Betsy Reminds Segson Is Here

Tropical storm Betsy is roaring through the At* lantic with winds at this writing of 80 miles per hour.

Weathermen say there is presently no threat to land areas apd it looks as if Morth Carolinians w ill be spared the wrath of this storm.

It does serve to remind us, however, that the hurricane season once again is upon us. There will be pcrhap.s a dozen more of the vicious storms spawned in the hot southern regions before November.

Paths of the hurricanes will be closely followed by residents of this area and, indeed, along the entire Ea.stern seaboard. As always there will be the danger of one or more of the powerful storms crashing into the North Carolina coast.

Eastern North Carolina inhabitants should prepare now for that possibility. Civil Defenpe officials and public bodies should have their plans in readi-nes-s for the disasters which can be wrought by hurricanes.

Individuals should make certain they have the proper emergency lighting, medical kupplies, batten' operated radios and other equipment which might be necessary during a hurricane.

A number of the tropical storms have roared through this area in the past decade and residents do not have to be reminded that power and communications can be out for days.

Eastern North Carolinians have learned to live with the possibility of hurricanes in the past ten years. It is ea.sy to become resigned to them and fail to take the proper precautions. The time to get ready is now\

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All Estimates Point To N.C. Highway Needs

Gardner Sparks

!Rank And File

By WILLIAM A. NHIREIS

GARDNER- It la evidiil that elecUOD of energcUc, boy-Sab'loolting Jim Gardner of Rod^ Mount as new state Republican chairman was the stg-sl for a fresh burst of pditical acttvtty bs the GOP.

Gardner is not one to let things iust rock tlong for very long and he promised in seeking the chainnanship to try to new life into the Republicim rank and file.

Within hours after his selection by tlHf state OOP executive committee last weekend, he was busy outlining major goals for the 1966 elections.

He premised to find "attractive candidates" for every public offkse in the state.

He announced that a permanent state party headquarters would be set up in Rsl-eigh and that a fuU-ttme executive director would be SP-pointed to coordinate Republl* can party affairs.

APPEAL - Not to be overlooked either is the appeal that Gardner, a stauneh conservt-tive himself, may extend to the followers of conservative Democrat I. Beverly Lake to future state political campaigns.

Even before his election as state chairman. Gardner was hinting of the pouiNUty of m oclng some Lake Demcrata Into the RepubllcM fold.

R was aa invitation which became eves toai subtle alter the aigxrintment of Or. Lake to the State Supreme Cmtri last week had the effect of di-vorptng Dr. LMce from active politloal leadership.

BAST In additkm to similar conservative backgrounds. It wan also pitted out that die bulk of Dr. Lake's 217,000 votes for governor to 1964 came Irom Eastern North Canana, which is Gardner's home territory.

In fact. Dr. Lake made his 1964 announcement for governor on a stage in Gardners

hometown of Rocky Mount.

In light of aU this. poUUcal

observers were qutek to assume that much of the promised new Republican activity would be felt in the eastern eotmUei. This is a geographic area where Republksanism tradltion-aUy has betn weak, sometimes virtually-ncm-existent until recent years,

Gardner unckxibtedly wll! try to change this He points out

that despite setoacks from a statewide standpoint to 1964. the Republicans did register some unprecedented numerical gatos in the East. And now. he has become the first state Republican chairman from Eastern North Caroiina in many deeadcs.

DEPENDS - It waa being guessed too that Gardners own future poetical ambitions may hinge on l^w well he succeeds in rejuvenating and strengthening the state Republican parly.

Depending on how quickly Gardner can obtain results, there are th<MK who predict he may run again for Rep. Harold Cooleys seat in congress next year. Others feel It la more likely that Iw would wait, work to build a favorable statewide image and seek the governorship in 1968.

RACES Gardner steared clear of his own future political plans to diseussing more immediate GOP objectives.

But he did cite Cooleys seat as representative from the Fourth dlstriet reaching from Rocky Mount to Lexington and including Raleigh and Wake County as a prime target for the GOP next year.

In additioo. he {hedged a major effort hv the Repubticana to unseat len. B. Everett Jordan in 1966. Jordans Senate seat "definitely will be one of our major targets in 1966," be said.

