Might Utilize School Gymnasiums

Lik almost everyone we are happy to see the City Council taking a look at Greehvilles recreation program.

There is no doubt that the city needs more park and playground facilities, more recreational equipment and, in general an expanded program.

For, after all, recreation affects everybody in our community and as more leisure* time comes our way we are in need of more wholesome recreation.

All this, of course, can be expected to cost money. We are not against that if the funds spent go for the maximum benefit of the most citizens,

We cannot help but wonder, however, as we learn of a plan to build two recreation gymnasiums, if something could not be worked out with the city schools for combination facilities.

Auto Inspection Incentive Plan

By Wn.LlAM A. SHIRES

INCENTIVE Incentive inspection may turn out to be an allurlnB catch-phrase for the 1%5 General Assembly which Is RroplnB for some workable automobile Inspection plan. And It might catch hold.

The phrase already baa caught the interest of several legislative leaders, among them Senate Highway Safety Chairman Ii*win Belk of Mecklenburg: and Sen. Sam Whitehurst of Craven.

In short, Incentive Inspection would be some plan by which motorUts w'ho have their vehicles Inspected periodically by an approved method would be rewarded. It would not be compulsory.

One Idea Is that motorists ^who have their vehicles inspected regulaily and receive a state-approved Inspect 1 o n sticker or certificate would receive a discount on their auto liability insurance cost. It Is this plan that Belk is suggesting.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

The Mecklenburg senator Is seeking to line up support for a plan to reward motorists with accident - free driving records and who have had their cars inspected twice per year with a five per cent annual premium discount in addition to the pre.sent 10 per cent discount allowance for drivers with good driving records over a three year period.

IDEA The biggest Initial question about this sort of plan is whether the insurance companies might agree. What would be the cost to the companies?

Belk suggested a five per cent additional discount for motorists with inspected and approved safe vehicles.

Belk outlined this plan In letters to Paul Mize of the N. C. automobile insurance rate administrative office and to Gov. Dan K. Moore. State Insurance Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier indicated his office would look favorably on such a plan if It is found to be agreeable and acceptable.

Sen. Whitehurst, meanwhile. Raid he felt the cost involved might be greater than the insurance companies would be willing or able to bear but also promised to Investigate.

He indicated another incentive might be credit on points assigned under the Department of Motor Vehicles point system relating to driver licensing. Both Belk and White-burst agreed, however, that

more tangible Incentive might be needed to win widespread public acceptance of an inspection plan.

Said Belk, theres no nerve more sensitive than the pock-etbook nerve, and this would help out the folks who keep their cars In good, safe condition. It also would benefit the Insurance companies because they would be assured of cars in top safety shape."

INSPECTION Automobile Inspection In itself Is an exposed nerve In this and in past sessions of the .General Assembly dating back to 1949 when an unpopular state Inspection law was summarily repealed.

Gov. Moore has Included some form of periodic automobile Inspection as a major point In his forthcoming highway safety program for thLs legislature. In his address to the General Asvsembly last month, however. Moore stopped short of calling for compulsory Inspection.

This, In effect, left several avenues open.

Automobile Inspection has been urged by highway safety advocates In virtually every session of the General Assembly since 1949. Moore's Including It in his hlghw'ay safety program Is nothing startling.

It would, however, be unu-.sual for auto Inspection in any form to be enacted into law.

WAIT The governor has not spelled out specifics of any inspection law and it could be that the incentive Idea may appeal to him as a possible solu-tiwi. There Is stl a definite bloc of built-in opposition in the General Assembly to any compuLsory Inspection plan.

Many legislators say privately they personally would favor automobile inspection but that my people back home wont stand for it.

If then some alternative inspection plan, aimed at rewarding the motorist who keeps his vehicle in safe driving condition, is introduced it might have a better chance of support. Belk, Whitehurst and other highway safety advocates think so.

JUDICIARY The Judleta ry committees of the General A.s.sembly arc among the busiest in the legl.slature. They are the so-called lawyers committees which handle bills affecting changes In the law. Thcre^ are. a multitude of these in every session.

It Is not infrequent either that these committees get hot potato biUs and this is the ca.se with current measures to abolish capital punishment, to remove the discretion of juries to recommend mercy in capital cases and to legalize daylight saving.s time In North Carolina. It appears likely that the lawyers committees will decide to hold public hearings on all three of these controversial proposals.

