Friday, October 8, 1965 * .

Ojpportunity For Tfa Unregistered

Voter registration books will be open tomorrow a special registration. Persons who kre already regio allow unregistered persons to become qualified istered do not have to do so again. Those who reg-for the Nov. 2 bond election. ister do not have to do so again. Those who register

The books will be at the polling places tomor- for the first time this year will be eligible for state row, and on Oct* 16 and Oct 23 for any qualified and federal elections in the future, potential voter to register. believe that for some years now any quali-

Rlgisfi^ffimay aJwrKcbniaciedrat thelrloirs'TiMliersoh, fWafdteFiriyfTHue^ on other days if the three Saturdays are not con- come registered in Pitt County. We do not beMve

Escalation!

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WILLIAM A. SHIRES

LABOR WhUe state officials are mlnimlaing immediate effects (tf possible repeal of fleotton 14B of the Tafi-Hartky Act In North Carolina, orgaiilstd labor Is confident of tubstantia] long - range gains.

These gains, of course. Would be political and Pnan-eial as well as numerical.

This is' adiy labor has as-tgned such extremely high priOTlty to repeal of Section 14B in its national legislative program for 1965. It wmild have the effect of nullifying right to work* laws in 19 states ineludJng North Carolina which now prohibit union abop tfreements.

Soonar or later, thousands of worlitra would be affected.

Millard Barbee, president of the stMe AFL-CIO council, be-litTts repeal of Section 14B eventually would mean a tain of from 90,000 to 40,000 dues-ptiqrtog membcra In North ^aroUsa.

Infect - Certainly It would be in the thousands. Barbee eays. It could be as high as 40 to 50 per cent.

There are now an eeUmated 80,000 union members in North Candna and if Barbee is correct, this number would be -.^Ued to 130,000 to 130,000.

He predicted the increase in unkm membership would be largely in tobacco, communi-cattona and electronics and textile industries and in building trades,

At present, Barbee said that for every five union members at work to a North Carolina factory or organised trade, there Is one employe to the same shop who does not belong nor pays union dues. The ration, he aaid. Is about 10 per cent overall.

IMMEDIATE White officiate believe the effects ot flection 14B repeal would be felt gradually, there could be as many is 15,000 North Carolina workers affected almost immediately.

Approximately this many are now employed in placee where repeal may mean they will have to choose shortly between jcmtog the union or finding other employment.

I know of employers who want to sign union shop agreements,** Barbee says.

If It is repealed Prtday, there are some cases to which the union and management will be ready to sit down Monday and negotiate a union sh(H>.* be wSS!

He Slid agreements to nego-tiate Immediately to t h event of repeal of flection 14B are contained in a number of existing union management contracts in North OsroUni.

POKTION Organteed labor traditionally haa been rel-attvfly weak ln^orth;Car(y

Una, but has been making gradual gains In the past several

years.

Labor officials feel certain that repeal of Section 14B would strenfUien labors position consldertbly In the atate. Added revenue from Incret ed membentilp would be for organising drives and political campaigns.

We believe repeal would be greatly advantageous to that It would take away one of the greatest weap<His management has to keep unions down. Barbee said.

At the same time, he says labor feels the union shop holds advantages for management in many cases.

Management's position, generally, Is opposed to repeal of the section on grounds that Individual workers should be free to choose and that union membership should not be required as a condition for employment.

EOUNDS October 18 ha* been scheduled for the swearing In of North Carolina's new state prisons director, career official Lee Bounds.

Bounds, 47, is a lawyer and a member of the staff of the Institute of Govern m e n t where he has worked for 18 years on various state prisons and correctional prcHirams. He has done much of the reeearch, legal work and drafting of legislative, policy and administrative proposals under three prisons directors, Walter Anderson, W. F. Bailey and George W. Randall.

Bounds was Instrumental to drafting the states widely -..nown work - release program and a training program for youthful offenders.

( 'NCERN Concern is being voiced in highly placed circles about the danger of apathy in conncotlon with a proposed constitutional amendment to authorize a new appellate court to North Carolina.

The amendment, approved by the last legislature, will be voted I Nov. 2.

The concern prompted state Democratic chairman J. M. Broughton Jr. to write all county chairman and various par^ officials across the state urgtog support of the amendment.

