Thursday, April 1, 1961

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Falling Short Of Positive Program

Proof Of Spring

^ The 1965 General Assembly has fallen far fhort of ccmiing up with an imaginative and positive program to help cope with North Carolinas deplorable traffic situation. -

There have been proposals to increase the number of highway patrolmen, to institute a new mechanical inspection for motor vehicles, to improve built-in safety factors in new highway ccn-itruction. For the most part, however, there has been little indication of enthusiasm among legisla-iip for tying these Mid other proposala togetlier in a comprehensive new program to promote highway safety in the state.

North Carolinas staggeVing toll of highway deaths and injuries will not declino of its own volition. Each year more vehicles are traveling more miles on the states highways. Even with new and better highway construction, and more safety devices, the hazards of highway travel are increasing because of the number of vehicles on the roads.

Unless North Carolina takes an aggressive ap

proach to reducing ita highway Cblf, there can be . no doubt that it will continue to increase. It must

take positive action to cope with the situation even ^ if the annual tol| in lives and property is to be held ]

at the present level. If the toll is to be reduced, th^ state must put considerable^ resources into hollering the program if presently has. ^

The legislature has many pressing matters before it. It must make many decisions between now and the time it adjourns. But in the final analysis, there are few decisions which will more directly affect the lives and safety of the people of the state than those made by this legislature on the highway traffic problem. ' ^

If the legislature moves positivelj^ on this matter of improving highvvy safety, it can provide the means for appreciably improving the situation the state is now experidficing. If, on the other hand, it makes only token efforta in this direction, it may be sure the states highway toll of deaths and injuries will be much higher two years from now than it is today. . ^

.rUSh.' iOr Not Encouraging News irlichWQy Foes Of Smoking

By WnXIAM A. SHIW

PUSH The ext concfert-ed big push expected In the General Assembly will be for enactment of effective highway safety legislation.

Assemblymen and the Moore administration alike are anxious to write a good record In highway safety. But whether their effort will be anywhere near successful remains to be een.

The big question Is what highway safety measures are really needed, and what is of proven effectiveness In curbing traffic accidents, deaths and Injuries.

What Is needed, and what 1 not? And who can say?

Certainly it means a lot of hard work ahead, both In committee and on the floors.

Men on the spot will be the respective Iflghway Safety chairmen, Sen. In^n Bclk of Mecklenburg and Rep. Joe Eagles of Edgecombe, along with other principal sponsors of highway safety bills and Gov. Dan K. Moore.

IRONIC Some legislative ources are optimistic, saying they feel the mood of this General Assembly is such that some solid and satisfactory highway safety legislation will go on the books.

Other lawmakers and highway safety experts are not so sure.

Its ironic, says one veteran legislator., Every member who comes to the General Assembly says he favors Increased highway j^afety. But Its never easy to get a highway safety bill enacted.

Theres always objection tm this point or that point.

The skeptics believe that each day of delay diminishes chances for enactment of an effective Mghway safety program dufirig the session.

They point out that at least a dozen various highway safety bills, > dealing with increased penalties for racing, confiscation of cars, stricter driver license requirements and ice on windshields are before ths legislature. Some have been In since early days of the session, nearly two months ago, and most are still In committee.

COMING Coming soon,

within the next few days, will be itee governors legisla t i v e message on highway safety In which he will outline the program he recranmends.

It may be here that Moore will encounter his first major legislative setback. It is almost certain that hi.s program will include a plan for periodic automobile inspection and-most sources say chances for enacting any motor vehicle Inspection law are "'slim.

Moore mentioned inspect I o n specifically in his legislative address in early February saying he would recommend this along with other highway safety measures later in the session. Several inspect Ion plans have been drawn and are being studied, but the mechanics of the governors plan must await his message and introduction of the administrations inspection bill.

The Moore highway safety program will be baaed on recommendations of the gover-^nors advisory committee on Traffic Safety apd those of ce^ tak other advisors.

DISAPPOINT It Is known that Moores highway safety program will carry an urgent label and the administration will push hard for its enactment ----- ------ --------------

Other governors in rec e n t years have done the same, voicing alarm and deep concern about the problem and calling for effective action by the legislature.

