Thursday, October 21, 1965

Biggest Danger In Voters Apathy

The Spirit Of Sickening-Sick

State leaders probably are correct In their ofin- will make little difference, ions that voter apathy is the greatest threat to the This, of course, is a .mistaken viewpoint. The

$300 million road bond issue to be voted in Novem- vote of the individual is always important in an ber 2. election. The purpose of an election, after all, is to

Whenever major issues are at stake in an elec- determine how individual voters fell about a par-tionparticularly issues in which there is a mini- ticular matter. Unless the voters turn out in large mum of controversythere is always a danger that numbers, there is altvays the danger that the elec-the individual voter will assume that his vote is not tion results wilt not reflect the true attitude of the really important He lakes the attitude that people vast majority of citizens. And there is always the of the state are overwhelmingly one way or the other danger that a small minority of citizens may deter-on the matter in question, so his individual vote mine the course which will be followed by all.

!V[ove To Allay

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In the case of the forthcoming road bond issue, there appears to be very little opposition. Most people a.ssume the bond issue will receive the overwhelming endorsement of North Carolinians who go to the polls on November 2. And many Tar Heel voters may not bother to cast a ballot on that day just because they think the outcome is a foregone conclusion. ~ .

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ALLAY One reaon state efflciabt are now diMributlufr eUtewlde a full 600-word text ef explanation awarding of a contract for licet.se plate reflectorlxlng material Is to alky possible future criticism. .

Actually this appears somewhat extreme, llte fact is there has been relstlvely Uttla criticlan of an Oct 8 action hf Uw board of award of the Purchaae and Contract divls-Ion awarding a $893 017.60 contract to Minnesota Mining and Manulacturing (3-M) Co.

But there are eertaln officials ki the Moore administration Who reaiain rather thln-skln-Bed and highly srasitlve to any criticism or possible mls-undmstandlnff of their mo-km. They freguently go to treat lengths to avoid this and. In this case, have other reasons to fall back on.

REASONS ApparenUy hey felt some seeds of mls-leikrBtadlg and pc^^siblc crltieism might lie In awarding ttiis fat contract to the 3-M eompany, a firm which was at least indirectly involved In the atates 1883-63 highway igna BoandaL

During investigation of the Bun*-Brewer highway signs ease. Oov. Terry Sanford ordered 8-M and certain other Anns au^imded from doUig 1$|8DeM with the state.

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6 HIRES

Tt developed, of course, that l*M was involved only to tie extent that one of its lepre-aentatives. Kidd Brewer, was a principal In the case. Subsequently. the sus.Tensin was lifted.

There was also the fact that l-M's U for Its reflectorlaed sheeting was $100,542 greater than a bid submitted by Flex-O-Ltte Corp. for a bead and binder process.

DEOSION - Neither of these matters entered directly into final crmsiderailon although cost was an Initial factor. Decision in favor of S-M*s prooaaa was based on other toasons.

For <ma thing the board says tt wia eonvinoad that S-Ms proooM was **clearly sup-ior** to the bead and binder pro-tmt and that it was **even pos-aible** that the-actual final cost of the latter would exceed that of reflectoriaed eheettof.

It said brightness and re-fiectlve qualities of the sheeting are substantially higher and that this was vital" in evaluating the safety value of Rflectorised ii^ites.

All other states using reflec-tolwd plates use the sheeting IHPoess. The bead and binder has never been used manufacturing Uceiise

plates. It would require a more costly steel than now used.

ANXIETY Nevertholes.s, anxiety abmit exactly how to announce acceptance of the 3-M bid was e\1dent the day the contract was awarded. , P&C officials and members of the boaid of awards refused even to tell waiting reporters which of the two bids had been accepted and declined all comment until director of administration K. L. Rankin Jr. could prepare a carefully-worded, three-page statement. When his statement was iln-Isbed. Rankin finally made the formal announcement -- several hours after the board had acted. Even then. Rankin' otherwise detailed statement omitted mentioning the amount of the respective bids.

Most news reporta carried only brief excerpts and portions of the Rankin statement. Now. however, administration officials have prevailed on Rankin to matt eo^e* to every newspaper editor, editorialist and radio - TV news director In the state 10 days after It was Issued.

MESSAGE As mentioned earlier, there Is another mes-contained in the Rankin satement.

