Thurtday, July 16, 1964

Great Display Of Unity Manifested

"IK. Only.. Hurts.. When .. He .. Laughs"

In time the 1964 Republican convention in about during the Kennedy - Johnson fight for the San Francisco will come to be known not as the San nomination in the Democratic convention four Francisco convention, but rather the Goldwater years ago.

convention. For all the overtones of conflict^ it was a

Throughout the proceedings in the Cow Palace Goldwater convention all the way.The Republican there was never any doubt that ,the whole show party is now the Goldwater party with a greatei^ was firmly in the hands of the ^nator from degree of unity among its power structure than Arizona who now is the Republican presidential has been the case in many ^ears. nominee. It was a Goldwater convention, Gold^ As the Democratic party looks toward the

fall campaign, it must not fail to recognize this fact.

Construction Figures Illustrates City Growth

Greenvilles record figures for new construction during the year which ended June 30 show continued growth for the city and strongly suggest

water platform, Goldwater vice presidential candidate. In a few days the GOP structure will be altered to Goldwater standards.

The conservative faction of the party, firmly in the Goldwater grip, reasserted not only its leadership of the GOP, but indeed its firm control of the party after more than a decade. For the influence they weilded at the convention, the liberal element of the Republican party may as well have spent a restful week at some resort rather than take the hectic and frustrating walloping they took

in San Francisco. - ,

For all the efforts to make a show during the or rapid pace of progress than in recent years, convention, and for all the controversy that sparked Even though the $6.8 million in new con-

from time to time about the convention floor it was struction for which the city issued permits included only a show. It is evident that there was as near two new buildings on the ECC campus, the new unanimous opinion among the delegates to the GOP courthouse annex and the citys first hdtising pro-convention this year as there has been at any jct, the investment in new construction is impress-national political convention In a long time. ive. The more than |2 million In permits for con-

. Superficially there were conflicts, but obviously atruction of dwellings (exclusive of the public these did not run deep within the ranks of the dele- housing permit) shows the continued demand for gates. In spite of Democratic hopes to the contrary, homes by the increasing number of people in

there appear few deep scars from the convention tbe city. The 28 permits issued for construction

that the Republicans will have to heal between o business buildings suggest continued growth of now and November. commercial enterprises in the county.

The contest was not nearly as deep-seated The building permit figures, however, do not

among delegates as was the case in 1952 when the tell the whole story. While construction has been Taft faction, sought to gain the presidential nom- going on within the corprate limits of the community, ination over the Eisenhower supporters. Certainly there has also been construction going on in the there was not the heated feeling over the issues at immediate community which does not come under

the permit requirements. In addition to the homes constructed outside the corporate limits, construction began during the year on two large manufacturing plants Just outside the city limits. In addition to these, there were several commercial buildings that have been constructed outside the corporate limits.

All of these, of course, must be considered when One gauges the growth of the community by new construction. The overall picture, in our opinion, is an excellent one for Greenville.

the GOP convention this year as those brought

Civil Rights A Certain Issue

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Br JOTCC WILLIAMS

(sabslMMlli tor WUtoiii A. saifft)

OVIL RlOMTa - Both the Democrats and the ReiWbli-cans are protestfaig they Want no part o it, hut there seems to be little qUOition the civil rights act will be a majhr issue in the fll campam in North Carolina.

Forecasts are Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, expected to be in the Presidential race here, may get up to 100,000 votes. The big question is where the votes for Wallace will come from the Republicans or the Democrats.

Republican coogreewnan James Broyhill is convinced Wallaces oandidaoy Oan only hurt President Jdhhson and the rest of the Democratic ticket. Re forecasts the Wallace votes will come almost wh^br from Democrats who have never voted Republican. The inference is they never would vote RepuMican, even if the only alternative were a stnmg civil righti advocate like President JohniO.

Oier Republicans in the state fear IM OOP wiU suffer by Wallace's candidacy. They believe many Democrats here, etrobfly oppoMd to the dvli rlitila law, would vote Repub> lican if there were no alternar

tfve antl^vtl rlfhta candidate like WaHaoe.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Oavin is trying to stay clear (X the dispute. His eommentary on the pas-at of the civil rights bill waet want an North Carolina to comply with tt, but I doflt Want it In the cam-pain.*

icate Democratic chairman Luaaford Crew charged Oavin would inject it into the eatn-plgll, however.

