A^nday, September 7, 1964 ~

Challenge Of Seasonal Employment

Pitt County has reached the season of the year claims filed with the local office of the Employment when it has as near full employment as it is pos- Security Commission will move up week-by-week. sible to attain. It the pattern of past years is followed, continued

The tobacco market is open, tobacco proces- claims for unemployment conpensation by late sing plants are running at capacity, schools are January will be ten times what they are now. operating, most business firms are moving into their The situation is true not only in Pitt County, busy season of the year and demand for goods and but in a number of other counties of this section of services is moving toward its peak. the state. It points up the need for additional year-

P'or the next couple of months Pitt County will round employment. It stresses the economic gains continue in a situation of full employment. That is that might be realized for all the people of the not to say there will not be some people in search area if new types of seasonal employment could be of jobs. But by and large the county wdll experi- devevloped for other periods of the year,

enceas it normally does at this season of the When the unemployment claims of the county

yearits busiest time. begin topping the 1,000 mark early next year, a

By mid-November, however, the employment large portion of the claimants will be those who picture in the county will begin to change, par- worked in'tobacco processing plants during the ticularly for those who rely primarily on seasonal fall months. If in Pitt and other counties of this employment for tHeir livelihood. Unemployment area significant new seasonal employment could

be developed for the late winter and early spring months, the whole economy of the area would take a gigantic step forward.

The situation poses a problem which will not easily be solved. Indeed, it is a problem which has been with this area for decades. But if the communities of this area point their individual and collective efforts toward providing a solution, we

have no doubt that progress could be made in this

direction.

It poses a challenge which Eastern North Carolina should move vigorously to meet.

''Medicare, Dammit! Medicare!"

No Secret That Tax To Be Issue

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

TAX It-was no. secret in state political circles that repeal of the three per cent sales tax on food and medicine probably would be a big gun in the Fall campaign arsenal of Republican Robert L. Gavin.

Thus when Gavin unveiled his 14-page platform in the race for governor, about the biggest surprise was that he qualified his stand on the food tax considerably.

Instead of calling for outright repeal by the 1965 General Assembly, Gavin proposed a study to determine whether repeal of the food tax is fea-Ible. He left no doubt as to his dislike of the levy, describing It as burdensome, onerous and immoral. But he stopped short of demanding its repeal forthwith.

APPROACH Some observers interpret this position as wie which may relate the food tax to the role of a minor Issue in the FaU campaign bare ly beyond the extent to which It was an issue in the Democratic primary campaigns last Spring.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

The fact is that Gavin knows that in view of pressing needs, repeal of the food tax by a Democrabc-controlled legislature on his recommendation Is hichly unlikely. As a practical matter, he feels that a study, looking possibly to 1967, is a better aw>roach.

Instead of blasting the 1961 aales tax extension directly, Gavin took aim on his 1960 political foe. Gov. Terry Sanford. and was critical ad-mini^ration of the additional revenue voted for Sanfords quality education program.

EDUCATION - He adopted an Indirect approach, questioning value received for the * money spent.

He said North Carolina continues to rank low in public education although third in the. nation in the amount of public school revenue furnished by the state as compared to percentage of personal income.

And. he said. North Carolina ranks * 18th among the states in per capita expend!-' turea for public education.

Tt appears we pay dearly , to rank so low, he said.

The sales tax extension to food and medicine was enact-: ed in 1961 at Sanfords urging to finance education improve-ments and enrichment.

VIEW The Democratic nominee for governor. Dan K. Moore, said it was his view that repeal of the sales tax

extension would mean North Carolina would be unable to meet the growing needs of a growing state.

Wed have nothing left but an A budget, just enough to stand w-here we are, Moore said. We cannot afford to stand still. We must progress. Requests for capital improvements alone, buildings, physical facilities and the like for state institutions, hospitals, colleges and universities for 1965-67 already total nearly $200 million, and are being considered by the Advisory Budget Commission.

REPORT A confidential report being circulated in high state administration circles places the latest estimate of probably credit balance in the state treasury at the end of the biennium at $71 million.

