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Modernize Our Business District

It is time for Greenville to take a long, careful look at its central business district and come up with a program to make the area more attractive, more acceasable, more convenient and more efficient.

, The task will not be simple and easy. It will not be a matter of splashing a few coats of paint here, widening a street there, or improving a sidewalk. What is needed is a comprehensive program that will strikingly improve the central business area in every respect, to modernize it in order to meet the needs of the city and the people that the central business area of Greenville serves.

It will be a costly and complex undertaking, but properly planned and executed, such a program can pay handsome dividends in future years for the city and its citizens.

Cost Was Only ?actor In Delay

By Wn.LIAM A. SHIRES

COST Cost was the only factor Involved in the four months delay in approving a $487.2.58 contract for the University of North Carolina to acquire its own microwave relay system for statewide educational television.

This is the word of Hugh Cannon, former director of administration under Gov. Terry Sanford, who lasued the stop order on the ETV microwave contract last winter shortly before the new state administration took office.

Nothing else was involved, Cannon says. There were questions raised about comparative cost and we felt they deserved further study. It turned out that the incoming administration was the one to take a look at it and make the final decision, but the questions already had been raised.

The questiwis were not about Initial cost of acquiring* the microwave relay system, which was a firm low bid submitted on a competitive basis by a private electronics firm. Rather the questions were wi comparative costs of maintenance, service and depreciation of such a system on either a state-owned or leased basis.

DECTSION The telephone Industry in the state came forth with an offer to lease the necessary interconnecting facilities to expand ETV coverage across the state.

The industry later conducted I detailed .study of all of the state goveniment communications needs and combined its ETV offer In a package plan which included statewide radio hookups for the State Highw'ay patrol, prisons department and others, a law enforcement teletype network and low cost long distance telephone service for state agencies.

Industry officials said this package would result in savings of millions of dollars In future state government communications costs.

In the meantime. University officials w^ere pressing for a decision on extending the ETV petwork. Members of the legislature and other officials be-gwi making tmiulries about the holdup.

EXTEND The interest of the legislature was In the fact that the 1963 General Assembly appropriated $1.250,000 for nece.ssary towers, equipment and other construction, and the University is back asking for another $1.7 million for further phase.s of ETV extension.

This was somewhat incongruous since not a single tower had been erected, nor a single new transmitter for ETV programs had been put on the air. The ETV pi-ogramming of WUNC-TV Ls still confined to the Chapel Hill-Greensboro-Raleigh area 10 years after its Inception.

Finally, the decision of the new administration, announced last week by director of administration E. L. Rankin Jr.. was to proceed as planneJ w;ith acqulvSition of state-ow^ed mi-crowave relay facilities for ETV.

Rankin said studies indicated this w-ould result iu .savings of approximately $650.000 to the state over a 10 year period, which paralleled the original estimate of the Sanford administration last Pall.

POLITICS There was some impatience and pressuring, but the ETV decision was unhurried and apparently free from political overtones.

Cannon, for one. says the change in administrations last January had little if anything to do v/ith the delay. There would have been further stui^ of annual, recurring cost fac^ tors, depreciation and malnte*^ nance anywray, he says.

Gov. Dan K. Moore said recently he had quite a lo' to do with getting the contract held up for further study. But at the same time. Moore said I can assure you this Is one case in which politics is not Involved.

Cannon said he is confident that there were no political considerations. I am sure the governor is entirely right in his statement about that, he said.

Contrary to Impressions and misconception, theres very little politics Involved in spending the states money. said Cannon, who was also acting budget director for a lengthy period during the Sanford administration.

You can rest assured that politics doesnt enter into this sort of decision.

COMBINED - Actually, the stop order last wdnter came after conferences between Cannon and Rankin. Rankin was tapped by Moore to be director of administration and began looking into departmental and budget activities and reviewing plans and programs several weeks before Moore look office.

The two officials agreed jointly that the ETV system reeded claser scrutiny. Rankin suggested that the contract be held up for a while. Cannon agreed and the stop order was is<;ued.

SAFEGARDS In addition to the joint decision in thi.s ca.se. there are double safe-puard.s against political meddling with state contracts in the department of administration.

