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AAonday, September 14, 1964

Coastal Highway Needs Are Rising

'Remember, American Eagle, You're Representing Uncle Samuelwater"

North Carolina needs to give serious attention to the highway needs of its coastal section with an eye to developing a long-range program to meet the increasing transportation needs of the area. ^

With the growth of coastal North Carolina as a resort area extending a couple of hundred miles along the Atlantic Ocean, the state must recognize the fact that provisions are going to have to be made for much better highway transportation through the area.

It will be a costly undertaking, to be sure. And it will take time to meet needs. But with each passing year as more thousands of Tar Heels and out-of-state tourists flock to the coastal area of the state, the highway transportation problem becomes more acute.

In recent weeks the state has given approval to additional ferries at points between the mainland

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and the outer banks along the coast. Other proposals for improving highway transportation in the area have been forthcoming. In recent days the Carteret County Board of Commissioners has adopted a resolution asking the state to build another bridge between its mainland and Bouge Banks.

Summer traffic along the coast of North Carolina already seriously taxes the highway facilities that are now available.* At peak periods the facilities highways, bridges and ferries already are inadequate to handle the traffic. Furthermore, the situation is becoming more acute each year and may be expected to continue to become more congested until the state moves with an ambitious program to meet the needs.

The demand for development of the area, as indicated by the increasing number of people who visit the area each year, already has far outstripped the states pace of planning for developing transportation facilities in the area. It is time for North Carolina to wake up to the fact that a major program of highway and bridge construction is sorely needed along its coast.

Demo Speaker Progress In Our Own

Anti-Poverty Program

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH PoUcal notebook;

The first word after the invitation was extended to Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia was that Russell probably would be unable to accept the role of speaker for the state Democrats annual Vance-Ay-cock dinner.

State party officials did not withdraw the invitation, however, and remained h()eful of getting Russell or another equally prominent and well-known party figure.

They said there was still a possibility that Russell could fit the engagement in North Carolina into his schedule.

Party officials and North Carolina members of Congress planned to visit RusseU personally in Washlngt(xi on Sept. 15 and try to get a definite yes or no on the Vance-Ay-cock invitation.

SNAG It was a minor snag, but time was growing short for cwnpleting arrangements for the affair in Asheville which, since it was inau-guarated in 1961, has si i to rival the Democra*'^' ^ '"a1 fund-raising Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh.

WTLLIAM

SHIRES

Russell was the first choice of a majority of state party leaders who were anxious to get a leading light in national affairs and Democratic party politics as Vance-Aycock

speaker to boost prestige of the 1964 occasion.

As soon as the invitation to Russell was extended, gubernatorial nominee Dan K.

Moore telephoned the Georgia senator to express his pleasure and convey hla hope that Russell might accept.

HOME - 'The Vance-Ay-eock diimer is now scheduled definitely for Oct. 10 and is being planned as a gala highlight oi the state Democratic partys Fall campaign In western NorU) Cardlna.

It will be something of a homecoming occasioo for MocNre, a favmlte son of the West and the first west e r n North Carolina native to be the Democratic nominee for governor In more than 40 years.

The date of the dinner was set tentatively ss long ago as last years affair which was divided Into camps of the primary (ff^nents for governor. Actually Oct. 10 had been published as a tentative date In the North Carolina Democrat last June.

TRIP - The trip to Washington by state Democrat 1 c party leaders this week is for the purpose of conferring with members of the states Congressional delegatlmi on plans for the traditional Democratic campaign caravan.

Most of the Democratic members of Congress including Sens. Sam J. Ervin Jr. and B, Everett Jordan will attend the planning session along with Democratic cMigressional hopefuls Robert M. Davis of Salisbury and Dr. W.D, James of Hamlet.

Democratic leaders and candidates who will make the caravan tour include Moore, Robert W. Scott, the nominee for lieutenant governor, members of the Council of State, state chairman J. Melville Broughton Jr.. executive director Quincy Nimocks in and others.

