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Tobacco Industry Again Is Target

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The tobacco industry, assaulted and threatened on a number of fronts in recent months, now faces another critical period with the opening of a broad congressional investigation into the matter of cigarette smoking. Underlying the hearings in Washington are some 10 pieces of legislation introduced in connection with health and cigarettes. They cover a broad field from requirements to lable cigarette packages with health warnings to prescribing how manufacturers may advertise their products, and setting up educational programs to dissuade people from smoking.

It would be a serious mistake for the tobacco producing area to presume that the anti-cigarette bills now pending in Congress will come to nothing. The tobacco industry has a major fight on its hands to persuade a majority of Congress that legislation in this field is not needed at the present time.

The tobacco industry has appointed a special commissioner to regulate the advertising of its products and it also has made a grant of up to |10 mil

lion to the American Medical Association for research into the smoking problem. These two steps by the tobacco industry in the wake of the report of the surgeon generals committee on smoking and health points out that the indu.stry is as interested in getting to the bottom of the problem as congress or any other agency of the government.

It seems to us the tobacco industry should be given time to put into operation its own programs for finding a solution to a number of the problems hit at by the bills introduced in Congres.s. We feel it would be a serious mistake and an unwarranted restriction of operations of one of the nations major industries for Congress to enact the measures it now has pending relating to cigarettes.

Ortainly the tobacco area.s need to mu.ster all the strength they possibly can to assure that their .position will be given consideration in connection with the pending legislation. It will not be enough just to give lip service to the cause. The tobacco region mu.st have men at every level who will fight against unwise and unwarranted regulations that w'ould needle.ssly throttle the industry.

TTrTi*! T "NTl w'ould needle.ssly throttle the industry.

VV QllQCe Is iNOt Those Weed-Grown

asily Ignored Lo* Need Attention

Bt william a. SHIRF.B WALLACE - Initial reac-Mf>n to efforts to get the name of Alabamas Gov.

George C. Wallace on the presidential ballot In North CaroUna was not to take It seriously.

Ignore him If pomible was the attitude generally In state poltica] circles. Plans being drawn for next November do not Include a role for Wal-. lace.

But Wallace, now a national flgure with a largely invisible following, Is not easily Ignored.

Suddenly, too, there came the realization that Wallace probably was not taken very seriously at first In Wisconsin. Indiana and Mary] and earlier this Spring, Yet he succeeded lil stirring the political waters considerably.

CHANGE There had to be a change la thinking about Wallace In light of the fact that be aiHrently is seri o u s about getting on the tmllot and about campaigning In North Can^a.

Wlietber he will succeed will be known by July 1.

In the meantime, while he will continue to be Ignored as much as possible mibllcly. there Is growing concern In private. There Is awareness, too, that If the drive for 10.-000 signatures on a Wallace-for-Presldent political party petition Kuccee<Ls reshaping of some political strategy will be necessary.

Privately, there is hope In these established political circles that the grassroots Wallace petition movement will fall.

because prior to Wallaces arrival In Raleigh some highly-placed ^te political figures, both Democrat and Republican, were echoing dismay.

Wallace said his purpose was to try to get enough electoral votes to prevent either the Democrat or Republican nominee from getting the preiddency without Wallaces approval. His price, he said, would be a'public enunciation of a flrm position on civil rights, states rights and local government, It Is not sectlMi-allsm, he said, but an effort to get the liberals off the backs of everybody else.

He predicted there would be no choice between the platforms of the two major parties and the party candidates will have to run on the party platforms.

VIEWS - Wallace denied that he Is a racist or that he has ever campaigned on the race Issue. Invasion of states rights and responsibilities, he said. Is the Issue.

He denounced the recently-passed civil rights bill and predicted that eventually It Is going to be repealed by some new faces In Cmigress. When enacted, he said, It will not be the responsibility of a governor to enforce It and my attitude is going to be leave it alwie. He said it would take a police state to enforce It.

Wallace also attacked the U.S. Supreme Court saying It had assumed complete dom-inimi and was making a mockery out of the constitution.

TALK - It la a talking movement at the moment. It began a week ago with the arrival of a few young men from Alabama with the 1 o o k of college students about them.

