Monday, November 2, 1964

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In A Nations Voice

Tomorrow provides the acid test for the candidates, their parties, their platforms, their programs, and indeed their political future. , . , 4., ^ u

More than that, it is the day on which the lull

There is no more important day in the history of a democratic nation than election day. The voice of the people speaks forth in specific terms, and from that voice there is no appeal.

It is incumbent upon every eligible voter m the

force oi;d^mocratic action on the part the peop e tomorrow and participate

is brought to bear. It IS the day on wh.ch^^^^^^ the course

clioose their leaders their eovernmcnt of the future of the nation. Those who do so will

so; doing they choose the coupe their government oi tne ^ privilege of

will follow during that period.

N. C. Is One

Pivotal States

WILLIAM A. SHIRES

WATCH North Carolina has been tagged sus one of the states for everybody to watch when returns in the presidential election begin pouring into tabulation centers on Tuesday night.

In the Eastern time zone and on the Atlantic seaboard, North Carolina will be one of the early reporting states, and one with a set of factors expected to have a weighty bearing on the outcome of this election.

It is to be watched as a bar-wneter state which could furnish Indications early in the evening how the election is likely to go.

This Is something of a new role for nonnally-Democratic North Carolina and there are quite a few complex factors involved In the reasoning behind It this time.

FACTORS First of all is the fact that most observers are figuring the presidential contest to be close in North CSLTolina. This may or may not prove correct, but whether it iB right or wrong may be aomething on whldi to base an Indication.

It was close In North Carolina in 1956 and again 1960, but tee presidential campaign of 1964 has been unlike either of those years.

Observers believe there has been shifting, which could leave the scales even more dlcately balanced and tl extent of which might even tip the scales.

Thus North Carolina w expected to Indicate primarily, by the result and by the margin. how deeply the conserva-

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tism and backlash vote of Barry Goldwater may bite into a* reservoir of Democratic electoral votes.

INDICATE For example, a Goldwater victory in Norte Carolina no matter how close might foreteU a Republican sweep, or at least a strong GOP showing across tee South.

North Carolina is not a deep South state, and its record of staying in the Democratic column despite increasing Republican numbers is impressive. Thus a Goldwater vtetory in the state might point to an even greater impart o Gold-waterisro elsewhere in the South. And carrying tee South Is vital for Goldwater.

On toe other hand, a victwy for Johnson - Humphrey in North Carolina might be best gauged by its margin. If Johnson - Humitorey win big in North Carolina, it might be interpreted quickly as sign of structural weakness in Goldwater key areas o support.

COMPLEX There will be some other barometer states in the South Georgia and Florida for example. South Carolina where Goldwater

strategists feel they must win, and Maryland which is a backlash state.

But in few of these are there such complexities as in the internal political workings of North Carolina during the 1964 campaign.

To begin with, the civil rights backlash sUrred agricultural, predominantly rural Eastern North Carolina which has. in past years, given the Democratic candidates th e i r needed margins of victory in the state. Goldwater strength grew steadily , in this section last summer, after Goldwat-ers vote against the civil rights bUl and after toe Democrats nominated Hubert Humphrey for vice president. It grew to such proportions that it alanned the states Democrats.

STRA'TEGIC Eastern

North Carolina is of strategic importance to the Democrats because most (4 the states normal Republican stre n g t h lies In the populous, most industrial Piedmont and in the mountain counties.

Thus the Democrats sought to offset Goldwater appeal in the East by counterattacking on the matters of farm price support programs, especially tobacco and the issue of social security.

But for strategic purposes, toe states Democrats decided against meshing state issues and national issues. The Democratic nominee for governor, Dan K. Moore, won in the primaries with a coalition of fiscal conservatives and moderates. He won a landslide second primary victory over a liberal Democrat and the result clearly Indicates a rising tide of moderate-conservative political feeling.

effect The effect has been to differentiate and distinguish' between the national Democratic ticket and the state ticked headed by Moore. They were kept separate.

