Wednesday, October 7, 1964

Tax Picture Reflects Prosperity

^'You're Getting Confident... Very Confident...

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North Carolinas increase in business activity since last year is reflected in the 9.72 per cent increase in tax collections by the state in the first quarter of this fiscal year compared with the same period of a year ago.

^ The states tax structure ties revenue receiptSN in North Carolina closely to changes in economic conditions. As the economy of the state moves to higher levels, revenues received from the states tax structure increase. Should economic conditions move in the opposite direction, it w^ould be expected that state revenues likewise would reflect a downward trend.

North Carolina has steadily pushed its economic growth over the past decade in an effort to increase the productive wealth of the state and the per capita income of its people. At the same time the state has enjoyed increasing income from its tax structure with which to meet the growing needs of a developing state. ^

The state has by no means reached its economic potential. Its industrial, agricultural and business development still has a long way to go. Certainly the per capita income in North Carolina, near the bottom in the rank of states, is far from what it can be or should be. But as the state con-

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH Circling the square;

Enrollment in the freshman class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill showed a slight decrease for the 1964^ Pall term but this was expected.

University officials and the State Board of Higher Education attach no particular significance to the slight drop. Transfer students in other classes and larger numbers (rf graduate students pushed UNC enrollment to record levels. In fact, record enrollments were reported at all branches of the Consolidated University. At Chapel Hill, enrollment is more than 11,300.

It had been expected that the size of freshman classes at branches of the University would begin to show drops this year or in the next few years, but that overall bigger enrollments would occur because of Increasing numbers of graduate students and transfers.

VISION An official of the

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state oplometric society suggests that more frequent eye examinations for drivers might be effective in combatting the rising toll of traffic accidents and deaths.

Tests for adequate vision are required for obtaining and renewing North Carolina drivers licenses, with a four year period for renewals.

Dr. James N. Rowland of Oxford, chairman of the op-tometric societys committee on motorists vision and highway safety, says an individuals vision undergoes constant changes.

There may be changes in considerably less than four years time in such safe-driving factors as acuity, depth of vision, field of vision and night vision.

North Carolina was the first state in the nation to require visual screening of applicants for licenses and renewals, which Dr. Rowland calls a a pioneering step. And he says many traffic accidents could be prevented if drivers obtained periodic eye examinations during the interim be-------ai

tween license renewals.

In absence of mandatory legislation, he says responsibility for maintaining safe driving vision rests entirely with the individual driver.

YAMS Sweet potato processors in North Carolina and six other states have received contracts under the federal school lunch program for 317,-200 cases of No. 10 size cans, each case containing six cans of sweet potatoes,

With 17-million children participating in the lunch program, this purchase of 1,903,-200 cans represents only about two servings per child.

WATER A survey by the American Medical Associations Council on Rural Health ranks water pollution and sanitation as the nations number one rural health problem.

The survey indicated that assurance of an ample supply of uncontaminated water for family and farm use is an increasing problem in both rural fringe areas and more remote farm sections of the country.

The report said that mushrooming surburban developments extending into rural areas have posed other serious menaces to public health but that water pollution appears the most acute.

The Council said planning and zoning are needed to solve problems arising from population expansion into previously undeveloped areas.

It said the second most urgent problem is the need for health education and use of modem methods of disease preventiwi, sanitation and health care.

REDUCTION Agenda for the October meeting of the State Banking Commission is slim. Indicating further reduction in work load of the commission since it resorted to holding monthly meetings.

Until this PaU, ^.he banking commission held its sessions quarterly. It usually had a heavy agenda to deal with.

This weeks meeting had only two applications on the agenda one for a Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. branch in Winston Salem and one for a Bank in a new office building in Durham.

VISIT Dan K. Moores 100-county campaign tour will take him into areas of western North Carolina which suffered flash flood damage during the past few days.

Moore will tour Swain. Graham, Cherokee, Clay, Macon and Transylvania countiea on Thursday, and Henderson. Polk. Rutherford. McDowe 11, Avery, Mitchell and Buncombe on Friday.

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tinues its efforts to develop its resourcesand by so doing to increase the per capita income of its peopleit is likewise going to benefit by increasing revenues flowing into state coffers.

In spite of the fact that North Carolina still needs many things and dollar demands on th state government move up sharply each biennium, experience of recent years strongly suggest that North Carolina will be able to meet its needs in the future without increasing the tax burden on its people. The key to the situation, however, is a continuing productive effort for economic development throughout the state.

City Storm Drainage Needs An Evaluation

Greenville's ramy summer, climaxed by the downpours of Sunday and Monday, should cause local officials to take a careful look at the watershed and drainage facilities in and about the city.

