Wednesday, December 30, 1964

"Ami'} Keep 'Em Up!"

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We Must Do More To Keep Gcuns

1 i. n mimhor nf other manufectui

As 1964 comes to a close Pitt County can look back on a year in which it saw crease in its industrial capacity as well as a new economic push which comes with new jo s new payrolls.

Union Carbide Consumer completed and occupied its new plant m Green^te. Carolina Leaf constructed and occupied modern tobacco processing P'"|

Inc. constructed a new plant

in Greenville. In Farmville, Collins a^ Hi

which only recently completed the its new operations there, announced P'"f *

major expansion which will considerably increase

its employment in Pitt Coun^.'

In addition to these developments on the industrial front in the county, there were increases

The Stormiest Political Year

in employment in a number

ing operations as companies boosted their com

mitmentjs in Pitt County. hiaaan to see an

Tt was a year in which Pi|bt began to sw an

acceleration of dividends being paid for the time,

ener^ and effort that has to in-

dustrial dewelopment in recent years. Tne county as Twhole^aw'^its pace of industrial development move up sharply. With each new job, each new dollar added to payrolls, the _5

better balance in its economy as well as an upward lift in its overall economic situation.

The challenge to achieve the desired ^alanw of the local economy, to provide *

number of jobs to eliminate both unemployment and under-employment still confronts Pitt County ts a new year begins. The addiUonal reductton in tobacco allotments for the coming year, s

certain to affect agriculture, puts more emph*^ on the need of Pitt to continue its mdustnal ex-

pansion at a more rapid _ . ...

During the coming year Pitt County will have

to do better in its industrial development than It did in 1964 to even hold its own in terms of ex^ pending its economy. It will require continued efforts by each of the communities within the

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES year The year now ending. 1964, must go down In the history book as one of the etormiest. most turbulent poll-tlcsil period In North Carolinas modem era.

In this respect, the politics e( 1964 must rival the states political wars of 1949 and It waa, from start to finish, a full and exdtlng year with ntver a dull moment for those engaged in poliUcal iraya. ITto climax, 0 course, came with the election of a new governor and Ueutenant governor, and with a Democratic sweep in November.

But while these were the Uggest mranentous developments, there were others of perhaps equal significance and undwlylnf importance packed Into the past 12 months.

The only difference perhaps was that the others, for the moment, could not be so clearly defined.

emerge What else enor

erged in 1964?

rirst, out of the ywara ea-pecially bitter Democratic primaries there came a coalition of moderates and conservatives which assumed control of the state Democratic party matchinery.

Also, there emerged from the ranks of the defeated Democratic party faction a so-called loyal opposition in the partys ranks, promising to be a political force to be reckoned with in future campaigns, and In the immediate future.

The conservative wing of the states Democratic party also came up with a loose - knit organization built around the name of its 1960 and 1964 champion in unsuccessful campaigns for governor. Dr. I. Beverly Lake.

REVIEW The line-up for the 1964 Democratic primary for governor was complete when New Years Day roUed around, insofar as major candidates were cwicemed.

There were five candidates

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already announced, and the major contenders, Dan K. Moore. L. Richardson Preycr and Dr. Lake were beginning their statewide campaigns last January.

There had been no fMmal announcements, but two candidates. State Sen. John R. Jordan Jr. and 1963 House Speaker H. Clifton Blue were in the running for lieutenant governor at the same time. A few days later, the eventual winner, Robert W. (Bob) Scott, made his decision to ,TUn for lieutenant

govemwr.

These primary contests for

the states No. 1 and 2 offices dominated political Interest and held the spoUlght during the first six mwJths of 1965, climaxed with Moores landslide sec<d primary triumph over Preyer on June 27.

UTTLE FEDERAL But the years first statewide voting waa much earer m Jan. 14. It was then that the voters turned thumbe down on a proposed little federal constitutional amendment dealing with legislative representation.

The amendment vote was the price attached to approval of a rediatrlcting of the State Senate finally enacted in a special session of the legislature in late 1969.

