Wednetday, August 12, 19641965 Assembly And Court ReformsIf You Can Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs And Aiming Them At You"

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Of the hundreds of items to come before the 1965 General Assembly few will be more important to the people of North Carolina than implementation of the constitutional amendment providing for a uniform system of lower courts.

In itself the passage of the constitutional amendment by voters of the state a couple of years ago was a major step toward modernizing the hodgepodge of lower courts that now exist. But the proof of the pudding will be the manner which the legislature designs the new system

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3udget Tours

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH - Circling the iquare:

Four days of visits to state Institutiwis and hearings (mi requests for capital improvements are on the schedule for the Advisory Budget Conmis-aion next week.

It will be the final week and In terms of money requested almost certainly the biggest week of the budget cwnmis-lions 1964 tour.

Budget officials fully expect next weeks hearings to push the total in C budget requests for 1965-67 well above the $100 milliwi mark. And by the time all of the "C budget requests are presented during departmental and Raleigh agency hearings in September and OcU^r a final figure in the neighborhood of $200 million is likely.

Budget commission members are saying frankly that on the basis o present outlook for a state surplus and opening

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credit balance next July 1, and committments already made, capital improvements requests will have to be slashed sharply.

VISITS The biggest requests for capital improvements in the next biennial budget have come from institutiwis of higher learning and mental institutions.

And the biggest of these Institutions are on the schedule for next weeks visits among them the three branches of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the big Dorothea Dix hospital In Raleigh.

Here is the schedule:

Mwiday, Aug. 17 10:30 a.m. Winstwi-Salem State Teachers College

2:30 p.m. University of North Carolina ^ Greensboro ^ 30 pjn. A&T College T esday, Aug. 18 8:30 ajn. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 3:30 p.m. North Carolina College - Durham Wednesday, Aug. 19 8:30 ajn. North Carolina State of UNC - Raleigh

1:30 p.m. Dorothea Dix Hospital

3:30 p.m. - North Carolina School for the Blind and Deaf.

5 p.m. - Fh-ison Department. Thursday. August 20 8:30 a.m. - Cwnmunity Colleges

10:30 a.m. - Board of Corrections 12 noon - Conservation and Development 2 p.m. - Others.

BREAK There will be at least a weeks break for the Budget Commission after next week.

Two members of the Budget Commission, both of them appointees of Gov. Terry Sanford, are delegates or alter

nates to the Democratic National Convention which begins in AUanUc City. N. J., August 24.

Sen. Ralph H. Scott of Burlington is a delegate from the Sixth District. Former state purchase and contract director W. H. White of Jackswiville Is an alternate at large. Director of administration Hugh Cannon who has been accompanying the budget commission, is * also an alternate at large to the Natl<Mial convenUcm.

RECEPTION A pre-c(m-vention reception in honor of Gov. and Mrs. Terry Sanford and Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Mrs. Dan K. Moore has been scheduled for the evening of Aug. 23 in Atlantic City.

The reception will be given by delegate Smith W. Bagley of Wlnstwi-Salem and by Robert W. Scott, the Democratic ncuninee for lieutenant governor, and Mrs. Scott. It is scheduled for the west Solarium of the Marlborough-Blen-heim hotel which will be North Carolina headquarters for the convention and is the first function for the states delega-ti(m on the conventi(i schedule.

State Sen. and Mrs. Irwin Belk of Charlotte will be hosts to the North Carolina delegation at a breakfast the next morning.

FAVOR Sources say a long-range plan for developing and landscaping the area around the new $6.5 million Legislative Building in Raleigh, including a lake and waterfalls, is gaining favor in high placeaag^.

When first, disclosed a few weeks ago, plan was pooh-poohed as being far too costly and impractical.

Nevertheless, addti o n a 1 thought is being given to the idea and it is being studied more closely. The state, meanwhile, is continuing to acquire available property in the vicinity of the Legislative Building including the $50,000 purchase of two lots last week.

