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Business-Like Attitude Is Missing

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In the process of providing pay increases for There is no getting around the fact that in

federal employes, members of the House and Sen- shaping the election-year pay-increase pie, mem-ate have voted handsome increases for themselves bers of Congress took a generous slice for them-along with members of their office staffs. selves and those who work on their personal staffs.

Of the $564 million federal pay bill that was It may be significant that during the same

passed by Congress last week, a total of $9,6 million week that final action was being taken on this pay-is earmarked for increasing salaries of members hike bill, action was also finalized on a measure of the House and Senate and the staffs of Senators to increase the temporary limit on the national debt

and Representatives. For members of the House I^om $309 billion to 324 billion dollars. Such action

and Senate the pay hike of $7,500 a year repre- the so-called /permanent ceiling of $285

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' By^Wn.LIAM A. SHIRES - TRAVEL The travel industry in North Carolina was a $% million business last year.

Officials are confident that it will exceed the SI billion mark in 1964 on the basis of an average growth rate of better than seven per cent annually, and a record volume of inquiries already received by the states travel agencies during the first six months of the year.

Since 1948, sales in travel service in North Carolina have climbed by 188 per cent and business gains have exceeded those registered by regular retail trade and service firms.

Also, North Carolinas travel industry growth has outstripped that for the nation as a whole.

A new report on the states travel industry, just issued and covering the year 1963, shows why the travel and tourist industry stands out brightly in the North Carolina economic picture.

REPORT The report prepared by Dr. Lewis C. Copeland, travel study statistician aj the University of Tennessee, shows 19,000 firms engaged in the service and transportation of travelers in North CarolirA.

These had combined sales and receipts of S968 million last year. The total includes $45 millicMi for utilities engaged in intercity transportation of passengers arxi $923 million in sales of firms catering to the traveling public.

The states travel industry Provides jobs for 83,000 paid and others, the tuSfCLvX aa employes, active proprietors and others, the reports said.

Altogether, $287 million in personal income was paid out to individuals by these 19,000 firms. This includes payrols, earnings of proprietors, dividends, interest and rents.

The state of North Carolina alone collected taxes totaling fl70 million from these firms.

LISTS Dr. C(H?eland and his associates have been compiling a travel industry survey report on North Carolina for the Travel Council of North Carolina Inc., and the slates travel information division each year since 1959.

The 1963 report lists for the first time a county-by-county breakdown of the number of firms in travel service, personal income paid out by these firms, total number of persons employed by the firms and total expenditures by out-of-state travelers per county.

The largest counties, Mecklenburg. Guilford, Forsyth and Wake lead the state in these categories. Mecklenburg has 1,356 travel service firms employing 8,445 persons, wdth total pers<Mial income paid by the firms of $35,498,000 and out-of-state traveler expend!-tures of $30.700.000. Guilford is second with 1,148 firms, ,046 employes, $22,139,000 In personal income paid by the firms, and $23,170,000 in expenditures by out-of-state travelers.

The list scales dowm to a mere seven travel-service firms in each of two tiny counties, Camden and Gates.

But generally, the report ayfs, the listing serves to highlight the fact that traVel

activities are widely spread over the state.

FIGURES The report pegs the number of travel-related businesses in North Carolina at 17 per cent of the states 110,000 active, non-farm commercial enterprises. And travel businesses cwnprise about 31 per cent of the 60,000 retail trade and service establishments.

There are 20,700 active proprietors engaged in providing food, lodging, transportation and recreation services to travelers, and .58,500 private employes in the private firms. In addition, there are 2,000 unpaid family workers and 2,100 government employes thus engaged.

. The Copeland report says the economic impact of the travel-related business employment can be stated precisely: a worker in the travel industry earns $3,600 a year. Therefore. 275 workers wdll add a million dollars to the annual incpme of an area.

This million dollar payroll, in turn, will se tin motion economic activities which will generate three million dollars income, the report says.

IMPACT It says the needs of travelers has created a large and important market for North Carolina commerce and industry.

The $467 million spent by all travelers, the report says, amounts to 48 per cent of the aggregate sales and receipts of business concerns engaged in travel service. On the other hand, the $968 million travel and transport business comprises 17 per cent of the five billion retail trade in the state. Retail business, in turn, makes up one-fifth of the $27 billion economic output of North Carolina.