But by and large they have been disappointed. The states traffic death toll has continued unabated averaging more than 100 deaths a month. More than 300 persons have perished in highway accidents in the state already this year.

Gov. Terry Sanford said his deepest disappointment during his administration was utter failure to do anything about highway safety.

Now. with the 1965 General Assembly entering its third month, It is the Moore admln-Istratonh time to try.

PRICE Sen. Walter Jones of Pitt County insists that his proposal to finance the building, shafflng and equipping of three new alcoholic rehabilitation centers isnt raising taxes.

Its simply ' a price increase, aays Jones. He estimates a five cents per bottle Increase in whisky prices would yield $1.8 million a year for the rehabilitation centers.

Jones says the states alcoholic beverage control system already has authority to Increase liquor prices, This bill would require them to do it. and allocate the money for this specific purpose. It isnt ral 1 n g taxes.

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Latest figures on cigarette c*onsumption may not be encouraging to those who have spent so much time, effort and money during tho past 15 months to discourage smoking. *

From an economic standpoint, however, the figures should be encouraging to a state like North Carolina which depends heavily on tobacco for much of its agricultural and manufacturing income.

According to the Department of Agriculture, tax data indicajtes cigarette consumption during late 1964 and early 1965 was at least as high and probably higher than it was in late 1963. In spite of the fact thaftotal consumption for the year 1964 was lower than the total for the previous year, the Department says the rate of consumption no^w may be at a new high record level.

If the Departments estimates are correct^ the experience of the United States in the wake of the Surgeon Generals report on cigarette smoking is similar to that of England several years ago. When the British government launched an attack on cigarette smoking, there was .a drop in consumption for a relatively brief period; but sales later moved to new record high and have continued to rise.

The latest figures of the Department of Agriculture indicate a similar pattern is developing in the United States. ^ >

The Childlike,

By ART BUCHWALD

A Playboy Gets Arounc,

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By JAMES MARIX)VV

WASHINGTON (AP) When Congress investigates the Ku Klux Klans there are at least 14 it will find they are too split by bickering and rivalries to form a single national organization under one leader.

The total membership is probably not over 15,000 although they spread across the Southern states and some leaders have made fantastic claims about numbers. The members in general are not .credited with very high Intelligence.

The fact that in this free and open society so many men would find it necessary to hide under a hood necessarily raises questions about their stabil-. Ity and their purpose.

They proclaim their patriotism but their main target is Negroes, with Catholics, Jews and the foreign - born secondary targets. They have/added a new target in recent ycarsi the Communist! conspiracy."

Klansmen live in a childlike world of hoods, robes, symbols,- secret membership ancj^ passwords, and the kind of tit^ les that would be more appro-* prlate in a fairy tale than in the kind of grisly world klansmen see.

But the actlon.s of some of them are not at all childlike, as Chairman Edwin E. Willis, D-La.. of the -House Committee on Un-American Activities pointed out to reporters Tuesday after the committee unan-imoiwly voted -to- examine thi Klans. S

He said prellmfhary inquiries indicate that shock 1 n g crimes are carried out by highly secret action groups within

the Klans, known as knockout squads or holy terrors..

The actions of these goon squads are disclaimed by Klan officials when they are caught, Willis said, to protest those Klan leaders who are parties to the crimes committed and to misled Klan members h i p and the public. "

So far there is no public evidence that Klan leaders knew beforehand of any of, the crimes charged to klansmei or that klansmen in gener a 1 knew. But the Klans have had, and still have, a vicious history.

Corruption was piled on top (rf murder in the past. As late as 1955 five Klans no longer In existence, at least un d e r their old names were on the attorney generals Jist of subversive organizatforfs. No new list has been issued in the past 10 years.

Klans vary in size. The smallest the Ml.ssls.sippl Knights of the Ku Klux Klan reportedly is a one - man Klan operating on the Mississippi Gulf coast. The largest, with, about 5,000 members, is the United Klans of America, Inc., with headquarters in Tuscalo-o.sa. Ala. It has members in eight Southern states.

Here are some of the names and titles in the Klan world:

Invisible empire Supposedly covering the whole cwm-trVT a reaim*"'ohestale: province a county or several counties; a klavem or den a local chapter and thus the _ smallest unit.

