Thundty, April IS, 1*65

That Our People May Not Die

Gov. Moorei proposal for coping with the itates liainff toll of highway accidenU may sjeem touih and coatly; but if North'Carolina ia to effec-tJvoly deal with the situatloi^ such measures are necessary.

The governor cut directly to the heart or tne matter when he told legislators: We must courage to make laws and spend money without compromise . . . that our people may not die The statement was made to members of the uen^ eral Awembly, but it applies just as directly to t ie people of North Carolina. The>; are the ones wlm will be directly affected \mhe new measures are undertaken, but they are also the ones whose li\es will be saved if the measures are effective.

There is still opposition to mechanical inspection of vehicles. There will be cries of protest against

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meting out tougher penalties to U'affic violators. The coat of a highway satety research ^center and a broader driver education iirogram are sure to conie niuier fire. The sanve will be true of the proposed expenditure for re fleet ori zed licensed plates for vehicles and the adilition of more highway patrolmen.

On tlie other side of the coin, however, most North Carolinians should recognize by now that the states higliway safety efforts are inadequate. The record number of accidents, deaths and injuries on the highways last year pointed that out vividly. The continued upwani ireud of the highway toll year after year shows that new steps must be taken if the trend ia to change.

Tough and costly though it may be, Gov. Moores program for Improving highway safety has sufficient merit to warrant its adoption by the legislature. North Carolina can better afford to spend tlie additional money required to implement the program than it can to shoulder the staggering cost of the rising highway toll.

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S6Gn In S0nat6 The inadequate Use of

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ELECTRIC Support for an Mreement botueen prlv a t power companies and ru r a 1 lectrlc cooperatives carried 4l>e-day handily when this far-reat^l^g legislation reach e d the floor of the state House of Representatives.

A sharper, perhaps closer fight WM promised in the Senate.

Thli If the agreement on territorial rights and procedures to be followed by electric Interests which Is opposed bitterly by the state's municipalities. 73 of which constitute a third party In the business of retailing electric power In North Carolina.

The municipal governments, through the N. C. League of MunlclpaUtles. said they were shut out of negotiations to which the electric combine agreement waa reached, and that It will strip cities and towns of their traditional rlgbt to franchise utility aervlc e s within their limits.

They also contended that provisions pertaining to territorial rights In munlcipally-anex-ed areas will deprive these cities and towns of a much-needed source of revenue to finance municipal services, and thus choke municipal growth.

INTACT But the hill to carry out provisions of the private power - REA agreement sailed through the lower chamber Intact and with no appar-fht loss, of. niomentum.

The roll call vote on second reading in the House was 100-17. which was not entirely indicative of lack of concern for the municipalities position.

In fact, an almost unprecedented number of leglslat o r s asked to explain their vote publicly when the roll called.

Moat of these had opposed the provisions on annexed areas and voted for amendments to remove these provisions. But whM the amendments all failed,!they chose to vote for the biUi

Rep. Rowrt Collier of Ire-del reluctantly voted aye. This adverse affects my elty, but it Is too Important not to pass, he said.

Rep. Thome Gregory of Halifax said he felt that while the 7.3 electric cities would be adversely affected, be would vote aye in the overall good. So did Rep. Alden Baker of Pasquotank.

Several legislators who had offered amendments held firm, among them Reps. Joe Eagles of Edgecombe. R. L. McMillan of Robeson, Paul Roberson of Martin, and W. A. vRed) Forbes of Pitt.

The means do not ju.stify the end, McMillan said. He had offered an amendment to exempt municipalities from provisions of the bill.

MOMENTUM In all, half a docen amendmenta were offered and beaten down.

Eagles proposed the first, to exempt municipalities from Ju-* risdiction of the State Utilities Commission In building new electric generating facilities. He called it a clarifying amendment.

Rep. Earl Vaughn of Rockingham. House Utilities chairman. led the floor fight against any attempt to amend the measure as written, introduced on March 1R and s H went through both House and Senate Utilities committees.

Momentum for passing the bill intact was given by Gov. Dan K. Moore who had brought the private power compan 1 e s and REA together around a conference table to work out the agreement last winter. Moore last week urged na.^s-age of the agreement without changing it materially.

Vaughn singled out McMillans amendment to give municipalities the right to serve customers within their corporate limits as one which would seriously Jeopardire the passage of the bill.

