Wednesday, November 10, 1965

Delay Is Over Established Points

Greenville needs to move on with the Central Business district improvement plan and cease quibbling over wording or the ned for more public housing. -

It has long been known that whenever families are displaced by clearance projects, the city must ahow that they will be provided with safe and sanitary housing. If the families do not have adequate income for standard homing then it must be provided through low rent public housing. ^ -

Planning for the Central Business District improvements has barely begun and already city boards are quarreling over wording of standard resolutions which have been approved on previous projects. The City Council is hesitating over reserving the 165 units of public housing which the C&D application must show for displayement of faifiilies.

If every step of the way to an improved downtown is to be labored, then it will be years before any actual work is begun.

Planning for CBD improvements will take months at best. There are many safeguards built In to assure that the plan is sound. Included are two public hearings on the proposed plan before It is finally approved.

We believe that most businessmen and property owners in the Central Business District are

! Bonner, A Voice

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By WnXUM A. SHmES

FIRST-Dm district which the late Herbert C Bonner repriMDted in Congress for SS years stretches from the sandy Outer Banks and the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds to file wooded shores of the RoMioke river.

It reaches across 15 counties from the towns of Farm-ille and Grifton in its lower comer to Curritodi Sound and Corolla Ughi Its map is dotted with such picturesque place-names as Swanquar-ter and Rose Bay, the Pasquotank and Perquians rivers, Ocracoke and Buxton-on-Cape Hatteras, the Chowan liver and Lake Mattamuskeet.

This is the sprawling First district of North Carolina, geographically the largest and by population 277,861 the emallest in the state.

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Its coastal towns, from Roanoke Island to Edenton, Hertford and Bath, are drenched in colonial history and charm. It is potentially rich in many resources, but struggles economically.

BONNER ~ Unl his death, Bmmer was the Tirst citizen'* of the First district, its political leader and spokesman.

He was a man who loved his political bailiwick, who knew it well, stayed close to It and who was loved widely in return.

Few North Carolina members of Congress have become o firmly entrenched politically as did Herbert Bonner in his First (fistrict And few left their stamp on a district as indelibly as Bonner over the

past quarter century. In many ways, Bonner carried on a tradition of Democratic congressmen from the First, and from Beaufort County, but be broke with tradition too.

POLITICS Looking back, Bonners political career was no carbon copy of his predecessors. They sved in different times, and the past 25 years, especially since World War H, saw many changes come to the First District

Bonnor had a role in many of the changes. In general his politicswhile staunchly Democratic and rooted firmly in First district conservatismwere more liberal. He was willing to compromise for the sake of unity and pro-gress.

He was, at the outset, fiw protege of former Re.p Lln-say C. Watten who called Bonner to Washington as his aide in 1925 and who gave him his blessing to succeed him In Congress.

But Bonner did not remain long In Warrens shadow, and in lata* years they had fiieir differences. Usually, however, they patched them up. At his death, Warren paid tribute to Bonner.

*I was proud to see him succeed me in Congress and I was proud of the record he had made.

UNITY - At the 1964 Democratic National conventicNn in Atlantic City, when internal ieuding threatened to split the states detegatlon, Bonner displayed is personal skill at healing political wounds. Of the state party leaders who pleaded for unity, oteervers felt Bonner was the most eloquent.

He pointed to the fierce factionalism of primary campaigns back home in the First district. But, he said, we know how to close ranks and stand together. And he contended that it has been the First district, on more than one occasion, which had kept North Carolina In the Democratic column in November.

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agreed that planning should be expedited.

We call on the City Council and other city officials to take the proper actions promptly so that as little time as possible will be wasted.

Communitys Effort

Is A Familiar Story

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A small community in Ohio is battling to keep its only medical doctor.