This is becau.se most department officials under the director are career people with long iContinued On Page 6t

Greenville is a projrreasive community. In many tieldf rt is becoming the focal point of progress for this section of North Carolina. Its growth pattern already is a source of envy of other communities in the area. Its economic future must be ranked at the top among the cities and towns of this part of North Carolina.

If the central business area of the city iis not to deteriorate and drift into the backwash of pfogres.s which Greenville is enjoying, a determined effort must be made to keep the area in its rightful place as the focal point of the city.

Greenvilles Chamber of Commerce Merchants Association has designated as one of its primary projects for this year the improvement of the Antral business district. It is time now to get such a program moving through its various stages in order that the city may enjoy the benefits of the finished product as soon as possible.

A dramatic change of the central business district of Greenville cannot be accomplished by the Chamber of Commerce Merchants Association alone. Such an undertaking, if it is to be successful, must have the support of merchants and businessmen, city officials and average citizen, property owners and those who lease property from others.

Greenville has before it the opportunity to develop the finest, most attractive, most convenient and most efficient central business district In any city in this part of North Carolina. It has progressive citizens who are interested in improving their community in every respect. It has a progressive government that has evidenced its intere.st in continued betterment of the city. It has the leadership necessary to get such an undertaking into motion and see it through to completion. It has the natural as.sets with which to work and it has the availability of capital nece.ssary to do what it wants.

The only other necessary ingredient's a desire and determination on the part of Greenvilles people to accomplish the task. This too, we think, Greenville has.

It is time for Greenville to put aside the worn and tattered phrase 'something needs to be done.

It is time for Greenville to put its abilities and its resources to the task of doing.

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By ART BUCHWALD

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WASHINGTON lAP) When Wilma Sos was lugged bodily out of the Communications Satellite Coi-p stockhold e r s meeting Tuesday screaming, protesting and waving at the cameras some kind of an era ended.

Or maybe an era began,

The tycoons of American industry seem to be fighting back, after years of being harassed by small groups of perennial hecklers.

Across the land, board chairmen have taken a brace. Many are firmly insisting, for instance, that stockholders talk about the corporate business under discussion. And that they wait for their turn to speak. And that they let other stockholders get a word in edge-w'ise.

For the board chairman, this takes some kind of courage. His companys stockholder relations are as mportant as its public relations. Every management wants to be considered kind, attentive and responsive to questions and complaints. even if the complainer owns only one share.

The little stockholder, in short, has a mighty voice. But managements and rank and file stockholders have been showing irritation when, year after year, at every annual meeting of every big, company', the loude.st voices are also nonstop, out of order, irrelevant and .sometimes augmented by tin horns and whistles.

Seven months ago investment banker Sidney J. Weinberg decided it was time to speak up.

It's fairly safe for him now; at 73 he holds only flve major directorships, having resigned 20 or 30. He made a speech to about 100 corporation chairmen and presidents at the Busine.ss Council meeting in Hot Springs. Va.

The chief cau.se of this deterioration. in my opinion, are a relatively few publicity-seeking characters who attend stockholders meetings primarily to ask impertinent. Irrelevant, .sometimes abusive questions. Weinberg said.

"I think this kind of behavior mu.st be stopped right now before stockholders lose respect for management.

The notoriety won by .some heckler.s, he .said, has encouraged newcomers to take up the hobby.

Today, Weinberg report.s. a good many board chainnen aie firmb' squelching the disorderly Meetlng.s have regained some decorum The situation is much improved he sav.s

Indeed. even Mrs Soss. the ofl - heard voice of the Federation of Women Stockholders

ill American Business and such other noted meeting-goers as Lewis Gilbert and Evelyn Davis have met some setbacks lately.

Last September, at Comsats first annual meeting, Gilbert, Mrs. Soss and horn - tooting Mrs. Davis squabbled with each other for the floor, shout e d when their microphones were cut off and incensed 1,500 other stockholders to the point of booing, jeering and clapping to drown them out.

They helped prolong the meeting for nine hours, and were still there w'hen most other shareholders had given up and gone home.

On Tuesday, blue . uniformed Pinkerton .special police were much in evidence at Comsats second stockholder meeting. When Mrs. Soss first speech was fuled out of order, (Continued On Page 6)

President Johnson has been going on television so much lately that It isnt too far fetched to predict that in the near future, the networks might announce, while the President is speaking. We internipt this regular program to bring you an Important announcement.

