Wednesday, November 18, 1964

Senator Didnt Get The Message

Sen. Barry

Goldwater in an impromptu icans want their two parties to be flexible, with

^conference this weekend sug- each of the two embracm^

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ae message the ^American voters so forcefully the course of the nation,

brought to him m the . vx -.uqu* This is as it should be. When either party

Despite all the offers candidates who deviate radically from the

Americas headlong rush down the road ^ nations chosen objectives, the * electorate has no

the recent election clearly showed that the eiea^^^ chdce. They vote for moderation, ate prefers a moderate approac t senator should observe sonie o^her nations

And preferring this moderate approach, Amer-

Gill Predicted.

Vote Outcomes

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES PREDICT Veteran ^ate treasurer Edwin Gill saw another of his predictions come true In the Nov. 3 election returns.

Gill predicted in his address at the Vanoe-Aycock dinner In Asheville on Oct. 10 that Lyndon B. Johnson would receive a substantial majority in popular vote, that he would score a sweeping victory in the electoral college and that North Carolina would be in the Democratic column as usual.

At the time Gill spoke there was some Question in the minds of most poUtical observers about the latter part of this prediction.

CASES In the same address, Gill predicted than Dan K Moore would be elected governor by the largest majority

held firm on the straight ticket. The Lake forces of conser-vsitive, states rights - minded Democrats held firm. So did the loyal wpositicm supporters of Gov. Terry Sanford and L. Richardson Preyer. In any case had there been wholesale defection by one of these sizeable groups, or by Moorei forces In the presidential race, the Democratic margin of vie* tASf would have been cut razor tffll or wiped out entirely.

DEFECT That dcfectlona did occur from straight ticket voting is seen in the fact that Dr. Charles P. Carroll, unopposed for state superintendent of public Instruction, led the ticket in total vote for any single candidate, getting 828.608. This was some 13,500 votes more than the total vote for

before he makes such statements. In England for instance the liberals have just assumed power. Among their aims is nationalization of the steel industry. This has been done previously under a liberal regime, but when the Conservatives returned to power the steel industry was made a private enterprise once again. Now it is possible for a second such radical change to take place in one

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The American public would not stand for this. If the voters had had a choice between a candidate who wanted to nationize major industries and a moderate, the majority would have been just as great in the other direction.

If Sen. Goldwater did not learn this is his recent defeat, we hope there are others in the Republican party who did. For America needs two strong major parties, both of which follow a carefully chosen path for the good of the nation in these complicated times.

Bowl Bid A Deserved Honor To ECC Team

East Carolina Colleges invitation to partici-

by the larges; majoruy any sS cMdidate.'^^tting pate in the Tangerine Bowl next month is a honor

ver warded a !^Satori 828.608. This was some 13.500 much deserved by the Pirate football squad and one

ndidate in this state. votes more than the total poU- T*oflpr*ts rrpHit on the flrrowinv Drestlge 01

This was not quite the case.

flnce more substantial mworl-tles were poUed by several candidates for governor in years When the Republican party in North Carolina was woefully weak and ineffectual and offered no more than token op

ed by Ueutenant governor-elect Robert W. (Bob) Scott who led the ticket for candidates having opposition.

Among candidates for state office, the two whose Republican opponents poUed the highest vote totals in their respective races were Moore

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Soviet Story

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Peaturei Syndicate, Inc.

So the Soviets lost the Olympics, in the matter of gold ' medals at any rate. They had predicted as much well In advance. blaming it in their sports magazines wi bourgeois emulation by some of their athletes who had allegedly picked up bad habits abroad. This does not explain, of course, how or why the bourgeois United States managed to (wtperform the Soviets or Tokyo. Maybe the Soviet athletes needed more bourgeois Influence, not less.