Imperial Wizard Ruler of' his whole group; Genii the wizards cabinet of a dozen or~. more officers: Grand Dragon

bo.ss of a realm: Hydras ' assistants^ to the great ti-,

tan; Exalted Cyclops head of a klavem: Terrors assistants to a Cyclops,

Klaliff -r- deputy boss of ths whole Klan; Klokard lecturer or teacher: Kludd chaplain; Kllgrapp secretary: Klabee treasurer: Klexter

guard: Klokan lnve.'?tl-gator: Night Hawk custodian of the fiery cross; and

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I -was interviewed in Playboy this month and its amazing how many people read it. You think Playboy only appeals to college boys and traveling salesmen, but Its just not so.

The day after the article appeared, I came home and my wife was waiting. Your interview is In Playboy.

Who told -you? f asked.- "'Y Joan Conway.*

Whats she doing reading Playboy?

"Thats not the point. Joel had the magazine and he was showing it to all his friends at school when the toac her caught him. It was bad enough to have the magazine, but when he said the reason he had it was because his father was In it, the teacher didnt know what to do.

Its not my fault, I protested.

The phone rang and my wife answered it, Yes, I know, Marion. Joan called me about It. No, I didnt s^e the other pictures. Thanks for calling.

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To The Editor:

A tip of the East Carolina College flagon to the local Ku Klux Klan for providing us with a bit of what we thought America had lost pure homespun comedy. After hav- . ing watched hours of what television calls comedy, it was such a pleasure to settle back and see some of the local boys give it a try. The performers werent as . polished as a Milton Berle or a Jackie Gleason, but they gave a good go at it and we earnestly believe that there wa.s at least one potential Palstaff who missed h'is TcraitirgU The staging of the Klan performance was excellent and the set designer is to be commended on his unique mode of lighting. Once, during the perform-ance, our concentration was broken when a man next to us politely asked a lady to remove her hat and was somewhat perturbed when he sudden 1 y di.scQvered that the lady was no lady. One of the performers became a bit incoherent in

Marion Dallnsky saw It, too. she said.

The phone rang again. Hello, Mary, 1 cant talk now. He's., home. I dont know what I'm going to do about It. Ill call you later.

Mary Undsay has a copy, she sidd.

Boy, Playboy has an Inte-restlag readership, I mutter-ed. ^

My ton came running in. *Vickl wont give me back my Playboy, he cried.

Vicki is our cook. She came In a moment later. My goodness, Mr. Buchwald, my friends are really shocked. They never thought Id work for anyone whose picture would appear in Playboy.

' Whats wrong with the picture? Ive got all my clothes on.

But nobody else has, Vicki replied.

The phone rang again. It was Polly Kraft, who happened to pick up the magazine in the drugstore, etc. -

My wife said shed call her back.

I dont see why everyone

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one part of the performance and a woman asked her husband what language the per- former was speaking. Her husband, with raised brow, replied: Ham

Most parts of the comedy were well received by the au-' dience, but the majority failed to see the humor when someone bashed in Roy Hardees head, although were sure some form of humor existed because a few people in the audience went ape. Roy, however, didnt comment.

We hope the Klan will stage another performance here isomr

friends from foreign nations and from other parts of the United States can enjoy Southern humor at its bloody best. Since the people of the Greenville area are now familiar with the quality of the Klans talent, tbere Is a good chance that any future performa nee will witnesvS greater audience participation,

David McLcmore Greenville, N.C.

should be so shook up because I happened to be in Playboy. Its a cool magazine, my son said.

Theres your answer, my wife said. How can^ keep him In line when youre posing with a bunch of nude girls? I wasnt posing with nude girls. I was in the front of the book and they were in the back. My article doesnt touch

*"the Playmate 6f the Month even when you fold it way out.

You probably were there when they took the pictures of the Playmate,

I wasnt anywhere near when they took that picture. This time when the phone rang I answered it. It was my mother-in-law. When she heard my voice, she shouted, Lecher I

"Im not a lecher! I shouted back.

Sex fiend! /

Mom, will you calm dowil' and say whats on your mind? Tell my daughter I have room for her and the children. Thats nice, I said.

