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Plan Deserves Serious Objection

Pitt County should voice its serious objection to the proposed senatorial district arrangement which puts this county in a district that covers a four-county area from here to the Virginia line.

The proposal that Pitt, Edgecombe, Halifax and Warren counties be put into one two-senator district probably is no more acceptable to the other counties involved than it should beto Pitt. We are confident members of the Senate can come up with a more logical arrangement in Its rediatricting efforts than this initial proposal for the new Fourth district.

Greene Counties make up a single-senator district with sufficient population to Justify a senator even

ng formula.

We trust Pitt Countys representatives will

under the redistricting formul

On the basis of i960 population figures, the new two-senator district would have 202,700 people, about 10,000 more than would be required for each of its senators under the ratio of one senator to each 91,000 people. From the geographic standpoint, it seems to us most illogical to put together a four-county, two-senator district over so broad an area. It would be far better to make two one-senator districts through some other arrangement of counties. ___

The new district proposal is far less logical than the present arrangement by which Pitt and

No Consensus Plan In Wings

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES CONGRESS-Th time has arrived now for legislative leaden to same a special interim committoe^to draw up a consensus plan for Congressional redistricting, but theres little consensus in sight HopeflEdly, the atatta^aeffl-bers of Congreaa would be of help in this task, but so far thci^s beei little indication of real helpfulness from this source.

And tls Is one reason for delay In naming the special legislative committee.

Everything suggested by congressional sources about re-carving the state's congressional districts tius far adds up to a jumble of confusion and conflicting ideas. Apparently theres been no substantial agreement on any major points.

Says one legislative official, *so far there has not been one single, solid plan presented which would be entirely acceptable. He predicts sharp political Infighting.

NAMEOne senator and one representative from each of the states 11 congressional districts are to be named to the 22-member joint committee by Li Qov. Robert W. Scott and House Speaker H. P. Pat) Taylor Jr.

Giving aeh diatrict equal representation on the committee may eliminate some of the complaints which arose earlier when Scott and Taylor named separate House and Senate committees to work up plans for House and Senate redistricting.

Objections were heard in some quarters that the Tay-kr-appointed 18 member House committee in particular was stacked.

These unhappy objectors de

clined to specify details of their complaint except in general terms, and stopped snort of chargj|)j that It was intentional. Some, howevto*, contended that the Taylor committee was unbalanced in regard *to choosing members from the various congressional districts.

For example, Taylor neglected to name anyone from a county within the present Fourth Congressional district which stretches from the Tar river at Rocky Mount In the east to the Yadkin river In the west.

TRADING Now Taylors committee which met in Raleigh last Wednesday and drew up a tentative starting point plan for House reapportionment theoretically was not concerned with congTM-sional redistricting.

It is true, however, that some reshuffling to Rep. Harold Cooleys Fourth District is contemplated in virtually avery congressional redistricting proposal, and that the district contains a number of counties to be affected by legislative reapportionment.

Political observers immediately saw the complaint about absttica of Fourth district legislators on the House committee as a tip-off on plans for swapping and trading on various faatures of all three reapportlonment plans between now and the time the General Assembly convenes in special session on Jan. 10.

DELAY Meanwhile, another reason for delay in naming the committee on congressional redistricting may have been to see what happened in the First District! special primary this week.

An impressive show of strength by any one Democrat seeking the seat of the late Rep. Herbert C. Bonner may forestall any more to put Second district Rep. L. H. Fountain into the First.

On the other hand, if First district voters are lukewarm toward all the candidates seaklng Bonners seat the pro-p<^l to move Edgecombe and perhiM Halifax counties into the First may be pushed.

make the voic of this county heard In the Senate redistricting matter. We trust they will vigorously protest the Illogical district arrangement in which Pitt finds Itself as a result of the recommendations of the Senate redis'icting committee.

Transition Is Made With Flying Colors

A second consecutive Tangerine Bowl victory is another big feather In the cap of East Carolina College, its outstanding football team and its fine coaching staff.

As ECC bowed out of the small college classification in football with Saturdays game, it did so with flying colors. The game marked the end of an era in East Carolinas football history. From now on it will be considered a part of the major schools in the nation so far as Intercollegiate football is concerned.

This transition In the classification of sports at East Carolina College is symbolic of other changes which have been taking place on the local campus these past few years.

In every respect ECC has moved from the small college to the major classification. It has sought opportunities to serve the people of North Carolina. It has found these opportunities and it has provided high calibre service in an increasing number of fields. It has not been reluctant to pion-eer in.an era in which conformity has been the rule rather than the exception.

The Tangerine Bowl victory was but another marker alohg the way for the growing and dynamic institution that is enjoying increasing respect and prestige not only in the Eastern section of the state, but thi(^gheut North Carolina.

By HAL BOYLE

A Third-Rater gnck To The Indians?

Round Success

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) -W. Somerset Maugham at 91, getting too deaf to listen to music and too blind from cataracts to read, began slipping toward death Saturday in a way that would have pleased him. He was in a coma.