Gardner feH that the? Republicans who now hold two oi the states 11 OngressiansI district seats would be atoe to wage creditable campaigns to the Fourth. Ftfth. Sixth. lOth and nth districts next year.

SCHEIDT Resigning state motor vehtolea (Mnnmlssioner Ed Scheldt was the first motor vehicles administrator in the nadon to receive the prised Paul Gray Hoffman award for distinguished service in the field of highway safety. Scheldt received this award to 1961.

Id addition, during Scheldts dosen years as DMV commiss-Umer. the North Carolina state highway patrol won more na-tkmal awards and recognition than any similar law enforcement agency in the country...

Scheldts decision to reidgn this. Fall, disclosed last weekend. came as a genutoe sur-pri'e to Gov. Dan K. Mcore who had hoped the veteran commissioner w<Hild stay on, . . Sources close to the governor said, however, that Moore is likely to accept the resignation with ragret.

INDUSTRY Capitol sources are lytng that one of the next major industrial locations to be announced will be to the Wilmlngton-Southport area, probably in Brunswick County, and wiU be a large, new addition to the growing complex of chemical industries in the Wilmington area.

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Those who may gtiil question whether North Carolina needs a major highway building program to meet its present and future needs should pay careful attention to eatimates being made by the U.S. Commerce Department.

In its report to President Johnson the department pointed out that during the next 10 years motor vehicle registration in the nation will reach 116 million. The department estimates some 97 million automobile.s and 19 million trucks and buses will be registered by that time.

Considering the crbwde conditions on some of North Carolinas primary and secondary roads now, it i.s not difficult to imagine what kind of situation will exist by 1975 if this state does not move forward with a major highway construction program.

The proposed $300 million bond issue for roads that will be presented to voters of the state in November will be a major factor in North Carolinas meeting its highway needs.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) -When Republicans get together, they don't \otk it. Their policy coordinating c(mimittee, meeting here tills week on how to win next fear, seemed a little uncoordinated.

Theyll have their hands full in 1966. At stake in the elections are 15 of the 17 GOP governorships, only M of the 33 held by Democrats.

In Cbnfress 14 of the 32 Republican Senate seats are up but only 19 of the 68 Democi?at-ic seats. In the House all 435 seats are at stake. There the Republicans now number only 141.

Some of the tbtogs Reputoi-cans have said and done this year give an Ineight into their atate of mind and the state of tile party;

Jan. 22 Hoping he could smooth things. Republic a o s made Ray C. Bliss of Ohio their national committee chairman to succeed Dean Burch. E^ry Ctoldwaters mui in 1964. Burch was pushed out.

March 28 "The Republican party to in bad shape," said Leonard Hall, a former GOP chairman.

desk and reading his corre-apcmdence. Kovac was ooe of the last of Ctodwaters allies left in the high command.

Kelly told the National Committee he br(Ae into the desk becauae he suspected Kovac of spying for Goldwater and that working at OOP headquarters was more dangerous than ftohtlng a war.

Jime 23 'The recently formed American CJonserva-tlve Union i^oclaimed it^lf a "think tank" to increase Re-pubiean seats in the House. Its leadership denied it was a splinter grcHtp.

June 29 Bltos, sound 1 n g less optimistic than on June 6. said the National Conunittee was "not cocky" about the partys chances next year.

July 28 - Denison Kitchell, president of Goldwaters Free Society Association, hit at two Republican governors, George Romney of Michigan and New Yoilcs Nelson A. Rockefeller. He said their party effcrts "have never gone much beyond service to their own ambitions.

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One Kina Of The Roac,

He gave every appearance of bei)% a vagabond as he walldsd in the store. His hair was kHig and Im was perhaps to his late twenties, but he was neat. He carried an army type field bag.

Apparently watching his pen-ntoi, he ordered a hamburger with french fries and slaw.

He seemed anxious to make conversation.

"Whos the tog boss?" he asked. The store manager turned around.

"That always gets their attention." he said with a satisfied grin.

The tog boss didnt seem inclined to make conversation.

Our vagabond turned his at

tention to the pretty y<Hing waitress. Shortly be knew she was a freshman in college and had a steady boy friend in another town.

