Wdntday, September 2, 1964

Those Explosions Of Water Heaters

Much has been seen in the news recently about xplodingwater heaters, in most cases apparently caused by a plastic dip tube that melts at too low temperature.

Only last weeknd a fcimer mayor of Southern Pines died when a hot water heater exploded at a motel.

This was followed by a warning from Gov. Sanford to all persons with automatic water heaters that they check the dip tubes.

The N. C. Department of Labors boiler division has made a study of eight previous hot water heater explosions in the state since February.

The report showed that all of the heaters were 30 to 40 gallon high recovery electric heaters. They used two submerged 4.500 watt elements apparently wired with No. 14 guage wire on the heater proper.

The wiring insulation formed a sticky heavy-waxed substance which appeared to be caused by overheating of the wire. When heated, it became soft and dripped or vaporized, finding its way into

Changing O:: !3emo Guare.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES STEP Convening of the State Dnocratic Executive committee, close on the heels of last weeks Democratic Nat-Iraial convention, was a step that had to be taken before the partys state organization could run.

Changing of the guard, thus accomplisbed, was a step which party warhorses have been awaiting impatiently for weeks.

The two events the nat-itmal conventiOD in Atlantic City and* its official selection of a national ticket and action of the state executive committee to give the state ticket free rein signalled the start of formal, (H'ganized campaigning on the part of the states Democrats.

RACE 8o now the race is on. And It is expected that the iKdltlcal pace fnun now until the November election will be faster, more spirited and exciting.

The majority party is aware of the fact that Republicans, with backlash and all, have been campaigning actively in the stiUe for some time while the Dwnocrats have been awaiting the signal to start.

District and local campaigning on the part of Democratic candidates for. Congress and legislative seats began somewhat earlier, but it is now the task of new state party officers and officials to gear the whole thing into a coordinated movement.

CHANGES Changing the guard for the Democrats meant putting the primary-winning forces of gubernatorial nominee, Dan K. Moore in

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control of state party machinery.

It meant glving Moore and his organisation effective and tangible control of the partys state headquarters, and reeouroee and, In effect, the official say-so and responsibility about bow the Fall campaign la conducted.

The changes include election of Moores choice. J. Melville Broughton Jr. of Raleigh, as state party chairman replacing W. Lunsford Crew of Roanoke Rairi^: election of

Moores choice, Mrs. Sarah Gardner of Shelby, as vice chairman replacing Mrs. Leif Valand of Raleigh, and the naming of a new executive director. publicity manager and

staff aides.

CHAIRMAN O The job of state chairman during an election campaign is no easy one.

The chairman is, in effect, chief of staff for the state party effort and upon his shoulders rests much of the responsibility for seeing that all parts of the party machinery run smoothly and pull together.

He must aeek the support of all factions for the partys candidates and this often means making concessions to all. The state party chairman handles party patronage, but except for campaign and party headquarters posts there is no patronage to ladle out until the election is wcm.

The choice of Broughton as chairman, however, has been well received by all factions of state party and this will make his job less difficult.

NAMED Crew served in the post of state chairman exactly one year having been named by Gov. Terry Sanford last September to succeed Bert Bennett Jr. of Winston-Salem at the beginning of the 1964 primary campaign.

Crews goal during the long, tense and sometimes bitter primary campaign and the postprimary period has been to keep factionalism at a minimum and to try to bind up intraparty wounds. He feels his efforts have been successful despite obvious difficulUes.

DAVK Tom I. Davie of Selma, resigning as executive director in state party headquarters, was named to this paid post by Bennett in 1961 shortly after Bennett became state chairman. He continued under Crew.

Announcement of Davia resignation pointed out that the executive director serves at the pleasure of the state chairman. DavU aaid he was "delighted at selection of Broughton and waa confident he would do "an excellent job. He (rffered hia volunteer services to the state party and pledged support to the entire ticket.

YDC Meanwhile pulling and tugging between liberal and moderate wings and more or less along factional lines continues in the state Young Democrats organization, which is separate from the senior party control.

This YDC politicking may be climaxed at the State YDC convention in Raleigh Sept. 25-27. Candidates for YDC presidency are George Miller of Durham, aligned with the Sanford-Preyer wing, and Doran Berry of Fayetteville supported by Moore forces in the YDC.

Convention speaker will be Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, young liberal who is being groomed for bigger things by the national party.

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the thermostat causing the thermostat to stick and the tanks were automatically in a runaway condition.

All the tanks were equipped with plastic type dip tubes.

The report pointed out that all the buildings but one were total losses with damaging ranging from $12,000 to $25,000.

Such explosions can pack quite a wallop. The report shows that a 30 gallon hot water tank is about the equivalent of tow pounds of nitroglycerin when it explodes.

The plastic dip tubes may be in any top fed heater that is less than six years old.