MAPS More than 80 different maps of North Carolina are available to the public from various sources and at varying prices according to the type of publication. A directory of these maps and sources, along with prices, has just been published by the state Travel Information division.

CHANNEL sute officials have been notified that Texas Gulf Sulphur, the firm developing multi million dollar phosphate mining <)erations in Beaufort County, is anxious to' see a deepsea channel dredged from Ocracoke Inlet to its plant site near Aurora on the Pamlico river.

The firm is stressing that the need for such a channel across the Pamlico Sound is unrelated to its negotiationa with the State Ports Authorltyq for deep water facilities at Morehead City for initial shipments of bulk phosphate products.

Morehead City is about 50 miles south of the phosphate mining operation at Lees Creek along the Pamlico River.

lower courts within the new constitutional framework.

Since the last legislative session adjourned there has been a special commission of legislators at work on the matter of implementing the court reform measure. This commission is expected to offer specific recommendations to the 1965 legislature as the first step toward implementing the amendment. How these recommendations are received by the legislators and the people of North Carolina next year may well determine how successful the state will be over a period of years in revamping its lower court system.

There can be no question about the fact that the realignment of the lower court system will effect every citizen of the state. In view of that, each citizen should follow as closely as possible the recommendations of the court study commission and the manner in which these recommendations are received in the legislature.

Even though the constitutional amendment set forth the authority for the legislature to revise the lower court system, the actual establishment of a uniform system of lower courts rests in the hands of, and at the pleasure of, the state's legislature.

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DST With Confusion

Congress has come up with a scheme to eliminate all the confusion over daylight saving time.

In a nutshell, it appears to us, the only possible hope that the plan can eliminate confusion over daylight saving time lies in the fact that it would eliminate use of the term daylight saving time.

Having accomplished this great feat, Congress proposesin its usual mannerto create an oven more confusing situation to take the place of the situation that is too confused now to be tolerated.

It will work something like this:

By federal law there would be no more daylight saving time. Well, there really would be, but they just wouldnt call it that. In the place of using this term that appears to be causing all the confusion, Congress would create new time zones.

Only there wouldnt be new time zones at all_

except for oneand that would be imaginary. At certain times of the year the people, under federal edict, would change the names o the time zones thy tt,-..,,

live in and would go by the name and time of other By DON SCHLIENZ time zones even though they dont live in them.

Even if a state or community didnt want to go along with moving to another time zone fpr half the year, it wouldnt make any difference, because all federal agencies, common carriers and wire an radio communications would operate as if they were in the other time zone anyway.

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Ihe Hurricane Season

Tropical storms Abby (a Gulf disturbance) and Brenda (east of Bermuda) remind us

Everything may be an hour off schedule but at hurricane season is already

least Congress would have succeeded in eliminating ikuSto rtkteTn" Jme i all the confusion over davliirht avina +imo So far no sweat

But the season lasts through November, so theres no reason to cheer.

The Air Weather Service, a USAP compwient, flies reconnaissance on depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes. Fact sheets from their headquarters at Scott AFB, 111., refresh our memories as to past storms and scraps of Information forgottM between seasons.

over daylight saving time.

If youre confused about the new proposed time system even after this explanation, please do not write your Congressman. Hes probably busy shopping for a sun dial.

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For instance: tropical storms are classed as depressions until wind force exceeds 38 mph; as storms from 39-72 mj^; and hurricanes when winds reach 73 mph.

A depression receives a name when it reaches, or is predicted to reach, tropical storm force.

Youve read It before (and probably forgotten), but if a major hurricane seriously affects the United States its name is retired for 10 years and a new one substituted In the list of names.

Beginning In 1960 a set of four alphabetical lists of girls

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By MHTON KELLY

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is giving President Johnson a substantial share of the legislation he asked for uhder a must-pass label.

How much of the rest of it he W1 get before Con g r e s s winds up its 1964 session remains to be seen. It apparently wiU be a man-sized proportion.

However, in at least some danger in these closing weeks of the session are his programs for medical care for the aged and increased Social Security benefits. Some well Informed sources say he may have to choose between the two. They concede he could wind up with neither.

