Wednesday, August 19, 1964

True Enough, Terry Isnt Running

Ai Governor Terry Sanford reminded his bjr their localized policies and activities.

friends he is not a candidate for vice president; a Governor Sanford is w.deiy known withm party

sUtement that is as true today as it was six weeks circles. He is widely known among l^sm^ circles.

His four yc&rs fls th Governor of North Carolina

Certainly he is hot a candidate. have brought him into personal contact witt a iMge

But by the same token, there is no certainty number of men representing major indusmal

he may not be. Stranger things have happened; groups, professional organizations, foundations,

and ta reirospect, it might not be such an improb- etc. His states record as an >n-getti^ sUte -

able development after all. One might judge that is known

the odds against it have dwindled to a certain extent, things, and his efforts to (tevelop North Carolina s

The Johnson cabinet has a number of men education field have stirred much outside interest whose stature qualifies them for consideration. They _ Politically speaking, he h * clean ~corf. He were eliminated by a presidential statement. is no extrmist in either direction. He has his

Democrats in the United States Senate count share of critics, but the man ^o has no^^ is a in their ranks some qualified individuals, but a man who hasn t accomplished anything or tried any-variety of political factors disqualifies a consider- thing or proposed , ...

able number of these ... just as it does among Demo- Rather than puncturing the trial

crats in the House of Representetves. ?f_

"Can't Let Things Get Outa Hand; Y'Know"

Another Role ?or Broughton

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH ClrcUns the quare:

j. Melville Broiithtai Jr., tapped by gubernatorial nominee Dan K. Moore to become new chairman of the State Democratic Executive CMn-mitte, took his first lounge into statewide politics a dozen years ago.

The occasion was the primary of 1952 when Broughton was a top adviser and played a prominent role In the gubernatorial campaign of the late William B. Umstead.

At the time, Broughton was a 30 year old Raleigh attorney and s<dictt(N'. He was invited to Join the Umstead campaign staff primarily because of his fathers name. Broughtons father, wartime governor of the state and later UB. Senator, had def e a t e d 'Umstead in a close primary ccHitest for both a short term and regular term In the Senate in 1948 and Broughton died

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in cifice a year later.

role The idea was to unify the factiais that had been on opposing sides in the Broughton - Umstead c a m-paiign. But young Broughton pitched In so actively and vigorously that he so<m became one of the most valuable and trusted members of the Umstead campaign team.

Umsteads successor, Luther H. Hodges, later named Broughton chairman of the State Highway Ccmunission.

It is also beliig recalled in Raleigh pcdiUcal circles that Umsteads opponent in the 1952 primary was Hubert OUve of Lexington, supported by then Gov. W. Kerr Scott.

Now, more than a decade later. Bmugbton is about to aseume chairmanship (4 the etate party and leadership in the FaH campaign. The son of W. Kerr Scott. Robert W. Scott of Haw River, is the Democrats nanlnce for lieutenant governor and there is speculation that the two men. sons of former governors, may wind up opposing each other for the gubernatorial nfHiilnation four years from now.

NAMED David McConnell of Charlotte and outgoing state national cwranitteewom-an Martha McKay of Chapel Hill have received important assignments for the Dcmocrar

tie National Convention next

McCinmell and Mrs. McKay have been added to the con-ventton committee on Resolutions and Platform. This committee will be meeting this weekend, prior to the opening of the convention on August 24. Rep. Carl Albert of Oklahoma, House majority leader, is chairman.

ITEMS Items purchased recently through the state purchase and c(mtract division and its board of award range from an $8,110.48 airplane engine fat the states twin-engined Civil Defense aircraft to 1965 desk calendars for all state agencies.

The board aw>n>ved equipment purchases for the State Highway Commission totaling nearly $125,000. The larg e s t item in highway equipment was $78.^ to toe N. C. Equipment Co. of ^eigh for portable tandem patch roll e r s. Hoad machine blades from a Georgia firm cost $14,820.

