Wednesday, October 6, 1965

An Extra J^ffort For UF Success

In The Midst Of Plenty

Pitt Countys United Fund drive is underway with high hopes of completing it within 30 days.

It can be done. ^

There are few these days who fail to see the wisdbm of conducting one fund drive for a number of non-profit, non tax supported agencies.

The drives in previous years have inched along over a period of months, at times, but generally they have been successfully concluded. If the goal can be reached in three months there is no rea.son why it cannot be reached in four weeks. In the process \^'.there will be less wear and tear on all the voluhteer.s w;ho^v<wtirjbme their time and efforts to make the Unite^,jind campaign a success. "

o when you are approached by a United Fund worker, give.him your courteoius atteiltidn knd make a generotts^^ontribution promptly. Remember he is giving of his time to make the campaign a success.

Remember, too. that United Fund contributions go to .support such agencies as Boy and Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, Red Cro.s.s, Association of the Blind,

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Insurance Laose

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

LAW Even If you dont plan to drive the old fishing J^opy again until next summer or want to park the pickup behind the bam for a few months, it may be wise not to let your liability ineurance lapse.

If you do, you maj not be driving anything for a while youll mn the risk of l(ing your drivers license for SO days.

How abovt the familys sec-<Mid car, or any other vehicle now registered or required to be registered and insured?

Whether its telng driven or left in the garage, the sam tough new state law on recertifying motor vehicle flnan-cila responsibility^ apparently applies. /

This law, enacted ^y the 1965 General Assembly, 'Wot,4tjto^ effect quietly a few days ago, and i^ready is causing plenty of confusion and headaches.

REQUmsS The Insurance Industry, for example, is concerned about whether the public fully understands the law (m ic-certtficatton. and the conse- ^ wences of n<g; (Mxnplying.

In effect, the law requires that proof of motor vehicle f 1 n a n c i 1 a leeponsibillty be maintained continuously on each registered vehicle.

Otherwise, the registration plate must be turned in>~or it will be picked up and, under new mandatory provisions, the owners North Carolina operators license suspended for 30 days. ^

At any rate, apparently, there will be a lot of led tape and much explaining to do if the liability coverage lapses.

NOTICE A provteion of the law requires insurance comi;Minies to give 15 day notice to the department of Motor Vehicles before cancelling or termixiatlng a liability policy, and immediate no-tiflcatlott if such policy is cancelled by the insured.

In such cases, DMV will then notify the owner that the law^ requires i-e-certiflcatlai of his financial respw'.sibillty within 15 days or surrender o the license plate.

It require rc-oertiflcatlon within 15 days of the DMV notice, or within 15 days of the

insurance tor m i n a 11 o n date, w'hlchever is later. The re-cerUficatlon must be to the effect that other liability Insurance coverage is in effect on the termination date shown.

DMV send along a form for applying for re certification which involves fees.

TEETH Under the new act, failure to re-certify within 15 days that the owner has financial responslbURy Is inlma facie evidence that none exists.

And what puts shsup teeth into the law is provision that unless the registration plat^s returned to DMV prior to the insurance termination datCy^ revocation of it and suspeifiiibn Of the owners dri^VIIcense for 30 days is mandatoiV.

In addition, rc-llcenslnf (rf the ) vehicle is permitted ioy 30 days afte the pla^ is received'by-TPiMV and th|e v^cle "^may not be licensed W close relatives. The owners driver'.^ license will be returned automatically 30 days after It is received by DMV.

WORKING - The new re-certificatlon law was drawn up and Introduced by Sens. Jennings King of Scotland and Sam Bason o Caswell after testimony before a Senate committee that as many as 100,-000 motorists may be operating vehicles on the states highways without liability insurance In force.

This testimony came from Poy Ingram, director of the r^istratlon division of DMV and whose division Is responsible for implementing the new law.

Miss Ingram says "it is too early to tell how the new law is working or to furnish any figures on how many notices her division has mailed. She indicated that a number of le-regls t r a 11 0 n - revocation, license suspension cases are being processed but that few. if any. have "reached suspension stage."

"We are getting scads of mail." she ^aid, "There is a lot of work, and problems. But thats all I can tell you."

