Thursdiy, November, 25, 1965

We All Have Reason To Give Thanks

Thanksgiving tradition handed down through generations of Americans seems at times to have paled with the years.

Those first Pilgrims who set aside a day of Thanksgiving were thankful that their lives had been spared in the new land, that they had been able to cling to life by the thin thread that separated them from starvation and the other perils of a hostile wilderness.

Try as one might, it is difficult to equate the life of the average American today with that of those early New England pioneers. Even the poorest among the American people today finds life much easier, much less perilousi than those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving ^

Obviously, citizens of the land today have

much mfe to be thankful for at this season of- Vf J| j ffi ^ 1

the year than those settlers of old. There are trials yy ill Mflfl I Q v-kOIHDlfiX and tribulations in todays life, to be sure. There are r

hardships and pain, grief as well as joy, and need as well as plenty. But what we consider a mere existence level of living today would have been viewed as imfmagtned luxury by thtiss who set aside the first day of Thanksgiving.

The privilege of living in a free land is something for which millions around the world would

gladly trade all their worldly possessions . . . even their lives. Too many Americans count it as a right rather than a blessing or a privilege.

The right to worship as one pleases is ingrained in all those who live in this land, though far too many are too engrossed in their othef activities to lift up their hearts in Thanksgiving to the Almighty.

On this Thanksgiving Day in a land of freedom and plenty, every individual has more to be thankful for than he can possibly enumerate. But there is not one who, on this day, should not make the effort.

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,.-irst District Uncertainties

...By WILUAM A. SHIRES

FIRSTShortness of time for even whirlwind campaign-log and uncertainty about future compostition of the district m^et running for Congress in the First District doubly hazardous.

These were reasons cited by one potential candidate, Henry Oglesby, in declaring himself_out of a special Democratic primary called for Dec. 18.

But they also apply to the hopdfuls who have declared themselves definitely in the race for the unexplred term of late Rep. Herbert C. Boo-, ner, and to others still pondering whether to try.

It is .not surprising therefore that some Democrats in the 15-county district are wishing secretly that state Republicans succeed in blocking the early primary and special election plans.

The GOP has filed legal action in connection with a statewide political reapportionment suit in feda'al court in Greensboro seeking to halt the First District voting next month.

WILLIAM

U1B8

TIMETime, of course, is the moet important immediate factor. This is especially true in case of those needing more time to organize an effort to stop the bid of the first enounced candidate, State Sen. Walter Jones of FarmviUe.

Jones has the advantage of having run in a previous campaign in the district He opposed Bonner in a 1960 pri-. mary and lost to the veteran First EHstrict vote getter by 7,936 votes. But Jones has kept up his political fences and held on to a fairly solid core of support ever since,

making no secret of the fact that he intended to try again at the right time.

Jones obviously feels that time is now any advantage in a brief campaign is his.

OPPOSE-It Is known that certain First District political figures will oppose Jones can-didcy and are also cool toward the second announced candidate In the race, former State Rep. Roger H. Jackson Jr. of Hertford County.

With this in mind, withdrawal of Oglesby as a possible candidate could not have been entirely conf('ting to Jones. His supporters hoped to see both Oglesby and Jack Spain of Greenville in .the race with a resulting split of the anti-Jones forces.

Oglesby was close to Bonner, having served the late congressman as his aide in Washington for years. He would have commanded much of the strength with which Bonner, having served the strength with which Bonner carried 12 of the districts 15 counties against Jones in 1960. Meanwhile, Spain was believed to have the nod for backing ^ Bonners predecessor in uongress, former U. S. Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren of Washington.

BIDIn making his formal announcement, Jackson put in a strong bid for the former Bonner support which would have been behind Oglesby.

He pointed out first I have wanU^ to run for Congress for many years. However, I was a friend of Bonner and I could not run against him. Then Jackson also promised that if elected he would offer Oglesby his present post as. administrative assistant in his office in Washington.

Jackson, 37, also made a bid for support of younger votes in the First District, few of whom were bom when Bonner first went to Congress.