The heavy rains of the past few days were, of course, abnormal. Only rarely is the city subjected to such heavy rain in so short a period of time. In most cases the water drained off rapidly after it stopped raining.

Even so, there have been several occasions during recent months when streets had to be closed because of high water. Particularly has this been true of Fourteenth Street near Green Mill Run and Charles Street where it crosses the same stream.

These are two of the more heavily used streets of Greenville. When they have to b closd to traffic during rainy weathereven when rainfall is far less than that of Sunday and Mondayit is time for the city to tak action to correct the situation.

And while officials are looking into this particular situation, it is a good time for a careful evaluation of the entire storm drainage system of the city.

Court Plunaes

'h Hot Water

Stable

By ALVIN TAYLOR

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court, perhaps the most forceful in American history, after the narrowest kind of escape from rebuke by Con'-"* grea has returned to work by plunging instantly into boiling water.

The nine justices traditionally do not answer their critics. And they observed the tradition this year although it was a year of intense attack.

Their decisions cutting across many fields over several years particularly race, religion and politics produced a hurly-burly between their critics and their defenders.

Out of all this naturally came a question: Will the justices now slow up until some of the storm subsides, be a little more restrained like many courts of the past, be less willing to stick their necks out?

Judging from what they have just done it could be reasonably concluded they are determined to do what they think is necessary rather than

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what is comfortable.

Usually the court does no business on opening day. But when it began its 1964-65 term Monday the justices disregarded the usual and at once be; gan hearings on one of the most controversial social and political issues.

This was on the Civil Rights Act, the strongest in 100 years, passed by Congress last July. The court was not asked to rule on thq. constitutionality of the whole act but on the sorest point in it;

This is the part outlawing racial discrimination at hotels, restaurants and other places of public accommodation. This part of the act has been a sore point in the South and an issue in this years politi

cal campaign.

Since the campaign will end on Election Day, Nov. 3, the court could have made things easy for itself by deciding to put off a hearing on an appeal against the accommodation section until then.

But no matter what the decision, or when, this whole year will be full of thorny issues for the court, covering religion, cqmnjunism, race, unionism.

The storm over the court began with a hurricane over its 1954 decision calling school segregation unconstitution a 1. From time to time the hurricane dwindled, and by the end of the court term this year had hurricane force again.

This came after decisions banning required reading of the Bible or the Lords Prayer in public schools and its decisions that state legislatures representation must be based on equal proportions of a states population.

In Congress, both the House and Senate approved measures intended to slow down the reapportionment of legislatures in essence rebuking the court.

The House and Senate, in the last-minute rush to quit and go home, couldnt reconcile their differences and the result was that both measures W'ere scrapped and the court left unscathed.

The fact that the two houses had enough members willing to approve these measures, different as they were, could be taken as a warning light by the justices to go, slow.

But the justices have a better perspective on the history of the court, r nd its trial and tribulations, down through the years than most politicians and most citizens.

From the very beginning the court has been attacked when its decisions jarred some region, some group, some faction.

It is no exaggeration to say that down through the years demands to curb the court or undo its decisions ' have become an almost fantastic multitude. But it has rarely happened. Another year has passed and it didnt happen.

The Senator Pitched In

Sen. Robert Morgan, ECC alumnus who was recently elected chairman of the colleges board of trustees, appears far younger than his 38 years.

The new chaimian Is so young looking, in fact, that it has been reported he has been mistaken for a student on his frequent visits to the college campus.

Morgan graduated from ECC and then went on to Wake Forest to earn his law degree. It wasnt long after he set up practice before he was elected to the State Senate from Harnett County.

And that brought to mind a story to Henry Howard, director of public relations at ECC.

It seems Henry was a student at Campbell College around 1957, soon after Morgan gained his senate seat.

The college was staging an outdoor drama written by Paul Green and Sen. Morgan had been invited to attend.

Well, head coach Fred McCall had the job of setting up seats and as was the custom he called on the college boys who wander by to help.

McCall, who has become a highly successful basketball coach, spotted a young man standing idly by. Cdme herc,< son, and help us move t_b e s e benches, the coach called.

The young man pitched right in.

It wasnt until (he program

started and the new Harnett County senator was called on to speak that McCall realized he had put Sen. Robert Morgan Co work.

Other Editors Saying... Take A Letter, John

And you might remember Sally Jane Heit who played Reno Sweeney in the East Carolina Summer Theatre production of Anything Goes.

She received mention in the Sept. 16 edition of Variety show business publication. ^

Miss Heit is doing a comedy act in a New York night spot. Miss Heit has wide horizons, says Variety, it may take her some time to get into the lar-g-er rooms, but the base of her act indicates that she can make the large seaters as well as in-timeries.