PROCESS There is administrative provision on the DMV notice which permits a notified vehicle owner to explain why registration of the vehicle is not required. In such cases, the notice is cleared without further action.

A memo frem DMV commissioner Ed Scheldt, dated August 16. and subsequently distributed to all Insurance companies adds that when switching coverage trom one company to another with no lapse in coverage subesquent DMV action may be offset by filing a new (PS-1) certificate along with the not^ of termination, or by filing the PS-1 in advance of termination.

Trainable School, Mental Health Association, 4-H Club.s and Carolina.s United which include.s 12 state and national aiencie.^.

There is hardly a citizen in Pitt County who cannot look over that list and find at least one agency he would want to support with his dollars.

This' year let us exert an extra effort to make the United Fund drive a success. More particularly^ let us reach the goal before the m6nt d^^ is out. We will all feel better if we do.

Should Use Street To Avoid The Congestion

We have always held the firm belief that broad, paved, curb and guttered streets should be used to move automotive traffic occasionally, if not regularly.

Consequently it is a mystery to us why the across thoroughfare leading from Charles Street tp^ the Ficklen Stadium area was not opened Friday night. .

We can .see the desirability of blocking the .street day in and day out since there would be little reason for autos to be driving into the athletic area.

But, on the other hand, there will be only nine occasions this year when the street, which cost thousands of taxpayers dollars, will be needed. Friday night was one of them.

It was perhaps the biggest home football game of the year for Rose High Schoolwhen it was playing Washington. An enormous crowdfor a high school gameturned out. Traffic was backed up on Berkley Road and 14th Street and we have no doubt countless autos tried to enter the stadium" area through the access road, only to be turned back by the barricade. Then they joined the crush of cars attempting to enter the parking area through Berkley Road.

We have no idea whose responsibility it is to open the main road to the stadium parking area on football game nights, but someone should see that it is done, whether the high school or the college is playing. It is a simple act and it would solve a tremendous traffic problem.

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By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

WASHINGTON (AP) - Three recent legislative setbacks for PrMident Johnson one of them a major defeat have started administration congressional leaders wondering if it isnt time to adjourn while theyre still ahead of the game.

After nine months of docility during which key parts of the Presidents program were enacted with votes to spare, the legislators are showing signs of balkiness. They already want to go home to sound out sentiment at the grass roots level.

Many of them are chafing at repeated Republican ta u n t s that Johnsons first Congress since his election last year has been famous for its willingness to rubber - stamp White House legislation.

There are Indications that Republicans, outnumbered more than 2 to 1 in the House and better than 3 to 1 in the Senate, plan to stress the "rubber - stamp charge In their bid to regain seats in the 1966 congressional elections.

Disclosing plans for a slowdown of the legislative machn-ery in the next few weeks. A high Democratic leader summed up what apparently 1 the thinking of many of his colleagues.

The animals are getting restless," he said. "They want to go home and find out firsthand what their constituents are thinking. A few more setbacks like weve had In the past few days might persuade the President to suggest that we call it quits while we are way ahead in the win column.

Several major decisions to be made by Congress early this month may detennine the adjournment date.

The House will vote soon on a Senate-passed highway beautification bill. This is on the Presidents "must list and Is a pet project of his wife.

The bill barely cleared the Rules. Committee last week. The vote that sent it to the floor was 7 to 6, with two opponents absent.

"Right now we dont have the votes to pass it, a Democratic leader confided. "We may not have them later, but the President wants action.

Behind the highway bill on the House calendar is a Johnson - backed measure to braod-en'v coverage of the minimum wage law. In the face of thra-tened defeat. Its sponsore already have agreed to sea 1 e down a proposed wage boost In an effort to attract more

support.

Another labor-backed bill Is in deep trouble In the Senate. R Is a House-passed measure to negate state laws that prohibit union shop clauses in labor contracts. Senate leaders may not be able to break a filibuster aimed at blocking a vote on the bill. The measure is being pushed hard by the administration.

^ The firat sign of an Incipient rebellitm on Capitol Hill came last week when the House defeated the Presidents proposal for home rule for the District of Columbia. A plan opposed by the administration was substituted 227 to 174 despite compromise offers, by the administration.