He said he has new ideas for progress in the First District, and promised to appoint a woman to a position higher than that ever held before in a Congressional office.

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Announcement of a new multi-million dollar nuclear research installation as a joint venture between puk]^nlver8ity, the Univeraity of North Carolina and the Atomic Energy Commission is another Important feather in the cap of North Carolina.

In addition to its economic importance to the area in which it will be located, this new facility adde another Important research installation to the growing complex in the vicinity of the Research Triangle. It Increases the Importance of that complex as one of the leading research locations in the Southeast, and indeed in the United States.

Certainly the presence of this new facility like the addition of others in the pastwill lead to the attraction of still more research Inatallations and projects in the area of the Research Triangle.

The benefits will not be confined to that immediate area alone, but will be felt throughout the entire state.

The Vietnamese Know Patience

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - In Viet Nam the clock stands still and there is no repairman In sight. Time is not the same thing to a Vietnamese and a go-go-go American.

The American, anxious for an end to the killing, is baffled by the wars slow pace, the lack of any sign the North Vietnamese Communist want to talk peace.

But the Vietnamese as s people have been around longer than Americans and they learned to wait through centuries of trouble. They were in Southeast Asia before the Christian era.

The Chinese, taking them ov-< er in 111 A.D., held them in vassalage more than eight centuries before the Vietnamese shook loose. Meanw h 11 e, through the centuries, they warred among themselves.

JAMBB

SIARLOW

ces could be withdrawn by the start of 1966.

He added: I do not believe we as a nation should assume, the primary responsibility for waL*-That jwaa before Jba United States got fully into the war and took on the responsibility.

As for his prediction on the withdrawal of U.S. forces: now the United States has at least 160,000 men there, within a few months may have 200,000.

For weeks there has been buzzing about whether the Communists might have been willing to talk peace and whether President Johnson muffed the chance. Last April he proposed peace talks, without (Continued On Page 8)

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3ack ' ^ iTo Our Origins

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc;

A year ago, in writing a column appropriate to the day, I spoke of the Plymouth Pilgrims celebrating the first Thanksgiving. Whereupon some outraged letters came from Virginia. It seems that the Old Dominion had actually observed a first Thanksgiving Day before the idea occurred to the good men of the Plymouth Colony.

By ART BUCHWALD

No DiDlomatic Resoonse

It had to come sooner or later. First, there was the sit-in, then the lie-in, and then the teach-in. Now word reaches us from Latin America that the students down there are engaged in spit-ins.

The two latest victims of the spit-ins were Sen. Robert Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Both men were on goodwill missions

to Latin America and, although they are not in agreement with each other on our policy in South America, each one was spat upon by left wing students.

The spit-ins have caused grave concern at the State Department, as there doesnt seem to be any diplomatic response to it. It is known that the CIA had warned both

- They defeated the armies of 'Kublai Khan in the 13th century, were taken as a colony by the French in the 19th and held about three-quarters of a century.

Die Japanese drove out the French in World War II and the Vietnamese, under the 0)mmunist leadership of Ho Chi Minh, began fighting the French return in 1945 and never stopped until they crushed the French in 1954.

No wonder the North Vietnamese, with this endless history of waiting and dragged-put fighting, are not pleading for peace because the United States bombs them and steadily builds up its forces in a ground war.

Perhaps some U. S. officials, who made quick survey trips to Viet Nam in recent years and came back drenched in optimism, also are baffled that they could be so ludl-, crously wrong.

Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara made a number of trips to Viet Nam, sev e r a 1 times returned with rosy forecasts, and as late as January 1964 predicted U.S. for-

40 Years Other Editors Saying Ago Today Weapon Against Reds

By JOHN G. DUNCAN November 20, 1925 Tobacco Market Takes Holiday

Market has sold for this season 34,653,308 pounds, for an average of $26.49.

Pitt Coimty To Have Forest Fire Protection The board of county commissioners of Pitt County have appropriated $500.00 to cooperative with the State and Federal Govt, to guard timber land from fire.

Union Services to be Held Thursday Church of Christ .