It is no secret that the networks are very upset about the President asking for time on short notice to address the American people. For one thing its quite costly and for another you dont know w'hat to believe in TV Guide anymore.

Several compromises are trying to be worked out between the White House and the three major networks. One of them has been to offer the President his own show'. The White House

is interested, providing th President can get prime time, but the netw'orks want to put him on after Johnny Carson.

Also the format of the show has to be worked out. One network has offered to call the program Ive Got a Secret. It would be a panel show and the panel would have to guess where the President was going to send the Murines next.

Another network wants the President to appear in a situation comedy titled I Love Luci and dramatize the problems of a typical American family whose father happens to be President of the United States.

The third network wanUs to call the show Have Guns Will Travel, which would tM?

Other E(ditors Saying

Stalin Re-Gildec.

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

May 14. 1925 At a special call meeting of Uie board of aldermen held this week, contracts were let for curb and gutter on Student Street between Third and Fourth Street.s. for additional cubring and gutter on E. Third Street and curbing and gutter on Wade Street between Dickinson Avenue and Broad Street.

The Pitt County Health Department call.s attention to the fact that three ca.ses of Typhoid Fever have been reported to the Health Department since April 1.5. The case histories reveal the fact that no treatment for the prevention of the disease have ever been taken.

Kiwanl.s Club will have as their honor sue.sts at regular mcct'ne Friday night, twelve Boy Scouts who will have charge of the program. Every Klwan-lan .ohould be present a.: thl.s will be a great treat

Tlil.s house committee has arranged foi* a feed to meet with the scouts visit and nothing is being ovljpooked to give the bo.v.s a good time.

(Christian Science Monitor)

Stalins presence loomed over the Soviet Union for some 30 years. Today, more than a dozen years after his passing, his memory still broods over Russia. bringing serious problems to his successors.

Often the treatment of this memory is a barometer of how things are going in the Communist world and how the party hierarchies are thinking. Stalinism has become s.\Tiony-mous with repression and the hard - line treatment of problems. Anti - Stalinism symbolizes an easing of controls, a curb on police power, a somewhat greater measure of freedom.

We now have a third attitude degree of treatment. As one Monitor headline called it. It Is Stalin regilded. Happily, how'cver, this has not yet meant a whole or a partial return to Stalinism. Instead. it is an attempt by Mo.s-cow to deal with the many severe intellectual and political problems which anti - Stalinism has rai.sed.

It is. in short, an attempt to keep anti - Stalini.sm from threatening the regime, without reviving Stalini.sm. which might threaten it still more.

The Kremlin took a calculated risk when it began its downgrading of Stalin, publicizing his crimes, and casting doubt on the wisdom of his leadership. It ran the risk of opening all sorts of cracks in the Bolshevik facade through which pot .shots could be taken both at communism as a whole and at those who worked under but did not dare oppose Stalin.

Since many of these cracks were, in fact. u.sed for these very purposes, the Soviet leadership seems to have reached the conclusion that willy - nilly Russia w'as stuck with Stalin's raputation. Under these cir-cunvstances the best thing to do was. so far as possible, re.store some measure of respectability to that reputation.

This can be done mo.st safely by restoring Stalins military reputation, while tactfully a-voiding talk of his other acts.

We are happy to accept for the moment at least the as.surances of students of Kremlin lore that this does not fore-ca.st a return to Stalins methods, While recognizing the distance Russia still has to go before emerging complet e 1 y from Stalinism, we welcome the progress In that direction made during the pa.st decade. We hope It will continue.

a Western with most of the action taking place at the LBJ Ranch and the Pentagon,

So far the President hasnt agreed to any of the formats. He also is against a regular time slot because if he went along with it, he could appear on TV once a week, and this could become too confining.

There is also a question of sponsorship. If the President went on television regularly the networks insist they would have to sell the time to a sponsor. A dog food company has expressed interest in the show providing the Piesident would appear w'ith his beagle.

Several aspirin companies have put in a bid for the time and so have insurance companies. The only ones who definitely said they werent interested were the electric light bulb companies, who felt the image just wouldnt be right for them.