Some $20 million or more of more of whatever credit balance materializes is already committed for the 1965-67 budget. But this latest report comes only a few weeks after the Budget Bureau reported a credit balance at the end of approximately $59 million.

Members of the Advisory Budget Commissi(xi were told, in a private memo, that the meaningful figures were those fw excess revenue collections, $12,932,234, and those showing appropriation reversions of $18,992,592 for a true surplus figure of only $31,924,-826.

Of this, the reversions may be carried forward for expenditure during this year. And $2,500,000 is earmarked for conununity colleges and the 1963 General Assembly committed payment of the states portion of a state employe re- ^ tirement fund, estimated at * about $19 million, from whatever surplus accumulated.

DAMAGES There are reports that the state may be asked for damages in the . neighborhood of $20.000 from a computer firm which was bidding for a contract on costly equipment.

The firm contends that it incurred heavy expenses In installation and demonstrating the equipment on premise it would get the contract. However, state officials chose another companys computer system.

BREWER - Kidd Brewer, the Raleigh political figure who dropped in on the states delegation to the Democratic National Convention, was involved in a serious traffic accident en route home from Atlantic City.

Brewer, driving alone, was unhurt but the car he was driving was a total loss.

Brewer reported that a number of cars were bounced around and shaken like billiard balls in the multiple-vehicle accident on the Jersey turnpike. His car, owned by his daughter, was banged from one side to another and spun completely around.

One person was killed and a number of others injured.

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Banning books is serious business in Boston where the morals of that staid old city appear to be inextricably entwined in the bookshelves.

We (:ouldn't help but be amused by one little footnote in the latest book-banning incident. The Boston judge reportedly read the 18th century novel Fanny Hill^ four times before ruling it obscene, indecent and impure, and declaring it has neither literary nor'social value.

One might wonder whether his reaction after A PTTPTJTXr A T Tk

each of the first three readings of the novel was ^ AKl i>UUJlWAl-iU

the same as his official ruling after the' fourth reading.

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The University ?ress Function

A Rock-Studying Grant

Last . week Congressman Wright Patman said the CIA had been trifling with him, and so he revealed that the supersecret spy organization had

been using a tax exempt charitable foundation as a cover for its activities. The revelation cast a shadow on the role of all U.S. foundations and

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Cowboys, cattle kings and a few Indians ride the range in a new book, from the University of Texas Press, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook.

Western Americana Ians over the nation and world will get first-hand knowledge of cattle raising and ranch life, minus Hollywood dramatics, from the colorful writings of the late John M, Hendrix of the Lone Star State.

This new piece of regional literature is an example of the notable job university presses are performing in preserving the cultural heritage (rf various areas of America.

The nations 75 or so scholarly publishing Bouses university owned and operated are doing a bigger and more professional job each year of presenting books which deal with the history, folklore, literature, art even the economics, sociology and scientific developments indigenous to their lockles.

The presses of the state universities of North Carolina, Louisiana State and Oklahoma have produced many regional literary works, and the score of campus presses organized in the South since World War n are increasing this good work.

Dedicated to the publication of books which will endure rather than merely sell, as someoae recently defined them, these specialized publishers print more than regional folklore.

Their maun mission is to publish scholarly findings in journals and monographs. Their works arc usually printed in small runs of perhaps 2000-3000 copies going to a limited but important mawket of the nation s brainpower. As non-profit operations, they can fortunately publish manuscripts that would not be profitable for commerciad publii-ers.

They provide the most important medium through which the discoveries of scholarship in one institution cam be shared with scholars everywhere. says Frank H. Waurdlaw, director of the busy University of Texas press.

Without their printing operation, he believes that most research would be stillborn. Ernst A. Seeman, director of the Alabama University Press, describes their mission as one

of putting the results of scholarly research into permanently avadlable fqrm on the premise that once found, truth should have as wide a distribution as possible.

Typical of the growth of Southern campus presses, the Alabama press haw turned out 100 works since its fminding In 1945, Several have won regional and national awairds.