Rev. H. F. Jones will preach the annual Thanksgiving sermon; undesignated offering to go to indigent ohspital fund.

Senior Play to be Presented At The College The members of the Senior of East CaroHnarTeadiera College are very busy practicing their play The Truth by Clyde Fiteh, which will be presented on Dec. 10, in the 0)1-lege Auditorium.

Thanksgiving Service At 10:30 a.m. Thursday Service will' be held at St. Pauls Episcopal Church. The annual offering for the orphans at Thompson Orphange, Charlotte, will be taken up.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

It is quite possible that the Western Hemisphere has devised a way to prevent future Communist takeovers similar to that which befell the Dominican Republic. The Inter-American (inference of Foreign Ministers, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, has proposed counter-intervention as a legitimate defense against Communist subversion in Latin America.

President Humberto Branco of Brazil has endorsed this principle. He warned, however, that such intervention could be justified if used only on a hemispheric basis rather than unilaterally. That makes good sense to a degree. Certainly, it is clothed in more legal atmosphere if several Latin nations, acting in concert, employ counterinterven-tion against a Red coup or takeover.

But suppose these nations refuse to act in concert. Would it be iUegal for the U. S. alone to circumvent Communist ambitions in, say, Columbia, or Guatemala? The U. S. acted unilaterally in the Dominican crisis, and we can see that no harm was done. On the contrary, it prevented a military coup by

the Reds.

Hemispheric action would be much preferred, of course. We believe the Latin nations have had enough object lessons to realize their own interests are at stake, and that positive action is the only answer to Red subversion. this reason, it is gratifying to see counterintervention proposed as a weapon for combating the Reds in this hemisphere.

The support of this plan by Branco is viewed as a strong endorsement of the U. S. proposal for a permanent hemispheric peace force to curb both subversive and over Communist activity in Latin American. A Latin NATO seems to be a sound idea.

One of the reasons some Latin nations might hesitate to accept the idea of counterintervention is the specter of Yankee imperialism. And, with this in mind, Branco warned that one should not confuse counterintervention with the usual abuse of power by the stronger nation. He explained that counterintervention was a means of defending traditional objectives and liberties of free countries against ideological, anti-democratic intervention.

Mr. Rusk* and Mr. Kennedy that Communist students were salivating in anticipation of their visits, but neither man decided to take any precautions. The CIA had urged Mr. Rusk and Mr. Kennedy to wear astronaut helmets with specially built-in windshield wipers when addressing the South American students. But they pooh-poohed the idea.

Security officers then urged them to keep a Stance of 15 fee from the students, which was considered safe and allowed for windage as well. But Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Rusk would have none of it.

Mr. Kennedy argued, You will never understand the Latin American position if you keep your distance from tile students.

ART

BUCHWALD

Mr. Rusk said, There are some students who are the spitting image of Castro, but there are many other students who are on our side.

Before leaving for South America, Mr. Kennedy was briefed by former Vice-President Nixon who had been the first one exposed to this form of heckling.

Mr. Nexon. told Mr. Ken-, nedy, The ones to watch out for are the students who chew gum.

He told Mr. Kennedy to wear a raincoat, rubbers, and to always carry a clean handkerchief.

He also advised Mr. Kennedy, Weave and bob a lot, so you wont be a stationary (Continued On Page 8)

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CHAMBERLAIN

Far be it frqm me to play favorites between Massachusetts and Virginia in this business of doing honor to our national origins. But if Jamestown colonists always seem to play second fiddle to the good men of Plymouth, there must be a reason for it Could it be that our schools are to blame? Or is it just that people whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower have a better sense of public relations than the descendants of the First Families of Virginia?

The answer to these questions is that it is probably a little bit of both. In the litera-ure of Free Enterprise, for example, you will find at least a sc(^ of accounts the Pilgrim Fathers decision, after two unsuccessful communal planting seasons, to give up the practice of Communism. Believing what I had been told, I duly passed along the information that it was Plymouths Governor Bradford who had been the first ruler in American to explore the virtues of private initiative. 'This had very good success, so Bradford wrote of the first private plantings of crops in Plymouth, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more eome was planted then other waise would have bene by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deall of trouble and gave farr better contente. The women now wente willingly intc the feild, and tooke their litle-ons with them to set come, which before would aledg weaknes, and inabilitie; whom to have compelled would have bene thought great tiranie and oppression. (The spelling was, of course, Bradfords choice in a day when nobody cared how a word looked as long as it conformed to the sound.)