Southern Desk Co. of Hickory was successful bidder at $10,400 on laboratory furniture for the Forsyth Technical in-stltcte at Winston-Salem.

Piedmont Aviation Inc. of Winston-Salem was contractor for the new aircraft engine.

Other items included replacement tablet arms for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools from Bromyte Co.. New York, for $12,716 and large amounts of industrial arts shop equipment, stage curtains and stage equipment, lockers and electrical supplies from various state-suw>orted schools.

PROBLEM Ctoe of the iH'oblems in keeping track of highly expensive scienti f i c equipment bought by the state involves ownership. .

This is especially true when funds for equipment purchases are made available under research grants. Such things as micnwxKPes, scales and compile electronic and laboratory equipment may be provided for tiiroagh private or federal research grants, but are purchased through the states pur-. chase and contract divls i o n for research projects at state institutions.

In most cases the equipment beonnes property of the institution. There is a specific clause in the diarter of the State Board of Science and Technology providing that equipment purchased under its grants remain the property of the board.

But sometimes scientists take a different view.

On at least one occaslcm a scientist engaged in research accepted a position at another university and, contending that bis research project was not comsete, took ail of his instruments and equipment with him when he moved out of the state.

get it as shutting the door to such a possibility.

It has been pretty well agreed that President Johnson will make the choice and running for the nomination would be a fruitless and futile undertaking.

But it doesnt* hurt to remind Mr. Johnson that Terry Sanfords name is worthy of considerm-tion in future planning.

Our Governor has quite a reputation for looking ahead, and in all likelihood he has his plans pretty well lined up for the day he moves out of the Governors Mansion.

Even so, we suspect he would find it hard to resist a beckoning finger in Washington.

The Bassoonist And The Allure Of Jazz

From time to time editors are prone to comment Now Ive heard everything.

Its a rather common figure of speech that covers . . . well, everything.

Sometimes it seems to almost hold true; but Mondays account of two Soviet musicians who defected and asked political asylum in the United States to play real jazz is something new under j the sun.

It makes one wonder.

As the Associated Press report tells it, a bassoonist and clarinetist were just overwhelmed with We came through New York the urge, and left wives and families behind in Moscow.

Seems theyd been practicing jazz musicianship more or less secretly for several years. Maybe influenced by a Benny Goodman tour (which makes him sound like a subversive influence).

Now we know something about the rollick- problems! ing licks of a hot clarinet riding a solid beat, and All the private cars, au(l we wouldnt knock a good bassoon man for the world;

But a bassoon in a jazz combo?

Maybe we HAVENT heard everything!

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN CapfTight. 1964, King Feature Syndi<te, Inc.

The really menacing thing ^ut the situation in Southeast Asia is that it involves brinkmanship and so increases the Imponderables that affect judgment. Not only do we have both Mao auid Johnson trying to figure what Nikita Khrushchev would do In case of escalatitm of the war over South Vietnam.

Snce Mao and Khrushchev are both playing for the leadership of world Communism, it could figure in the minds of the psycho-politicans of Peiping that If Red China were to pick a war with the United States in North Vietnam, Khrushchev would have to side with the Red Chinese just to prove his own revolutionary integrity. Should fuU'Scale atomic war develop betwewn the United States on one side and a

JOHN

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Traffic-Happy Viewer

turning from our vacati<m last weekend.

As we rode along a throughway and observed all the hustle and bustle of the big city, we wondered what it might do about its traffic and crowd

seem to be constantly rushing from one side of Manhattan Island to the other.

Whats more, though many

bridges and tunnels have been built to carry traffic in and out. these accesses seem to be choked with traffic.

So we c(mcluded. as we rushed along through (or more technically above) Harlem and other areas of the city towards Times Square area, there are several possible sol-uti(ms to the problems.

1. Build 'more bridges and tunnels. (This doesnt seem to help since more access routes seem only to bring in more traffic.)

Repeating Ole, Road To Ruin

Other Editors Saying.,, Idea With Potential

t. Tear down all the existing bridges and tunnels and require everyone coming to Manhattan to park across the rivers and take boats in. (This might woris. Vlsilor and workers on the island could take the subways. Streets and present dwelling areas could be converted to parks.)