They set up In a Raleigh hotel and began making inquiries about requirements and procedures under North Carolina law. There were four at first and despite their I6ok.s it developed that the four Included Wallaces legal advisor, Cecil Jackson, Alabama state finance director. Sey more Tiammell, .state publicity director Ed Ewing and Alabama House clerk John Pemberton. They began the talk 1 n g. Additional members of the small and comimct but mobile Wallace "team arrived later.

Then Wallace himself came onto the scene for a well-staged Sunday afternoon news conference In Raleigh and some television appearances,

PURPOSES - Wallace told the news conference very frankly that he Is neither Democrat nor Republican, tut an Alabama Democrat.

This wa.s already apparent

As for the major politic a 1 parties, he said, the mainstream of American politics is taking us right down the road to state socialism and "Im getting out of the mainstream in fact. Im already out.

STRATEGY The strategy of Wallaces supporters, calculated to withhold necessary electoral votes In the presidential election, is not new. However. euch a tactic has never made appreciable Inroads 1 North Carolina's two-party sy.stem and there are reasons why ofcials of both pii -tles react against its being attempted this year.

^te Republican (rfficlals remain hopeful that a ticket of Goldwater Gavin next November can Improve on the showing of the Nixon - Gavin ticket which came very close to carrying North Carolina in 1960. They feel that Walla c e would cut Into the Goldwater element In North Carol I n a. Democrats, meanwhile, realize that Wallaces name on the ballot might also attract a substantial number of civil rlghUs-lncensed Democrats.

Neither party would feel entirely comfortable with W a 1-lace as company.

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Summer monlh.^ bring us many things here in the communitie.s of Pitt County, but perhaps one of the most coruspicuou.s and unsightly are the weed-grown lota that go unattended in almost every part of every town.

Its ea.sy to understand why they go unattended. In the hot summer season its hard enough for a person to keep hi.s own yard mowed, to say nothing of tackling the chore of keeping the weeds from growing * waist-high on a vacant lot somewhere. Every now and then the municipal government may cite a law that says weeds are to be kept down, but by that time were usually a few weeks away from frost that would take care of the situation anyway.

In recent months a number of the communitie.s throughout the county apparently have become more concerned than usual about their respective appearances. Some are in the process of planning programs to improving busine.ss sections and so forth.

It may be just a little thing, but each of the communities of the county could greatly improve its appearance during these summer months ju.st by preventing the vacant lots from becomings weed-grown eyesores. It would take some organization, it would take some effort, and of course, it would cost .some money. But it would not take a great deal of any of these ingredients in any community to accom-pli.sh the goal.

It would at lea.st show the summer visitors to the various communities in Pitt that the people in the towns of this county care a little more about the appearance of their respective communities.

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By ALVIN TAYLOB

A Loser In Crazy Eight

ammed -Year

Crazy Eight Is a simple little card game. It Is something like the games we used to play In our childhood days.

All you do is deal out seven cards to each player. One card Is turned up and each player can play a card of the same number or face. An eight is wild. There are a few other rules but that is the way It goes.

Any self respecting college graduate such as your colum-ni.st should be able to outwit any almost-eight-year-old like our niece, Kim, at such a

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By JAMES MARI.OW

WASHINGTON iAP) The Supreme Court, undeterred by criticism that It Is pushing too far too fast and usui-ping power, has finished another jammed year deciding cases from civil rights and communism to reapportionment.

It continued to assert It.s concera for civil liberties protection of the individual frtmi the power of the state. It handled labor problems and many cases which may seem minor to the general public but todi time, work and thought.

Near the end of la-st years term the court blew up a storm by banning any required reading of the Bible and the Lords Prayer in public schools. AttempUs were made in Congress this year to undo that decision.

must be worked out by the states in electing representatives to Congress. This does not touch the arrangement for senators which is ba^sed on the Constitution and is unrelated to population: each state is entitled to two senators elected by the whole state.

The court began to move into this problem of reappoit-lonment in 1962, but this years actions were the climax.

The court made a ruling which affected Communists favorably. But it was in effect an expression of the courts concern that individuals be protected by the Fifth Amendments guarantee that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

game.