In many resped^ the story of the communitys effort is not different from that of thousands of other small towns across the nation. In the case of Enon, Ohio, the community is exerting its effort to keep its only doctor, a young general practitioner, from being drafted for duty in Viet Nam. And because this is the major factor, Enon may be more successful in retaining its doctor than many other small communiUes.

The shortage of general practitioners throughout the country has put the pinch not only on small communities, but to a lesser extent on larger cities as well. The percentage of doctors in the field of general practice has dropped sharply in recent years. Many small communities which several years ago had two or more general practitioners now find them.selves with none.

The situation is common in Eastern North Carolina, and indeed, throughout this state as well as othr states. The proposed two-year medical school at East Carolina College has been cited as rme instrument which may b^e used to steer more doctors into the field of rural medicine.

It is evident that the need for such a facility will continue, not only in North Carolina, but in other states as well.

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By JOHN CHAMBERUIN Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Big Brother may not be watching you on a twenty-four-hour basis just yet. But he is sure flexing his muscle and getting ready for the day. p

It shows in little ings and-in big. One little thing happened in Chester, Pennsylvania, a week or so ago when two school children, Charles Steward Jr., 15, and his sister Peggy, 8, were suspended from their classes for three days because they brought their own lundies from bonne Instead of paying for meals partially subsized by the federal gov^nment K seems that Big Brofiier In Washington wmit sitopoit school lundi programs that are not accepted by 100 per cent of the piqdls. In oflier words, yooH eat federal hamburgers and cupcakes and like itin schools fiiat for fedii^ Be^.

and young diabetica are presumably included.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) -Two presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy smashed head-on into a big industry when it suddenly raised prices while they we trying to keep prices steady.

But the way they did it Johnson with aluminum, Kennedy with steel is a study in contrasts.

Kennedy did it with his chin out, full of denunciations, and, although he won, the victory cost him dearly for his relations with business were sour for a long time afterward.

So far, Johnson has d< nc it quietly and indirectly he aides to the talking that be hasnt said one word but let his aides do the talkingthat his administration hasnt yet achnitted it was trying to discourage the aluminum price boost

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investigations. By April 13, two days after the price boost began, the steel industry revoked its increases.

Johnsons case with the aluminum industry has a longer history.

After World War II the government began stockpiling various metals and siq)pUes. including aluminum. Now it figures It has on hand, above its stockpile needs, about 1.4 million tons of aluminum.

The government wanted that much returned to the (Continued On Page 5)

This Date-

40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN November 10, 1925 Total Tax Cut May Go Above Limit Set By Treasury Final decision on program for Reduction or repeal of miscellaneous taxes given consideration.

^Il's Okay To Pretend Youre Not A Republican Contender, But MUST You Contend Youre Not A RepubKcan?

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Touching All The.Bases

Louis Singleton is a public spirited citizen. Nobody will deny that when the local young attorney is called upon for civic work he responds with enthusiara.

Consequently when Joe Smith of the Civitan Club called and asked Louis to help with concession stands at the East Carolina-Lenoir Rhyne game, its not surprising that

Louis readily agreed.

So Louis worked during the entire game. Then it occured to someone to ask why Sngle-ton was helping the club.

Seems Louis is not a Civitan and Smith thought he was calling another member of the club.

^ IxHiis Singlet(Hi assumed the Civitans were short of help, so he didnt ask any quest

ions. He just pitched right in.

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Johnson, a shrewd polltTian who knows the mportimce of having big bu&Iness on bis side and has spent a lot of time trjing to line up bis-nessmen, wants to win but he isnt using the Kennedy tacticis.

On April 10, 1P62, U.S. Steel informed Kennedy It was raising prices. Immediately on Kennedys orders his aides began phoning other compaas to dissuade them for following U.S. Steel. But'they did.

The next day at his news conference Kennedy denounced the industry s actito as irresponsible dtoiiance and ruthless disregard of its duty. He began to apply other pressures.

His brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, announced a grand jury investigation of the price increases. He sent out subpoenas to the heads of steel companies. The implication was that might be price-fixing.