They already have written off as dead for this year his wage policy program for industry, Including a proposal for double pay for overtime. They also see a very doubtful future this year for a UberaUz-ing overhaul of the immigration laws requested by the President.

With some give and take, his forces expect to get most of the rest of his program into the books, and are prepared to make a bragging point of this in the presidential campaign.

Tops on the program already written into law, of course, are the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the $11.5 billion tax cut, plus an extension of excise taxes totaling $1.9 billion a year.

Congress also boosted the legal maximum national debt limit from $315 billion to $324 billion for one year as Johnson asked.

Among his major victories was enactment of a cotton-wheat farm aid bUl. It estab

lished a new program permitting . S. cotton textile mills to buy government-owned cotton at the same subsidy price as foreign producers, and a voluntary wheat price support program aimed at assuring $2 a bushel wheat.

Other feathers In the administration cap included: Congressional approval of his program to protect wilderness spaces.

A start on a $375 mlion, three-year program of grants to public bodies for the purchase of mass transit equipment, plus loan-guarantee authority.

The new pay Increase for federal officials and employes.

Wider police powers for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Continued support for the controversial space flight project to land American astronauts on the moon in this decade.

Still in various stages of congressional action, with his forces optimistic he wiU get most of all of what he asked for in the blUs, as such measures as his:

War on poverty program, a $947 million project.

Proposed $455 million extension of the area redevelopment program, to aid chronically depressed regions.

$1 biUion companion piece to help build the economy of the Appalachian reglcm.

$375 milli(Hi expanded food stamp plan to help the needy.

Extension of the National Defense Education Act.

Huge housing program, which has been shorn of some of controversial new features Johnson had requested.

Other Editors Saying.,. The Editors Vote

(Sumter, S. C., Dally Item)

The most unfortunate thing about facts, besides their tendency to contradict what we wish to believe, is the ease with which they get lost in the scuffle of an argument. Anent a current subject of controversy, it may not be amiss to repeat a few facts that appeared recently in Editor & Publisher.

According to polls taken by that magazine during the past eight presidential elections, newspaper support of the two majcHT candidates was as follows (papers which did not make endorsements and those which endorsed fringe party candidates make up the variance from 100 per cent):

1932 52 per cent of the dally papers for Hoover; 40 per cent for Roosevelt.

1936 37 per cent for Lan-don; 36 per cent for Roosevelt.

1940 67 per cent for Will-kle; 23 per cent for Roosevelt.

1944 58 per cent for Dewey; 20 per cent for Roosevelt.

1948 68 per cent for Dewey; 16 per cent for Truman.

1952 67 per cent for Elsenhower; 15 per cent for Stevenson.

1956 59 per cent for Eisenhower; 17 per cent for Stevenson.

1960 64 per cent for Nixon; 15 per cent for Kennedy.

The newspapers in the polls represented about 80 per cent of total daily circulation in the country. The support, of course, was that of the editorial page and did not necessarily reflect the positions of individual columnists, whether local or na-tionaUy syndicated, whether sensation-seeking or otherwise.

Have you ever wondered where your Federal Income tax money goes after it is subtracted from your pay check? Tax Foundation, Inc., has completed research based cm taxes paid by a person who earns $6,000 annually. The estimated $600 paid by a man in t h i s bracket breaks down to: National security - $362; Interest

$61: agriculture and agricultural resources $36; veterans services and benefits $45; labor and welfare $34; commerce and housing $20; International affairs and finance $16; natural resources

$15; general government $13; other $10. It is obidous that past wars, current cold wars and preparedness against future wars makes up 73 per cent of this tax Wll. Nash-vUle (Tenn.) Banner.

names was instituted, starting a new list each season and rotating them in succession.

And did you know that no names beginning with Q, U, X, Y and Z are included?

Aside from Abby and Brenda, names for storms and hurricanes of the 1964 season wiU be; ^

Qeo, Dora, Ethel, Florence. Gladys. HUda. Isbell, Janet. Katy, LUa, Molly, Nita, Odette, Paula. Roxie, Stella, Trudy, Vesta and Winny.

