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Americans are now virtually assured that this person who is earning $4,800 a year will find his election year will bring higher social security bene- social security tax increased by $8.40 a year befits for those now receiving payments under the pro- ginning in January. The person earning $5,400 a

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gram. And effective next January workers covered by the program will begin paying highef tax rates in order to off-set the increased amount being paid out under the program.

The House Ways and Means Committee has ap-

year or more will find his social security tax increased $31 next year over this year.

Although these amounts may not seem large when applied to the individual worker, they mean that several additional billion, dollars from the

proved the proposal that would immediately * in- earnings of individuals will be gathered in by Uncle

crease social security benefits by five per cent for Sam next year in this one program alone.

those now, receiving monthly checks.. At the same It will be another step in off-setting the much

time the committee approved an increased in the publicized decrease in personal income taxes which

social security tax rate paid by workers and em- became effective earlier this year.

ployers from 3.625 per cent to 3.8 per cent effective ' ,

January 1. It also has approved a change in the DfereilCe III

Good Time An4 Rioting

law which make the social securitytax to apply to the first $5,400 of an individuals salary instead of the first $4,800 as is now the case.

The change means, of course, that those receiving social security benefits will begin receiving larger checks as soon as the measure becomes law. Most youngsters have been well taught by their It also means that those who have not* yet reached* P^**6nts that there is a considerable difference be-the age where they receive social security benefits having a good time with the crowd and engag-

have been handed a tax increase in this election year. destructive and riotous activities such as those

Assuming the bill becomes lawand there is touched off in at least five places acrossT the nation little doubt that Congress will override the action w^eek-end.

of the House Ways and Means Committeethe

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To Fade Away

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES PARALLEL Analysts wondering what may lie ahead In the political future for Gov. Terry Sanford are inclined to minimize the effect of defeat of Sanford-backed bond issues In 1961 and of Sanfords choice for governor in 1964.

Both, in effect, were defea s for the Sanford administration and must go down as such. But no one is ready to write finish to he career of Sanford the man nor Sanford the politician.

Sanford sees himself having a continuing interest in North Carolina and its political affairs in the years ahead and some observers see a possible parallel with what happened a decade ago.

FIGURE It is recalled that the late W. Kerr Scott also suffered two rather severe political setbacks during his term as governor the defeat of two Scott-suM>orted candidates for high office. Di'. Prank P. Graham for the U.S. Senate and Judge Hubert Olive for governor.

Yet Scott, two years after leaving the governors off i c e, came back politically stronger than ever and won a seat in the U. S, Senate with a campai.gn of his own.

And at the time of Scotts death in 19.57 he was unquestionably the most powerf u 1 single political figure in North Carolina.

In fact. Kerr Scott is considered very probably the most outstanding political figure of North Carolina during the decade of the 19005 exerting influence which exceededt hat even of such giants as Luther H. Hodges.

SANFORD There are maiiced. deferences between the man and their records, their backgrounds, behav i o r and ways of doing things. But In a sense, Sanford is a pro--** tege (rf Kerr Scott and it was under Scott that Terry Sanford first won his political spurs.

First at Chapel HiU. then as state YDC president and as a politically. - active lawyer in Fayetteville. Sanford found himself in accord with Kerr Scotts Go Forv'ard policies and philosophy and he was soon in Scott's camp as an up and c(Hing lieutenant.

Then in 1954, Scott chose Sanford as his state campaign manager in the successful bid for a Senate seat. And it was out of the Scott sphere of influence and with the help oft he old Scott organization that Sanford emerged and began his own climb to the governorship in the late 1950s.

Now approaching the midpoint of the decade, Terry Sanford has become the most outstanding political figure, of North Carolina thus far in the 1960s a role Kerr Scott occupied 10 years ago.

PROGRAMS - Looking back, it is recognized that Sanford has initiated, developed and started more new programs and probably a greater variety of programs for the state during the three and a half years of his administration than any governor before him.

This is particularly true in education, but other areas have received their share of attention. emphasis and new programs too.

Many of these programs are of statewide and potentia 11 y far-reaching effect, even in infant stages. A great many are beginner programs, never before attempted or never attempted in the direction Sanford has given them. There are many which cannot be measured for results for years to come.