Broughton said, "tiw prw)8-ed amendment would empower the General Assembly of North Carolina to take the necessary step to relieve some of the heavy burden now on the Supreme Court. The jnro-- posed amendment leawM to the General Asembly the decision to determine what types ^caset am to be heard by the new Court at Awjcate.* Broughton said that both Gov. Dan Moore end the North Carolina Bar Assodatlon art on record favoring the proposed amendment whidi would create a court between the Superior Court and State Supreme Court.

The proposed amendment does not to itself establiih an Intermediate Court (d Appeals. It merely euthorteei the Gen-ertl Aisembly to do eo. If the amendment is approved to No-vember, the 1967 General Assembly oould oreiUe a Court of Appeals to commence gpera-tions at'*^ convenient time thereafter,** Broughton aaid.

there will be any exception to that this year.

There was some impatience a few months ago with the fact that registration books would not be open until Oct. 9.

Now Oct. 9 is here. It is time for everyne who wishes to vote and is qualified to make an appearance at the polling places. Unless there is some question about qualification, there should be no complaints after Oct. 23 about lack of opportunity to register.

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Needs Are Outlined, But No Action Taken

It was Im all too familiar story Monday when the iUounty Commissioners took up the matter of coping with the countys juvenile problem.

They took no action!

This is, of course, one way for the governing board of the county to deal with major problems which are presented it. It can sit, listen, ask questions, and then do nothing.

It seems to us, however, that Pitt iCounty needs more than a do-nothing Board of County Commissioners when^it comes to the matter of coping with the juvenile problem.

, Law enforcement officers, court officials and welfare officials have pointed up in no uncertain terms the problems the county faces in dealing with juveniles. They have cited the need for additional trained people towork with juveniles that run afoul of the law. They have' cited the need for additional homes to handle juveniles in this county. And they have cited the growing number of juvenile cases which require attention, but do not get it for lack of personnel and facilities.

And the County Commissioners authoritatively, follow a do-nothing policy!

Spotliaht Is On

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DAVID JULIAN WHICHARD, Chslrmsn of The Board

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Six Months .............................. 7.50

On# Year ............. $14 00

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By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY

WASHINGTON (AP) Nowadays a great white light of publl ty beats upon presidential illnesses, keeping the public informed to mtoute detail.

It was not always thus. Once a great white He concealed from the people a surgical operation which, if known, might have altered U.S. history. Cto July 1, 183, President

Grover Cleveland sat strapped In a chair in the salon of a yacht and hod part of a cancerous Jaw cut out. It was not until 24 years later that the Public teamed the authentic story.

The year 1893, when Cleveland took office for a second term, was a panic year hundreds of banks closed, businesses failing, unemployment i^wtdtog. Cleveland, a sound money man, blamed the Sherman Stiver Purchase Act, and felt that only h oould get it repealed.

The act required the Treasury to buy 4 Vi million ounces of the white metal a month at the market price. Then notes must be issued against it. redeemable in Oliver or gold.

As author John Stuart Martin retold the story In the October 1957 issue of the mtg-azine American Heritage, most people took gold. tl.S, gold reserves dwindled drastically.

So Cleveland colled for a special session of Congress for Aug. 7 to repeal the act. Meantime, he had been bothered by a "mugh place in the roof of his mouth. Doctors uttered the feared word *inallgant* and Cleveland decided on an operation. ^ ;

But he gruffly decreea utmost 1 secrecy. Might not word of his ailment compound the panic?

So it was an ultra-secret Journey that Cleveland embarked on by train to New York, by common carriage to the Batteiy, then in the dim night by tender to the yacht Oneida, owned by Commodore Ellas C. Benedict.

The yacht proceeded s though on a pleasure cruise. \ip the East River, through Hell Gate and to Long Island Sound.

There, os the vessel rode glassy-still waters, surgeons headed by Dr, Joseph Bryant, the top surgeon in New York, ex-ctetd t^ csnoerous tissue.

Cleveland recovered quickly, and the Silver Act was repealed, despite three hours of oratory in its favor by (Congressman William Jerniingt Bryan.

Mantlme, a dentist present at the operation Inadvertently teaked the news. Newsman E.

J. Edwards got the tip, checked it out, and the Philadelphia Press ran the sto.y four weeks after the operation. But the White House denounced Edwards as a scandal-mongering scoundrel, and the false denial blanketed the truth.

