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Young Bus Drivjers Proved Selves

. < For . at least one more year North Carolina is provide , the state with another year of remarkable going to ^ able to Boys and girl^ under 18 yeafs safety achie\ enicnt foi/its school bus operations, of age as school bus drivers.. - The Departjjient of Labor may find valid rear

, Approval by the federal Secretary of Labor sons ne\t \car or the year Ster to decline to give

to use drivers under 18 for one more year is a tir North Carolina an exemption so it can continue to bute to the safe driving record of literally thousands use youngsters as school bus drivers. But when the Aof youngsters who over a period of years have driven department declines to grant the exemption, vveM North Carolinas school buses.. This year more than wager it will he on some grounds other than the 5.600 of the 9,200 school bus (Jrivers in tlie state are safety record that has been achieved by these re-16-and-l 7-year-olds. Like those responsible .voung .sponsible young drh^ers citizens of similar, age who previously have driven

chool buses, these youngsters^an he expected to . ' v ,

Giant Oil Tanker Has Rore Morch By proven it Can Be Done

N.C; Unionists

By WILAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raieigb Bereau

RALEIGH-5eldom if ever had dwmtown Raleigh seen anything like last weeks mass demonsb'ation and march by trades union members.

It was the largest and best organized in the memory of longtime Raleighitesand carried possibly significant political overtones. .......

WILUAM

SHIRES

Principally, the demonstra-tioo was aimed ata large public utility company, Carolina Power and Light Co., headquartered in Raleigh. CP and L serves most of Eastern North Carolina, part of SOUTH Carolina and an area in western North Carolina with elect: fic power. It recently contracted with a Texas, Brown and Root, of Houston for an estimated |1 billion worth of new generating plants and fad lities in five North Carolina localities.

workers union, labor groups In the Carolinas protested that the CP and L action would be a severe blow to organzed labor in this area. They charged, through newly elected stat

crowds lined the sidewalks, linionists passed out nearly mineographed sheets, asking questions such as;

Why shouldnt these millions of dollars being spent on ' these plants stay in North Carolina instead of going to Texas?

A committe of union leaders then went to the CP.SL headquarters to submit a list of requests. A union official charged that the top echelon of CP&L officers had refused to meet vidth the committe.

POLITICAL-Eight or 10 ahrest they marched, block after block, carrying signs with political connotations and chanting and shouting the sam The chant at the Insurance Building was >we want jobs. The speakers said pointedly that we want corporate interests and the politicians of this state know we are unfied Beyond the Insurance Building all the way to the Capitol and around it, the chant was wheres Bob Scott?

Gov. Bob Scott was not in his office, having previous

With the impending success of the SS Manhattan, one of the long held dreams of the New Worid has been accomplished.

The 1005 foot ship broke through the ice of the Arctic Circle and info open seas. Thus it accomplished what John Cabot set out to do ip 1498.

Humble Oil Co. financed the trip in order to pro\'ide a shorter route to- the Alaskian oil fields and thus cut thousands of miles off the trip. If other voyage^ prove practical the sarings for shipping oil from Alaska could beJiig.

li- will be some time before all the data of the ^jtrip is analyzerl and it* is determined whether it is desirable to build ships for making the trip on a i*egular basis. .

For now, however, it Is safe to say that another frontier has been conquered. No doubt there will be many problems to solve before the passage can be used effectively,* but the crew of the Manhattan has shown that it can be done.'

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, NEW York (AP)-what do you collect?. Stamps? Cqina? Old silver? Memories? ' Memories are the best of all things to collect. They have several advantages over other possessions that people prize add save. A

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They never decrease in intei^ est, they can be shared with other people without diminishing their value, and you dont hav to put them away in a costly safe-deposit box, as you do diamonds. to protect them frqm thieves.'

Many folks might envy your precious store of meniories; none would be so heartless as to wish to steal tljem from yoii.

And your album of memories is pretty extensive if you . can look back and remember when

By JAMES KILPATRICK

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The remnants of the Kennedy politi-tical apparatus are determined to oppose any national political ambitions of Sen. Fred

South Is Kicked Arounc

Harris of Okahoma,''*Demo-committment to attend a meet cratic National Chairman, as ing of the executive Iward a result of bizarre maneuver-

of the University of North Carolina li'ustees. Sevejl top state administration aides, however, argeeJ to meet with the union representatives, SIGNSCertainly ie massive demonstration indicated the growing strength and political awareness of the labor movement in North Carolina.

ings last month over the party debt.

