Tuesday, November 23, 1965

New Chance To Get On The Books

Jingle - Jingle

Pitt residents who failed to get their names on the voting rolls before the general election earlier this month will have ample opportunity to do so in the coming weeks.

Registration books opened Saturday for the special primary and general election for the First District seat in Congress. The books^will be open at the polling places throughout the' 15-county district again on Nov. 27 and Deo. 4 second

primary is not required before the special general election, the registration books will b open again on December 25, January 1 and January 8.

With these special registration periods coming close on the heels of the regular registration period in October, there is no reason why every citizen who wants to register should not have his name on the voting books. Those who still are not registered after these special registration periods end will have no one to blame but themselves.

Rej^istration in Pitt County was relatively light "during the period preceding the general election earlier this month. The same was true in most of the counties throughout the district. The slow activity during the registration period must be attributed

Could Remake !?^olitical Map

By WaXIAM A. SHIRES

SUIT After a brief but tuspenseful wait, the time has arrived for hearing of the federal court case which is almost certain to result In remaking the political map t)f North ^rokoa.

Keen interest will be focused on Greensboro and a panel of three federal judges hearing arguments this week in tiw reapportionment suit filed three months ago the celebrated Drum case, brought by young lawyer and political unknown, Renn Drum Jr. of Wiaskai-Salem.

A great deal hinges on its outcwnewhich most legal observers believe they can predictboth for the immedia-ate political future and in decades to come.

There Is a widespread feeling both of anxiety and of lets get it over.

WILLIAM

tHIREf

CHALLENGE - Drums suit challenges the states present legislativeb o t h

House and Senateand congressional apportionment It seeks to block elections under the present set-up on grounds that the districts do not conform to the so-called one man-one vote** edict of the U. S, Supreme Court _Jl Charges Ihat the distrieta

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are not substantially equal in population, and that there is considerable variance in population especially in the state House of Representatives and the II congressional districts. .

^ The atate, la its written reply, makes only a weak stab at disputing this obvious disparity and bases its defense on other contentions.

RULING -After the formal, oral arguments of an hour and a falf for each side, along with filing of written briefs and exhibitmostly population chartis expected Chat the c 0 ti r t will hand down its ruling rather quicklyprobably within a few weeks.

This ruling of course will determine what must be done, and how much time will be allowed to do it.

It will be awaited nervously, apprehensively, even impatiently be affected political officeholders and would-be candidates. Next year is election year, with primaries scheduled in the Spring.

No one can blame these people whose seats are up for election in 1986. They have decision to make, campaigns to plan, support to be sought without yet knowing what their district will look like.

In some less populous counties, of course, their seats in the lower house of the legislature may be wiped out entirely.

TIME For 1966s candidates time is important. But the apportionments picture is not Ikiely to become clear for at least another couple of month.

It could be longer. It is po^^ible that the ruling may be appealed. Appeals from such three-judge courts ruling on constitutional questions go directly to the U. S. Supreme Court where requests for reviews in rimi-lar state reapportionment decisions have b^ turned down regularly.

Most Raleigh sources arc predicting that the state will choose to abide by the initial ruling rather than attempt to obtain a Supreme Court review.

to voter apathy rather than to lack of opportunity.

We thrust that apathy has now been replaced by citizenship interest which will induce unregistered citizens to get their names on the countys voting books.

Much To Gain From Farm-City Program

There is a great deal for Pitt County and all of Eastern North Carolina to gain from the first annual Farm-City program that will be staged on the ECC campus Wednesday under the sponsorship of the Greenville Kiwanis Club.

In recent years this civic club has indicated its interest in improving the agriculture of Pitt County. It has staged a number of special programs with outstanding speakers to bring worthwhile information on agriculture to this section.

This years special day-long program, however, brings new scope and new emphasis to the potential for expanding the agricultural economy of the area. One of the highlights will be a farm diversification seminar that will include specialists in a number of agricultural fields that are important to this county and this area.

The presence here of State Argiculture Commissioner James Graham and Horace Godfrey, federal ASCS administrator among other agriculture leaders attests to the significance of the meeting.

Those interested in the future of agriculture in Pitt County and the eastern area should take full advantage of this day-long session devoted to the potential of agriculture.

