A^nday, Juna 15, 1964

Now A Look At Domestic Rates

The year-long study that , led the Greenville study of its domestic rates. We also recognize Utilities Comission this week to announce electricity that the Utilities Commission, although it is owned raU reductions for industrial and cmmercial by the City of Greenville, must be operated on a customers should be followed by an equally in- business-like basis. But we feel that the Commission tensive study looking toward possible reduction would be making a wise business move if it will in domestic rates charged by the local utilities study thoroughly the possibilities of reducing the comission. rates now charged to domestic customers.

Data accumulated during the study justifies For the most part, domestic rates of the Green-the industrial and commercial rate reductions which ville Utilities are in line with those of other electric the Utilities Comission has made effective July 1. power companies. Even so, if it is feasible for the The Commission is to be commended for this action, local rales to be reduced, and keep the utilities and for undeitaking the study which led to the operations on a sound basis, it would be a wise move action. It is a farsighted move which 1n the long from a business standpoint. At the same time it run will be beneficial to all people Jn the area Would provide an additional dividend of sorts served with electric power by Greenville Utilities. for its stockholders, who, of course, are the people Noav that the rate reductions have been shown of the city, feasible for the commercial and 'industrial We trust the Comission will begin the study ot customers, it is time for the Commission to move its domestic rates immediately and arrive at a decis: to see if more direct benefits can be provided ion on possible reduction in these rates as soon dome.stic customers through a reduction in those as it reasonably can. rates. , '

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By william A. SHIRES

BLE H. CUrton Blue assured North Carolina voters oi a choice In two second primary contests June 27 by deciding, with three days to apare, to call for a run-off against Robert W. (Bob) ScoU for' lieutenant governor.

By doing so. Blue proved again that he is a fighter - a man who doesn't give up easily.

Scott had anticipated Blues decision and was already campaigning across the state by airplane when the 1963 House Speaker made his announcement in Raleigh.

Scott. 34 year old son ^ the late Oov.-Sen. W. Kerr Scott, led the first primary balloting ea May 30 with a sizeable 53,-568 - margin, 306,992 to Bluea 255,424. State Sen. John R. Jordan Jr. of Raleigh, who ran third, p(^ed 140,227 and la expected to remain neutral In the Scott-Blue run-off.

ROLE - "I realise that I will be the underdog and that it will be an ui^illl campaign.

cancellation of health, accident and hospital insurance policies and for passage of minimum wage legislation.

CAMPAIGN It was evident that Blues supporters have pledged to wage a more active, vigorous campaign on his behalf.

We didnt work as hard for Cliff as we should have in the first primary. one Blue supporter admitted. "We didnt work hard at all. We assumed he would win. Cliff worked hard but we didnt. Thing are going to be different now. Were all gotag to get out and work for him as hard as we can."

Blue was flanked by top aides, regional managers and a number of Influential legisla* K>rs when he made his announcement. In addition. Blue campaign manager Sam Burrow said a headquarters would be kept open In Raleigh.

During the first primary campaign, Blue was the only candidate who for lieutenant governor who did not have a

In this election year Congress seems bent on doing something for everybody, including a handsome salary increase for its own members.

Back in March when many members of Con-gres.s were facing opposition in state primaries, the House voted down 222 to 184 a proposal to increase the salaries of members of Conggress by $10,000.

No doubt they felt it politically unwise to vote them,selves such a huge pay increase and immediately face the people and ask for re-nomination.

Since most of the state primaries are over, it hasent taken members of the House long to reverse their earlier decision. On Thursday the House passed by.a vote of 243 to 157 a measure which includes a $7,500 pay increase for members of Congress a.s well as cabinet members and other top federal officials.

Unless there were political motivations behind the earlier defeat of the pay - hike hill, it is difficult to understand why the House would reverse itself

so quickly and so completely on the matter of in- Bv ART BUCHWALD creasing its own pay.

While members of the House mav argue that . f

they are increasing federal salaries all along the ^ +

line because increases are needed, the public will _L 1 JLvJ. O not overlook the fact that members of Congress are taking for themselves the largest and most choice slice of the pie.

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a Dickeybird... Awaiting in the wings!

