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Inequities Are Not Overly Radical

The Fix-It Shop

We suspect that some metropolitan areas are putting too much stock in the so called benefits of the suit to reapportion the State Legislature.

Many are hailing the action as at last a chance to break the rural hold on the Legislature. After this is done, they say, bills affecting urban areas will fairly whii through.

Nobody can argue with equal representation, al-dK)ugh there are many good arguments for one house in the Legislature based on area representation.

In North Carolina, however, there has already been reapportionment of the Legislature, Pitt County, for instance some years ago lost one representative and more recently Greene County was combined with Pitt to form a senatorial district.

And so, while there are inequities, they are not so radical as some might hope.

North Carolina still has no major metropolitan areas and its population is relatively evenly spread across Its vast area. Furthermore many senators and representatives from counties with fairly large cities still have much rural

Special Session Before Sorina?

Ry WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SESSIONThere arc plenty of predictions already to the effect that a long-expected re-apportionment suit filed in federal court in Greenaboro last week will reault in a special session d the General As-sembly being called before next Spring.

The suit Iwought by a private citisen is aimed at obtaining a ruling that North Carolina must adhere to the U. S. Supreme Courts "one-ms n-one vote edict In electing its public officialsits members of Congress and members of the teglslature.

It is being predicted that if the three-judge fedend court hands down such a ruling, which it is likely to do. there would be no real basis for appeal and that the General Assembly would be forced to act. The only alternative would be to throw next years legislature and Congressional elec-tions open for candidates to run at large, without regard to district Unes,

WnXlAM

HIRES

The Virginia General Assembly has Just completed a brief, one-week special sea ion in which Congressional district lines were redrawn in that neighboring stateaccording to a ccHirt order.

BANThere has been plenty ef advance notice and warning that a suit to require re-apportionment of Oxigreaalon-al Districts and the present apporticmment of seats in the state House of Representatives was an eventuality.

The warnings, however, were vlrtuaUy ignored and the aub-ject was scarcely dlacnissed in official circles until last weeks court action at Greensboro.

The imiM*esslon among ob-aervcra in Raleigh has been that no elected or appointed member of the executive branchwished to take the Initiative in something so drastic as reapportionment.

After the 1963 General As-emWy bypassed the matter entirely, it became clear that Just such a private citizens suit would be tbe^next step sooner or later.

The fact that It has now been placed before the courts brings up the possibility that

another very controversial and explosive matterthe states Speaker Ban crisl*might also be considered by the same special session of the General Assembly.

RELUCTANCE - There has been understandable reluctance on the part of the incumbent governor. Dan K. Moore, and his top advisors to be forced into having to call a special sesidon on the leaker Ban.

Yet this has been a distinct possit^ty ever since Moore proposed In June that a special study commission be set up to Investigate effects of the 1963 Speaker Ban Law on higher education In North Carolina.

Some Moore administration leaders believe now that it may oe p<mlble to swallow two bad-tasng doses of medicine, reapportionment and amendment of the Speaker Ban, more easily than it would be to take either one alone.

In effect, some (rf the pressure (m the administration on either of th<Me matters may be reUeved if the court orders reapportionment.

STUDYThose close to the Speaker Ban study commissions work say It would be a mistake to feel great disappointment about the hard atands taken on the controversy at public healings thus far.

Actually, they say, this was about what had to be expectedthat neither side would retreat very far, if at all. In Its presentations on the issue.

It was, they say, the imr-pose of the public hearings to present rather extreme vifws on the subject. Study Commission members had felt it would be necesaaiY to define the extremes before attempting to find a middle groimd.

It was for this reason that study commission members themselves appeared at times to be aiding one side or the other in bringing out, by questions, the opposing viewpoint.

BOND ISSUEThe next major issue to be decided at the polls in North Carolina is the matter of voter approval of a $300 million highway bond issue.

Advocates of the highway bond issue are optimistic ab(H)t chances for its approval in a referendum wi Nov. 2. They feel the only danger lies in public apathy and a campaign is being planned to generate interest to a peak voting time,

This campaign will begin to gain momentum across the state in the next few weeks and gradually build up during October. Several thpmes will be usedeconomic development. highway safety and keeping pace with the rest of the nation among them.

