April 16, IMS

A I^ew More Feet For Our Traffic

Greenviile*s program for wideniiig streets in feet of street width in the block bf Third Street and near the downtown area is far from ideal, but between Evans and Cotanche by moving the curb it at least is providing a few more feet here and line a little farther north. Now it is in the process there is the business area for traffic movement. of widening the block of Third between Evans and

For the most part the program is being carried Washington by moving the curb line northward

out on a catch-as>atch>an basis. One street is about eight feet along the corhbuse property, being widened a few feet in this block now, and Several years ago Third street was widened between another is being widened a few feet in another block Washington and Greene Streets by moving the curb later as the opportunities present themselves. on the south side of the street.

Last year the city was able to gain a few more In a similar piece meal manner sections of

several other streets in and near the business district have been widened in recent years. In time,

perhaps, all the parts will fall into place, and the

city will have a system of wider .streets in and near the biisine.ss area. In the meantime, set-back lines have been established in areas surrounding the bus-ine.ss district and work is being done to provide wider street^ in areas that are :hanging from residential to^ommercial use.

As vve .said, it is not art ideal \vay to handle the need for wider .streets; but at least it is better than ju.st .sitting back and not making any attempt to provide a better traffic sy.steni^in the heart of the city.

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i-actors in ^Decision

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

DECISION ~ A decision has been promised as quickly as pos.sible by the department ot administration on hem the state .should move to extmd Its educational television system.

This apparently will be a difficult decision because many factors, considerations and a basic conflict are Involved.

Baaicaily, the question to be rc.solved is whether the state should ro ahead and build its own microwave relay system to carry ETTV signals, or Iea.se microwave and inter-comiecting facilities from the telephone industry.

This is the question which has held up work on the ort-ginally-propose. plan for extending the .states ETV sy.s-tem for several months, in order to allow carWul study.

Now, however, the department of administration is on a .spot in making a choice in the best intere.sts of the state, and officlaLs charged with making the decision are under pressure to give the go-ahead on ETV as soon as pos.sible.

STUDIES A large amount Of mformation on the subject has been pre.sented. But much of It is ccmflicting as to which would be the better, more economical method. Either one.

Of course will be co.stly.

WILLIAM

what it called a "dramatic new concept" in comnimnca-Uoos.

This was a package, multiagency coamiunicati(His proposal which industry officials said could save the state government millions of dollars a year In future communications costs."

PACKAGE The industry* package included not only educational television facilities for existing and future data com-miuiications costs.

PACKAGE - The-industrys package Included not only edu-catiiMial television facilities but also long distance calling, voice and radio ti-ausmitter control circuits for the State Highw'ay Patrol, a statewide law enforcement teletype service and a prisons department teletypewriter circuit.

The package also included capabilities for existing and future data communications for all state agencies and a flexible ET\' .system of up to five recommended closed circuit channels. The prp.sent state ETV plan does not recommend u.sf oi closed circuit television.

Director of administration E. L. Rankin Jr. said a primary question involved in the

Best To Abide By The Legislative Decision

Although we favor North Caroliiia\s adopting a daylight .saving time schedule during the summer month.s, we .see little real merit in the new propo.sal to .submit the matter to a ^state-wide referendum ill the I960 general election.

The legislature thi.s year already has rejected a proposal for daylight saving time from June through August. Even though we question whether this legislative action reflected the majority opinion among Tar Ileels, it is belter to let the legislature resolve .such matters than taking them to the people in a referendum.

Were a referendum held in November of 1966 and daylight .saving time approved by voters of the .^tate, it would be the .summer of 1967 before the program would become effective. By that time the 1967 General Assembly will be well into its biennial rSv "S/pi; d U have had ample time to make ita By HAL BOYLE

was whether this extension af- own decision concerning daylight saving proposals.

Between now and 1967 members of the legisla-

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There were separate studies one by the University of North Carolina which would operate the propased statewide ETV system whether state-owned or leased, and another by the combined telephone industry.

Both were exhaiistive studies. The University study was by a firm of consulting en-gineer.s. The telephone indus-f try put $15,000 and 3,750 man-hours by communications experts int.0 its study and surveyed not only required ETV interconnecting facilities but also the overall communications need of state government agencie.':.