3. Saw the whole thing and let it float out to sea. (This doesnt seem too pratti-cable cm the surface, but perhaps It might make a good campaign issue).

If none of these three plans

ALVIN

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) The Viet Nam picture is just as murky and baffling as ever, with peace no nearer and the new leadership doing what the old leadership did almost a year ago on a road Uiat ruined it.

On Aug. 21, 1963 the then President Ngo Dinh Diem, neck-deep In trouble with Buddhists in his own South Viet Nam and Red guerrillas from North Viet Nam, tightened his ccmtrol by proclaiming a state of siege.

This, in effect, was martial law with its various restrictions. The United States, which had been bailing out the Vietnamese since the French were driven away in 1964, didnt like Diems performance.

But It kept oa sending aid about $500 million of it a year

to crush the Red guerrillas who werent then, and arent now, being crushed. They are even stronger now, and more daring.

Diems effort to strengthen his grip didnt work. His generals got fed up with him. In an army coup which seized the government last Nov. 1 Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. were killed.

The new government became the revolutionary council of (tfficers headed by Gen. Duong Van Mlnh Big Minb

who was such a poor administrator that the country slid from bad to worse.

The Minb junta promised respect for fundamental liberties and free elections as soon as conditiwis permit. They havent permitted yet. This country recognized the new regime, which didnt last long.

There was another military coup on Jan. 80, 1964, this one led ^ Maj. Gen. Nguyen

Khanh, 36, who had been in on the November coup, but late. So Khanhs military junta took over from Minhs military junta.

It was bloodless coup, like rearranging the furniture of government, and Khanh let Minh save some face by retaining him as an adviser.

The new boss ran the country with the help of a S6-man military council, and made himself premier. Thingsg ot no better. The Red guerrillas continued to become more bold and powerful, despite American help.

As the months passed mm*e American lives were lost in Viet Nam, There was talk that Khanh was in trouble and his regime shaky. Then, in the midst of the big excitement two weeks ago, he moved like Diem to strengthen himself.

The excitement began when Red PT boats from North Vietnam attacked U.S. warships.

American carrier based planes destroyed or damaged about 25 North T^tnamese PT boats. Four PT boat bases and an oil depot were damaged.

Whe the Weetem world wcmdered what the Communists would do now, Khanh did something himself on Aug. 7. Like Diem of a year before he declared a state of emergency throughout South Viet Nam.

This meant tougher control over the eivUian pofxilation, censorship, travel, food distributions, stronger sutborlty for arresttnff people In their homes and searching them. M)d the death penalty tor terrorism.

TIte announced Intentiaii of an Uiis was to strengthen South Viet Nam against the Reds. It also strengtbied Khanh' hdd on his job. but (Contintied On Page )

(WhiteviUe News-Reporter) Give Dr. Leo W. Jenkins, president of East Carolina College at Greenville, an approving hand for suggesting a means of reducing the growing shortage of physicians in North Carolina.

Although the Idea was not linked with a budget of $12.7 million presented to the Advisory Budget Commission the other day, Dr. Jenkins, well aware of the need for more practicing physlcisns in rural North C2q*olina, reminded Com-misaion members that EXX! would be willing to provide the necessary first two years of study for aspiring doctors.

Once the first two years were completed, students would go on to complete their training at medical schools elsewhere In the State or beyond its borders.

But the groundwork would be laid and from it would come more physicians and c(Xi-sequent medical attention for 50 many who must travel miles to see a doctor or wait out many anxious trying hours for a doctor to arrive.

But there Is something more behind the suggesUon pnxnot-ed by the enterprising Dr. Jenkins. No training of the kind is found east of Raleigh, nothing of the kind In the eastern one third of the State to test the capabilities (tf high school graduates, both boys and girls, to determine if they do or do not have a talent for

medicine. Certainly many do uid all they need is the springboard to launch teem into the profession. The first two years at E(X would provide the springboard.