The Board of Boiler Rules has now adopted a rule calling for a dip tube to withstand temperatures of 400 degrees. It was also recommended that water heaters now in use that may be equipped with the plastic dip tubes, be checked and the proper tube installed.

New Salvation Army Home To Be Welcome

Most people of Greenville, we think, will welcome the annonucement that construction of a new Salvation Army Citadel here will begin in the very near future.

For more than two decades the local Salvation Army headquarters has been located on Dickinson Avenue. In recent years, because of expanded activities of the Salvation Army in both religious and welfare service work, the quarters have become increasingly cramped. The new facility should alleviate this handicap and enable the Salvation Army to render even greater service to the people of this area.

Through the years there have been few organizations in this community, which have rendered such effective service to as many people as the Salvation Army. By and large the Salvation Army goes about its work quietlyand effectively, lending a helping hand wherever it is needed without fanfare. The new facility will be an asset to the Salvation Army program in this community and in turn it will be an important asset to the betterment of the community as a whole.

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Events Piling Ud On Johnson

By ALVIN TAYLOB

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two events over which he has no control are piling up on President Johnson and may hurt him in this campaign: Negro riots in northern cities and the developing chaos in South Viet Nam.

As the events of the recent democratic convention demonstrated, Johnson is a master arranger who pays fastidious attention to details to make events turn out as he wants.

But the racial outbreaks here and the Buddhist-Catholic-s t u-dent riots in South Viet Nam axe beyond his reach. He cant turn the water on or off in either case.

Even the reasons for the 'legro violence and looting in seven different towns and cities In the past few weeks are not

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clear. They burst after minor episodes, like an argument over a bottle of whisky.

This hardly seemed an excuse for what followed.

Perhaps they were truly and' purely spontaneous reactions to the accumulated press u re a from the frightful living c(m-ditions of the Negro in some sections of American cities.

Perhaps the reasons, since no one yet can claim to know the full truth of them, were more sinister. There is the possibility the Negro disorders were instigated by individuals and forces not yet discovered.

Over the weekend Roy Wllk-Ins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, suggested the Negro riots may have been planned. He asked for a federal Inves* UfAtlon.

n they were planned, then there will probably be more and eimllar outbreaks elsewhere In the North before the November election.

It is not hard to imagine in such a case the climax might be reached with a riot in the capital city of Washington not long before Election Day. Johnsons support of this Johnson's support of thJe years Civil Rights Act already

had alienated segregationists. Negro riots may cost him more votes among whites whoare dlaturbed by the violence for one reasOT or another.

In South Viet Nam Johnson inherited a problem which puzzled Presidents Elsenhower and Kennedy before him: How to establish stability in this southeast comer of Asia while working to defeat the North Vietnamese Communists, at-temptto take it over by force.

After years of effort, billions of dollars in aid. and loss of more than 200 American lives, the situation there is worse right now than it has ever been. The country seems be disintegrating.

It has now had three governments in less than a year.

If South Viet Nam falls apart much further, Johnson will have to decide whether to pull American help and forces out; put American troops into direct action against the Communists; or seek some kind of negotiated settlement.

Not one of the three moves is likely to help Johnson In the election although anyone in bis place would face the same problem.

If Americans pulled out, the Communists would take over. That would put Viet Nam under Red Chinas wing, with all the rest of Southeast Asia in danger.

Direct flfhlng byAraerlcan forcea against the North Vietnamese Reds would probably bring on war with Red China.

Any kind of negotiated settlement. which required withdrawal of American forces from Viet Nam, almost certainly would end up In a Red take-over sooner or later.'

At this moment Johnson Isnt showing signs of being worried. But it wouldn't be good PoUUes if he did.

We heard about the secretary at East Carolina who was typing a professors planned talk frcxn a recording device.

The speech went Into a discussion that invcdved the term atomic fission.

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of student affairs at a Virginia College is appropriately named Dr. Dean. But just consider what might have been if his parents had given him the first name of Dean.

Now he would be Dean Dean Dean. Ah well, the world may never have another such

chance.

ing, "Its a great little state but I wouldnt want to live there.

TAYLOR

When the prepared text was delivered the term had been converted to: "atomic f I s h-ing.

We heard the story In a local store of how a lady came in holding a child by the hand. A friendly man admired the child and assured the lady that the youngster looked Just like her,

Well it turned out that the child didnt belong to the lady. "Im not even married, she told the man Icily.

That ended the cwiversatlon.

Meanwhile back with C1 e o, we doubt that the fact that the big hurricane had lost much of its punch truly meant anything to those folks in Laurinb u r g and in Pitt and Martin Counties who were hit by the tornadoes it spawned.

And we understand the dean

Cartoon in The Christian Science Monitor shows Robert Kennedy being interview e d. "Massachusetts?" He is say-

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals Is to educate a menace to society.* Theodore Roosevelt.