DISPUTE ~ The upshot is that University officials and the telephone Industry are at loggerheads over which can do the job better and more economically.

University offlciais contend that on the basis of previous cost comparisons and competitive bidding on facilities and equipment, there would be indicated savings of $1 million over a 10 year period throujh a state-owned ETV microwave sy.stem.

But there are differences in the proposals which the telephone industry said are very difficult to equate. The University presentation at a pub-lie hearing dealt entirely with an educational TV system while the telephone Industry unveiled

ford any multiple uses and could It meet other needs of the state government?

He said, however, that the decislwi to be made was on the matter of ETV and that the telephone Industrys comprehensive package proposal was sbnply for "information purposes

PATROL At tne same hearing, the State Highway Patrol through Maj. W. B. Lentz outlined Its plans for also constructing its own microwave system.

While this Is designed to .erve our own particular needs. Lentz .said, it Is to be flexible enough for use by other state agencies, and might become a backbone* for a multi-use system."

Counting the present A and "B budget recommendations, budget authority for a highway patrol microwave sy.s-tem .since 1961-63 has totaled $887.000. The University received $I.2.>0,000 in 1963-65 appropriations for Its ETV expansion and has requested $1.8 million more for the coming biennium.

COSTS -- The telephone industrys figures on depreciation and maintenance of these two microwave systems, for ETV and the highway patrol, as again.st the co.st of facilitie.s in Its propo.sed package indicated Its package would cost $1,136 per month le.ss.

In addition, John J. Ryan, vice president and general manager of Southern Bell Telephone Co. in North Carolina, argued that "the state can waste tremendous amounts of money by letting each department build Its own hodgepodge of communications .systems He called it a "double loss to taxpayers becau.se use of tax lund.s for the.se .systcm.s "means le.ss money for needed .services and .state property produces no tax revenue

ture will also have time to gain an accurate a.saes-.sment of public opinion regarding the question.

Under the.se circumstances we question the nere.ssity of calling now for a state-wide referendum

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Tormented Man

By JAMES MARI.OW WASHINGTON LAP) -When Abraham Lincoln died 100 years ago Thursday at 56 he looked much older, already worn out by four years of civil war. But this wa.snt what made him a tragic figure.

He w'a^ tormented. L. 1858 he made his famous house divided speech w'hich opened this way: "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, me could better judge what to do and how to do it.

It w'as an insight Into the lifelong division witliin himself about slavery and the Negro and a iorecast of his own dilemma W'hen he became president.

Betw-een his election in 1860 and the time he took the oath of office on March 4. 1861. seven Southern slave states had .'eceded from the Union, splitting it. This was the worst calamity any president ever Inherited.

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Lincoln, a moderate and con .servative man, felt his fir.st obligation was to pul] the Union together. The problem wa.s how. And lie moved .^lowly. He .started his dilemma in a letter to Horace Greeley in 1861;

"My paramount object in thi.s struggh is to save the Union, and is not either to save slavery or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any .slave. I would do it; and if I could save It oy freeing all the .':Iaves. I would do it."

Bu the Union wasn't being saved. The war went on. He gradually moed toward the Emancipation Proclamation which he is.sued .Ian. I As an effective doniment jt was a joke, or worse. All it

did was say that ail slaves in the Confederate states where Union forces had not yet won control should be free. That didnt give them much freedom.

But it didnt say anything about freeing them in the loyal slave states. Later Lincoln worked hard to get approval of the Constitution's 13th Amendment abolishing slavery but he was dead before it was approved.

Much earlier he had backed a constitutional amendment which didnt get approved guaranteeing the federal government would never interfere with slavery'.

All this show'cd the division within Lincoln on how to w'in the war. But his deeper internal division on the Negro problem exi.sted long before. The.se were some of his position .s before he became president;

He abhorred suppre.ssion of the Negroes but he was again.st letting them vote. He wanted .slavery abolished in the District of Columbia but he also wanted fugitive .slaves e.scap-ing into the district sent back to their ma.ster.s.

He w'anted all men to have the chance to rise economically but he didnt consider Ne-grop.s the social equals of w'hite men. He denounced the Inju.s-iice of .slavery but, while not advocating its abolition, he op-po.sed its extension beyond the slave state.s.

