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Inadequate Charity Allowances

Who Will They FilT

It ii becoming increasingly evident in North Carolinaas in some other statesthat a portion of high hospital charges required of paying patients is a result of inadequate allowances made by the state to hospitals for their charity patients.

A recentjtudy 4n-^iorth"Carolina'^owa that the average daily patient cost in hospitals is several dollars above that which is paid to hospitals through welfare departments or other agencies for inigent patients. Hospitals, as a result, have found it necessary to increase their daily rates for paying patients in order to help off-set this differential.

During its 1965 session the General Assembly should take a careful look into this situation with a view to increasing the daily allowance to hospitals for indigent patients. Shouldering the cost of hospital care for indigent patients is a public responsibility to be handled through proper agencies. The

Moore Program Cost -Uncertain

individual who finds himself a paying patient at a hospital should not be made to shoulder more of this public financial responsibility than his fellow citizen who is fortunate enough not to have to be hospitalized.

Bjr WILLIAM A. SHIRES

COST What wUl Gov. Dan K. Moores far-reaching legislative program cost in dollars and cents?

At first glance the price tag for everything the governor wants may be $100 million. It could be ^00 million or more.

No one is quite sure about anything except that Moore has presented the General Assem-Uy with an ambitioufl and challenging program and that certain of his specifc recommendations are costly ones.

For example, a 10 per cent across-the-board salary ^ Increase for employes under the" state personnel act wouln cost up to $36 million. Most of this would have to cwne fiom the hard-pressed General Fund.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

Carrying out Moore s propo-aals ior reducing cla.ss sizc^ in the pjiblic schools and providing five per cent pay raises for teachers in each year of the bioinium would require approximately $70 million.

Providing tax relief by increasing income tax exemptions for dependents from $300 to $600 and comparable exemptions for persons 65 and older would cost approximately $11 million in revenue loss.

MONEY Moore made mention of some even more costly Items. He expressed deep concern about the $100 million In urgent capital Improvement needs of higher educatiwi Institutions.

I expect to speak directly to this problem in my budget message to follow at a later date, Moore said.

He strongly recommended establisbing a fourth campus of the Consolidated University at Charlotte, a step which will require considerably more money than has been recommended for Charlotte College.

He recommended a $300 mll-^ Hon highway bond issue, proceeds of which are to be spent for primary, urban and secondary projects on the basis of competitive bidding over a five year period. One legislator. Rep. Roger Kiser of Scotland, said debt service on such a bond issue would amount to $100 million in the next two decades.

SOURCES Where then, legislators are asking, will the money be found fol* these proposals and for meeting other needs and requests.

Moore himself made no at

tempt to put a price tag on his program. But he expressed optimism, and said that he would be back later with a budget message.

He endorsed the doctrine of a balanced budget and repeated his firm opposition to any increase in taxes.

This means therefore that Moore wants to fit his program in the framework of the present state tax structure. He believes the revenue picture is bright.

There Is every indication that our growing economy will provide the neressary revenue to meet our state's needs, he said. He predicted that by April the picture on estimated revenues for 1965-67 and surplus in the state treasury will be clear enough to proceed with details.

He pledged that sound fs-cal policies would be a major objective of his administration.

BUDGET Analysis of Moores proposals indie ates clearly that he intends to seek broad rerislons in the 1965-67 budget recomi.-endatlons presented on the first day of the legislative session.

This budget, prepared by the Advisory Budget Commission and officials of the preceding administration, makes sofne provision for reducing the teacher ratio in classrooms and includes a $15 per month teacher pay increase during 1966-67.

But it makes no provision for the 10 per cent salary Increa.s-es Moore wants, nor for affording Income tax relief. Budget officiaLs conceded, however, that both these might be worked in if revenues continued at higher levels.

It may be recalled, too. that foi-mer Gov. Terry Sanford suggested possible Income tax relief in his message to the General Assembly in 1963.

CAPITAL IMPROVEIV^TS ~ It may w'ell he that lAoores biggest job in budget revising will be to find funds for capital Improvements.

He told the legislature that he already has asked the State Board of Higher Education to submit its recommendations or requests from institutions of higher learning for new facilities. The board of higher education earlier placed the total in lugent requests at $231 million.

In view of the overwhelming requests for capital Improvements, there must be clear-cut priorities established, which are based on goals defined by the State Board of Higher Education. Moore said.