Recrat titles from this press give an idea of the versatility of these publishing houses: American Civil Military Decision. The Alabama Confederate Reader and Evolution of Cost Accounting.

The University of Miami Press, also a post war arrival. covers an equadty wide range of subjects in the 16 titles planned for publication this year. They come from the fields of philosophy, EngUsh-Aiiierican literature, Indian and Spanish selected writings, the legitimate theater and a dozen other academic disciplines.

The University of Tennessee Press has published thus far this year: The Loving o o d Papers 1863, reprinting some of the humorous yarns ot George Washington Har r i s from newspapers and magazines of the Civil War era; Great Smoky Mountains Wild-flowers Enlarged Edition, an expanded version of a full-color picture book which sold 15,-000 copies in two years.

In May, this press published The Wagner Act Cases. a study of Supreine Court cases of the New Deal era that revolutionized labor-manage-ment legislation. Now Shakespearean Essays has appeared, a collection observing the Bards 400th birthday and edited by U-T scholars, Alwin Thaler and Norman Sanders.

These educational presses do not limit themselves to publishing only the works wi their own faculties. They accept manuscripts from scholars around the country and the world.

In 1963-64, university presses sold more than seven million books for $16 mUlion. In keeping with the times'and trends, some $2 million were sold overseas and many were either published in inexpensive paperback editions or sold for paperback re-printing.

The South.can take particm-lar pride in the growth of this facet of higher educatim be-(Continued on page 10)

Other Editors Saying Greenville T akes Action

(Wilson Times)

Congratulations to Greenville. This city has the courage to do something about houses which do not meet sanit a r y standards. The owner of s i x condemned houses was brought into Recorders Court and the buildings wree padlocked.

She Is a woman, but evidently the ones in authority in Greenville do not care, she owns the property, and from the picture in the Greenv 111 e Reflector it is in no condition for human occupancy.

This is the way conditi o n s should be handled in order to keep property in a sanitary and habitable condlticm. This is where we have so completely fallen down in Wilson. You read the reas(xi for not condemning the sub-standard houses is because there is no place for the people to go. If. the houses that are not fit for occupancy were condemned, and padlocked as were the six in Greenville, the owners would do something, and at once.

Contrary to what the majority think, urbim renewal will not provide houses for anyone to live in unless the land is purchased by the'individual for home ownership. We are certain the land will not be used as rental property.

That is why you hear it said you have to have public housing before you can have urban renewal. The reason is to provide low rent housing for those who are moved from the property to go under urban renewal.

What urban renewal does Is to give the owners of run down pnverty a price for their land. Clear the entire track, pave, improve, with parks and the like, at a cost, in our case, of more than a million dollars. The city carries a fourth of the cost by one means or another. Then after the prcper-

ty is improved it is put up for public auction.

To go back to the first Wilson urban renewal project, the owners of the pn)erty are to be paid around $^,000. Then after the more than a million dollars is spent on the property, it is put up for auction and brought by realtws or anyone who considers it a good investment. It is estimated the property that costs more than a million to the taxpayers is to bring at auction about $250,000. And with the sale goes government restrictions to the end of time.

Urban renewal does not provide b(nes for anyone, what it does is to clean-up sub-standard areas. Impose regulations that everyone must live with, and improve property so it can be resold at about 25 cents on the dollar, with federal and local governments taking the loss.

Greenville has a two million dollar urban renewal program underway. The point we are making is that Greenville Is condemning sub-standard housing and padlocking them. The city evidently has an ordinance on the books setting forth housing requirements and it is enforcing it.

Now wouldnt it be far better to step in and require our property owners to bring their property up to standard? You read there are 2,1(X) sub-standard homes in Wilscxi. Why not get to work on these, at least a few at a time in a certain section? Why not go in and padlock them so they cannot be lived in until they are improved? Why not do what should be done, rather than requiring the federal government to do it for us, and in the doing to impose all the restrictions that go with federal funds?

made people wonder how many are actually financed by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Just the other day a friend of ours applied to a foundation for a grand to study rock formations in the Catskills.