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We hate to go up to the Press CHub bar because we al-If the measure is approved by the SenaV, bumping into this

Blue said. But. he said, I am Raleigh headquartere. He han- which appears likely, it will mean that members of

used to being the underdog died correspondence and his Congress will receive an annual swlnrv nf non wner e Goldwater

and has fought uphill batUes campaign plans through an of- win. receive an annual salary o $d0,000 seems to have the Republican

Plans inrougn an 01- beinnninir nevf .Tannarv Tf alcr moorto

before.

The weekly newspaper publisher from Aberdeen, a veteran of legtslatlve service, said his decision to challenge Scott was based on the urglngs of ; many friends and supporters. And in announcing his decision. Blue drew the lines of his second primary campaign.

These will be on his legislative experience and record as against Scott's Inexperience.

Many of those who urged him to call for a run-off. Blue said, expressed the feeling that a man who is totally Inexperience in North Carolina legislative background should not be conceded the position of lieutenant governor by a minority vote."

OFFICE Blues decision also served to keep the political spotlight on the state's No. t office.

Both he and Scott stressed the Importance of the lieutenant governorship during the first primary campaign with ScoU pledging to make It a full time office functioning more as a sort of assistant governor.

Blue, calling for a run-off. pointed out duUes of the office which include presiding over the Senate, the naming of Senate commiUees and appointing chairmen, serving on the powerful State Legislative Council and as a member of the State Board of Education. A.'^ House Speaker and as a representative from Moore County for four terms, Blue has experience in handling these duties.

He also pointed to his underdog role as a legi.slator In fighting for curbs against abrupt

flee In Aberdeen and he and Burrow toured the state by car, sleeping and working out of a suitcase.

Sharper organization for the second primary was Indicated.

beirinningr next January. It also means that the nomination salary increase for members of Congress will add

sewed up. he

more than $4 million to the bill Congress sends the worst

ta.xpayers of the nation each year. thing that could have happen-

Members of Congre.ss are not overlooking them- ^ would have been if the Re-

Among Bues t^ supporters i^elve.s in the something-for-everybody program in

working in the campaign will this election year. J^heir^nominee. No^they don t

be Rep. David M. BriU of

Fairmont who was chairman of the powerful House Appro-prlatlims committee in 1963, and Rep. Hugh S. Johnston of Rose HUJ, chairman of the State Legllsatlve Council, Other include Reps. Wayland Sermons of Beaufort. James Ramsey oi Person and George Wood of Camden, and Sen. Fred Mills of Wadesboro.

ALIGN Just as Scott has done. Blue affirmed that he too is not taking sides in the governors race.

Both candidates have said they want to be able to work with whichever man is elected governor and want to avoid getting at logger-head.s with either Richardson Preyer or Dan K. Moore.

Blue said he would welcome support from either camp and added, Im not going to run anyone away.

Said Scott a couple of days earlier. Im not coming out endorsing Judge Moore anymore than I am endorsing Judge Preyer, If I say support' this man and the other one Wins. I couldnt work very well with him on the job to which I will be elected. On the matter of support for Preyer by his uncle. State Sen. Ralph Scott, Scott said, we fuss and argue all the time, and about the only thing we have In common l.s that we go to the same church.

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By WINFRED I.. iiODWIN

The South has Jong lagged behind the nation in the field of graduate education.

This remains a regional fact of life. The South annua 11 y awards almost 25 per cent of the nation's bachelor degrees but only 15 per cent of the countrys doctorates.

This regional lag reflects the scarcity of top qual i t y graduate programs in the South one result of a long period of relatively poor support of .higher education in general.

But some progress is being made.

Moderately good new s

comes with the announcement of this years graduate fellowship award winners. Rough 1 y 1,000 Southern scholars will enter graduate school in the fall on fellow'ship money from the nations four major award programs.

These are the National De-fen.se Graduate Pello wship.'^, Woodrow Wil.son National Fellowships. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships and National Sci e n c e Foundation Cooperative F e 1-lowship.s.

They will give a total of approximately 6.2(H) grad u a t e awards for the 1964 l!6.j .school year the National Science programs to train scientists, mathematicians and engineers for indu-stry. government and teaching.

A new NSF program beginning this .%ear, offering Graduate Tralneeshlps In Engineering, will help an additional 2(H) Southern engineer i n g students continue their higher education, out of a total 1,220 traineeships to be awarded over the country.

