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Sound Thinking In New UF Policy

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A decision bv the board of directors of the to the countys United Fund.

Pitt County United Fund to guarantee each com-^^munity of the county 10 per cent of its U.F. collec-i;^ions each year for community services is a sound policy.

It would be a serious mistake, however, for the

Most of the problems faced by the Pitt County United Fund since its organization have been money problemsor rather the lack of sufficient

contributions to meet all the demands being made upon it by w'orthwhile community and county-wide board of the United Fund, the major agencies which service organizations. Previous policies regulating or members of the fund, or those who are interested the distribution of funds between major agencies in community service activities to assume that this and community service have been sound in principle, new policy will automatically solve the problems of The trouble has been that each year there was just Pitts United Fund. not enough contributed to the United Fund to meet

Under the new policy each community would the needs of the major agencies and all the combe guaranteed for its purely local community ser- munity service needs of the individual communities

vice activities 10 per cent of its U.F. collections. This could mean several thousand dollars or maybe just a few hundred dollars, depending on the amount contributed by residents of the various communities

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Even though the new policy adopted by the U.F. board of directors is sound, the problems will not be eliminated unless citizens of the county, to which both the major organizations and the community service groups must look to for financial support, come forth with the funds necessary to meet the needs.

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Compromise^* ^ Reminder

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Bv WII LUM A. SHIRES

COMPROMISE - A great deal about a political convention is compromise and conciliation. and this held true among North Carolina Democrats at Atlantic City.

They finally agreed on a compromise settlement of the Intraparty issue of Billy Webb of Statesville, national committeeman-elect who signed a Wallace for President petition last month.

Both sides gave ground, but those who backed down most were those who were strongest by far in the delegation, the leaders of the Sanford-Prej-er wing who had demanded first that Webb resign and then shouted for his removal.

The final compromise came . about chiefly because Gov. Terry Sanford felt that one could and should be reached, and because he took the first necessary steps to bring it about.

But others gave ground too.

TERMS Terms of the compromise included:

A signed statement by Webb attesting to his Democratic party loyalty, saying that his signing the Wallace petition was a mistake and that he had not intended to vote for Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama.

That those who wished might signify their di^leasure by voting pass on a resolution calling for Webb's removal.

An added sop was renewal of firm pledges by gubernatorial nominee Dan K. Moore and Dr. I. Beverly Lake that they will support the national ticket.

VOTE When the roll call vote was taken on the reject-Webb resolution, forty - nine delegates answered pass when their names were called.

Four delegates flatly refused compromise and voted yes.

Only 16 voted no signifying they sided with Moore w|o had selected Webb and then decided to accept Webbs ex-planatimi of the petition signing and stick with his despite strong opposition.

The passes were, in ei-

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feet, votes for comprtwnise and keeping open lines of communications between the factions, although many were reluctant ones.

TOGETHER Governor Sanford told the caucus, it Is always easier to fight rather than cwiclllate, always easier to go in and show your strength and knock people down than to use your leadership to reach

a solution.

Then he read Webb's signed statement, and called on L. Richardson Preyer, the unsuccessful candidate for govemor who had been Sanfords choice against Moore. Preyer had told the first caucus that Webbs action, by error or otherwise, had so compromised him that he was not acceptable for a post requiring a high degree of party loyalty. He said unity was not the question.

But a day later Preyer agreed to the solution in the interest of harmony, and urged his supporters not to intercede further. He said he was glad that lines of communication could be kept open.

Judge Moore told the caucus he felt the compromise meant bringing about more party unity than we have had in many months.

Sometimes. he said, It takes a good hard fight to bring people together. He called it a long step toward reuniting the factions and said it could be just the beginning.

TIGHT - At the outset of the second, showdown caucus. Sanford pointed out that the nominating session for the convention was to begin in less than an hour, and that time was a problem.

Holding a tight rein, Sanford disclosed that leaders of t h e factions involved had sat down together in private earlier in the* day to discuss the Webb impasse, and had agreed upon an agendk for the caucus.

This was to be strictly observed, Sanford said. It ruled out other speeches, questions, motions from the floor or almost anything that might have re-opened the controversy.

Delegate Jonathan Daniels of Raleigh, editor of the News and Observer, was on his feet asking for a chance to speak when Sanford instructed secretary Tom I. Davis to call the roll. Daniels was not recognized.

WORK A great deal of work went into setting the stage for the comprwnlse settlement.

Webb himself, who flew to Atlantic City late Tuesday, talked to Sanford and Preyer and other factional leaders in private during the day Wednesday. He sat in part of the time in the private huddle of Sanford. Preyer, Judge Moore, Bert Bennett Jr., Joe Branch and J. Melville Broughton Jr., at which the compromise was worked out.