The defeat was more galling for the President because It took a lot of White House arm-twisting to persuade 218 House members to sign a petition that forced the vote. Many members privately voiced resentment at the pressure tactics.

The House followed that slap at the President with another jolt. Over White House opposition It sent to the Senate by a vote of 370 to 7 a bill to give federal employes a pay raise that would cost $1.5 billion over a two - year period. The President, favoring a more modest Increase, descibed the bill as "disastrous.

While the Senate may try to pick up some of the legislative pieces, the mood of the House is not good. Many members feel that they have done enough for one session and its Umc to go home.

If they keep feeling that, the session may end soon with some major legislation shunt e d aside as unfinished business for next year.

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When a man losea an argument with his wife it doesnt necessarily mean that hes seen the light. More likely he has only felt the heat. Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel.

"He^, basketb a 11 player," they yell at the tali man on the midway. "I dont want you to spend any money."

The Pitt County Pair is upon us.

You win a prize every tl.ae, calls another huskster as he attempts to draw the milling crowds to his booth.

Still another Is attemptingno give away razor blades. "Now you must think theres a gimmick," he says. "This fellow up here trying to give away razor blades. Well. Ill teU you. Im paid to do this. Take the blades hotme and use one. If you like them, buy If

you dont throw the rest in the garbage." |

Theres the come-on man who rolls ten one dollar bills into a package and promises to change them to ten dollar bills.

"Some people say Ive got em up my sleeves, He exhibits his shirt cuffs. "There is nothing up there Ixit a dirty elbow an' I get rid of that every Saturday night."

Soon the bills are tied up in a handkerchief and deposited under a cow bell. The pitchman promised that they will change "before your very eyes. But tn the meantime . . . then comes the pitch.

Next there aie the girlie shows.

If you come in now you can get a seat on the front row, the man out front promises. A couple of dyed blondes in tight fitting dresses do a few bumps and grinds and the ticket sales begin.

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of cooking onions and the whir of a powerful generator which keeps the mass of lights shining brightly on the midway.

There is an older couple in the french fries wagon he slicing and cooking and she dishing them out. You remember that they were here last ,year and the year before. Who knows how long they have been traveling with the show.

The fairs in town. A vacant lot comes alive for one week. Then overnight it will all disappear and the lot becwnes dark and vacant once again.

And then there are the rides. A weary daddy watches his children climb on a back cracking "fun" ride.

"Theyd have to pay me to get on that thing." he mumbles.

But for everytMie who wont ride there are dozens who will. The things are full almost every time and others wait in line.

There .is dust and the smell

7his Date-

40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN October 6, 1925 District Governor Int. Rotary Visits Greenville Club

echarles D, Smith, Governor of 37th District delivers inspiring address to Rotarians and guests.

Other Editors Saying

To Retrieve A License

Tobacco Market Market Averages $27.57 Highest average of season made yesterday, when 763,464 pounds sold for $210,473.92.

"You have to see the abuse and destruction ca our natural beauty to believe it could happen in an enlishtened civilization. But happening it is, and to such an extent that it is both frightening and slcktning. Dickinson N.D.) Press.

(Christian Science Monitor)

The verdict is in at Hayne-ville, but the state of Alabama remains on trial.

It now faces the opportunity of establishing a reputation for equal justice in a world that has heard the states own Attorney General say that what happened at Hayneville was "appalling."

Attorney General Richmond Flowers assertions cannot be subjected to the belitthg attached to the views of "outside agitators. The guilt or innocence of Thomas Coleman, charged with manslaughter in the killing of Jonathan Daniels, was for the jury to decide, and it found him in-> nocent. But the way the verdict was reached should be carefully scrutinized by Alabamans in the light of their chief law. officers comments.

Mr. Flowers was quoted as picturing the "democratic process going down the drain of irrationality, bigotry and improper enforcement of law. He said that "now those who feel they have a license to kill, destroy and cripple have been issued that license Then he added: "It is our duty to do

what is necessary to retrieve it.

Is Alabama ready to do what is necessary to retrieve what the Attorney General saw as "a license to kill? Mr. Flowers himself appeairs to be hopeful. He said he believed that "the great majority of Alabamans were "outraged.