FUTURE These are programs which Sanford is anxious to see continued without interruption and given additional strength, support and impetus.

He has expressed the feeling that most of these programs of his administration will be continued with the same general direction because, as he says, they are programs of the people and the people want them.

They are the reason for Sanfords saying that he will have a continuing interest in North Carolina and its political affairs.

In a sense, it is certain that these programs and what happens to them will write Sanfords political destiny and to a large extent determine his future role in politics.

REPORT There is one widely-circulated report that Sanford has been offered the post of administrator and manager of the far-flung Pittman enterprises based at -Fayetteville when he leaves the governors office.

There are multi - million dol-. lar enterprises which include operations in a number of states.

One report Is that the executive post in the Pittman organization would carry a salary of $40.000 a year plus other benefits.

DIES Mrs. Cora Scott Kirby, mother of State Sen. Rus-seU Kirby of Wilson, died last Thursday at her home near Lucarna. Funeral services Were held Saturday.

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It is one thing for youngsters to have a good time on a holiday week-end at a resort. It is quite another for them to go on a rampage as they did in Ohio, Kansas, Rhode Island, Montana and California.

Police had to be called to quell the riots, but only a handful of the participants were arrested and probably few of them will be punished. As is always the case in mob action, individual identities were lost, and with them individual responsibility for obeying the law and keeping the peace was also lost.

These July Fourth week-end outbursts were not the first of their kind to occur. Unfortunately they probably will not be the last.

Some of our youngsters, apparently, have become overly impressed by the right of youth to have its fling, even at the expense of others. It is time some of them learn that privileges that come with maturing likewise carry responsibilities for mature action.

By HAL BOYLB

Campaign May Fontaines 11 Children 3e Rouaher

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP - Sen.

Barry Goldwater has indicated that if he gets the Republican presidential nomination his campaign against President Johnson wgollh u erth n aebir those of recent years.

But he has been moving cautiously in his double task of trying to cool any opposition to him among Republicans while going ahead with his efforts to sew up the nomination.

The Associated Press recently asked him his position on a number of issues. The answers, prepared by his staff from some of his recent statements, were released over the weekend.

He was asked what the main campaign issues will be. Several were listed and wound up with this: . .the dark shad

ow of scandal that hangs even over the White House itself. There has been no scandal talk in recent camgalgns.

There was no explanation for what Goldwater meant. But, since he considers this a main point, it can be assumed he would hammer away at it.

If Goldwater gets the nomination, which looks likely, he will need not only all the Republican votes he can get afterward but also those of the usually Democratic Southern states. He has said a Republican couldnt win without them.

His votes against the civil rights bill angered a number of Republicans already against him. So far as can be seen it lost him none of his supporters. It probably endeared him to a lot of Southern whites.

He said the bill, voted into law July 2. flies in the face of the Constitution and enforcement of some of Its sections would need a federal police force of mammoth proportions.

He meant the sections prohibiting discrimination In public accommodations and employment. But his no vote gave Pennsylvanias Gov. Wil-lliam W. Scranton, his leading opponent for the nomination. an issue at the Republican convention opening next Monday in San Francisco.

As the Republican platform committee gathered there Sunday for days of hearings before hammering the partys positions and promises together, the Scranton forces, strategy was obvious: How to create divisions at the hearings and come up with conclusion. the Goldwater forces couldnt su|>-port.

The .senator and his advisers had plenty of time to prepare for such a move. Equally ob

vious for him would be to compromise where he could to avoid party splits.

But there was a very sore point: How compromise on a civil rights plank without alienating the South since, if elected president, Goldwater would be expected to carry through on whatever the platform promised? The Goldwater forces seemed prepared for this, too.

On a television show Sunday, the senators chief spokesman on the platform committee, Rep. John J. Rhodes, an Arizona. Republican, was asked about Goldwaters views ^on a civil rights plank.

He gave an answer which might pacify Republicans and soothe the South.

He said Goldwater would go along with a plank suggested by Scranton, which called for penalizing states that denied their citizens a vote. Under the 14th Amendment a state could be deprived of representatives in Congress in proportion to the number of people not voting.

But this could never be done without a tremendous fight in Congress.

