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Airport Building Is Worthy Work

C'est La Vive"

The move by Pitt County and the city of Greenville to build a $15,000 administration building at the Pitt-Greenville airport is to be commended.

Such a facility ia sorely needed at the airport to replace the antiquated structure that haa been used as operations headquarters. It ia certain that $15,000 will not consti uct an elaborate, ^imposinj? new administration bunding such as may been seen at some airports. On the- other hand, the sum will at least provide a .structure adequate for the air-' ports immendiale need.s, and one which will assure a much better impres.sion than the present building being u.sed for administrative purposes.

Although the local airport has no scheduled air sendee, there has been a marked increase in its use by private planes within the past few years. The city and county, through the Airport Commission, have in the pa.st year made a number of improvements at the airport. These were sorely needed, and their accomplishment has enhanced the value of the facility to this county.

With the increa.sed use of the airport by private planes-for both business and pleasurean increasing number of people get their first impression of Pitt County by what the.v see when they land at the

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local airport. The improvements already made assure a better first impression, and certainly the construction of a new administration buildingeven a small

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will further enhance that impression.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES SESSION - The mo,st optimistic, including House Speaker H. P. (Pat) Taylor Jr., believe the legislature should be able to reapportion the state's political districts within a week after it convenes on Jan. 10.

But there are others who predict the lawmakers w U 1 still be sitting in lialeigh when tlie court-directed deadline for reapportionment rolls around on Jan. 31.

In fact, some are saying it would be wise for the legislature to plan to remain in session until any reapportionment plan it enacts is reviewed and approved by the court.

This presumably would take several days after the legislation is passed. But in the event the court should find a flaw in it, the judges might grant the General Assembly one more last chance to do the job satisfactorily.

FIRSTThere is some precedent for this. In its rulings affecting legislative apportionment in other states since the celebrated Baker vs. Carr case in 1962, the U. S. Supreme Court has said clearly that legislatures themselves should have first opportunity to rcdistrict.

This is why in Baker vs. Carr and in subsequent cases, state legislatures have been given at least one opportunity, sometimes two, to do ie job.

Not until the legislatures have failed or refused hove the courts drawn redistrlct-ing plans. In most cases in the 31 states which have reapportioned since 1962 ihe legislature has acted.

UNIQUENorth Carolina's forthcoming reapportionment is unique in a couple of ways,

however.

First, the two month time limit prescribed by a three-judge federal court is the shortest period of time allowed in any similar case thus far. Secondly, the job given North Carolinas legislative is the biggest and most sweeping yet contained in a single reapportionment decision.

'The lawsuit brought by Renn Drum Jr of Winston-Salem last Fall was unique in attacking three apportionment systems congressional districts and both houses of the legislaturein a single action.

LENGTH Guesses as to length of the January special session range from a week to three weeks or longer.

Governor Moore and legislative leaders are urging that the session be limited to the problem of reapportionment just as the two and a half day special session in November was restricted to a single subject, the Speaker Ban law. If the legislature remains in session more than a week or 10 days, however, chances that other legislation may be introduced under rules suspension will Increase greatly-

One additional matter which the legislature may find time to deal with involves a threat to special acts relating to election of local governing boards, such as boards of county commissioners in 48 of the states 100 counties. 'The N. C. Association of County Commissioners has suggested a bill which could afford relief in counties where exisUng local election laws may be overturned by the courts.

John Morrissey, executive Mcretary for the Association, says however that no attempt would be made to offer the bill without approval of the governor and legislative leaders.

As yet, there have been no decisions rendered in two federal court suits challenging methods of electing county commissioners in Onslow and Carteret counties although these could come by Jan 10 or hile the legislature is in session.

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It ia encouraging to aee the city, the county and the Airport Commisaion moving forward to improve this facility which is playing an increasingly important role in the life of Pitt County.