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area in their districts. With an eye towards future elections they still have to keep tabs on the rural needs.

We believe that many In North Carolina have merely taken up the cry of the big cities in other states where rural domination is indeed a problem.

In North Carolina if rural domination of the Legislature is a fact, it may well be because this state has a rural dominated population. After all, many of those who live in municipalities were raised on the farms. Many still own farms or have an interest in family farms.

So we do rx5t expect major changes in the political make-up of North Carolina immediately, regardless of the outcome of the suit.

Depending on the urban growth which is part of a national trend, however, it could foretell vast, but gradual, changes for the future.

Large Auditorium Is A Commuity Asset

That $90,000 building program launched by the Greenville Moose Lodge was to be expected from an organization that serves such a large number of Pitt Countians.

With 1800-plus meml^ers, the great majority of whom are family men, and allowing perhaps four to the family ... It means 7,200 f ;s are-directly involved in their affairs.

They needed it.

But the fact of the matter is that many non-members find the lodge auditorium a great convenlerxe for large meetings and dances or parties. Year in, year out, this is true.

The availability of an auditorium that can meet the needs of a gathering of 800 persons should prove of Inestimable value to a great many people in Pitt County in many ways. It is a community asset that cannot be ignored.

Vote Blocked War Followec.

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) In two different places there was talk about letting the people vote on the kind of government they wanted. But that was long ago, and it nev e r happened. And now there is war in the two places.

Maybe there would have been these wars anyway, for they had other roots, too, in deep antagonisms and ambitions. And it doesnt make much difference now that the two leaders who said no to the vote of the people are both dead.

Their successors, in Ind 1 a and Viet Nam, have the same attitude.

When the Communist - led Vietnamese crushed the French in 1934 an agreement was worited out at Geneva with Britain, Prance, the Soviet Union. Red China, North Viet Nam. Laos and Cambodia taking part.

JAMEh

MARLOW

The United States didnt aign.'It was acting as ah onlooker. The agreement divided Viet Nam into North and south, with the Communists getting the northern part. The South Vietnamese were left to set up their own provision a 1 government.

But by 1956, according to the agreement which set down some other conditions also, all the people of the two Viet Nams were to be allowed to vote on the kind of single government they wanted for the whole country.

Meanwhile, in 1955 in South Viet Nam. a republic was created with Ngo Dinh Diem president. When the time came for that nationwide vote in 1956 he aaid no. His explanat i o n was that he had not signed the Geneva agreement. The United States, which hadnt signed. either, Nicked him up.

It was hardly his only reason. The Reds might liave won the election. The North Vietnamese outnumbered the South Vietnamese only by about 16 million to 15 million.

But the Reds had tight control over the North Vietnamese and a lot of sympathizers in South Viet Nam which, besides, was badly split into factions.

In 1958, about two years after the vote was to have taken place, the Red guerrillas slowly started their war against South Viet Nam. Eventually

they took over most of t h e countryside.

By the time Diem was overthrown and killed In 1963 the United States was well on Its way to getting up to its neck in the war, as it is now.

Indias Prime Minister Nehru, who died last year, had a problem similar to President Diems. India, while Britain held it, was made up mostly of Hindus and Moslems, with the Hindus far outnumber 1 n g the Moslems.

When India got independence In 1947, the minority Moslems didnt want to be totally dominated by Hindus. In the fuss that followed, a couple of chunks of India were broken off to become the independent state of Pakistan.

Theres still a mixup. In the Moslem-run Pakistan, with a population of about 100 million, about 10 million are Hindus. In India, with 450 million people, about 50 million are Moslems.

But one of the loveliest places In the world, Kashmir, became one of the sorest. There, wedged in between India and Pakistan, with 77 per cent of the people Moslems in a population of 4 million, Kashmir was run by a Hindu maharajah who tried to stay aloof from both India and Pakistan.

But when Moslem tribesmen from Pakistan poured Into Kashmir in 1947 and began looting and burning villages, he decided to join India which sent in troops to help him. Pakistan sent In troops to help Its tribesmen.