Public Forum

To the editor.

Do you have a slxteen-year-old boy? Do you remember when you were sixteen?

when we become the Judge, Jury and prosecutor,

Mildred Bowen

(St. Petersburg, Fla,, Times)

When the Civil Rights Bill was before Congress, Judge Howard Smith, chairman of the House Rules Committee, appeared on the Meet the Press television program. One of the panelists was Mae Craig, the Washington correspondent equally noted for her hats and her needling questions. Mrs. Craig demanded of Judge Smith why discrimination on the grounds of sex, as well as race or color, shouldnt be included. The ever-gal-lant old Virginian with a wry smile said hed put sex into the bill. He did and it stuck, right through the Presidents signature.

Now some odd results of that amendment are beginning to be foreseen. Under the auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers, a series of seminars of top business executives and corporation lawyers has been held on the subject, Among cither things these conclusions have been reached:

Help wanted advertisers will no longer be allowed to specify sex after July 1, 1965. If an executive wants a curvaceous blonde for a secretary and a crew-cut young exfootball player applies for the Job, if his secretcu-ial quallA-

cations are equal it will be at the employers peril that he rejects the male.

Barbers of the opposite sex may be turning up in heretofore strictly male t(msorial parlors,

Executive training programs now confined almost exclusively to men, will have to be open to W(Hnen.

When the compulsory retirement limit for men is now 65 under a companys rules, no longer can women be required to retire at 62.

On the other hand, where city or state regulations now require three or four times the washroom facilities for women as for men, if the men want to get technical about It they can demand the same accom-modaticms.

Basically, and most important, where men and women employes are doing exactly the same type of work, from next July on theyll have to be paid exactly the same wages.

Maybe this wont cause any major problems. But If late next summer theres a rash of of Tugboat Annies, or men turning us as housemaids, youll know to put the blame squarely on Mae Ch-aig and Judge Howard Smith.

And from the Saigon Post in South Viet Nam comes an item about East Carolina College competing in the Southern Conference for the first time this year.

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It was spotted by Charlie Lovelace, now a captain in the 34th Tactical Group, U.S. Army, stationed in Saigon. He graduated from ECC in 1957 with a BS in music education. He is from New Bern.

Finally you read about vari-ous pickets parading in front of the White House with signs calling on the president to ban the bomb, or some such request.

We wandered to the White House on our Washington trip this weekend.

Sure enough there were pickets there. Ban the Bomb? Impeach Earl Warren? Nope, these teen-agers carried a sign which read; Mr. Presi dent, please invite the Beatles to Washington, D.C.

To us, It sounds subversive.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN !

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Sources close to President' Johnson say that his chief bait to conservative businessmen is a promise to keep the budget below $100 billion for the second year running. If this Is true, it means that the ciNiservatlve revival is going p off no matter which party wins the election.

The idea that the budget should be stabilized at a time when the Gross National Product is breaking all previous records is, of course, a tacit admission that Goldwaters call for a five per cent annual income tax reduction is not so

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crazy as it bas been made to sound. With the budget kept rigorously wttMn the $100 billion limit, 4m) Nith income and excise tg^osl^mounting, it should be to move (he budget toward blance and at the same time give back some tax money to indi^duals or to the states and ^municipalities. The chief difference between Goldwater and Johnson fiscal policy at the moment would seem to boll down to a choice between different kinds of tax' remission. Where Goldwat e r would slice inc(ne taxes. Johnson has promised a cut in' excises. Whether the cut comes out ot a tax on income, or a tax on outgo may seem important to the more thrifty* among,us, but it cannot make, any great difference to tha economir as whole.

If should announce

a Spaiwi' Jw^et plan before) November, it would take soma wind out of the sails <rf Republicans who have been portraying LBJ as the Greati Spender. But the Republican i would still have something o^ a case against the Administra-) tiop, for the proposition to put) Medicare on the Social Securi-. ty tab drags a confusing ele- ment into the debate. Medi-) care deductions from payroll would not be called a tax, but to young people in the $5,000-a-year income bracket and under who are paying off mort-) gage installments and raising babies it would come with all the force of a tax anyway. I know all about this, for I havq three married daughters in their mid-twenties who ruefully contemplate the difference between total income and take-, home pay and wonder just how another federal bite into the family paycheck will leave any money for private insurance and for monthly installments on the washing machine or the Encyclopedia Brltanni-ca. If their social security deductions were to be Increased, it would make a slmultsjieous cut in the Income tax seem like running twice as fast to stay in the same place. And the nominal st&mnzfttion of (he federal budget at $100 billion a year would seem to them in the circumstances to constitute a semantic phtmy.