It pleased some of the states Democrats and angered others, but Moore felt strongly that it was the wisest course under the circumstances and pursued it, confining his campaign to state issues and pledging simply to vote a straight Democratic ticket.

It has been debated as to whether this strategy served to help or hurt Moore, or help or hurt Johnson. The campaigns on the state and national level did not parallel, nor were they closely coordinated.

LATE In final, pre-election analysis, most Democratic observers were saying they expected a victory for the Johnson - Humphrey ticket in the state by a close margin, and a fairly Impressive victory for Moore and the state ticket.

But Republican observers were hopeful and said they detected late gains for both Goldwater-BdiUer and for the Republican nominee for governor, Robert L. Gavin, and vlc-tortes in both for the GOP.

(K the two. victories by the Republicans would be more surmising and portend more frwn both a state and national point of view. If both Johnson - Humphrey and Moore should win, toe analysis would boil down to which _ won by more votes, and why.

be exercising their precious right and privilege the secret ballot. Those who do not cast their ballot

O' will be neglecting their citizeifchip responsibility ' to take advantage of their right to have a clear and .. decisive voice in the affairs of their, government.

The long and gruellin gcampaign comes to a close tonight. The political parties and the candidates^ have engaged in a thorough debate of the issues. Most citizens, we imagine, have made up * their minds which state and national candidates they prefer to see elected tomorrow. It is important, we think, which candidates are elected. But it is also important that whichever candidates are elected tomorrow that they be elected in balloting which represents the individual views of as many as possible of the nation's millions of eligible voters.

The Daily Reflector has stated editorially its preferences among the major candidates for public office in this election. We now appeal to every citizen within the voice of this newspaper regard

less of his personal preferences among the candi- ^

dates to exercise his right to cast his ballot ^

tomorrow.

There is no better way to preserve democratic government or to assure that the will of the^people is done than by every eligible voter going to the polls and casting his ballot on election day.

Those who go to the polls will be showing in the best possible way their determination that democratic government will continue. Those whose indifference to the affairs of the state and nation keeps them from casting a ballot tomorrow will be chipping away at the very foundation of democracy by not exercising their right and privilege to cast a secret ballot as a citizen of a free nation.

An Act Of Leadership

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By Leaders In Tobacco By art buchwald

A poundage-acreage control system for tobacco production recommended by the Pitt County Farm Bureau should receive serious and careful consideration by the North Carolina Farm Bureau at its meeting later this month.

The local Farm Bureau members are to be commended for deciding to recommend one program to the state organization as a part of the effort to find a solution to the problem of over-production which faces the tobacco industry.

7ak0 A Losgi To DinnGi

Soon the 1964 election will be over and once again it will be time to mend fences and make up to the people who happened to be on the other side.

It behooves each winner to search his heart and find words of solace for the loser.

In 1960 we made a plea to

authorities won* i e d

Although a number of ideas have been ad-vanced for coping with the situation, it appears that those^^ohad voted for Ri-a control program which considers both acreage and chard Nixon not to leave the

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poundage has the best chance of providing an pS

Adequate solution to the problem faced by tobacco ^ve tie

producing regions. Pitt County, as the leading to- counti-y if Mr. Nixon didnt get bacco producer in the state, rightfully should assert in. Most of these

its leadership in seeking a solution to the problem, * a e Canldla?!^-'

Public Jrbmm

It has taken the initial step in doing so by making a firm recommendation to the state farm organization.

We trust that the farmers of the county will present a unified front in support of the recommendation adopted last week by the Pitt Farm Bureau membership. We also trust that Pitt will not be hesi- the Reflector carried this item: tant in providing the forceful leadership which will

be needed to help lead the tobacco producing areas Dubber the Council

out of the dilemma which they are facing over the next few years.

gration

But fortunately most of the people who vowed to leave the United States thought it over and decided to stick it out.

This year we have heard many Goldwater support e r s vow they would not stay in the country if President Johnson got elected, and once again the Canadian government has requested that people reconsider their threats.

If the polls are right, a Canadian immigration officer told us, we could wind up \^ith 20 million Repubhcans moving to Canada this year,

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Americas drive to land a man on the moon and to return him by 1970 is said to be the greatest single technological feat yet attempted by man.