The little federal plan proposed shifting the conetitution-al basis of apportioning seats in the legislature, potting one house on the baiia oi population and the other oa geography. It was turned down and In the following months it became clear that Vbt U. S. Supreme Court would have stuck It down anyway.

STRATEGY The states Democratic party forces which backed Gov. Terry Sanford in 1960 put their weight behind Richardson Preyer of Greensboro in the primaries of 1964.

But It waa the strategy of the factions opp<ing Preyer to form a coalition, and this was accomplished when Moore ran second to Preyer in the first primary on May 30 and received the endorsement of Dr. Lake in the second.

Scott, son of the late Gov.-Sen. W. Kerr Scott, ran first in the first primary and staved off a second primary challenge by Blue to win the nomination for lieutenant governor.

unity Then a sharp contrast came upon the state political scene during the second half of the year influenced by the presidential campaign and a vigorous Republican challenge.

The question was whether the states Democratic could or would put aside their bitter primary differences and close ranks for the Pall campaign.

There were skirmishes notable one at the Democratic natiwial conventtwi in Atlantic City there was tension, and sharp dispute and dissension In Democratic party ranks. There was criticism of the degree of suw>ort that Moore, as titular head of the state party, was willing to give the national party ticket, and question remained as to the future effect of this on state-national party relations.

GOP Prom the Republicans point of view, the GOP setbacks at the polls did not necessarily mean disaster. Instead, it brought on a reassessment and realistic appraisal of what the GOP must do to capitalize on the next political cycle.

There was dlsawintment in Republican ranks, of course, but GOP strategists saw evidence of a growing base strength in the state and some signs of encouragement In defeat.

county.

Looking To Future In Fire Alarm Equipment

If some of the signals heard over Greenvilles fire whistle are confusing to the public, they must be equally as confusing to firemen.

And after all, it is they* the regulars and volunteers, who must hurry to the scene blaze to keep it contained. Therefore w can find no fault with the citys decision to call for bids on new fire alarm control equipment.

The citys old system was purchased many vears ago and has apparently seen its best days.

Officials say they are unable to obtain parts to at VIM TAYT^OR keen the mechanism in good working order. By AL*V1IN

Tamily

uck is

si Still On

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

copyright. 1964. King Peatures Syndicate, Inc.

The Kennedy have had their fill of tragedy. But they also play in great luck.

Their latest bit ci good fortune happens to be a book caUed The Founding Father: The Story of Josei* P. Kennedy, by an extremely accomplished young conservative writer, Richard J. Whalen. In the course of trying to track down the details of old Joe Kenners many lives as banker. market operator, moving picture mogul, first SEC chairman, campaigner for the New Deal, head of the Maritime Commission, Ambassador m

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In what may be the understatement of the year. City Manager Harry Hagerty said the old "equipment is not too dependable.

So it appears essential that new equipment

be installed.

We would suggest to city officials, however, that they look at the most modern equipment available before they decide on a system.

. In some instances, now, municipalities are using alarm boxes that include telephones. In this way the person turning in the alarm can talk to the dispatcher at the fire station and explain the

seriousness of the fire.

Perhaps such equipment as this is not needed in Greenville, but it should be investigated.

Matching Great Odds

Joe Sawyer approached us on the street the other day.

You know. he said, I read in your paper the other night about a couple that had had three children bom on the same date in three successive years. , ,

That Buonded unusual. Joe went on to recall that this had been discovered by an insurance company on an appUcar tlon for hospital insurance.

It seems that, according to

Greenville is approaching the day when it _______

will utilize a full paid fire department. When that the the

time comes the outside fire whistle will no longer odds be used and only paid firemen will answer first family in 4,000.000

alarms. . /right here in Pitt County, for

It is essential, then or now, that the city Mye,J , m

a dependable fire alarm system if its well trained PHltPirQ SH VinCT

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his sister-in-law had glv e n birth to three children three successive years on the same date.

