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Farmers Must Support Program

^ It is official now that tobacco acreage allot- ments and price supports for tobacco wi menu for next year will be cut 19.5 per cent below abandoned. fhp fact that the

those that previiled for this year's crop. While the There ^^11 riduction in allotments Is substantial, it came as a reduction manv who are engaged

surprise to no one because of the large volume of have an advert effect on

crop is the December 16 referendum in which disasterous tobacco pro-

tobacco growers will determine whether acreage al- It *** .4 ',ture of hU principal

lotments and price supports for their principal ducer hat the econom^^^

crop will be continued for another three years, crop wiH be far better off if ttccro^^^

If two-thirds of those who participate in the referen- support y mule# a drastic reduetion

dum vote for continuation of the program, it will has been wj.i,.... controls on produc-

be official for the next three years. If less than two- in acreage otmen^ mth^t conteols^n produ^

This would drive prices downward sharply from their present supported levels and spell economic chaos throughout the tobacco area.

With the production control and price support program continued for another three years, it will be possible to work out refinements in the method of controlling production In order to keep supply in better balance with demand. If the program is rejected in its present form by tobacco producers it is unlikely that any other system of price supports and production controls can be

written Into law.

Now that the decision on 1966 allotments has been made, tobacco farmers should present a united front in support of allotments and price supports by voting for continuation of these programs in the referendum on December 12.

Not So Much Concern Over The Local Trnd

It is natural to assume that the Increasing crime rate of the state or nation is caused by a higher crime rate in other localities or areas . . . not in the one in which we live.

It is natural to make such an assumption, but It is also unrealistic.

Few communities are willing to take a hard look at the statistics in their own police departments. In most cases, these statistics show that crime is increasing in the rural areas, in the towns and small cities as well as in metropolitan areas. Rather than facing up to these facts, it is easier for the people of the smaller community to passively assume that all the trouble is coming from the big cities.

Eastern North Carolina has no metropolitan area. But almost without exception, the records of police departments throughout this area will show an increase in the crime rate in recent years. The increase is reflected in the category of major** crimes and also in the violations referred to as minor. In spite of the increase, however, it is difficult to find any outward concern among the citizens of the respective communities.

In general terms they are much concerned about the rate of increase of crime in the nation. But most fail to recognize that conditions in their own community have likewise deteriorated. They fall to recognize that what is happening in alarming proportions across the nation as a whole is taking place in a smaller way within their own community.

It is time that citizens of the smaller cities and towns including Greenville take careful stock of the trend reflected by the statistics of their ewn police departments. It is time they ^cognize that the police department by Itself cannot successfully cope with the increasing criminal rate. If the trend is to be reversed, the plice department must have greater active support by the citizens of the community.

It is not enough for the people of a community to point to crime problems of other cities and say it cant happen here. In all probability it is already happening here, the police department records will show that it is.

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Many Jars Need Filling Tomorrow

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH Reporters notebook:

The 1964 Chrlatinaa shopping season has begun on a highly optimistic note, with predictions in many quarters that holiday buatnesa volume this year will exceed that of 1963.

Nationally, nearly nine out of 10 retailers expect a b i r S e r Christmas volume this year, according to a survey by the bureau of advertising, American NewspM>er Publishers Ae-sociation.

Key reasons cited in the ANPA survey included a rising climate of prosperity, sta-bilization of the political situation. effects of the tax cut on consumer spending and credit, and the fact that 1964 offers 24 selling days between Thanksgiving and Christmas two more than in 1963.

Actually Christmas shopping promotions in many places began prior to the start of Thanksgiving week on Nov 22.

SURVEY The ANPA surrey Indcated that merchants were r-' : ootimistic about

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profu.:> do were sales.

Eight out of 10 looked for profit increases this Christmas 10 per cent more than last year.

In additiim. bigger advertising budgets for the Christmas season were planned by more than half of the stores. Less than five per cent planned to trim advertising expenditures.