But were they outraged enough to insist that crime be considered crime no matter what the color of the victim, and that their officials be expected to cooperate in providing the conditions for impartial justice? It has become a cliche that evil flourishes when good people do nothing. But it is worth repeating until it sinks in.

Later this month, Collie Le-Roy Wilkins, the man accused of killing another civil-rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, will be brought to court again. In the eyes of the world-i-and of the Alabamans in whom Mr. Flowers places such hope this will aJso be a continuation of the trial of Alabama itself. In the latter case, the defen-ant has the power to determine the verdict.

Johnson And Meadows May Clash In Opening GauM Of .

World Series

Everything ready for the opening In Pittsburg Uwnor-row; the Pirates to use same lineup which won the pennant Harris says the Senators are "All Ready.

Reflector to Furnish Play By Play Reports Worlds Series Games Through arrangements with the Associated Press, The Daily Reflector will receive continuous detailed report of the world series baseball games between the Washington Senators and the Pittsburg Pirates direct from the scene of play during the progress of the game.

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When the prodigal son comes home now he merely gets a roast.

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"Early in life I had to chooiSe between honest arrogance and hyprocritical humility. I have chosen honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change." Prank Lloyd Wright.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Premier Alevei Kosygin has announced a sweeping plan for over-hauling Russian in-dusty, furnishing wdrker incentives, plant profits and individual management initiative. The blueprint is fine. Meanwhile the Soviets have beep stressing the need to expand slaughter house and storage facilities for meat, and there has been a special conference on providing for refrigeration in the so-called Comecon counties of eastern Europe.

There is more than meets the eye in the juxtaposition of these items. F\>r the plan for incentives and the concurrent demand for new slaughter houses and deep freeze facilities prove that industrial incentives in Russia will be meaningless for a long- time. The call for more slaughter houses in a country that is already low on animals can only mean that the Russians havent enough feed grains to support their existing cattle and hog production. The Ukraine, since Khrushchev's de-

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parture, has been sowed largely to wheat, wmch is a bread grain, not an animal food. Com, or American maize, is what goes with cattleand com is in current Soviet dispute. So the cattle must be killed. Its, a desperation thing.

The wheat, while it has been satisfactory in the Ukraine, has hot come through in the other growing areas of Russia. The admissi(m that 1965 is a disappointing crop year for the Soviets can be read in the recent wheat purchase statistics: more than

nine milli(Mi tons have been sold to the Russians by Argentina, Australia. Canada, and France, Present calculations are that four mlUion more tons will be needed. In the famine year of 1963 the Russians bought foreign wheat after the harvest time; now they are buying before their own harvest is In. All of this lends point to the Moscow joke that says "the greatest miracle of Soviet planning is agriculture. It enables the Russians to plant wheat in the Ukraine and harvest it in Canada.

Now, how can a country that cannot feed its people supply any real industrial incentives? 'Ihe Soviets have had to sen gold to pay for wheat. This means that gold is not available for the chemical and fertilizer industry that is needed to upgrade the Russian farms. It also means that the Russians must scratch to find the means for paying for the foreign tools needed in rehabilitating their factories.

Industry may eventually show better profits, and the worker may bavi more Incentive money in his purse. But the basics of life arent there to buy. Extra rubles will have to be borrowed to 1 :t the Kosygin specifications for a more efficient facUwy and distribution system, which means that the Russian consumer must still wait. Furthermore, in the frantic attempt to deal with the j)ermanent Soviet agricultural crisis, the Russians are spending an additional 5.5 billion rubles this year on farm improvements, which comes to around six per cent of total state expenditures. The farms are being offered higher prices^ for food, which does not help city woric-ers. In any (sc, the effort to upgrade the collective farms is like reding a rock uphill because of the human factors involved. It is an open scandal In the Oommunist world tljat the tiny private plots allcw-ed to the peasants produce about half of the ordinary food consumed in the Soviet citi^.

So take it with a grain yOf salt when you hear that thirigs are going to get better quickly in the Communist world n^w (Continued On Page 5)

"Neitlier rain, sleet, nor snow shall stay the mall man from his daily rounds; but a postal rate increase can lighten his load."" Plainview (Tex.) Daily Herald.