Joe had his wife. Peggy, get up the information and here it is. They are the chUdren of

Mary Alice and Rogert Lee

Edwards, Jr. Robert 1^, m was bom June 7, 1950 and is now 14. Jo Anne was bom June 7, 1951 and is now 13. Mildred Sue was born June 7, 1952 and is now 12 years old. Hows that for a 4,000,000 to 1

chance?

Thats not all. A fourth child Danny Rusisell was bom the next year. He missed the

charmed date by eight days. He was bom June 15, 1953. There is a fifth chUd. Mary Kay. bom Aug. 10, 1954.

All the Edwards children are students at Chicod school. Mr. Edwards farms %nd works at G and W Boat CO.

To give a better idea of how unusual the occurance is, the population of North Carolina is about 4.500.000. o the Edwards family should statistically be the only one in the state with such a situation.

ohnsons Goal: No Controversy

High Court Cites A Duty

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - The Constitution doesnt require presidents to hold news conferences but President Johnson, like his predecessors, is holding them. His are different frwn theirs.

No one can say his way isnt working out well for himl 13 months after he took office, since at this point it isnt clear why Johnson thinks its necessary for him to be different.

But theres a pretty good explanation for why his way hasnt caused him trouble. He hardly ever says anything that would. Conflicts set up roadblocks and so far Johnson seems to be making a career of not creatine them.

In this sense he is up till now the most noncontroversial president since Calvin Cool-Idge.

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Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt. Harry S. Truman. Dwight D. Eisenhower and John P. Kennedy all held so-called formal news conferences. Elsenhower less often than the others.

The formal kind la announced long enough before time for all the newsmen in Washington to go. If they want to. There the president 1 wide op

en to any kind of question and his answers become a matter of record.

This serves the double purpose of letting the president get his ideas out to the public whUe letting the public get a close-up look at him.

Kennedy, the first to hold news sessions on live television, did a brilliant job. This helped build up the popularity of a man who had won the presidency by a hair in 1960.

Roosevelt thought he got as much good from the newsmens questions as they did from his answers. He used to hold two conferences a week.

Johnson has almost entirely eliminated the formal kind of meeting with the press.

m Washington he usually, and suddenly, calls together the newsmen assigned to cover him and trots around the White House grounds with them, answering them as he goes.

The suddenness of this pe^ Ipatetlc conference leaves out scores of newsmen who would like to be present if they knew there was going to be a conference - on the trot. Their absence also UmlU the number of questltms that are asked.

Or Johnson calls in reporters at the White House or his ranch, either Individually or in selected groups or just those who happen to be around, and then talks to them In one of three ways.

1. On the record, meaning anything he says can be attributed to him,

2. Off the record, meaning nothing he says can be used,

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Courier-Journal)

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. once voiced this stirring credo: I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligs^on; every possession, a duty. The thought should be recalled in newspaper offices this week, in the wake of an important Supreme Court decision. It was the second in a historic series.

Last March, the tribunal decided a case In favor of The New York Times in a civil liberal suit stemming from Alabama. It decreed that such libel could only be established if it could be proved that a published statement about a public official was made with actual malice that Is with knowledge that it was false, or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. Now the Supreme Court has extended that doctrine to cover criminal as well as civil libel cases. The Immediate issue involved a New Orleans district attorney who made some Louisiana law. but the case Is now reversed at the highest level. In both of these instances, the Supreme Court has made a unanimous decision. All of this means that the

and

heir

right of American citizens of their press, to criticize public officials Ls moiY firmly pegged in the legal corlcrete of the U. S. ConsiltutioB. This might be an occi^lon for rejoicing among J(ilrnallists. It

should, however, be a time for considering the added responsibility that comes hand in hand with this newly confirmed liberty.

It is vital to a free society for men in pubUc office to b held to strict accunt for their words and deeds. They have offered themselves as representatives of the public interest. If they betray that trust, they should be exposed. The press Is often the medium through which this healthy process takes place. It is the interest of the public, however, and not that of the newspapers. that the Supreme Court is at pains to protect.