If the Soviet athletes seem to have been going soft, tt could be because of a slackening of moral tone that has if-

which reflects credit on the growing prestige

Certainly it is an invitetion that is highly gy ALVIN TAYXiOR pleasing to many East Carolina supporters in the 1 T IT T

Eastern section of the state, and we hope in all 7\ ^4.4 ^ ^ \ A / 7" r^lT\

parts of North Carolina. It is further recognition M f 1- | .. V V CvyJXVzl L\Ji

of the increasingly important position East Caro-lina College is coming to occupy not only among

Dositlon. speciive races were mwre jjna UOliege IS coming 10 occupy nut umy ouiuuis v nmhjihlv the longest

Sfst^^lticly ^^troveiSa the colleges of this state, but the colleges of this ^^ege oriented com- lrade in Eastern^Nortb

gin of 184.179 votes must rank high comparatively both in size and significance in view of a vigorous 1964 Republican effort and intraoarty difficulties among the states Dsmocrats. It did exceed the margin by which North Carolina went for President Johnson over Barry Goldwater, and the margin by Which Terry Sanford was elected in 1960 over Robert L. Gavin.

CALLED Gill went even further before the Vance-Ay-eock audience.

He predicted that all of the state ticket and that all of the States Democratic congress-

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iwn would be re-elected and that we will see gains in both the Boiate anl House of our state legislature, and many close counties and counties that have bei Republicui will be found in the Democratic column.

In both Instances. It turned out that he was right.

CREDIT In retrospect. Gill says now that the Democratic sweep of the recent state elec-tikMU must be credited to a tying together of all segments of the states Democratic party behind party candidates.

He feels that the fact that no single segment or faction defected to any great extent made victory possible for the entire ticket. There were defections to varying degree, frrai this candidate or that, he says, hut in each case they had BO appreciable effect.

The Negro vote in the state

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names on the state ticket.

In contrast. Dr. Carroll remained aloof fnan the political storms and did not enter into any partisan or intraparty controveries at all.

SCOTT Bob Scotts fine showing in amassing votes in the general election has projected the son of the late Gov .-Sen. W. Kerr Scott prominently into the 1968 gubernatorial picture.

But if Scott chooses to run for governor four years from now. he will be bucking precedent that extends back for more than half a century no lieutenant governor has ever succeeded in being elected governor of North Carol i n a. Five lieutenant governors have tried, and not one has even survived the primary.

TRIED The states primary law was enacted in 1915. The first lieutenant governor to seek nomination for the governorship was E.L. Daugh-tridge and he was defeated by T. W. Bickett. Then O. Max Gardner of Shelby tried while he was lieutenant governor and was defeated in the primary by Cameron Morrison.

Gardner, of course, waited eight years and sought the govershlp again and bee a m the only Democratic governor In history to be nominated without opposition.

U. Gov. Richard T. Fountain ran for governor against J.C.B. Ehringhaus and was defeated. U. Gov. A. H. (Sandy) Graham ran for governor and was defeated by <3yde R. Hoey. Lt. Gov. W. P. Horton ran for governor and was defeated by J. M. Broughton.

Five lieutenant governors since 1870 have succeeded to the governorship without being elected, by the route of death of a governor, Impeachment In one case and election of a governor to the U.S. Senate In another.

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In all no one In Greenville could fail to realize that it was a big weekend.

Now that we have deslgnat-^ ed the most active weekend,

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flicted the whole range of Russian society. Those self-exiled Russian journalists who keep tabs on the ccntents of Soviet publications for the Institute fw the Study of the USSR In Munich have recently been going to town on the subject of Soviet Juvenile delinquency. Curiousp ly, just about every manifestation of youthful hooliganism in England and the United States can be matched with s(xnething that has happened In Russia.

In New Ywk Oty, Par* Commissioner Newbold Morris has been criticized for allowing the parks to become tiie haunts of muggers and perverts. It Is never explained how Mr. Morris Is to police the paria without a bigger budget being allotted to the work. It might be some consolation to the Park Commissioner to read a report in the Moscow newspaper

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By HARRY KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) -President Johnson is preparing to send his own legislative program along the old, storm-swept congressional trail.

This time it will carry his brand alone rather than the joint JFK-LBJ sign of the previous Congress. The Texas rancher Is sure to watch over it as if it were a prize newborn calf.

The congressional signs bode well for the Presidents pro-grun. Johnsons Democra t s will have their biggest majority in the House since the New Deal days and have increased their top-heavy edge in the Senate.