The towns in a state of shock, she cried. You cant get a copy of the magazine anywhere. I bought the last five copies they had.

Ill send the family in the morning.

What are you going to do? she demancjed.

Im moving In with five bunnies. Playboy takes care of its own,

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It will soon be spring when you can put off until summer the unfinished work about the hou.se and .yard that you put off until winter Orlando (Pla.) Sentinel.

to have post no bills signs on Uieir mailboxes. Tattnall, Ga., Journal.

It is socially acceptable to drink like a fi.sh If you drink what a fish drinks.-Wichita (Kan.) Demowat.

Tlie bigger a mans head gets, the ea.sler it is to fill his shoe.s. clay County (Kan), Dispatch.

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Seats'

Sasier

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The Soviets are moving heaven and earth to get their farm situation straightened out, which lends point to the supposition that the tenure of Brezhnev and Kosygin In the Kremlin will depend on the next Russian harvest.

Can this harvest possibly be rich enough to sustain t h e current Soviet leadership through some ticklish days? In calling a plenary meeting of the 330 member Central Committee of the Communist Par-ty, Brezhnev announced that the big topic for discussion would be efforts designed to Improve radically the situation In our agriculture," The key to the Importance of this announcement is the use of the word radically. It Indicates that nothing has been going right with Russian farming for a long time.

The big flop of recent years will,.of course, be blamed on Khru.shchev. It was Khrushchevs long love affair with American corn that had changed the Ukraine, once famous for Its wheat surplus, into a crop deficient area. In 1953 only five per cent of the Ukraines arable soil had been devoted to American corn. Khrushchev, after his trip to Iowa, jumped this up to some twenty - two percent. But what was right, for Farmer Garst, Khrushchevs friend in Iowa, proved wrong for the Ukraine, and it was even more disastrous for the virgin lands of Kazakstan. Corn requires far more labor than wheat, and it needs com - cultivating machinery that the Soviets did not have. Moreover, it needs a long growing season, and this cannot be had in Russia when the frosts come early.

JOHN CHASfBTBLAlN

The presence erf unharvested com in the fields last autumn kept Brezhnev^ and Kosygin - -from making the turn to winter wheat In time to guarantee a quick restoration of the past glory of the Ukraine as a rich wheat - growing region."

The big gamble ig that later plantings of wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat and millet will be sufficient to refill the depleted Russian granary.

To retrieve the sltua 11 o n, Brezhnev and Kosygin have restored a Ukranlan, V. V. Matskevich, to his oW job as Minister of Soviet Agriculture. Matskevich had been fired in 1900 by Khrushchev after .six years in office. His record had been good for the 1955-58 period, but after that nothing seemed to work. Khrushchev sent Matskevich to Kazakstan, where as an exile he presided over one good harvest, two so - so years, and one complete disaster. But Matskevich successors at the USSR Ministry of Agriculture had only made matters worse trying to Implement what havs Jjeen called Khrushchevs harebrained schemes. The really fundamental question is whether anyone can make a collective farm system produce, even when the right sort of crops are planted at the right time.

This is the dilemma that confronts the Brezhnev - Kosygin leadership, and its resolution could depend on the Kremlins willingness to let the individual Russian peasant have 4rls"own way about the contrdh- -of his own private plot and his own animals.

The Radio Free Europe agrl- ^ /ultural spedallsts point out that Matskevich. r Ukrainian,

I the choice of the Influen-'tlal Ukrainian group within the Presidium of the Central Committee Podgomy, Brezhnev, Polyansky. Shelest. Kirilenko." This would Indicate that the Ukrainians have won out in a (Continued on page 5)

Again,. France Stands To Gain

Strength For Today

. By EARL r. DOUGLASg ^ GKEATE.S'T OF AI.L .

. WONOF.KS

The mo.st ' unaccountable thing that has ever happened in human hLstory l.s that a certain humble carpenter llv ing two thou.sand years ago In an Inconsequential village in Palestine grew' into the. worlCs . greatest teachei;. and its most astounding p( ronallty. Ti m e is dated from the birtir of this man, Jesus of Nazareth.