Another problem is the que.s-tion of ratings. The White House is aware that the networks will drop a show without hesitation if the ratings are low. So theyre demanding some guarantee from the networks that they wont cancel out after the first thirteen weeks, particularly since President Johnson's tenn has three and a half years to go.

The networks claim they have no choice when It comes to ratings and they would be setting a bad precedent If they allowed a show with low ratings to remain on tire air. As the owner of a television station the networks feel the President should under stand this.

Finally, there Ls the que.s-tion of the Early Bird satellite. If the European networks clear time for President Johnson on their stations then the American networks will have to clear time for the European leaders.

Between Chancellor Erhard, Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Gen. deGaulle, the networks are frightened that they may not have any audience left. Theyve tried to persuade President Johnson to stay off the Early Bird satellite, but .so far without .success.

The President ha.s already told the network bassc.s:

Ah didnt put it up there ju.st to look at it. and any time Ah want to Ah can have the Air Force shoot It down. ,

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Co{>yright, 1965, King Featurea Syndicate. Ine.

Senator Tom Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat, haa been taking out after the prtas because it has created a pubUo Image of the situation'* In Vietnam which is in certain respects inaccurate, in other respects imbalanced and in till other respects Inadequate or even blank. These harsh words are from a Dodd M>eech at the Cleveland Press Club. They produced an adverse reaction among some newspapermen, mostly sotto voce. A Midwest editor, hearing about the speech (Hi a visit to New York, shook his head and said. Senator Dood has been reading the eastern papers.

Dodd, however, as this eol-umnist has good reason to know, never speaks on foreign policy without considerable me. ditation based on a eombina>-tlon of personal experience and exhaustive research. His remarks on the treatment of news about Southeast Asia followed a trip to Saigon where, as an aide who went along with Dodd put it. things look twenty-thousand per cent more hopeful than they do when you read about the war In the United States.

lOHA CHAMBBBIAm

Since a visiting Senator would naturally receive red - carpet treatment In Saigon, the "twenty - thousand per cent figure Is undoubtedly subject to discount. Even so, Dodd has had an amazing record for being at least niiwty per cent right In his prophecies in the foreign affairs field.

Thus the Senator was among the first to say outright that the Ghana of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, the redeemer," was a Communist country. He was criticized severely for this, but his Information proved quite accurate when, in 1963, Nkruman openly supported the Communist-led Insurrection In the Congo.

Dodd defended Molse Tsh-ombe when the U.S., yielding to pressure, backed the UNs shortsighted campaign to oust Tshombe from his iKHne province of Ktanga. The Senator later found himself in a position to say I told you so when the Congo summoned Tshombe. as the only available Congolese leader of any ability, to take charge of the country as a whole In Its effort to pull Itself out of a quagmire and fight off Communist - supported subversion.

Dodd has all along eet his face against what he calls the policy of conciliation. He objected when we pressured the government of the Netherlands Into ceding West New Guinea, a territory that was in no sense part of Indonesia,* to Sukarno. CXir concIHatlon-l.sm toward Sukarno, expressed In terms of money grants totaling almost a billion dollars, has resulted In the seizure of USIA offices and the confiscation of American - owned Industrial establishments Inside Indonesia.

The policy of conciliation toward Nassers Egypt, also denounced by Dodd, has bought only contempt for us In Cairo. Since the close of the War, says Dodd, we have pumped Into Egypt almost one billion dollars In aid. Including $71.5 million worth of PL 480 food shipments. Without these shipments the Nasser reg 1 m could not possibly have kept alive. Nasser has repaid us for all thl.s in coin very gimllar to Sukarnos.

Becan.se of his record for a(v curate analysis and prophecy, anything that Dodd has to say about the progress of the war lii Vietnam, and the reporting of it In the American press, 1 certainly worth thinking about. The Senator couldnt have been talking about the whole Amerl-(Continued On Page )

Try Workmens Compensation

The young Womans Federation will meet on Friday afternoon at 4 oclock at the home of Mr.s, John McKelthan.

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Strength For Todav

Bv KAKI, L. DOLGI.A.SS T.\KE IT AM) LIKE IT

The fact of*accountability in all human affairs is v,omething that many people find hard to accept

We are all accountable to-.somebody or to some thing. We are accountable to an employ er, or to the requirements of public office, or to the de mands of a profe.^slon. The str;ctest accountability <loe..s nol reside in the realm of either per.sons or things for there b no accountability so severe a.s the accountability which honor and love of filial and niarlta) re.spon.sibllity place.s upon us.