The report goes in to much additional detail on such aspects as state revenue from travel, revenue from tourists. North Carolinas share of the travel and tourist market, lodging, automotive and food service businesses,^ ^ AHEAD ' There is confidence on the Part of travel officials that 1964 wil Ibe another banner year. The travel information division, for example, says that inquiries through July 1 exceed the number received in nine full months last year and for any previous full year.

The increase in inquiries is attributed by some sources, at least in party, to a shift in advertising schedules. There has been an Increase in newspaper advertising with ads placed in approximately 40 large out-of-state newspapers, ranging from 300 to 800 lines to three-fifth page ads in four colors, a full page four-color ads in certain newspaper magazine media.

North Carolinas state advertising budget meanw'hile remains comparatively modest, at approximately $343,000 a year, compared to $16 million each by Florida and Hawaii, $1 million or nearly $l million by such states as New York, Arkansas and Pennsylvania and $601,000 a year by Virginia.

Twenty states spend more or as much as North Carolina on tourist advertising and promotion.

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billion on the national debt completely unrealistic.

This election year has brought from Washington considerable talk about the necessity of economy in government. It has been a year in which some measures, largely stemming from the White House, made it appear there would emerge ' an unprecedented effort on the part of official Washington to trim a good part of the fat off federal spending. Shortly after taking office President Johnson sent out what appeared to be a stiff order^to agencies and departments with respect to holding down the size of their staffs and reducing expenditures. And there was also the electricity economy move in the White House itself.

But the action of Congress with respect to appropriationsparticularly with respect to their own salariesleads one to the conclusion that genuine

efforts to operate the government on a real 'business-like basis are yet to receive any degree of priority on Capitol Hill.

Greenvilles Budget Is Upped, Tax Rate Cut

Another reduction in the Greenville tax rate for the second consecutive year is good news for local taxpayers who more often than not find the various levels of government increasing rather than decreasing the tax rates.

The change in the tax rate approved by the City Council Thursday means Greenville citizens will pay a property tax of $1.55 this year for city operations rather than the $1.60 tax levy of the previous year. It also means that in the past two years the City Council has been able to reduce the local ad valorem rate by a total of seven cents.

One reason for the reductions, of course, is the fact that .property valuations in the city have

By ART BUCHWALD

increased in re^t years. Even though the tax rate b^

When ComDuters Fai'.

Dr. Erick Riss, a sociologist.

has been reduc by five cents for this year, for example, the city expects to receive some $30,000

more in property taxes this year than it did last insists marriages made year. Another reason the city has been able to through computers are more pass on a reduction in the tax rate, we suspect, is heaTei^'^^ ^

because of more efficient operations throughout the Through in-depth personali-the local government. ty tests and swift'calculations

The $1.16 million budget adopted for the city ^82 ffiM electronic com-

for the current fiscal year is not a great deal higher mate'd coupler^^ oriy than that for the year just ended. Nevertheless, it two divorces. He has been appears adequate to meet the needs of the city and

provide adequate sen-ic to citizens in all areas of ,n5The'tS%ro itod the local government operations. Particularly does if they are compatible, he this appear true which it is taken into consideration that the city wound up the fiscal year on June 30 /^lIl TT

with an estimated $86,000 cash on hand from the LJt.n6r jC.ltOrS OQVinCI . . .

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said. Dr. Risss method Is much more scientific. He makes a personality profile which he transfers to a punch card which is fed into an IBM sorter, each representing another applicant of the opposite sex whose likes and dislikes, educational background, temperament, ambition and goals shape up suitably. Then a match is made.

Were not too concerned with the 730 successful marriages arranged by Dr. Riss as much

New Knowledge Out Of

N. Y. Anti-Crime Laws

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

jjigging

By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Digging in the good earth has a non-horticultural meaning for many college students.

Prom tre South and across the country students will beliteral-ly digging their way this summer to a practical knowledge X archeology and history through excavation expeditions to foreign countries.

Archeological treks, once the province of veteran scholars and museum keepers, are an important summer activity for young undergraduates studying ancient civilizations.

Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are co-sponsoring their first joint dig on foreign soil this summer in Winchester, England, They hope to uncover remnants of the ancient citys colorful past under the rule of Roman and Norman conquerors and the citys own rich Elizabethan heritage.