Oavin may even make It the primary issue because he doeant understand the other issues at stake in this oam-palgn, CreW said.

STATE EMPLOYES - The

10 per cent aeross-theJx>ard pay hike for state employes, proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan K. Moore, may be talked up again before the legislature Convenes again. It could come up again this week, at a meeting of the personnel committee of the State Legislative Council. The legislative council was set up by the IMa Ocncral Assembly to servo as a between-sessions arm t the Itgildature, authorized to study and make recommendations as to what action the legislature should take in various areaa. No specific study of the salaries of state employea was authorized at this time, but the Council could and hae disOUsSed the subject uhder the heading of a study of the general organization and operation of state government.

DELAY Legal maneuvers by Madison county political boss Zeno Ponder have thrown up at least a tempMtiry road block against further investigation of allegations of fraud in the vote for state Mnator in the 34th distrlot.

Ponder, who WOO the primary by only 400 disputed votes over Clyde Norton of Old Port, has secured t temporary injunction from the Madiswi Su-pertor court, restraining the state Board of Elections from Certifying anyone but him as the DemoeratiO Stnatoflal candidate. He also has aM>lied for a mandamus order demanding the board oartify his candidacy.

The board counterad by filing a motion to rimova the Case from Madison to Wake ftuperlor Court, hut In the meantime. tha board was forced to oaU off its invMtigatimi (X the alleged MadilOn voting Irregularities. . .Board chairman William Joslin laid thara would ba no point In gathering evidence to opset the rtaults of the vote for Ponder ao long as the court Was baiTtag the board from certifying anyone else.

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By JAMES MARLOW SAN PRANCttCO (AP) The RepubUcans, chief concern now is not in picking their presidential candidate that lo(Hied cut-and-dried-but in how to keep the party to* gether after they do.

Two famous party leaders have expressed the depth oi this C(Micem. Former Presi-deht Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Vice President Richard M. Nlxon both pleaded for unity. And even they didn't agree on how to achieve it.

For weeks San. Barry Gold-

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water looked a oinoh for the nomination. But his chief rev-ai, Pennsylvanias Gov, William W. Scranton, who started off with a wish-washy campaign. wound up in bitterness against him.

Eisenhower thought Tt would be a good ticket if Scranton ran for the vice presidency on the ticket behind Goldwater.

This showed Elsenhower, Who played neutral, didnt have much optimism about icrantons NO. i ehanoet.

Nixon doubted A Goldwater-icranton ticket wOUid be good. For one thing, he said, because of the bitterness between Goldwater and Sora&ton he didnt think theyd be compatible as team-mates.

There never seemed any doubt at this dull convention that Goldwater controlled enough delegates to nonnate him and that tha soora was in before they got here. This Is What made the cCbventicm duU.

His followers over the past years have put together an extremely loyal, hardworking and affieient machina, one Of the beat thia country has ieen in years.

But ttia big unknown in all thaae efforts haa been how much support Goldwater could expect on EUhsUoo Day from

tha rank*ad-fild Republicans around tha country.

Although he woti the California praaidential primary from New Yorks Gov. NelM)n A. Rockefeller, he lost to Rockefeller in Oregon and In New Hampshire to Henry Cabot Lodge Who waa off in South Viet Nam as . B. ambassador.

some of tha IntenNty feeling in the party showed itself Tuesday night when Rockefeller was booed when he pleaded for an amendment to tha party platform repudiating extremism. Rockefeller offered this for Scranton.

Michigans Gov. George Ro-nmey on his own proposed a similar amendment. The platform as it stand was put together by a committee dominated by Goldwater followers. The anti-extremist proposals lost ovarwhalmlngly.

Likewise the delegates lined up with Goldwater who had voted against the civil rights bill June 19 by drowning out another Scranton effort to strengthen the platform's civil rights section.

Thf loss of the three goveP* hors' states New York. Pennsylvania, Michigan caused Nixon grievous damage when he ran for the presidency in 1960. They were key states in giving tbs electicm to John F. Kennedy.