ECONOMY Moore pounded too, throughout his initial address, on the theme of economy in government, of greater efficiency and performance and possible eliminating of as many as 2,000 state jobs which may not be necessary.

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In practice, however, this is what is happenins:. North Carolina must see to It that hospital care is available to everyone who needs it, regrard-^less of his ability to pay. It should also see that hospital charges for paying patients do not have to be padded in order to off-set part of the cost for indigent patients that should be borne by the public. '

The present inadequate schedule of allowances for daily hospital care for indigent patients is having two effects upon hospital operations. First, it is requiring paying patient Tates that otherwise might be lowered. Secondly, it is requiring hospitals to absorb expenses which, if they were paid by other sources, could re.sult in a higher quality of medical care for all hospital patients.

Unless the legislature moves to correct the situationU-we may be sure that with continuing rising costs it will get worse rather than better.

Poundage-Acreage Has LBJ Endorsement

President Johnsons endorse\nent Thursday of poundage-acreage production controls for tobacco was an important new development in the effort to gain the sort of realistic production control needed for this^important agricultural product.

The major question now is not whether such controls are neededit is evident they arebut whether such a system of controls can be made effective in time for the 1965 crop. If Congress will not heed the plea of tobaeco-state members of Congress and recommendations of the department of agriculture for enactment of new production control legislation for tobacco, pThaps the added endorsement of the President will make them aware of the urgency of the matter.

Obviously from his faiTn message the President has other suggestions in mind for improving the position of American tobacco in the world market as well as in the domestic market. But it is equally obvious that the first step is to enact a program that will provide for realistic production control. If Congres.s will take this one major step in time for it to become effectivewith approval of producersin time for the 1965 crop, a great deal' will have been gained. This step can be supplemented with additional legislation at a later date.

Hearings before the Senate Agriculture Committee on the proposed new production control legislation will begin next week. Similar action .'ihoLild be taken in the House where Rep. Harold Cooley heads the Agriculture Committee, in order that the proposal may be expedited.

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Crisis

Ahead?

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Figtures Syndicate, Die.

It wasnt 80 long ago that Nikita Khrushchev was saying that the Russians ware going to catch,up 111 production and bury" u politically. But the figure the Soviets give for their 1964 production of passenger automobiles is a meager 173,000, which sounds like something out of .the days when Americans were rldkig around In WUlys-Overl a n d i, Crestmoblles, Essexes, Pierce-Arrow and LocomobUes. This Is the modern economy theyve been developing to the Communist paradise, yet.

Even so, as Khrushchev predicted, we may be burled. The burial will not be under the ground; it will be under a mass of Junked cars that will surely spill over from those unsightly automobile graveyards that so annoy Lady Bird Johnson as she journeys about the United States.

JOHN

CHAMBERLAIN

By HAL BOYLE

Knowledge In The Maii

NEW YCRK (AP) - Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail: Shoplifters rarely got tip early so theyll l^ive a longer day to steal. Department stores report most pilferage occurs

between noon and 6 p.m., and comparatively llt^^e duri n g morning or evening hours.

Were getting taller and heavier. The average young American man is 5 feet 10 Inches tall and weighs 165 pounds

Other Editors Saying.. What Is Appalachia?

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By JAMES MAR1X)W

WASHINGTON 'AP) - President Johnson has done to French President Charles de Gaulle almost exactly what De Gaulle did to President Kennedy. And now Johnson and De Gaulle look as far apart as Kennedy and the Frenchman did.

Johnson suddenly called a news conference within a few minutes after De GauUe had finished a news conference. If it hadnt been for this, the Frenchman would have had world headlines to himself.

But De Gaulle had to share them because Johnson and his administration repudiated what the French president said ,8 few minutes before.

JAMEB

MARLOW

Until thLs happened Johnson for months had said nothing to irritate the Frenchman. Jn turn, De Gaulle had been quie^. But. as Thursday showed, this didn't mean Johnson had hypnotized Dc Gaulle into being agreeable.

This Is what De Gaulle did to Kennedy;

In early 1%3 it was known for some time Kennedy would deliver his State of the Union' message to Congre.ss on Jan. 14. Under ordinary cirqutn-.stances this would have glVen him the world .stage for one day. The world was waiting.

De Gaulle jumped into the act. He hadnt had a se.ssion with reporters .since May 1962. but he .suddenly decided to meet the press not only on Jan. 14 but a few hours before Kennedy could Iregin to talk.