ANPA said retailers would rely heavily on daily newspapers as a basic advertising medium.

Many replies in the survey n(Aed that while the economy was good, the competition is keener. A North Carolina department store retailer reported people are in a buy 1 n g mood. _

NEWSLETTER Volume 1, No. 1 of the states new Commercial Fisheries newsletter is off the press, and is being distributed by the commercial fisheries division of the department of Conservation anl Development.

CBD officials said the publication would be distributed quarterly, without cost, to all licensed North Carolina commercial fishermen and other fisheries interests.

R was planned to pres e n t Items of current Interest, information about commercially-' important fish suid sbellf i s h. and summaries of the activi-ties and progran of the di-- vision.

The initial issue contain e d t reports on a record catch of blue crabs in North Carolina waters this year, promotion of

iittle-neck clams which are in plentiful supply in Albemarle Sound and Pungo river, ex-panaira of commercial fisher iee research and developmoit programs, the addition of a seafood development specialist in the Commerce and Induatry division, addition of a fisheries biologist and hiring of new commercial fisberiea fcispeot-on.

ENGINEERS - The state board oi registration for professional mi^eers and land surveyors brought suit recently against a firm using the word englneen in its corporate title.

Ground tor legal action was on the basis thst no offidsl in the firm was registered ss an engineer under state law. The suit was settled out of court when the firm agreed to remove the wwd engineers from its title.

The action, according to board chairman Arvln Page of Winston-Salem, was part of concerted action by the board to prevent non - professionals from describing themselves as engineers or their services as engineering.

The state law requires that any person practicing, or offering to practice engineering in North Carolina must subm i t satisfactory evidence to the board that he is qualified to practice.

The state board is deeply concerned with the increasing number of unauthorized persons. firms or organizations which advertise, or imply, that they offer some form of engineering service, Page said.

He aaid the board has retained legal counael In five North Carolina cities for the purpose of taking legal action when necessary.

SEATINQ If any question is raised about the authority of the Secretary of State, T h a d Eure, to make seating assi<m-ments for members of the General Aseembly. the answer goes back 25 years.

It is contained In a resolution adopted by the 1939 General Aseembly and th eperti-nent section reads;

It shaD be the duty of the Secretary of ^te to assign seats to members of the Senate and Rouse of Representatives in tbdr respective clmm-bers. In malting such aselgn-mente each member who has served in the immediate preceding eeeslon of the General AaeembUr ahall be entitled to the seat occupied by him .or his selection of any other available seat, if requested within five days after the general election. All other members shall be seated in accordance with their desire from the rt-malning seats available.^Those making no requests shall be assigned seats In the (Uscretion of the Secretary of State.

In filling requests for assignments, Eure falthf follows the first -come, served rule, to the extent that he logs each request in person, by letter or by telephone with the exact time and date It was received.

gy HAL BOYLE

We Dominate In Music

NEW YORK (AP) Music has more than charms to soothe the savage beast.

It also has big pocketbo<A appeal. It has sounded a major keynote of Its own In the present national business boom.

This country has got to wake up to tile fact we have

had a cultural explosion, and are now culturally mature," said Robert J. Burton. Musically, we now dominate the world."

Amerioaas themselves still are largely ignorant of tbelr musical flowerlDf. aooording to Burton, preaident of Broad

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pounding Fathers, especially Thomas Jefferson, would be amazed; in fact, they probar bly would be shuddering.

Jefferson, an exemplar of 18th century enlightenment, was a man who balleved human reason. If rightfully applied. could solve great social and political problems.

What would he find today? Statesmen beginning to abdicate reasons throne, beginning to turn their problems over to robots, to computers.

The trend, if It can be called one, was highlighted in Connecticut the other day. There the members of the state legislature were faced with what might seem a relatively simple problem, tbougb one of Immense Impoitanee.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled state legislative districts must be equal in population so far as practicable. This requires much revamping of most state leglslaturea.

In Ooonectlcut, the Democrats control one house and the Republicans the other. They were unable to ait down, reason togetter and oome up with a solution.

