Monday, December 14, 1964

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More Votes Are Needed Tuesday

It is hardly necessary to remind tobac^ set ''*j^^that**almost every Pitt

farmera of this area that the tobacco price support . convinced of the importance of this

proffrahi is essential to their well being. Countian _ . remember 1939, and we

But it might be well to^remind everyoM con- wLld have happened this year if

nected with tobacco production on the farm that all realizej^ai

their vote is needed tomorrow if the program is Pnce^ suppo s nrurfimllv <

. . . We are certain that practically everyone in

to be kept in effect. . , ^ Pitt Tountv who goes to the polls will cast his

We must keep in mind that a simple majority Pitt C ^ continuing the tobacco price

will not continue the program sunnort program The important thing, therefore,

years. The law requires that two-thirds of those s^PP P gUgjble voter go to the polls tomorrow, voting must favor the program in order that it be cannot emphasize this too strongly. Every possi-

'Now-obtaining a two-thirds.majority in previ- ble vote wiU be needed if the price support program

ous referendums has not proved too difficult But is to be continued.

this year there is speculation that many tobacco ^

growers in Georgia might vote against continuing QJ^q|^q0 QJ FQCG t TOTI

the program. ^

If this is the case, more votes than ever before

will be needed in this vast bright leaf area to off- ^Jj^Qg0 UsUQI TllGCltS

Councils Future Still In Doubt

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

COUNCIL It la risky to jmdlct at this point whether the 1965 General Assembly might act, or even be asked to act, to abolish the State Legislative Council.

Most legislators are not ready yet to commit themselves m this controversial subject.

It is entirely possible that the matter of abolishing the two year old Council will come up, and there are members of the legislature who favor aboUahlng It and returning to the former ssrstem of setting up separate study groups and commlssioos fw speciflc subjects.

But lor the present, there Is BO evidence of any organized movement within leglslat 1 v e ranks to do away with the Council.

OPPOSED Some of the present Council members themselves strongly opposed creation of the so-called little General Assembly in 1963.

One of them, retiring Senate president T. Clar e n c e Stone, has been highly critical of the Council and is urging that is be abolished before It becomes too powerful.

Stone appointed two ot h e r members. Sens. Thomas J. White Jr. of Lenoir County and Cicero Yow of New Hanover, both of whom voted against creation of the Council. Yow Is not returning to the Senate.

amend It 1s possible, from advance Indications, that the 1965 General Assembly may be more inclined to amend the statute by which the Legislative Council was created.

Such amendments may be offered, designed to restrict the powers and authwrl-

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ty of the Council and spelling cut more clearly the Intended acope cf Ita Investigations and tndlea.

The fact that the Council has almost unlimited scope in inWaiinf gtudtes and sweeping power virtually that of the General Assembly itself has been at Issue since Its first roeetfaigs shortly after the 1963 Jeglslature adjourned.

In addition, it is assumed that leglslatkm drafted by the Coundl through Its committees win carry crasldera b 1 e weight and Inflnenoe. Stone eontends fiiat similar bodies In other states have beetmie so powerful that leglsUtton wlth-out Council approval and backing eaimot pass. _

COSTS Stone also contends that the Legislative Councils work has been a waste of money.

It has blanket authority In use of legislative appropriations for Council expenditures.

All of the bills arent in, but a recent check of disbursing records showed expenses of the Council including per diem pay and travel, salaries, supplies, ~ postage, printing expense and equipment total e d $19,867 through October. This Is expected to go beyond $20,-000 tiortly.

Council members and others appointed to council committees draw travel allowances. expenses and $ffi per day when worklnf on Council business. The largest single amount claimed by a member was $2,584.46 by Rep. Sam Whitehurst of New Bern for 51 days.

BUILDINGS Initial reaction among legislative sources is favorable to newly-disclosed proposals to set up state buUding authority within the department of Administration.

Proposals along these lines have been prepared by state property control officer Frank Turner and state budget officer G. Andrew Jones.