McNamara Probably Will Be Right Again

Whenever major changes are announced for the nation'^ilRAjybe it baae.a or weaponsthere are sure to be*lTmi>${^from within the military and civilian ranks alike.

It should be no surprise that the recent announcements by the Department of Defense have already brought loud protests. It will be surprising if these proests do not get louder by the time Congress convenes next month.

On several occasions in recent years, Defen.se Secretary McNamara has announced the closing of variou.s military bases. Each announcement * has brought vigorous protests from members of Congress and other interested parties where individual establishments are concerned. The same has been true with announcements concerning%asic changes in the nations miliUry posture or mador weapons.

The announcement that the nations long-range manned bomber fleet will be reduced considerably in the next five years already has brought challenges from many quarters. Secretary McNamara, as is customary under these circumstances, has been the object of considerable verbal abuse. -^ sr

For our part, on the basis of past observations, we would guess that Secretary McNamara has made decisions that are wise in the long-range viewpoint, and will be in the best interest of the nation.

Hinder Regare. Democracies

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-What happens to the grand old man is one of the differences between a democratic society and a dictatorship of left or right. In a democratic society he generally has a bumpy time.

Last Sundays blow to French President Charles de Gaulles pride was just the latest example. His people, failing to give him enough votes to re-elect him, forced him into a run-off election later this month.

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But in other democrats great postwar leaders were nudged hard enough to make them realize they had outlived their political usefulness.

The British did it to their beloved Sir Winston CSiurchill in 1955 when he was 80 and too feeble to do his job. The men closest to him urged him to quit as prime minister, and he did, although he lived 10 years after that.

As chancellor of West Germany for 14 years, Konrad Adenauer had led his country from the ruins of war to bulging prosperity. His own party forced him out in 1963 when he was 87.

There's no danger of an old-timer freezing to his job in this country with its elections every four years and a two - term limit on t h e presidency.

In India one of the most important leaders of the 20th century seemed bound to stay in the saddle indefinitely, although India was a democracy, because no one like him was in sight and he had trained no one.

This was Jawaharlal Ne-ru, who had been prime minister since India gots its independence from Britain in 1947. But he died in 1964 at H

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great friend, the man who had become Indias patron saint, Mohandas Gandhi, which illustrated something else about democratic societies.

In them it seems easier for violent death to remove a leader, no matter how popular he is, while he is out moving among the public, than it is in a dictatorship.

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This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN December 9, 1925 Healing Mission in Progress At Episcopal Church Being held by Rev. A. J. Gaynor Banks and is being the largest attended, creating deep impression upon this community.

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Opyright, 1965, King Featurti Syndicate, Inc.

Oleg Penkovskiy, the Soviet intelligence officer who was sentenced to death and shot in Moscow in 1963 for passing critical military and political information to the British and Americans, was a most unusual spy. Technically, he betrayed his country. But the British businessman with whom he dealt, Gre-ville Wynne, vouchw for tt absolute truth of Penkoyskiy's own statement that he was so revolted by the regime ht served that he considered ht was being loyal to the Rus-*"81311* pebpl in exposing " thi nature of Khrushchev's bluff$ to the West.

By HAL BOYLE

Ambush--A Bad Wore.

NEW YORK (AP) - The most hated word in the war in Viet Nam isambush.

It is also the most controversial word.

It grates on the ears of U. S. military commanders over there. It grates on the ears of civilians here. But the word ambush will remain reluctantly active in our vocabulary as long as we are

battling in places such as Southeast Asia.

There is no other word in the language that presently describes letter the kind of warfare going on there, unless it be the term bushwhacking, which is hardly more acceptable. For being amounts to the same thing.

The dictionary defines ambush as a trap in which con-

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Charlotte Does Its Best

cealed persons lie in wait to attack by surprise.

Military commanders hate to admit their troops have been ambushed because this implies to many they may have been derelict in their duty. Theoretically, soldiers arent supposed to enter enemy traps or be caught by surprise. The word has an inescapably derogatory ring to itunless you are the one who has done toe ambushing. Then it sounds fine.