As he tells it, he walked into an office where a man who looked exactly like Gary Powers asked him to be seated.. On his desk were parts of a' U-2 that had been shot down.

What can I do for you? the man said. ^

Id like a grant to study rock formatiwis in the Catskill mountains.

Thats very Interesting. Would you be willing to take a lie detector test?

I guess so. our friend replied. But what for?

Ill ask the questiims. Pill out this form, please.

Our friend started to write. Theres no Ink in the pen. The man smiled. Keep writing. Well worry about that. Then the man offered him a cigarette. As our friend accepted it, he distinctly heard a camera click.

Now tell me about these

ART

BUCHWALD

rock formations.

I d(Mit know anything about tliem. Thats why I want the grant.

Have you ever thought about stud3^g rock formaticxis in the Urals?

No, said our friend, the Russians would never let me in.

Suppose you were parachuted in at night?

If its all the same to you I'd rather study rock formations In the Catskills.

The man said, Our founda-tiwi is set up to help anyone who has an interest in science. How much do you think your expedition would cost?^

Oh, about $900.

Well give you $15,000 if youll go to the Himalayas. (C(vitinued On Page 10)

Prickly;

Voter

;'ssue

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

C<^yrigbt, 1964, King Fsaturee Syndicate. Inc.

They held a referendum in my home town of Cheshire. Conn.. the other day on the prickly issue of using taxpay* ers m<Hiey to bus cbildren to a new parochial school. The argiunents pro and con illustrated the diHlculty which most people are now having when they decide modem problems by referring them to ivindple.

Was it an issue involving tho misuse of tax funds to favor one group In society ovtr another? On its face, tt would seem so. The argument was advanced that if Catoolies deserved money fitHn the town to sumtort their own venture In private education, there would be no good reason to turn down Buddhists. Sev^tth Day Adventists or Baptists. But then somebody got out pencil and paper and started figuring. The arithmetical evidence was that it would cost the wtaoki body of the taxpayers less in the l(xig run to ix>vide separate bus service for Catholic children than tt would to hire extra public school teachers and to build new classrooms if there were no parochial scdiool in the neighborhood. So the Catholics, who were paying taxes to suigxMt the public school system anyway, were actually doing the town a financial favor by budlng a school of their own. And why, so the argument ran, shouldnt they get a little of their own tax money back in the fonn of transportation help In return for the favor?

JOHN CBAMBEBLAOr

If old H. L. Mencken had been present and a C3ieshlre resident, he would no doubt have taken off at this point to argue that if the Catholics deserved a remission of school fund taxes to pay for their bussing, then what about bachelors and childless couples? Should they pay to help transport children whom they did not have? This sort oi argument has, in recent years, been dis-. missed as crackpot. But you would be surprised or maybe you wouldnt at the number of old people who write to a columnist to complain at the injustice of having to pay taxes to support schools fiH* their grandchildren. The old folks* argument is that, in default of state medicare, they have their own troubles to consider, so let their children pay for the education of the grandchildren.

Since the Cheshire Referendum was settled in favor of using tax money to bus children to the new parochial school, it provides a good example for those who wish to argue for tax remission to any and all people who. by sending their children to private schools of any kind, help to relieve the strain on the public school system.

On a national plane, Connecticuts Senator Abe Ribicoff has been fighting for tax credits to parents who are paying to send their chUdren to private colleges. The Senators idea Is that this Is one way to provide federal aid to education without creating a costly bureaucracy to collect the money and to administer Its diffusion. Is there any good argument against the Senators proposal? Not if you are talking about tax justice. Of course, if taxes were less onerous all around, the need for federal aid to education would never come up-

The Idea' that bussing Catholic ChUdren with pubUc funds constitutes an infringement of the principle that church and state must be separated did not Impress the majority of the Cheshire citizens who voted in the referendum. Why not? WelL (Continued On Page 10) J

Probe Of Foundations Is Ahead

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS GIVE AND TAKE IN LIFE Have you ever watched a ferry going into dock? It bumps into the piling and the great pUes that have been driven into the bottom of the harbor sway back and forth as pressure against them is exerted or relieved. It is the capacity of this pUlng to adapt itself to the motion of the ferry which makes satisfactory landing possible. A rigid pUiog would break the boat to pieces. Yet there must be, some firmness to hold the boat, else there could never be a landing.