The two officials have suggested setting up such an authority using existing personnel in the property contnd division and the budget bureau, with responsibility for Implementing capital Improvements projects at all state-supported institutions.

This authority or commission would supervise all state construction projects from start to finish and Its staff would deal with contractors directly. passing upon each construction detail.

funds Under the proposals. all legislative appropriations for capital improvements would be administered by the budlng commission. Ideally, according to Turner, each appropriation would be designated In detail as to specific purpose. The commission would then select architects, engineers and designers, approve plans and specifications and award contracts. Both Turner and Jones say such a system would save the state money.

The building commission would be empowered to transfer surplus funds from one capital improvements project to another with approval of the Advisory Budget Commission and provided tht the project from which funds were transferred had been completed.

Unspent capital Improvement funds, unlike general ^nd reversions, do not revert at the end of a biennium. However, there are building projects which must be held up some time because funds appropriated will not cover the entire cost.

The announced half-billion dollar reduction in Soviet weapons outlay is not particularly large; in fact, the attention it has received far outweighs the actual significance in terms of future weapons that sum represents in world armaments.

It is of far more importance to the Russian economy than to the world balance of power.

For instance, that sum of slightly over $500 million can give production of consumer goods for the people of Russia a promising lift.

It is of far more importance to the world 8 hopes for continued efforts to lower the tensions between East and West, than it is to any real reduction in Soviet military capability.

The reduced defense budget indicates to many economists that in Russia there is a cognizance of a burden more difficult for them than^or the West.

But the true significance of it all is this:

Though this may only be a gesture on the p^ of the Kremlin, it is a tremendous advance over the days when Red leaders issued nothing but threatt; and though it all may be largely propaganda, the United States and its allies have a new avenue of hope to be explored.

education Goes ; Across Borders

By ART BUCHWALD

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Peaturei Syndicate, Inc.

Allen Drury, in his novela about U. S. political life, baa warned us against our equivocal men. meaning those public figures who speak out of two sides of their mouths on the subject of international Communism. Holmes Alexander picked up the phrase and m^e it the title of a book, The Equivocal Men: Talee of the Establishment. Both Mr. Drury and Mr. Alexander have an undeniable point. The equi-vocators can do much to disarm us.

Soviet Russia, however, has

Its own equivocal men. as witness Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromykos recent opening speech before the General Assembly of the UN. A. number of commentators took Gromykos remarks as c(mstituting an olive branch. Adlai Stevenson, on the other hand, spoke of this harsh cold war talk, hoping that It would prove to be more propaganda than policy. The answer, of course. Is that Gromyko was both soft and bard, depending on the particular paragraphs which his listeners cared to emphasize.

The fact that Gronayko was deployed by the new dictators of Soviet Russia as one of the equivocal breed Is actually a tribute to recent U. S. policy. The angry reaction In the Red world to the combined British-U. S.-Belgian paratrocq?er rescue of the white hostages of Stanleyville ki- the Congo was dismaying enough if the damage In wrecked U. S. embassy windows, smashed automobiles, and the gutting of the 27,000-volume John F. Kennedy Library in Cairo, Is totted up^

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Shortly after the Kremlins change of bosses, students at Florida State University heard an account of communist tactics from a man who had fought with and fled frtwn communist forces in one of the worlds most remote regioiis.

Thubten Jigme Norbu of Tibet, brother of the Dalai Lama, discussed his Himalayan homeland in balmy Florida People from faraway are coming in increasing num bers to Southern campuses. Government officials, educators and students are frequent visitors to the regions colleges and vmiversltles. They come alone or In groups to leam and to exchange ideas.

They get a first-hand 'lew of grass-roots America. They meet people from the top faculty authorities to the most naive freshmen. They make friends here and many of them take home a new enthusiasm for appreciation of the American way of doing things.

A Laotian provincial governor visited Auburn University to leam more about commercial production of fish for his landlocked county; 50 La 11 n American mayors were welcomed at East Tennessee State College during their crosscountry study of municipal governments, and two guests at the University of Texas came from Narobl. Kenya for a meeting of educational broadcasters to become better acquainted with American educational techniques.