Declares School System Is Biggest Business in County Supt. R. E. Fitzgerald addresses Parent-Teachers Association of Falkland School on school system in Pitt County.

Garden Club To Meet Thursday The Garden Club will meet Thursday afternoon at 3:30 oclock with Mrs. J. N. Hart on Elizabeth Street. The subject is native shrubs.

There will be a dance at the Greenville Country Club Friday evening for members and their guests.

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Big Red Men parade at Greenville, N. C., Friday night Dec. 11 at 8 oclock.

We are back again this Christmas for only two weeks at the Singer-Sewing machine office with a beautiful line of hand-made articles. For your gifts visit the gift shop.

Mrs. H. R. Miller & Mrs. W. S. Mayo

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

Charlotte is doing its best to show its shame, regret and horror at the bombing of homes of four Negro leaders.

No one was injured but residences of toe four were badly damaged by explosives set off in the darkest and loneliest hours of night. The officers seeking to bring the guilty parties to justice say that there must have been several connected with the dastardly deed and that the night terrorists had carefully planned the shocking deed.

Charlotte has held in the state, toe South and the Nation a high place for its understanding handling of human relations. Oiarlottes Chamber of Commerce, joined by the leading citizens of both races, pioneered in satisfactory adjustments betvreen the races at the stwt of protests. Leading Charlotte men, for instance, went with Negro men as guests for lunch in public places.

The whole r^ponse, so far as could be felt, was for fair and understanding tolerance and adjustment.

, The bombings coming so long after a period of excellent relations were the more surprising and shocking. No hint had been heard of any trouble.

But Ctoarlotte has faced the horror of the bombings as it faced the first adjustment. It has almost to a man responded to efforts to erase the smear on toe citys good name fund started by the Charlotte Observer for evidence leading to arrest and conviction of the guilty parties has won wide approval. The total stands at a sum which should spur the search for the guilty.

And in some effort to say we are sorry to the four Negro leaders, Charlotte is also raising a fund to repair the damaged homes and to restore them to their original condition.

Men of good will who live far from Ctoarlotte have responded to show their disgust and horror at the night terror.

Charlotte moves to restore its good name. Let Ml men of good will help in that direction.

Take an instance reported in recent news dispatches.

Last Sunday in a jungle battle at the edge of a rubber plantation 35 miles northwest of Saigon a battalion of the famous Big Red One the U. S. 1st Infantry Division-killed 200 or more Viet Cong. The battalion suffered its heaviest casualties of toe war.

A U. S. spokesman described the action as a meeting engagement.

It was a big ambush, said a young officer in the field.

Who was right? Both were. Its a question of semantics.

The American column was on what is called a search and destroy, mission. Its men were looking for the ene-(Continued on page 5)

Acting under a Gompulaioi to explain his motives, kovskiy kept a sort of jour nal in which he mixed aut> biography and informatiol about Soviet capabilities and toe fluctifating intentions of a volatile dictator who toyed with the idea of hitting the U. S. and Britain with aa atomic Pearl Harbor. Thi journal was smuggled to the West, and has now been published as The Penovskly Papers. The Soviet government, appalled at Penko-vskiys revelafiMis, has raised the cry of fake, but Edward Crankshaw, a skilled Krem-linologist, and Frank Gibney, the books editor, leave no doubt about the authenticity of a most remarkable document.

What* should stagger Westerners is the data on tbs scope (tf Soviet inlelligenco activities in foreign countries. In a manuscript written just four years ago Penkovskiy says that 5,200

Soviet representatives in Soviet embassies and consulates in some^ >72/^uoiMCoiBinunist countries, 3,000 happened to be staff intelligence officers who were using diplomatic status as $ convenient cover. Furthermore, some supposedly pure diplomats were frequently co-opted for intelligence work. Penkovskiy calcalated toat less than ^ per cent of Soviet representatives abroad were for real as diplomatic officers. *

It is at least a reasonable guess that toe nature of toe Soviet diplomatic and consular services hasnt changed much in four years. Yet just yesterday our liberals were raising a big jullabaloo when Ck)ngress sidetra^ed a bill that would have added to the number of Soviet consulates in the United States. And the. full weight of the liberals will undoubtedly be massed in 1966 to bring the bill to a successful vote tot next time around.