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Councilracn last week were shown plans for two steel structures to be erected at Elm Street Park and at South Greenville. The structures would cost $40,000 each.

We suspect that more gymnasium space Is needed in Greenville, particularly in this area of emphasis on the game of basketball.

But why not make use of elementary school gymnasiuipS whenever it is feasible? Or, as is true in some cases, why not construct the gyms at elementary schools which do not now have gymnasiums?

We know there would be times when/programs of the schools and the Recreation Department would conflict. Still with some, careful scheduling it is entirely possible that suph conflicts could be worked out /

We would suggest that the City Council look into this plan. There may well be good and adequate reasons as to why it would not work. If that be the case we would be the first to say construct the recreation gyms as .soon as possible.

We would emphasize, however, that the city of Greenville will lose nothing by investigating the matter.

Long-Awaited Court Reform Bill Presented

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A long awaited plan for establishing a uniform system of lower courts in North Carolina is now before the legislature, and it is almost certain to stir controversy before it is enacted into law.

Certainly the proposal that results from a two-year study by the Courts Commiwssion is not without blemish. At the same time, the measure takes a realistic approach to the goal of a uniform system of lower courts and provides a sound means of achieving this much-needed goal in North Carolina.

The measure would do away with lower coiirt.s and jaypee courts as they are now constituted, and in their place establish a uniform system of district courts below the Superior Court level.

It is by far the mo.st comprehensive proposal in decades to revamp the conglomeration of lower courts that now exist in North Carolina. Over the years these lower courts have grown like Topsy with conflicting jurisdiction, assorted powers and a complete lack of uniformity. The proposal for e.rtablishing a system of district courts would provide for a uniform system and at the same time a much better system of lower courts than now exists in North Carolina.

The measure that has been introduced this week deserves the support not only of members of the legislature, but also support of citizen.s throughout the state. It outlines a reasonable system of lower coimts and it likewise sets forth a reasonable plan ana timetable for effecting this system throughout the state.

3ad Month For All Concerned.

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By ART BCHWALD

Goldwater At The Helm

Bv JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) It's been a strange month for President Johnson and others, including Red China, Russia. Is-rael. West _ Germany, East Germany, Egypt. Ihdones i a. North and South Viet Nam, and Cuban refugees.

All got mixed up In violence, confusion or rebuffs these past 30 day.s.

John.son, like a man walking a sandbar In a sea of troubles, had managed to stay pretty clear of foreign dilemmas for most of his presidency, and then suddenly he got drenched in them.

More and more of his time is being consumed by problems overseas. Whats strange is the way hes handling them, com-pafed with the way he had handled others.

Last April 22 he could hardly get to the television cameras vsoon enough to tell the American people the long drawn - out railroad dispute was .settled.

And he went on television Aug. 4. when North Vietnamese PT-boat,s fired on American destroyer,*? in the Gulf of Tonkin, to announce he had ordered a retaliatory bombing raid on North Viet Nam bases.

Hecenil.v he has done the opposite. .staying away from tel-evKslon and hew.s conferences .since Feb. 7 when he ordered another bombing strike on North Viet Nam after Red guerrillas attacked an American air ha.se in South Viet Nam.

O^'rr the weekend he ordered 3,300 U.S. Marines into South Viet Nam to protect the U, S. base at Da Nang. John-.son aides have said this country would like to negotiate a settlement If North Viet Nam would indicate a wllllngnes.s.

But all this has left some big

unknowns. Will the bombing cool North Viet Nams martial spirit? Will the Marines get into ground fighting with Red guerrillas? Just how far does Johnson intend to extend the war? What will Russia a n d Red China do?

In American -backed South Viet Nam some Buddhists have started calling for peace.

Meanwhile the CommunI s t world is having Its troubles.

In Moscow, 2,000 Asian students rioted in front of the U.S. Emba.s.sy to protest the bombing raids. They smashed windows, smeared the building with ink, fought with Soviet police and troops.

In Red China, 300 Chir^se students demon.strated in front of the Soviet Embassy In Peiping to protest the Soviet police action in Moscow against the anti - American rioters.

The United State.s protested to Russia that the Soviet police hadnt given the American Embassy enough protec 11 o n and Sunday refugees from Fidel Ca.stros Cuba demonstrated against the Soviet Embassy in Washington, hitting the building with bottles of black liquid. Six were arrested.