And if one of these ladies appears headed In my direction, my first chore is already waiting: the removal of a be-shambled tree house in our backyard.

It was never designed to fly.

Two years ago something over three dozen people up in New Jersey took a chance and accepted a casual invitation to visit Greenville.

They chartered a bus and headed South.. .brave souls. . . not know'ing what they were getting into.

It turned out they had a baU. So did their hosts.

And when the visitors were home again they told everybody who would listen.

As I said, that was two years ago.

Well, another busload of New Brunswick (N.J.) people are planning to spend another Labor Day weekend in Green-vUle; guests of the Moose Lodge.

The effort involved in making such a trip is understandably great. People just dont pack up and go on a long, hard bus-rlde without balancing that effort against the anticipated enjoyment and pleasure.

My understanding is that the New Jersey crowd was eager to make the trip. . .and there ^ even be a few more than the number that came before.

It Is a remarkable tribute t(> Greenville hospitality. I dont expect to see many such like

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The automobile did away with the horse; now Its doing away with people.Dawson County (Oa.) Advertiser.

-Scars Healing

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The question of party unity Is something that is troubling both Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, but who would have thought a few months ago that President Johnson would have the greater wdr-ries? ,

Before San Francisco one would have thought that Gold-water would have to scratoh much harder than Johnson fdr unity. But as the harmony meeting at Hershey, Pa., approaches, things seem to be falling into line for him. He is doing even better than Ike Eisenhower did In 1952, for the intra-party oroosition has been melting faster than it did in the case of the Taftities of twelve years ago.

In 1952, unity all depended on one man. Senator Taft, crushed by his defeat at the convention and still resentful of the cry of thief raised against him, went to his ancestral summer place at Murray Bay in Canada. There, reading bitter letters from his disappointed followers, he kept his own ccxmsel. Meanwhile the reports kept coming bi that Eisenhower wasnt doing weU. It was the driest portion of the dry creek period of the Eisenhower candidacy.

Like the good pro and party man that he was. Bob Tgft eventually heard a c(nmaad from the lapping of the waters at Murray Bay and t(x* off for the famous Momlngsfde Heights meeting on September 12 with Ike. Unity was achieved, and the RepubUcans went on to win.

It might have been thought that Goldwater would have considerably more trouble than Eisenhower in restoring harmony in the party ranks. To begin with, the bitter words at San Francisco exceeded anything said at previous conventions. Then there was the fragmented state of the Goldwater oppositicxi. Instead of one old party man like Bob Taft to bring around, Goldwa-ter ha(| at least, a dozen Important competitors to mollify. Who would speak for the opposition? Who would round the chiefs i|ip

As things lum out, no one man is haidng to speak for the group of pre-nomlnatlon dUwI-dents. Scranton, who is hosting the unity meeting, made his peace bn the day of Goldwa-ters nomination. Nixon shed the chips from his shoulder- In his own brilliant speech at San Francisco. Ike Eisenhower was quickly satisfied with Goldwateis explanation of the extremlBn In defense of Ub-erty remark. Former GOP national chairman Len Hall of Oyster Bay, New York, and boss Ray Bliss of Ohio, both of whom had sat on the fence until the last minute, tumbled Into Goldwaters arms when they got the forgiveness signal. At the moment of writing. Henry Cabot Lodge seemi to be one of the very few remaining malcontents among the national Republican figuN es. Some Senators and Representatives are still sulking, but Kuchel of California, and Keating and Lindsay of New York, are not likely to make much difference. As a matter of fact, the more trouble that Goldwater hai In New York, the better for his candidacy.