The whole thing is indicative of what constitutes desirable personality. People who are really attractive and get some

where in life are people who know how to be finn and yet how to be sufficiently yielding to keep their friendships from breaking up. The person who is only firm is a hated martinet. The person who is <mly yielding is despised as a worm or a jeUyfish. It takes a combination of firmness and yielding to create attractive personality.

Briefly stated, we have to be firm on principles and yielding on policies. If we adopt either firmenss or yielding as a permanent poUcy, we never come into happy landings. Give and take ms^e success possible, but gv and take must not be haphazard but according to a well-thought-out formula.

By ELMER ROESSNER A big investigation of foundations is buUding up. First hints came when Representative Wright Patman, D., Tex., uncorked charges that foundations were paying (tfficers too much. He said that 11 founda-timis paid their officers, directors and trustees total annual salaries of $3.4 million. He said that from 1960 to 1962 Benson Ford had received $15,000 for three days work. The foundation answers that they must pay fees of this kind to borrow the brains of t(g> financiers of the country.

ELMER

ROESSNER

Added to that is the revelation that the General Intelll-<$ence Agency has used foundations as transmission belts to get finances to certain secret intelligence organizations.

This U a disturbing allega

tion, since if the CIA can use government money secretly to finance strong-arm organizations, in s(ne future day it may also use government m(Mi-ey to finance political organiza ticms.

MORE PROBING

The Internal Revenue Service is reported to be investigating funds too, to determine if some are using tax-exempt funds for private purposes. The money in a fund should be put out at interest, of course, to keep the fund prosperous. But if the money is used to advance the Interests of one of the cdbtrolUng officers, the IRS wants to know about that hanky-panky.

Certain Congressmen are pressing the IRS to push its investigation; other Ckmgress-men are roiling for an Inslde-out investigation of the CIA. These demands are being intensified by the ill way the fight is going in South Viet Nam. where the CIA is suspected of having been deeply Involved in internal politics to the continuing thwarting of American plans.

However, all these Investigations will be tabled until after th* lactioa because the Ad

ministration wants to avoid embarrassment and most Ccno-gressmen are too much concerned with raking their own political backyards.

And if the Democrats win in November, investigations funds and the CIA will drag on and on. But if the Republicans should win, there may be searching Investigations into these two phenomena of postwar America.

OTHER FORECASTS

And here are more look aheads in business: '

Steel iadnstry boom will continue into mid-1965. One important reason Is that almost all big users are slowly building up inventories to protect themselves from a sU^e when the Steelworkers Unions cihi- v tract expires next summer. This build-up will continue even in event of an auto strike, or cutbacks in orders in other industries.

More food control will result from a new plant regulator, triiodobenzolc acid, which is said to divert growth tram leaves to seed. It could increase soybean yields from 10 to 20 per cent. It was developed by a fouQdatlon? Ti>*

Iowa State University ReseaN ch Foundation (not InVolved in foundation Investigations) and has been leased to Intehiat-lonal Minerals Chemical Corp., Skokie, 111.

Shipping prospects ara hamy,, after a good first half yaar A cut In trade with Auatrali and New Zealand as a result of curbs on meat imports here and the threat of a loogshora Btrlkc September SO could end the period of proqmmis growth.

Film .strip .boom: Ih a

month General Electric will start promoting a new device which projects colored film strips, synchronized with re- I cordings, on an 11-lnch TV* I type viewer. It marks GEs entry into the film strip ' It can be used In sales, educa- I tion and other fields. '

OLD PROMOTER DEFINES MODERN SUPERMARKET

The Old Promoter was not in today, probably being off on a Labor Day h(rilday. But he did send a postcard readhig:

Supermarket deflnltloo: A place where self-service shopping saves all the time is l(wt at check-out countent.**

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