The refugees explained they were reacting agaln.st last weeks violent .student demonstration again.st the ^ S. Embassy. But their action opened the door for a Soviet pro-te.st I hat American police hadnt given the Soviet Embassy enough protection. And the Ru.sslans promptly protested to the St a to Department;

The last thing West Germany wanted was to see Egypts President Nasser invite Ea.st Germanvs Communl.st bo s s. Waller nibrirht, to Calm To hnttor up Nas-ser. the Bonn government stopped an Ameri-(Continued on page 5)

Every once In a w'hile, when I have nothing better to do, I wonder what the country w'oulcL be like if Barry Goldwater had been elected President of the United States. Based on h 1 .s campaign and his speeches, it is a frightening thing to imagine.

The mind boggles when you think of it. For one thing, we would probably be bombing North Viet Nam now if Goldwater were in office.

As wc see it, this is what would have happened.

The Viet Cong would have blown up an American barracks. Using this as an excuse, Goldwater would immediately call for a strike on military bases In North Viet Nam and announce a new tlt-for-tat policy. Democrats would be horrified and they would make speeches that Goldwat-

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To The Editor

In a recent edition of your paper covering the medical services available and the activities of the doctors, reference was made to some doctors being inactive. Although, those doctors being familiar with the terminology used in the article understood the article. I understand a number of people other than doctors wlio read the article were surprised to hear that some of the doctors mentioned were inactive. One, a doctor referred to as being inactive means simply that he does not take an active part in coverage of the Emergency Room by remaining in the hospital overright In rotation with other doctors who are on the active hospital staff. This does not restrict their practice either in the hospital or in their office. It Is a voluntary decision made by' the doctor for personal reasons. I might add *hat the doctors on the active staff by remaining at the hospital to take duty in the Emergency Room as an Intern or a resld e n t would in larger hospitals do so to keep a pledge made by the doctors to those who helped establish the present ho.spital by stating that they would give coverage to the Emergency Rnom 24 hours a day. In the

er was trigger happy and was trying to get us into a war wdth Red China.

But Goldwater would Ignore ihe criticism, and to show he n^ant business, he would con-timje the raids, using not only Air' Force bombers, but jets froFQ, the U.S fleet. As time went biL the country would be shaken t. the recklessness of Goldwaters plan, but he would explain through lls. Secretary of State that. Instad of a tit - for - tat polifey, we

now Intended to bomhi North Viet Nam in order to M Hanoi know that they could, >not support the Viet Cong Without expecting retaliation.

Senators would get up in

Congress and call for some .sort of negotiations. But Gold-w'ater with his lack of restraint would retort that there is nothing to negotiate and we

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daytime this Is no problem because there is usually a doctor In the hospital at all times attending to hi.s patients, and if he were needed in the Emergency Room, he could quickly go there. At night this is not the case and the doctors remain in the hospital taking the duty in rotation with con-.siderable inconvenience, and in my opinion, at no little sacrifice. It is my opinion that this Is a great service to the people of Pitt County. When the individual doctor decides for one reason or another that he can no l(xiger do this, he goes on the Inactive staff and (ioes not take this call. He may. however, be called to. and is frequently called to the Emergency Room to take care of cases In his specialty.

I believe that a printed explanation of the term inactive as applied to those doctors not taking intern call or spending the night at the ho.s*-pltal on rotation would explain better to tho.se people who do not know what the term Includes or excludes.

Thank you veiT much for your attention.

Sincerely ynurs, A.M. Mumford, M.D, Chief of Staff Thtt Memorial Hospital

w'ould only be gelling out South*-east Asia If we sat down at a table with the North Vietnamese and Red China.

Russia and Prance would call for a Geneva conference, but Goldwater would reject it.

Instead, he would recklessly announce that he was sending in a battalion of Marines with Hawk missiles to protect our airfields. HLs critics would claim he was escalating the war, but Goldwater would deny It. Instead he would bomb supply routes In Laos and Cambodia.

ART

BUCBWALD

To- exphtiu these desperate actions, Goldwater would have the Defense and State Departments produce a White Pai>-er justifying the attacks and proving that Hanoi was responsible for the revolution In South Viet Nam. He would insist we had to support the Saigon gen-eraLs, no matter how shaky they were.