The deadlock got to bad the Nov. 8 election tor the legislature was canceled. The old assembly is holding over.

A three-judge federal court, which has taken a great interest In the subject, finally appointed a special master to o(na up with a reapportion-ment plan In ease the legislature continues to fail.

Who Is the special master?

Morris S. Davis, director of the Yale University C<miputer Center. His robots are green on the problem of reapportion-ment; they have been laboring hitherto on such subjects as linguistics and astronomy. But Davis expresses confid e n c s they will meet this new chiJ-

While Jefferson probably would shake his head over the failure of men to reason to* gethcr, he would be vastly Interested in computers. IM wu a great gadgeteer himself, an inventor.

He would recognlM at once that ocmputers art only a tori of extenaion of the human brain. They caxmot do anything ttie brain eannot do, only they ean do it faster. Their output Is only as good as the mn-tcrial fed into their maw.

Computer men have an adage; "Garbage in. girhtge out."

Special mister Davis does not Intend to feed any ga^ bags In.

We hope." he said, "that we will be able to dellvtr an objective, nonpaitisan system by approaching the problem as (me of matbematiea. rather than politics."

Bimgestlons have bean made hi other statea/too. that eem-puters rush to the gid of statesmen.

Speaking about New Yoit, an official of the National Municipal League said: There Is no reason why In the state of New York a aystem of eoa-pact. contiguous dlitriets. wen balanced in population, cannot be set up within even a weeks time.

AU It needs Is pOople with a tbereugh knowledge of the prooeas. technical iMlp, eoih-puters and a conscience.

Congdenee is. of course, exactly what computers lack; they have ne emotions, no sense of compassion.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

liie one overriding problem that aerves as a barrier to set-tldnent of Eunmes postwar probtos Is the division of Germany. As of today, the peo-^ of Germany and of Ehir-ope have learned to live with this handicap. But they all realize nothing will ever really be resolved until the two Germanys are unified again.

And thats where the real problem arises, for the Soviet Union will never voluntarily permit East and West Germany to be reunited as one ni-tUm. Fear of German military might is deeply rooted in Soviet tradltl(Mi. Twice dur 1 n g this century German hordes fiowed eastward to pose a life threat to Russia.

Twice the Bear was saved by Western military action. It Isnt likely that Russia will permit a third situation to ariie making possible another Germanic invasion. But this doesnt prevent all Germans, from both countries, to dream of re-imificati(H}.

While the population (rf East Osrmany has been subjected to long years of indoctrination under the (Communists, the cen-turlM of German tradition are oven longer in the blood of East Germans. They look to the day wten they can call tholr nation part of Germany rather than a branch of the Soviet Union.

But even with the braln-wa^ing efforts by the Russl-tns, there seems today to be

a drift, If there Is a drift, toward the West rather than toward the East. There are those who insist, however, that East Germans will never ae-oept the domination of the big industrialists in West Germany. East Germans hope for reunl-flcation but some of them insist that if it cant come on terms acceptable to them then a long separation might be the result.

Is It possible for the two German-speaking states to exist side by side? That is exactly what they have been doing since World War n. and if the Ruesians have anything to do with it, such an arrangement will continue. Not only that, but the East O e r m t B Communist leaders, encouraged by the Russians, have been trying to envelop all of Berlin in the Soviet sphere.

At the present time three zones of Berlin are occupied, under agreements made at the end of the war. by Britain. Prance and the U. 8. But Communists have done eversrthing they could to drive out the aUles.

Today East and West Germany provide startling e<m-trasts. East Germany, imder state omitnd, hM suffered eo-oncunlcally. It is a drab country. By contrast. West Germany, encouraged by the Cap-ItaUst West, has thrived. To-day it Is booming, rated as one (rf the free worlds economic giants. Its recovery from (Continued On Page B)

cast Music, me., one of the country's two major organiza-tims for licensing perferming rights. The other is ASCAP, pioneer in the field.

