$15.8 million over the same period of three years ago.

Pitt County, of course, has been aware of its

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of Pitt Couoty. these figures show a healthy in-

crease in the past few years. y fv, novf Rnf to comDare retail sals

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considerably more money has come into circulation. A good part of the money has come from the increasing and expanding payrolls that have been a part of the industrial development of the county. And these jobs and payrolls have in turn generated other jobs and payroll additions throughout the business community of the county.

Pitt still has a long way to go to reach the level of economic activity many of its people would like to see. It still must make considerable progress before its per capita income will reach even the state average. But the barometer of retail sales clearly indicates that Pitt is.moving toward its goal at a steady pace.

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Illustrating Anew The Decline Of An Empire

The adoption of a new maple leaf flag by the Canadians merely illistrates again how far the once mighty British Empire has declined.

The Canadian House of Commons approved the new flag last week and the red and white maple leaf banner will now be the flag of our northern neighbor.

It replaces the red ensign which has the British Union Jack in the upper left quadrant. It was this symbol of British authority to which the French speaking Canadians of Quebec province objected.

Merely changing the flag, does not, of course* mean that Canada is withdrawing from the British Commonwealth. In fact the queen must issue the routine proclamation which will make the new flag official.

Even the maple leaf flag is founded in the authority of the British throne. In 1921 Queen Elizabeths grandfather George V, proclaimed three maple leaves the emblem of Canada. But the change does remove the Union Jack from the Canadian flag and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson hopes this will help in his campaign against French-Canadian separatism.

However, the government found it had to make gome concessions to those still loyal to the Commonwealth. So Parliament approved a proposal to fly the Union Jack also, as a symbol of allegiance to the crown and membership in the Commonwealth.

Strong forces for change have swept the world in recent years, and, in fact, tl|ey are still underway. We have seen the influence of old powers recede and new powers have arisen to set the course of world affairs.

The new flag in Canada is just one symbol of these great changes.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

EDUCATION Outgoing Gov. Terry Sanford, the man who pushed them, beUeves that steps taken during his administration will enable North Carolina to avoid a severe crisis in public education now facing some other states.

If so, Sanford will count this as the greatest achievement of his four years in the governors office in Raleigh.

Some of the steps, including the 1961 food tax, were politically unpopular. Sanf o r d concedes this, although he contends that the food tax was mis-named.

By and large, Sanford does not regard his term as a rocky one politically. Instead, he feels it was marked with success and achievementespecially in education. He found it rewarding and enjoyable.

In educatlOTi, he says, other states are lo<Aing to us. Anywhere in the nation when education is mentioned, he says, people point to North Carolina.

Im very prwid. he said.

EMPHASIS - The governor met reporters for a final pre-Christmas press conference, one of the last of his term in office, last Friday.

He was asked that if he were to do it again whether he would push the same program, in the same way or try to avoid political bumps and knocks.

His emphasis, Sanford said, would be the same especially in education.

Of course, there were some complaints about the 'food tax. Sanford said.

This was not a food tax at all, but rather removing ex-

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emptions in the sales tax law, he said, and he considered It fair and equitable.

Also, he said, he recommended the program but it was the people who approved it, and voted on it through their elected representatives. Sanford feels it was backed by the foresight and determination of people throughout the state.

FORWARD - By Uklng these steps, he said, we got ahead and by moving out, he believes North Carol 1 n a will not face such staggering problems in its public schools and higher education p r o-grams as some other states.

In certain areas of education, uch as community colleges and industrial education centers. he said North Carolina has the best In the country theres no question about it. Were on Uie way, he said. Admittedly, weve got a long way to go. One great need,

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HIGHWAYS There were other sources of saUsfact i o n for Sanford in reviewing his administration. He mention e d secondary highways.

The occasion was the resignation o< Ben Roney of Rocky Mount as director of secondary highways. Sanford praised Roney warmly.

This administration invested more money in farm-to-market roads than any previous administration. Sanford said. He cited figures of $279 million spent on secondary roads during the past four years as compared with $265 million during the administration of Gov. W. Kerr Scott, $188 million in the four years of Luther H, Hodges and $102 million in the Hodges-Umstead administration.

He said the state will h a v e actually paved more than 3,500 mUes of secondary roads, with 500 more miles programmed and the money set up. and stabilized 5.000 miles of secondary roads in his administration.

A great deal of credit, he said, is due to Roney who was a man who had so much to do with the Scott road program. Roney was an aide to Kerr Scott and later became his administrative assistant when Scott was elected to the U. S. Senate. Roney also was a top aide in Sanfords 1960 political campaign, and Sanford said, I dont know of any more valuable member of this administration.