Eastern and Midwestern college students will join the Tar Heel group, numbering about 50 eager amateur archeologlsts. They will dig in on the sites of two ancient castles and a Roman church before the (?lty of Winchester start.s an urban development program that will cover the ruins.

Emory University ancient history buffs will be joined by young women of Agnes Scott College and students at Columbia Theological Seminary, all Atlanta-area institutions, in a second dig this summer in the Holy Land.

The group of about 20 will turn the soil where a Canaa-nite royal city. Arad, did a bustling business from about 3000 to 300 B. C. They will

hold classes w'hile they dig on the six weeks project, gaining nine hours of college credit. Dr. Immanuel Ben-Dor, Emory professor of Biblical archeology initiated the expedi 11 o n through the Institute of Mediterranean Studies in Berkeley, California.

Other Southern collegiates will gain an applied knowledge of world affairs through foreign tours this summer involving less pick and shovel work.

The University of Arkansas famed Schola Cantorum .chorus (school of singers will appear on the program of the Aix-en-Province 1964 Music Festival, the only non-professional group invited to participate and perhaps the only collegiate group to sing before this audience of serious music lovers.

For about a month before the festival, the chorus will tour the Ccmtinent giving formal and informal concerts. Europeans know their abilities from their award-winning performance in 1962 at the International Polyphonic Competition in Arezzo, Italy.

Twenty-eight Florida State University students will take their famed flying circus to four European cities this summer nl a tour sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting S y s-tem. CBS is televising their adventures and receptions along the way and will broadcast them to U. S. audiences later in the year.

Back home, campus classrooms. research laboratories and libraries are humming with more undergraduate activity than in any previous sum-(Continued Un Page 5>

Much criticism has been directed at New York in recent weeks for the mass violence and crime that have mushroomed in that ar a in the wake of the civil rights movement in this country. New York Citys police department is quite understandably upset by the crime wave as well as by the criticism. Much of the latter is undeserved, for Gothams finest rank with the best in the country.

But in moving to counter the crime wave the state of New York may very well be taking a course every bit as questionable as the law violators. New York will begin enforcing two controversial anticrime laws/which even top officials concede may be unconstitutional the new stop and frisk and no-knock laws.

The first law gives a police officer the right to stop and question any one in a public place he reasonably suspects of a serious crime or criminal Intent, and search that person for weapons. The intent behind this law may be noble, but how can we be sure the policeman involved has reasonable suspicion? Sui-ely, this law will be abused.

Possession of certain weapons without police permit is a violation of the states .53-year-old sullivan Law. One wonders why the Supreme Court, in Its recently-found

zeal to protect the civil rights of individuals, has not tested the legality of this law in the face of our constitutional guarantee of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The second new law in New York permits police, armed with a search warrant and specified court permission, to enter private dwellings without first knocking or announcing their presence. Thats how Hitler got his start, of course. Under the pretext of protecting the public, these two laws could ctMiceivably turn into something worse than anything we have yet seen in this country.

Already we have wii-etapp-ing, lie detector tests, Big Brother watching, and all sorts of peeping-Tom antics carried on by government at all levels. The people of New York, if they are jealous of their freedoms, will not tolerate these laws any longer than it takes to get them into court and declare them unconstitutional.

The defense of these laws Is that they will protect the community.. So will martial law. Crime is indeed a serious matter in New york. but two wrongs do not make a. right. We do not want to see this kind of legislation spill over the state boundaries Into the rest of the country. New York has our sympathy with its civil rights-bom crime wave: it has our unswerving opposition to police state tactics in curbing that crime wave.

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as we are by those two divorces. Where did the computer go wrong? Lets look in on one of the two couples.

Mrs. Jones comes into the living room. What happened to us, George? We seem to be drifting away from each other.

I dont know, George says. Something must have happened to our personality profile analysis.

Is there another woman, George?

Of course not. Somebody just punched a wrong hole in my IBM card. It could have happened to anyone.

But we do have the same temperament, Mrs. Jones says.

Thats true. George says. And our ambitions are sinji-lar. We both want me to be rich.

We both love to play golf and to watch The Defenders' on television, Mrs. Jones says.

I have a B. A. from college and you have a B, A. from college, so it couldnt be our educational differences, George says.

We both read the same books and enjoy the same music.

When we travel we alwajrs like to visit the same places and I dont think weve ever had a quarrel about our vacation.

