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;'s Moores Role

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Foot-In-The-Door Move Indicated

H Moat Americans probably aipi telepathy with of f ederarauthorities and f the mercy or IK e

President Johnsons assertion that the nation must bureaucrats. .. .u

protect its natural beauty, prevent its major traffic If the federal government is^givw the authority -arteries from becoming billboard canyons or junk- to prohibit automobile graveyards being located yard trails within sight of major highways, the precedent will

We too recoil at such a prospect. ^ be established for the government to determine what

^ At the same time, we must admit we likewise else may or may not be seen from a highway, have misgivings about the Presidents proposed While a billboard or a junkyard may be unmethod of assuring that the nations landscape and sightly to one motorist, a few of these may provide its highway views remain a thing of natural beauty. relief from monotony to another. While trees,

If the government moves in the direction of rolling hills and tilled fields give the view of nature banning controlling or supervising outdoor adver- one motorist prefers, there may be another who

tising as the President proposes, there will be the prefers for this blissful view to be dotted here and

precedent for putting this industry under the control there with more realistic reminders of the age and

time in which he lives.

While the target of legislation now may be billboards and junkyards, who is to say that the time .may_not_come when the targets will be unpainted barns, abandoned farm houses, or other relics that are as much a part of the American heritage and the American scene as vast forests, broad prairies and blooming orchards.

Certainly the nation can ill afford to have its landscape blotted out or ruined to the eye of the traveller. But neither can the nation afford for its;? tastes in views to be regimented by the federal government, thus moving another giant step into u life of total conformity to Big Brothers ideas.

Responsibility Would Be More Becoming

Charges by the NAACP that North Carolina has fired hundreds of Negro teachers in its public schools are obviously untrue and irresponsible.

Dr. Charles Carroll, state superintendent of public instruction, has pointed out th^t he has n knowledge of counties discharging Negro teachers as stipulated in the charges. In the case of Pitt

County, which was designated by name in the

NAACP statement. Assistant Superintendent Alford has pointed out that the only teachers he knows of who have been discharged or advised to seek employment elsewhere is a small number who have not o., adt r| irwWAI H

been recommended by their principals for re- duv-hyvmll^

employment next year.

Unless this year proves different from those in the past, there probably will be some Negro teachers in Pitt County who are not re-employed next year. There will also be some white teachers who are not re-employed. But this is routine. It occurs each year as the school system evaluates its teachers.

It has nothing to do with integration of schools or with racial issues.

So far as contracts for Pitt teachers are concerned, Alford has pointed out that no teachers in the county have signed contracts for the next school year simply because the Board of Education has not acted on any contracts.

Certainly in the case of Pitt Countyand we would suspect in the case of North Carolina as a - whole-*-the .NAACP charges ar# without fomitla-tion. If the NAACP or any organization would be constructive in society, it must first be responsible.

And the statement concerning North Carolina firing Mopie^ world

its Negro teachers smacks of complete irresponsi- townspeople cheer; but

t>Rty. suddenly a cowboy rldea Into

town, jumps off his horse and

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By WnXIAM A. SHIRES

ROLE With the University of North Carolina trustees and the General Assembly headinj? for a showdown over the 1963 speaker ban law, a burning questkm ccmcemed the role Oov. Dan K. Moore might take In the matter.

Almost as important from the standpoint of those Involved in the coning clash wwild be the stance of the presiding officer of the State Senate, Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott.

But this was more predictable. It is well known that Scott favors legislative reconsideration and full, open debate <m this controverelal, hastily enacted gag law.

It appeared likely, too, that the first skirmishing over the speaker ban would come in the Senate where Sen. Jennings King of Scotland has had an amendment drawn along lines of trustee recommendations. Even the most hopeful amendment supporters recognized, however, that any chance of approval very likely would require a major effort and all out appeal by Moore and even then a legislative battle royal.

In this respect, there was wide spread belief that If Moore should sugge^ and urge amending the speaker ban in view of a crisis over accreditation. he would find a strong ally in Scott.

WILLIAM

SHUlfiS

POSITION Scotfs position on the speaker ban Ls clear. H made it clear in his first statement on any issue after announcing as a candidate for lieutenant governor on Jan. 18, 1964.