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em establishment In the eyee ory about the so-caDed east-It helps to justify the plot-the-of Republicans throughout the West and South, and so serves to keep the hinterland up to fighting pitch. As one Goldwater man said at San Francisco, we dont want to take on tht w^hole press. But if people think a couple of New York newspapers and broadcasting stations are unfairly against us, it can only do us good. Thus, as the Hershey meet-(Continued on Page 7)

S. Booming As Never Before

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS QWF. NEED MORE THEOLOGY The great St. Augustine once remarked that theology is faith seeking to understand Itself. There are some people who say they have little interest In theology. "I like practical religion. they say. Give me the nature of love, and you can take your theology and store It away In seminaries and church basements.

But this is a hasty and superficial judgement. Every Christian must be interested in theology, which is the teaching the church sets forth about God. When we $et too theoretical about our rellgl(m a scofflnR world calls this fact to our attenti(xi. We find ourselves rapped across the knuc

kles by the sharp hand <4 circumstances. Theoretical religion Is no religion at all. But oy tne same token when meu have no theories about their religion, when they do not turn each concept over in their minds and reflect upon it, then vital religion soon ceases to be part of their intellectual equipment.

The modern church needs to emphasize theology more. Wo need to rrad the Bible with Increasing care, to ponder the meaning of Its message, to give what attentlixi we can to church cfeeds, and to Improvt tfffm and bring -them up' to date if this pnfves necessary.

More theology and better tlicology is desperately needed in the modem churob.

By ELMER ROESSNER After 10,000 miles of travel in two weeks in Canada and the United States. I find the American economy stUl booming as never before, even after discounting the distortion caused by Inflation.

Figures for the first half of the year are in and digested. Personal Income was up and dispbsable income was up even more. But between increased Incotne and lessened taxes, consumers In the first half of this year had about $10 billion more to spend or save than they did In the first half of 1963. Of this they saved a Uttle less than $3 billion and spent a Uttle more than $7 bUllon. Some of the gvings consisted of paying off debts. ^

The part saved Is larger than usual, causing the First Na-ticmal City Bank to observe, Previous experience suggesta that consumers will before long iJring their outlays Into line with these historical percentages,

As they do so, consumer were leu than 35 per cent, and

expenditures wiU rise at a faster rate than income, perhaps adding another $5 billion or $6 bUlion to the rate of spending beyond that indicated by rising Income.

That means a much sharper rise in consumer spending ahead.

The bank also reported that In the first haU of 1964 Income of 1,139 leading corporations was 18 per cent higher than In the first half of 1963.

The biggest gain was by 29 transportation companies not including raUroads and trucking companies (presumably largely alrUnfs), up 90 per cent. Forty - three railroads were up 28 per cent and 19 common earrifr trucking corporations were up 49 per cent. Not bad.

Second and third biggest gains were by 46 service and amusement cprporatlons, up 58 per cent, and 29 printing and publishing companies, up 54 per cent;

Gains of all other groups 10 tobacco products companies reported galnt of only 1 per

cent, perhaps due to the cancer scare.

NOBODY LOSES Even more significant I5 the fact that not a single group of companies showed a decUne from the 1963 period to the 1964 period. That, son, Is

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prosperity!

The Cleveland Trust Companys sagacious newsletter reports that the gross national product increased by $9.7 bll-Uon during the sec<xid quarter unaccompanied by either rapidly rising prices or a large amount of inventory accumulation. Again, son, thats prosperity.

Meanwhile, August has started out weU. Both con

sumers and business took tht affair In the OMt ot Tonk 1 n calmly. There were no unusual ripples In the stock market, there was no signs of hoarding either by industry or consumers.

' In general, the American public took the matter In fta stride. It seems to have no will to upset the current prosperity with such nasty things as wars.

The wishful thinking is that nothing will disturb the present prosperity, despite Its racial troubles and its unem p 10 y-ment.

EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE GETTING INTO THE ACt

Avis Rent-A-Car System btf been advertising that Herti Corp. does more business than Avis does. Ingenue magazlnt congratulates Seventeen magazine in ads for "hitting a new high' with its August iasoo.

Our go-along-witb-the-gag da-* partment: Sam Dawson Is A good business news columnist. Columnist Sylvia Porter is belter looking than either of Us.