Sanford had taken the initiative in arranging the meeting, having called Moore on the telephone asking that they get together and talk.

After the agreement, but before the formal caucus leaders of the Sanford - Preyer wing held a private pre-caucus meeting at which terms of the solutlcHi were explained in advance. and the pass vote procedure agreed upon. Sanford did not attend this ses.slon.

Hurricane Cleo proved to be just a wet 'weekend, as far as Eastern North' Carolina is concerned.

But it served to remind us that the hurricane season is with us again. It is easy to recall that only a few years ago hurricanes were raking this area with regularity. Cleo could have done the same.

The big storm wreaked havoc in Haiti where it. left many dead. It hit Miami full force and did much damage. It perhaps spawned a tornado which did heavy damage at Laurenburg.

Let us be aware that hurricanes are still very much a threat to this area. Cleo, in all probability was merely the first of the tropical storms which Eastern Carolinians will follow this year from the time they come alive,' until they disappear at sea or strike full force.

Now is the time to be prepared as we can be for the hurricane possibility. Buildings should be placed in as good a shape as possible to weather any potential big storms.

Emergency lights, transistor radios, first aid supplies, and other equipment should be checked so that they will be available in case of power failure or injuries or damage.

Plans should be made for moving lawn furniture or other objects, that could blow about, into shelters when hurricanes approach.

Pitt Countians have come through several hurricanes very well in the past decade. There is no reason why we cannot weather any possible hurricanes this year, if we will but be prepared.

By ART BUCHWALD

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Overkill Problem Solvec

The problem of handling nuclear weapons will be one of the issues of the coming campaign. Everyone is arguing on how many megatons of bombs and missiles can be delivered against the enemy In the next 10 years.

The public Is being asked to decide whether tactical nuclear weapons should be placed

in the hands of generals in the field and whether we should

give nuclear stockpiles to our allies.

We were very fortunate to interview Professor Max Kila-ton, who has been working on the problem of nuclear weapons for some time. Prof. Kila-ton told us he made an independent study of the matter and came up with some startling results.

The most important thing I discovered, he said, was

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that while the Russian and American nuclear bombs are large enough, the tai^ets for most of \them are too small. We must build bigger targets to fit our bombs.

I dont understand.

Well, you see you have small bombs now that are five or ten times more powerful than the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and you have larger bombs and missiles 100 times more powerful.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) This years political campaign Is the kind that can get out of control. The potshots from both sides, with the possibility of one word leading to another, have the built-in potential of an explosion.

Sen. Barry Goldwater, after calling his rival. President Johnson, a phony and the biggest faker in the United States, said he will cond u c t the campaign solely on the issues and uill not engage in personal attack.

But his team is attacking.

Goldwaters vice-presidential running-mate. Rep. William E. Miller, says Johnsons wealth makes his Integrity subject to some question and that he hopes integrity and morality in office would always be an Is-

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Sunday Dean Burch, Goldwaters handpicked chairman of the Republican National Committee, called Johnson cynical and said the way the President got his wealth raw-es a very singular moral question.

On the Pace the Nation television show Burch said of Ji^nson in connection with Negro riots in Northern cities so far this year: He Ls not the type of example that lends itself to absolute law and order.

I think that cynicism has been established by his going along with the idea that lets stop the riots until Nov. 3, until the election Is over, and then you can have all the riots you want,

Burch was asked whether he was seriously suggesting that Johnson just wants a moratorium until Nov. 3 on rioting and after that has no concern about the matter.

No, Burch said, I would not suggest that he has no concern, But I would certainly suggest he wants a moratorium on rioting,

Johnson, in accepting the Democratic presidential nomination last week, never mentioned Goldwaters name and told the nation the Democrats wanted no part of fear or smear.

But his speech contained a lot of indirect assaults on Goldwater whom he pictured as a reactionary without naming him. At the same time Johnson talked of turning the other cheek.

Yet, Goldwater hsid previouh ly provoked him into an angry retort by criticizing Johnson's handling of Viet Nam. The President said Goldwater ftad committed a disservice to the country and the world.

Its doubtful Johnson will be able to maintain throughout the campaign the same kind of aloofness he tried in his acceptance speech if he was to put up with much of the Gold-water-Miller-Burch kind of attack.

If he gets harsh with Goldwater its going to be interesting to see how the Arizona senator stands up under It. Goldwater has already been given a taste of what he can expect from Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey.

On the same night Johnson in Atlantic (?lty was urging against fear or smear and fixing his oratorical eyes on lofty goals, Humphrey, accepting the vice-presidential nomination, went after Goldw a t e r barehanded and by name.

He accused him of extrem-i.sm. passion, radical language, recklessness, and being out of step with a majority of the Republicans in Congress.