It is modem civilizations first toe through the door in a dramatic journey into space.

Basic research in Southern universities and others of the world has made the dream of lunar and space travel a reality, but it is the applied research and engineering development in these unlvemi ties which will provide the transportation into space.

Millions of dollars have been spent in Southern universities to develop space travel hardware launch vehicles, spacecraft, instruments which allow space scientists to obtain measurement of the environment out there and ground-based facilities to build, test, launch and track the hardware in flight.

Of a total of $3.7 billion appropriated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1963, the appropriation for ground - based facilities alone was $752 million. Some $471 million was allocated to build testing, fabricating or launching facilities, many of them In the South. Of NASAs 18 installations, nine are located in Southern states. And In 1963, when NASA was putting 92 per cent of its research and development funds into industry, universities or nonprofit institutions, universities received $265 million for research and training activities.

Universities of this reg ion have contributed significant developments in each of these areas of the space program.

Georgia Tech laboratories are dealing with methods to measure the space environment by photography and radiation samphng. Scientists are perfecting a system for sampling rarifled air hundreds of miles above the earth to find lurking radiation which might endanger space travelers. Their project is concerned with high altitude radiation all over the globe from nuclear weapons tests, from great waves of radiation bombarding the atmosphere as a result of distribution on the sun and

from radiation scattered by small nuclear power units used aboard earth satellites.

In another project. Tech assembled the cameras, telescopes and special optical equipment which photographed the first flight of the Saturn space boosters second stage, tested at Cape Kennedy earlier this year. The photography was an important part of the test since the launch was made to study the performance of a new tooster engine design. The booster was fueled by liquid hydrogen oxydized by liquid oxygen, a combinat ion which produces exhaust radiation visible only through ultraviolet and infrared equipment. Georgia Tech set up special cameras and spectrographs to sec and photograph the exhaust.

From the films scientists can hypothesize about the motion. composition, pres sure temperature and other physical and chemical characteristics of the upper atmosphere.

Scientists at the University of Maryland are concentrating efforts on satellites and small research rockets to meas u r c cosmic rays at high altitudes. Camera equipped rockets have provided photos basic to studies of cloud conditions and weather fronts. Chirrent hardware research is developing instruments to be sent up in fanned aircraft to investigate individual components of radiation in the upper atmosphere.

Auburn University, Oklahoma State University, the University of Alabama, and Texas A&M are all working on equipment for the space craft themselves or on devices for tracking the vehicles. Auburn has done special research on the development and design space vehicle antennae; Oklahoma State on airborne and ground Instruments for analyzing rocket performance and accumulating data; Alabama 1 working on specific problems related to landing on the moon and Texas A & M Is designing new space tracking stations.

At the University of North Carolina researchers arc developing special navigational equipment for U. S. spacecraft by using the Morehead Plane-(Contlnued on Page 5)

tor A _ voted to reserve 200 units of

Public Housing.....Dubber

explained the city would not be obligated to build the units. Was it from Cochran, Members of the Housing Authority, and Redevelopment Commission of Council Members that we heard that often repeated refrain, The City wiU not be obligated?

Another expression. To Study, one, can expect to hear when proposed Public Housing or Urban Renewal Projects are mentioned.

Did the studying obligate the city for the Shore Drive Redevelopment Area and the South Greenville Housing Pro-ject?

The words, Study and Obligate. remind me of an old parable Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly. Were not the results disastrous for the fly? Will not Urban Renewal Projects and Public Housing Projects be disastrous for Private Property Owners?

Did Mr. Dubber at Mayor Wests suggestion request of the City Council permission to establish the Newtown Urban Renewal Project and the study of the Cherry View Area? Ma

yor West, do you not wish to study Dickinson Avenue and adjacent property from Eighth Street to the A. C. L. Rahway Tracks?

Mayor West, do you wish to study the Bamma and the North Side Area?

Mayor West, is there any area in Greenville West of Evans Street which you do not wish to seize for either an Urban Renewal or Public Housing Project?