FISCAL Sanford discussed state fiscal matters at length, dealing with transfers of budgeted funds, estimating of the state surplus, economics. allocations of highway surplus and the matter of striking a happy balance between highway projects handled by private contractors and work performed by state forces.

He said he has directed state budget officials to review carefully the matter of fund transfers and practices which State Auditor Henry Bridges found questionable in the Budget Bureau and in Uie High way Commission.

Actually, Sanford said, there are literally thousands and thousands of fund transfers annually in' flexible administration of the states budget. It cranes down, he said, to whether this item should be changed for this purpose, and it becomes a matter of judgment for responsible officials.

He said he feels that all Individual fund transfers in h 1 s administratiwi were done in good conscience and in the best interests of the state.

In many Instances, he said, he and budget officials blocked transfers not considered to be In the best Interest and in some cases actually told agencies and departments how many dollars of budgeted funds should be reverted Into the states General Fund surplus. He described the admlnistra-tions fiscal policies as sound all the way through.

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By ART BUCHWALD

A Very Common Touch

The decision of Lyndon B. Johnson to show up at his inaugural in a plain black suit and four-in-hand tie and to wear black tie instead of white tie and tails at the Inaugural Ball has shaken Washington to its very stud pins.

As President of all the people and the leader of the Great Society. Mr. Johnson is determined to show Americans he has the comm o n touch. But the effect on the nations capital has been tie-

mendous and may influence the American clothing industry for years to come.

A survey by this column revealed that people were taking the President seriously. If Mr. Johnson wasnt going. Jo dress up, no one wanted to embarrass him by looking better than he did at his own irn auguration.

I called a friend at the State Department and asked h-1 m what he was going to wear. Protocol has advised me ski

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

President Lyndon John son has placed education at the top of his list for early and urgent action on the domestic front. His administration is committed to expanding and upgrading educational opportunities, both as a means of developing American human resources and as a necessary step to strengthen U.S. defense. Some action is already underway.

Shortly after Russia slic e d into space with Sputnik I, Americans became concerned over the U.S. lag in the production of scientific brainpower. Congress to<^ action and passed the National Defense Education Act.

In its six years of existence NDEA has had a profound effect on education. Thousands of teachers have attended NDEA institutes. Public schools have been aided in the purchase of teaching equipment. NDEA grants to states have helped increase the number of high school counselors from 12,000 to 30.000. Loans have been given to 600,000 college students and 8,500 graduate students have received fellowships.

NDEA has bolstered American education at all levels, particularly In the critical subjects of mathematics, sciences and languages.

Originally scheduled to end in the summer of 1965, NDEA has proved so useful that it has been extended for three years. In approving the extension in time. Congress also expanded the scope of the program. From a 1964 budget of

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$135 mUllon, NDEA wUl ceive a year-by-year increase to $195 million by 1968.

For Southern higher education, NDEAs expansion is of major significance.

In the student-loan program the largest single expenditure of NDEA Southern states will receive about $44 million during fiscal 1965, which will be supplemented with loan funds from the participating colleges and universities. If the loans continue at the present range averaging $400 to $500 more than 10.-000 Southern students will receive help with their college expenses next year. And the number will increase each year through 1968.

These loans, repayable at a low interest rate over an 11 year period, have made it possible for many young people to continue In college. Repayment on the loans has been generally quite good, so NDEAs largest expenditure is actually an investment.

An investment of a different kind Is NDEA's fellowship program for graduate students. Graduate fellowships will be doubled next year from 1,-500 to 3,000. Within th r e e year, NDEA will be awarding 7,500 fellowships and the total for the three-year period will be 24,000.

NDEAs graduate fellowships are particularly important to the Southern region. Distribution of the fellowships takes into account the need for encouraging graduate programs in universities throughout the nation, so "they are (Continued On Page 24)

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That one word overwhelming best describes the vote on last Tuesday as tobacco growers in recoid numbers went to the polls and cast ballots favoring the continuance of controls and price supports.

It was apparent sometime ago that most farmers in our area of the courtbry favored continuance of the present program. But talk kept coming from (jieorgia to the effect that tobacco growers th e r e would oppose the program. And of course, Georgia growers showed the highest percentage against continuance of the present program.

Shortiy before the voting, we understand that businessmen in Georgia, realizing the tragedy which would befall their area if the program should be defeated in the referendum, began meetings with farmers in the effort to explain to them the consequences they might face if defeat should come. Apparently this last minute effort paid off.

The returns showed more than 96 percent of the farmers voting favored the continuance of the program. Here in North Carolina better than 97 percent of the farmers favored the program.

It is eternally to the credit of our own North Carolina farmers that they voted so overwhelmingly for the program. Perhaps here in our state we realize that we feel the impact more than growers in any state. So often Georgia growers get the benefits of early

selling while we here in our state must often feel the effects of lowering prices.