Then came the pitch.

"How atKXJt a date?" he asked.

The waitress turned cold and let him know her Ix^riend wouldn't like it.

"He wont have to know," said the man.

It didnt work but if it bothered Mm. it failed to show. Soot he finished his meager meal, then with a smite and a whistle, be picked up his field bag and sauntered out.

called him h<ne the other day when she found a strange creature on the front porch.

Fred hurrl^ home to find a bat hanging over the mailbox Thinking the Health Department might be interested, perhaps because of encephalitis, he called them.

Fred Mattox said his wife

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JAMBB

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This Date-Ago Today 40 Years

June 9 Bltos predicted a 10 per cent boost in the partys strength in the next two year "if we stay united and do the job."

June 14 A GOP House leader. Melvto R. Laird of Wto-conaln. said hto group might end support for President John-ot's Viet Nam policy. But the Republican Senate leader, Ev-ett M. Dirksen of Illinoto, said hto group would "uphold the hands of the President."

June 18 Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, the H(Hi s e Republicans No. l man, said victory was in the air for the GOP. adding: "Were moving forward rapidly.

June 18 Bltos, complaining splinter groups drain off funds, said Goldwaters newborn conservative Free Society Association alll hamper the quest for party unity and money, Goldwater denied its a splinter group.

June 19 Ford, who smell-ed victory the day before, sMd he believed the two-party sya-tern was in jeopardy frcxn Jitonsons use of power.

June 23 Bliss fired h 1 s friend and aide, William Cody Kelly, after the GOP finance director, Frank J. Kovac, ac-cuaed Kelly of rifling hto

By JOHN G. DUNCAN September 1. 1925 TobaOTo Market Opened Here Teday

Local market breaks recOTd opening sale. Todays (rfferings total million pounds; grad e s poor and the average price around IS cents; other markets have large opening sales.

Public Library To Open New Quarters Next Wednesday Win OccuKf Room On First Floor Of Evans Street School; Hours To Be Prom 3:30 To 6 oclock

Dr. MlUer Will Preach Initial Sermon New pastor of the Christian Ci^iurch to begin work with local congregatlOT next week.

Mr. W. A. Vtnson Suffers Snake Bite Mr. W. A. Vinson to suffering from a snake bite which he received aa Saturday evening when assisting In removing an autonntoUe to the rear of his market.

He was bitten on the hand when he attempted to lift the rear wheel fnan the ground. Hto many friends will be glad to learn that he is gett i n g along nicely and will be able to get out today.

(The Chapel HiU Weekly)

I. Beverly Lakes appointment to the State Supreme Court to going to consternate almost as many peotoe as those who were appalled at even tile thhmest c2ianee he ever had-to beeoming Governor.

The first cry of anguhto and alarm that we heard was "A racist on the Supreme Court!" FoUowing that were dark mut-terings about a political payoff by (3ovemor Mootc.

Reactions of that sort are understandable. Dr. Lake was the clMuntoon of the States racist elements in the 1960 and 1964 gubernatorial primaries, especially to 1960 when tiie call for Segregation Forever seemed to be something more tluui a forlorn hope. In fairness to Dr. Lake, however, it must be said that he was as much a captive of the racists as he was their champion. He honestly wanted to keep white and Negro apart, but there is no evidence that he ever advocated setting one against the other. There to a difference, and more than anything else it was the inability or the unwillingness of Dr. Lakes followers to detect that difference that earned him the racist label.

RegardlBM of Dr. Lakes and Governor Moores indignant dtoclaimers, the appointment was, indeed, a political pay(^. Most gubernatorial appointments are. But there

to no reason why this appointment should, because of its political nature, arouse any more Indignation than other Moore appointments equa 11 y political.

More than a payoff, the lake appototment actually was a poUtical COTP. Governor Moore did discharge a heavy political debt and get Lake off his back. At the same time he neutralized the most powerful voice of arch-conservattom in North Carolina and left thousands of Lakers leaderless, at teast for the moment.

As far as hto performance on the Supreme Court to concerned, a good man fears might turn out to be ground-1^. Whether you Uke hto pol-itics or not and we never have Dr. Lake to a man of integrity and flinty honesty, not to mention his acknowledged legal brlUance. Besides that, he has profound respect for the letter of the law. It is hanl for us to believe that he would ever let hto political leanings or his peculiar view of the 20th century warp hto sense of justice or fuzz a point of law.