^Nfew York Wrecking'Old Hotels'

Strength For Today

By EARI. L. DOUGLASS WHAT IS TRUE RELIGION?

The great tea companies all over the world employ what are known as tea tasters. Those men by taking a little tea into their mouths can accurately judge quality and pass authoritively on the value of tea they are Usting: But they never swallow any of the tea. They take it into the i r mouths, but they never talft it into their systems.

Borne people who have an almost perfect re<x>rd for church attendance are sermon tasters. They know a good .sennon vLlu*ii tliey hear one preached, ami lliere is noUiUig they love 'so much as to clas.slfy mlni.v trrs accoitling to their messages. Yet they never take any of these ines.sages into their souls. There are others

who are theology tasters. To them nothing is so exhilarating as an argument about religion, yet they never under any circumstances allow religion to interfere with a n y-ithlng they want to do.

Religion Is not something to be tasted, rolled about in one's mind as the tea taster rolls the tea about in his mouth and then I pectorales U Religion has to become a part of our lives before it does us any good. It is not a thing to be tasted, an ornament to be worn, a , theory to be held, or a creed to ht accepted. Christ came that We might haVe life, and that we niiglit have it inoie alxuuiaully.

AnyUiing less than this b, less than what He meant religion to be, '

By ELMER ROESSNER

New York, like many other cities around the country, has a hotel prcWem.

There was a big sui^e of slick new hotels built in time for the Worlds Fair: promoters felt that Fair business would get them off to a flying start. New hotels include the Carlton Houae, the Summit, the Americana, the Regency, the Carriage House and the New York Hilton. In addiUon, there are nine elatx>rate motor hotels, complete with swimming pools, now dry because of the water shortage.

Most of these estaUtshments have been doing iM^ty weH with the upper-bracket Pair visitors. Now trouble is compounding: the Fair is about to close and bonifa(?es are finding that jet planes are making It unnecessary for more and more peopk to .slay over night.

TO AYOID TROUBLE. DEMOI.LSII

One solution to the coming Oyer supply of rooms has been to tear down the old hotels and

erect office buildings on the sites. The old Ritz-Carlton has been replacjed with an office building, and the Savoy Plaza, the Park Lane, the Madison and the Chatham are being demolished

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Some of the lesser hotels have g(Xie. A parking lot on one site is proving more prof-fitable than a 15-story hotel.

One other solution has been worked out by a group of five 4nvesU)r8,, all new to the hotel business. They have formetl Executive Pariiiei'sliip, Inc., and hav^ taken over tlie Executive Hotel on Madiisoii Av-e. Instead of teaiii^ it down and erecting a parking tower which might have paid off

the company reorganized its rentals along four lines. These

are:

1. The leasing of multiple-iise suites, combining office facilities and living quarters, where professional men and business people can live and work in the same building. CORPORATION SUITES

2. The leasing of residential or multiple-use suite# to corporations, where companies can entertain and bed down out-of-town executives and customers, and can have facilities for private meetings, conferences etc.

3. Service leases to restu-rants and other service Indus-

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4. Continuation of regular hcP-tel seiwices to transient guests, many of whom are attracted by the services provided for

company tenants, such as sec-retartel servicos. translation servicc.s. photocopy and mailing servlcv, lidetrijonc an.swer-ing and messenger .service.s and so on.

Harold E. Peller, nre.sldeiit of the company, said, "After the I^r, other hotels will be in trouble. We think we can

take scnne of them over add, by r^rienting their bustass and facilities as we have at the Executive Hotel, turn them into good money makers."

His corporation, he added, is looking for opportunities In other cities.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS

West Germany, like Russia, has a grain shortage and may soon be buying in U.S. markets.

More people in numbers, but fewer in percentage of workers, were members of American labor unions at the end of 1964 than in recent years.

Domestic reirigerator sales should top 4.575.000 this year, the biggest total since 1950, according to William L. Hulkeik, Admiral ve president.

"Bobby Trap" is the most popular game since "M o n o p-oly," Paiiter Brothcre claim. Its a $4 Item.

Help-wanted advertising rose-sharply In August, the National Industrial Conference Board reports. Its index, with 1957-59 as jyw, reached 152 In August.