Twenty - nine Southern institutions with grad u a t e schools of engineering will

participate this first year. And the program may extend to other sciences in future years.

The South's share of these major programs is no better or worse than in the past few years. Boiled down to comparative percentages, it look.s pretty bleak: 4.7 of the NSF graduate fellows; 14.8 of t h e NSF cooperative fellows; 16 per cent of the NSF engineering traineeshlps, and about 27.7 of the NDEA fellows which are allotted on a population basis to states.

About 20 per cent of the Wilson fellows <300 out of 1,-.500) were tapped on Southern campuses. How many of this years fellowship winners will stay South Is another painful question. ,

About half of the NSF graduate fellows, who get to choose their institutions, will stay in the region. The larger percentage of NDEA fellows remaming South must be credited to these awards going to a cross section of institutions over the count r y w hich. I n turn, choose t h e awardees.

have to have an open convention.

Thats good.

Its not very good. There are a lot of moderate Republicans who are pretty damn mad at the way things have g(Mie. They were hoping to have a stop-Goldwater drive, but it just didnt come off. Thats bad.

Its good and its bad. Everyone was hoping that Ike

would unite the party against (joldwater and for 20 minutts it looked like he would. He called Gov. Scranton down to his Gettysburg farm and told him he liked him.

Thats good.

No, it wasnt, because the next day he called up Gov. Scranton and said he hoped he wouldnt join the cabal against Gold water.

Whats a cabal?

Its those people who dont think Goldwater is in the mainstream of Republican thinking. The key word in this election is mainstream.

W h y did Eisenhower change his mind?

It wasnt his fault. He got his signals mixed. His friends asked hiiti to organize a stop-Goldwater movement and he thought they wanted him to stop Scranton.

Thats bad.

Other Editors Saying... ;.3 Weeks With Pay

Campus destination.s of the Wilson fellows is now known, but a six-year study of past winners showed that less than 10 per cent attended Southern institutions.

(Christian Science Minitor)

Looking out the window, wondering how to spend our two weeks or Is it three this year? we cant help Ijeing interested in that first platoon of steelworkers getting 13 weeks off with pay.

The Extended Vacation Plan, It is called, and It went into effect in the steel Indu.stry Jan. 1. Some of the first vacationers arent back yet.

They are described by the American Iron and Steel Institute as pioneers in a soclol-loglcal event that the industrial world is watching. We cant help watching, too.

The vacationers are chosen from the senior group of workers. The expenses of the plan are met by company, contributions of 124 cents an hour worked by employees covered by It. The Institute gives only a paragraph to another story, concerning the tremendous dislocations at ,t h e plants when the senior w'ork-ers go away and when they return to their jobs.

The South can take solace, however, in the good showing that several of its Insti-tiition.s made in attracting a sizable number of the Wilson fellows from 1959-1962. Johns Hopkins University drew 112; the University of North Carolina, 98: Duke University.

59; Vanderbilt Uni vers 11 y.

.36; Tulane University. 34;

the University of Virginia.

28; and the University of Texas 24.

That other story bothers us a bit, knowing how things pile up when even a nonsenior nonsteelworker goes away. But with the prospect of 13 weeks being shared we have a feeling people will work things out.

Of course we agree with the institute that whether EVP is a true benefit depends very largely on the use that the men themselves make of it. There is varying encouragement In the examples of what the first EVP-vians are making of their free time. We turn away from the window and shake ourselves out oi the idea of 13-weeks-with-nothing-to-do!

With productivity, r is In g. with automation increasing, these vacationens are doubtless trying a pattern that will before long involve more of us.

Will there still be those for whom even two weeks would be a luxury, or those for whom no vacation at all with plenty of food would be living high? One has to leave the w'orld behind from time to time, but perhaps only for so long.

You cant hold It against Ike. Hes not like those guys-in the cigarette ads who always want to swing out. His slogan is. We Republicans would rather switch than fight.'

Thats good.

It all depends on the platform. If the Republicans can come up with a liberal platform, then Goldwater might be more palatable to the middle-of-the-roaders.

At least it would put him up the mainstream, we said.

Yes. the main replied, but he might be up the mainstream without a paddle. Gold-waters said some wild things in his time and the Democrats arent going to let him forget It.

Thats good, we said.