The Kennedy men feel Harris attempted, unsuccessfully, to renege on a promise to pick up the Presidential campaign debt of the late Robert F. Kennedy after Sen. Edward M. Kennedys politically catastrophic accident.

Hobby of Durham, that the er impressive. They were zeal-Brown and Root company is ous and detremined, but en-

The number n marchers were inexcusable and irredee-

mable.

Tlie story begins in January

anti-union and would bring in scabs and unskilled workers to take jobs which belong to building tradesmen in the Carolinas

MARCHThe marchers, at least 5,000 strong from all across ^ state, gathered at MemoriaT Auditorium at the foot of Fayetteville Street.

At first they had permission to march wily as far as Davie Street, where CP and Ls executive offices are located in the Insurance Building, one of Raleighs tallest structuresv I.ater, city authorities waived a five-day request requiremen and permitted a march all the 'way to the State Capitol and around it. The marchers stopped for a-while at the Insurance Building shouted chanted and waved signs and union officials made speeches explaining the protest. It was nearly noon and lunch hour

tirely orderly. Raleigh city police and Capitol police reported no incidents. At the same time, the route of march and the Capitol itself were well policed.

Signs with polilci alover-tones carried by dozens of marchek included these:

Vote No on sales taxes Nov. 4 a referance to voting in local county-by-county re-

when Robert Short, then Democratic national treasurer, proposed to a meeting of the National CommiXtee that it assume the Kennedy campaign debt (as well as Hubert Humphrey's pre-convention debt). In return, the National Com-

Harris changed his mind.

Alerted by their friends on the executive committee, Kennedy lieutenants frantic-cally sought sought Harris on Aug. 1. Their telephone calls went unanswered. Instead acting treasurer Bat O

Connor suggested to them that in view of the familys latest tragedy the family might want to bypass questions of political finance. The Ken-ne(ly men replied heatedly this was not the case.

At the luncheon break, three pro Kennedy members of the executive committee

Evers, Stephen Reinhardt of

California, and Mildred Jeff- ^ r Tx

rey of Michiganwere ready [ jf TOT ^

to inform Harris they would raise the question of the Ken-

Reconstruction came to an end in the South, or so the history books tell us, during the reign of Rutherford Hayes some ninety years ago. But there are times, honest to Pete, when Southerners wonder if the South ever is to regain an equal standing in the Union.

There is something about the South, apparently, that

You could write your congressman a penny post card telling him why you didnt think he was worth 2 cents.

About the only people who wore wigs were Shakespearean actors.

You saw more white horses on the street than you did men with

draws an unrelenting anathe- We are witnessing the syn- . bards. ^ .

ma from the North. Old aboli- drome just now in the nomina- Before .

tionists never die; they write tion of Clement F,. Haynsworth P

on for The New York Times, to the Supreme Court It is

entirely proper, of course, had brought American cultural

that the Senate Judiciary hiriory to a new low.

Committee inquire into his The most common household qualifications. No one is sug- tools, for hndgmg the generation gesting that the Senates duly Sap wer the hairbrush and the to advise and consent should old-fashioned raziM* strap, ap-be treated in perfunctory fash- phed loyally as required. You ion. But the noxious clouds of could kiss a pretty gcrl at a

It has only to be said, or hinti ed, that a particular program oor appointment may be pleasing to the South-the conservative South, that isfor the

program or appointment to be damned out of hand. As a Southerner, I protest.

ccomplaint against this appoint* church social for a dollar or less ment have litUe to do with -and not feel short-changed. ,

Say

nedy debt during the aftermoon session even if he would not. But at that point, OConnor averted the confrontation by announcing that details with Steve Smith had been worked (mt after all.

As a result, the executive

U.S. Subsidies Fai

< Henderson Dispatch) Speaking at a seminar on Latin America in Mexico City Iraho, said the Alliance for Progress fostered and subsi-

qualifications. The objection. One of the big thrills of boy-

at bottom, is that Haynsworth hood was getting a job clerking

is a Southerner- a moderately in a grocery store on Saturdays-conservative Southerner. That and learning how to perch a is enough. Lynch him! pencil on your ear as if you had ^ 1 V. done it all your life.

Thus, an entirely phony always kept qnough

challenge is raised that Hayns- ^ ^ide

ratholes, with more enemies worth acted unethically by not - ^ g_ gftV financial

than this country has ever at- desqualifying himself eight

tracted before. ' years ago when the great payday.

