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Quality of medical care being received by patients ^Subsequently the executive committee of the

at Pitt Memorial Hospital, it seems to us the Board Board decided, on the advice of the d-

of Trustees of the hospital should give greater ministrator and the supervisor of nurses, that the consideration to recommendations from the medical need had been exagerated by the medical staff, sUff of the hospital than apparently it has in the and that present personnel was adequate to meet

the needs of the hospital.

We find the situation

past.

At the meeting of the hospital Board of Trustees earlier this month Dr, A. M. Mumford, chief of the medical staff, appealed a decision made earlier by the executive committee of the Board. The previous month Dr. Mumford had presented a recommendation of the medical staff calling for

more than a little disturbing.

It seems to us the hospital trustees should weigh with utmost care every recommendation which comes from the medtcat ii^^

It should explore each recommendation carefully

additional nurses and aides for operating rooms at not only .with the administrator or the supervisor of

the hospital. Also cited was the need for increasing nurses, but with representatives of the^ medical

salaries in order to retain qualified help at the staff as well before making a decision. It also seems

to us that the doctors who make up the medical

^Pressure Over

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES ELECTRIC Legislators returning to Raleigh this week reported heavy pressure back bome to commit themselves on newl^ - Introduced legislation to Implement a statewide public - private electric power , agreement.

' I felt like I had grabbed a live wire, said one stunned and dismayed lawmaker. Id aay this one has plenty of voltage."

Discomfort In legislat 1 v e ranks was widespread. A number said they felt caught in the middle of this new - look electric utility mtroversy with private power companies and rural electric cooperatives on one side and municipalities oi the state on the other. _

In the past, li ha' been private power companies and the electric co - ops battling each other over utilities legislation In the General Assembly. The new agreement was designed to solve these major dlfierenc-8.

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itles committees would be s61h eduled within two weeks. This, he said, would allow time for study and for both sides to be heard.

Some legislators were saying, however, they felt certain that an ^fort would be made to amend the measure to meet municipalities' objections and at the same time save the agreement.

OBJECTION In brief, the municipalities object to the bill as introduced on grounds it would deny municipal governing bodies the right to determine who shall furnish electric service within their corporate limits.

Specifically, they object to fwovisions which they contend would grant to a power company or REA cooperative an exclusive right to serve areas already served by them and along a 600-foot wide corridor along its transmission or distribution Aines, including annexed areas.

INSPECTION An automobile Inspection bill drawn by freshman Rep. Sam Johnson of Wake County will be at least the t^isis for an administration - backed inspection measure. Johnson ^submitted his plan to Gov. Dan K. Moore who has turned it over to a

Staff are in a better position to ju(Jge the quality of treatment and care being received by patients than other hospital officials.

For too long, we think, there has been insufficient liason between the medical staff and the trustees of the hospital. Too many recommendations of the medical staff over a period of tipie have been brushed aside and apparently forgotten.

In the interest of better hospital care for people Pitt Coqnty, the Board of Trustees should give more attentive ear to recommendations that

come from the medical staff.

Should Adop^ Revised Residency Requirement

The Senate-passed bill that would reduce to 60 days the residency requirement in North Carolina for voting in a presidential election should receive approval of the House as well.

Rather than letting down the bars on participating .in national elections, this measure takes a realistic view of the situation which exists in this and other states. 'While the present residence requirement for voting in state and local elections may have merit, the proposed 60-day period to be eligible to vote in national elections is long enough.