But big majorities dont dazzle Johnson. The man who made his reputation generating Democratic forces In the Senate believes that leadership is the key to success.

So he Is faced with a problem: filling Vice Presidentelect Hubert H. Humph r e ys shoes as the partys assistant leader or more descriptively, the whip In the Senate. Rs a big job and big shoes. Sen. Mike Mansfield, the majority leader, is of a scholarly nature, free of pugnacity. Thus much of the heavy legislative plunging was left to the staccato-talking man in motion: Humphrey.

Johnson approved of the way he did it, so much so that he picked him as his running mate, gaining.a vice president but losing a Senate whip.

Who will replace Humphrey? A number of senators want to try.

Russell B. Long of Louisiar na, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and John O. Pastore of Rhode Island all have announced they would like the job and circulated letters to their colleagues seeking support.

Other names have been mentioned, including Sens. Edmund Muskie of Maine and Phillip A. Hart of Michigan.

Technically the President has no hand In making the selection. The decision will be made by the 68 Democrats voting In caucus before Congress opens.

But realizing what a quietly spread word from the President can mean, Long and Monroney have 'sought Johnsons ear.. Later Monroney told newsmen Johnson had informed him he wasnt taking a hand in It. Long reported that he thought the caucus would pick him provided President Johnson does not enter the situation.

It is the bantam rooster <rf the Senate, Pastore, whom Long regards as his toughest (Continued on Page 8)

knew or needed to know). They were real characters and could tell us many wierd tales of what happened at night in the swamps.

Once I remembered my brother, his girl friend, and others besides me went out on the lake to row around and have a look. We had one that lasted for quite a while because when we entered the lake thru the Feeder Ditch (Fed water Into the canal from the lake) we could not find the entrance for the vast growtii.

I decided if I ever made that trip again Id hang a white sheet on a tree near our starting point.

I can also remember my mother telling us of a real character named Reckless Nell who used to ride her horse right Into The Half - Way House or any saloon she chose. Now, this sounds tike a story on TV but It was true.

At South Mills there was an Indian family an old lady her daughter and her grandson. If there was a father I never knew of him. But I loved to visit Aunt Harriet, and hear her wild tales also. I had to "slip off to go to see her but she liked me and I liked her. That was enough for me. She used to say, why child, your grandmother was part Indian, I couldnt argue with her since both my fathers parents were killed by lightning at the same time. One ups)-stairs and the other down stairs when he was a small boy. However he was taken into the home of an aristocrat family and lacked for nothing.

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campus either take off for WrightsvUle or Carolina Beaches, or else dreading the boredom, they go home. On that weekend you could hear a pin drop here.

Don Schllenz and Stuart Savage of The Dally Reflector news staff took this Youth Appreciation Week stuff completely to heart.

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section of the country as well. mty. Thus the citys activi-

In recent years East Carolina College has ex- ties are directly proiwrUoniti -------

perienced unprecedented growth. Equally import- ^ .ttenUon to the -Sot-rminimS

ant, it has experienced unprecedented development would alumni returning. All t h 1 s dullest local weekend of t h e jn the Soviet city of Uralsk

in many fields of endeavor, not the least of which nominate Homecoming Week- eans extremely heavy yg^r. Again it involves coUege ^ ^

hflta hppTi its athletic nrogram East Carolina has end as one of the Uviest of not only du^g the afternoon actlrtties. Our nomination for . -

has been its atnieiic pr pmnhaqivP the year In Greenville. The city but far into the night. category would be Azelea

made no secret of its intention to emphasize ^ ^ holiday atmosphere Fraternity and sorority pw- Festival weekend. At this time

athletics as a part of its overall program. As has jqj. weekend. There is ties highlight the evening. All practically all the studente on

been carefully pointed out by the college administration, however, the emphasis on athletics has been for the purpose of bringing this part of the institutions program up to a level in keeping with the schools achievements in other iields. ^ Editor-