DAVIS Selma newspai>-erman Tom I. Davis, who left a $12,000-a-year post as executive director of the State Democratic party with the changing of the guard early this month, may take on a new political assignment in the near future.

Nothing is definite as yet. Davis says, but a post with the national Democratic campaign committee may be in the offing.

Weve discussed it, Davis says. Theres been no definite offer. But I expect I'll be doing something in the campaign before long.

Exact nature of a possible appointment for Davis has not been mentioned, Davis said. There have been reports that the national committee is considering a campaign organization in North Carolina to push the Johnson-Humphrey ticket, apart frtmi the regular state campaign.

EXCEED State employe salary adjustments and Increases during the 1963-64 fiscal year exceeded legislative appropriations by nearly half a million dollars.

The increases and adjustments by the State Personnel Council affected more than 16.-000 employes in 635 job class-IflcatlMis. The total cost was $1,356,136. The 1%3 General Assembly appropriated only $916,667 for salary adjustments and the difference, $439,469, had to be absorbed In operating budgets of the affected agencies.

CHANGES Meanwhile, In its first action of the current fiscal year the personnel council approved new salary ranges for 137 classifications and established 25 new ones.

The change !n salary ranges affects slightly more than 1.-500 employes. Most of these were effective Sept. 1.

State Personnel director John L. Allen Jr. said that in approving the range changes, the council came within $12.-000 of the amount appropriated.

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While the nation is considering the merit of President Johnsons anti-poverty program as a campaign issue. North Carolinians can look back on a number of years of their home-grown antipoverty program and see that progress has been made.

If one seeks to pinpoint the beginning of the home-made anti-poverty program in North Carolina, it probably goes back to Gov. Luther Hodges and his constant urging that Tar Heel communities seek to pull themselves up by their own boot-straps.

With this emphasis on development of homegrown assets, many North Carolina communities found potential they had failed to recognize for decades. At the same time the state forged ahead with its industrial development and agricultural development programs.

During the administrations of Gov. Hodges and Gov. Sanford, North Carolina has not only moved with its anti-poverty program in terms of creating new jobs, but likewise in terms of preparing people of the state to attain better jobs. There is the quality education program in the public schools, the system of technical institutes and community colleges that have put education within the reach of almost every citizen of the state.

North Carolina has not called its varied programs an anti-poverty undertaking, but in a very real sense that is what it has been. And during the decade in which these efforts have been underway, the state has seen its per capita income rise, its productivity increase and its economic position move ahead at a rapid rate.

The state still has its poverty problems as every other state does, but it is far ahead of what it would have been without its home-grown programs to attack poverty.

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White House ibrary Choices

By ART BUCHWALD

Aoe Of SDeciolizotion

The Tree Surgeon

The age of specialization has touched every part of our society. Recently we had tree trouble. A beautiful large oak was dying and we immediately called a tree surgeon.

At first he didnt want to come. Im sorry, I dont make house calls, he explained.

Then Ill cut down the tree and bring it into your office, we cried hysterically.

Dont panic. Ill come over.

Three days later he arrived. He walked over the oak and shook his head. He touched

the trunk once, looked up at the branches, and said:

You have a very sick tree here.

I know it. What can you do to save it?

I dont like the look of those limbs.

Neither do I, we said. What can you do about the limbs?

Im not a limb man, the tree surgeon explained. I only do general trunk work.

Do you know of a good limb man?

I know of one and I only

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hope for your sake hes available. That will be $25 please. A few days later the limb man came. He was all business.

Youve got two broken limbs and a wound on your main branch. Also, I dont like those stub lesions which are bleeding sap,

Do whatever has to be done, we said.

ART

BUCHWALD

By WINFRED L. GODWIN A years weighing and sifting by scholars, librarians and publishers preceded the selecting of 1780 titles for the new White House Library.