The Alliance for Progress Deering MiUiken case imt ^ barbershop quartet could

was spawned in the theory came to his Circuit Court. The j^armonize the strains of Old

mittee wouW get tiie services committee unanimously voted dized by the United States in that lasting friends could be charge is baseless. The Fourth j^g.. worrying

of the party s greate^ attrac- to add the nearly one million central and South America made in Latin America by Circuits major opinion in the ^^g possib lity theyd cite

tinn and fund-raiserTed Ken- rfntlar Kennertv /loh* anH ho X___I______ I__ij___1.____rwia,*tnrr lUillilren lllmaflnn

tion and fund-raiserTed Ken nedy in erasing therstupen-

terendums this Fall on whelhe Pt^nvenUon Humphr-

to levy.an addittional one per

cnt local option sales tax for local governments. Each county will vote on the question.

The bitterness which brough so many men,, women, and children to Raleigh to protest. however, was best summ-. ed up in the signs which read: Pay youtj light bills to Brown and Root in Houston.

And, TVA instead of CP&-L.

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Kennedy emissaries readily agreed to the deal, and it was to be formally approved .at the next meeting of the executive committee of the National Committee. But that meeting came on Aug. 1, two weeks after Kennedys accident. In the minds of hard-headed politicians, Ted Ken-had simply disai^ared.

Without notifying Sen. Kennedys office, Harris removed the proposed assumptiim of the Bobby Kennedy debt from the agenda.

Kennedy partisans on the executive committee were apoplectic. They were unsatisfied by Harriss explanation that the National Committee had not pinned down arrange-ments with Stephen' Smith Kennedy brother-in-law and fund raiser, during nearly seven mwiths since the January meeting of the National civil rights leaader and National Committeeman from Mississippi, vowed he would stage a sit-in at. national party headquarters unless

dollar Kennedy debt and the over one million pre-convention Humphrey lebt to nearly $6 million owed by the Humphrey general election campaign.

But bitter memories linger. Kennedy men could forgive Harris for supporting Humphrey instead of Bobby Ken-'ne'dy for President but not for what they consider a low blow at a time of deep trouble for the Kennedys. He is on their black list.

Devious Daley

Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago showed last weekend in his handling of ttie reform Democrats picnic at the Libertyville, HI, farm of the late Adlal Stevenson that he remains a maslter of the devious. I

With a full'complement of nati(ial and state ^anti-Daley Demcrata fheaded by Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota) scheduled to attend, Illinois organization Democrats sought guidance from

i.s a failure. This country has dishing out cold cash or its pumped $8 billion into that , equivalent in military or civil-area in recent years, and the ian aid. After all that has

Deering MiUiken litigation came in November of 1963.

net results are that 140 million more people are under military dictatorship than before. Democracy has been kicked out the window as dictators seized control of governments and have liyed off the fat of the land, including U.S. aid.

The overall picture is not too different in other parts of the wiffld where American altruism has led Awn a blind alley to a detu end after more than $100 billion dollars has been squandered around the globe in an effort to make the worid safe for democrat^. Seldom ever has free government been in greater jeopardy in more places than it is today.

In the light of these fallacious experiments this government still has not learned the lesson. Hundreds of millions of dollars are still being appro

priated annually by Congress Sema7onDaleyliidsed''thev subsequently poured down otherwise? Daley stalwarts such as state house Democratic leader John Touhy and city treasur-(CoBtinoed Oo Page I)

a race riot.

. . .. It wax taken for granted that

Haynsworth did not write gumptiim would be

the opinionJudge Albert ^vanderlust and try

Bryan wrote it, and Judge ^ ^

Herbert Borernan concurred. birthday.

- ------ ------- other judges dissented, gj,.]g

through in good tipies or Haynsworth s portion on the ^eath their dresses were, at

crises. Instead of . making law and the evidence was In igggt three times as long as the

friends in Central and South ao way irrational; it was a miniskirta they wear today.

America, the opposite is true, position shared not only by g |gj.gg family mother

Bryan and Bpreman, but also review at the supper ta-

by two membra of the Na- gj^g yying the day of

tional Later Relations Board gg^j, gf ^,g gf^.

and by-the Boards own trial g^ gternly in turn at

examiner. gggj, squirming culprit, would

Haynsworths critics know finally lay down his knife and

that their charge of a particu- say, For Petes sake, cant all

lar conflict of interests is this wait until a man finishes

flimsy. Thus they were seek- eating?

ing, last week, to puff It up to Film star Marion Davies

a more general charge that started to build a $7,500 beach

HaynswOTth is Mr. Textile home at Santa Monica in the

tatereste. These are the same 1920s, and finally wound up with

critics, by and large, who a $7-million showplace staffed

smiled benevolently in other by 32 servants! ', ^

days upon.fhe nomination of You could take an 'evening

Arthur Goldberg and Thur- stroll in almost any section of a

good Marshall, There are city without fear of being

times. In Washingtons, politi- mugged. * , . '

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been done, we are left holding the bag, with scarcely a fast friend anywhere in the world that would follow

Yankee, go home' is frequently heard from disillusioned masses who were supposed to be helped from American generosity which was siphoned off in large measure by unscrupulous leaders.