De Gaulle undercut what KCTinedy was to say later. There wasn't much Kennedy could do about it. His message had already been prepared, mimeographed and distributed.

Kennedy s message sp()ke glowingly of a Europe moving toward unity. The Frenchman contradicted this idea before Kennedy could mention it. He made a mess of Kennedy foreign policy.

This is what John.son did to De Gaulle;

For weeks it was known De Gaulle would meet the press Feb. 4. Johnson hadnt held a pre^innounced news conference since last July2 4. Reporters protested, new'spapers criticized him.

As late as Wednesday, Johnson's press secretary. George Reedy, told impatient reporters that for the time being Johnson had no new information they didnt have already.

At 9;.36 a.m. Thursday, immediately after De Gaulles conference, the first hulletin from Paris .said he called for a new world monetary system founded on something more than the dollar and p o u n d .sterling, a slap at this country and Britain.

At 10:05 a.m. another bulletin; De Gaulle proposed a five-power conference, including Red China, to examine and perhaps revise the United Nations Charter, although Red China isnt even u member.

At 10:25 a.m. a bulletin from Washington; The White House said Johnson would hold a news conference at 11 a.m. If anything vas neqded to show the John.son administrations instant dLsagreement with De Gaulle. It was thLs;

Before Johnson could meet uewsmcu. American officials, were already disagreeing w'ith De Gaulle. At 10;42 a.m. The Associated Pre.ss reported unnamed officials considered his (Continurd On Page 6)

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The Appalachia program reminds us a little of that definition of an editor as a man who knows w'hat he w'ants but doesnt know^ wnat it is.

We all want the people of Appalachia to have their share in the p osperity of the United States. But what is Appalachia as a program?

The simple answer is that it is a sympathetic federal response to a depressed region cutting across state lines and having certain common problems. Under the bill j u .s t passed by the Senate, more than a billion dollars of federal funds w'oiild go toward attacking these problems on a regional basis.

The theory is that, for some purposes, it makes more sense to deal with a naturally formed region as a unit than w'ith the separate units of states or the larger unit of the nation. The trend of planning in England and Canada lends wejght to the idea that regional planning wlll expand in the future.

We agree that regional planning can improve efficiency in many matters. We w^ould like to see it springing predominantly from the Initiative of the states, and through their voluntary cooperation rather than through federal programs.

It is interesting to note that the federal Appalachia p r o-gram developed only after the Conference of Appalachian Governors called for u special regional program of development involving local, state, and federal govera-ments, and both public and private forces. As Governor Barron of West Virginia later said, his .state had made progress, but much more had

to be done, and we can n o t do the job alone.

Federal aid is needed. But what happens to a region when that aid is supplied? Does Appalachia become a quasipolitical imit as well as one with common problems of wa t e r control, access for commerce, etc?

Primary responsibility f o r projects would rest with the states and would have to be approved by the states concerned. according to Senate testimony. An amendment was added requiring the Appalachian Regional Commission to consult appropiiate state officials before approving program implementations.

However, the feijerai member of the commission' has in effect a veto power. Any program would require affirmation by hLn as well as by/a majority of state representativ-e.s.

Such effort.'^ at checks and balances illustrate the complexity of a government venture of this scope and the danger of increasing federal controls. And already there aie Signs of controversy iii the affected states on aspects of the program such as its heavy em-phasis on support for highway construction in compari.son with local programs of vocational training, for example.

Clearly this Is an opportunity for the House of Representatives to bring to bear all the knowledge represented by the diverse interests of the membership. A clarification of Appalachia would help the American people in considering what T^nll doubtless be an Increase in such regional proposals.

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the averabe young w,oman stands 5 feet 5, weighs 127.

The common cold Is uncommonly complicated. Science has found at least 70 viruses that cause respiratory discomfort and suspects there are perhaps 70 others that may be involved.

Owners of a computer In Manhattan have fed into it 5,000 trite and cliche ex-Pi e&sions. But now the machine itself Is confused It cant decide whether to become a politician or a columnist.

Half the people in America w'orry about getting an ulcer, but less than 10 per cent ever do. Having an ulcer no longer h oven a .status symbol. The ability to give them to others is what counts today.

Quotable notables; For mast men life is a search for the proper manila envelope In which to get themselves filed - Clifton Fadiman.

Do you sometimes get tired of skyscrapers? IVell, that makes two of us. Lets shove off for Tahiti. ' local law there says, No building sail be higher than tvo - thirds the height of a coconut tree.