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

The phrase, as used back in the Nineteen Thirties, was technological tenuousness It was employed by Stuart Chase and others of a tecn-nocratic cast of mind to describe the vulnerability of a civilization that depended on big power link-ups^ for its very source of being.

The years passed, and technological tenuousness was never very much in evidence. We fought a world war without important power failures. When there were brownouts and black-outs, they were planned as past of government or military policy. No saboteurs managed to get to the generators or switchi of our electrical grids.

JOHN

CHAMBERLAIN

By HAL, BOYLE

Now A Legend Winter Vacation Trials

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON!AP)-In two years President John F. Kennedy has heQotm a legend, if not a myth.

Day by day hundreds of

people, sometimes thousands make a pilgimage to the Arlington Cemetery grave of this witty, graceful, articulate almost boyish president who was assassinated at 46, Nov. 22, 1963.

To millions here and abroad he has become a shinning figure, perhaps because of his unspoiled enthusiasm a symoblof what they hope for in the future, either for themselves or mankind.

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He meant different things to different people and thus in different ways was the Image of what they would like to be: intelligent, rich, succwsfui goodlooking, ot concerned abwt people.

But now, after two years, it might be asked as it is bound to be asked in the years ahead;

Of all those who revere his memory, how many can say that they have any real recollection of what he did as preslctent to earn this devotion? Perhaps not many, for their emotions are mixed up with memory.

A few episodes of his presidency are easily remembered.

The first was a disaster, which he honestly acknowledged,when he let Cuban exiles invade their homeland only to perish on the beaches at the Bay of Pigs because the American forces did not back them up.

There was his great triumph when he faced down Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev In the Cuban missile crisis. The one was the great peak of his three White House years the other his great valley.

Opiniona In Brief

The Washington way: Cut the taxes. Then cut the cut In taxes. Then cut out the cut In taxes. Then add a few new

taxes. Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel.

Many of the worlds peoples are not ready for immediate freedom. Immediate freedom makes them a threat to world stability and peace; It does not bring about higher living standards automatically, and that is not, therefore, -inorally defensibte.**^ Heflin (Ala.) News.

The young people who treat their parents with courtesy and respect are the ones who were told the first time they said *I wont: *Y^,you will. --ATiryrlfFbe quick shout it^~ A chM bfxmgh^ up 'that way knows who is boss around the house, and it is reassuring to him to know that he isnt. Petersburg (Tex.) Journal, .

^ About the only White House figure who hasnt published a version of KennedW'8 actions on the Bay of Figs by now is Caroline. -tort Myers iFla.) NcwsPrcss.

In between were all the other days of his predisdency. All of them had life and spirit but his accomplishments were hardly distinguished enough to rate him among the great presidents or even the near great.

He was no match for President Johnson, for itnsance, in getting Congress to do his will, although in fairness it must be remembered Johnson has had a far greater percentage of his own Democrats there to work with then Kennedy had.

Congress ignored Kennedy on some of his biggest proposals a civil rights law, medical care for people 65 and older, federal aid to public elementary schools. Johnson got them.

In foreign affairs, it seems fair to say, the attitude abroad toward this country was better under Kennedy than under Johnson, although here again the magic of Ms personality was probably more the reason than gnytiiing he did.

By getting involved in the Dominican Republic revolt and deeply involved in the Vietnamese war Johnson has antagonized her and-

abroad. But in both cases, certainly in Viet Nam, Kennedy would almost surely have done the same.

Kennedy was building up U. S. military forces in Viet Nam, and this country was steadily getting more directly involved by the time Ken nedy died, although Viet Nam

was crumbling. Finally, to stop it, Johnson did what he is doing now.

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN Nov. 23, 1925

PITT COUNTY SCHOOLS GENERATION BEHIND

North Carolina stands 42nd educationally, and Pitt Oun-ty ranks 30th with other counties of the state. What then is to be the future of our citizenship? 'There are, eighteen one teacher schools in the county, fourteen two teacher schools, and several weak three teacher schools. 'There are eleven very good schools in the county, but many of the remaining are unattractive in every respect. Walk into a one teacher school -..Where there are 40 children, one teacher, and seven grades being kept. In reading, the teacher points to the words, she tells him two words while he happens to guess one. He reads with his Ups, cannot understand his geography, a n d counts on Ms fingers. 'Ihit is not the whole story for it is hei h forms life time habits of idleness and low thinking, There are schools that ^ will produce for Pitt County a sufficient number of boot-ieg-.gers, thieves and other type of undesirable citizens.