This, in effect, is Insistence by the administration that It is unwilling to put a price tag on Its new highway safety* measures.

Rankin, with some arithmetic, points out that the estimated eeeimnio loas to North Carolina from rear - end. nighttime collisions, which may be reduced by use <rf re-flectorted plates, was $18.2 million last year. Also, he said, the legislature appropriated $459.420 for the experiment with completely reflectorlz e d license plates beginning In 1967.

"Our primary objective must be to crmduet the most meaningful experiment in highway safety as authorized by the General Assembly,* he said. If the state fails to use the best possible material, the re. suits of thte experiment may not be eonoluMve, y^ould not carry out the Intent of t h e General Asemtdy. and would not Justify this expenditure of state money."

PRISONS The State Pris-

But before a single voter decides not to cast a ballot in the election, we urge him to consider carefully the importance of his responsibility as a citizen. The election is being held for the purpose of enabl

ing him to expre_s.s his individual opinion by way of

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a secret bfillot. He has the duty and the responsi ty as a citizen to help chart the future course of North Carolina on this question, and the only way in which he can do this effectively is to cast a ballot on election day.

The individual who leaves it to his fellow citizens to decide whether the state is to issue $300 mil-lion for road construstion is neither being fair to himself nor to his fellow citizens.

Aevolutionary jQbor Changes

By NEIL BILBRIDE

WASamGTON (AP) The ArneHcan TAbor mbvembiiV Is beading into a period which may well bring the most revo-utlonary change in a decade.

Plrt will come the belated move by the AFL-CIO to grait-ly but firmly ease the "nine old men*retired or ousted union chiefsoff Its powerful executive council.

They will be replaced by Some of the new breed of labor executives gradually pushing aside the old guard of labor bossea who cut their teeth In the rough-and-tumble or-ganifidflff bMtle -ef the 1836.

APlrCIO President George Meany, long reluctant to brush aside venerable associates of half a century, is reportedly determined to go through with it in December at the APL-CIO's ctmvention in San Pran-

C.SCO.

In replacing one-third of its vice presldent.s with younger blood, the APLrCIO hopes to stir dynamic new pbliciea to recoup some of labors lost ground in the nations dramatically shifting work force.

Although total union membership edged upward in the past few years, it has dropped from 33 per cent to 29 per cent of the nations growing labor force over the AFL-CIOs 10-year history.

Rapid shifts in technology

ons Commission discussed per- -1 mif

B<m matters in it firsit \ meeting after new prisons dl-

was

rector Lee V. Bounds sworn in this week.

"We needed to talk about specific people," says Rep. Clyde H. Harriss, chairman of the Prisons Commlaalon. This was why Harris asked the press and other onlookers to leave and. fai effect, convened an executive session of the commission.

Harrias sa^ the commission

organizing problem for labor unions. So is the sharp increase in service jobs, outstripping manufacturing In recent yea.s.

"There will never again be any mass organizing camti^gns

als to permit prisoners unteer for kidney transplant operatitms and similar organ replacing surgery. "Were going to have to give this a lot of study. What we have to remember is we aren't in the hardware business, or grocery businew. We're dealing with human beings."

as in the 1930 said one labor spokesman.

The prc*lem now 1 a more patient, persuasive ai^roach to organl^ng small units of white collar workers operL'lng automated office machinery-many of whom cling to a traditional resistance to unions.

The flood of youths into the work force with no memory of depression days when labor won Its place in the sun Is another problem for union organizers. /

Just how the revamped APL-CIO executive o)uncil will seek to meet these and other labor oala will not become apparent until the councils meeting In Honolulu next February.

An even more dramatic but by no means certainlabor prospect in the months ahead Is the possibility of the giant Teamsters Union rejoining the AFL-CTO.

It all depends on what the Supreme Court does with Teamsters President James R. Hoffa's appeals of two criminal sentenceseight yeara for jury tampering and five years for defrauding the union pension fund.

Reliable labor sources say the 1.7 - million - member Teamsters would be invited back Into the AFL-CIO if Hoffa is forced to step down and go to prison.

The impending changes in the APlrCIO structure in December are expected to cgse out labor leaders such as David J. McDonald, ousted Steelworkers president, and fiery little James B. Carey, who quit as chief of the International Union of Electrical Workers when the Labor Department declared his re-election fraudulent.