We see only a small part of the wonder that surrounds us. For example, on a clear night your eye^ can pick out only about 5,000 stars yet there are at least 200 billion stars In our little corner of the universe.

Japan once was regarded as a male paradise, because the women there Aere so subniis-SVP. But a recent survey re-^ported that a majority of Japanese husbands now shine their o^ni shoes, cook their own brcakfasLs, bring home their entire paychecks, and admit they fear their wives.-

Catholic Digest tells of the 1lch Texan who walked Into a limoiuslne showroom and said; My wife has come do\Mi with the flu. Got anything In a get-well carr"

One little-publicized way In which the Soviet Union atteinp to discouraige religion is this; It taxes Ru.s.slan priests 83 peleen t of their gross Incomes.

It was Billy Rose who advised. Never Invest your money in anything that eat.s or needs repainting.

Where are we golnj all the cars, living that we will have 10,000,000 motor vehicles year is upon us? years ago. when I first took over the stewardship of this column, I predicted that the 7,000,000 car year was here to stay. I considered this a slightly nervy bit of crystal ball gazing, and I felt relieved w'hen Henry Ford n became the first of the automotive manufacturers to come out with the same prophecy. But now wp have Dr. Paur McCracken of the Michigan Graduate School of Bu.si-ness Administration predicting the 10.000,000 car year! Anri Detroit Ls saying tliat more than 8.000,000 automobiles will be sold in 1965. Its wonderful for the "Gross National Product, but its a strain on the Gross National Contentment in many ways.

First, as to the Gr^s Nat.-ional Products. What would we do for a living If it were rot for motels, moving picture drive-ins, a half a million gas stations, roadside shopp 1 n g centers, outdoor advertising along the hlgbways, the o i I and gas business, and the tremendous consumption of steel, glass, rubber, plastics, radio .sets, paints, lacquers and what-not that goes into the making of cars in the fir^^t placed? It has long been a rule of thumb that one out of every MX employed Americans depends on the automobile business for his livelihood.

But we are making the cais to jam them Into cities that cannpt hold them, and every new car that takes to the road Ls an added hazard. It's bad enough to come Into the Grand Central district of New York now by train.

Buf If railroad commutpr service .sl^ould be suspended in thq American Northeast, as now threatens, some T0,(K)O more people would be ,forced to use automobiles to rearh their desks in Manhattan L<^-land. fts impos.slble to visualize the crush that would result. The impact on the real estate market in central Manhattan could be .severe, for certakily a lot of companies would be tempted to desert suddenly inconvenient midtown office buildings and move their operations to Princeton, New Jersey, or White Plains in -the New York State County of We.stchester.

The problem of accommodating a iiew' crush of cars in the ce'.itral.clty could be handFd by some more of Robert Mo.v-f.s Ioad and bridge building legerdemain, tut thl.s in Pro-fps.sor J. Kennetli Galbraith's (Continued On Page 6)

Cordless Appliance Here To Stay

Strength For Today

By 1.. UqL(.I,AS.S

THE LAW OK TI.K TlltMB

In our stale there Is a law which forbids ptMj^le to stand on a public highway thuinbing a rlrie. But they vet around this law ea.slly eno.igh. villages and streets they .stand on the curb, and out in the open country they stan ' to the side of the road. They break no laws, and they get as many rides as the people in any other .state. '

Th^re are more wayfi of killing a cat than drowning it in molasses. Theie was never a law passed which could not be circumvented. Moses had' scarcely .set forth the Decalogue as Gixl's divine command before the members, of the Hebrew nntlon bcrsu falling

over thrm.'^eivc in an excited endeavor to break the.se lawfc. And the people, of couhse. wild broke them most flagrantly weie not those; who came out openly ami defied them but tliose wdio broke them by clr-cumven'.lqn. High- pricerl lawyers toflay can .shoW-ianybody, how' to get around almost any law.

Yet a.s a matter of fact, we never break laws. We disre-.gard them or violate them, but in the end they break us. The laws of the universe physical spiritual, eeonomtc are moie unchangeable than t h> .star.s They cannot be broken. - but wr can b' broken.

There err, more w'ays to kill a (at - oh yps, but we .said that before.

By ELMER ROE.SSNEK

Cordless electric appliances, regarded by many merchants as a pa.ssing Chri.stmas gimmick, now appear to have some sort of permanence.