The fact that East Carolina has now received .j^g article The Dismal two post season bowl bids in as many years is swamp Canal, a Long Recog-

indicative of the success the college is experiencing nl^ Need by Job G-

in the effort to improve its athletic program. And yoir pwer is

this sweet smell of success on the gridiron is in qj great interest to me. I was

keeping with the pattern that has been set by the bom in a house at the south-

college in its total development program. Iwsmi^Snaf at^^uth^^S

This new feather in East Carolinas cap is one 1899.

which may be worn proudly by the institution, for ggg jrom the en-

it matches well many others that have been earned closed death notice of my father, he was an employee of the owners of the Lake Drummond Canal Co. for many years and what the death notice doesnt say Is that he was kept on as a Civil Service employee for (juite a few years after the canal became government property. He was too old to become a civil service employee at the time. However, because of his knowledge of the canal, he was indispensible to them until it became more organized and put into more modem operating condition.

I saw Mr. Pugh on The Morning Show on television Iwt I have not read his book Ixit hope to some time when I can afford one.

As I go back in memory I can see my father spending many a tiresome night getting the freight loaded barges un-jamed when the small tug boats, which puUed several large heavily loaded barges and rafts of logs would have them swimming across the canal and block all traffic.

Our Sunday School class picnics were usually held at Lake Drummond which fed the canal and had as Its only inhabitants Aunt Jane and Uncle Jack (all the names I ever

You might remember that last week, was. Indeed, Youth Aix>reciation Week. WeU Stuart celebrated by taking his wife Mickie, to the hospital l^day night. At 3:15 a.m. she gave birth to a baby girl, Tracy Leigh. Don Schllenz never was one to be outdone, so he carried his wife. Dot, to the hospital early Monday, and Monday at 1:45 she gave birth to a boy, David Charles.

Babies, mothers, fathers and the entire Reflector news staff, at last report were doing fine.

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LBJ used 60 pens to sign his name to a recent bill. If this trend continues were going to have to elect presidents with longer names. "--Hartford Courant.

grow dark, people hurriedly leave the green paths. Izves-tia goes on to say that young > hooligans have burned or disfigured all the decorations In the park.

Not so long ago a bunch of gilded upper class youths wrecked a house on Long Island at the tag end of a party. Was this a manifestation oi bourgeois rottenness Maybe so, but the RttSSln^'pblicap"" tion, Komsomolskaya Pravda, complains that even children from the well-to-do levels of Soviet society are going In for what they call the sweet life. which Is defined as not working anywhere, dressing In the modem way, drinking as not working anywhere, dressing in the modem way, drinking insanely, and carousing. Yunost. another Russian periodical, writes about the behavior of a group of young people who were on holiday In a guest home. The Yunost reporter was shown the brtricen glass. . . the broken benches, the door which bad been tom frcnn its hinges; holes were gaping in some of the plastic snow-screens on the balconies. . An awful Niectacle created by an exulting boor, I thought. . .but no. I was told It might. . .have been done by ratiier proper boys, intellectuals, with whom it is possible to talk about literature, . .we naive people. . . tell them it Is unbe<Mxnlng for young people, and these rascals, to be disagreeable, would lower their eyes, and growl through their teeth, You want a punch!

A predominantly Jewlri) neighborhood in Brooklsm, despairing of getting sufficient police protection against thugs and rapists, organizes Its own watchdog groups. Whereupon It Is criticized for taking the law into its own hands and re-that had been abused In the verting to vigilante practices (Continued on Page 8)

Rlastics Industry Seeks A

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS PROGRESS? HOW MUCH? Do we really live In an age of progress? Certainly we appear to. When George Washington was serving his second term as President of the United States at the seat of na-ti(mal government, which was Philadelphia, he found it necessary at times to return to Mt. Vcmon, a little more than 150 miles from Philadelphia. The best time he ever made on his journey was six days.

We have only had telegraphy for about 120 years. How well some of us oldsters can remember seeing the first horseless carriage Just before the turn of the century. Radio came In In the 1920s. Television has been with us only a few years. Now we are encircling the globe at prodigious beighto, speculating when we win reach the moon

and planning to drop something or other on the planet Mars.

There have been periods in life when great awakenings occurred in art and literature. We live in an age in which men have advanced scientifically to greater extent than through all the ages preceding.