Beverly Lake has nev e r been a political leader that we could stixnach, and be probably never will be. At the same time, we have never been Innocent enough to measure a mans character by his posturing on the stump.

For a Supreme Court Justice. North Carolina could do a whole lot worste.

A lady answered the phone.

"What would you do if you found a bat hanging m your front porch?" Fred asked.

The lady gawed. "Id run like hell," she blurted out.

PYed deckted the heck with it and kined the bat with a broom.

Overheard on a local radio newscast: "Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Dean Martin are in their 48th orbit . .

They shouldnt require a man to annotmce those Dean Martin records and then turn right to the news.

Opinions .^n Brie:

"It looks now like the taxpayer will be the first ol Americas natural resources to be completely exhausted." Clinch <tounty <Ga.) News.

"A womans idea of traveling light to to have her husband carry all of the suitcases,"'Vinita (Okla.) Daily Journal.

"The high schools might erect a sign on the door inviting: Drop in. Cham-paign-Urban-^ (III.) courier.

"The rush of young men to get married to avoid or delay the draft merely shows that they prefer domestic to foreign wars.News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Ck>pyrigbt, 1965^ King Fixtures Syndicfito, Inc. V

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consign prophecies, ThC^other day, looking through it# J *was stj-uck by the nature , of the predictions made flv* and more yexrs ago about the future of the Soviet Union. Most people have been caught way off base by events, but one man, Richard M. Nixon (you may have b^d of him), looks pretty good after all tliese year. ?

The worst errOT was that of the COTtra] Intelligence ",/^n-cy, wfateb publttited a 9nst>ort In 1960 that the Gross Natienal Product U the Soviet t|Mon would isciease obcut |Eper cent amnially (toring the||^e-teep Sixties, enabling thJ average Soviet wOTker Itrhicitease his standard of Uvtng by jtwut 40 per cent over the "ieesent level." In making fts predictions the C.I.A. did what all economisig are prone to dp: it simply ^^iQiSato^extttiD g curvewT^ growUi and called the result a forecaM. Natiteal-ly the C.I.A. couldnt foi^e that Soviet Rusta would be

the victim (tf a big grain fam-lacF of

Ine in 1963. or that motivatoo aa the Russan.;eol-lective . farms wouM Jbrce Khrushchevs succ^iors, Brezhnev and KOsygin. to nutke huge wheat purchases from Canada and the Argentine in 1965.

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

ALVIN

TAYLOB

In 1960 Governor Nelson Rockefeller was predicting that rapid Soviet growth offered a serious challenge to the United States- Presumably he would have been astounded if he could have looked into a crystal ball and watched the Soviet planners wrangle in 1965 about pulling the Russian economy out of a taitopin. In 1960 Marxist economics was gcdng to "bury capitoltom; in 1965 the Soviete were turning rather desperately to something called Libermantom, a doctrine which advocated cpmpe-tt(m between government -owned plants for, the consumers favors. And there were efforts to 1965 to put some gumption into the Russian peasant by '^'ving him righto to his owv- id and livestock. Thus "cupping capitaliOTi" was in-fitrating the system which Rockefeller thought mtoht te giving us serious competitive trouble.

In 1957 Admiral William H. Standley, a former Ambassador to Russia, made a prediction that could be bad or good, depending upon ones interpretation ot the Admirals semantics. Said Stsmdley: "Of one thing I am positive, and that is that the deinocratic revolution in Russia to Inevitable and inu^tofnt, . .The free world sho^. iM ready for this exploaton ^-^od ^should align itself <s>enl^" dh Thfc side of the people. '

Wen, its 1965 wd the ex-plosiion'V hasaT hlteP^ned jret. On the other hima, Admir a 1 Standley was saying In 1957 that Mlkoyan was "the man to watch." He pointed out that Mikoyan had (mly join e d forces with Khrushchev at the time of Stalins death for the sake of "expedience, and that a showdown wwild probably come between the Khrushchev and Mikosran cUcjues. It didnt work out precisely that way unless you want to say that the Brezhnev-Kosj^in and the liikoyan cliques are cxie and the same, wMch to a reasonable enough intenuYtation.