I. W. Able, new Steelworkers president, is almost certain to replace McDonald on the AFL-CIO executive council, but who will fill the eight oth-

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.By ART BUCHWALP

3irchers Last Refuae?

Oh. ptty the poor John Birch Society. Everybody is knocking each other over to disavow its members. First Sen. Thrus-ton Morton, then Sen. Dirksen XBid Congrrasmair Gerry Ford, followed by Dick Nixon. And even Barry Goldwater of the famed "extremism in the pursuit of" line has urged the John Birchers to resign from the Society and work for the Republican party. Finally, William Buckleys conservative National Review devoted an issue to the John Birchers and found them wanting In all departments. For the first time the conservatives have decided that the "pursuit of extremism in the defense of Uberty is no vice."

It must be very lonely to be so far out of touch with everyone in the United States and, when I read of all the disavowals, my first fear was that the John Birchers might disappear from the American scene, which would be an incalculable loss to the way-out fringe of the country.

But as luck would have it,

I sat next to a man on a plane who said he was a member of the Communist party. I mentioned to him how depressed I was by the people who wtre 4h& JBB ad

he said, Well take em if nobody wants em."

Youll take them?

"Why not? The Communist party has never turned down a nut yet.

"But they arc sworn enemies of the Communist party. "Are you kiddlDg? They maintain that 60 per cent of the U. S. government is made up of Communists. Even the Soviet Union has never claimed that. The John Birchers can find Cranmunists In the United States where no one knew they existed. They make us look pretty good back home.

"What do you mean by that?

"Well, all we have to do is send back to Moscow John Birch literatpre and our bosses read it and say, Our people in the United States are really cm the ball. According to this stuff, there are Com

munists everywhere. I was given a raise just by sending the Kremlin a pamphlet which proved the State Department was composed mostly of Soviet secret agents." ....

I could see where Moscow would be impressed," 1 said. "But how would you propose taking the John Birchers into the party?"

Well go to them and say. Look, comrades, apparently no one wants you in the United States and nobody wants us. But we need each other. You cant raise any money without Communists, and we cant get credit for Iniiltratlng the whole framework of the American government alone. So lets join forces. Between the two of us we can knock the pins right out of the American system. Well look good and youll look good.

ART

BUCHWALD

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By JOHN G. DUNC AN October 21, 1925 C.eneral Bowley I>elivers Splendid Address In C'ity Guest of American Legion urges people to make Armistice Day a day of celebration.

Literature Department Of Literature Department Of Womans Club Held FTrat Meeting Of Year

The literature department of the Womans Cflub held Its first meeting of the year at the home of Mi's. W. H. Woolard, chairman j-esterday afternoon. Sixteen members were In attendance and much enthusiasm wa.s expressed over the plans for the year's work.

Mr. and Mrs. Woltz of the Proctor Hotel, are now making their home with Mrs. Nana Brown, comer of Pitt and Second Street.

The Rev. James E. W. C^k left this afternoon for Washington, D. C to attend the biennial meeting of the Supreme Council 33 degree of Scottish Rite Masons.

To the Editor:

As I listen to the news about the young men ( is that the right word or "what) that are demonstrating against draftingburning draft cards and thills as they are In Viet Nammy blood ran cold. Thank God for the young men that are in service for our and their country. When we. sow to the wind we reap the whirlwind. I am told my son may have to go to Viet Nam in the near future. As a mother, U I could take hla place I wtmld, but I know I can only be his mother. I cannot be his body and soul. He must stand-alone as a man. God help himthat he will etanil.-And to all of the young men of our great country. May I say: God has trusted us with this great countrywhat will you do with itit ia up to you young men. When I was a child I spoke as a child, when I became a Man 1 put childish things away.

Mrs. Her sel Bowen

To the Editor;

The Salvation Army declares, Our duty Is to feed the hungry, care for the poor, clothe the naked, befriwid the friendless, and strengten mans faith in himself and in God. To The Salvation Army, a man may be way, way doAvn, but he is never out and The Salvation Army works unceasingly to restore hope and faith to the despairing, the discouraged and the disheartened. Through its spiritual and social welfare ministry, The Salvation Army, along with other member agencies of the Pitt Coimty United Fund, make this community a better place to live.