Just because an individual moves from Virginia By HAL BOYLE to North Carolina he should not be faced with the requirement that he^live in the state to which he has moved for a year or longer in order to vote in the national election. With more and more citizens changing their places^ of residence from one state to another each year in our'mobile society, the long waiting periods before one can vote in a

umoed-To Conclusions

OPPOSED The municipal-sities, however, have now come Into the picture charging that the electric combine turned deaf ears to mu4 nicipal objections." v

AiHMtrently most of the pres- -sure back home was be 1 n g ,

Ing officials stronger (^posea to certain provisions of the electric agreement. j.,,

The municipalities served notice they w^try to block the leglslatibn unless the objectioRfl^ provisions are removed. ^

Their fight is being spear^ headed by the politically . powerful N. C. League of Municipalities working through mayors, councils, managers and city and town 'attorneys.^ Initial efforts apparently met some measure of success. At least one senator said Im going to have to go along with my cities. He said he has five of the states 73 municipally - owned electric systems in his district.

STUDY - Most of the legislators reported pressure on the electric bill were able to say they had not had a chance to study the 20 - page bill carefully.

But one of the chief targets was Sen. Fred Mills of Anson County chairman of Sena t e Utilities committee and sponsor of the bill in the upper chamber.

Mills said a joint public hearing by Senate and House Util-

NEW YORK (AP) Jumping to conclusions:

subcommittee of the governors .presidential election in a particular state is denying ^usbMd the same breakfast

traffic safety advisory council an increasing number of citizens of their right to seven days in a row should

vote for the presdential candidate of their choice, be sued for divorce. When the

The 60-day waiting period prescribed in the monotonous, so does

mqasure than has now passqd the Senate is ample.

We trust the House will concur in the action of the Senate.

for study and possible changes.

Meanwhile, Johnson has drawn up a fact sheet on auto inspection and distributed it with the notation that he is not an expert cn the subject.

Among Johnson.' facts; Sixty one per cent of the cars registered in North Carolina are more than five years old. North Carolina had a traffic

per 100,000 poiwlation while the death rate in states with vehicle inspection vas 17.51 per 100,000.

ENROLL The North Carolina State name - change controversy, still boiling in t h General AsKmbly, has'had little apparent" effect on enrollment at the Raleigh branch of the Consolidated University. Latest figures show N. C. States spring enrollment at an :^^ai . time high of 8.329 stu-dMits.

Actually, the biggest enrollment increase may be attributed to action (rf the 1963 General Assembly which authorized granting liberal arts degrees at the Raleigh campus. Liber-al arts undergraduate enrollment this Spring is 62 per cent over a year ago, 892 students compared to 551 a year ago. Overall enrollment is up by 11 per cent.

FIRST Gov. Dan K. Moore set two first for his administration in the past few dayi.-One was his first residence at the western North Carol i n a mansicm at Asheville. The other was Issuance of his first proclamation, declar ing five counties a disaster area.

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the marriage and vice versa.

Everybody ought to listen to a good opera once a year whether he really needs to or not.

When you get right down to it,, the big difference between teen-agers and middle-agers is

^30 pounds and 30 yetQs.

Male gamblers at a racetrack rarely bet on gray horses. Then they get very angry if a woman compan 1 o^n-with them bets on one and wins.

Muggers are getting more sleep lately. Manhatten streets are so bare after midnight that its hardly worth a fellows time to stay up late l0(*ing for someone to rob.

The surest way to keep from getting promoted in an office is to get a reputaticm for mlss-

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) The Vietnamese war, shoved Out of much of the American by space shots and civil right^' excitement, will be back, ugli-' er and perhaps bigger.

This country intensified .the war against the Communists to make them back up and seek a truce. They havent backed up, they havent sought a truce, and theyre fighti n g harder.

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tacked an American air base in South Viet Nam ,the United States stepped up the conflict with a bombing raid on North Viet Nam.

We want no wider war." President Johnson said, although the bombing widened it. The bombing raids continued* until now they are almost commonplace but the Communists show no signs of yielding. On the contrary.

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This week Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, said the Red guerrillas there are beginning an all - out drive for victory. Now one senses we may be arriving at a decisive point, he said. He said more.

He startled and worried this countrys British ally, ev e n though it had approved the stepped - up UJ3.^efforts, when he said there are no limits on how much the war may be Intensified.