Foreign visitors to Southern educational Institutions give as much as they gain. They leave behind some Insight Into their ' own lands and an awareness of different manners and customs.

Johns Hopkins Medical School has made arrangements . for faculty exchange programs with medical schools on three continents. Faculty members from Peruvian University, the American University of Beirut and the University of Ibadan. Nigeria. swap classrooms with medical professors from Johns Hopkins.

Our own school of medicine, said Johns Hopkins President Milton 8. Elsenhower, Is now linked with the best medical schools In three major areas of the wwld.

American professors teach In classrooms around the wwld through the Fulbright lectureship program, and lasting friendships are built on this person-to-person diplomacy.

When the president of Georgias Young Harris College held a Pulbright lectureship in Iran, he Interested his foreign friends In amateur radio op-eratlMis. The professor came

home but Ms ham radio set stayed behind. A year later when a .devastating earthquake hit Iran, the professors radio set was used to give the first reports of destruction in isolated villages. Amcrl can amateur radio operators heard the broadcast and donated enough money to rebuild a Persian village.

A team of scientists, faculty members from Texas, Ok-

Just about a week ago, 700,-000 angry and frustrated Chinese gathered In Pekings Hen An Man Square to demonstrate ffgyinst American Intervention In the Congo. The tragedy was that there was no American embassy to demonstrate against. This points up as well as anything why the recogni-0H of Red China should be recwisidered.

Had we had an Ameri can embassy In Peking and a

USIA library, the Chinese would have probably broken every window in the building and burnt up every book, as the Indonesians did in Jakarta. This would have given the United States an opportunity to present a strong protest to the Chinese and demand Immediate payment for the damage to our embassy.

The fact that we have no relations with Red China makes it Impossible to protest to

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educational aid mission to Improve science and engineering standards at the University of Baghdad. During their two-and-a-half years there, there were two major political revolutions but the teachers to-complished their task. They procured textbooks, selected modem laboratory equipment and developed sound graduate programs at the University ai Baghdad. In addition, they set up a student bookstwe, orwtr nized a Geological Society of Iraq and established a training program for deans and administrators.

American students, too, are taking advantage of opportunities to study abroad. They leam French in Prance, watch community development in Latin American and study Biblical archaeology by digging In the Holv Land.

Scholars today override geographical limitations, political tensions and the divisive forces which create International mlsunders t a n d 1 n g s Knowledge is freely shared colleagues In other lands and this will pay rich dividends. A new American agricultural technique to make worn-out land productive has more value than a cash gift. An educar onal program to raise the literacy level of an emerging nation can build more lasting friendships than a trade agreement.

Learning knows no boundary line. The Intemational exchange of students and scholars Is Minging a new dimension of education to individuals and an Increased understanding between the world family of nations.

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There are two kinds of people In this old world; those who find a way and those who find an excuse." Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel.

(Rocky Mount Telegram) Reforms adopted by the now be gearing fruit for the now be bearing fruit for the state election prtwedures. Absentee voting, which for years was the source of much of the states election fraud complaints. has apparently been brought under a greater degree of control through those reforms.

What do these election changes provide? For one thing, they stop the practice of allowing friends and relatives of a voter to apply for ballots In his name and required the voter to apply in person. Also, the new laws called for local boards to maintain more control over applications and to keep better records of absentee voting. Further, coun t y elections chairmen were stripped of the sole power to Issue ballots, and regular public meetings of the entire board were provided to review and pass on applications for absentee ballots.

Of course, there was some bitter opposition to these reforms, particularly by mountain county legislators from the area where most of the skulduggery was taking place. What has happened since the reforms were adopted? There has been an absence of complaints about absentee voting frauds, for one thing. For another, there has been a greatly reduced number of absent e e ballots in those counties where the prlvcge has been traditionally abused.

Also of Importance Is that there has been no evidence

that the reforms greatly hampered the legitimate use of absentee voting. The results have been pleasing to election officials in Rgleigh with the first test of the new law.