Thats what we thought when she challenged us the other night. "Sure thing, we said, vowing secretly to go easy on the youngster.

She explained the rules and soon the game was underway. Things went along pretty well for a spell, Kim throwing down her cards and we ours. Then she tossed down a two.

"Draw, she said.

"What? I asked.

"I played a two, she said. "Youve got to draw t w o cards. Let us explain that the more cards you have when your partner goes out, the more points you receive, and you dont want points.

Well, to make a long story short, the first game finally ended: Kim, 0; Alvin, 25.

We scowled a little and dealth another hand. This one finally ended: Kim, 0; Alvin, 62. Kims mother came to the rescue. She called bedtime and

we breathed a sigh of relief.

But Kims brother John is a little older and he can stay up a little longer. So he took over. We played a hand: John, 0, Alvin, 15. We put on our darkest look and dealt again. John, 0; Alvin 35.

Finally bedtime was called Ob John, but then their mother decided she would play us a hand.or two.

Well, to end the story this one went on for several hands. It ended: Jean, 2; Alvin 125.

These silly little games are for kids and women. Give us a solid mans card game like go fishing.

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Other Editors Saying... Strength

A Record Class

By EARL L. DOrGI.ASS A MAN WITH A SECRET

(Washington Dailj News)

On Sunday, June 14. 1964, a total of 1,1,93 young men and women received degrees at commencement exercises at East Carolina college in Greenville.

college who- otherwise would not have the opportunity if ECC were located 100 miles away instead of being in Greenville,

But these attempts to produce a constitutional amendment permitting the reading of the prayer and the Bible have failed so far and will probably fall totally.

Again this year, one week before it finished up Monday, the court gave perhaps its mo.st far-reaching opinion in years, one which will surely shake the foundations of the old political machines as they havent been in generations.

This ruling it may affect practically all 50 staters Instructed them to overhaul

their legislatures by reapportioning their election dis

tricts more equally by population to carry out this philosophy: "one voter, one

vote.

The court said the seats in both houses, of state legislatures must be reappoilloned to get away from the pre.sent, ancient districting in which a relatively small number of people In one district can

elect one legislator while four times as many squeezed Into a single district elsewhere can elect only one.

Earlier this year the court said similar reapportionment

In pursuance of this the court ruled unconstitutional a section of the Subversive Activities Control Act that denies passports to members of officially designated Commu-nl.st organizations.

Two weeks ago the Communist party gained another round in its 14-year-old legal battle against registering as an Instrument of world Revolution.

The court refused to review, and thus let stand, a lower U, S. court decision of last Dec. 17 which reversed on technical grounds a $120.000 fine against the party for failure to submit details of its membership and finances.

The court was loaded down with racial and civil rights problems this term.

The court overturned a series of trespass convictions against sit-in demonstrators: threw out the conviction of 65 Negro students arrested breach of the peace charges in a I960 racial demonstration; ruled against a Southern courtroom custom of addri*sslng Negioes by their first names instead of as "Mi.ss or "Mr. or "Mrs.; let stand a lower court ruling that hospitals ac-< Continued On Page 6)

According to our county, of that niunber 43 are frorn Beaufort county. That means that better than three and a half percent of those receiving degrees come from Beaufort county.

This past school year there were more than 200 young men and women from Beaufort county attending college at ECC.

We feel quite sure that many of those receiving degrees and many of those now in undergraduate school from Beaufort county might have gone to another college had not E(X been close by. But we would also guess that there are many boys and girls in the group who Would not today have opportunity to attend college if we did not have a good one located in Greenville.

We have many of our boys and girls who live in dormitories in Greenville, Wp also have many of them who daily commute to the campus.

When we try to weigh the real value of this college to our area, we mu.st think In terms of human beings of your boys and girls who graduate from our high schools and then pursue higher educations. We are satisfied that so many of them are ,attend l n g

This college means a great deal to us. It means far more than so many of us realize. It is not only in terms of educating the individuals who go there that makes the college so valuable to us. There is another side. Those turned out by the college so often are teachers who in turn go to our secondary schools to make their livings by tea.ching other young boys and girls. That is a great contribution in our search for quality educational opportunities.