The United Fund of Pitt County, with all its personel and volunteer workers, are to be commended on the fine work they do. It is a great privilege of The Salvat i o n Army to be Included in Its member agencies, thus enabling them to enlarge their services to the community.

The various branches of service which The Salvation Army performs Include the following: Disaster work; Religious Services: Prison and Hospital visitation: Rehabilitation Programs; Bible Study groups: League of Mercy

work; Boys Cubs; Family Relief; Summer Camps; Life-Saving Units; Evangelistic and Youth meetings; Sun day Schools and many others.

We think you will agree that the most important record is written in the hearts and lives of those who have been helped either by The Salvation Army or any of the many participating agencies of the United Fund. So, again, may we say that we deeply appreciate the United Fund and its workers, and the opportunity it gives us of uniting our efforts with those of the many other agencies whose aim is to make Greenville and Pitt County a finer place to live.

Earl Reagan Greenville

"But the John Birchers are super-patriots, I said, "they would never join the Communist irty.

"Everyone needs love and acceptsmce. If we dont love them, who will?

"How would you work? "Theyre pretty good at infiltrating the PTAs, police departments, and boards of education. We work more with unions, universities, and Pair Play for Cuba movements. If we combine forces, well be imbeatablc."

"I have my doubts, sir, I said. The John Birchers may be beyond the fringe, but they would never knowingly cooperate with you people."

"Perhaps youre right. And maybe its better if they didnt. Theyre helping us so much now that Id rather not do anything to disturb them. Say, it Is really true that most newspapermen are pinkos and Commie dupes?"

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Thomas Mann, whose job as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs makes him the third-ranking official in his department, made a speech the other day warning against Popular Front movements that tolerate Communists. Supposedly he was speaking to the politicians of the Dominican Republic (including former Presi--denL Jua& Bosch) who ere acting all too cqmplai&antly towards Castroites and Communists in such organizatiorns as the Par Left Fourteenth of July Movement. But, knowing that Tom Mann has one of the sharpest minds in Washington, I find it impossible to believe that he wasnt aiming his words primarily at certain people in his own State Department.

The fact is that if a Popular Front government emerges in the Dominican Republic next spring, it will be the fault of those who have undercut Tom Manns advice on how to handle Latin American affairs. We started out bravely enough in the Dominican crisis. But, mo

JOHN

CHAMBERLAIN

by one, we have cut ^own tb local watchdogs who could have been counted on to see that no genuine Popular Frontist gets control of the army or tht police or the conduct of foreign affairs in Dominica. Poor General Wesslny Weasin, whose crime was that he loved his country, has been exiled not because the Dominicans willed it but because "Washington found him a totally committed anti-Popular Front man.

Representative Edward Der-winski of Illinois, who has received regular briefings on the D 0 m l hT e a ft sipitiui as & member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is me who cant understand the abyss that lies between Tom M a n ns words and day-to-day State Department behavior. Says Derwinski, "I can only say that either our Department of State officials are (1) ignorant of conditions in the Dominican Republic; (2) lying to members of Congress or (3) withholding information from Congress; or perhaps a combination of the three." True enough, the provisional government In Dominica, set up under the - Organization of American States, is not yet a Popular Front affair. But it has the aura of a weak Kerensky-type apparatus. President Hector Oarcia-Godoy, the interim ruler in Dominica, has done very little to collect the arms which the -rebels were supposed to turn in after the coaliUoj government had been formed and these arms, hidden in the hills and under floors in the city of Santo Domingo, are a tacit reminder from the Left that, come spring, Dominicans had better elect a Pojmlar Front government "or else.

The words of T( Mann and the deeds of the Department In which he Is third ranking member are poles apart when we consider the famousor infamousOtepka case. It will be remembered that Otto Otepka, as a top State Department security evaluator, raised some questions about the ability of William A. Wieland, who was the Departments adviser on Cuban affairs back In 19^ and ^960. to defend the U. S. against the emergence of Popular Front situations to the Caribbean. Wieland, according to Otepkas statement, gave false testimony when he claimed a mere superficial acquaintance with the character of Fidel Castro. A 1962 Internal Security subcommlttet report, signed by five Democrats and four Rejmbllcans, Insists that Wieland knew Castro well enough to inform friends In 1958 that Castro (Continued On Page 6)