Obviously, Scott said, the law is not satisfactory. He pointed out that all three major candidates for governor In the 1964 Democratic primary say that it should be amended.

He added, this matter should be reconsidered by the General Assembly.

It should be ctmsidered in the same manner and given the same treatment as any other statewide legislation, he said. It should receive new, careful, unrestricted consideration by the next (i965) General Assembly.

Scott, in his statement, went further. He referred to the very thing which has now brought a threat of loss of accreditation of the University and all state-supported institutions of higher learning, a finding by the accreditation aaso-ciatlons executive council on colleges that the ban is detrimental and constitute political interference.

Said Scott, this law points a finger of suspicion at every

faculty member, administrative officer and also the Boards of Trustee of every state supported college and the c<msol#-dated University of North Carolina . . .This suspicion should be removed from those who have the responsibility of the Univerrity syrtem and other state BUMMrted colleges. INFORMED - A report of a special committee of University trustees recommending amendment of the speaker ban came as no surprise to Gov. Moore.

The committee chairman, William Medford, said a copy of the report was submitted to the govem(r on April 26. This Involved two reasons, courtesy and the fact that the governor is chairman of the University trustees.

Moore, recuperating frwn mumps, did not attend the meetog of the full board in Chapel Hill May 24 at which the Medford report was adopted. However, he was represented by his top aide, director of admlnistratkHi E. L. Rankin Jr.

Dankin, of course, gave Moore a full briefing on the trustees action immediately upon returning to Raleigh.

STATES The Medford report said the special trustees study committee, awwlnted by Gov. Terry Sanford in October, 1964, held four meetings. It .sought and thoroughly considered faculty, student and ad-ministratlwi opinion on the speaker ban and its effect.

In addition, the report said the cfflnmlttee had observed recent action by legislatures in five other states rejecting similar legislation. It listed the five as Ohio, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and New Hampshire. Actually there have been ix since ^ outh Carolina. legislature also, in the past few days, rejected a proposed anti-communist speaker ban bill.

So far as could be learned, committee officials said North Carolina is the only state with such a law on the books.

effects Consolidated University president William C. Friday was asked to outline what effects possible loss of accreditation might have on the University.

No one can say with certainty or finality, Friday said. But there would be question as to whether students tran.s-ferrlng from the University to an accredited school would be accepted, as to the effect of loss of accreditation on the Universitys profess 1 o n a 1 schools which are accredited by other agencies but in which accreditation is ba.sed on the basic, regional accrediting actions.

He referred to the poswlble loss of funding by federal and foundation grants, aaying there would be quqestlon, at least some further look at requests of the Univerrtty were in a so-called unaccredited posture. And he said the most severe effect of all very likely would be In the already very severe problem of faculty recruitment.

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The New Cowboy Scrip

Whenever I get tired writing about politics, I like to write a cowboy script. Ive been working on one lately about Lyndon Baines, the famous mayor of Great Bird Falls.

In the opening scene, t h e tall, kindly mayor is addressing the people in front of the Great Society saloon.

Now folks, he says, Ahm happy to announce that everyone is going to get more water, more schooling, and better medical care, and It Is my intentioh to see that Great Bird Falls becomes the most wonderful town In the coun-

says breathlessly, The Shaw-nees are fighting with t h e Blackfeet Indians, mayor. That's no concern of ours. the mayor says.

But the Blackfeet are being led by Apaches.

Apaches? says the mayor incredulously. How do you know?

I have the names of 53 Apaches here In my pocket who are fighting on the side of the Blackfeet.

,:.Whetsdid.,,ypu t h

list? the mayor wants to know.

It was given to me by the Shawnees.

The mayor Is grim. We have no choice but to send in the cavalry to protect the lives of the white women and children.

there are no white and children in the

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WASHINGTON (AP) -President Johnsons successes so far have been just the opposite of those of Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower whose most notable achievements were in foreign affairs.

There Johnson has run into frustrations in the two places where he has made his biggest pitch: Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. He has been fai more successful than Kennedy or Eisenhower in dealing with Congress,

Kennedy dumped progra m s on Congress but never pushed for them as Johnson has. Eisenhowers domestic record might have looked truly dismal If he had not had a cooperative Democratic Congress to help him.