McMillan argued that hi a amendment would save one of the diminishing sources of revenue for our cities and towns. . .without disniptlng their financial structure. CONCERN All throu g h debate on the pow'er bill and proposed amendments concern for the m'imlcipalitics was voiced.

Vaughn said at the outset that the change affecting municipalities Is not too dra.s-tlc. He called the agreement a tnie compromise which calls on everyone concerned the power companies, the REA and the electric cities to re- cede from their position in the public Intere.st. He called the bill Important and essential.

Reps. I. C. Craw ford of Buncombe and others said that if the cities are harmed, the situation can be corrected by legislation later.

Rep. Roger Kiser of Scotland agreed that It was a mere experiment for the next two to four years, and Rep. I. H. O'Hanlon of Cumberland, who had attempted to exempt his county, voted aye with the realization that within two years the municipalities may return and present their case. Well wait two years and see what happens. DIVORCE A second leg-(Continued on page 5)

Our Parking Facilities

Like most communities of its size, Greenville faco.s an almost constant struggle with parking problems in its central business district.

In our opinion the problems stem not so much from a lack of parking facilities as from inadequate use of those which are available.

A recent count shows that Greenville has 699 metered parking places in its central business area. In addition, there are unmetered parking places in and adjacent to the central business area. Most are well located and convenient to the area they are intended to sene although some of them are not as readil.v accessible to business firms as many people might like.

Part of Greenvilles problem, in our opinion, stems from the fact that a good many of the 876 metered on-street parking spaces are almost continually occupied by vehicles belonging to people connected with firms in the business area. A person who works in a store has just as much right to park on the street as a person who comes to the store to shop. From a busines sstandpoint, however, it would seem wiser for persona connected with business firms to use less convenient parking places and leave the choice on-street spaces for shoppers.

If thi.s practice were followed by those wdio work in the central business area, it would go a long way toward providing more convenient parking for the shoppers upon whom business firms must depend to keep their cash registers ringing.

3all Is Battec.

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By ART BUCHWALD

Stick-And-Carro

Hy J<)IIN (IIAMIIEHLAIN

Copyright, l!Mr>. King Fealuifs SyiidkaU'

This isnt as luippy an April 1.5 n we had l>een led to anticipate when the tax ent.s came throngh la.st year, hut even though a lot of people have had to borrow l>ecau e they failed to reckon with llic lowered withholding tax It i.s llkelv to he the ea.slest Apii! LS they will see in a long, long time.

The reason why a lax rut was feaslbe In fl.scal 10(54 k g-Islallon was that dedicated eon-servatlve.s had kept a celling on the passage of Welfare Stale proposal for some twenty long years. Social security had bi eii accepted, but such program.s a.s Medicare, Federal Aid to EiU ncatlon. the rebuilding of Appalachia and so on had been .skillfully resisted by good pni-llamentarians In both politUal parties. Certain strong dams agaliust a torrent of costly federal welfarism had been laboriously constructed. The Korp Mills legislation wa.^ gradnnl-Iv making It possible for*-states to take care of hard.ship old - age medical cases. Local school anthorltles were building 70,nno new cla.ssrooms a year and had succeeded In cutting the average class size to twenty - five students per teacher. And poor mountain states like West Virginia were at la.st beginning to reap .some income from the resort trade and the partial come - back of the coal buslnes.s.

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By J.AMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP) The diplomatic side of the Vietna-rnese w^ar is beginning to look like a table - tennis game.

President Johnson bats one to the North Vietnamese Communists; they bat it back.

Last week, to try to get peace talks started, he said they could begin without any strings attached.

But the Reds said what he proposed Was all tied in strings. Now they have laid down a peace program with strings of their own.

For two months after Johnson ordered North Viet Nam bombed, to stop the Red guer-rila attack.s on American-backed South Viet Nam, hi.v administration took this position;

The key to the .situation remains the ces.sation of infiltration from North Viet Nam and the clear indication by the Hanoi regime that It Is prepared to cease agcression ag-aiirst its neighbor.

This policy, and the continued bombing, got Johnson criticism at home and quite a bit abroad.

This^ut pres.'^ure on him to shift tactics a bit.

When 17 neutral natlon.s .said the peace talk.s, if held, should have no preliminary conditions attached, the pres.sure on Johnson was inU'nsificd.

The President in his nationwide broadcast April 7 .said he would be willing to have unconditional di.scus.sions with the North Vietnamc.se about .settling the war.

But he said the United Slates would .settle only for an arrangement which will secure the Independnice of South Viet Nam.