What do you mean thats good?

I mean thats bad. I hate to see someone hold something against a man just because hes said it.

Exactly. And dont forget the ultar-Left wing press is al-w-ays twisting ever^hing that Goldwater says.

They should Just print every'thing he says as he says it. we said.

No, that w'ould be bad. Printing everything Goldwater say.s would be worse than twisting it.

I can see where that would be bad, we agreed.

Anyway, its going to be an interesting election.

Thats good, we said.

Why do you say that?

I dont know. I guess Id rather switch than fight, also.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. --I have just been participating in a gathering of students from forty-four foreign countries who came here to taka part in the annual WUliam-burg International Assembly. The last seminar of a three-day session was thrown into something of an uproar when Andrew Hacker, an associate professor of government at Ctomell University, used the cold terma a cultural anthropologist to describe the power struggle of whites and Negroes in the United States.

He spoke of two clashing Populist movements, one consisting oi Negroes who are attempting towash a society which has rejmed them, and the other composed of fearful white backlashers who are shaky about their own hard-won financial security, real estate values, and social status. He predicted, as a student o< power, that the backlash would take <m formidable proportions in the next few years.

Professor Hackers speech was dellvCTed deadpan, but there were undercurrent of Ir(Miy In it. Obviously, to an American, he was hitting at northern hjTXxaites who are an for tntegratlm in Mississippi and Alabama but who care-fuUy move themselves to aU-white suburbs when their bloc are busted by Negro house-hunters in z big city. The note of Irojjy, however, failed to cross the language barriers of studer.es from Belgium ,Eth-opla, Ecuador, and India. Some of the boys and girls couldnt understand it when Professor Hacker said he spoke as a sc^ entlftc studit of power, not as a moralist.

Since this columnist once read aU the woi^s of the late Thorsteln Veblen, who used to describe the underlying population in terms that sounded scientifically neutral but actu-aUy masked a good deal of sympathy for the underd 0 g, the Hacker approach to the problem of the two populisms seemed quite a masterpiece of basic understanding of a potentially ugly stuatm. On the one hand the Negro Is on the march. And on the other hand no one who has paid $25,000 for a house in a white surburb likes to see $10,000 lopped off his hivestment overnight because of a change in the racial composition of the neighborhood. These are clashing facts of life, which professor Hacker, no PoUyanna, was trying to get across.

That he failed to do it points to a serious modem deficiency. Even some of the students who were proficient in their English didnt get the Hacker drive toward sociol(^ical truth as expressed In satirical terms. Can it be that nobody really understands satire any more?

This may not seem to be a monumental problem to many, but it raises a serious question among those of us who make living by writing. Or. for that matter by cartooning. A1 Capp, the creator of the comic strip Lil Abner, happened to be part of the third-day sem 1 n a r here at Williamsburg. He also spoke in satirical terms, depicting the U. S. as a cultural Lower Slobbovla. He, too, was misunderstood. And. ironically he had to use stralghtforwar(il and wholly non-humorous words to explain to the audience that Professor Hacker didnt really believe In eating Negro tibies for breakfast.

The pragmatic deductloa which your columnist drew from the seminar here Is Oiat statistics are safer than satlr-leal exposition. And so I will rely on satlstlcs to prove that this coimtry inches toward Improvement. A few years ago there were unintegrated shops In Williamsburg. Today com-mertcal desegregation here Is a fact. The change has been voluntary. It has taken place In spite of agitation for populist backlash on the part of some whites.

The world does move. At a (Continued on Page )

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Streiiath For Today

By EAIII. I..

THE I8SI F 1\ GODS HANDS

Be yc ptnfect. said Jesus, "even as 'your heavenly Father Ls perfect.

Yet no one has ever ix'en perfect save the Man who littered these words. We and all our ance.stors have .sinucd and come short of (he glory of God Our de.seenrients may do a little better than we. but perfection is probably is definitely ruled out for them as for us

Wa.s Jesii.s nustakeu, therefore. wliei) he iiiyted men to tie p(Tfect? Wa.s he setting forth the only idea! eoiuslstent wlili the loftiness of his teach-Iniis and the dignity of men For if Wf .strive for ai).vthlnR less than perfeetion v\e shall not even attain mcdiocriU'.