But in the end, we alway.s coitie back to the basic fact of life which Is that we are prunarilv .spiritual l)clnR.s. We arc made in the image and

after the llkene.ss of God. and .such being the ca.se. the spiritual part of our nature Is the most- important - part. Therefore the accountability we owe to our own souls, that we owe to the Invisible world and above all the accountability we owe to God - the.se are primary.

You don't like the idea of accountability? Well, there are many thlng.s in life we may not llko, but whether we like them or not. we have to accept them. The greatest happiness hi life comes from a quiet conscience, and that per son has a quiet conscience In deed who ha.s accepted I h e demands of aecountabilUy In every sphere of life and v ho tries doggedly. If not gallantly, to live up to them.

By ELMER KOESSNER

In the good old day.s, when I was a peanut butcher on a CallfoiTiia railroad, workmen s Injuries were a rich .source of Incomi' to attonieys spe^laliz-iriK ill such cases.

They sued at the sight of blood, sonictimes got small verdicts, sometime large on e s. of which they got major shares on contlugeiKv agreements. Neither employers uor battered workmen liked the sy.steni. and under the goyernorshlp of nfram Johh.son. the stafe enacted a workmen's compen.sa tion law.

Such laws have .since been adopted by every state and, ex cept for an occasional nutty decision, such as giving awards for almo.st Imaginary ailments, the system has worked very well.

Why not try it for auto accidents?

Some time ago I dlscu.ssed this with a prominent New York attorney.

LAWYERS LIFE Bl.OOl)

Almost every attorney ex eopt lho.sr Involved in negh gencr rasi's favors the Idea."

he said, but nothing can be

done about It because auto accident ca.se.s are the life blood of small - towTi lawyers In thl.s .state. Without this business, these lawyers would starve. Rather Mmn .starve, they would mount a gigantic lobbying campaign. We lawyers who realize |he inrquitles and shady prac-lices that go on In auto accident ca.se.s could never get the law elianged.

ET.MER

ROE8SNER

As a consequence, auto accident cases take years to get t4) trial in New York iStatc, and the state.s auto accident Insurance rates are among the high-e.st In the world.

.NE( K OUT. A LITTI.E BIT Now an organization h a s come to grips, lightly, with the problem,

The American Assembly of

Columbia University, meeting earlier this month, In a session on "The Court, the Public and the Law Explosion. made this unsigned and non - unanimous recommendation:

"Today the laws delays In civil suit are intolerable. An unrelenting flow of automobile accident personal Injury case.s has Inundated our trial courts. Ca.ses are delayed a year, two years or more In reaching trial. and the delays are often longest when the need for prompt reTlef 1$ most,imperative.

Arthur L. Goodhart, former Master of University College, Oxford, suggested that auto negligence suits be replaced by a compensation board proceedings in which payments for damages would he made to all parties In an accident, regard-le.ss of who was at fault, unless the damage was Intentional. Thc^ cost would K paid by a compulsory system of liability insurance.

Tlie assembly, which consists of judges, lawyers, edircalors, Journalists and bu.slni;.s.smen, did not adopt Goodhart's pro-I>()^^al, but 11 did lament the delays in civil suit;> and urged

more Judges, better Jud$:e, mandatory retirements at 70. easier ways to sack unfit Judg-e.s. and other change Is the .nuliclal system. It sustained the right of Jury trial but added, There is need for reform in the admlnLstraon of the jury system.

JOB OPENINGS GREATER 'niAN MOST SUSPECT

Confirming part of a thesis advanced here, the National Industrial Conference Board, using Ford Foundation money, found that on February 12 there were 7.991 Job vacancies in Monroe County, N.Y., which includes the <dty of Rochester.

This was five times the number of job vacancies eetimat-ed by the N.Y. State Division of Employment on the same date.

The Board did not determine the number of unemployed, nor the number listed by the state as unemployed, which would have confirmed my thesis that unemployment - employment figures are inaccurate. But the Boa If I (Ud show that Job vacan-cir.s RIP greater than many Pf'opip think and that many wish lo Ihink.