And then he indicated this

The irony ii. the American effort to save the South Vietnamese from being overwhelmed is that they have far more than enough men to do their own fighting, if they had the will and the training. Tay 1 o r acknowledged this obliquely.

He said sufficient military, paramilitary and police manpower must be trained to out-man the Red ^guerrillas. Yet, this war has been going (in for years and thrimgh the administrations of three presidents.

Thinking of where all this may be heading. British Prime Minister Harold WUson sa i d Tuesday he wants an explanation of Taylors statement that there ,are no limits on how much the war may be stepped up.

This came on top of news from Saigon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces are experimenting with nonlethal gas warfare against the Reds.

From Saigon The Associated Prss reported the nature of the gases is classified information but they are believed to be a mixture that Includes the universal riot . control weapon, tear gas.

But The AP also said one gas reportedly '"causes nausea and vomiting. The British are skeptical. Wilson said Britain is raising questions about the use of napalm and nonlethal gas.

Lord Kennet said American statements on the gas were contradictory. If it causes nausea, he said, it was not a type 01 police gas.

Here Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said such gases were used by the British in CTyprus in 1955. have been used at the Berlin wall, by American police during racial rioting, and by Panama police.

Meanwhile, the White House said Johnson had not been con-

Danger Of Censorship

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The flood of obscene movies and literature now availatile In this country has raised great concern among responsible citizens. Most disburbing, of course, is the fact that many young people have easy access to this filth and many of them are influenced accordingly. Parents recognize the dangers in this sort of things. So do legislators who want to do something about it.

The question is, where does one begin? While obscene movies and publications have nothing to justify their existence, there is still the equally serious concern over censorship. To be sure, it would be quite easy to suppress these obscenities with laws and stidct enforcement. Would not that be worse In one sense, than permitting their existence, since censorship has a notorious way of spreading?

These problems are being faced now In the North Carolina General Asscmbjy where a bill has received a favorable report in the Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill, presented by Sen, L.B. Hollo-well of Gaston Is aimed at obscene movies, tt adds s u c h -films as a* new category in a statewide law that bans obscene literature.

The bill Is aimed primarily at bootleg operators in the movie business who peddle obscene movies mainly at drive-ln theaters. How would this bill be implemented? Who would determine what was ob-scene? These are import ant

questions, for upon the correct answers hinges the success or failure of this sort of battle against obscenity.

Hollowell, in response to questions, points to his own countys operation. Gaston set up a countywide committee to work with the sheriff in ridding newsstands of obscene literature. In most Instances, he points out, newstand operators agreed voluntarily to comply with the c(wnmittee requests that the sale of obscene literature be halted.

Concern over this problem continues to be evident. Delegates. to the annual meeting of the. Womans Missionary Union of the Baptist State Convention passed a resolution last week calling for stricter control of the dlstri-* bution and sale of pornographic movies and reading material in North Caroltoa.

Calling for stricter control of such matter Is easier than ac-tuidly controlling It. Under the Hollowell bill, the movies spc-. clfically banned would be ones ^whlch local authorities decided were in violation of t h e states obscenity laws. State law defines as obscene anything whkh appeals to the prurient interest," a definition upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

But here agaih there are wide shades of opinion on what obscenity is. And there Is always the shadow of subverting such a law into a more sln-iter power than obscenity control. The political Implications of such censorship laws cannot be missed.

Opinions In Brief

Horse

Ing work on Fridays 'or Mondays.

The worst decision ever made at City Hall here Is the one banning hurdy gurdles from the streets. Their merry music still is missed in the daily turmoil of the mctrt^l-is.

The odds are better than even that the next woman over 50 you meet will have a toothpick in her purse.

A woman who has had triplets never lacks a subject of ccgiversation the tost of her life.

Girls with frizEjr or tight-ltmerilr^i^^ them good night on the first date. Try this and see for yourself.