Our reach has to be greater than the probability o our achievement. Our aspirations have to be without measure. Nothing must be too great for our planning. The issues are not in our hands; they are in God s.

The Chiistian ideal of perfection has caused some to scoff. But the wKse have not scoffed. They know' that the only thing which gives the human being the power and incentive to progress is an ideal before? him which Is an ideal the thing he wants to be, th eminence he w anls to Vt-tain whether he can actually attain it or not.

Strive for perfection, You will probably not attain 11..but what God is interested tn Is not onr achievement ,but our aspiiatiuQ and our effort.

By ELMER ROESSNER

World War II being over and the Germans being licked there w'as a show on television about it a week ago), Congre.ss today takes up the problem of excise taxes, largely war levies.

Congress has taken them up many times before, but very little happened: a cut here, a snippet there. Now. for the first time, it is likely that these business - destroy i n g taxes will be greatly modified.

The big reason is that the income tax cut seems to be working at last, employmient is increasing and business volume is lai-ger. And President Johnson has declared for a further' tax cut. So if an Income tax cut can do a lot for the economy, why may not an excise tax cut do as much or more?

A (TT. BUT WHEN?

However, dont exp<Tt any immediate action. even though this is an elect 1 0 n year. Tliore is not time enough to drive an excise tax cut hill through Congress belore the national conventions, and fiom then on all Congressmen will be too busy politicking to pass an excise cut, even if it would

roll in more votes.

However, a number of these exci.ses expire July 1 unless reenacted. The manufacturers tax on autos is scheduled to drop from 10 to 7 per cent; the tax on auto parts is to drop from 8 to 5 per cent, and the travel tax (is this trip necessary?) expires. These taxes can be cut if Congress simply declines to extend them at present levels.

It is indeed strange that Congress has imposed such heavy taxes on the sale of con-siuner goods: appliances,

furs, jewelry, cosmetics, autos. luggage and other manufactured products. During the war, there were good reasons: Congress wanted to switch production from luxuries to war goods and imposed taxes to smother -demand. But today the problem Is not to divert men to war jobs but to create more jobs in manufacturing - and yet the e.xclse tax system limits sales and hence reduces jobs.

All of )is. including our Con-prcs.smen. are a little bit nutty. but why .should we engrosx' that fact on the laws of^the land? It would be far more profitable to admit that w'e are a nation of consumers

and sellers, and arrange our taxes so that trade would flourish.

EXPERTS TO TF.STIFY

Most of the witnesses at the House Ways and Means Committee hearings scheduled to start today will be economists and mathematicians. The Indignant manufacUxrers and consumers may be heard later.

One of the most impressive witnesses may be a modest, graying professor, A. W. Zelo-mek, who was retained several years ago to examine the effects of the cabaret tax, which was 20 per cent on checks. He reported that the tax was driving cabarets and other places of entertainment out of business, and throwing thousands of musicians and others out of work,

Largely cm his testim^y. Congress was moved to cutfthe tax to 10 per cent. If Prtifcs-sor Zeloinek Is recalled, he Is expected to report that the Government Is actually making more money at the 10 per cent rate than' at the old 20 per cent bits. More people are .'^pending more money at cabaret.'* and sim' pr so that the .O p**t e- . tfx ts ylelfilnR alri ost m ni.cn ES the 20 per cent levy and, on

top of that, thousand of mo* slcians and entertainers are paying more In Income taxes.

It may be that If other excises were cut or eliminated, the government would similarly make more money. And it might save a lot on unemployment benefits.

If you feel str(igly about this matter, write or wire Congressman Wilbur D. MUI 'D., Ark.), Ways and Means Committee, House of Representatives, Washingtai, D, C. Better j'et, phone your own Congressman and tell him how you feel. This being an election year, hell listen. Might even say to Mills. HI. Wil-bur! Lets get some action on excise cuts.

ANO'niER REASON FOR DRIVING CAREFULLY This is a reminder that, effective this year, Individuals cannot deduct the first $100 of casualty loss In computing Income taxes. And the first $100 of loss Is not covered by most auto accident policies. Thus, if a driver has three aci-dents, each oostlnt him IPO. be geu p*. lnaraai rr,iaymm and iXH Dn7 b $s&ueOcos C'' rx>orai!<rj ottn dednoi ualiy losse in fuL.