Many works of Southern university presses are included in the small collection designed as a working reference library for the present President and all the Presidents to come, as well as for their families. Cabinet officers and White House advisers.

Sections devoted to local history. music, art and architecture. land and agriculture, economic life and most of the 32 categories of the Important collection Includes titles from scholarly presses on Southern campuses.

The presses of the University of North Carolina, Louisiana State University, Johns HoiAlns, University of Oklahoma, Duke and the University of Texas are well represented in the library started by President Kenne(iy and carried on by President Johnson.

One of the newest additions Is a handsome, two - volume set from the University of North Carolina press, The American Drawings of John White. 1577-1590.

It contains reproductions of 160 water color paintings of the English settlers in Sir Walter Raleighs lost colony and their American Indian neighbors. The originals by the artist member of the Raleigh expedition were lost for 300 years, turned up in Ireland and landed in the British Museum.

The Chapel Hill press collaborated with the museum to produce this major work of art and history in a limited edition selling for $225 a set.

Eight issues of the projected 10-volume series, A His^ tory of the South. from the LSU press are in the White House collection.

Other works of regional history and literature, specialties of the press, are included.

The University of Oklahoma Presa is well represented in the travel and travelers book section. with Commerce of the Prairies. Ruxton of the Rockies and "Life in the Par West. And Chapel Hills contribution to this section is Alexander Hamiltons Gentlemans Progress.

"Politics. Presidents and Coattails from Johns Hopkins and Lester P Ward, the American Aristotle from Duke give an idea of Southern representado^ in this gathering of the most important non-fiction work* by U.S. authors.

Publications from Southern campus presses are making a good show at other important

places as well as the White House. Worlds Pair visitors are viewing the new Atlas of Florida, next to the sice industry mockups at the Florida Pavilion. This unusual work was many years in the making at the University of Florida Press and weaves Floridas history, economy and sociology into its geography, in 52 well-illustrated pages.

Scholars in other countries will read more Southern university publications in the coming months. An Internal Cooperation Program of the American Association of University Pressea is developing overseas markets for the campus manuscripts in Europe and the Commonwealth countries and, more recently, in Asia and Africa.

Another association program is fostering the translation of some 70 works by Latin America authors into English, in an ambitious five-year effort. The presses of the University of Texas. University of Oklahoma and LSU are among 16 institutions participating. Texas is producing 17 titles; Oklahoma, four: and LSU. two. These works cover the literature, history, sociology and economy of South and Central American countries.

One way to learn how Latin Americans think is to distribute more Latin American books in this country, an association spokesman expla 1 n s the program. The group hopes to eventually move North American books south and South American books north to Improve communlcat ions and understanding between the Americas.

Southern members of this respected scholarly publishers association include the campus presses of the state universities of Florida, Georg 1 a, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina. Oklahoma. South Carolina and Texas, plus Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Southern Methodist University. Three new members are the University of Tennessee, University of Miami and University (rf Alabama.

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Between lawnmowert and quick-draw contests this is getting to be a nine-toed world.Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune.

The simple fact Is that stubborn union opposition to reduction of rail jobswhen they arent needed any more leads nowhere but to public hurt and resentment. St. Louis Olobe-Democrat.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The spirit of adventure is not dead. In an era when most nations are over-civilized, overpampered, coddled, catered to and over-protected, it is refreshing to find a man who can still challenge the sea alone and unafraid. And whats more amazing about this particular man is that he is not a fiery youth imbued with the zest for youthful adventure; he is a man who is 71 years old.

And in the story of William Willis, this man who completed a 10,000-mlle drift across the Pacific Ocean on a raft, we find living proof that man doesnt necessarily have to sit down and die when he reaches retirement age.

The journey for Willis began In Peru July 4, 1%3. Last Wednesday he completed his trek in the raft Age Unlimited as he came ashore in Australia, 10,000 miles across the Pacific.