Various congressional c o m-mittees, headed by Democrats, announced they would begin

Federal Government To Pause Two Minutes On Armistice Day

Washington, Nov. 10: A

cessation of Governmental activities and industrial commercial and business of the country for a brief space for 11 oclock tomorrow in observance of Armistice Day was recommended to the Ctountry by President Cocd-idge.

Nothing feels more lonely than a swimming hole in the fall. -

Very few children are on spanking terms with their children.

Tomorrow at 3:30 in Evans Street School Auditorium grades two, three, and four will be entertained by Mrs. Warren hostess, and Miss Coates with stories.

There will be a basket party at Red Banks School on Friday Nov. 13th at 7:30. Evei^one is invited.

Lila May Forbes

(dudstian Science Monitor)

The vigor with which the United States is pushing its manned space flight is encouraging.

When Gemini 6s flight was scrubbed, space officials quickly turned from disappointment to preparations for the 14-day flight of Gemini 7. Now President Johnson has approved their suggestion to ti7 to launch Gemini 6 during that flight as weU. The two spacecrafts would then be brought to within a few yards of each other.

If successful, this would a dramatic rendezvous. It would go beyond the Soviet mission in which two Vostoks were placed in intersecting orbits that mom-emtarily brought them with- * in a few miles of each other.

One should be careful in evaluating this latest change in the Gemini flight sch^-ule.

Superficially, it might seem the administration is cutting corners to stage a space spectacular. It might appear an incautious grasp for prestige. But a careful reading of toe

recommendation of James E. Webb to President Johnson indicates that this is not the case.

The administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reportedly told the President there is a 50-50 chance Cape Kennedy technicians could turn around quickly enough to launch Gemini 6 about eight days after launching Gemini 7.

This means that a possibility for dual flights has arisen from the imreased capacity of the space iMrogram as a whole. It is not something that is being pushed mainly for political reasons.

Indeed, some rocket engineers have reportedly been urging an attempt at a dual flight since the spring. Now NASA, spurred by toe Gemini 6 scrub, has agreed that such an attempt is feasible. TTie President has given his O.K.

Thus, the announcement that NASA will try for a dual flight in Deceml^ or January is an indication of how fast American space flight capacity Is growing. That is why we are encouraged.

Under city policy, the city was called upon to repurchase some cemetery lots recently.

The action was promptly

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taken by toe ty Council.

I assume these are unused lots, commented Councilman Ralph Brimley.

And also at a council me^^ ing there was a discussion as to toe flaromability of a plastic drainage pipe.

Ck)uncilman John Howaru wondered. He stuck a cigarette lighter to a sample.

It burned.

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At file other aid of the scale there is the Federal

Communications Commissloni attempt to force a new ruling that would turn over the supply and control of fifty par cent of toe networks prime evening entertainment to th$ advertisers. This would give two hours to Madison Ave^ nue out df the four mo^ valuable TV hours in the day.

I am not sufficiently wefi-versed in TV realities to know whether the advertisers would provide better programs thaa the networks themselves. But what ga^ me is the pretentiousness of the FCC, a bo<fr that was originally created to allocate wave-lengths. ThI FCC by one means and another, has kept pay-as-yon-see television from ever hav^ ing a really fair trial. Yet there is nothing in the law as I read it that gives toe FCC power to detente who is to finance TV programs. This does not come under toe heading of regulation as Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison would have understood term.

The logic behind toe effort to give fifty per cent of prime evening time to shows created by toe advertising agencies and not by independent contractors is that it would guarantee more diversity. Well, it might and it might not. To make such an assertion is equivalent to saying that the contents of magazines and newspapers would be more varied If the adver-, tisers were permitted to taka editorial control of half of tha (Continued On Paga )

SUPPORT TOUm

A rash of bad checks recently prompted one of our banker friends to note that people will cash anythmg.