At the recent Chicago housewares show, they command c d considerable attention and

some respect. Buyers wlw had sniffed at the devices quietly ordered In moderate volume; those, who had whooped them up in Christmas sales ordered more heavily.

This we(;k news leaked out that General Electric was adding a new cordle.ss product, a clothes brushr to its line. GE did now show' the bnrsh at Chicago, and it l.s repnited tat. volume prfKiuctioii will not tx-unrlei va.V until later this,year. However ore mall - ordei-hou.se' l.s now offering the bni.sl). If it ciick.s, you ran bet that retailers now handling .small GE appliances will de-mand their share of production under threats of screaming to the federal government.

WHAT RETAH.ERS SAY

Problems of merchandising cordles.s appliances still bother many nierchanU. Among them are:

1. Th.- reja'tlve, value of re-rliargeable and ronrecharue-able batteries. Some retallrrs .-tronglv favot the recharge u.bk hatliiicx (gj the grounds

that nonrechargeable batteries require frequent replacements, involving trips to stores or carrying large home stocks of batteries. Some retailers expect that rechargeable battery items may some day take over the entire field.

EL.-VER

ROESSNER

2 'The question of w h p r e cordle.s.s appliances are to be sold troubles .some riepailnient stores. Some stores have sd up separate departmcnl.s to .sell th(; devices. This has n.siial ly brought gales of protests by Imads of other riepartments, Que.stlons of whether cordless potato peelers sheutd be sold In a special ccrdless .section or in a housewares department are not easy > resolve. And .should the nev GE clothes l)iush be sold In mens furnishings. housewares, small appliances or a cordless section? Many a store .-xecutlve would rather as. up profits on cordless Item.s Hian to an-tayom/i Ihitc out of four ut>-

ordinates by making an ajbi-trary decision.

QUALITY WORRIES SOME

3. Some department sections complain about the quality of many new cordless item.s. When a new -. d of item hits the market, it is .sureto attract quick-buck boys, and cordlrs.j appliances arc no exception! Dozens of ltem.s are now on the market that use so much power that batteries die quickly, that do not perform the work, or that arc .so shoddily made that they will not la.si.

The mimtxM- cordless items l.s pudlois.s and kee ^ growing every (jay. Almost anything that requires pov (r can he adapted to cordless devices. In addition to the scores of itiun.s offejcd at Chri.stnias, a 1 (;cliargeable hand vacuinu and uprights are nearing market/ The electric loothbru.sh era Is broadening to take 'n a 1 m o s t, every form of human endeavor

The basic Idea Is now new. Almost 20 years ago I was pre-.sentell with a battery-powered fan for cooling my face. Battery electric sl.avers have been with us only slightly shorter: than the electric shaver Itself. The flashlight Is sort of appliance and .so Is Hw dijorbell, old when I was a kl(} But the prolilciallon t^new and now

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Involves hmidred.s of millions of dollars in producl.ion, alo and ti.se.

.SIIDKT A SIG.MKH AM Bi;SI\ES.S NEW'S ITEMS

Labor union.s w'on an avrr^ aye Increase of T'r; cents an hour last year. the Bureau of National Affaiis rcport.s Steel companie.s will spend $1.9 billion tills ,v( at for ran; tal improvrment.s. the Ameri can Iron and Ster' InsfUutc c--tlinutrs.

D^pitr rfforl,' of .some ccmi-punie.*- In lafsc ;n.-; barrier.', a;'-ain.sl U iS >oultry. expon s ro.'e 14 i.wr C nl in the fir I in nmntli.v of Potr.to el'ii) -airs ar*- rb'J;* III pn ('f'lit a V ni Po't'torh P In.stilitF' mcirb'i' "err told thi,' wcf'k. 0;ir ' TV

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tI)IeWf'sl crrdi't eard pli*!' Is i)V Scl'l''*iiley, 'irliii le.-lrd .fu New York re.!tari aids Curd" art l.s.siierl oulv to employct .s and people W'ho do biislne; s with Schenley. and lestaurani.T pay no percentage.

Dick Finch, of Medford, Ore . has sold his 19-year interest !:i the Home Appliance Co, thfie to return to conege.

State Mutual Life Assurance reports that If ha.s sold $41 ml! Hon In It.s cut-rate polley fm tionsmoker.s .xlrtv Us Introiut-tM>u 30 weeks s-^o.