In 1989, when BMI was formed. ASCAP had a membership of about 1,188 compoe-era and publisbtrs." Burton said.

Today there are more than 21,750 authors. c(gnpoeert and music puhtishen connected with the two firms.

Performing rights payment came to about $4 millicm in 1939, last year were above $60 million, and by 1970 wQl reach $100 minion.

Sales of recordings rose from $44 million in 1939 to In excess of $650 mUUon this year.

In 1963, Americans spent another $660 mlUion for new musical instruments, accessories and sheet muite ^ mora than the c(nbiaed amount they spent for aU stiedjitor sports, oameras, oomie books and playtBg carda.

Wa had 100 aymphony orchestras in this countiy in 1920. Now there are some 1.300. more than half the number in the whole world.

Americans own 39 million musical instruments, up from 21 million In 1950.

Burton paused. A stocky, intense man who started life as an attorney, he hadnt run out of figures. He simply had run out of breath.

Then he went into the iste^ national picture.

Music is Americas chief creative export form today. That wasnt so true even 10 years ago.

But now in Western Eun^. the Far East, and even behfod the Iron Curtain, Amerioan music can truly be said to dominate much of the popular taste."

The mushrooming interest in music has created an upsurge in the untold number of Americans anxious to write tholr nations songs

Heaven only knows how many scmgwrlters there are, Burton said.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyrtgl^, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Tte Hearst Task Force that has been visiting the Iron (Curtain capitals oi Poland, OZecboriovakla, Rumania, and Hungary has spaded up some exciting evidence of local attempts to adapt free market incentive featuree to the end of making socialism work. This paradoxleal tom of if-fairs could mean much or little, depending ( a whole variety of eireumstances that nobody can foresee. The satel-Btea are assuming much greater freedom to think and plan for themselves, but progress in this freedom is obviously subject to what happens in Moscow. And Moscow, In Its turn, win have to redcon with the vagaries of Red China.

From the Western point of view, the news that the Iron

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Ckirtain economies are having to experiment with profits and incentives constitutes an entirely unlooked-for propaganda victory for the Weetem way of life. While we hava been softentog the sort of stuff that goes out over such channels as Radio Free Europe and doing very little to bring the Issue to Soviet imperialism before the United Nations, the Iron Curtain countries have had to admit that socialism in its more rigorous forms Just doesnt work. We dont deserve our good luck in this, but tiiere it Is. The job now for our propagandistlc agencies Is to get that news through to nations that are on the fence In South America. In Southeast Asia and in Central Africa.

The story, as my friend Bela FaWan of the exiled Hungarian Freedom Fighters keeps pointing out, begins with the reaction of millions of oppressed people behind the Iron Certain to the failure of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. The rumblings of Russian tanks through the streets of Budapest were a signal that open rebellion would not work. So the word went out all the way from Prague and Warsaw to Kazahkstan in central Asia to substitute a silent slowdown for overt action. A quiet but nonetheless deadly form of sabotage has brought the masters of Communism everywhere behhid the Iron CJurtaln to realize that they must give something to the Individual If they want to keep their own jobs.

Where open defiance has failed, the seepage of ridicule is finally succeeding. Throughout Hungary, for example, a labor decalogue has been circulating. The "new Ten Commandments" passed around In Hungarian factories reads;

1. Laziness is responsible for one-half of youribealth.

2. Whatever is to be done today ean be done just as well tomorrow.

8. Any matter which Is not solved automatically in thirty days is not worth taking up.

4. Dont search for zeal lost in lo(*Ing for work.

8. Failure to do a job means no mistakes, and no mistakes must win a bonus.

6. Dont be misled into working just because somebody else is (m the job.

7. Dont monopolize aU the space at the work bench.

8. Since wages are only minimal, woridng effort should correspond.

9.,The factory la not a cafe, and it is not necessary to spenil ones time in ft.