The fighting lasted a year until the United Nations got a cease-fire. When the shooting stopped one - third (rf Kashmir was on Pakistans side of the cease - fire line. The rest was on Indias side.

The United Nations suggested that all the pecle of Kashmir be allowed to vote to decide whether they wanted to join India or Pakistan. Nehru agreed provided Pakistan pull out its troops first. Paklst a n wouldnt withdraw unless the Indians got out.

Then Nehru suggested partitioning Kashmir along the cease-fire line, a move which would let Pakistan have only one-third while India got two-thirds. Pakistan refused, and for an obvious reason:

Knowing that 77 per cent of the people of Kashmir were Moslems, and assuming theyd vote to join Moslem Pakistan if given the chance, Pakistan Insisted they be aJlowed to vote. This went on like ping-pong until 1955.

Then Nehru switched and refused to permit a vote at all. The picking and pecking continued and now theres a war again, with Pakistan still insisting on a vote and the Indians insisting this is ridiculous. that Kashmir belongsto India.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LOVE REMAINS CENTRAL An American vMiUx: to China spoke one Ekinday morning in a (Chinese church. On the walls of the church were inscribed in Chinese characters. "God so loved the world that He gave his only begot ten Son. In the center of this inscription was a cross, and in the center at this cross was one of the Chinese characters. Upon Inquiry he found that this character mean "God so loved." This diinese congre-gttion had caught the Idea that God's love for mankind is shown forth in all Its spendor in tt)e cross.

The cross stands for love. The men who put Christ to death Intended that it should stand for hate and punishment; but God gathered up its

tragic circumstanoes and used them to show forth his love for mankind. The divine love was so great that the Heavenly Father was willing to give what even the best among humans hesitate to give, namely, the life of an only begotten son.

Throughout the ages men have been confused in their minds about what the cross of Christ means. All sorts of fin-tastic notions have arisen, and these have sometimes been set forth as true doctrine. B u t the New Testament makes the cross message very plain. The crucifixion of Jsus ChrLst was God's way of showing how much He caied for mankind. The Chinese congregatloii understood this when they put the words God so loved right at the very center of the cross. That is where they belong.

By ALVIN TAYLOK

Yes, You Con Move Out

Bancroft Moseley, Redevelopment commissioner, reported he was talking to an old gentleman In the Shore Drive area about moving to Kearney Park.

"Well they are pretty, pretty, pretty, the old man said, "but once you move in you cant move out.

He said he had moved several times "mostly at night Honestly you can move out of the housing project if you dont like it.

Most local people have become accustomed to seeing columns of smoke rising from the Shore Drive redevelopment area.

The houses are being deliberately burned by the fire de

partment to get rid of them and to give firemen practice on an actual blaze.

Authorities have concluded this is cheaper than paying someone to tear down the de-lapldated structures.

At any rate. Director A E Dubber reports that one emNy dwelling in the area caught fire on its own the other day.

People living nearby assumed it was being burned to clear the lot, so no one called the fire department.

They just let it burn, Dubber said.

"This house is not for rent, it reads.

Fellow entered a local establishment and ordered a beer

We got some idea of how critical the shortage is in the rental housing field here this time of year by the sign seen on an empty dwelling.

ALVIN

TAYLOR

Other Editors Saying

; Reviewing Leaf Program

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Is it stiU too early to assess the results of the new tobacco crop control system? At least four top tobacco officials dont think so, and they are enthusiastic in their praise for the acreage - poundage program. The consensus of these four men is that the new control program may have saved the Amerlcrji flue-cured Industry "From chaos and bankruptcy.

This may sound like unbridled enthusiasm, but there can be no denying that the tobacco Industry was in dire straits. Optimism has now replac e d gloom of a year ago. The four tobacco officials who were sounded out on their views were North C^arolina Agriculture Commissioner James Graham; Phil Hedrick, marketing expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; L. T. Weeks, head of the Tobacco Stabilization Corporation, and Malcolm Seawell, representing foreign manufacturers.

The four have forecast a new era of quality production and high prices for the industry. Improved quality was (me element most phases of the industry agreed would be the result of acreage - poundage control. As for prices, the average thus far on the Elastem Belt Is better than last years.