What this country needs more than a good five-cent cigar is fewer two-bit intellectual frauds. In his day, H. L. Mencken used to nail their scalps to the barn door, but since his passing no one has arisen quite so adept as he at exposing avant - garde quacks in art, literature and music.

The guy who always has time to stop and give you advice never seems able to spare a moment to lend you a helping hand.

As long as most men cant sew on buttons therell always be a place in this world for a good woman.

The guys who complain most about their first childhood always seem to enjoy their second one.

The more you enjoy these days we are having, the more youll like them when they become the good old days. Dania (Fla.) Press.

Doctors advise walking for health, but you seldom see a mailman who looks as of he could whip a truck driver, Somerset (Mass.) Spectator.

Our days are like Identical suitcases all the same size, but some folks can pack more into them than others. Atlanta (Oa.) Constitution.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The hunt for good Republican horses Is on all over the iand,"^u^ It to ar- ^

guments that are sometimes InteresUng and sometimes almost Ineredlbly frivolous. In this latter category there Is the contention that the Republican Party won't win unless It can find new leaders who are photogenic. One justifies^ . tion for making Representa-* * tive Gerald R. Ford of Michigan the Minority Leader In the House was' that he looks like John Glenn." whereas the deposed Charlie Halleck o Indiana suggested the late W. C. Fields to some TV - viewers.^ This sort of thing Is bound to ' backfire unless, by chance, the Republicans can come up with potential beauty contest winners who are also blessed with a more fundamental political appeal. After all, it should be remembered that Barry Gold-water was and still is an extremely handsome man, but his personal glamor couldnt sup-vlve the propaganda about , trigger-happiness. ^

The winning 0.0.P. horse, If and when he arrives at the starting post, will be a figure who makes some definite connection with basic Amer lean yearnings, and my own conviction is that the new Republican leaders will be men who are strongly Identified with Improving the quality of American life no matter what new social and industrial and political forms it may take. It will not be enough to be for States Rights; the leaders of the future. If they are to make a case for decentralism, must be for good States Rights. And no matter what form aid to education takes, it must be aid to good education or it will boomerang on Its supporters.

You can get a sense of what .the future is going to demand if you read the letters In college newspapers. I pick one at random, as typical: Students in the last few years have demonstrated a desire. . . .to make a commitment to a better society, not the Great Society of slogans and spectator-shlp, but to a society that can only be achieved by people committed to positive action and participation." This sort of thing could degenerate into mere busybody ness, but the hunger behind it Is real and legitimate. And It will Increase as the young get older.

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can leaders are hewing to the qualitative line? I hear the name of Senator Dominick of Colorado mentioned, but he is not yet identified with any particular issue. Richard Nixon has been going great guns, making relaxed speeches and Impressing everybody with his command of foreign affairs, but he has not been bearing down on domestic problems. Republican liberals such a.4 John Lindsay of New York and CTharles Mathias of Maryland may appeal to the East, but in the Middle West they are pseudo-Democrats, and In California they are virtually unknown. As for the Califom-lana, Ronald Reagan and Senator George Murphy, they will have to prove themselves both in and for their home etate before they can Jump over the Rockies. And big party figures such 'as Rockefeller, Scranton, Lodge and^ Romney have considerable healing to do If they are to surmount the olttemess of past factionalisms.

The qualitative note has been sounded in one Republican quarter by Representative Melvta,Laird*'0f Wisc(Misln.

The Republican Party," he said, does not Intend to spend this Congress doing nothing but copy-catting Admlnlstrtr tion programs but at bargain prices. We do not say that we must do the same things as the Admlnistrat ion but ^ do them better. We s a y there are better ways for Americans to do things.

Laird is the champion of a meaningful decentralization of power which would return tax sources to the states to handle their own problems of school costs and housing troubles. He wont make much headway in (Con^ued on page S)

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country may have changed its mind if it thought bomb 1 n g raids could make the Communists see the light. Now he says the United States may get into the ground fighting in South Viet Nam.

suited before what was report-. ed as riot* - pontrol gas had ' been used in Viet Nam,

But Michael Stewart, British

By ELMER ROE88NER In building inventories, American business may be build-

torelgn secretary, said in Wart#i( I I"!, recession.