He said withdrawal of American forces depended on working out such an arrangement.

His assLstant.s said that while this country was willing to talk with North Viet Nam or

Red China about peace It would not talk about it with the Red guenillas fighting in South Viet Nam because they are only the agents of North Viet Nam.

North Viet Nams response to this was that while Johnson talked of unconditional discussions he was actually surrounding them with conditions before any talks could begin.

And. North Viet Nam said, the conditions were unacceptable.

The Russians called Jo h n-sons talk a noisy propaganda campaign. North Viet Nams President Ho Chi Minh reportedly called Johnson's talk the daydreams of a madman.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk .;aid he was disappointed with all this.

'Tuesday Premier Pham Van Dong of North Viet Nam laid down a four . point peace program which stated the Com-muni.ri conditions for peace, one of which called for American withdrawal.

In addition, he said South Viet Nams Internal affa i r s would have to be settled according to the program of the Red guerrillas, although Johnson .said the United Staten

wouldnt even discuss peace

with the guerrillas.

All thus might .seem to throw a gloomy cape over the prospects for peace but In this dark moment U.S. officials

thought they saw a ray of light.

The week before last some of them W'ere .saying they doubted the American bombing was crippling the ability of the North Vietname.se Reds to Infiltrate men and .supplie.s for the guerrillas in South Viet Nam.

But now official are saying the bombing.s are causing substantial trouble for the Red and are interfering with the infiltration of men and supplies Into South Viet Nam.

President Johnson's st 1 c k and carrot policy as presented last week Is now being studied by the experts. The stick we know Is the bombing of North Viet Nam; the carrot he offered was that If the Communists would stop annoying Saigon, they might expect to get United States aid a la a Southeast Asia Marshall Plan. The msm In charge of the stick is Secretary of Defense McNamara, the man who may be put in charge of the carrot is Eugene Black, the former head of the World Bank. I can foresee in the eTf where

the Interests of these two men could be at odds.

Bob, this Is Gene Bla c k here. I called you about those railroad bridge.s youre planning to bomb near Hanoi. I

wLsh you w'ouldnt do it. Bob. Railroad bridges cost a lot of money and as you know the American government Is going to have to eventually pay for them.

Look, Gene, weve had those railroad bridges targeted for months. Theyre the key to Hos supply lines.

Thats ell well wid good Bob, but the Administration has to answer to Congress for anything you destroy.

Gene. I think military strategy has to have preceden c e ov-er foreign aid.

Bob, I dont want to be e

bore about this, but I have it on reliable authority that the North Vietname.se want you to bomb those bridges. Theyve been hoping to build new ones for years, but have ne v e r

Other Editors Saying.. '-TO Challenqec.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The question as to whether the Federal Trade Commission has the authority to require cigarette manufactuif rs to put health warning.s on package.s continues to persist, and Hie latest challenge to this authority comes from Rep. Horace Kornegay. Tar Heel Democrat, who takes exception to th e FTC'.s pi'opovsed labeling requirements.

In questioning FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon, Kome-gay cited a University of Pennsylvania Law' Review article which said the TC lacks the power to requln "afflrm-mative disclosures in advertising. The article cited a decision by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals which held that the commLssion could not require that advertisements affirmatively state that the product would not be beneficial to the user.

In short. Dixons ruling would require the cigarette manufacturer to .stop do lug .something he Is not doing. Kornegay also pointed out that the cigarette packages and ad-vertl.slng showing that smoking may cause cancer or other seriou diseases w'ould affect the current balance of payments between the U. S.

and foreign countihcs. Mo r e than $114 million worth of American cigaiettes were .sold abroad last year.

The disturbing thing about Dixon's niling which requires labels warning of cancer or other disea.se is that no scientific proof has been introduced as evidence to support Dixon.s contention that smoking in fact causes cancer. He i.s forcing the cigarette manufacturer to wai'n of a con.se-quence that up to now Is prc-sumptjon.

Dixon I.s working on the principle that he can get the authority from Congress anyway. so why not proceed without It? It is true that Congrc.ss may enact some sort of legis-' lation on thds matter. But Chairman Oren Harris of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce told Dixon he cpuld expect the dangede.st lawsuits U he proceeds without more authority from Congress.

And Rep. J. J. Pickle of Texas suggested that It might be po.sslble to come up with suitable legislation arthorlzing a health warning on packages, but he RUgge.strd. on adver-ti.xtng, that the FTC give the tobacco Indu.stry a chance to work thi.s out without giving them a nile they cant live by.