Lincoln was not the only pre.sident W'ho suffered from .such contradictioiis. Th o m a s Jefferson had them, too.

At one time. Jefferson had 100 to 200 .slaves who.:e work on his broad acres made it possible for him to read 18th century, philosophy, fight for freedom fiom Britain and WTlte the Declaration of Independence.

Although he didnt consider Negror.s the social and political equals of white men. the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence said. "We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal."

The declaration, a.s Jefferson (Continued On Page 6)

road just 20 years ago W'eekend.

He cautiously raised his head fiom a ditch on the tiny island of le Shlma In the far Pacific. A Japanc.se sniper hit him in the left temple and Ernie Pyle died the death he had felt he would all along a soldiers death.

His passing brought fresh sorrow to a homeland already in mourning for Pi-esl dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died a few days before.

For no other newspapennan

in history had touched t h e heart of the American people as did Ernie Pyle. He was their eyes and ears with their boys at the front In World War II.

He was as different from the most famous correspondent of World War I Richard Harding Davis as combread is from caviar.

Davis, handsome as a matinee idol, mixed in high .society and was one of the best-dressed men of W.s day. He hobnobbed with generals, took a canvas bathtub with hirpi when he went into the field, and WTote of war glamorous-

Other Editors Saying.. Unfortunate Connection

(Washington Daily News)

At a recent public hearing concerning the proposed two-year Medical school for East Carolina college, the introduction of Dr. George Paschal of Raleigh as the "president-elect of the N. C. Medical society made it appear that the N. C. Medical society Is against the establishment of such a school.

It could be that at some future date the State medical society might oppose the establishment of such a medical school at ECC. But the fact remains that as of now', we understand that the society has taken no stand. We also understand that the Study commission of the group has not met. The arguments coming from Dr. Paschal as he related the various points made it appear that both the society and the .study commission are in opposition.

We cannot believe that such w'as the Intention. This is particularly true since Dr. Amo,s John.'son of Garland, a leader In the N. C. Medical society, .spoke In favor of tlie E(X school. And doctor.s from our own area of the state, many of them in attendance at the hearing, voiced .strong endorsement of the tw'o-year school.

The matter ought to be .straightened out promptly. Another factor Involved Is that Dr. W. C. Davison, former dean of the Duke Medical school and a member of the Study commls.slon, has en

dorsed the two-year medical school, w'e understand. So looking at the arguments against the E(X two-year medical school as outlined by the president-elect would make it appear that he w'as .speaking for the Medical society without having the full supporr'f those around him.

This is a most unfortunate connection, and It is damaging to the hopes of tho.se who are working for the establishment of the two-year .school. There are several very- important questions that ought to be considered now. First of all. Is such a two-year school needed? Secondly, should it be located at ECC if such a need Is established? Thirdly, can the taxpayers of North Carolina afford the price?

We have said before that W'c seem to be placing the emphasis in the wrong place right now. The two-year medical school i.s not to serve a college, if eventually e.stabUshed, but seiwe people. Surely, no thinking per.son can fall to see and understand that we do not build hospitals to serve doctors or a college but rather to serve people. We do not build pri-son.s to serve guards or schools to .serve teachers. The first consideration always Is people.

And again the proposed two-.vear medical school which W'ould be located at E(X would serve people first. The other considerations take second po.s-Itlon.

ly. He almost seemed to lov war.

Ernie, an ex - farraboy from Indiana, stayed with the troops, ate what they ate, wore what they wore, slept in foxholes a.s they did. And from the depths of his soul he despised and hated war. He des-scribed it as a "perpetual weight that i.s compounded of fear and death and dirt and noise and anguish.

To him the only glorious thing about war was the wistful cameraderic with which it knit lonely men together In seamless unity in the performance of a common and dangerous mission.

It was my fortune to go thjpough four campaigns with Pyle along with Don Whitehead, whom Emie himself warmly admii-ed as the greatest of the combat news correspondents.

Einies memory has endured well. Over the years, hundreds of people have asked me, ';What was Ernie Pyle re a 11 y like? They have forgot t e n some of the famous generals; they still remember Eniie.