Between them those three states have 93 of the 538 electoral votes in this years presidential election.

Rockefeller was Nixons rival for tha nomination four years ago. He was an adamant opponent until Nixon made both a pilgrimage and OonceS-lions to him. Then Rockefeller supported Nixon.

There *a been no such RockS-feller*Ooldwater get-togethar this time, and none between Scranton and ooldwatar. Both governors have been intense critics of tha sanator who is far mora conaarvative than either.

This week Scrantons staff aent Goldwater a contemptuous lettar. This was in addition to Scranton's statement some time ago that Goldwatfr is unfit for the presidency, tt'i hard to see how he can support him after that.

What Romney will do it fogbound at the mwnent. But he has not been in GoidwaUr's camp.

-R can now be,dcfinltely confirmed that Sen. Barry Goldwater has decided not to have Warren G. Harding as his running mate on the Republican ticket. The decision was made after the discovery last week of 250 love letters Mr. Harding had written to a married woman in Marion, Ohio, the former President's hometown.

The scandal which broke right-on the eve of the Republican

convention has turned San Francisco upside down. There had been rumors for years about Mr. Hardings private life, but none of them could ever be confirmed.

Then an historian named Francis Russell, working on a Harding biography, found the letters and revealed their contents. Harding supporters here in San Francisco said that the revelation at this time was part

Other Editors Saying... Income By The Family

(Greensboro Daily News)

Latest figures announced by the Census Bureau are pertinent to the* economic state <X the nation and continuing efforts to raise the average individual and family income in North Carolina so that thert may be commensurate gaina in purchasing power and living standards.

For 1963, the official figures ihow, the median income for all famUles jumped 3 per cent to a record $6,249. And, equally significant, for the first tme families in the $10,(WO or better income group outnumbered the so-called poverty segment. President Johnscm has set a rule-of-thumb family Income of $3,000 as the poverty-stricken test.

The lowest wage-level group declined by 600,000. But it still totaled 8,800,000 or 18.5 per cent of the nations population. Across the board the median income was up $290 from the preceding year.

As must have been anticipated. the South was at the oottom in geographical classifications with an average $5,-#01 per family. Average figures for Negroes, naticxi-wlde are slightly more than half tiose for whites, and the same is true of men and women in full-time employment.

Any realistic analysis of the Census Bureaus compilations entails aeveral observations. First Of all, the figures apply to family Income. It would be Interesting to see how many

fathers and mothers are both working and affectng to some degree breakdown of home and family life as it relates the nations social structure. We are convinced as well that more than one member of the reporting families has to work to meet the household budget and keep up among other things, payments (hi installment buying.

It is evident where the lowest income families live. Actually they are not as bad off as they appear on the surface for the South; farm families who live at home and produce a sizable portion of their own food are in much better financial position than urban dwellers who have to bear the full burden of living costs out of their pay checks. It is also true of the South that many women are employed in low-wage industries, that the demand is less in the South for skilled and better paid labor and that these factors play an important role in the region'a poor showing.

It is obvious that efforts should be centered upon groups and areas where income is lowest. Any effective approach has to be through education, development of skills and responsibilities and bringing in of industries that will provide both better jobs and better pay scales.

North Carolina and the South are on the move, but they still have much catchlng-up to do before they achieve the national median.

of the smear campaign of the anti-Harding forces at the GOP convention.

A spokesman for the Hrds' Ing Vice - Presidential (ticket said, Mr. Hardings personal life should have no effcm on his qualifications as Mr. Oold-water's running mate. His philosophy is as near to that of the Senator's as any of t h e men menloned for the ticket, and it would be a pity If the American people condemned a man because of these letters.'*

Another Harding supporter said, I haven't seen the love letters, so I can't comment. The only things Is that its hard to believe that a man like Mr. Harding would write them on Senate stationery, with the taxpayer's money.

We quoted one of the poems Mr. Harding wrote to M r s. Phillips, the wife of a Marlon merchant.

1 love you more than alt the world.

Possession wholly imploring;

Mid passion 1 am oft-times whirled.