Neither newspapers nor individuals should use their freedom to pillory public officials unfairly. It is hard to draw the line between constructive and destructive criticism, and the whole subject is fraught with emotion. It is dear, however, that many attacks by individuals on office-holders are motivated by nothing more than political prejudice. It also must be admitted that some newspaper crusades against civic corruption owe more to theexcitement of the chase than to a sense of Journalistic duty. The right to criticize our public officials is too important a one to be used Irresponsibly. That Is the real message of the Supreme Court decision, for both JoamallsU and their readers.

Our nomination for subtle-hlnt - of - the , year comes from Janice Hardisons No-vembOT' edition of the East Car-ollna alumni bulletin.

Neatly framed in a box was this message:

Because of the Increased cost of printing and mailing, taxes and inflation, this pubU-cation comes to you twice as free as It used to.

Below it was the not - so-subtie hint that contributions to the ECC Development Fund could be mailed to the Alumni

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Office.

Speaking of the alumni bulletin, a look at the career notes In this months edition shows the ever broaden i n g fields Into which graduates of the college are entering.

A 1963 graduate had been named sports editor of a daily paper. A 1964 graduate had accepted a sales position in Florida.

A 1936 grad is now assistant director of admisions at N.C. State,

A graduate of 1964 is now home economist for the N.C. Egg Marketing AssodaU o n. One 1955 grad is now a registered pharmacist and had joined a Drug Center.

A graduate of last year fcs now field secretary for Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. A 56 (Continued On Page 5)

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of our Involvement in world War n, real estate operator, and father of three U.S. Senar tors and one U.S. President. Whalen got no help whatsoever from the family. Knowing Whalens background as one of the new conservative genera-tlon. the Kennedy might have expected something that would accentuate the negative. But the book turns out to be aa even-handed portrait of a man who blended great capacitlee with some remarkable failings.

It is neither a smear Job ncr a puff job and that is all anybody could reasonably as^ This 1 Cromwellian portrait ture, following the recipe requested by the old defender of the British Seventeenth Century Commonwealth who asked to be painted wart and all. The vlrture of this recipe is that it Insists not only on the blemishes but also on the aU that includes the many things that any proud father might be wanted to be remembered for by posterity.

While on the subject of Kennedy luck, which has Just seen Senator Ted Kennedy of Ma^ sachusetts arise from his bed to walk, a close look might be taken at Bobby Kennedys position In New York as ha gets ready to represent the state in Washington, D.C. Bobby Kennedy has not yet been personally involved in the struggle for control trf the New York State Democratic Party. In his campaign for the Senatorial electiwj he may have lost some of the New York City liberal vote to Republican Ken Keating. But he had been the beneficiary of the liberal Mayor Wagners nod at the nominating convention, and enough of the liberal vote stayed with him to enable him to pull through.

It is no secret, however, that 11 Bobby Kennedy is to become more than the mere representative of New York State in Washington, it will be with the aid of forces that Mayor Wagner scores as the bosses.

The "bosses have Just demonstrated their muscle by making Bro<*lyn Assemblyman Stanley Steingut the Speaker of the new State Assembly. This is a slap at Wagner, at the New York aty Uberals, and, in the last analysis, at President Lyndon Joh n s o ns friends in the New York State Democracy.

The pulling and hauMng between the factions in New York Democratic politics have taken several dramatic turns in recent years. One of these turns involved Jack Kennedy, who got Boss Buckley of the Bronx to support the liberal candidate Robert Morgenth a n for Governor at the 1962 State convention. This was not to the liking of Jack EngUsh, the Democratic power in Nassau County. Since 1%2 Mayor Wagner and the liberals have suo ceeded in pushing Buckley out of the U.S. Congress by licking him in the party primary. The effect of this has been, to rivet some new bonds between (Continued on Page 5)

A Look Into Immediate Future

Streii).gth For To(day

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THAT GUY IN FRONT*

A boy and his father were driving through city traffic, the boy at the steering wheel. For some time the father had been noticing that the young driver was not observing the speed laws any too closely. Laying his hand on the boy's knee, he said in a kindly fashion, Arent you hitting it up a bit too fast, son? And the lad replied. Im just followin that guy in front.