Of the three men, Eisenhower by far had the wor.st time starting out. He inherited the Korean War and McCarthyism, and both were at their peak when he took office.

He got a truce in Korea and, after some bad months with Sen, Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Communist - hunter was eliminated as a problem by the Senate which pushed McCarthy into limbo.

It was rather calm for Kennedy, starting out, but he created a disaster for htaiself in no time by backing a Cuban invasion which never got beyond the beaches. This was the worst mistake in Kennedys presidency.

He made up for it: by forcing the Russians to pull their missiles out of Cuba, getting them to sign a limited nuclear testban treaty and creating the best relations with them since the cold war began.

By the time of his death in 1963 Kennedy was a highly respected figure around t h c world. But his record with Congress remained unimpressive.

Eisenhower did a few spectacular things, which turned out well for him, in foreign affairs. By being tough he stopped the British - French - Is raell invasion of EgjnH. although doing nothing when the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian revolt.

He put on a show of force, which worked, by ' sending ships and troops to save friendly Lebanon from being overrun by Communists or Egyptians; he discoureged the Red (Jhlnese from trying to t a k e Formosa: and in 1955 he held his celebrated summit conference which got much attention and accomplished little.

It wa.s p(Mhaps no accident that Kennedy's inaugural ad-dies.s in 1%1 dwelled almost

entirely on foreign problems, making domestic ones secondary.

Johnsons inaugural la.st January, not nearly so well written as Kennedys, was a bit of a mishmash, weaving back and forth between domestic and foreign affairs, full of pious aspirations, saying not much concretely on anj^hing.

In 14 months In office following Kennedys a.ssassination and before he took the oath of office for his own full four-year term, Johnson set a blazing record with Congress and continued it this year.

His foreign dealings in tho.se first 14 months were hardly more than an exchange of pleasantries. He concentrated on the home scene and the 1964 presidential race.

It was after his inaugural that he really moved into the foreign field, where his experience was least, although he, too, had inherited a war, the one in Viet Nam, where Americans were hot supposed to be directly involved although that was a myth.

When Viet Cong guerrillas blasted a U.S. air base Johnson put this country fully into the war by ordering the bombing of North Viet Nam, apparently with the Idea it would bring the Communist.s to t h e conference table, if not to their knees, to talk about an armistice.

It has had apparently no effect on them, although he has kept up the bombing since last Feb. 7, with the exception of six days. While there is no end In sight it will get Immeasurably worse if the Soviet Union or Red China move In.

Then, when the Domini can Republics revolution began, Johnson put the United States ivliolesale into the pr6blem to stop, as he said, the Communists from capturing the country. Since then his administration has been giving out word the Communists there are no longer a menace.

Johnsons aides have been trying to get both sides to agree to a eoaillloh gvfment. This has been a frustrating ordeal by itself, and even If a coall-tion government is set up it may not la.st long for the Dominicans f^cm split into factions group.s, and even individual hatreds.

(Richmond News-Leader)

In a recent speech before the Virginia Council on Social Welfare. Aridngtons Com m o n-wealths Attorney William J. Hassan bluntly criticized theories of juvenile court administration that focus more on rehabilitation than on prevention. If a case decided In Washingtons juvenile court recently offers any criterion, Mr. Has-sans critiicsm may have been altogether too temperate.

The facts of the case, as reported in the Washington Evening Star, were simple. On December 21 of last year, an intruder beat, strangled, and finally stabbed to death 45-year - old Jeanne E. Wright. Miss Wright, who had Just returned from a seven - year tour of duty with the Agency for International Development in Viet Nam, had purchased a home in the Capitol Hill section of Washington, where her assailant killed her. During the struggle, the killer cut his finger, and police followed a Trair of blood that led them to him. He is a 16 - year - old boy who stands six feet, two inches: he weighs 225 pounds.

The case came before Chief Judge Morris Miller of the District of Columbias Juvenile court. Judge Miller had the authority to refer the case to "

the District Court for a criminal trial: he says he reached his decision not to do so after considerable mental anguish. According to the Star, there were no mitigating circumstances in the case, but the judge decided against referral. Instead, he ordered the youngster to the National Training Schol until he reaches the age of 21. At that time, he will be discharged, whether rehabilitated or not during his four and a half years incarceration.