An acquaintance of mine has been keeping a secret. Not only did he keep the secret from his friends; he kept it from his wife and his three children as well.

Only some doctors knew his secret: that at the age of 43, he had cancer. They could not be sure at once how far it had gone, and whether it could be cured.

This recent record graduatr Ing class offers a real tribute to us here in Beaufort county in terms of academic achievement by 43 boys and girls who are our own. We are proud of what they have done and we are confident of what they will do in the future. They will join many communities and make a great contribution to a better way of living wherever they might be.

When he was told, my friend thought over the frighthening news. If he must die within a year a possibility, they said then he must die. But need he make that year an agonizing one for his family as well as for himself? His immediate decision was that no one at all should be told.

Fortunately, he was able to arrange for an operation and then for repeated X-ray treatments under the pretext of some necessary but minor corrective surgery. Somehow, courageously, he managed to behave cheerfully with his friends and family. No one suspected. Through the long months of waiting,.,, his courage never failed, and he never revealed his secret.

Yes, East Carolina coUege is on the march. And we who live here in this Pamlico area of North Carolina are being highly benefitted by the .scope of the job being done there.

Our boys and girls are being better prepared for life and better prepared to help living along in so many ways.

And now his secret is out. Why? Because he has been cured, apparently completely. His friends and familys happiness at his escape is no greater than their admiration of his amazing courage In fighting his battle alone.

May God grant us al! such strength In time of need!

By JOHN CHAMBERI.AIN

Copyright. 1964, King Feature.s Syndicate, Inc.

It c(Hild be a series of coincidences. On the (X.her hand, it could be a contagion caused by the temper of the times. But whatever it Is, a broad movement is in the work.s to discredit the security agencies of government in the U. S.

The contagion ripples from place to place. The FBIs head, J. Edgar Hoover, is subjetfffd to insinuations in magazines that he is too old to do a good job. Mr. Hoover will be 70 years old next January, but to anyone who has talked with him and watched him in action the idea that he is ripe for retirement is preposterous. President Johnson recognized this when he chose the fortieth anniversary of Hoovers appointment by Attorney General Harlan Flske Stone to w;aive retirement and continue Hoover In office. Nevertheless In spite of presidential certifitxation that he is sound of mind, and limb, the sniping against Mr. Hoover will continue. The Nation magazine's Fred J. Cook, who has sniped before, will s nl p e again in a book scheduled for publication by Macmillan, "The FBI-Nobody Knows.

In New York City, It Is the police department that is under fire. Well-meaning citizens belonging to such eminent organizations as the Caty Club of New York, the Liberal Party, the Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP, and the Sociali.st Party, have called for the creation of a civilian board to review charges of police brutality. This has aroused the wrath of Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, who has himself fired some eighty policemen on complaints during the past three years. Commissioner Murphy resents the Imputation that he cant take care of disciplinary action within the department himself. There is no evidence that Communists or Fellow Travelers are behind the agitation to put a civilian board of review over the Commissioners own review facilities, although John Cassese, the pre.sldent of the Patrolmens Benevolent Association, has alleged Communist-front" manipulation. Mr. Cassese might have been on less disputable ground if he had advanced the theory of contagion presumably abetted by Commun-' ist-fronters. The spreading hf verbal Impeachments is subtle. an osmosis-like process, and no conspiracies are necessary to cause words to travel.

The attacks on the FBI and the New York metropolitan police are recurrences of what has happened before. But the contagion is now spreading in a new direction to menace the Central Intelligence Agency and a number of private radio broadcasting and monitor 1 n g organizations such as the Free Europe Committee and Radio Liberty which, presumably, get some funds from Washington. In a book published this week, The Invisible Government. David Wise and Thomas B. Ross have not only come down hard on the CIA Itself but on all "black radio security organizations, both government and quasi-official.

The Free Europe Committee, which operates Radio Fres Europe, is condemned for encouraging the Hungarians to revolt in 1956, Maybe its words did lend such encouragement, but if Radio Free Europe operates within the published policy of the United States, as It has Itself proclaimed, then the primary fault of misleading the Hungarians should be sought elsewhere.