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(Christian Science MoniU-) The American political parties and their candidates will now have to choose between two kinds of election campaign. One is bitter and divisive. The Johnson and Goldwater camps, especially at the lower levels, could (juickly find themselves hurling angry and excessive charges at each other across ideological lines if they once let themselves go. This would hurt the United States and the nations leadership of the free world. It is profoundly to be hoped that Americans of both parties will make every effort to keep this from happening, and to control it at once if it does start up.

The other course is to keep party differences, however much they are now widened, within civilized bounds. The object of the election, even if the candidates differ more radically than at any time since the two Roosevelts and William Jennings Bryan is to reach a national decision one that the country can then live by. It Is profoundly to be hoped that everyone concerned will do his best to keep the campaign on the constructive side.

For In recent years, Americans have not been accustomed to sharp ideological conflict at campaign time. To a large extent. left-right divisions have been spread across both parties and diversified.

In Britain, by contrast, a national election Is soon to be fought on straight Conservative-Labor lines. But the British

are accustomed to this on their tight islands. They have a genius for differing without widespread public animosity. The atmosphere of the House of Commons can go from t h e most adamant and irreconcilable arguments on the floor to personal friendship or at worst, a civil coolness, in the corridors outside. This is a code of political behavior rarely broken.

How is the United States to draw a responsible line between opposing and hating, between language that clarifies choice and language that muddies it with abuse? The top candidates have both said they would avoid personal at-tackand they can be expected to set a good lead. But hatche-try usually breaks out on the lower levels if unrebuked. And this time charges of Fascist and Communist, and the fears they evoke, can be distorted out of reason if passions are allowed to boil up.

The way to avoid the extremism that both parties have condemned Is to be rational in agrument and to keep emotion under discipline and on t h e friendly side. Freedom means, among other things, willingness of all parties to listen to a repugnant opinion without being hateful. These are tests of the maturity of the American people who are now faced with Intensified ideological decisions at a time when they need na-tiona, poise. We are confident they will rise to It.

But you have no cities whose growth has been comparable to that of the bombs. Therefore, if you dropped a large bomb on a major city, there would be a great deal of waste in fall-out, heat, and power. In order to compensate for this, I am advocating the immediate building of larger targets.

You mean make the cities bigger?

Exactly, Prof. Kilaton replied. We must start an immediate building program to enlarge our cities so the radius of our most powerful nuclear weapons will fall within them.

Would the Russians go along with this?

They would have to. They could not let our targets get bigger than thei!rs. It would be too much of a blow to their prestige.

How could we make our targets worthy of the nuclear w'eapons w'hich have been stockpiled?

We must build up urban centers between our large industrial cities and more or less connect them. The cities would have to be large enough to take a hit of the most powerful nuclear weapon that the Russians have. They in turn would have to enlarge their (Continued On Page 5)

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

In little Vermont they are engaged in a replay <4 U sort of drama that gripped the U.S. as a whole last luring, when Barry Goldwater was contending against the liberal Republicans to nail dofwn the Presidential nomination.

This time it tuvnlves a primary contest, scheduled for September 8, which will determine whether the RepubUoan candidate for the goyjfpgr^ job in the Green MouhLaiU State will be a Goldwater man or a liberal. The Goldwa ter man is Roger Lea MacBride. a 35-year-old lawyer from the town of Halifax. The two' liberals who are contending for the opportunity to campaign against the incumbent Dmo-cratic governor, 39-yfM*-ild Philip Hoff, are Ralph Fbote, the current lieutenant governor. and Robert Babcock, wbo was lieutenant govemor before Foote. Both Foote and Babcock are known as protegee of Vermonts Republican Senator (jeorge Aiken. They have made only grudging recognition of Goldwater, and have been seeking to keep national Republican poUciee out of the campaign.

The whole question d Vermont politics turns on the few thousand men and wcnnen from the rural areas who normally limit their voting to Presidential years. In an off-year in which there is a small turnout a .Democrat can win; in an off-year a liberal Republican can hope to go to the . S. Senate or the House of Representativ e s. But in a Presidential year tlM old Vermont conservatism stirs.

This is the l^isis for Roger MacBrides hope. He has been trying to bring home Vermonts split personality to the voters by fighting a Goldwater campaign in miniature. In terms cif the urban present. Vermont is old - fashioned. The population is tiny, town meetings are still the heart of local government, the industries machine tools, ski resort catering, dairying, maple sugar are small. There are no masses to manipulate.

Yet the State is no longer the Yankee kingdom of old, the bastion that held fast (along with Maine) for A If London against the Franklin Roosevelt sweep of 1936. It now has an entrenched bureaucracy, which lives on a taxation that has gone -wild. Liberal Intellectuals have bought Vermont farms; the place is dotted with schools and colleges that believe in the modem gospel of permissiveness. Cleavages exist all over the place.