We have said before and we repeat now. The ills which have beset our tobacco program are still with us. Passage of the program means that they will not be multiplied with additional ills. The huge surplus, now almost a billion pounds. i|5 still before us. and some way must be found to do something about this big surplus. Acreage Is being cut approximately 19.55 percent, next year, but the acreage cut will hardly have much effect in cutting down the size of the present surplus. Well keep on hearing proposals to sell some of the surplus to Russia and ot h e r communist countries. We again say this. If Russia would like to buy some of that tobacco, we see no reason why America would hesitate to sell her. And that goes for other communist countries. We have sold Russia wheat, and to our way of thinking wheat is more usuable in war than would be tobacco.

The stress on quality tobacco must continue. We must grow the type of tobacco the companies want, and there is no substitute for quality.

Again, we are pleased with the size of the favorable vote here in our own area. It is living evidence that our people want to go the full mile ki the efforts to help better our tobacco program and improve our agricultural economy.

pants and a sheepskin jacket are appropriate for occasion.

What will your wife wear to the Inauguration Ball?

She was going to buy a new dress, but now she plans to go in her apron and slacks. A high-ranking Army officer at the Pentagon said, Now that dress for the two affairs has been made optional, Iye given my men the choice of field khakis or dungarees, and jungle boots if they have them.

A foreign ambassador said', My government has advised me to follow the lead of the President. I will be wearing a sports shirt and tan riding jodhpurs.

What does your, wife plan to wear to the ball?

Shes not going. She only has long evening gowns and she says she doesnt want to be embarrassed.

An official at tbe War on Poverty office said that they hadnt decided yet what they w'ould wear to the inauguration. It all depends on what the Salvation Army will give us. he said.

Another official from the same office w'as downcast.

Someone donated a set of tails to this office, but now I cant wear them.

The Supreme Court Justices still havent made up't h e 1 r minds as to what to w'ear. In a 5 to 4 decision they ruled

that golfing attire was acceptable. But the minority decision said each Justice should decide for himself, providing he didnt seek divine guidance.

All members of the White House staff will wear 10-gallon hats and levis and their wives have ordered short calico dresses from Nieman-Mar-cus for the ball.

The National Press Club has advised its members to wear trenchcoats and saddle shoes if the weather permits.

When asked what he was going to wear to the inauguration. Bobby Baker replied, I refuse to answer on the grounds that it will incriminate me.

I asked two Misslsslw>l Con-' gressmen what they planned to wear to the Inaugural Ball , and they said, White shecte. What else is there? (Continued On Page 24)

By ROGER BABSON BABSON PARK, Mass. -Bad feeling between Red China and the United States seems to intensify as we become more and mbre Involvd in the war in South Vietnam. We are opposed to the aggression of the" Viet Cong forces there which are being encouraged and supplied from Peking.

IMPORTANCE OF CHINA IN THE WORLD

China has an area of 4 million square miles and a population estimated to be nearing 700 mUllon. This ancient land possesses in abundance strategic raw materials. China has rich deposits of iron, uranium, and coal. Her mighty rivers, when properly harnessed, could provide Inwtpensive sources of ^werful

than any yCT^wiiJ?d. Her forests are among the most luxuriant known. S<xne day this still sleeping giant will become a first-class world power. , *

Yet this vast land, so fuU ^

of human and material resources, is completely cut off

from the United States. No American citizen can gain ad- <

mission to China under ordl- '

nary circumstances. The Com- ,

munist government simply does ,

not want visitors from toe U. S., especially If it cannot be sure they will react favorably to what toey see or hear as they travel tn this tightly dls- '

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ADMISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS

The lack of contact between . our two nations Is bad for us, bad for China, and bad for the * world. China is poisoned in \ spirit by her Intense pride. And she is pois(ed In body by cer- | tain poyrers whose ag- |

gressiwm^iind treacheries of . the past still irritate and hu- i mlliate lr. Yet the swiftness J with which toe Chinese have | employed new Inventions < even to nuclear power shows ' that they cannot long be ex- ! pected to resist using all the . facilities at their disposal. * Red China may not be near- * ing admission to the United , Nations. Next tbne the vote t comes up in the General As- ' sembly, it will. probably run , in favor of Peking. And ad- , mission of Red China to the UN would hasten the day when American citizens with legitimate reasons for travel and t study in China would be permitted to enter that country. THE QUESTION OF FORMOSA We do not believe, however, that giving Maos government a seat* in the UN would lead very socm to diplomatic rela- tions between Peking and Washington. As long as Mao continues to rant against the United States and to Ignore the doghouse.