No, we havent, Mrs. Jones says. You seem to eat everything I cook for you.

I do and I like it. Our taste In food is very similar,

Even our dislikes are t h e same. You dont like to dance and neither do I. You hate to go out to cocktail parties as much as I do. We both dislike our in-laws.

"As far as the house goes, George says. I have no quarrel with your choice in decoration.

And Ive always been interested In your work, Mrs. Jones says.

We seem to be perfectly matched, George says.

Then what ould it be? Mrs. Jones says.

Weve thought of everything, George says.

Not eveiything. Let me ask you something, George. Do (Continued On Page 5)

By JOHN CHAMBERUUN . :

Copyright. 19M. King FeatunB Ssmdicate, Inc.

Just 188 years ago we.ci$ free of Bhigland, a JCur^)ui power. But a good friend of mine, a refugee of long experience in anti-Nad and anticommunist under grounds abroad. teUs me that in thin seventh decade ol the Twen-' tieth Century we are becoming more and more like Europe every day. We are losing our wonderful innocence, he says, and with it we are losing our old candor.

My European friend doesnt hold this particularly against us, for he considers it a free mans privilege to use dissembling tactics If they are necessary to survive against powerful enemies in high places. In the age of the organization man, the dissembler is at least alive to the perils of enforced conformity. Its just a matter oi reacting in a preservat i v way against the drive to organize, classify and tabulate everybody so that they can bs put on a punch card for computer manipulation. Occasionally a brave soul, such as Eddie Rickenbackers Irrepres 1-ble son Bill, w lUtell a census taker either to produce a search warrant or get the heck out of his house. But other people, according to my European friend, just string the census taker along when he asks for Intimate details. They reserve the truth for their friends.

This is the reason, so I am ' told, why the political pollsters have been making such bad mistakes recently. They have run into that new phenomenon, the liars bloc. Resentful of being ariced to wear their poll--. tical hearts on their sleeves for the benefit of a polling of-t ganization, members of the liars bloc ddiberately mislead their questlOTiers. And when they go into the voting booth on primary day or on electlwi day. they take vast private satisfaction in crossing up tbf pollster guy who, like D (m Marquiss cockroach friencl archy when he mixed into me-hitable the cats business, has been just a little bit too nosey.

My European friend lives in a New Yori: apartment house. He tells me theres a Gold-water underground in his section of Manhattan. Nobody, he says, wants to admit putv licly hes for Barry, for fear that he will be tabbed as antiliberal. The members of the underground, many of whom have experienced persecution themselves, think the Negro should have his constitutional rights. But they don't like the feeling that there Is violence abroad on city streets, rhey react to killings, says my friend, by turning against the powers that permit them.l Furthermore, they are afraid of Communism, and if G o 1 d-water is for sending the marines into Cuba it is all right with them.

The Wallace vote is obviously part of the phenomenon that my friend has been talking about. Presumably there are a lot of people who would not admit to a pollster that they planned to vote for WaUace in a primary. They would not want to be called racists. And, Indeed, they are not racists. They just want to see ctmstitu-ti(Mial forms preserved. Like Goldwater, they believe that discrimination will cease when the human heart is won voluntarily to the cause of brotherly love. Not wishing to be called reactionaries by their liberal friends, they tell fibs to questioners and register their truth behind the curtain that protects the secret ballot.

The full Import of this Europeanization of American political life will not be realized until we have gone a bit further in the attempt to change the human psyche into something that can be fed into a computer for every type of purpose. Lyndon Johnson doesnt have to be worried about the Goldwater underground just yet. What Johnson has going for him at the mranent Is a surge of prosperity that gives his anti-poverty campaign the flavor of a crotchet that can (Continued on page 5)

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Fhe Developing Business Trends

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ..

HE WAS ABLE TO MOVE QUICKLY

Lord Nelson was able to win hi.s great victory at Trafalgar for a number of reasons. He was a great sea-fighter. he had sturdy companions, he bad a great fleet, and he had a great purpose in his heart.

But there is one thing which all historians speak about, and that is the extreme mobility of his ships. They were fast-sailing. ar.d best of all they ' could be handled In a quite amazing fashion. The reason for this was that a short time before the battle. Nelson saw to it that the bariiacles were removed from all his ships. The French frigates were clumsy and not able to move quickly in a moment of danger. Nelsons ships could be

made to respond immediately to the command of the Admiral.