Roger MacBride Is stressing three issues In his campaign. Foremost is the Issue of the reapportionment that has been decreed by the U. S. Supreme Court. The second issue ii taxation. The third is Barry

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On reapportionment, a district court has ruled that Vermont may elect Its legislatui e according to the time - honored pattern next November. But the court has decreed that the new legislature must limit Its activity to reapportioning the state. Then It must go home. New elections must be held.

MacBride has been, tell 1 n g the Vermont voters that not since King George HI had anyone tried to tell an American legislature what It must do. Vermonts political repre.senta-tion is. incidentally, patterned on Connecticuts: Its Senate is based on population, and its lower House is the geographically representative body. This Is an inversion of Washington, (Continued On Pagt 5)

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Strength For Today

By EARL L, DOUGLASS TOMORROW

A man who had just returned from a trip to Alaska was telling recently how the pilot of the airplane said to him, Would you like to take a flight into tomorrow? He meant, of course, Lets fly across the International Date Line.

Many of us fall Into lazy habits of day dreaming, that unprofitable and ridiculous practice of flying back into yesterday. Some people have carried grudges for a half century, Some people arc so jealous of certain of their acquaintances that whatever souls they had to start with have been burned Into a cinder. The person wbo can always re

member yesterdays slight, who interprets this statement or that as a slap at him personally. is indulging in the sensele.ss and insane practice of flying back Into yesterday.

I.^ts fly into tomorrow. This, too, can become fantasy if we allow It to become so. But it can also be a thing of hope, of anticipation, of the renewing of our faith.

There is a tomorrow. If we are growing as God intends we should, it should be better than today. Let us forget the past. Let us take a flight into tomorrow. Forgetting the things that are behind, let us press forward as did Saint Paul unto the things that are before.

By ELMER ROESSNER

There's a feeling abroad in the land that nothing can go wrong in business before election day. It has been said here and elsewhere that Ly n d o n Johnson has billions of dollars working for him. The tax cut and hints of another one, the increase in Social Security payments, the billion to fight poverty, the rise in personal Income and in the gross national product, the increase In federal grants-in-aid and the modest drop in unemployment all these portend a continuation of prosperity.

And the teeling persists that If it doesnt continue, Johnson can turn a spiggot .somewhere and pour more money into the economy.

PROSPERITY NOT AUTOMATIC

The Administration has no golden spiggot; If it had it would have the tap an always, flowing a little stronger In election years.

And as t. matter of grim fact, there Is no guarantee that business will continue good In September and October. As of today, prospects are good. But there are' some danger signals:

1. An auto strike could tie the economy in knots and could create distress conditions for many dealers, parts makers and other smaU businesses supplying the industry and Its workers. Auto sales have been running more than $4

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billion a month and if they were sharply cut, the economy would feel the impact, largely in the seat of the pants. /

If continued, an.auto strike I could cause the loss of a mil- ^ lion jobs.

2. Housing starts have been declining this year. Units started in July, 1963, were 157,-300: In July. 964, 145.900. Housing has caught up with demand in many areas and in some places exceeds It.

STEEL SCRAP DROPS

3. For the first time In memory. 1 saw auto carcasses on

the city dump near my summer cottage: the number of cars abandoned in metropolitan streets is increasing. The reason: scrap dealers wont buy. Top grade scrap has dropped to as low as $38 a ton in steel centers. While steel mills are talking about the need for higher prices because of higher operating costs, the decline in scrap Indicate they are catching up with demand.

4. The action of National Farm Organization In refusing to deliver meat animals to market Is forcing up meat prices and while the strike will probably be short, higher pri^ will create unrest, scare bj^lng of other foods and eco-jlomic problems.

5. Instalment credit is at a record high and many family units are at the point where they must recalculate their debts, with many deciding not to extend instalment purchases.

6. Although there wax a burst of babies In June, in general the baby boom Is leveling off. Over the last two years births dropped so sharply that the Bureau of the CensiLs has revised Its 1970 population estimates.

7. The stock market has

shown some queasy feelings lately. It may, of course, snap back and go on to new highs. But recent slips and slides indicate that WaU Street has not bought the theory of the golden spiggot.

Perhaps most significant of all Is the fact that three of the five Presidential economic advisors have seen fit to make clear that there was much less unanimity of opinion at the White House two weeks ago than the public had been led to believe.

None, of course, said they expected a bust, but the three made it clear that they did not subscribe to the theory that everything was coming up roses.

On the whole, September will probably be a good month. The dangers cited here may not occur or if some of thm do the effects will probably be mild.

Nevertheless, all businessmen should remember that prosperity does not pour down from Washington as rain comes down from heaven, that the danger of a downturn Is ever with us, and that the best way to meet it Is to atep up sales efforts.

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