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been able to get the money.

I believe the Defense Department is playing into their hands.

I resent tliat. Gene. Weve got to keep up the bombing so we can get Hanoi to the negotiation stage. We have to keep up the pre.ssure.

Id take is.sue with you on that. I've already seen, the list of things that North Viet Nam plans to request as soon as there is a cease fire. It Includes highways, -ports, freight train.s, tnicks. airports and four new Hilton hotels. The more things you wreck the Ic.ss reluctant theyll be to call for a cea.se fire. They know what happened in Japan and West Germany after the last war. thanks to Amerlc a n * bombing, and they have hopes of rebuilding their country in the .same way.

For the moment. Gene, the .stick policy is in effect, and I can not be concemed with what it Tvlll cost us after the war is stopped.

Tin not asking you to stop the bombing. Bob. All Im asking you to do is bomb places that'havp no value, and which they cant .tustify us rebuilding for them. Is that asking too much?

FI! have to talk it over with the Joint CTliiefs, but If we dont hurt tliem w'ell never be able to stop the Viet Cong.

Thats another thing I wanted to talk to you about. I wish youd stop using tho.'e fire bomb.s In South Viet Nam. Theyre terribly de.stnictivo and we're going to have to replant all tho.se fore.sts. Couldnt you go back to using non-letbal gas?

Youre making life very difficult for me, Gene. I believe in foreign aid as much as anybody. but T cant worry abotit your program. Thats the Department of States problem."

Okay, go ahead. Wreck their economy and see where it get.s us. We've only got a billion dollars to play with, and If you keep up your bombing attacks, Im going to have to cut South Viet Nam out of our program.

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It> an arna/.ing tiling how the human mind can Interpret Uie .same set of facts to suit its ow'n peculiar prejudices, Opportunity <Wa^h.) Herald.

Now the strong danis art al)Out to be breached as a result of the Great Society breakthrough. The U.S. will be tlif-ferent tomorrow because of this and one of the differences will surely be measured this and one of the differences will surely be measured by a Jump in all taxe.s. You may be paying less for jewrl-rv, haiKibags and furs w!)cn the exci.se tax cut goes through, but in a few years you wil be paying up to ten per cent for social security deductions, and that Is probably only the beginning.

The new British budget, iron-Vcally Imposed by a Labor Administration, offers a g r i rn forewarning of the direction in w hlch we are headed. A f t r fcyeans of fighting off the rcim-^position of austerity, t h British have had to .start on a real soak - the - poor tax program to keep their Welfar 1 s t programs going In a time of adverse balance of paym(nts that threatens the value of the pound. The basic Brltl.sh income tax ratp ha.s been ral.^--ed from 3i5.7.'> per cent to 41 2.3 per cent. The cigarette tax hns been increa.sed seven cents, which means that a .smoker who likes one of the popular brand.s will be pa.vlng seventy - fiv cents for a pack.

Auto registration has taken a fearful jump, from $42 to $43. There 1 an extra penny impost on a pint of beer, and a bottle of whiskey will cost fifty - .six cents more than last year. Meanwhile, British businessmen will no longer be permitted to take a domestic customer to a tax - deducti b 1 # lunch. The capital gains tnx has been radically Increased, and. while the corporate income tax Is being lowered frnin .36 to 40 per cent, British slnr k-holders w'lll no longer be able to take dividend Income deductions as an offset to what they have already paid as a corporate levy.

All of this Is how one Great Society Is now being comprl-Ipd to ftnance the benefits it dispenses. No Briton who value his head dare to suf-ge.st that the great majoritv of people might be better off If they were permitted to spend their own money. Instead, advanced free social proposals in present day Britain revolve aroujji, the idea of contracting out of State Welfare on a (Continued on page B)

'-ield Of Stupidity Not Limitec.

Strength For Today

By EARL I.. I)Oi;r.I.A.S.S BY WHAT ALTIIOBITV?

Holy Week.

Monday the Day of Authority. Tuesday the Day of Con-llict. Wednesday the Day of Silence. Thursday. Farewells and Fellowship. Friday the Day of Suffering. Saturday tlie Day in the Tomb.

Let us on this Monday lortk at the two incldrnis which characterized onr Lord's activity on that day. In the first place, Jesus passed condemnation upon a fig tree which had plenty of green leaves but no fruit. It was a .syrnlrolic w-ay of saying that God i.s not pleas ed with the religious life of any believer unle.ss it produces fnnt good works, kindly thoughts, projecto of helpfulness.