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The weekend riots in the Negro section of Philadelphia appear to be under control, due to a 24-hour curfew and intensive patrols by 1,500 law enforcement officers. There are still sporadic raids and looting, however, which cause authorities continuing concern.

The weekend disorders were so extensive that the broken store fronts and property damage made a large area of Philadelphia a ahambles. Reporters said it appeared to have been hit by a tornado or hurricane. This brings up what appears to us to be the basic goal of the rioters, which is looting and robbery.

Under cover of such riots all types of larceny occur. Whatever civil rights overtones the riots may have had at the outset are all but lost In the wanton crime of property destruction and vandalism.

How can such disorders be stopped and the perpetrators properly punlstwd ao they will not recur? The first order of business is to stop them with full police action and swift

but effective court action. If some of the guilty ones in the Philadelphia uprisings were given long prison terms in wake of these riots it would have a strong deterring effect on future disturbers of the peace.

Violence, once it is permitted by any group, feeds on itself. Whether the Philadelphia riots are inspired by Communist agents, or whether they stem from economic and other frustrations so prevalent in the Negro quarter, the results are the same. Vandals take ov> er and loot the stores and there is general lack of respect for property as well as law and order.

It is high time the leaders in Philadelphia looked at the causes and took steps to correct them. It would seem to us that the widespread looting that has occurred in Philadelphia cannot be discounted as a contributory factor. In view of that fact some sterm punishment is In order for every looter who can be apprehended with stolen property tn his (or her) possession.

Now both political conventions have come to their glorious conclusions. Somehow we seem to have heard one huge massive sigh of relief from millions of televisicm watch e r s throughout the nation.

And after, lo, these many years out of school wo were scarcely conscious that today all Greenvilles school age kids are back at their desks happily facing their new teachers for another industrious scb o o 1 year.

Maybe were hearing things but again we seem to hear one huge growl from school age kldrthroughout Oreenvllle.

Opinions In Brief

"Even when youre looking for trouble, theres no place like home. Sparks (Oa.) Eagle.

"A mad dog was reported in Brooklyn the other day. He went crazy looking for that tree. Emporia (Kan.) Qaa-ette.

nity Meet

You remember the old story about the blind men who summed up the elephant by touch. One thought he was broad like a wall when he felt his side. Another thought he was like a tree trunk as he felt the leg. Another thought he was like a fire hose when he grabbed his trunk. And so on,

Well, for anybody in Greenville who didnt know a hurricane was 8U]M>osed to be high winds, it would be sized up as a lot of rainfall. That Is mostly what we saw here fnwn the big storm.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Did Barry Goldwater "capi-kilate" to the liberal Republicans at Hershey, Pennsylvania? The point is still being argued with considerable beat. Some c(nmentator8 have deduced from the harmony session that Barry has let his most fervent supporters, t h e uny i e 1 d i n g conservatives, down. These commentators have chortled about surrender, and have said that Goldwater has placed a "veto in Ike Eisenhowers hands over the choice of a possible Secretary of State. Other observers more careful of their, semantics, have not discerned "surrender In the Goldwater promise to consult with Eisenhower on foreign policy per-s(Hmel and matters. A promise to seek advice Is not necessarily an iron - Clad promise to accept it willy niUy.

For myself. I think the cra-troversy over the capitulsp tion theory proceeds from a disingenuous attempt by an-tl-Goldwaterites to muddy the waters. This muddying is indulged in on several levels. In sarcastic vein, a liberal commentator has suggested that people like Robert Welch and General Walker will show up in the Goldwater cabinet. This is sheer vicious distortion. I am not privy to Gold-waters inmost thoughts, but I would offer good odds that, even before the Hershey meeting with the liberal Republican governors and party leaders, Barry Goldwater had someone like Richard Nixon or William Knowland in mind for Secretary of State. If this does indeed represent his range of choice, he to<A no risk In intimating to Elsenhower that he would accept advice on foreign policy personnel. Ike could hardly veto either Nixon or Knowland. After all, Nixon was Ikes own "boy, and Knowland fully agreed with the Dulles policy on the safety of Formosa Strait.

Goldwater has almost certainly given nothing away by mollifying the "liberals with a promise to stay away from extremists who believe In violating laws to get their way. After all, who has been more obdurately a "constlUitional-1st" than Barry himself? Goldwater was among the first to raise the switchblade Issue, making the question of safety in the streets a prominent part of his acceptance speech at

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San Francisco. Ever since then Lyndon Johnstm has been hitting the same note. Since Goldwater has been so explicit in the leadership he has taken in repudiating illegal violence, how can it be pictured as "capitulation when be promises the liberal Republicans that he wants no votes from anytxKly who would eettle things by by-passing the law? As for the much omtested epigram, "extremism tn defense of freedom is no vice, didnt John F. Kennedy e a y something in his inauguration speech about helping any friend, opposing any enemy, bearing any burden and paying any price to assure the survival of freedom? If you are willing to bear any burden and pay any price, arent you being extreme? Goldwater, indeed. could be accused of cribbing from Kennedy but that was not among the Issues that had to be settled at Hershey.