10.1 We know the axiom, (ContijiQed en page 8)

Advised Not To Spend So Much

Its a good thing for the tourist industry that vacations arent just taken by people who can afford them.Carlsbad (NIC.) Ourrent-Argus.

By ELMER ROESSNER

It may never get to the cab-mot lievel. but Secretary Or-vUle Freemans Department of Agriculture has produced a book that will bug some the boys in Secretary Luther Hodges* Department of Commerce.

The booklet is a guide to budgeting for the young cou pie. and it is free from the USDA. Send a postcard asking for HGB-98. It is a friendly 16-page thing telling young marricds how to set up a bod-i[et 80 they can live within iheir Income and not to be forced into the Job Corps or onto home relief.

It offers the standard operating procedure: calculate income, set up a budget, and dont spend more than yon make.

BEWARE OF INSTALMENTS

While the booklet does not decry instalment buying, it does warn that it can be costly. Chadit unions and commercial loan departments of banks have a "common rate" of 12 per oent but may charge from 12 to 24 per cent; consumer finance companies may charge from 24 to 48 per cent, while illegal lenders may charge firom 42 to 1,200 per cant. Bmrrow 100 snd at the end of the year you may owe $1,800.

Financing new cars in states with rate leglslntiOB mgy bs

around 12 per oent, but in these states with rate legislation may be around 12 per cent, but in these states the rates may be as high as 24 per cent, and in other states, as high as 120 per cent.

And used cars In the first group of states may cost up to 48 per cent for financing and in the others, from 19 to 276 per cent. In nongovernmental words, the newlyweds can get financing for tbelr oar if they

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buy another car for the loin haik.

Business will like acm o the USDA8 advice:

Take advantage of weekend food specials. (The USDA forgot to point out that Monday-to-Wednesday specials art often cheaper as supermaikets try to hire customera in on dull days.)

Inform yourself on a product before you shop for it.

Be alert to quality. Oom-pare prioM.

PatroolM Mssoiiabls mUm at

reliable shops. So-called white sales offer towels, sheets and other household tex-tilep at substantial savings. THE GENTLE BOYCOTT

But business will not be so appreciative of these items;

Get over the idea that everything you buy haa to be txmd new. Secondhand furniture, for example, may be a good Investment ftB- young couples, especially If you are not pe^ manently settled and are likely to move about considerably in the year ahead.

Eliminate tome items altogether tor the time being at least.

Spend less for certain iteaos; out down OB cigarettes or pay less for a spring ooat.

Make use of your ewn skiDa Instead of ptytag for servioes (make the cafe curtains you wanted instead of buying them, wash your ofvn cgr. etc.).

Take your lunch from home instead of buying it.

Take advantage of (Me community services for education and recreation (concerts, parks, libraries, lectures, recreational centers, art exhibits). The booklet does not apeolflcaDy reoomnoend ftay-ing away from movies or other paid entertainment, but the imnlloatioD ts clear.

And while these dont-spend reoopunendationa may not piaMS BtnUn Hodges* da-

partment. they should warm the heart of Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon. If followed they will mean that yming couides will have sav-Ingi with which to* pay their income taxes.

SHORT A SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS

To combat the coin tiioii-age. Ward Furniture, Sullivan, HI., is pricing an items in even dollars and la absorbing sales taxea.

the housing boom la atiU alive. Starts in Ootober were 9 per oent above those in Septraiber.

CJash Corporation dividends were 18 per oent higher in Oetober than a year ago, noeaning: more divld ends; more federal tax revenue.

Two new chemicals for detergents which will not contaminate streams and wen water have been developed by OUn Mathleson.

Stokely-Vaa Camp reports that by taking wives advice about the color of labels, it increased sales phenomenally.* Bo it la changing the colors 0( labels d 250 more products.

Tha ajmtbatlo rubber Industry has saved Aerlcan aou- t-l try has saved American auto-Ists more than $1 billion In the last two and one-half years by keeping natural rubber prices down, boasts Goodyears chairman, Roasal OaToung.(f