Also discouraging to early recognition oi Red China by the U. S. Is the thorny question of Formosa. This Island off the China coast, lying between Japan to the northeast and the Philippines to the south, is ruled by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chiangs Chinese Nationalist Government presently holds Chinas seat In the UN. At this time the U. S. just cannot recognize Red China without going back on our solemn treaty ' commitments to Chiang and ' without waaimdAg the Amer- ' lean poslliwi in'Asia. But some day this situation Will change. THE SHADOW OF CHINA OVER the far east Red China -- even with Its new nuclear capability is no immediate threat to. t h e world. What causes concern is that the destiny of the Chinese masses is in the hands of aggressive, ruthless, totalitarian Communlsti bosses. In time, perhaps" China may expand into those areas of Asia now held by Russia, but that time Is not yet and Russia knows it. For the present, the shadow of China lorans more threateningly over the lands of her Immediate neighbors to the south (Including India which Is now without the strong leadership of 'Nehru). Red Chinas eventual goal is probably the rich islands of Malaya and. Indonesia. But Maos (Continued-Ox Pago 24)

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DQUGLASS CONCERNING CHRISTIANITY Hear what s(xne of the great and the near great had to say about Christianity:

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of mor-aUty.

Christianity is intens e 1 y practical. It has no trait more striking than its co m m o n sense. ^

"He who shall Introduce into public affairs the principle of primitive Christianity ' ill revolutionize the world," Christianity is not a theory or speculation but a life; not a phllasophy of life, but a life and a living process. Chrl.stian faith reposes in a person rather than in a

creed. Christ is the personal, living center of theology around which the whole Christian system revolves.

The only way to realize that we are Gods children is to let Christ lead us to our Father.

All history is incomprehensibly without Christ.

Jsus Christ is the condes-cention of divinity and the exaltation of humanity.

Christ is the great central fact in the worlds history. To him everything looks forward or backward.

Only those who are truly Christian are truly happy.

A Christian Ls a sinful man who has put hlm.self to school under Christ for the honest purpose el becoming better.

By ELMER ROESSNER The economy is going through a pertod of sharp inventory accumulation.

Part of it results from the threat of a steel strike. Users of steel have been Increasing their purchases for some months now. The Increases have been slow. Industrial purchasing agiente are canny fellows and they know that sudden buying surges would force steel prices up, no matter what President Johnson said.

But the Ihcrease is affecting more than ateel. A survey by the Department of Commerce shows that manufacturers anticipate substantial Increases in inventories during the last quarter of this year and the first quarter of 1965.

Inventory book values are increasing around $1.2 billion this quarter and will rise about $600 million more in the first three months of next year, according to the survey.

It is significant that makers of nondurable goods (nonsteel products) expect to increase Inventories by $500 million this quarter and $100 million in the nasL

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Paradoxically, while business was acknowledging plans to increase inventories this quarter, accumulations actually fell $IM)0 million in October. But there was a reason. Because of the auto strike, inventories of auto dealers declined $750 million that month, cff-setting buildups in other fields.

But in November and this month, auto retailers inventories are rising. They are now getting ahead of demand and will rise rapidly early next year in preparation for the expected spring and summer-boom.

.A NOTE ON INVENTORIES

Accumulation of Inventories generally stimulates the economy. Sales for Inventory cause an Increase in' production, boosting income and fattening wages. The great boom in World War n was largely caused by Inventory accumulation by the armed forces.

But after a period of accumulation, manufacturers tend to live off their Inventories, thereby reducing their purchases of raw materials and cutting emplOiymeBt W thalr

suppliers.

Pur example, at the moment steel users are building -up their stocks. Steel manufacturers have huge backlogs of orders: men are working overtime to fill them; wage pay-

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ments are up and steel-t own merchants are enjoying the richest Christmas ever.

If there is a strike, steel us-er v^in live invntoris and there will be: less pressure on the steel companies to settle. If there is no strike, steel users will also Uve oft inventories, slowing buying. This will mean smaller production, less profits and less employment.

In .short, inventory accumulation speeds up the economy; inventory reduction slows tt

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PRICE FIXING

You are always making snide remarks about price fixing. the OW Promoter said on his visit today.

' I am lvQqr objective, I said, correotiD^ him. '*but I think my readr$ should know that fixed prices are always high.

Humpf! snortedOld One, helping himself -to one of my cdgars.. "dont you toow that if yoU are against fixed prices, you are ag4tue^ govemmlnt? Dont you know that-the goveftinoent fixes the iHices of stamps? *

For a moment I thought he had me. Thr goavenunrait does fix stanop prices. But I nmde a fast comeback.

The govehiment fixes tl manufacturers price, * agreed. But it doesnt fix the retail price. A stamp dealer can charge any price he wants. You dont happen to have aw unused 12-cent 1898 Columbian issue at the fixed gcvemmrait price? , - - ,,

The Old One shuffled Off without-a word; but'not witn-eut takiag another eigar.