at this moment, sleeping in some cradle is a boy or perhaps a girl in who.se hands the de.stiny of our country may rest at the beginning of the twenty-fir.st century. Some future scientist may at this moment be crying lufl!(i because his 4-houi' feeding has been delayed. Some military genius, pt'rhaps, is scaled on the floor in a humble home playing with blocks. We see the lx>ys and -girls as they skip along, going lo school and coming home again, and so .sclcioin do we realize ihal here arc tomorrow s leaders. We say casually

Oh yes, they will be running things thirty to fifty years from now. but how much do we realize th import of those words? How are all these children being prepared to meet overwhelming issues?

Let u.s keep in mind that character mu.st always come first; and also let us remember this added truth that .stable character is almost in-\ ariably the i*eult of religious faith. It may be that the boy who is throwing ' his hat into the air and going through mon-ke\bhines Is one of Gods great prophets: that girl who is laughing at him may in the futuiT be a composer or a poet or the mother of a world leader.

One of the great medieval U'aChers alwa.ys removed his hat in the presence of youth These. he said, may be - .some indeed will ix; the leaders of tomorrow.

By ELMER ROESSNER

A government agency to assure an adequate supply of spruce for airplanes was cve-ated during World War I and survived until a few years ago. Even then, it did not die; its functions were absorbed by another agency. And a Broadway play, Two Blind Mice,

about the activities of a for

gotten but undead government agency, ran for four months in

Now a Duke University economist shows that once created, federal agencies not only survive but tend to proliferate, even after their original purpose I as with the spruce

board > erases to exist.

In-Challenge magazine, published by New York Univer

sity, David G Davies writes that since 1900, Wie labor force has increased by a little more than one and a half times, but that the growth in governmental employment w-as five times as large.

EI.El'TKIKYING RTRAL AMERKA

One of the examplc.s of this expansion cited by Professor DaMcs 1* the Rural ElecU-iii-

cation Administration, originally created to help farm cooperatives carry power to the farms. Although now 99 per cent of the farms are now , electrified, the REA continues to grow, he said. One reason Is that the REA in 1961 abruptly changed its policy without Congressional approval and concentrated on ' generations and transmi.sslon loans.

Since 1961. while distribution loans continue to increase. G&T loans have increased about 180 per cent and now represent approximately 63 per cent of the new loans \ granted The rapid increase . . .seems especially anachronistic in light of the very fa.st growth of the public utilities which could provide power for the co-op distribution system, he writes.

Another factor In the growth of the REA. he writes, is the change in the type of customer .... In 1936. when Congre.ss passed the REA Act. most rural residents were farmers. Currently, five out of every six new customers served by REA borrowers are nonfarm customers. Many . are schools, churchea, com

mercial firms and industrial plants. .

MARGIN OF PROFIT

The government, the professor pointed out, borrows mohey at around 4 per cent and lends it to co-ops at 2 per cent. And the co-ops Invest half of their general funds in government bonds.

Another swelling agency is the Area Redevelopment Administration. growing because it lends money cheaply for projects to eliminate pockets of poverty.

It is possible for a businessman wlthMust $5,000 in equity funds to (mmbine an ARA loan with a Small Busin ess Administration loan to gain control of $140.0(X) for plant, machiiiery. equipment and worlgng capital expenditures. Other forever-expanding a,g-encies are our intelligence agencies. the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Atomic Energy Commissions Division of Intelligp.'c:. the Board of National Ertimale, the FBI, tlie National Seeurity Agency, , the National Security Coun-cli, President* Foreign

Intelligence Advisory Board, the Intelligence and Research Division of the State Department, and the United States' Intelligence Board.

Though Professor .Davies did not mention them, Washington cocktail lounge stories say that these intelligence agencies spend much of their time investigating each other.

There are many other Instances of overlapping agencies and the reason they overlap. Davies suggests. Is that their expansion simply spills over into other agencies fields.

i^lORT & SIGNIFICANT BISINE.SS NEWS ITEMS . .

The Census Bureau reports that 23 per cent of American men from 25 to 64 years ol(l follow in their fathers occupations ... A boy who drops out of high school will earn $;{8.(X)0 less in his w^orking lifetime than a boy who graduates. according to the National Consumer Finance Aseocl-ation. . . .The average American family spends $1,011 a .vcar In food stores. Progres-.ivT Grocer magazine estl-ouki*.