Yet are we much different from our forebears? We kill now In wholesale l(is whereas previous generations conducted little, local wars.

On the whole it would w>-pear that we have made some advance. We have gone forward one foot and fallen back elevm Inches. But we arc stlD a little bit ahead. Only let us not get vain over our achl-evemente. Some of them may achieve our ruin. We may even blow up the planet on which we live. What about the aste-roldi

By ELMER ROESSNER For generations the metal Industry had a mon(H>oly ( the packaging of milk, from the large cans In which it was shipped to smaller cans in which It was measured out to consumers.

Then glass competed and while steel and aluminum tanks replaced the shlpp 1 n g cans, bottles monopolized the field at the consumer level. But this was a big business and, seeking a share, there eamii the paper Industry with many containers. Including the amazingly successful wax e d carton, which captured a major shiure of the $750-mlllion-a-year market.

Three-quarters of a billion dollars a year Thats right. And because it la so big, the plastics industry Is now fighting for part of It.

At least five major companies are now bidding for chunks of that $750 million spent every year to package milk.

MANY ADVANTAGES R looks now. in the early months of the war, as If plastics would win a big share. Plastic bottles dont leak, and itim(M{t any supermarket manager will tell you how much trouble leaky waxed cartons are. And the plastic bottles never Include lumps of paraf-

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fin. There are no deposits, no returns.

The plastics Industry claims other advantages: Plastic bottles are lighter, hence easier to handle and cheaper to transport. They Can be filled faster than paper and as fari sa glass. They stand up better than paper and dont break If dropped. And they can be made with built-in handles.

The five leading contenders for milk packaging sales are Grace. Shell, Union Carbide, Owens-Illinois and Haskon, the latter being a relatively new Joint venture of Hercules Powder and American Seal-Kap. HOW THEY COMPETE Shell and Grace sell resins to independent blow molders and help them get dairies as customers. Union Carbide sells dairies half containers, which are shipped nested and ssem-bled at dairies. Owens-Illinois manufactures containers-in regional plants and uses noilk-bottle shapes that can be filled in existing bottling equipment.

Haskon has an ingenious marketing system. R manufactures Its plastic containers right on the dairy premises, paying the dairy rent fix the space, which provides a coo-stant supply at low shipping costs. R has stand-by plants for emergencies.

It opened its first pilot production plant at Mountainside, N.J., last week. This will be a demonstration plant, a traln-

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ing site for (X>erators of other plants, a research laboratory and a stand-by plant.

TWO OTHER CONTENDERS

There are two other types of contenders for the milk packaging maricet. Also competing are plastic-coated paper bottles and the bag-ln-boz packages, ccmsisUng ol polyethylene bags containing 10 or 12 quarto in corrugated cardboard boxes.

Price Is a factor In this mllk-contalner war. Shell, Grace, Uni(Xi-Carblde and (Jwens-RU-nols prices are slightly higher than paper, and Haskon clatans ito prices are oompe-tltive with paper. Polyethylene has been declining In price lately and the price may dng) further if demand Justin fies greater production.

While the corporate giants are putting millions into this competitive battle, it will be the American housewife who declares the winner. Metal cans and pitchers faded away because Mrs. Doakes preferred the glass bottle with Ito return system and Its breakage and again she will decide whether she wants mUk In waxed paper or plastic contalaera.

THOSE EXTRA BENEFITS COST EMPLOYERS LOTS

R was argued here that fringe benefits is a misnomer since, being tax-sheltered, they are main-chance Items for many workers.

Now the Natlcmal Industrial CoDlerence Board has calculated that these benefits cost the U. S. manufacturing', employer 53.4 cents an hour for every production wtxker in 1962. Thats $21.36 a 40-hour week, and $1.068 for a 80-week year.

These benefits Indtxle paid leave, premium paymmts, bonuses. Insurance programs and welfare plans. The primary metals Industries paid heaviest: 77.4 cento an hour, while the apparel tndiistry paid only 26J1 cento an hour.

Note: These figures are for 1962 and these benefits have Increased (xxislderable In 1963 and thia year.