His adventure was not without difficulty. He had a severe back injury in an accident and for six days last August was paralyzed from the waist down. He lashed himself to the deck to avoid being washed overboard. Said WUlis, I came in on my last set of nerves. I was at the point of

Pushing

By ELMER ROESSNER

The return of executives iqrom summer vacations, back-to-school sales and the quickening of the economic pace with fall weather is pushing business to new highs.

There are some soft spots. The auto strike situation is ominous. Construction in New York, the largest building area. is slackening. Home dwelling unit starts are off. While organized racial groups are trying to delay demonstrations until after the election, there la still danger of hoodlum gangs. Unemployment rose again but the return of many summer workers to school and college this month may yield much better statistics just before the election.

Both business and consumer confidence is high. Duns Review reports that its quarterly survey shows business optimism for the last three months of this year close to recent record levels. Audits & Surveys reports that retall-er are strongly optimistic over prospects for the next 12 months, with 50 per cent of all retailers predicting sales increases in the next year. CONSUMERS BUIXISH

The vigor of consumer con-

death many times. The weather was extremely bad.

Why did Willis undertake such a perilous voyage at his age? He wanted to show that a man past 65 is still in the running if he wants to be. Thats a good lesson for many men who feel the world is passing them by when they reach retirement age. That is a fallacy, of course, for there are many who still have much to offer the world In the way of talent, skill, experience, wisdom.

It is unfortunate that our industrial society today has set an arbitrary line to mark a mans forced retirement from productive careers. The Telegram has contended for a long time that much human usefulness is lost in the process.

The Pacific voyage by Willis was not his first. Back in 1954 he sailed from Peru to Samoa on a Balsa raft. At that time he was only 61. Now that Willis has proved his point, he plans to let people know about it.

When he returnd to New York he hopes to lecture at the Worlds Fair on his voyage. We hope he gets his message across: that life doesnt end at 65 for everyone not by a long shot.

I cant touch the limbs until we heal up the lesions. Then heal them.

Im not a* stub lesiwi expert. Ill give you the name of one. When he gets finished, Ill come back and work on the limbs. That will be $50. please.

The stub lesion surgeon arrived and worked for 20 minutes. Then he said, Your tree is suffering from malnutrition. It has to be fed.

Feed it, we begged, and dont worry about the cost. I dont feed trees, he said indignantly. You need a root man for that.

You know of a root man, do you? we asked.

Theres one out in Chevy Chase. Ill see if I can get him to come. That will be $75.

A week later the root man arrived with his drill and started operating on the oak. He poured nourishment into the ground near the roots.

Will it be all right? we asked him.

The well you have around the tree is much too small. Youre strangling it. I can give it all the food in the world and it wont do any good if the tree cant get any air or water.

Then why did you feed It? (Continued on page 5)

,obor On The

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

They used to call the craft unions the aristocracy of labor. Then the coal miners John L. Lewis felled the carpenters Big Bill Hutcheson with hies fist at an historic convention in Atlantic City, and the C.I.O. came into being. The new organization took up for what the poet laureate of England, John Masefield, had caUed the dirt and the dross, the dust and the scum of the earth and brought them Into the mainstream of labor union life. With factory pay challenging the wages of the craft unions. there was no aristocracy of labor any more. Ever? body was more or less equal.

But that was yesterday.

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CHAMBERI. A

day the C.I.O. Is In itself a new aristocracy. The proof of this comes by indirection, in a news item out of the Michigan town of Edmore, where 450 Puerto Rican and Mexican migrants, living on pittances while employed at a pickle plant, tried to collect their pay just before the Labor Day holiday and were told to vamoose, Their jobs were end e d. Meanwhile, back at the C.I.O. ranch in Detroit, aristocrat Walter Reuther was putting the bee on the CSirysler Corporation for something pretty fantastic by migrant standards.