He said that often firms will run promotions using fac-similies of checks which can be turned over to the store for a discount.

Almost invariably some of these promotions devices turn up in checks that have been cashed. They, of course, dont clear at the bank.

PITT COUNTY UNITED FUND

Indebtedness And BankruDtcies

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TRANKS INDEED

As 1 write, thtrt lie before me a letter from a friend of mine, a Christian minister who some years ago sufered an appaling misfortune. It was necessary for him to have some slight surgery performed and in the doing of it somebody made a mistake and he has been in a wheel chair ever since.

Yet his letter is as cheerful as one could imagine. He speaks of the good health and good cheer which he and his wife maintain. He has a little church. Each Sunday he enters the sanctuary in his wheel chair, c(tfiducts the servicie, preaches a sermon (uid always a good one), comes down in his chair and meets the (xmgrcgation at.the door always smiling. I am still

holding forth, he writes and everything seems to be going well, and 1 am kept busy in various ways.

A majority of persons would probably have broken long ago under the tragedy and suffmng of this situation. But not my friend John. He writes enthusiastically of a two-week trip he and his wife took recently to the Caribe bean.

It is impossible to accoimt for people such as this except to say that they have the right stuff in them to begin with, that they never give up, that they keep their trust in God and find it Increasing with years that for most people would be devastating.

He ends his letter, Warm regards, My thought dbout him is, Thanks be to God for such personalities.

By ELMER ROESSNER The Federal Reserve announced that consumer credit increased $741 millioo in September, for an increase of $8.4 billion for the year ended Sept. 30. This brought outstanding indebtedness by American consumers to a new all-time high of $81-9 billion.

On toe same day the Federal Hesove announced this increase, Ommerce Clearing House reported that bankriipt-cy petitions reached an all-time high during fiscal 1965.

In the year ended June 30, 1965, 180,325 Oases were filed. Of these, 163,415 were personal bmikruptdes. as distinct from businesses.

MORE TiUN COINCIDENCE It was a coincideni'e that both of these sets of statistics were announced the same day. But here is a strong' relationship between t h e bankruptcies and consumer

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The number of personal bankruptcies has risen every year for the last 13 years. During each of these years, the total of consumer credit outstanding has also gone up.

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Almost all teisiness observers say that the amazii^ rise in personal bankruptcies is due to ea^ instalment credit Of he $81-9 billion total consumer credit outstanding, $64.8 billion is in instalment credit The increase in instalment credit was larger ' by $58 millkm than the increase in non-instalment cretot. In

fact, charge account credit declined by $1 million in September. However, with Christmas shopping, it will shoot up in November and December,

EASY GRANTING - AND TOO MANY BATHS

One of the causes of the phenomenal rise in personal bankruptcies is toe laxity of iiBtallment granters. C o m-petition, ambitions to run up high totals, and attempts to save money and time in checking new accounts has led to toe panting of credit to high-risk families.

Another cause is work-of-mouth reports that there is no disgrace in taking a bath of bankruptcy. Friends encourage others to take on increasing instalment payments and then, when they get too high, or \(hen^they lose jobs, to file for bankruptcy.

A third cause may be a

decrease in toe stigma attacked to bankruptcies. If bankruptcies continue at present rates, in the next ten years more than 1,500,000 will have been through the bath. Bankruptcies will have become so common that the idea will spread that people who pay their bills instead of going bankrupt are suckers.

1,100 SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR 1966 The Apple Tree Press of Flint, Mich., has produced its Chases* 1966 calendar of special events and it shows that there wUl be 1,100 special dajre, weeks and months next year, ranging from toe Fa.st of Ab to the Zap Lignite Jamboree at Zap, N.D., and from Break-a-Cold Muntli beginning Jan. 1 to Omisaka on Dec. 31, the Japanese settling debts. The Sfltp-lNlie calendar, a must for all flacks, is $1.50.