In years past practically every remote community had their country doctor wI|o, first with horse and buggy and then with T-model Ford, hurried across sloppy roads to answer the call of the stork or to mend a broken limb. But that is no more, generally, for too many fledgling physicians aspire to city practice and leave the rural sick to fend for themselves when emergencies arise.

How many small communities of today are willing to provide all necessary facilities for just CHie doctor? Hundreds of them dot the State scene but calls continue unanswered.

And how many potential doctors are drifting into otber occupations simply because the opportunity to get into medicine is not immediately available?

Plenty of minds with medical capabilities are floating down the stream of least resistance and taking root in an unproductive cove when they could otherwise be filling a pressing need in the medical profesaion.

East Carolina Colleges president has planted an l(tea oi great potential and all of Eastern North Carolina should help in nourishing the idea to reality.

TAYLOR

appear feasible to the New York city fathers then the law of survival of the fittest will have to take Its course.

We suspect that as the number (4 auto drivers increase, the heartiest will simply kill off the faintest, by means of head-on colUalons or In other devious ways.

This, we suppose Is not the worst method of solving the problem except, who wants a Manhattan Island Inhabited only by taxi drivers?

We also rode through the middle of Washlngttm, D. C. and made <mr same thorough study of the nations capital traffic problems.

After negotiating traHle along U.S. 1, getting round the Capitol, traveling Pennsylvania Avenue and finding a few other attractions there, we have concluded our study.

The solution to Washingtons traffic m'oblems, as we see It, is impossible. We have no recommendations.

And all this brings us home to Greenville, where we have recommendations for a few simple changes that will ease our traffic problems. First we should blast terough Dldrinson (C<tinued On Page 9)

CHAMBERLAIN

renewed Soviet-Red Chinese alliance on U other, Mao could count on Russia and America wtping each other out. Red China, with Its huge agrarian decentralization and its 8(X) miiHnti people, would survive to pick up the pieces even If ft took tremendous losses.

The question is whether Khrushchev is sufficiently stupid to be bluffed into Mao Tse-tungs trap. He could be if he were enough of a committed ideologue to refuse any temporary loss of face that would be involved In staying aloof from a U. S. - Red Chinese confnotation. During forty years of infighting to stay alive and become the top Communist In Russia, however, Khrushchev has demonstrated his pragmatic adaptability over and ever again. If he remained true to his pattern, he would never risk the destruction of Sovjet Russia for the rice paddies of Southeast Asia, which would never be used to feed Russians anyway.

In this gruesome game of keeping Mao Tse-tung from trjdng the big bluff on Khrushchev, the U. S. has some smaller, but still quite potent, pieces on the chessboard. We can thank our lucky stars that John Poster Dulless policy prevailed when the clamor was on to force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender the offshore Islands of Quemoy and Matsu In Formosa Strait. With these islands as potential stepping stcmes to the Chinese mainland, the Taiwan, or Formosa, Chinese remain a quite tangible threat on Mao Tse-tungs flank. 'The threat Is being constancy brought hcone to Mao by guerilla raids from Formosa that seldom make the front pages of Western newspapers. For example, on the night of June 20 a guerilla unit from Formosa raided a Red Chinese strong-point at Shanmen In Kwanglung province, a hundred miles to the north of H(mg Kong, The raid was a pinprick in Itself, for only some twenty Communist soldiers were killed. But the raiders returned to their own Formosa base without trouble, bringing wl\i them three Red miliUamen who chose to defect.

This sort of thing must cause Mao-Tse-tung to stay awake nights when he is mulling over the feasibility of ccnnmitting full Red (Chinese power to a war over the two Vietnams and Laos. The numbers involved in commando raids from Formosa cannot be large when they have to be landed from rowboats. But if the U. S. were to give Chlang Kai-shek plenty of landing craft, plus the convoying protection of tlw Seventh Fleet, raids could seriously Interfere with the movement of Red Chinese armies to the south. Maos worries most be further complicated by the fact that Formosa raiding par-Continued From Page 6)

Ratterns In Installment Credit

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SO WHY WASTE TIME?