Oft-times admire-adoring,

O God. That fate would mily give

tJs privilege to love and Bve.

The Harding man said, I don't believe that is out of the mainstream of Republican

thinking. As a matter (4 fact, it squares very much with the 1964 Republican platform.

But many Goldwater supporters who were leaning towards Harding as tre Vlce-Presldentlal candidate have started to have second thoughts on the matter.

The American women. a lady delegate told us, will not approve of a Vice-Presidential candidate who has a mistrese.

Another Goldwater supporter said, The scandal could lose us the Bible belt.

And still another Goldwater-pledgo delegate told us. The personal life of Harding is not our sfiair, but if he wants to run for public office, hes going to have to give up Mrs. Phillips.

The last word on the love letters came from Goldwater headquarters. One of G o 1 d-waters chief advisors said, as far as were conceroed, as of now Harding is dead.

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SAN FRANCXBCX) ^ This will go down as one Of the most irony-studded conventions in history.

To begin with, a Scranton partisan wrote the script for the Barry Goldwater pre-ccm-ventlon campaign. He la Theodore White, author oi the popular The Making Of The President. a bo(R which gives a blow-by-blow description of the methods by which John F. Kennedy captures the Democratic nomination in 1900. Teddy White has been In Scrantons comer since last winter, when he contributed a beautifully-written profile of the cool Governor of Pennsylvania to Life Magazine. Re likes Scranton for many reasona, a man with many ct John F. Kennedys attributes, could be presented as a hero.

But even as Teddy White was busy advising the SOranUm fo^ oes, the Goldwater boye were reading White's own Tlie Making Of The Prerident. They applied tre oareful planning, the appeal to the local PoliUr clans histead of the polle, the restrained entbueiaam, the gimmicky, the (xmstant aeourl-ty cheoka, and ail the other means and devleee tbat enabled Kennedy to beat back the ardor of the Adlal Steveneon partisans and the last-minute drive of Lyndon Jorueon of Texas.

Bo if the Goldwater steamroller drives through to victory, as looks certain at the moment of writing, the ironical joke will be on Teddy White.

The second irony drives from the attempt oi the Scranton forces to UM the good of-flees of Henry Cabot Lodge in the effort to deflect Goldwater delegates Into the ScrantOD camp. Lodge might have suo-ieeded if It had not been for le fact that the partisans of the late Senator Robert Taft ive even longer memories the elfii4iflnt who symbolizes the CK)P. Many of the old Taftites are here as delegates for Barry Goldwater, and even in cases where a new generation Is in the saddle the respect for the memory of Bob Taft is great, (^sequently, the effort to swing key delegates from key states, such as Ohio and Wisconsin, into the Scranton column is bomeranglng. The delegates cant forget Uiat Lodge was the generallsalmo of the forces that took the nomination away from Bob Taft in 1932 and bestowed it upon General Elsenhower.

A third irony has been the effort oi the Scrantionltes to use the image of Abraham Lincoln as a whip to stampede the delegates away from Goldwater, who has hopes that dvU rights will receive voluntary compliance, Delegates with good historical backgrounds think the more vociferous Lineohi idolSi* tors have Old Abe mixed up with a radical Republican of reconstruction times named named Thaddeus Btevena. Stevens, a congressman from Pennsylvania, led the Republican faction that advocated sitting on the South In virtual perpe-

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tulty. The radicals of the sixties and early seventiea oi the last century started the technique of waving the bloody shirt, which, in turn, evoked the counter-response of the Ku Klux Klan. The effort to keep the South a conquered province was eventual^ called off by Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, who withdrew federal tro(X>a from Dixie.