Ington that he had expressed' ' The accumulation of invento-(Contlnued on pUge 5) rie/t is going on at a terrific

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Strength. For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS GREATEST OF ALL SINS The greatest sin with which , true religion has ever had to deal is the sin of idolatry. It exists today in civilized countries precisely as it exists among savages and as It did exist centuries ago over much of the world.

Savages today, as always, worship carved Images, sticks, stones, trees, animals, superstitions. We citizens of free nations have our idols iJbo. They are comfort, money, pow e r, appetite, ambition. The Great* God Budd before whom all of us often prostrate ourselves is that debasing idol known as Self. We art willing to do al

most anything in our search for moral Improvement except to stop worshipping Self. That god Self is at the center of our universe. The stars and planets revolve about him. We acknowledge .that be is mean, self-seeking, and hate- ' ful in many particulars but still we love him.

Idolatry the greatest and most perslstont of all sins, afflicting us as it afflicted' our remote ancestors. Add God sets His face sternly against idolatry.

The words of God shou 1 d continually ring through our ears. Thou shalt have no oth-. * er gods before me (.Exodus^ :S).

The major reason is the fear of a steel strike. The auto industry and other steel users have been piling up the metal, limited only by their ability to get orders ilUed and their ability to finance those orders.

Steel users feet they cant lose. If there is a strike, they will have enough to maintain production. And strike or no, a new contract is Ukely to force wages, then prices up. Savings may iity the cssts of warehousing and financing he a v y inventories. , '

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It is a fundamental of economics that periods of inventory . accumulation coincide with booms and that periods of inventory liquidati(M) coincide wHh busts. Accumulations and booms nourish fach other; tt-

quldations and busts feed on each other.

During Inventory acciimula-, tlons, rpanufacturers are buying more materials "than they consume. This means more borrowtog of money by t hc manufacturers, and more employment among the suppliers,

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Note that between mid-January an^ mid - February. em- ploymeht rose 500,(NX). Many of those 'half mlUion men are nudclng things for Inventor/: iumitlg out products that ivont be used for monthiT to come.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reports: Business inventories are being Increased at an unsustalQable rate, the

build . up is concentrated in steel and autos but extends to other industries also. COULD HAVE ADVERSE EFFECTS"

Similar build - ups occurred in J962 and 1%3. in tteth cases foiiowed by reductions. Repercussions in other sectors of the econopjty Were limited. Nevertheless, fluctuations In inventory buying could, depending on size and duration, have adverse effects on over . idl activity. "On over - all activity, and thats a Federal Reserve bank saying that.

If there is no steel strike, or If a strike ends before Inventories are used up, manufacturers will tend to lower their holdings,, And the Chi Fe'd says; "A shift from inventory accumulation to liquidation can have serious effects on the economy in general and the goods - producing Industries in particular.

"During prosperous periods of rising activity, output of goods typically is raisrd 1 or t asg mal a ysar bacauae at

decisions to Increase inventories. In recession,-I currrat output is 1 orr2 per cent below final sale*current consumption and additions to the stock of fixed capital. Prom prosperity to recession, therefore, total output of goods can be reduced 3 to 4 per cent as a result of changes in ^ventories."

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SHORT SIGNDICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS Business meetings are growing like crab grass. says Sales Management magazine, and half of them produce nothing but yawns.

Save now, travel later, the theme of a group <rf Wash Ington businessmen. For small weekly deposits. It offers debt-free vacations later. How fashioned The Internal Revenue vice says "bourbon may not be used to describe any spirits not diftilled in the. United Stst-es. even by descphdants of the Bourbons of Frnce. However, the liquor does not have to bf BuuSa to Bouitiaa CounQr, Rjr.

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