The paper would be follow -ed by more air strikes using South Vietnamese planes as well as American B-57s.

The people who voted for Johnson would scream at their Republican friends, I told you if Goldwater became Pre.sldent hed get u.s Into a war, But the Republicans w()uld claim that Goldw'ator had no choice, that he, in fact, inherited the Viet Nam problem from the Democrats and, if he didnt take a strong stand now, America would be considered a paper tiger.

It all seems far fetched when you read It and I may have let niv imagination run away with It.self, berause ever. Barry Goldwater, had he become President, wouldnt have gone so far.

But fortunately, with Pre.sldent Johnson at the helm, we dont even have to think about it.

Grasps

Issues

JOHN CRAMBBRLAIN ' Cepsrrlfht. IMi. Klag FiMtaritl SjrMdlcAte, lat.

LOS ANOEUBS - Thg day of the shrlnldnf vlol^ freshman UB. Senater is amrent* ly over. Democrat Bobjagr Kennedy of New York hardly watted to be seated before le-sulng a broadside eaUlai for the bichiMons el a few New York hill eountiea in the palachla progrun. Thie piece of contentlouneee annoyed Republican Governor Rockefeller. but it marked Bobby down as a real defender of his state.

The same pattern has been followed by the new ItepubU-can Senator George Murphy of California. He plunged into CongreesloDsI battle with a serious and devastating maiden speech which should have curled the hair of BeowUry of Labor W. Willard Wlrts for depriving California fanners ef their traditional souict of labor, the so-called braceros from neighboring Mexico. This piece of contentiousness annoyed Democratic Governor Pat Brown, but H mailEed Georgs Murphy down as % real defender of his stats.

The Murjrtiy speech has great local significance for California, Arizona, Florida, and other states that have depended on seasonal importation of foreign labor to harvest such perishable and unsubsldiz s d crops as oranges, lemons, dates, lettuce, and tomatoes, an of which require special handling,. But beyond the significance to agrtoture Senator Murphy's ig>eech eonstltut-ed an attack on tbe whols idea ef trying to solve any and all national problems along pro-eonelved ideological lines. The speech was a reprimand to knee-jerk llberaUsm, and the truly encouraging thing is that it did not originate in a knee-jerk conservatims, either. Senator Murphy shows promise of being a really free man.

The banishment of the braceros from the California and Arizona agricultural scenes, and Caribbean workers from Florida, proceeded from the knee-Jeric liberals abstract desire to make Jobs for unemployed . S. citizens. In California it seemed Just a matter of getting some of the 400,000 local unemployed out on the land to replace tlx Mexicans who have been harvesting dates in the Coachella Valley, lemons in Ventura County, wid lettuce where water from the Colorado River make the desert bloom with some of the most magnificent greenery that anyone had ever seen. Since the state employment agmcies had had plenty of warning about the crackdown on the braceros. Governor Brown anticlMted little threat to Californias $3.5 billion agricultural industry.

As things turned out, however. the pieces of the puzzle didnt match when the Ideologues tried to put them together.At Tulare in the San Joaquin Valley a year of recruitment did turn up enough domestic citizen workers to end dependence on the braceros for harvesting the cltnis crop. But in Ventura County, close to the metropolitan beguilements of Los Angeles, it has proved extremely difficult to hold native workers. The result is that Ventura ha.s - been lagging way behind on harvesting its lemon crop.

Around Palm Desert In the Coachella Valley, where Ike ELsenhower has been communing between golf matches with Ray Bliss in hopes of refurbishing the Republican image, there is a desperate need both for date harvesters and experts in date palm pollination. Some city bred workers were recruited for date palm work, and the.v discovered the reason: date palm harvesting and hand pollination take place fifty feet from the ground. The worker has to be an adept at climbing ladders and working at a dizzy height In a bo.sun's chair. Watching it. Govern o r Brown .nld in his delightful way that It marie him fgrl more Insecure than usual. He l.s now tnkitiK Senator Mur-phy.s .ride of the arcuinent. much to the anno.vanre of Coo-(Continued on page 5)

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Strength For Today

Bv KARL L. I)OL(;iAS.S HARD TO FACEBUT REAL HARD TO FACEBUT REAL

Few modems like to admit that the wrath of God 1s reality which every human being has to face and take Into account. It seeias at variance with the off-repcalcd Biblical declaration that God is love. Many people reason that God cannot be loving at one time and angry at another.