Mayor West, Councilmen Howard and Trevathan. would you say of course The Study of the above mentioned areas Would not Obligate the city? Yet, would not those areas after being studied, be ideal areas for Urban Renewal Projects?

Will the members of the Planning Commission, Redevelopment Commission and the City Council please take a close look at Evans Street, that is from 2nd to 5th St? The business section of East 5th St. should also bear a close inspection. Are the drab buUdlngs on Evans and E. Fifth a credit to Greenville? Would this area be suitable for an Urban Renewal Project?

It is reported that Mayor West on October 8. 1964, made a recommendation to the City Council that Greenville request of the Housing Authority 500 Housing Units In addition to (Continued on Page 5)

and we just cant handle them. But most Goldwater suiv porters have said they cant live in the United States under Johnson and Humphrey.

Were in sympathy with them, but why dont they go to Argentma?

In order to help Canada we believe it is up to everyone to persuade the losing side to remain In the United States.

There are many things that could be done.

One would be to proclaim a Take a Loser to Lunch Week. Dui'ing this week the winners would take the losers to the restaurant of their choice. Whe the losers were eating the winners could explain to them where the losers made their biggest mistakes. This would bind the wounds and bring the winners and losers closer together again.

Another way to help would be for a winners family to pay a call on a losers family and distribute baskets of food, toys, and clean second - hand clothing. The winner could explain the reason for the charity was that the loser had predicted the country would go to blazes if Johnson got in, and therefore the loser could probably use the gifts.

If they wanted to make a community effort we think th^ winners could throw a huge

post election barbecue for the losers in the town square. Each winner would be assigned a loser and he would be responsible for making him happy.

He could present the loser with a Texas sombrero and any Johnson - Humphrey buttons he had left over from the campaign.

He could teach the loser the words to Hello, Lyndon and read him excerpts from Johnson speeches. The trick would be to make the loser forget all about the election.

Of course there is always the outside chance that Barry Goldwater might win the election. In this case there would be 80 million people wanting to go to Canada. The Canadians seem to have more to lose in this election than anybody.

By ROGER BABSON BABSON PARK, Mass.

All of my readers are famlMr with the weather forecasts are given ot radio and TV several times a day. These cover not only tee territory which * your station serves, but tea ^

TV forecasts also show a map * ' indicating what is occurring in all other sections al the country.

The Old Farmers Almanaa

This is a booklet that has been Issued for 172 years and Is published by Yankee. Incorporated. Dublin, New Hamp- ..I

shire. As to how their predlc- tions arc made, I do not know.

But the book contains forecasts about the coming winter, whether it will be mild,

cold, wet, dry and glvee

predictions also for the f u 11 -

year ahead. I am not guaranteeing the forecasts of the Old Farmers Almanac, but the editors have been at it for a long time and should be able to make a good estimate.

So far as I know, all secuone of the United States get the same Almanac and Uie same forecast, wherever they live. However, suggestiims are given readers for making .adjustments to fit the various area*. ^ In my opinion, the Old Fan^ ers Almanac is a valuable book and I recommend it.

The Inevitable Curve en Action and Reaction Those who have followed tlM column for many years wm remember that I often refer to Sir Isaac Newtons Law of Action and Reaction. In fact, it was on the basis of this 1^ that Babsons Reports was ot> ginally founded. Readers whe have been to my coiferenceiS will remember that large (Richard Knight) auditorium a Babson Park carries a reference to the Law of Action ana Reaction, which law I am Ing today to help what the coming winter wUI develop. I am breaking away frwn professional meteorological forecasting methods and basing my experiments on the up and down curvature wtdcll applies to almost everything on earth from the waves of the ocean to the temperaturcf of the land. , .

My Interpretation Is that considering the whole country if one traces this curve over periods of years the ups and downs will come close to bal- , ancing. In other words, ther will be a period of years with temperature running a little colder until they reach a curve trough where they will start up again and be a little wami-er. Only time will tell whether my experiment is right or wrong. The professional meteorologists may not agree writh my forecasts: but then, they often do not agree with (me another.