Rhodes was also asked what Goldwater, as president, would do about enforcing the Civil Rights Act which he said is contrary to the ConsUtution.

Rhodes had an answer for that, too. Sen, Goldwater as president of the United States would certainly require a reasonable degree of enforcement which I think would please anybody.

Reasonable is a debatable word. Enforcement which seemed reasonable to Southern whites, who oppose the Civil Rights Act, might greatly displease Negroes who want Its protection.

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Hospitals would be much more humanized if doctors now and then were required to spend two weeks in them as bedpan patients. Salina (Kans,) Journal.

NEW YORK (AP) -parents find one teen hard to handle.

What do you do if, like Frank Fontaine, you' find you have five of your 11 children in the teenage bracket

You go nuts, smiled Frank, who stars as Crazy Guggen-ham on Jackie Gleasons television show.

Then Fontaine, to whom family life is the keystone of living, quickly became serious.

No, you dont really. Actually, the so-called teen-age problem isnt so much a problem to the parents as it is to the kids themselves.

I call it the teen-age dip. Their bodies are changing, their minds are chang i n g. They are trying so desperate ly to be like grownups, and yet they still have a foot in

childhood.

Its a tangled age. Theyre in a split personality period. The role of the parent is to be more understanding to help guide them through it.

Franks teen-agers are Peter, 19; Lawrence, 17; Alma, 15; Paul 14, and Christopher, 13. He now is ferrying them in shifts to see the New York Worlds Fair, along with other members of his big family.

The big blond actor and singer feels strongly that children need help both at school and at home to tide them through the difficulties of adolescence.

That Is when they must build the character to last them the rest of the way, he remarked. What hppens to them the rest of their lives Is often determined by what they do in

Other Editors^ Saying... Help For Mississippi

If something about you has to be spotted, let it be your clothes instead of your reputation.Elizabethtown (Ky.) News.

(Greensboro Daily News) ..

Mississippi, which one of its few resident heretics calls a closed society, is a showcase of all that is saddening in the clash of absolute moral and political values, but extremes of innocence and unknowingness. It is a clash between those who believe Mississippi can be rformed from without, and those who believe Mississippi needs no reformation. And both are wrong.

The dozens of college students dispatched to Mississippi by civil rights groups three of whom are feared victims of racial vigilantes have only intensified a problem they would like to solve. And the tough - minded leaders who sent them there wiht the primary purpose of sharpen i n g, not blunting, the drawn daggers between Mississippi and Washington must know it. They are, in their way, as culpable as the native political demagogues who ride the torrents of violence they stir up with peachments against change.

But if the long hot summer now under way in Mississippi presents the spectacle of the innocent being manipulated by the mthless, the parties to It did not create the situation. This wasteful and embittering clash in Mississippi is not helpful in other ways, but it does serve to drive home

the point that Mississippi has reached a desperately 10 w point.

Whatever the scope of t h e 14th Amendment, the Constitution of 1789 guaranteed to each state a republican form of government, and what exists in Mississippi today is a mockery of that form.

There is no republican government where half the people are disfranchised, and where to question the status quo is to risk life and limb. Mississippi, for all its best men can do, is a police state, where the channels of representative government are hopelessly clogged. Life there is increasingly cheapened by such travesties of civilized life as the Till and Evers murders, and now. as well, by the act of presumed violence whose symbol is the charred station wagon.

Is it really meddling, then, for other people, not themselves Mississippians, who do not live in perfect states either, to be concerned? Is it merely hypocrisy to worry over a state that has paid the highest penalties for 100 years of racial oppression and economic oppression?

Mississippi may not need the help it is getting from these galant, If misled, college students. But Mississippi does need help desperately.

that period.

Some youngsters adjust. Others get in the habit of duck< ing the problems of life. If they goof-off, they dwit blame themselves they blame their parents and teachers.

Films should be made and shown in the schools films showing t een-age kids who ducked problems and the disasters that overtook them later.

The problem of the teenager is to stay out of the whirlwind. A major error made then is hard to correct later.

And this isnt a problem just of the slum kid. Children of middleclass and wealthy parents can get just as mixed up, and neecl just as much help.

What about punishing children?