He was a man well worth remembering. He was of medium height, slender, and weighted about 113 pounds. Over his balding, grizzled hair he usually wore only a fatigue hat. because his helmet felt too heavy.

He had bright blue eyes In a leathery - crinkly face and looked like a wise elf eyes that saw both the grief and fun of being alive. He usually had a cold, and he .suffered from .secondary anemia something only a few battle-front doctors knew.

No man I ever met could win affection and re.spect quicker. He had an In.stlnctive well of human sympathy for people in trouble. Soldiers, who

are people always in trouble, instinctively sensed that-Itind. ness in him. They like him, too, because he was even rncf e scared than they were by danger ~ and didnt mind admitting it out loud.

Twice he broke down under the strain and had to come

home for a rest. In early 194.5 he had done his duty and had earned enough money to .satisfy hi.s modest needs for life.

Blit he took his final a.'^sign-ment becau.se he felt he ought (Continued On Page 6)

Wirtz Out On A Limb

By JOHN chamberlain

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When It comes td tnteller-tual arrogance, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wlrtz ha* compiled a few new highs in demonstrating that he has his own good share of It,

Having gone out on a limb by banishing imported lab o r from the fruit groves and-veg. etable farms of Florida, Arizona and California, Mr. Wlrtf was caught out by events. As might have been predicted Iwr anyone-JEho knows the differ-ence between country and city labor, the unemployed in California and Florida oltles failed to respond to the call for "stoop" labor. But Instead of listening to the pleas of anguished farmers who saw their lemons rotting and their planU ings of lettuce going to waste, Wirtz let himself be homswog-gled into a sort of reverse Potemkin village tour through Californias farmlanda. Visiting the farm labor camps that ara maintained by the moet unfceL Ing of the Independent labor contractors (and there are aomt such in California), Wirtz took the worst conditions for an average and announced to the world that his decision to outlaw "braceros from Mexico must be allowed to stand. Ventura Clounty lemon growera report that he was unbearably nide to their representatives; he brushed off their statistical demonstration that a big percentage of "wlnos and common criminals had been recruited to replace the braceros In their groves and has deserted to run up the crime rates In nearby towns such a Oxnard.

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The Wirtz show of bravado was strictly for the headlines, however. Behind the scenes he had already begun to back dow'n. In Florida, where British West Indians have traditionally been Imported to pick the crops, there was a moment of truth coming up when annual contracts for the employment of 10,00() migratory forel g n workers had to be renewed or new native farm laborers had to be found to replace them.

Since Florida Is repre.sented In Washington by two Dennv cratic Senators, Smathers and Holland, the tip from the White Hou.se that Wirtz wa.s "on h)a own In meeting the Florida emergency could have only one meaning: enough of the West Indians would be re - hired to get the Florida crops picked. Bowing to exigencies. Secretary Wirtz agreed to let 6.000 We.st Indlan.s stay on after April 15. But he did this without any .show of humility, and he hung grimly ~ for the moment, at lea.st to his adamant .stand vis - a - vis California, which Is repre.sented in Washington by two Republican Senators. Kiichel an(i Mumhy.

It couldnt be Wirtz. .so they cracked lugubriously In California about Wirtzs pub-lc statements of no more braceros that were put out in late March and early April. But meanwhile Wirtz. without admitting that he had been wrong, had relaxed a bit to accommodate the date palm farmers of the Palm Desert region to the east of Mount San Jacinto. A hundred or .so Japanese workers who have been in the U.S. on a permit wero certified to the date palm grove owners to help pollerlza the 196,5-66 date crop. This wa.s an absolute necessity, for the unemployed from Callfonilas cltie.s had failed to volunteer to climb swaying fifty - foot ladders to do the hand work that Is required in date fertilization.

Meanwhile, the Callfo r n i a weather had turned rainy and cold, po.stponlng the "moment of truth when somet h i n g would have to be done to provide worker.s to harvest crops

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That Rise In Business Credit

Strength For Today

By EAKI. I,. DOKH.A.S.S

(OST OF HK;n rK(niSNE.S,S

Tup,'(lav war tlic great dav of conflict in the lasi week of our Lord.s life 'I'he scrllx'.s and Pharisees challenged his authority and J?.sn.s an.swcrcd them with a query as to whether or not they considered John the Baptist a true servant of God. "If we replay that we do, they rea.soned together, "he will say. Why then did ye not believe on him? But if w'e say that the bapti.sm of John was not divine but was from men, then we had better seek cover, for the people will stone us.