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This Date-

40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN October 8, 1925

Attend The Pitt County Fair Oct. lt-16

Pitt County Fair Opens Tuesday

Schools Of Connty Will Observe Holiday To Give Children To Visit Fair That Day Next Tuesday, October 12th, will be big day for the children of Pitt County os well as the grown-ups as it is opening day of the Pitt CJounty Pair and is to be school day.

Ministers To Take Religious Census In Greenville

The Greenville Ministerial Association met in their regular monthly meeting Monday morning in the Woodmen HaU with the President Rev. L. E. Ballard presiding. All mem-bei-s were present.

The Pittsburgh Pirates Win Second Gome From Washington Senators Washington A.L.010 000 001 R 2. H 8. E 2, PltUburgh N.L.000 100 02x R 3, H 7, E 0.

Messenger Boy Cliokes Bulldog To Death Emeet Knox, messenger boy for the Postal Telegraph Company. while on his way home last night was attacked by a bulldog which he succeeded in choking to death before he received Injuries other than a bitten finger.

The doff was very dangerous having escaped from on automobile. The dot Jumped out and mode for Ernest who ran into a wire fence. Catchtog the nose of the dog and holding to his collar. Ernest suo-ceeded In ehoklng him to death.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS BIT AND BRIDLE

A man In a great deal of perplexity once went to his old pastor to ask bis advice on how to handle certain moral problems in Jhis life. The pastor toroed to the thirty-second psajm and read these two weroes:*! will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will counsel thee with mine eyes upin thee, Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which hav| not understanding: whose trappings must be bit and Iridie to hold them in, else they will not come near luito thee.

That was all the seasoned old counselor nl mens soqls hod to soy to his inquirer. But it was enough. At first the perplexed man was somewhat

offended by the ministers bluntness, but the more he thought of it the more wu he convinced that his trouble was that he was Irhavlng more like a horse or a mute than like a man. in other words, he was stubborn. And the unhappy circumstances amid which he found himself were largely the bit and bridle by which God was trying to guide him into pathway of obedience and peace.

The whole circumstance taught him that the only way God can ever reaUy guide a man is not by mechanical Instruction. not by fitting a bit into his mouth, but by implant-^ tog in his heart .a new spirit .and letting that spirit guide and control him

Bits and bridles are for hofscs and mules.

By JOHN F.'DAFFRON

The Check-Up By Abacus

RICHMOND. Va: (AP) -David Wang, a systems analyst, travels In the sophisticated business world of c(nputer8. But he etui mokes use of his suon pan the Chinese abacus. He toc^ It up In the third grade In Shanghai.

For a quick check on figures additi<m, subtraction or multiplication the abacus is better than a computer because its so much simpler, he said. And Its Just about as fast as an electric calculating machine.

In the hands of an expert, perhaps. A novice, who shall be nameless, took a whack at it. Modest confusion was the result.

Flicking bis fingers over the rows of wooden beads on their wire strands, Wang completed a ve - number multiplication In a few seconds.

An onlooker started checking the results by standard arithmetic. Wang ran through a few more problems on the ancient calculating device the primitive cousin of the modem electeonio digital computer.

In his Job with Robertshaw* Ck>ntrote Co., Wang packs a lO-by 5 - Inch abacus in his brief case on his trips to the firms plants in other cities.

I use it to check my own cost figures and esUmatee, he said, and showing a letterhead, he added How about this one?

It was an itemized cost sheet submitted to Robert-shaw by a leading manufacturer in the business machine file.

See where the total to $25 off? Wang said. I caught it on the abacus.

Twenty years ago, a career in industrial autcnnation was as far from Wangs mtod as his present home in Woodside, N. y., Is from hto native Shag-hal.

He wanted to be a tea merchant. And his schooling at Shanghais St. Johns University, 1944-46, and the University of California at Beritley, 1946-48 was aimed toward management of the familys Wang Yus Tal Tea Co.

The firm, founded by his great-grandfather in 18J^ was

perhaps the oldest tea export firm to Shanghai. Wuig said. But before hto planned return home, the Communists took over the Chinese mainland. His family mode it to Formosa.

So Chia Shlh Wong he adopted the name David In school armed with his abacus uid a bachelor of science degree in business odmlnlstrar tion, took a turn at the tea trade in San Francisco, briefly, befewe moving to New York.