I give out lickings once in a while, admitted Prank, mildly lifting a ham-sized hand, but I find that a good family discussion every two weeks does more good. Sometimes I have to hold two meetings.

Opiniona In Brie:

When girls start calling you sir, about all youve got to look forward to is your social security. Cleveland (Ga.) Courier.

One sometimes wonders what kind of incredibly stodgy elders these cautious, calculating security-conscious young people when they settle down. Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch.

What are we going to do about it? Are we going to fall back on the people-will-be-people refrain and write off the highway slaughter as inevitable? Wichita Falls (Tex.) Record News.

Nothing is more discdff-certing than to listen to an expert who doesnt know that you are a more highly Informed expert. Deep River (Conn.) New Era.

Sometimes a man can tell what kind of a time he is having at a party Just by the look on his wifes face. Greenville Piedmont.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features .Syndicate, Inc.

There is a cultural lafir in myths. In the Europe *(tf ihe Nineteen Thirties and Forties, the left-<rf-center parties subscribed almost universally;* to the myth that there shoul^'he no enemies $0 the Left. That this was an invitation to disaster was proved in cases which permitted the Communists to penetrate government control agencies such as internal security. The Czechs, in particular, dliMx>vered they had an implacable enemy to the Left in the shape of the local Stalinist party.

In Italy, the idea irf an opening to the Left has been tried recently, with no discernible benefits to anybody save the Communists. But the non-Communist forces In Italy have yet to surrender the State organs of security to Moscow. Maybe this will follow, if economic chaos follows upon a possible collapse of the Italian lira.

The fact that the myth of no enemies to the Left has been exposed in Eunnie has just begun to* reach Latin America, In Brazil, shrewd ex-Marxists such as Carlos La-cerda helped spark the overthrow of the no enemies to the Left" government of Jan-go Goulart. But the potential for disaster that the myth still holds is now menacing Chile, where Salvador Allende, the Socialist (landldate for President in the rorthcomiug September 4 elections, has not seen fit to repudiate the cooperation of the CMean C(Hn-munists. The danger is that Allendes Frente Revolucionarlo de Alianza Popular, or FRAP, will get a plundity of two million Chilean vote.s. In which case, with the almost certain imposition of a Left dictatorship, democracy will be dead in Chile unless an aroused army Intervenes as it did just in the nick of time in Brazil.

The rightist and moderate parties in Chile have not matched the left parties in their ability to form a common front against an enemy. Victor Alba, the Mexican journalist, attributes the mistaken strategy of the Chilean Right to the hubris, or oveiweening pride, of the Christian Democrats. A year ago the Chrii^ tian Democratic party did extremely well In the Chilean municipal elections. This encouraged the party to decide to put up its own separate candidate, Edouardo Prel, in the next electicms. According to Senor Alba, they figured that a fear of a victory of tlie combined forces of the Socialists and the Commnists would be enough to carry their man through.

A by-election in March, however, has exposed the fragility of the Christian Democrats go-it-alone reasoning. In the province of Chirico the com^ bined Socialis -Communist candidate won a parliamentary seat. The Christian Democratic candidate came in second, and the candidate of the Democratic Front limped In third. The victory in Ciirico of the combined forces of the Left over he split force.s of'the Right has caused Salvador Allende to announce that he already consider.^ himself the President of the first rqxoln-tionary government of Chile. Theres still a chance* f'^r the parties of the Chilean -ht and moderate center touse Allendes tactics against him. But the Radical Party, which forms part of the Democrat'c Front, pensi.sts in allepancf to its own candidate. Julio D--an. And many of the (Thris-tian Democrats .still harbor the illusion that their man can win on his_,own.

If Allende bccome.s the Sor-alist-Commurlst Prej^ldent rf Chile, it will make the firrt time In world history th?* country ha.s voted ItseK ino Communist slavery. Allon^e has accepted the Cnmmmt program. He has promised ^o expropriate the foreign-owri-'d Kennecott and Anaconda cooper mines. These mines now pay up to 87 per cent of th'r profits to the Cliilean govern-ment, w'hich means they are (Continued On Pace .si

A friend of ours says he finds it is best not to tell our troubles to people. Half of them are not interested and the other half are glad to hear you are getting whats coming to you. Marion (Wis.) Advertiser.