Shale Oil Pot Begins To Simmer

Strength For Today

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By EARL U DOUGLASS WORni TRYING

Keep busy. "If she only had something to omipy her mind she wouldnt go steami n g around all the time because she thinks the neighbors are looking down on her." If he would only st<H> worrying about the money he lost he might make a fortune who knows? "She Is like the people In the Insane asylum Who day aftor day Mump down in a chair and gaze vacantly at nothing at all,"

We repeat the cure; "Get busy." It is not the only factor of ure. It works lietlrr with some people than with others. There are some illncv 6CS for which we need metli-

cine and others for which we need rest and sUU others which can be helped only by a change of scene. But undoubtedly there arc many adverse situations in life wttfch can first be endured, then forgot-

forfot-

ten, then cured by the simple

recipe of getting busy. "I wept for a year over that, but finally I saw the light and made it a rule to keep busy. "When I think of those dreadful people I start to do something, even if its nothing more than dusting the room. "My colleagues tell me Im wearing myself out. Better that than poisoning myself with bitter nicmoiies. walking the floor all the night wuinging my hand.s."

Keeping Ixisy is not only the cure, but It is a cure.^ Try it.

By ELMER ROESSNER

There arp two trillion barrels of oil lying around in Western United States. Its been there a long tinu; and is likely to be there for some time to come unless someone comes up with a doozle of an idea.

The problem with all this oil is that it is locked up in shale, a hard, stratified rock. CK these extensive shale oil reserves in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, probably wm trillion barrels of oil oould he extracted if a cheap^ processing method could be developed.

Interest bubbled up dur 1 n g World War I when global conditions and limited crude reserves threatened an oil shortage. Research and development work on shale oil mining and processing was undertaken. Then the war ended, new large reierves were discovered and everyone forgot about Shalt.

new sources made shale oil too costly.

NEW PRESSURE Now, with increasing oil demand, import restrictions, higher exploration costs and rising oil prices, the shale oil pot Is beginning to sim m e r again. The governments experimental Installation at Rifle, Colo. closed down almost 10 years ago has been leased by the Colorado School of hflnes Research Foundation.

ELMEl

ROBSSNER

The same thing happened in World War II. ^adequate reserves and disrupted distribution again stimulated Interest In shale oil. Further progress in mining and extraction techniques was made. But agaui the end of the war and ample

The foundation is operating the plant for ^ oil companies. Another cm ccmcem has started up a prototj3?e shale oil processing plant. ,.

To fxti-act oil. the shale must flret be crushed and then retorted at high temperatures by c<x)tinuou shaft or by kiln process.

Another possible-method being studied is retorting the shale right in the ground. Air or oxygen is Injected into the deposit and part of the carbon in the shale is burned to supply the necessary heat. Then a well could pump the retorted oil to the surface.

This method requires the shale be fractured first by underground explosion. A nuclear detonation is a poBsibillty although there might be problems of overheating and radiation contamination,

IMPORT LEVELS

Development of competitive shale oil productlMi by these or other methods in the next decade or two will depend largely on what limitations are put on crude oil Imports. There is plenty of oil in the world for present needs and a liberal Import policy and heavy imports would keep prices, and the interest in shale oil, down,

ton. The estimated $5 mUUon being put into shale oil research and development at Rifle is a comparatively small investment.

Its no trick at all to spend $100,000 drilling a wildcat oil well. And some 10,000 wildcat wells are put down In the U.S. each year in the search for new oil sources. In comparison, the present shale oil effort Is hardly greasing the skillet.

Shale oil wont lie around our West forever. Ra only a question of time before world reserves start shrinking and shale comes Into, its own. The billion dollar question is when?

Tight limits on imp o r t s would force heavier reliance on higher priced U.S. crude. This would push prices^ up towards that of shale oil'.

The cuiTent interest in shale oil doesnt mean the oil Industry is pushing the panic but-

WORLD TOBACXIO OUTPUT LOWER Production of tobacco in the last half of this year will an estimated 6,766 million pounds, or a 4 per cent drop from the 7,037 million pounds for the year ago period.

Smaller tolmcco crops art forecast for the U.S., Greece, Turkey. Uugoslavia, Belgium. Italy, West Germany, Japan a Poland. Total UJS. output is es--timated at 2,002 n.Illion pounds, a decline of 10.1 per cent from 1964.

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