Jesus spoke some very important parables on this Tuesday of Holy Week. They had to do with his .supreme authority In thlng.s .iplritiiaJ. He pronounced woes against the scrib

es and Phailsees. It was, on tills day that hr told of the .sacrifice of the widow who cast two rnltc.s inlo the trea.^ in.v of the temple. "Verily I .say unto you, said J e s u .s, "This poor widow cast In more than all them which are caist-Ing into the trea.sury: for they all did cast in of their super-flulty; but she of her want did east in all that she had, even all of her living."

Also on thi.s day Jesus spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem and the end o. the world. His words have left generations of believers gasping with astonishment and asking exactly what his words meant.

Life is a struggle. Our Lord sent us the example of struggle, A life of fidelity and devotion to God Involves sacrifice.

By EI.MER ROE8SNER

The ri.se in bu.sine.ss credit Is cau.sing some concern in financial circles.

The situation parallels that in consumer credit: there are ready explanations for the increase; credit authorities say both busines.s and consumer in-debt erlness i.s not out of proportion to the economic picture. and the authorities InslRt that the indebtedno.w could be liquidated, although new bor f-owings will probably keep ttw total from ever diminishing.

Commercial and indiustrJal loans at the nations major banks rose more than $2,750 n:llIlon dollars from late November to early March, in contrast to a three-year average increa.^ of less than $1.50 million for comparative periods, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago says.

This brings the total out-,standlng business loans close to $44 billion.

REASONS FOR TOWERING

DEBT,

The (111 Fed glvcS these rra sons for the increase:

1. The dock strike, which extended the time needed to finance goods in transit;

2. The bulldrup of steel inventories as a hedge again.st a strike;

3. Accelerated borrowing by foreigners partly in anticipation of the extension of the In-tere.st equalization tax to bank loans.

ELMER

ROESSNER

4. Accelerated borrowing by domestic buMne&sea which feared a rise In Interest rates would follow the November Increase in the discount rate.

It also seems po.sslble that many hu.slnesscs borrowed to increase production to meet a rise In demand for con.sumcr goods, notably autos.

"DISTURBING RATE OF GROWTH"

Meanwhile, Dun &* Bi adstreet reports that there ha.s been a "disturbing rate of growth in credit lo.ssis .since 19.50. Again the r eas.surance; "the total amounts of the los.ses are not yet high in relation to .salc.s."

But DAB add.s; "'nils situation is receiving increasingly clo.se vigilance from the countrys credit managers,

The DAB .study shows, that* while trade rccelvablew grew 208 I per cant from December 31, 19.50, to September 20. 1!)64, Inventories were Increasing by only 101.8 per cent, and net working capital grew 9.5.3 per cent,

"This . . cx)nfirma that business has an Increased proportion of its assets tied up in accounts receivable owed to it by its customers." D A B added. Trade notes and accounts receivable "grew enormously," rising from $53.7 billion in 1950 to $171,6 billion in 1961,

Bccau.sc of the lag in sales of new homc.s. mortgage Indebtedness has probably not Increased much La i-ecent months.

However, the sale nf fewer iionu'.s has been partially off-.'ct by the higher average puce of those .sold,

Mcanw'hilp. IndebtcdnfY;- of .states and subdivisions ha.^ l>ccn .soaring, Voter.s have bren demanding more services and invr.stors have been willing to buy more and more taxfrea bonds.

This total Indebtedne.v, piu.s other civilian inricblcdnc.sis and federal debt, while at a recoirl high, Is not dangerous as long as Income keeps rising, productivity and the gro.ss national product keep on soaring, and unemployment remains limited.

But it will be a big and melting ball of wax for Americans to juggle if the nation should be hit by a recession.

YOU CAN GUESS WHERE , THEY ARE MADE

Newest luxury, perhaps for the maid of the mistress who has everything. Including a maid. Is a duster of ostrich featliers.

It Is made by Texae Fea-Hicrs. Inc.. of Brownwood. Texas (where tls7j.

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