Most accidents arise from the fact that we tryt o follow that guy in front. This la true not only on the public highways but on the road of Ufe which we follow^ from the cradk to the grave. When a youlK feUow picks out swne-

one who likes to bit tt up at

a good rate of speed and tries to keep up with him. the ra-sult may be a smash-up somewhere along the line. Many young married people who allow their romance to go on the rocks and admit their disaster by getting a divorce, do so because they think they must keep up with a crowd of speeders. Many a wife prevents her husband from getting ahead in life because she spends every cent be makes going al(mg wtth a group who think that Ufe oonslats In hitting the high idaces.

If that guy In front wants to speed, let him go ahead. R doesnt pay to try to keep up with him.

By ELMER ROESSNER This U not a prognostication for 1965. but a simple forward look into business prospects for the next few weeks and months.

Steel productkm record: seems certain to hit a new high mark by the end of the year; steel usage wUl also set a new record. Furthermore, even higher mart are likely next year, even 11 there is a stwl strike. Demand Is constantly rising and is expected to continue through most of 1965.

Cheaper theft insurance; Despite the increase in gem and fur robberies, insurance rates will be revised down-vmrd for many people. One parad(tical reason is the increase in spectacular Jewelry and robberies. They worry

everybody with valuables and the increase in premiums is making it possible to cut aU rates. Another reason Is losses from stolen furs are less than losses In Jewelry, meaning that lower fur rates are possible. A third reason is that losses outside of metropolitan areas are much lower than inside. so rural and suburban residents may get breaks.

COSTLIER COPPER,

PEPPER Copper to resume rise: The sale of copper from the government stockpile sent copper prices down, but they will not stay there. Demand for copper is still high and the stookpUe and what ean be gpared from it are decidedly limited. After the government palliative, copper will resume tta upward movement.

Higher pepper; The price of pepper has been edging up on f(Hisign markets and tt is likely the increase will be world-wide. In the last 60 days pepper has risen from around 32 cents to almost 40 cents a pound in New York, reflecting higher prices In India and the South Seas. Some crops have been held off the market by Indonesia and 8ara> wak, creating a shortage which speculators are capitalizing on. FEWER BUMPS FOR PARCELS Safer parcel pest shipments wlU be in effect after the yeap end rush la over. The poet office has been working aa ways to handle parcels with fewer Joltk' and bumps. These technique wUl save the poet offioe mtijWAw in insurance claims

and save mailert more millions in damages.

More consumer credit; Instalment commitments appear to have reached a new high this week. Americans now owe more than they ever did before, both todivldnally aod through their government. These facts, however, will not reverse the trend in credit. WhUe the rise will be slower in January, It will still be a

tal spending later on, it win

happen after the machine tool Industry has made its sales.

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rise.

Machine teol beem: Commii-ments for capital expenditurea next year, higher than In this year, assure a boom In the machine tool Industry. That is the first to profit from a capital boom, because before any woric can commence, there must be machine tods. Even If corporations cut back capi-

OLD PROMOTER FINDS

BUSINESS MADE A BOO-Boo

Industry missed millions of dollars In Christmas sales this year, the Old Promoter said. Of course, it made millions on electric toothbrushes. And tt made millions more on music boxes. But it lost all tbs millions tt oeukl have made by bringtef out a toothbrusb that played muslo while the user brushed hit tssth. such as Im Dreaming of a Whits Molar.* Think of aU tbs sonf s that could be Incorporatedmto ths singini. elsctric, automatic. American Dental AssociaUcu approved toothbrush, such as Brush. Brotiuirs, Brush with Care,* arid There Are Smile That Make Tou Happy, and *Chsw, Chaw, for Old Notre Dains.

Yes,** iMTCed. Hhe musl-oal toothbrusb will probably be s gr^ Item next year. tt wont be as good as the electrio shaver that gives Dad the morning radio news wblle he deioUates."

Im topped. the Old One said.