NEW YORK AP) - Winter vacations used to be for the birds. Now they are for some people, too.

And the M^est bcnres in tii office from November until next April are the inter vacationists.

Taking a winter vacation has become a form of social upmanship. The fellow who goes on one feels vastly superior to the rest of us paycheck prisoners who, because of family reasons, can only get away during the mobbed months of June, July and August, the factory season for most resorts.

But going on a vacation during the cold months isnt necessarily a sign of wealth. Many people live on bean soup the rest of the year so they can afford to splurge on one. Big deal!

It may be possible that in the history of the world a man had an ulcer operation and didnt brag about it. But no man ever took a winter vacation and kept it quiet. He bends every ear in reachbefore and after.

Weeks before the event he tours the office showing glamorous travel folders. He actually is trying to make everyone else envious, but he pretends to be seeking advice.

Where do you think I should go? he asks.

You have a definite idea, but youre too polite to make the suggestion.

There are two types of winter vacationists: those who go to sunny places and those who go to snowy places.

Those who go to snowy places suffer from a lifelong trauma as a result of having

seen the film Nanook of the North during their childhood. They trudge out of the office \ye^ing heavy boots and car rying a pair of rented skis across their shoulders.

A week or two later they return on crutches with a foot swathed In bandages and their eyes Mdden beMnd a pair of dark, dark sunglasses.

Broke my ankle doing a slalom down the most dangerous slope, a typical victim explains. "The ski surgeon says its the worst break hes seen in 30 years.

HAL

Other Editors Saying

Another Suggestion

BOYLE

(Washington Daily News)

A suggestion worth coi^* sidering, we feel, has been made in regard to the matter ongsltive ^ppbTlo^^

Hardly a day passes now but what some legislator offers a plan which he feels could get the General Assembly to agree. In truth some of the plans are so far-fetched that they are not worth considering.

When we say a plan is worth considering, of course we have our eye on what the federal courts are going to say. And all Indication are that the federal courts are going to say redistrict now.

With that though in mind, again we say we prefer a reapportionment mapped out by the legislature rather than one concocted by the courts.

The plan advanced recently to set up 60 senate seats in North Carolina, and then to give two representatives for each senator, thus keeping the house member-sMp at 120 members has been offered. A similiar plan would keep the senate membership

at 50 an give three representatives for each senator, thus increasing the lower house membership from 120 to 150.

When the final decision is made, it is not going to be a case of what we want to do 4b North Carolina, but rather it will be a case of what we have to do. Here in far Eastern North C!arolina, an area sure to lose legislative representation, this reapportionment is far more serious to us than to the areas which stand to gain representation.

It is so easy for the bigger counties to say yes, we need reapportionment because that is tantamount to saying yes, we will gain representation. By the same token it is easy for smaller counties to say no, we do not need reapportionment because that would be tantamount to saying we are willing to give up some of our strength in the General assembly.

There is no easy way, but the hardest way of all would be to allow the courts to do the job rather than for the legislature to do it.

You give a few sympathetic clucks, and then make the mistake of inquiring, Why the sunglasses? That gives him just the opeMng he has

been looking for. _

Ju^ touch of snow blindness, he remarks with casual heroism. I had to lie there untended all day before they found me. Then it took four men all that night and the next day to carry me down the mountain during a raging blizzard.

There is only one way to get even with the winter vacationist. That is to take a vacation next winter yourself ; then grab Mm by Ms lapels and tell Mm all about it until his ears turn blue.

Quotes

The wife of an unsuccessful angler says she would rather listen to his alibis than clean fish.Carlsbad (N.M.) Current-Argus.

If you want a thing bad enough, you can easily decide it is one of the necessities of life.Sparta (Ga.) Ishmae-lite.