The migrants, having absorbed the idea from the current American atmosphere that the way to get justice is to riot for it, decided that if they couldnt collect their pay they would burn the pickle factory down. They got as far as breaking some windows before the police stopped them. Then the humanitarian instincts of the town took over. The migrants found themselves on the receiving end of baskets of food. And county prosecutors promised them that they would do something to make the pickle company come through with back wages.

What is especially interesting about this little story is that it comes out of a state that was practically a fief of the United ' Automobile Workers for a couple of decades. Michigan is the state which elected Soapy Williams governor five times. It is the state which practically went broke providing for welfare services. But the goodies, apparently, have all been channelled to the new aristocracy of labor in the plants which Walter Reuther has organized.

The State of Michigan, however, should not be belabored unduly for its failure to take up the cause of the migrant proletariat. The sickness of the American economy goes far deeper than anything that Soapy Williams or George Romney, working out of a State capital, could cure by passing local laws or drumming up local handouts.

What is at fault is the eco nomic theory that justifies wage Increases that go fai beyond the general annual productivity Increase of the nation as a whole.

True enough, a slight ele ment of wage push in ai economy is obviously good, foi It forces employers to look tc the efficiency of their mach Ines and to strive for cost-cut ting on the overhead. But when a few million work era enrolled in the aristocratl(J unions push their wage scales far beyond the productivity advance of Industry in general, it means that Job opportunities must shrink elsewhere. The wage scale set by the labor aristocrats Is taken as a norm to which all workers are entitled. Striving to attain (Continued On Page 5)

conomy To New Highs

fidence is shown by the continued high level of retail purchases and the continuing increase in Instalment purchases. Total retail sales in July were $22.2 billion, almost $2 billion more th^ in-July,-1963, accprding to/ Department of

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Commerce figures.

Total consumer credit outstanding in July was $72.6 million, almoat $7 billion more than a year ago. The bulk of this is instalment credit. And when a family buys on the Instalment plan, it is betting that it will have jobs and income up to three years in the future.

And here are other look-aheads in business:

Costlier cocoa; Members of the Cocoa Producers Alliance. Including the largest coca-growing countries, are working out an agreement to control

prices.

METAL SHORTAGES

Lead, zinc scarce: High global demand for lead and zinc has been outstripping production. Purchasing Magazine reports that no end of shortages in sight.

New toothbrush entrant: As predicted here, the rush to get new electric toothbrushes on the market continues. Newest entrant is Du Pont, with a battery - operated model selling under $10. It uses four flashlight batteries.

Filtered Luckies: Lucky

Strike, long a hold-out against filters, is testing a charcoal-filtered Lucky in Indianapolis, Memphis, Des Moines and Spokane.

New paper output record; The paper industry, at present rates, will set a new high in production this year. The Value Line Investment Survey says that paper and paperboard output in the last six months was 6 per cent ahead of the same 1963 period.

At present, while Japan Airlines, SAS, KLM and Air France can deliver and pick up passengers at Anchorage, they cannot allow passengers to stop over. A passenger getting off a foreign plane musl leave on an American line This is Inconvenient and addi to the cost and therefore hurts the Alas*an tourist Industry. The CAB is understood to view the request for stop-over privileges favorably.

ALASKA MAY GET BETTER AIR SERVICE The Civil Aeronautics Board is expected to act soon on requests by Alaskans for improved international air service.

OLD PROMOTER PROPOSE A NEVER-FAIL ZH^PER

There was a beamish expro-

ssion on the Old Promoters face when he came visiting today.

Have a great Idea, he said. Its the perfect zipper. As you know, sooner or later every zipper Jams, freezes breaks, gets off the trolley ot snaps your finger. I have in vented a zipper that solves thi problem. It is not sewn inU place, but Is attached by twc zippers, one on each side Then when it falls, the usei simply takes it out by remow ing the side zippers and ziiv ping a new zipper into place.

And to think other men wasti* their time figuring how to get a man on the moon!