Far fnn surrendering to the liberals. Goldwater has taken them piecemeal into his own camp by exposing the fact that the members of the so - called "eastern Establishment are by no means agreed among themselves on what they mean by liberalism. The Ike Blsen-(Continued On Page 19)

Deduction If Situation Is Right

Marriage: 'The result of a man getting hooked with his own line. - Oouvemeur (N.Y.) Tribuns-Press.

Running Into debt Isnt so bad. Its running Into creditors that hurts. Danville (Va.) Commercial Appeal.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASG THE VEHEMENT FLAME Are you jealous? If you are. then you are to be pitied. The Bible calls jealousy a vthem-)t fltme. It bums hapi^ess and purpose out of aby lift which is unfortunate enough to be ignited by it.

The eenslble approach to this weakness Is the realization that jealousy Ij stupid. If a person surpasses you In one way. be quits sure that you surpa him or her In scmns other way. Furthermore. If you look with envy upon something which aomeone else has and bum with jealousy because he possesses it. be sure that the flame will not get

you the thing you want. Jealousy leads to every excess, and these excesses alienate people and Une them up ag-alnet you as enemies. The more jealous you are of any person and his possessions or hie achievements, the more are you making It certain that the things you covet can never be yours. Jealousy always defeats Its own ends. Triumph is unknown to the jealous person.

This is a passion hard indeed to wrestle with. Ip the name of all you hold precious, free yourself from this cruel tyrant. It promises nothing but torture, and delivers nothing but defeat.

By ELMER R0E8SNER

It is generally assumed that if a wife works for her husbands company, her salary wlU be scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service, and Uttle will be aUowed as a deductible expense by the business.

But the ooinpany can get full deduction if the situation Is right, PrenUoe Hall points out. "Your claim will stand up if you produce solid proof of her business aotlvitles. the tax service states.

It cites the case of a Miv. Krauss, secretary-treasurer of Krauss Corp., a wholesale magazine distributorship controlled by her husband. She had an office in her home but went to the companys offices several times a week, spending four to five hours there in work. The company deducted her $19.(W0 annual salary as a buelneee expenee, but the IRS would allow only $600, holding that she was performing only the incidental services any good wife would do for *her husband's business.

TAX COURT REVERSES IRS

Krauss, a true-blue, red-blooded American, appealed to

the Tax Court. The court granted the full $12,000 deduction, finding her a "capable, persuasive and poised businesswoman whose services "far exceeded the usual endeavors of the so-called 'good wife.'

It was Impressed by the fact that she:

Handled complatnte by the

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public.

Read magazines in advance to make sure they contained no objectionable material.

Gave talks before womens clubs and other organlzattooa to mromote the company.

Conferred with her husband and hie vice president on all major corporate problems.

Reviewed bills sent the* company and signed all checks in payment. "

' Helped set up a new personnel policy.

Ke^ in close touch with the company auditor.

Prentlce-Hall added: "if

youre challenged by IRS, be sure to do a thorough Job of showing Just how your wife earned her salary. The 8k*ong-er your proof that her services were valuable to the company. the better will be your chances that the deduction will be allowed.

Translation: Make the old gal work!

said that "drinking and the ability to hold liquor is a conditicm of employment.

JAPANESE SHARE OF SALES OF TV TO U.S. IS GROWING Japanese exports of television sets to the United States during the first seven mcmths of this year were 60 per cent above the corresponding period last year. Fairchild Newe Service reporU. A total of 314.-050 receivers were shipped In the January-to-August period, compared with 194-730 In the same 1963 months.

NONDRINKERS NOW TOLERATED IN BUSINESS. MAGAZINE SAYS

The nondrinker is now being tolerated, Sales Management magazine said in a report on execuHve drinking. "Drinking is less regarded as a way of showing manliness, and holding your liquor is no longer considered a yardstick of virility.

However, it said that drinking was as much a part of the executive world as decision making. Drinking is accepted, even encouraged, on the executive level. Some executives

COMES THE DAY AND YOULL LIKE SMOKED LAMB!

The J3. Department of Agriculture has given Michigan State University $121,000 to study meat-smcddxig practices with an eye to producing new smtAed meat products. In > fact, the Mich U sclensta will investigate smoking lamb, I mutton and other meats not usually smcdced. Some day a housewife may be offered smoked lamb kidneys, hickory-smoked tripe, and "oak-smoked rams baa.