This is a parable. Is it not, on the necessity of getting rid of barnacles. One would certainly not say that a ship Is usele.ss because it is very far from its normal stands of efficiency.

Anyone who ha.s a bad habit, be it great or small, has something that acts upon his life like barnacles on ship bottoms. To all outward appearances. his life may seem sound and quite adequate, bpt the man himself knows that he would be sluggish in a crisis, inept in a moment when all his powers were needed.

Get the barnacles off your life, if you would be ready to meet every challenge, as Nelson met the challenge of Trafalgar.

By EIJV1ER ROESSNER

Here are more look-aheads in business, based on analyses of developing trends:

, Long, hot summer: Negotiations between the United Aulo Woijkers and manufacturers will be long drawn out, despite the conciliatory stances of both sides. Walter Reuthers negotiators will tryt o get as much as possible in new fringe benefits. as well as to push the pay increases something above the White House guidelines. The auto workers know they can exceed the 3.6 per cent figure a bit without provoking Administration protests this electiony ear.b utt heya rent sureh ow much. A good guess would be 3.9 per cent. An even 4 per centm ight cause a government scolding.

However, there wont be a strike. With auto salesp respects better than ever, neither side wants to barbecue the goose that is laying those gold-enc ggso f wages and profits. CUPPA TO COST MORE

Iligherr offec prices: High-crp rlccsf ore offeea re certain latert hlsy ear. The new Inteinatlonal Coffee Agreement! Imitst he supply f cof

fee ont he! ntematlonal market,! ntended to boost prices bye reatinga na rtificial shortage. On top of that the crop in Brazil, Americas biggest suppller.l s short.

SUPER PROFITS AT SUPERMARKETS

More supermarkets profits;.

Poodc hainsw ills etp ro fitre-cords this year. The population! si ncreasingi ncomei s rising. Butt he biggest reasonl s that mucho ft hat cuti nt ax withholdings, a few dollars more in weekly paye nvelopes, is going to the table. While each familys appreciationo f thet ax cut! s different, many feelt hat a few dollars extra a week is not enough to fi

nance a large instalrnent purchase and so small that it

would take a long time to

buildu p a sizable savings account. This leaves strong tenv ptatlons to buy a little more and a little better food, which can be reflectedl n chain profits.

More plant shutdowns: More plants will .shutd own for vacation periods this summer

thane ver before. A survey by the National Association of PurchasLig Agentss bowst hat

47p er cent of plants queried are shutting down for fromo ne tot hree weeks this year, compared with 42 per cent last year. A majority of the shutdowns will be made this month. This wiUt endt o slow down productiont otals for July.

MORE FOR CLOTHES

Higher .apparel spending:

Purchaseso fc lothlngb yb oth mena nd women will! ncrease this summera nd fall. One reason: highers pending power by consumers. Another: higher

prices because of Increased wages.

Leas government .compet-, tion: The White House! st alk-Ing a quietl ook at government competltlonw ih business. Two sore spots are: the new deal-ish fightt o have the government bullda ndo perate the po-^ wer intertle between Bonneville Dama nd Southern California ;o perationo ft he Department of Agriculture Market News Wire, h)c6 ompctftj. directly wlU pr-vm wire# andw hlchm a av oor.v

pete with AP and UPI. President Johnson is being advised to defer decisions on these mattersu utila ftcr election.

OLD PROMOTER SAYS ITS INCOME NON-TAX LAW

The Old Promoterb reezed Int Qday (did youe ver see a 200-pound breeze?) to socialize while I pounded outt his column. What are your recurring: beefs about the! ncome tax law? he demanded.

Havoit beefed since April 15, I said.

I hope you have realized that it is a n(n-tax law,h e said. Only a small part of it sets tax rates. The most of it is concerned with exemptions and deductions.

If you are married, over 65, blind, derive money from state and local bonds, get money from oil or mlneralsh ave children, make capital gains on the stock market orl n real estate, are a minor, have a costly illness, have accidents, suffer casuaityd amageo r give money tswhar.ty.th elawc uts yoor income taxes. In fact, un-d*r certain circumstances It caa eliminate your taxes entirely. Therefore, I think it should be called th Internal Non-Revenue Act. -

The old boy has a point. Too had he hasnt much income.l,J