There were several reasons why the tobacco industry found Itself in trouble last year and had been for some time before that;

High wages and increasing production costs, unacceptable quality of the higher grades leaf to foreign and domestic

manufacturers, medium and low grade tobacco priced out of foreign markets, the hea 11 h scare, and soaring taxes on tobacco products.

Commissioner Graham points to the imesent improved situation. "A miracle of cooperation with the new program by thousands of growers whose opposition to the pn^ram did not lead to unfair advantage of it by continued producm of leaf qualities the program was designed to Umit, is the way he described it.

The four experts said the warehouseman was crucial to the success of the new program. Many had feared t h e card system of poundage allotments would be a complex headache and delay. This did not materialize.

Weeks put it this way: "No one can wholly explain our success so far with the first step in the program nor, confident as we are, entirely read our tobacco future as we develop it. One dramatic indication of the programs success was the aimroximately five per cent of tobacco going to the stabilization rather than seven per cent by the same time last ye&r.

Furthermore, prices are better, especially for sur p 1 u s stocks from recent years. In the foreign market there were problems. We were becoming increasingly overpriced in a steadily more competitive world market while the usea-bility of our leaf declined In terms of the needs of foreign manufacturers. Seawell explained.

and a toothpick. No, we didnt ask any questions. After all, it could have been a soda straw.

And how did your columnist know? We were there. And what were we having? Ha, fooled you! A sandwich ancl iced tea.

40 Years Ago Today This Date--

By JOHN G. DUNCAN September 15, 1925 U.D.C. Chapter To Sponsor A Little Bit Of Broadway'

Arrangements have Just been completed with the Misses Burkhemier, Playwrights and Producers of high class home talent production to present their brilliant musical comedy success "A Little Bit of Broadway for the benefit at the U.D.C. Chapter.

Mr. James Bailey Lovelace of Farmville, who recently passed the State Bar examination was on yesterday sworn in by Judge Bond who Is presiding over this weeks session of Pitt County Superior Court for the trial of CSvl Cases.

Mr, Leon Prosser of High Point, has accepted a posititm with Youpgs as advertising manager and decorator.

The Belvoir School opened its sectmd scBsion yester day 14. The enrollment this year is expected to awjropri ate three hundred and 25, a com slderablc increase over that of last year.

Mr. Marion B. Moore, of Wilson has accepted a posit i o n with the Greenville Drug Co.

Radical

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Feature!

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STRESA, Italy Denison Kitchel and W. J. Baroody turned up at the Mont Pelerin Society convocation of economists dedicated to the caue of liberty to explain their own Ffee Society Associatkw study group which they fexve founded in America mh the blessing of Barry Goldwateete 'The French. German, IkigUsh, Luxemburglan, Japanese, and Indian economists listened respectfully along with their American colleagues, but What they made of it must have been slightly confused by the mystification which 8(ane of them still express over the figure of GoMwater himself.

JOHN

CHAMBERLAIN

The Mont Pelerin group li dedicated to the cause of freedom from stifling econom i e controls in all countries. But the criticisms of "Great Society** type controls oHered by some of the French and English economists have tend e d here to move within a narrow range. Denis<m Kitchels pitch for a return to the tenets of the classical liberalism of the Nineteenth Century certain 1 y got across with the Europeans In the Mont Pelerin group as an objective for the long term, but their own contributions to the discussions generally stressed amelioraticm rather than outright aboUtlcm of the Wei- < fare State. The papers read on y the hopes for liberalization In I?, the Communist states of east- I-em Europe and the Balkans, not to speak of Russia itself, expressed no great hopes for anything more than the most superficial changes. And so far as western Europe Is concerned, the accent was on the mitigation of what the French call dirigisme, The recent return of several naticmal states to exchange controls had many of the European economists speculating rather ruefully on the chances for a quick spread of Mont Pelerin principles.

An economist from one of the smaller west European countries explained to me that Goldwater was thought tjo o "radical by some of his French and British colleagues.

But the "radicalism charge seemed to have more to do with fears of atmnic war than with anything strictly economic. With some Inconsistency this economist fr(Mn the imall country wanted it clearlji understood that the colleagues he presumed to speak for tend to resent America, not because it is too "tough in Its attitude toward the Commun 1 s t threat, but because it is not tough enough.