Well, having hailed, on good authority, what I thought was the beginning of the American system of production. I heard at once from Virginia on this matter, too. Dr. David McCord Wright, an eminent Georgia economist with a Virginia background, wrote me a nice letter of correction which called attention to the fact that Sir Thomas Dale, who was Governor in Jamesown in 1611, had finally discovered that martial law did not grown corn. Sir (Continued On Page 8)

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Strength For Today Horse Racing A Major Industry

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS

Dr. Charles WUliam Eliot, American educator and president of Harvard University, died almost 40 years ago. He had attained a great old age. Some years before his death he was told that one of his classmates had passed away. Dr. Eliot was silent for a moment and then said: That wss the last person left that called me Charlie.

If we live long enough we come to the place wlien there l.s no one left who calls us Charlie, or Jack, or Harry, or Mary, or Sue. We are like Aiplne climbers standing on an eminence. We look down the shocking slope and wonder how we ever got as high as wk did. Longevity appears to be lar

gely a mater of heritage. If we are of the clan that lives on and on then we had best prepare ourselves for happiness and contentment and do it any way we know how.

The view from the eminence is beautiful. Maybe that will comfort us. The world is full of books to be read. If your eyes wont take it, get some student* who is working his way through college to come in and read to you. Never turn down an invitation to ride Uirough the country-side. Talk with young people. Try to forget the ardous climb to the summit and Uiink only of the fact that you are here at last.

I have 160 classmates who still call me by my first name and hundreds of fl-i'ends'who do likewise. Thank the Lord!

By ELMER ROESSNER Horse racing often is touted as the leading American sport. It is also one of our major industries.

The $4.4 billion wagered on the bsmg-tails at parimu-tual windows last year is only part of the story. No one knows how much was bet off track at cigar stands, bars, candy stores, pool rooms, ice cream parlors, hairdressers and what-have-you. But it must be billions more.

Horse racing keeps money circulating in other ways: Helping to sell autos and gas as well as horses and oats;

Keeping scores of Internal Revenue Service agents and hundred of local policemen busy;

Bringing millions of dollars into restaurants ; nd

bars near tracks; Providing jobs for lawyers, veterinarians, trainers, hot walkers, political repairman, and the like; Keeping Bells phonei ringing despite the companys official disapproval;

I MEl ROBAINER

Helping fill some 300 motels which cater to Itorse owners and thei rsteeds as well; Makii^ it pfcHjiri!e for bus lines, railroads and even municipal , subways to run excursion trips to

Aqueduct, Pimlico, Calente, and dozens of other tracks; *

And supporting more pro-siac people and in such businesses as equipment manufacturers, feed sup-* pliers and smithies.

HIGH STAKES There are more direct efforts on the economy. More than 230 race tracks pay

about 15,000 employees almost $100 million in salaries a year, Duns Review said after a study earlier this

year. The tracks contribute $3.50 million in taxes to states and distribute $154 million in purses to winners.

The Internal Revenue Service recognizes owning and

racing horse? as a ' business.

A race horse is a capital

investment. Expenses con-flected with it are tax deduct

ible. These include room and board, trainer, handlers, jockeys, entry fees, medical attention, equipment and shoeing.

There are other advantages. Suppose a business executive in Chicago happens to own a thoroughbred named Boat Race which he enters in tiie fifth at Hialeah. He may not see his Iwrse from one month to the next. But he can fly to Miami, put up at a good hotel and eat the best.

After taking a taxi to the track, the owner may confer with his horses trainer about the race, shake hands with the jockey, and watch his hbrse run. Then he flies back to Chicago. And whether Boat Race finishes win, place, show or tomorrowthe owners entire junket is tax deductible.