Yet the Bible certainly toa-chc.s that with infinite severity God punishes evil and that when His patience is exhausted with the sinners perversity and impenitence His heavy hand descends to smite. The divine wTath is nii^ulfest e d In many way.s. Sometimes a punishment which seem.s especially designed for a partlcu lar offender comes down upon them and bis folly. More often.

however. the punlshnunt grows out of the mounting calamities of thr evil enterprise itself. God has ordained that evil brings suffering, and as the evil lncrea.srs the punishment Increases in like proportion.

If we think about it for a moment we see that this Is not at all inconsistent with the abounding love of God. This love l.s offered to all men. Those who refu.se it not only rio themselvf.s infinite harm; they corrupt the environment in which others must live. Sin unpunished and unrebuked would soon destroy all good ness from off the face of earth. In God's perfect nature love, justice, and wrath are perfectly l)alancpd and H1 s wrath aga'nst evil Is a.s mneh a part of His divine nature as are Ju.stice and love.

Bv ELMER ROEvSSNER The 2.804 leading American corporations had a net income of $2fi,2 billion after taxes last year, a gain of 14 per cent over 1963. according to the First National city Banks preliminary .summary.

Corporations in every field except one made gains. 'The one group that didnt quite come up to 1963 marks wa.s 11 tobacco products corporations, which .suggests that the cancer threat hit the .Industry worse than generally .supposed.

The indu.stry group with the biggest percentage gain 201 per cent consisted of .38 amusement corporations. Their net after taxes rose from $12.2 mllllpn to $36.9 million. AIRLINE PROFITS R.Y The next largest gain wa.s by 58 airline and related companies, up 79 per cent. They were followed by 20 lumber and wood prorluct companies who, de.spltc the weakness In hou.slng .start.s, gained 48 per cent in net profits Next wrre 49 chains, including food rmpanle*. ihat made an lncr(a.e of 4l per cent.

In total earning-s. rather than prrcentage.s of Increase. 86 petroleum and refining corporations did best. Their net gain wa.s only 7 per cent, but that represented a rise from $3.9 billion to $4 1 billion.

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Next biggest money - mak-er.s were 47 auto and parts companies, going from $2.4 billion to $2.6 billion. And 166 electric power and gas corporations rose from $2.2 bllliop to $2.4 billion. Proportionate, ly, 12 telephone and telegraph companle.s did better, gol n g from $17 billion to $19 billion. Phone companies inciras-ed their take 13 per cent while the Oliver utllllles were going up nqlV 10 per cent IlKABONS FOR 8UCCEW

Flnst National City attrihui-e.s the general galn.s to llie corporate tax cut. the rise In consumer .spending-and the rise In capital Invr.stment. plus cost - reducing program.s, sale.s of new proflivcts and economies rrsnitlng from newly con-.structed facilities.

The last, of course. Include.s automation.

Oil companies were faced throughout the year with intense competition, oversupply and price wars, especially in the Middle West. First National City observed. Their gains totalled 7 per cent, half the national average, but still more than $4 billion for the 86 top companies.

.SHORT k SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEM.S Notice all those batter y -powered gadgets at Cliristmas time? Well, General Eelectric l.s doubling the size of its battery section at Oalncsvllle. Fla. 1|

Ford Is continuing Its experiments with its gas turb 1 n e truck.

Corporate dliectors' feei ar

increasing, a National Indnefri. al Conference Dnarcl sur v p y show.s.

Unrinployiiint, in- ii r a n r e fund re.srrves bv rns'*

$613 million b) $7.3 billion ]* year, Commcrcr Clear 1 n g Hon.'^e repoits.

Five hundrcil hliidpiit,. ,d, the Putnam, Conn., high .-eli o o I wear their best clothc.s 1 hur.';-days to prove that all teens aren't slobs.

Con.sumpllon of zinc .set an all - time high U. S. record last year.

By 1985, California will have a population of .32 million, compared willi 22 million in New York, the Cen.sus Bureau estimate.s.

Philip Morris's annual rcp(rt l.s written In five languages.

The average American drank almost a gallon of wine last year, almost double his drinking In 1939. Otto E. Meyer, Paul Mas,s(m president, declar-rs.. The uvcragr Fmv.hman drank .3.5 gallons.

Credit unions tooc in one million new members last year.k.....

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