The lesson that should be learned is*that of halting efforts to buy friends, who, once they have received thete gravities, turn sour and become enemies instead. Of course, the Alliance for Progress is a failure. It offered relatively little to begin with, and did any one beyond the ranks of politicians think

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Doctrine And Life

The Word doctrine means truth. Some folks who believe themselves to be hard-headed realists scoff at the whole idea of doctrine and instat that religion is purely at&atter of ethics. What kmd of life do you liv? Give attention to * these things gnd the theori)s about life and religion can be brushed aside.

But can they? Every policj* We pursue must have behind it a reason. If we give ourselves to the living of a good and i^seful life there must be a reason why we do this, and that reason is a philosophy,^'^ theology, or' Just the plain dictates pi common sense.

It is amazing how many peqple -are, wiling to admit

the necessity of * theory in the necessity of theory in

scientific procedure, government, business policybut not in the field of religion. B practical, they say. Keep your ..life - free of evil, your emotions free of hate and self-ishness-and that is enough for any sensible person. Th living f a good and usaful life la the only thing worth while. Ut up on the theories about lifeabout heavdn and earth, man and God. Be prat-

icat. '

, But this strange kind of reasoning, if indeed'It can be called reasoning at all. Every act in life must have behind H a purpose, else we arejus^ throwing our weight about.' In every aspect/of life we should be able to give an account of how we live and thin]^ as we do. And this is theory

By ELMER ROESSNER

Who benefits from percentage depletion? You do! headlines advertisements of the' Petroleum Inforniation Committee, one of the cells of the oil industry fighting to persuade the Senate not to go along with the House proposal to cut the oil depletion allowance from 27H to 20 per cent. _ ^

The oil industry is fighting ^perately to keep this golden ivHOT on the statute books. Its advertising agencies are wwk-ing overtime, the smoothest publicity organizations have been retained, and its lobbyists in Washington have been getting shots of adrenalin. Millions, perhaps a billion or so, is at stake. '

But the argumcpt in its nfew advertisements are sound. Who Benefits? Who Pays?

er oil. . .Someone has to pump oil out of the ground, get it to the refinery, make it into gasoline and other pro-dijcta and distribute it. Then, anjd only then, can you fill your tankr Riidit. _ '

And for th, the advertise* ment goes on,- someone has to put up the money and It implies, they wont do It unless, they are induced to do, it with a depletion allowance , that' permits them to escape alot of income taxes.

Right.

. The argument is sound. If-oil companies did not get the 27t per cent allowance, thky would have to Increase their prices, it says by implication, or prices would have to be raised to keep oil exploration and development profitable^ Right. ' '

Applying The Same Theory

increase prices to maintain pre sent profit levels, which arent bad.

And since that is true, if other industries were granted similar tax conces8ion.s, they could lower their prices.

necessary theory.

By Earl L. Douglas.s

Someone has to lortt for It is cfftein that if thfr -oil

oil.. .Someone has to drill h*" oil . /.Someone has - to discov-

industry was dented fliix tax concession, it would have to

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because the co^t of food is so jiigh and rising, it might be argued'that'aunermarketa and groceries shou d be given a depletlMi allowance, or some other comparable tax concession. If they did not have to pay. federal takoa onttete-

profita, they could lower the price fit iood aoti atiti luake

as much money,

TMs can be ^extended to state and local taxes: If sales consumers woiild get mor# for their money, sinee sales taxes, like depletion allowano es, are part of the price consumers pay.

. In fact, every tax levied on businesses, whether on profits, on sales, oo .curb cuts or on awnings over the sidewalk, are eventually paid by customers.

This brings.up a brtvlously mentioned subject: If depletion allowances are granted oil companies, why shou' they not be granted to sup markets, cteffllii| atores, Jei ers and pet shops? Ai . above all, why should thav in ^ual justice be griRtid individuals, who daily d^)! the days of their life in ea ing money to eitpj^ tin eelvas, their familtei 4 th myriad of federal, state t local governments?

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