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Streugth For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLA.SS A CLEAN RECORD John G. Gough was a great lecturer on temperance and moral matters seventy-five years ago. HLs eloquence thrilled millions of people.

He died one evening a few minutes after finishing an address at a young peoples rally. He had just told them the .story of a man who aspired to be the governor of his state. This man In his youth had been involved in some scandal. His friends came to him just te-foie he was io be nominated for the governorship and asked him whether or not. if lie received the nomination, he could defend him.self again.st these charge.H of scandal. He replied that he could not. and

therefore he had to step aside and let someone else receive th nomination.

John G. Gough ended his address with these words: Keep your record clean. A few minutes later the noted lecturer died on the platform where he uttered these words. They were his clOvSlng words to the youth of his generation, and they are good words for the youth of all times to ponder.

A mistake has a terrible way of keeping up its punishment. It stalks us through the years. There may be a lot of Injustice in this but there is plenty of reality. Watch your rtep. .voiing fellow. Watch it every day. Keep your record .clean.

By ELMER ROESSNER It is my perspiring conclusion that the air-conditioning Industry does not want to sell air conditioners. As a result, and because of my difference, I am about four years behind the rest of the United States.

It was about 1961 that I began to feel the need of an air conditioner in my bedroom. I would wake up 'with peeling skin. I looked over the ads and finally called a discounter who said nw house would need a complete rewiring job and that he didnt know when he could make delivery. I shelved the issue until 1%2 and .started again.

I read all the ads in the paper and finally picked on a conditioner I thought suited my needs and price. I called the advertiser and said to send me an air conditioner. We dont do that. said the young man who answered the phone, you have to call one of our distributors

ONWARD AND IPWAHDS WITH THE COOI.TH 1 asked for names in my

area and he obligingly gave me the name of a department store and a di.scount house, playing no favorites. Then we had a cool wave and I delayed and the first thing I knew it was fall and I didnt want an air conditioner.

Last .summer I started all over again. This time I was practical. Instead of calling an air conditioner company. I called the Republican captain of our precinct. He was glad I called, he said, because he wanted one also and with his connectlous he could buy two, getting us both a handsome discount. But. he said, I would have to have a new electric line put into the bedroom and he knew an electrician, a good Republican, who would ron it in cheap.

The electrician came, a Bourbon sort of fellow, and put in a* new fusc'box and a new line to the bedroom. Furthermore. he Installed the fuse box upside-down, and c.vnics who doubt this can come see it from 2 to 3 p. m. on Tuesdays. It is downside up.

After it was installed, the precinct captain looked it over and said I didnt need the extra line. The old one would have done if I hadnt turned on the electric clock and the cooler at the same time. INSPECTIONS, INSPEC-TIONS

However, before I could plug in the cooler. I had to have inspections by the electrical company and by the city. The inspectors came' some time later aiid approved the set-up. including the upside-down fuse box. and eventually we were permitted to go <m stream. But by that time ir was, fall.

This year I started a^ain to get an air conditioner for my study. I saw a department store ad and, with no further ado. called up on a Sunday and ordered the adverUsed ma-'*-chine delivered right away.

A few days later I got a call from the stores appliance department. The spokesman ' advised rnc not to buy th*} air conditioner unless I was handy in installing it. and could cut Masonite to fit my win

dow. Furthermore, he said that no one should buy it unless he bought a (Mie-year service guarantee. Without it. he said, I would have to carry the 59-pound conditioner myself to the next town, 30 miles away, to get it fixed if something went wrong. WesUnp-house will not give you service at your house otherwise; he said. So I called off the-deal, and the most unsalesman of all time said. Thank you!

It Is getting late this summer. and I suppose I will start again next year. By 1%5 I may get a conditioner for my study and by 1966. a conditioner for the other bedroom.

I know all this sounds silly, but every word is true and I will give names, dates and brands to any responsible in-' qulrer.

My obvious conclus ion is that the, air conditioning li>. dustry is mad, mad. mad; ttit it Dbeisnt want tc Ml^r oor-ditioners an.i thst U U proU ably sutfertrg fioii a su^oidi.1 complex that even Dr. Joyce Brothers can't cure.