Still and all, it is good to know that Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwa(er are not too far apart in their basic fiscal philosig>hy. Sensing this, many conservatives are taking a rather placid view of things. But there is one fear that bothers some conservatives who do not particularly worry about Johnsons policies. And that is the fear that through some mischance Hubert Humphr e y might become President before 1968. *

I heard this fear expressed just the other day at ajGreen-wich, Connecticut, fuod-rals-Ing dinner for Ooldwatdr. The diners had come to General Albert Wedemeyer, who once headed a citizens committee for Bob Taft, give a heartening talk on Qoldwat-ers policy of keeping the peace through strength. The crowd, which was for GoWwa-Continued Prom Page 6)

Store" Decisions By A Computer

Just a few questions we might do well to answer.

I could not help but weep when I read these words describing the Jolly boy - thle brute Jolly, this beast. What If he were yours?

I have a sixteen year old son. I look at him, he is a part of me. A beast a brute I could never see. He my son can be so good yet so bad at times.

Have we forgotten when we were sixteen, were we really mature, did we do and act as a child, or have we always been men and women

I know this young boy has committed a horrifying cririie:

1 will not sav to let him back Into our world or to keep him locked in for the rest of his life; I leave thH to the hearts and minds of those that deal with these problems. But Id sav to each of us.

If only our prayers were as loud as our complaints over this young boy. Ooid forgive ue

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In Brief

If a man reaches into a hat and pulls out a rabbit, its magic. If a woman reaches Into her handbag for a door key and pulls out a door key, it's a mlricle, Jacksonville (Fla.) HmesmUnlon.

Theres a rumor around that the real reason ham operator Barry Goldwater wanta the presidency is so hell have a really big rig to play with the Voice of America. Wichita (Kans.) Eagle.

Families used to be considered shiftless If they lived from payday to payday. Now they wish they could. Carlsbad (N Current Argus.

By ELMER ROESSNER There will be no empirical decisions in the management of the department store of 1970, top executives of 20 retail organizations (and me) were told at a National Retail Merchants Association meeting in New York.

The statement was made by Richard Sprague, director of advanced business systems for Touche, Ross, Bailey k Smart, accounting and management consulting firm.

Everything, he warned, will be done by. analysis and systems, in most cases aided by computers. Middle management, Including buyers, will have less to say about buying policies and decisions, he said. The 1970 DEPARTMENT STORE In the stort of 1970. he said, electronic systems will feed all information back to an information management facility. There decisions will be made for such things as;

Inventory control. Electronic devices will report exactly how many Items are on hand in every category, size and color, enabling mwag^ment to re

order Intelligently to prevent out-of-stock problems.

Fashion trends. .Sprague conceded that machines would never replace the human fashion sensor, but they could measure the acceptance of fashions and help guide the geniuses who can spot next years fashion trends yesterday.

PeieonaeL Not only will machines help evaluate candidates for jobs, but they will also help evaluate candidates for Jobs, but they will also help assip them where the customers are. Its a simple job for a machine to tell how many customers will be in each department at each hour, reckoning advertising, sales and even weather, and provide a schedule by which employees would move from one department to another. This could eliminate that all-too-common situation In many department stores where a crowd may be clamoring fen* the attention of one salesgirl while across the al.sle five salesladies buff fingernails. ADVERTISING. TOO

Advertising. Electronic ma

chines can calculate exactly how much advertising should be put behind certain product^ and on what days, and at what prices. They can provide tables of alternates, showing what advertising can be most effective under certain conditions.

Credit. Electronic machines can (juickly rate credit applicants, they can handle accounting d mirchases at the Instant they are made, and they can warn when a customer is ov-erbujdng. The machines can also keep instant records of total credit outstanding, ratios of^ collection and other facts to enable a stor to see where it

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stands to the penny.

Store watching. At the management facility center, execu

tives can switch on in-store television systems to see what is going on in every secti(Hi of the store. Actlqoa of custcxners and employees'^ be monitored.

Walk-oots. Electronic systems can gathr Information to determine why cuRomers wait out. gwierally' admitted to be one of the greatesi losses to stores today. They tan plh-point causes, whether lack at sizes, colors, advertised items, sales courtesy or dozem of otlv er causes. In fact, egecutive can watch cusUxnem. walk out over the closed - circuit TV system.

Mr. Sprague desorlb^ the possible department store ope^-ratlon of the future. Today it has a main store and six branches, doing $100 .nllllOD 10 salas a year. By 1970. by ploying systems, it will have three main stores and II branches, some carrying oif ly shallow lines. Its warehouses and warehouse dr<^, its ds livery routes and its new ftoref will all have been planned with the aid of ccxnputers, and sale# will have reached $170 mllUoB 4 ye4T.