Be not anxious.

Thus said our great Master Himself. But how is ft possible to obey such a command?

Who can be otherwise ihsn anxious In a world under which diplomats and munition makers have set a charge of dynamite? Who can avoid anxiety in world where all the former ways of doing things are being rapidly changed? How can it be expected of men that they will face the possibility of unemployment and industrial blacklisting because of age and not get worried? Who can think of his business, his bank account, his debts, or his securities and not toss about coo-

siderably every night?

Yet viewed simply from the common sense standpoint, it certainly does no good. Physically and mentally we reduce resistance by such tactics, spiritually we damage our faith, socially we spoil happiness for ourselves and others. We might jutt as well go along with a happy smile and take life as tt c<nne8 every day. To do otherwise Is to wreck our happiness and not Improve our case In the least with all our worries.

Someone has said, Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of Its sorrows; ft empties today of Its strength.* And the good John Wesley once said, I dare no more fret than I dare curse and swear.*

By ELMER ROESSNER For the first Ume. a reispon-aible government official has warned that instalment credit Is developing patterns which some find disturbing.

He is K. A. Randall, director of the Federal Deposit Insur-anoe Corp., who indicated that be ia a bit disturbed himself.

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As instalment credit totals have risen by billions since the end of the war, almost all govenunent and most private economists have hailed the rise as a good thing. Only a few commentators, including this writer, have held that the total was getting unwleldly, that the high consumer debt could Intensify any downturn in business, and that the large number of personal bankruptr

cles, running more than 100,-000 a year, were danger signals of too much instalment debt.

BUT IT SELL* CABS

The supporters of more credit have answered that the amount of indebtedness was within keeping with the rise in employment and income; that without instalment credit the auto boom would c<dlapse and besides we owe ft to ourselves.

Mr. Randall displayed some skepticism of these points In an address at the Bchool of Consumer Banking at the University oi Virginia recently. He noted that instalment debt rose $5.7 billion last year to a total of almost $54 billion, omre than* double the total of $23 billion.

He also pointed out that In the 19-year period ended in 1963, the population rosa 18 per cent, disposable Income rose 59 per cent but that instalment credit rose a whopping 130 per cent.

In fact, total ooiisumer debts outstanding In 1945 were $2.5 billion. In 1955 they were $30 bUlion and on June 30. this

year. $60 bUlion. Other consumer Indebtedness, including slngie-payment loans, charge accounts and aervioe credit, brought the total to almost $73 billion.

Boy. thats debit WHOs TO BLAME

Randall said the ecmpetttion among lending instftutlcxis and pressures to broaden their operations, and some loose mractices resulting, are leading to excesses In instalment lending and personal debt loads on individuals. He added, however, that repayment figures bavt recent increased.

However, while repayment figures In the second quarter of this year were the highest on record, the total outatand-ing conUnued to rise in that quarter.

The FDIC chief eauttoaed bankers to exercise care and a dedicated effort to serve customers in all lending operar tions through lending policies which are beneficial to the borrower, not burden-sOTne.

Translation; Say no more often.

WnX MERCHANTS BE THERE WHEN CUSTOMERS MIGRATE?

There te great significance to the recent University of Michigan ttudy which found that more than half the families in metropolitan areas want to move in the neift five years, nuMtly farther out in the suburbs.

With income high, it is certain that many can fulfill their dreams. But that leaves nightmares for merchants. If half Uieir customers are spun off into the suburbs, to whom will they sell? To new customers, who by careful marketing, or to old ones, held by estaUish-Ing branches?

Those are problems every merchant must start thinking about now. If he doesnt make plans aeon, he can count on an ulcer a little later.

TIME OUT

FOR A SHORT BRAG In this column JUly 25; 'Copper Is certain to go up again and agahi. On Aug. 11. prices on the New York Commodity Exchange and the London Metals Exchange reached highest points In eight years.