The rest of the family folr lowed from Formosa. IDs father still does a bit ctf tea Imr porting. Wong sold, but the idea of peipetuattog the Yue Tai Tea Co. is dead.

David moved Into the computer field with Sperry - Rands Unlvac. He worked for other firms as a systems ccuisultant before Joining Robcrtshaw more than a year ago.

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Other Editors Saying Tt-i Rripf

N.C. Plan Takes Root

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

For some years now North Carolina has successfully operated a prison plan known as the work release program. Under this plan, selected prisoners are allowed to leave their cells during the day to work at regular Jobs, then return at night.

This plan has proved extremely successful. It permits the men to maintain contact with society, earn money for their families, keep their independence, and are assured of stewly work when their sentences are completed- Too, it saves the state a lot of money.

The key benefit, however, Is that it rehabilitates many men, insuring against their return for second terms.

This work release program has gained attention across the nation. The federal government was so impres sed with it that a similar work release program has been inaugurated for federal prisoners. Hundreds of men in federal prisons will be given a chance to prepare a place for themselves ip the nations work force in the hopes of easing transition to freedom when their sentences are up a shock that often leads them back to prison. ' *

This program marks another step in the long campaign to transform U.S. penal instl-

tidons fr<n mere places (rf confinement to places where men who have strayed can be given the chance at redirecting their llvee. For many, it will be well worth the effort.

No notorious convicts imprisoned for crimes of violence will be to the federal program. Only prisoners who can use the experience In advance of their release, or who can help support their families by using skills they already p(sessed will be considered. This will 'cut down the chances of turning loose a felon upon society.

Prisoners who.wUl work under this arrangement will not displace employed work c r s. Nor will they be released In areas which have a labor surplus. Neither vdU the prisoners be exploited. They must be paid the going rates for their work.

The prisoners will pay all their own expenses, and their excess earnings other than those used for family support win be held for them until they are released from prison.

This program makes a great deal of sense. Not only will it enable the prisoners to shoulcler some responsibility, but it will save taxpayers a lot of money. For In the long-range aspect of this program, many of these men will never return to prison. That, in itself, is a big saving.

Ons more good word Is l<Mdng Its reputation through mUmse: protest. Of late

many perpetrators of disorderly conduct and even crime have excused themselves as making 'protests iigainst some policy they dislike. Terr Haut (Ind.) Tribune.

The surest way to turn the Juvenile delinquent of today into the hardened adult criminal of tomorrow Is to pamper him. The foremost light and duty of society Is to enforce the law undw representative government.Industrial News Review.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than of death. James P. Byrnes.

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. By JOHN CHAMBERLAINL Copyright, 1985, King Features Syndicate, inc.

As representatives of ten nations meet to talk about the need for a new toternational currency, the traders of the world are up against a rather cruel dilemma. For. In default of enough gold to settle International bronces, the traders have to make-do with the so-called key currencies. The commercial world depends for liquidity** on there being a surplus of "key U. S. dollars and British poimds to foreign tills. In brief, world trade would sharply contract If we were to succeed In balancing our payments. The trouble is that any surplus of key currencies held by foreigners constitutes a paper claim to goldand nations whdilng to act obstreperously (dc Gaulles France is one) can do so easily by Just asking that their claiins be honored in gold bars.

So the monetary experts search wdHy for a subetttuta both for the **key currencies and for gold. They talk about an International *cru*a composite reserve unit** that wlU be a mixture of dollart, pounds, francs, marks, lire and whatnot. To this layman to money matters, the cru seems a mere dodge, for If people dis-tnurt the dollar or the pound, they will automatloiJly distrust the particular percentage of the cru that Is represented by dollars and pouncte.

JOHN I CHABSBERLAA

Out of the oeorch for liquidity, however, some togenlous

ideas are emerging that might succeed to taking some of the poorer natlras off the hook of inability to achieve liquidity. It 60 happens that a Japanese economic mission has Just been visiting the United States and Latin America. The head of this ndssion, S(toei Nakayama, Is president of the Industrial Bank of Japan. After World War n his' hank, lacking tangible resources, persuaded the Japanese government to use United States aid counterpart funds to purchase redeemable preferred stock In the bank. The Idea was to use the new money as toe 1sls for expanding bank loons to Japanese industriahsts, and to pay off the holders of redeemable stock out of future products.