The irony In all this, as tt affects the San Francisco convention of 1964, is that our (Continued On Page 6)

A New Get-Rich-Quiek Strategy

Strength For Today

By BARL L. DOUGLASS CH&DllKN THE BELOW AVERAGE CHU.D Don't be dlfeoouriged he may be a genius. They sent Thomas Edison home from School because he was too stupid to learn anything. TbS most felriarkable man I evr knew, flunked out of coUefe, yet be sat later amObget kings and prime mifiistera and dom-tiated the sltuatlSn. One rear Sob why we fall to make Oer-tikin important discoveries is because we ttumMe over OUr preconceptions. This just cabt be. It aint Scientifically possible.

tome months ago a TEN yekr (dd boy (capitals by design), attShded a meethig Where ion propulsion Was being discussed. The youngster arose at the close of the discuselon and asked: H we were to use ion propulaiCMi lo ft I kht

Stars, woulcbit we approach the speed of light and so. according to Dr. Einsteins theory Wouldn't tbs spactoraft mass

increase? Then wouldnt the mass of the propellant Increase and reduct the specific impulse? The scientist conducting the discussion was amat-ed. No, he said the scientists hadni taken this into oon-sideration In their preliminary studies. Yes, they had better got out their pencils and do a little more figuring.

You never can tell about a child. Sometimes the ones who seem to know the least really know the most. Many a youngster with a dumb question has made the scientists tear up their liotM and start over again. Its the gifted child that should give the parent worry.

Well consider him tomorrow.

By ELMER R0E6SNER There te a new get-rich-quick strategy that has many of the regulatory bodies of the government itself stands part c4 the losses.

The strategy starts with the takt-ovsr of a financial institution, Usually with borrowed money, by a group of crafty operators, once in control of the Institution, they draw in ail the money they can by selling stock or by borrowing from other institutions.

Then the insiders lend all the original reserves and the new money to confederates, on doubtful securitise, for \rild ventures or stock speculation. CASH PUMPED OUT, THEN Other ways to milk a company of assets is to pay exhor-bltant salaries to those who have taken over; to Pay huge fees to consultants who are in on the project, and to pay large sums for real or fancied expenses for travel, eto.

After the assets have disappeared, the promotora sit back and wait for state or federal officials to move In and take, over. They never flee to Brasil nor to Africa. They stick around antt plead i^r judgment, somnMes lAnstlnt on

rowers are linked to the insiders. and that they have or will kick back part of the borrowings, they can do nothing with the take-over boys.

Investigators are convinced that some of the recent failures of banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions resulted from plans to loot the institutions, but until they can prove it. they can do nothing. They cannot even name the gutted institutions they suspect. They would face slander charges.

Meanwhile, there have been proposals in Washington to impose new restrictions on the

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sale of control of savings and and Insurance Institutions. However, before these are enacted, it Is likely that a few more egtauiahments will be looted of drawing full salary.

EUROPE DRINKING MORE AND STRONGER tTVTP

Reports from EurtgM are that Europeans are drinking more alo(riiolic beverages and that whisky, once a drink outside of Britain only for millionaires and tourlsta. la becoming favorite Upple In many continental countries.

In Brltsln. which hat always been a berr-aad-whlsky country, the sales of wines Is rising, largely at the expense of beer, without any drop in whisky use. In Pranoe, whisky is seriously competing with brandy.

Lnoreaae In alcoboUo beverage sales has been reported In Britain, France. Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg. Britain is taking to vodka and there are signs that it is becoming more popular on the continent.

While Some obeervtrt say fear of the attwn bomb is causing more people to turn to alcohol for escape, more serious economists eay the increase in wages and dividends resulting from tbs boom la Wsetem na-

tlMis Is Simply giving all classes more mcmey to spend and that part of It goes for booce.

They point out thst liquor sales appear to be rising In prosperous United States, too, and that in the month of April bourbon sales alone rose 18.8 per cent over April, 1968.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS

The Bureau of the Mint tays that using fractional paper money is impractical; it Is hard to handle, hard to keep track of; eaaV^ oounterfeited and. bealdei, Oongrasi hasnt authorized it. . . .The shortage of oolna will not end thia year . . . Many oompanies are reducing their middle-manage-ment personnel. Dun's Review reports. . , .Sales of new noo-larm one-family homes In April dropped 7 per cent below March and 4 per oent below April, 1963. . . .Tbe mtemal Revenue Service will go alone with a federal court dedsiooe aUowlng a busineee expenee dcduotton for the ooet m U<i-uor used for enfeeitalniMnt in a dry state. Only Mississippi is dry by law. By law. that Is . . . .Tax receliAt Indicate cigarette smoking In May was 4.5 per cent less than in May, 1963.