Most of the absentee voting fraud complaints had come from a dozen mountain counties. Of these 12, they contained only 4 per cent of the states population but they nad consistently voted more than 30 per cent of the absentee ballots in the state. Cl&y County, for example, with a population of only 5,526, was issuing more absentee ballots than Mecklenburg with 272,-000 people.

The effectiveness (rf the new election law change can be seen from the following figures: in 1958 the 12 mountain counties issued 11,720 of t h e states total 23.553 absentee ballots. But under the new law in 1964, the 12-county total was only 2,983.

The biggest reduction was In scandal - ridden Madison County, but a primary election scandal and the subsequent removal of election officials there also Influenced the results. This year Madison had only 26 absentee ballots. In 1962 It had issued 800 Prior to 1963 the North Carolina Board of Elections had made many unsuccessful attempts to abolish absent e e voting or strengthen the law governing it. Part of the General Assembly must go to the state board. Citation for outstanding service was made by Gov. Sanford. The citation is weU deserved.

them about wrecking our embassy and prevents us from collecting money for the damage to USIA books.

Furthermore, the fact that the Chinese had no American embassy to vent their anger against has caused them to hate us more than even our actions in the Congo. Its pretty tough to parade through the streets of Peking for hours on end without any place to inarch on.

In Moscow, during the same period, the Soviets marched on the American embassy and did as much damage as the Soviet police would let them. The Russians went away happy, with a warm spot In their hearts for Americans, and ever since the demonstrations relations between the United States and Russia have improved.

An observer In Cairo reports that the Egyptians have never felt better than they have since they burned up the USIA library and wrecked the U. S. Marine barracks.

But Peking is still a mass of seething students and workers whose anger Is bottled up Inside them.

Unless America does something to release this anger, we could be confronted with a serious international problem which eventually may become insoluble.

Although American policy Is still against the recognition of Red China, there are other solutions which could be worked out.

Cne might be to build an American embassy in Peking without recognizing the Communist government. The build-Mg would be designed to withstand the assaults of the largest type of Red Chinese demonstration,,^ but would also have enough' windows so the demonstrators could let off steam.

We wouldnt have to staff the embassy with anywie except repairmen and glaziers who could handle the damage.

After two or three demonstrations against the U.S. embassy, the Chinese would be so happy they might start demonstrating against the Peking government, demanding a rapprochement with the Unlt^ ed States.

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But the Russians, the Egyptians, the Algerians and the central Africans would hardly have been so incendiary if the paratrooper expediton had not been a success. For the first time in many mimths the West had stood together in carrying out a practical policy: the pariitroopers were Belgian, the planes that ferried them were U. S. planes, and the island they took off from was Ascension, a British possession. No wonder the rage of the Communists was so violent. Far from trying to make excuses for the combined British-U.S. -Belgian action, Lyndon Johnson should proclaim his pride fai it and Insinuate that there will be more of this sort of thing to come If the Communists continue to Indulge In tl essentially Nazi tactic of holding innocent people as hostages.

Gromyko was caught up In the necessity to press the rage of his Moscow bosses at being outmanuevered by three nations of a West that is still sufficiently civilized to think that individuals are worth rescuing.

But if one of Grranykos eyes was on Communist failure in the Congo, his other eye was on the nations of eastern Europe, where the silent pressure from the underlying population is compelling toe top dogs of the government appiaratus to tread softly.

It is in eastern Europe, one surmises from Gromykos equivocal speech, that co - existence has Its only pmJ meaning. Manifestly coexistence doesnt apply In Cuba, toe rocket-defended Red bastion from which Castro directs Incendiary activities in Venezuela. It doesnt apply ki Africa, where toe Algerians and toe Egjrptl-ans are forwarding arms to the Congolese rebels. It doesnt apply In South Vietnam, where both the Russians and the Red Chinese support the Communist Vletcong. It doesnt apply In eastern Europe, where It is threatens Malaysia. Coexist-(Contlnued on page 8)

Our Most Prodigal Christmas

At least one favorable comment can be made about this years political campaign: we had unusually fine weather for politicking. St. L3uie Post-DisiMitch.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE WEATHER Do imu reclass Mark Twatns observation that we talk a lot about the weather but never do anything about it?