The trick worked for Japan in very much the some way that Alexander Hamilton funding of the American Revolutionary Wot debts worked for the Young X7. 8. at the end of the Elghteentb Century. It provided a credit base. So Mr. Nokayixna is now trying to devise schemes fcx* applying the redeemable shore* idea to the underdeveloped regions of the world. One of his recommendations If toat the surplus food nstlonothe U. S.. Canada, Australia, the Argentineput their surplus grains Into a big international food bank.

The food would be **sold to nations on the tbiihold of starvation in Asia, AMca, the Middle East, and Latin America. But the sums c(^oted by the food bank would not Immediately be taken out of any country on the receiving end of the grain *'silts.* tostead. it would be loaned teilds too various countries by the food bank for the improvement of local agriculture.

Mr. Nakayama thtoks his own country Japan has a lot to teach the Latin Ameri-on countries about ways of making sericulture profitable. Thsre are 600,000 Japaneses In Brazil, for Instance, and many oi these make money out of their farmfi. (Indeed, many anthropologists regsu*d toe Japanese as the best formers in Brazil.) They could be enlisted as expert advlseri to a good bank scheme to use foreign counterpart funds to Brazil to recapitalize and tmprov* local Brazilian agriculture,

Mr. Nakayama admits that hto food bank proposal is not (Continued On Page I)

Steel Challenge To Aluminum

Ry ELMER ROESSNER Aluminums competition with steel has been le of the business drama of our time. Of aluminum are now produced beverage cans, oilcars. squeeze tubes, cans for sardines and other food products, storm doors, siding, wlndowe, paints and thouoands of housewares, small parts and gadgets.

Steel use to not declining, but it would have captured more new markets if aluminum makers had not been so aggressive.

Now $teel to fighting back. One of ito toggest thrusts is with steel foil.

VACUUM DEPOSrni Oridntry steel rusts rapidly. C^s for food have been coated with tin. This to an expensive prooesa, and sources of tin are threatened by communists.

Now United States Steel has developed procewms to roll steel fpU two thousanths of an inch. This was announced in April, 1964. Since then re.searchers have devised ways to coat this

steel with other metals, including stainless steel, some or-ganlo materials and even refractory materials.

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R0BS8NER

The vacuum depositira process, the same one used to coat the 300-inch mirror of the famous telescope at Mr. Palomar. 1 used. This requires a vacuum of less than one-mil-liontb of normal atmosphereic pressure, which meant carrying (Ri toe process 100 miles In outer space or developing controlled conditions an earth. NOW, foil containers U.S. steel devised ways to coat steel foil oontlnuouly at high speed, lowering costs. Anct with cheaper foil, it has pilot

ed the development o many new containers and other products.

Many of these coatings can take printing and lithographing. Robert MenelUy, .chief of mill products, showed a Packaging Institute forum lost week some of the pilot product, including:

Steel candy boxes toat can be opened by pulling a thread, and which can be tightly re-be opened by pulling a thread, and which can be tightly re-dosed.

CJontalners for frozen foods, milk, oil and other liquids, square instead of round, taking up less space.

Also shown were steel containers for grated cheese, powdered milk and cigars.

OTHER POSSIBILITIES

MenelUy said' Uwse containers oould be shaped on a adngle machine, with minor adjustments lor slie.

Steel containers could be sealed and, with a needle and self-sealing gasket, air pressure could be Increased for the crad

ling of delicate ports, or reduced for vacuum hondUng of foods.

By using creofts to to teeel foil, inner seoUoiM may be created for holding products. Even honeycomb structures are possible.

And by cladding Ploftio foam Inside or outsldo steel containers, packaging of **uiwirpas6-ed strength and llglitMit can be made. Clad steel oon dupU-cate printed otxvults, too. All this, MeneUly gold, may be only the beglnhtng.

YOUR PRINCEflfl MAY HAVE A THIMUNl The BeU Trtmline WlipiiODe. which hoe been suoooiifuUy tested to Mtohiftn tod Indiana, is betoff totrodiraed to (^o, In toe next yior and o half It will be made avallablt.*to other BeU areas.

The TrimHne Is i&t, the Handset and crrndl fltttog together sometotof like a blvtlve. and the dial to to the hand piece, centered between the speaker and earphone.