The fact is that If the fov-ernment extends funds to black radio organlzatltms. It is responsible for what those organizations do. Some ot the black radio groups. Incidentally, do magnificent work. By its monitoring skills Radio Liberty In Munich and New York City called the turn on the wheat famine in Soviet Russia last year along before anyone else. Such invaluable reporting on the part of the black radio arms of invisible government gets far less attention from the Messrs. Wise and Ross, who should know good reporting when they see it, than the .sins and peccadillos which form the primary substance of their book.

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To The Editor:

I have always been conscious of the importance of agrien Ituie to the economy of North Carolina and have fouglit for every measure to make the lives of those who live on oiir farms more abundant. From the time in June, 19.54, when I took the oath of office as a United States Senator to the pi-esent, I have done everything In my power to support and preserve the Federal Tobacco Program. As recently as March of this year, I success-fully led the fight for the tobacco farmer against the Williams Amendment which would have eliminated tobacco from the Federal Program. In addition. I have supported appropriations amounting to millions

upon niillioas of dollars for cancer research, including research In the use of tobacco. I have always supported Public Law 480 and the Reciprocal Trade Agreemenls Act and have worked unceasingly for the benefit of our North Car- oHna faimers, being one of the early and vocal objectors to the Japanfw Imports which ^^ere detrimental to U. S. industry and especially to our cotton farmers and the textile industry. Any statement from anyone to the contrary is totally lacking in foundation.

1 trust you will carry this as a news item.

Respectfully, Sam J. Ervin. Jr. Uuitcd States Senator

By KIMKR ROESSNKR

Eric F. Goldman,

The White House.

Washington, D. C.

Dear Prof. Goldman:

Since Pre.sldent Johnson has bdrrowed you from Princeton to gather ideas for the government. permit me to respond to your request for suggestion.s;

Lets stop calling foreign cities, at least in friendly eountfies, by their wrong names. To u.se the native names will be to increase friendly relations and to encourage trade. Using the national names will remove the suspicion of Anglo - Saxon feeling of suptniority.

.And besides, the real names are much more melodious.

Let's drop The Hague for 's Gravenhage, "Antwerp for Antwerpen. "Brussels for Bruxelles, i^ienna for Wien, Copenhagen for Kobenhavn, "Nureml^rg' for ^Nurnb ere,

"Munich for Mnchen, and "Ostend for Oastende. LOVELY ITALIAN And lets forget the harsh Anglo - Saxon tenns for Venezia. Genova, Roma, Napoli. Milano, Torino and Padova in sunny Italy, And imagine applying the ugly term "Leghorn to the liltingly named city of Livorno!

And lets change Liston to Lisboa, "Salonika to Thessaloniki. Athens to Athlnai, and all the other cities to their right and proper names.

To change back to local names would be a deep courtesy to the inhabitants of those countries. It would show those citizens that we respect their naming and that we reject the artificial names of the early British poets I Including Shakespeare) for the truly native names of thase who live In their cities.

HOW TO 00 IT Of course, the White House

cannot order the American people to start calling Dunkirk Dunkerque. I would be among the first to protest. But the Pre.sident can direct the executive branch to use the correct. national spellings in all government communicat ions and reports and, after fifty years or .so, the rest of the country would fall in with the idea.

And as far as the countries behind the Iron Curtain, forget them. If they w^ant us to accept their names, let them accept us.

Sincerely, Elmer Ras.sner

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He said. "The Administration is interested in Ideas from experts and nonexperts. Anybixiy can mail suggestions to me at Princeton or to my office at the White House. The two parts of my job will be to encourage people to suggest ideas and to make sure of a continuous flow.

Okay, readers!

F&DA EAH TO CLRR

EKU GOLDMAN PROEES.SOK OF HLSTOin Prof. Eric F. Goldman, appointed to the White House Staff to gather and sort ideas for President Johnson, continues as Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, without pay from the U. S, He is one of the mast popular professors

SYNTHETIC VANILLA

Last fall the U. S. Food k Drug Administration ruled that all vanilla - flavored products mu.st be labeled to tell whether the flavor was natural or synthetic. Vanilla-producing countries hailed this as a boon, expecting a great increase in sales.

But Americans went right on buying products with synthetic vanilla, and tnie vanilla Imports failed to gain. ,

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