It la amasing the extent to wMob weatoer influencee. and 111 fact determinea, the dis-bution of people upon his planet and the use they make of toelr opportunities. If something happened to the Gulf Stream or that warm current which comes across toe Pacific Ocean and makes a large area habitable and comfortar ble, the whole distribution of population would be fundamentally affected.

The mighty hand of the Creator God accomplishes to e s e things on the planet we call

Earth. What must be going on In other realms in toe sky where planets no doubt revolve about suns and indeed may have creatures upon them so superior to us that they do not even bother to set up coro-municatioDs with earths In-bah^ants.

The weather la one oi toe most Important factors In our lives as individuals and In the life of the world. Climatic conditions cause some places to be filled with opportunity axKl pieasantneas and condemn to barrenness and sterilHy oUi-er portions of the globe.

We may not do much about the weather but the weather does a lot about us to us. for us. and against us. It la a divine agent

By ELMER ROESSNER TMa will be a lavish Ciirist-perhaps one of the m(Mt prodigal the nation has ever seen.

Consumer spending Is heading to a new high. Personal Income is at an all-time high and, as if that were not enough, consumer credit Is easier than ever before.

You cant just walk In and say, Charge it! yet. You have to leave your name and address. And the costs in Interest are high. But the potential credit buying Is also near a new high.

Dividend payments are sora-Ing. WagM and salaries are at a peak. Even transfer payments" unemployment Insurance, social security, veter ans pasmients and other no-productiim income is at a high mark. And while there Is no statistical evidence, telephone refunds for wrong numbers may be at a new record. BUSINESS GIFTS UP, TOO

Business gifts may set a new record, despite the new tax rules that tend to limit business gifts to $25 a person.

Businesses can, of course, give more than $25 worth of

gifts, but the excess must come out of profits. So a business with a customer that generates $100,000 In profits a year, or $10,000, or $1,000. or even $100, may feel It wise to top the $25 limit and pay the difference.

In fact, many businesses this year are planning to give gifts

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that obviously cost them at least a little more than $25. This will be a way,showing toe recipient the company is not niggardly and that it is dlppl^ into its iHt>fits to make a present.

A gift that looks ^ like $26 worth of present may be more ^Impressive than a $50 gift a year ago, when the entire amount was deductible.

Christmas gifts and bonuses to empkyees will also set new

marks tMs year. A survey by Business Management magazine indicates that 45 per cent 0 business companies plan to give employee gifts, (xmipared with 34 per cent of toe companies last year; and that 45 per cent will allow modest glfia from suw)liers gentle payola on the operating level. In addition. 61 per cent of toe employers polled will give at least a half day off before Christmas, although 88 per cent made the same concession last year.

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A similar survey by Pren-tice-Hall of 450 plants and offices Indicates that 85 per cent of the plants and 50 per cent of the offices plan some paid time off on dulsUnas and New Years eves. It also found that 65 per cent of the offices and 48 per cent of the plants plan to give Christmas gifts to employees.

All of this adds up to an almost Incredible Chrlstm a s, with more wealth and more gifts than ever before. If I were a religious or' Sentimental guy. I would say that It beboovea everyone to get down

on toelr knees early C^ristmaa mom before dpenlng a single package and pray that this will happ agi^. again and again.

OLD PROMOTER URGES RETURN TO P09TCARDS

I am the JMmny Appleseed of the postcard." the Old Promoter announced on Ms visit today. I urge a return to the penny postcard, now costing 4 cents, for businees communication.

And whyg 1 demanded. Just to save a cent?"

That and more," he said. For confidential business messages the cent It saves Is only the beginning. It saves the cost of printed stationery and letterhead. It cuts the cost of dictation and typing tbne. .

But toe biggest advantage Is that It forces toe aender to compress his message Into ferw words, wMch of course will delight the recipient, making him happy, relaxed, content and eager to do business with a man who can say what he means In a hundred words.

The Old One may have something there.