I pressed him on the subject of the Vietnamese war. He said the "common people. unlike the Leftist "establi^ment" which runs a good section of the press in Europe, think rather well of the United State! for trying to stop the Communists in Asia. As for the "uncommon people, my friend said America rated low with them because they felt that they had ben let down on many occasions by Washlngtwi.

The French, he said, still recall with bafflement the late President Kennedys stand on the Algerian questI(Hi. Belgians are still miffed because pf U.

S. participation in the UN war against Katanga in the Congo. (Jermans consider that wt might have stopped the building of the Berlin wsdl if we had only made a gesture in time with our tanks. So, now that we are encountering our troubles in Vietnam, these Europeans, while sympathet i o toward our soldiers as they suffer under the Southeast Asia monsoon, are perversely happy that We are getting our come - uppance for having let Europe down on all too many occasions. This is just human

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Studying Soles Goins Of 1964

The National Retail Merchants Association report today on merchandising and operating results for last year has five interesting facets.

. First, it shows that department store sales rose 7.8 per cent in li)64, and that specialty store sales rose 7.5 per cent over 1963. Those are substantial gains, and many other retailers, comparing their own figures with them, will wonder what they were doing wrtmg or right.

Second, since department and specialty sales appear to have been making even more substantial rises, especially since June, this year, these figures may indicate even more sizable gains for 1965.

'Third, the figures indicate that branch stores are outpacing downtown stores In gains.

Fourth, the 1963 gains in sales appear to reflect Increases In profits, meaning that many merchandising organizations .set new records last year.

Fifth, the pattern o gains throw an interesting light on trends in consumer purchases. TELEVISION GAINS TOP ALL

For example, sales gains In TV departments topped all other. The NRMA report shows that TV department sales downtown increased 17 per cent, and in branches, 13 per cent.

This is doubly significant because reports since midyear indicate a great increase In purchase of color TV sets, both downtown and in sur-urbia. This department may set still higher marks.

ELMER

KOESSNER

ches and jewelry In branch stores were up 17 per cent and only 12 per cent downtown, and even more significance in the fact that basement corset and brassiere sales in the suburbs were up a busty 17 per cent, but rose only 3 per cent downtown.

Sleepwear, gloves, hosiery and intimate apparel in basements sold 16 per cent more in branch stores, while only 4 per cent more downtown.

Also reflecting the trend in .suburban living were the fact that gift-wrap services and fur repair and storage were 17 and 16 per cent higher in branches, and only 8 and 4 per cent higher downtown.

The biggest drop downtown Was in women's better coats, down 12 per cent.

The second biggest drop downtown was in the Girl Scout departments, down 11

Luxury purchases are high. _____ _________^

In subui'ban branches, records^ per cent, and the biggest drop and accessories sales were up to 20 per cent and luggage up 15: downiown records

and accessories were up 11 per cent and luggage 12.

There may be some social significance in the fact that sales services of fine wat-

in branch departments was in the same departments, down 12 per cent. Obviously, the Scout! irent In there nwr-chandislng.

DONT LOOK NOW BUT A TAX MAN IS ' WATCHING YOUl

There Is little escape from state income or sales taxes, Commerce Glearing Hous# reports. Only Nebraska and New Hampshire do not collect these taxes and, in 1967, Nebraska staits a flat-rate income tax. Today 39 states and the District of ColumUa levy income taxes on indvlduals. corporations or both and 32 levy general sales taxes. JAMES BOND 007 GIMMICKS FLOODING COUNTRY Rushing to clean up befort the public tires of James Rond, a flood of new 007 products is about to sweep the country. There wUl be a new Une of 007 soft drinks soon, and chewing gum. toiletries raincoats and many more items. A Brooklyn branch of Costa Nostra Is reported to be offering Ucenaes to kill. 9-INCH CAR TV MAY BE REGULAR OPTIONAL ON FORDS A 9-inch Philco-Nomad TV receiver is being offered as optional equipment on I9<i6 Fords In the Great Lakes area at around $235. If the extra catches on, it wUl be offered in other areas by Ford, then by competitora.