When toe proposed legislation to permit new Soviet consulates in the U. S. is again brought up, there will be no excuse for Congressional ignorance of the true nature of Russian diplomatic and consular work. Someone like Senator Tom Dood will surely call President Johnsons attention to the Penko-(Continued on page 8)

Mr. Garland Holden of Farm-ville was here today.

awbone Used Aaainst Inflation

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER

Writing to the Ephesians, St. Paul said: Finally, my brethren, be strong in toe Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of (jod, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Gird your loins with truth. Fasten on the breast-iriatc of righteousness, take tbf .shield of faith, the helmet of salvation,, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of GkI.

This was Pauls description of the Christian soldier. And all of us who claim membership in the Christian church are either soldip|;s of slackers. It is a privilege to belong to the Christian chiirch. Our faith is something we should

be jjroud of. That faith is not perfect, but how can it be perfect in the lives of people like ourselves?

Yet this is nothing to be discouraged aboutthat is, if we keep going forward. We stumble and fall. Do we lie on the ground and groan and give up, or do we get on our feet and start groping and going as best we can?

If we do, we are headed for triumph. Our triumph may not be world-shaking, but it will shake our little world Crod has made us for triumph. We may be a one-taient |)er.son, or a five-tulent, or a ten-talenttlx? important matter is not what we start with but what we end with.

Lord, they talent hath made five talents.

By Elmer Roessner The Johnson administration is using a jawbone attack to quell inflation.

Around the time it was written here that President Johnson and administration spokesmen were saying that ^ administration was not afraid of inflation.

About the same time, however, it was disclosed that the consumer price index rose to a new high in October. It reached 110,4 per cent of the 1957-59 average. Meanwhile consumer credit outstanding is approaching $90 billioand more about that in future columns. And the shortage of skilled labor is worsening, which can lead lo an inlla-tionury bidding up of wages. TALKING INFLATION AWAY This is the jawbone counter attack;

In Texas, speaking to the Business Council meeting in

Washington, the President himself, predicting boundless prosperity in the year ahead, conceded a rise in toe cost of living but said that the situation had been stabilized.

Also in Texas, Joseph Lai-tin, assistant White House press secretary, declared the President was not showing undue concern over inflation, We dont consider inflation a major threat at this time, he said.

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As reported here. Vice President Hubert Humphrey,

writing in Challenge magazine, said that toe present record upswing just didnt happen, implying that the administration had planned it.

But in San Francisco, Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, carrying out LBJs jawbone attack, said, The worst mistake today would be to get the idea that weve got it made, toat we are where we starteid to go, toat it is time to put on some brakes.

Mr. Humphrey, meet Mr. Wirtz!

The latter added, The economy is still net operating at the level necessary to make full use of available manpower.*^

CONNOR DOESNT FEAR IN-FIXATION

In Toronto, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor car-.ried on the jawbone attack in a speech:

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to be watched most carefully, and indeed our government has recently given convincing evidence of its determination to avert it. I am convinced that we shall be able to do so, despite the increased requirement "of toe war in Viet Nam.

Jawbone campaigns, of course, have a certain effectiveness. But the question remains: can the current one be effective in the face of rising prices, labor shortages (despite Wirtz), a rising federal deficit,, increasing wage demands, and surely hi^er costs of the war in Viet Nam? Especially since American currency has no tangible backing, and even the silver coinage is being diluted?

Samson slew a thousand men with tl)e jawbone of an ass; it will be interesting to see if Lyndon can slay toe danger of inflation with jawbones at band