Even tr the Admiral has been wrong about the democratic "explosion" in Moscow, he was right in suspecting that the Russian masses would for c e some kind of change. There may be no "democratic rev-olutliwi" In the Immediate offing. but there has been plenty of democratic sabotage on the Soi

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Course Deoends On Steel Action

Strength For Today

By earl L. DOUGLASS HARD LESSONS

The word "chasten" means to correct by punishment. The Latin words from which it (jomest really mean "to lead on to purity." A person to chastened who has learned something from hto mistakes.

There are millions of people in the world mho never learn from their mistakes. Somebody had it in for them. They were bom unlucky. Everyone turned against them in the day ahen promotion or advancement of any kind was at hand What can you do when youre not good looking? Money makes the world go round. My pockets are always empty.

Yes, ttere are literally mil-Horn of people in the world talking this way. They are "un-chastcned." Circumstances

have happened to them which might have turned them, fran mediocrity to greatness and they failed to see the significance of these circuntstances. Poor Abe Lincoln fallen in business. He lost by death the girl he loved. He his children die about him. Abraham Lincoln was certainly a (diast-cned man. He learned great IcssOTs from great circumstanc-ee many of them unfortunate circumstances.

God has no interest In punishing anyone. His only Interest to that men may learn, develop and grow. Punishment nuy be a factor of this devel<Hment. So may happlne.ss and success and triumph.

It would be lovely if life could be a bed, of roses, but remember that roses have thorns and undoubtedly for

By ELMER ROESSNER

The course o business in September will depend very largely on whether there to a st^ strike and how long it will last.

There is a suspicion that some steel companies would not be adverse to a strike lor these reasons: A, strike would dramatise the position of the steel companies and make customers accept a rise in steel prices more readily, since ex-penive steel to better than no steel at all. A strike would bring the White House into ne-ROtiatiOTs again and perhaps force the administration to agree to a price rite to satisfy union demands. And a atrik would cause .steel user to draw on their inventories, thereby bringing them back for reorders sooner.

The last to an important consideration, A.s pointed out here earlier, if there to no strike there wll be a dip in iaew orders as users draw on inventories. And a dip In new orders would cause many mills

to work far below capacity. Below - capacity production is often as unprofitable as capacity production to profitoble. LOST SALES, LOST JOBS Regardless of whether there Is a last - minute settlement or a postponement, the danger of a strike has cost the mills profit forever and the workers employment they will never regain.

Since the threat of the strike, steel users have been in-crea.sing importo from abroad. This steel, now in this country, will bci used because it to paid for. The American steel mills will never regain the profits they have lost to for

eign mills; steelworkers will never get back the weeks of woik they lost to foreign wix-k-ers. And the UJ. government will be l(ig in getting tmck the gold it lost because of the export of U.S, money to pay for foreign steel.

H the strike is not called, or if it to short, business generally should go ahead in September.

THE POST-LABOR DAY BOOM

\abor Day to late this year, caued by the return of a rest-postponing the after-holiday pickup of business. This to caused by the rctutn of a rested (7) executiye from vacations. and the stimulus provided by back - to - school sales, other school expense, including travel, etc. The eooler weather also acts as a business builder - upper; women content to lie on the beach In August will be hurrying to stores to shop for furs, refuni-ishing homes, filling fall and winter wardrobes and so wi. Money advertising and s a 1 e s

prcraras go into effect after Labor Day newspapers and magazines grow fatter with advertising and alls right with the world.

The increase In orders for defense items will be noted. This wUl tend to increase employment, txit it will not in-erease corporate profits Im-nK(|iately. Those profits tend to appear on books from six mOTtbs ta a year after con-thicts appear. Nevertheless.

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hew workers go on payrolls.

The shortage of skilled labor which this reporter seems to be the cmly <xie aware of will worsen in September. There are, of course, more than four million unemployed, but there are still many Jobs begging for trained pe(H>le. Big - city newspapers are carrying more help-wanted ads now than ever before in history, even dur 1 n g World War H. and the columns will grow in September.