Confronting this fact we are forced, to the conclu.slon that this Jesus /had something which no one else appears.ever to have had. He was like us in many ways. He grew from infancy to maturity. He went about hl.s daily work as d 1 d most of his contemporaries. He /^nt about* a ^aTcher Set-tmpT'TBrth tr.uth in such slm-' pie terms that the world marvels today at their cogency.

when finally he was condem-ned to death and nailed to a

'crtwiM'hd died precisely the same as the two men crucified with him.

But the great difference between'Jesus and everyone else

1s that he aro.se from thr? dead. Then after forty days with his rlisciplei he ascended i n t.o heVn. We do not understand how a person, can be In two different places at once, but with almo.st hl.s last words Jesus assured us that he would

^ be both in heaven and on * earth. He would remain In the hearts of his followers to the

f;nd of time. They 'could turn 0 him for guidance and assistance at any time. His spiritual power wa.s available to anyone who would use it.

History is full of wonders but

* no.wonder is so great as the' life and achievements of t h e Carpentsr of Nazareth.

By ELMER ROESSNER

In recent yeais France has had some notable successes in snubbing the British, squeezing the Germans, embarrassing the United States, undercutting NATO, attacking our gold supply* p^hing the Common Market around and. in general <De Gaulle, that* is), keeping world politics and economics in a turmoil,

Today, the second year of the Common Markets dairy prograrq begins. France has something new working for it. According to an article in Foreign Agriculture* rhagaZ Ine, the European Econo m i c Community (Common Market) program for dairy products has three announced primary* objec-tlve.s;

1. Rdlslng farmer Income through higher prices.

2. Stabilizing producer prlo-es,

3. EstablLrtilng free trade In--dalry pioduots witoln tlie Mar- -

'nder the program, each country in the Cohirhon Market sets target prices paid to dairy products producers.. The producto kiolude fresh, p r "

served, concentrated or sweetened milk and cream; butter; cheese and curd; lactose; and dairy products used in animal feed.s.

SINGLE PRICE

During the coming five-year transition period all countries will shift their milk producer target prices toward an overall .single target price until all are the same by tlie end of* 1%9. When that point is reach-, ed. dairy product controls and 'barriers In.side the Market ^wlll have dUmppeared.

ELMER

ROE88NER

The key Item In the program is milk, upon which all olliers 'depend. Prance has the lowest ^jniUi target price at $3,62 per. KM) pounds. Italy Is highest with $4,54.

Ths ovsr-All target pries has

not b(*en announced yet. But it will have to be in the up-pt*r range of the current $3.62 $4 .54 .spread. Countries at the higher end of the .scale would find it hard to lower prices much. Besides, number one primary objective listed above calls for higher farmer prices. ,

France, therefore, dan expect the biggest Ihcrease In target price aj Internal barrier. fall in the Common Market. In this highly favorable sltuatlom it should sur-pri.se no one that France also happens to be the biggest milk producer in the Market and stands to gain more from higher prices than just about everybody else put together. MEM IERA OUTPUT French milk production, ac-' cording to Foreign Agriculture, totaled about 55.7.35,(XH),000

pounds in 1964 for 38 3 per cent o( .total Common Market output. In comparison. West Gerpiany produced approximately 45.KK).0(K),(MK pound Of njllk; Italy. 20.245^.000: the Nflhorl and, 14,86.5,0(K),000t Belgium, 8.540,(KM),(MM); and Lu-xsmbourg, 406,000,000. ~

Germanys Initial target price for milk, Incidentally, Is $4,27 per 100 pounds, or 65 cents more than Prances.

In addition to higher prices on higher production. Prance stands to gain ln a third way. Imports into the Common Market are discouraged. Lev le against Imported dairy products raise their price up aM)V0 the'target levels. And the money from these levies Is used to subsidize dairy product exports to countries outside ths Market. - .

In this 'manner, traditional exporters in thp Market will have a hlgh-price, protected, stable market Internally w'lth tarriffs subsidizing exports a-broad. The major dairy product exporters in the Common Market will benefit most from this subsidizing. They sre tho Netherlands ndwho else?

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AMERICANA ARK TAKING '

tea and seeing i

U. 8. imports of tea last year were IS3.6 million pounds, a gain of 6'pf*r cent, the largetA to 46 ysars.

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