Judge Millers decision has been the butt of much crlti-and from the Districts anyP and from members of Congress, who understandably are concerned for the right of Washington residents to be safe and secure In their homes, even If they canT be safe and secure on the streets or. in the parks. The major goal of crime prevention and deterrence is to make crime unprofitable, especially murder and physical assault. The imposition of a sentence of four and a half years amounts to no more than a slap on the knuckles of the youth who committed a particularly brutal and senseless crime. The best interests of .society and of law and order are ill served when anyone, be he 16 or 60, gets away with murder.

But women aiea.

We'll send some in with the cavalry, the mayor says.

The next scene shows the U.S. cavalry riding up the canyon into Indian territory. They arrive just as the Blackfeet are about to attack the Shawnees.

The cavalry takes up positions between the two tribes and the colonel announces he has come to protect the lives anti* property of the White man.

The Blackfeet, furious at the interference, start sending up .smoke signals denouncing the U.S. cavalry and the mayor of Great Bird Falls.

The colonel demands that the Blackfeet surrender and give up their Apaches, The chief of the Blackfeet denies he has any Apaches in his tribe.

We anti - Apache. he tells the colonel. All Black feet want is freedom.

Tire colonel goes to see the chief of the Shawnees and asks him to give up, but the chief says the Shawnee are the only cmes who can keep the territory from going Apache. He demands the right to clean out the Blackfeet once and for all.

The colonel sends back word to the mayor: Cant tell the good Indians from the bad Indians. Please send instructions.

The mayor dispatches four deputies who meet with the chiefs and ask them to form a coalition tribe made up of Shawnees and Blackfeet,

Both chiefs say. Ugh.

In the meantime tire Blackfeet and Shawnees start taking pot shots at the cavalry. So the cavaliY starts firing bACk.

The mayor finally calls on the Organization of In d 1 a n Chiefs to help him out.

The grizzled chief of the Organization says to the Mayor. How!

And the mayor replies. Thats what the hell Ahm trying to figure out.

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Like any other state. North Carolina has its .share of die-hards and' bigots; but the state's record of voluntary adjustment to the middle of the 20th century i.s good and Im-proving all the time. Greensboro Daily News.

Victory

By JOHN chamberlain. Copyright, 1968. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Is President Lyndon Johnson, who acted with such commendable dispatch to forestall a Castrolte coup in the Domln-icaa Republlo, tbout to snatch defast in th Caribbean from the Jaws of victory?

This question was at once raised In Washington among knowledgeable Latin American experts when the news of the proposed McQeorge Bu n d y slate for a compromise Dominican government came through.

Since hypocrisy 1 of the very essence In the Dominican situation, nobody can be sure who will be representing what in any compromLve regime that Washington chooses to back. But the rebels." who, after all. distributed a huge quantity of small arms to some quesBloaalide elements in the first days of the pro - Bosch revolt, seem to be carrying off the truly Important offices in the so - called compromise government.

joim

CHAMBRLAJ1I

The Bundy decision, as of this moment of writing, is that Antonio Guzman, who was Minister of Agriculture in the government of former President Bosch, is the best the U.S. can settle for as head of a new constitutionalist regime. Nobody is accusing Guzman of being a soft - on-Communlsm man under Bosch, but the question of his ability to force economic reforms on the Dominican Republic has been raised by those who studied the audits of the Banca Agricola, on whose governing board Guzman has sat. By North American standards the mortgage loans made by this bank, with Guzmans imprimatur as a director, have not been exactly gilt - edge.

More importantly, Guzman, a.s Boschs Minister of Agriculture, loaded the agricultural extension service with numerous party hacks who, as thia columns anti-Bosch informants in Washington insist, had to be unloaded by Mario Mathis Ricart, who was Donald Reid Cabrals appointee to the Agricultural secretaryship po.st. The charge is that at least twenty per cent of the extension service agents originally hired by Guzman not only lacked any sort of farm expertise but were illiterate as well.

Coming down the line. Milton Messina, who has been slated to become the new Dominican Minister of Finance, has a background that include.s service as Dictator Tiiijillos Ambassador to Canada and as the Trujilllsta Secretary of State for Industry and Governor of the Central Bank.