Th( .second circumstance of this day was our Lords cleansing of the temple. Thl.s sacn d structure had been built, gU)-rlfled, and set aside for wor-hlp. It had, through the pass-

In'i 0 yeans, however, become a busy place of trade and other ijctivitie.s not particularly as.sodated with worship.

.Jisiifl was furiou when he saw the use.s which were being made of the sacred temple. He overthrew the table of the money changers (for there was a great deal of dlshonc-ty here in the matter of crtp-int' gold off the colna). He made short work of the booths Ir which doves were sold. He would not even permit a man to carry a ve.ssel through the (< mple.

Tlie health of any society de-iKuifls upon the health of Us spiritual life. If the spiritual lib of a nation \n weak or diseased the life of the nation is thereby Rcrlously Impaired.

Jesui would have the temple which stood at the center of the nations worship, clean, sincere, helpful.

He makes the same requlre-nient of the modem Church.

By EIJVIKR ROESSNER

The plan to boycott good.s made in Alabama shows that stupidity Is not limited to the segregationlsl.s.

"The plan will not force mor Integration. It i^ill slow the pro-grc.s.s toward beller race n-la-tions. Heres why:

This proposal by Dr. Martin Luther King wa.s In.stantly seized upon by Harry F. Bridges, left-wing pre.sldent of tlie Jiitemational Longshoremens and Warehousemens Unlon.Tlic union, In convention In Vancouver. B. C., voted to refuse to handle all goods made in Alabama. This action gives color to extremists charge that the anti - segrf'gatlonl.st movemHit, is conimunlri-ln-.splred. Bridges ha.s denied com munlst affiliations, yet his known leftist .sympathies will b(i tised by segregationi.sta to repeat thi lr charges that Dr. King Is a tool of comrruinlsm. IJN-AMEKK AN ATTACK

A boycotte of Alabama producs would mean Iwycott of go(XlM made by lulegtatlonlsls a well as segregationists. It would employ the doctrine of

guilt by association. It would be modern-day McCarthy Ism.

TTie boycott might actually lncrea.se demand for Alabama goods. Throughout the South there will be strong resentment against it. Many Southerners will insist on buying Alabama products to spite the boycott, others In the North will favor Alabama products In protest agaln.st the unfair sanction.

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Furthermore, the boycott will destioy much of the good will that exists between the races 111 the South. If there should be declines' In business section-ally In Alabama, the Negrue.s. Di. King and Harry Bridges will lie blamed. And If tln re should b a leneraj recession,

Negroes and King boycott will be scapegoats, and this will be the excu.se for laying off Negroes first.

Even if Negroes are not blamed for a decline in busi-ne.ss, they will .suffer mo.st be-cau.se tho.se on tlie lowe.st end of the economic scale are u.s-Tially first to be laid off.

The boycott may threaten to .split the entire de.segregatlon-1st movement Into pro-boycot-ters and antl-boycotters. It may alienate some of the mo.st generous Northern backers. And it may stiffen Alabama reslstence to integration.

Buy Alabama! could be slogan throughout the South. It rould be one way of checking the Klng-Brldgei brand of Mf-rarthylsm.

.Meanwhile. A. W. Todd. Alabama Agricultural Commissioner. .said that major food chains were Insisting that tags Identifying Alabama poultry and egg products be removed before shipment to other states.

If Todd win name the ehalns .engaged In this kind of guilt by a.s.soclatlon buslne.ss tactic. ru print them.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN AIX nils TIME?

As you craw'l -your way to the Intonial Revenue Office today, heres something to chc< r yon:

One large coal leasing company made a $1.5 million pn)-flt on a gross Income of $2 5 mllUon, and most of It was tax free.

Duns Review reports that coal leasing 1 one of th most lucrative Investments ia America. Coal les.sors. In j)o-verty . stricken Appalachia, lease coal-bearing lancls and sell the coal to mlner.s on a peroeotaga baal. They am blessed, In Duns w'ord, with a depletion allowance, and Ihf n pay only capital pains taxes on their profits. And you work for your living.!

WORLD RAISIN PACK BETTER THAN AVERAilE The 1964 crop of raisins, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service, was r>(().(Wii short tons, 1.3.()(K) ton.s larger than In HKCi and 36.000 tons lurgep than the 1058-63 average.