And then It happened throughout a big area of the industrial northeast. Technological tenuousness became a reality for some twenty-eight million people at an absurd moment when the-rery phrase had been for-gottea

Driving from Kennedy International Airport a week after the big power collapse, I listened to a chauffeur who was something of a pMlos-> opher. He was expatiating on the automobile as a self-contained power unit. When the lights were out in the houses, and the trains and subways and elevators were almost umversally stalled, the automobile went right on taking people home. What struck the pMlosopMcal chauffeur was the fact that Detroit could turn out eight million self-sufficient Mwer units a year for travelling purposes, yet our vaunted industrial system could hardly account for a single self-sufficient home.

The Irony of It is that it need not have been that way at all. We could have had self-sufficient homes along with self-contained auto-, mobiles. But we made a conscious decision a long time ago to accept technological tenuousness in our homes .while rejecting it for daily traVel.

Oddly, the very man who made the modem automobile possible by inventing the electrical self-starter was once Mpped on the desirability of providing the American home with a cheap self-sufficient power plant Back in 1913 Charles F. Kettering, the famous Boss Ket of General Motors, decided to give his mother, who was still living on the farm, a little surcease from the daily business of lighting kerosene lamps and putting wood in the stove. He took a small gasoline engine and hooked it up with an electrjcal generator capale of charging batteries with enough voltage to run a farm power plant on a continuous basis. The contraption worked so well that he formed a company to market the Delco-Ught to farmers all over the country.

By 1916 the new Delco-Light Company was doing a busl-(CSontinued On Page 5)

Medical Insurance Plan Hurt

Slate Boys 'Work Secretary Y.M.C.A. visits Greenville.

J. C. I.^niec scores hole in one stroke Local Golf Course.

By ELMER ROESSNER Even before it has paid for the removal of Its first carbuncle, the Medical Insurance part of the medicare program seems to be in danger.

The program provides that the government will pay the reasonable fees for surgery and a lot of related expenses not covered by the basic Hospital Insurance plan.

But just what is reasonable or even how reasonableness will be deternnined has not yet been decided upon. And even when a way has been devised to determine reasonableness, it is likely that whats reasonable today wont be enough (o pay for an operation on July 1, when the medical insurance plan goes int0| effect.

Thats because surgical fees have a way of rising as the avattaWllty of payments increase.

FEES RISE WITH THE TIDE This is shown by a study of 12 employer-frnployee. health

plans made by the New York Labor-Management Council of Health 'and Welfare Plans, Inc.

It round that patients have to pay almost as much themselves as their hospital plan provides. It may be assumed that when the schedules of payments were originally set up, they were pretty close to going rates. The conclusion is tiiat surgeons simply have raised their fees by the amount provided by the medical plans.

'TEB

ROKMNER

The results of the study rai.se serious questloas. n o t only for active employees, employers and the welfare funds,

but for the success of the new social security medical program, said Efrem Kahn, chairman of the council.

Our study shows that many a surgeons fees are unreasonable If measured against reasonable, even liberal reimbursements schedules.

BLUE CROSS EXPERIENCE The 12 plans sttldTCd did not include the Blue Cross. But a study would probably show that fees have risen with benefits there too.

A friend, needing an operation, asked a surgeon about bi& fefi-^ -

Oh, he said, just $250 over your Blue Ooes benefit.

Both hospital charges and physicians fees have ris) as Blue Cross has spread, and the Bius Cross has sonsMfW* ly raised rates.

How th: social security program will meet this built-in dang^ remains to be seen. Presumably, it will draw up

a schedule of reasonable fees, and physicians will probably be asked to charge no more than scheduled prices. REASONABLE FEES TO BE FLOOR

Except for a few dedicated individuals, most of the better physicians and surgeons will set Mgher schedules of fees. The social security action will have set a floor under their price scales.

Then only the Inferior or the young doctors without practice win be available for medicare plan.

It has been suggested that medical societies set basic fees for all patients, those under medicare and those not But they dont dare. It would be a violation of anti-trust laws.

It is likely, therefore, that the government allowancis wiU not be enough under the hospital insurance plan. The government will jiave to find that Mgher fecs^ are reasonable. ^