This could be neither here nor there, for the Trujillo regime was served by honest men as well as by men of questionable standards. Mes.si-na might turn out to be the best Minister of Finance In the world. But the point made by Washington experts in Dominican affairs is that it is hypocritical to offer the proposed compromise government a.s being entirely devoid of people who had connections with the Trujillo regime.

Another hypocritical contention is that Colonel Loran Fernandez, who has been slated to be chief of staff of the armed forces in a Guzman cabinet, can be counted on to be objective in his proposed role of compromise army boss. After all. Colonel Fernandez rebelled against the authority of the Donald Reid Cabral government in order to serve as the dissident Colonel Caamanos chief officer. Thi.s means that the most important post in the proposed compromise cabinet is in effect being offered as a reward for rebellion. The hypocrisy In-(Continued on page 5)

Shakedowns That Cut Profits

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There is one thing you can say for those in charge of our federal government. They are running It like no-b<*dy's buslne.s.s. Alva (Okla) Review Courier.

By KI.MER ROESSNER

Old ships and free enterprise both suffer from barnacles. On the ship.s, clustered crustaceans slow the speed: on busi-ne.ss, the common shakedowns ' cut the profits.

Without these shakes, prices could be cut by $2 billion a year and profits could be increased by $1 billion. These are no statistics the totals are pure guesses. The act u a 1 amounts may be much more.

Here are the shakes or the bites, if you will In a descending order of Import-

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GANGSTERS ARMS

1. The crime shakedowns. These started on New Yorks lower East Side, where gangs crganlzcd dance, locally known as rackets because they generated so much noise and iusked neighborhood merchants to buy tickets. Those who declined found their windows smashed or their stores burning. The rest thereafter bought tickets and paid tribute to tiie rackets,

This technique has Irern refined infinitely since then. For

a dozen different techniques, ask a dozen different businessmen, first convincing them that you are not .starting a new racket. Each will tell you in confidence of some payments, small or large, to avoid trouble. These payments arc often a large part of their profits.

ELMER

ROB88NER

2. The union shakes, M'ost unions operate legally, but there are some that aie an offshoot of tire gangs. These demand money in various ways: a Btrlk unless the company hires a certain labor consultant: a ittrike unless some distributor get cxclUlfiVf' rlglits; a strike uiiIcsh certain sup<t-niimerarles are hired; that eer-tain people get busincts loaiui

and soon. Often the.'se racketeering union set - ups bleed members as well, and neither employer or employes have the guts to complain,

UNDER COVER OF LAW

3. Official shakes. In some cities you cant get a zone variance unle.S0 you hire certain friends of the administration as advisers. Other permits to continue business are held up unless the businessman hires certain people, or makes contributions to the prevailing party. Businesses that dont help the party, hire a few dumbbell party workers at no - work salaries, or cohtrlbute to the political coffers, may often find their trucks ticketed, fire and other safety summons slapped (m them, and their tax assessments raised,

4. Legal shakes. Frequently businesses will be hit with auto ticket, extra a.s.sessmenta, special taxes and other bleeding devices simply because the city fathers do not want to 10lax rates.

A.ssoclatloii bites. While III ^t as.soclaUons ar hard -\Muklng and slightly impovcr-i.'-hcd urganlzatloiis. there are

those that squeeze out alot of money from those in the industry. Busincsse are frightened into joining and into paying a-sse.ssments by warnings that the industry is in danger and that unless high - priced lobbying Is instituted, crippling legislation Is certain.* ________

The culprits in this situation, which exists In most metropolis, are not the racketeers, but the businesses that pay tribute. Every cent they pay to the collectors must come from the customers. These businesr-men are. the villains; the con-surpers are the vkstims. The. racketeers are simply the parasites that destroy the living flesh of trade.

(TfAfN OFFERS 25 PERCENT OFI- FOR CASH People paying cash to get trading stamps receive about 1 per cent of prloe paid hi premium merchandise. But a Norther California fumlt u r e chain is offering 25 per cent off for spot cash. It also offers 15 per cent off on limited budget plans, C.O.D. orders and char-gf'B. Furniture markups may be higher than we knew.