My Forecast for the Next Two Yearn After tracing the temperatures thus far this year, I find that most of the country has experienced a cool summer. Based on these curves I will forecast that the cool weather is not over. My curves do not take into consideration. snow,-by w hich many readers judg. winter. I plot the regular temperature figures, in winter just . as in summer.

My forecast is that thcjse sections of the country which have had a cool summer will continue tp have lower temperatures until the curve reaches its nadir. Then it wiU gradually turn and start upward until it reaches an apex and headi back down again. To complete one of these curves requires four to eight years. Hence I foi-ecast that both winter and summer will be cooler than normal for at least a coupl* years more. Then the temperature will begin to move upward. Weather Forecasts Helphil To Businesses With my readers living In different sections of the country, I do not like to give too definite advice. However, I do feel that any reader who is handling perishable foods would do well to have a talk with his (Continued on Page 5>

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November Good Business Month

By ELMER ROESSNER

November will be a good monte, but not as good as it might be.

It will be good because income is stm high and rising, because consumers will have faith In the future (even after Election Day), because the new record-setting spending for, Christmas will begin in the late days of the month, and because the harvest time of the year always stimulates farm bcying.

There are other reasons. Since advertisers have been getting Increased sales on increased Investments In advertising, promotions will increase. The increase of affluence in the American society, partly because of higher incomes noted above, is swelling spending, sometimes for the <&mnedest, most useless things. The hiring of extra help by the post office, department stores, delivery services and rther operations iufluenc-I ed bv the sea.son will increase* employment, hence spending. CHARGE IT, LEASE Another bullish factor in November business is the fact that credit sellers do not take seriously the warnings that consumer credit Ls at a dangerous high and that personal

bankruptcies a re well over 100,000 a year. More credit will be pushed this season than ever before.

One reason is that interest rates are high and that sellers on credit, sometimes even Including employees, profit on finding customers who will

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pay from 9 to 24 per cent or more on deferred payments. The profit on a $100 item may be only $3. but profits on In-.stalment payments on $65 in deferred payments may be $20 or more.

The post-election euphoria WiU also tend to buU business in November. While the stock market frequently dips after an election, in the market place the majority of the voters will beUeve that everything will be aU right. Regardless of who wins, millions of people will count on additional

social security, medicare, more funds for housing, more support for students, better commuter services and what do you want, Charley?

This, and easier credit and other beneficent factors, will tend to push retail turnover at higher speeds.

ON THE OTHER HAND Business will be less good than It might be because the country wUl begin to feel the effects of the long G e n e r a 1 Motors strike, in which hundreds of miUions oi payroll dollars, hundreds of millions of auto payments and scores of mllUons of doUars in profits have been lost, some forever.

The strike was a blood-gush-Ing wound in the side of the economy and only tic foreign affairs the O-nese A-bomb, the vanqulsh-ment of Khrushchev and the swing to Labor in Britain kept it out of headlines for weeks.

In addition, other strikes are bleeding the economy at present. Those against newspapers are especiaUy harmful, since they wUl tend to curb Christmas sales by reducing advertising.

Election Day Nov. 3 and Veterans Day, Nov. 11, as well as Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 26. wUl help to increase business.

The first two days are increasingly the occasion of special sales, and the pre-Thanksglv-Ing purchases are mounti n g annually. The day has become a target date for having furniture and home furnishing installed or redone, for completing redecorating, and getting new ^verware and table Un-

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So business will be good, but not as good as it might be.

OLD PROMOTERS WARNS OF EXTENDED NEW YEAR While I was writing the last few paragraphs the Old Promoter had eased himself In and was reading over my shoulder.

Speaking of holidays, h said, you ought to warn your readers to prepare for tht New Years celebration.

You mean to drive (WW-' fully?.

No. to make hospital reservations early. This year New Years Eve is on a Thursday and New Years Day la on a Friday, followed by no - worts Saturday and Sunday. Pew people have stamina to celebrate for four days. The best* way to celebrate may be in prayer.

AU right. Readers will pleas# spend the long weekend to

church.