Twenty - seven years ago, when he was 04 and beginning to look down the uncertain corridor ahead, this English novelist, playwright and ihort-ttory writer cxpiaiited how he would like to die.

He hoped he would not be

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aware of deaths approach, hi amid, or undergo its pain. Yet, he guissed wrong about ths Utought of Rowing old. Hs laid it (ildnt dismay him.

It would be a very silly persons, he said, who drew the curtains and turned on the light to shut out the tranquility of the evening.

But at 91, deaf and going blind, he was saying: I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable.

In this spirit he approached the end of a long writing career which no one, including Maugham, considered great. He was a third-rater who made a rich living out of it He leid he had been writing for money since he was 18.

But he was a good writer; very readable, always clear and, as Clifton Fadiman said, a professional offering high-grade entertainment His hallmark is neither passion nor depth. It is good sense.

Maugham wrote 30 novels, 25 plays, 120 short stories. His best work was his novel, Of Human Bondage, writ-tendn^l915. He thought it was his best, too.

By the time ha was in his 60s, with moat of Ws work behind him, he said he had no illusions about his place in English literature and that only two important British critics took him seriously.

In The Summing Up, which he wrote in 1938 on his life, hit work, and his outlook, he said, In my twenties the critics said I was brutal; in my thirties they said I was flippant; in my forties they aid I was cvnicaJ; in my fifties they said 1 was competent; and now In my sixties they say I am superficial.

I look upon it as natural then that tha world of letters should have attached no great Importance to my work.

Maugham admitted h i s memory was bad but he said his head was always full of ideal for writing. He worked hard to improve himself, considering simplicity not such an obvious merit as lucidi-dity.

He regretted that he didnt have someone with good sense to direct his reading when he was young. But he traveled ths world in search of exparience for his writing. He warned writers to seek experience, not to wait for it

NEW YORK (AP) - Things a columnist might never know if ha didnt open his mail:

Palaface, beware: The U. S. Indian population has risen from 240,000 in 1900 to more than 525,000. Their birthrate Is nearly double that of the rest of the country22.4 per 100,000. At this rate the Indians may take over America againin 1,000 years.

If science were able

to build a machine to duplicate the functioning of a h 0 u s a w i f e's three-pound human brain, it would be about the size of the Empire State Buildingand require as much power as Niagara Falls, produces to operate It.

Nurses had it tougher in the previous century. In addition to washing patients, they were also expected to ^sh the hospital wmdowi at least once a week.

U. S. universities graduated 4,314 Ph. Ds in the sciences in 1951 and turned out 7,507 last year.

College no longer can be deicribed as a four-year loaf on fathers dough. Studies show that 65 per cent of American college men work to pay at least part of their educational expenses.

Other Editors Saying

Need Public Support

ODinions In Brie::

Before we get too enthusiastic about regulating students haircuts, lets run a scientific test to see whether short-haired white mice think better than loi^-haired white mice. Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch.

ing a variety of worrisome things to choose from.Savannah (Ga.) Evening Press.

(The Raleigh Times)

House Speaker Pat Taylor, who has filled so well the difficult role of getting redis-tricting planning underway, told legislative committee members that he was satisfied that you will get more Criticism tiian praise for the work that is done. He added, however, but weve got to perform a task which is extremely important to the future of North Carolina.

Speaker Taylors apprehension about criticism is well founded. But, there is no real reason why there should be such a flood of criticism for a well-done job on legislative and congressional redistricting. By the time it is done, the flush of resentment at the Federal courts for having ordered the job should be dying down, and there should be a public willingness to accept without criticism an honest, workmanlike Job by the legislature.

This redistricting both houses of the legislature and for Congress isnt a matter of the big counties against the little counties. It is simply a matter of seeing that the vote of each citizen, regardless of whether he lives in a little county or in a big county, is worth the same as that of ail other citizens of

North Carolina. Under the present State House apportionment, for example, the people in a county with 7,500 population elect one member, while the people in another county with 83,ooo population alsO| elect one member. This has meant that the vote of each citizen in the smaller county actually has been worth infinitely much more in., thfl election of a legislator than has the vote Of iach citizen in the larger county.

The leitislators are doing this redistricting under a Fetf eral Court order. They know full well that if they ^ont do tha Job by January 31, the court will do it. It is best th|t the legislature get the work done, and that tney do It In such a way as to bring forth completely acceptable redli-tricting plans. They are entitled to public support in doing the job.

Plans which have been suggested by special committee for both House and Senate will be released to the public early next week. When that is dona, the people of all the State should study those plans carefully and submit their ideas to their legislators. Those ideas then can be brought to Raleigh when the legislators come here on January 10 for the job of writing the new districts into law.

Safety hint: There is no doubt that it is more dangerous to drive on Saturday and Sunday. Insurance statistics in 1964 disclosed that almost half of all traffic disasters occur-ed on weekends.

If a truck driver approaching you holds up his fingara In tha old V-for-vlctory signal, youd bettor brake your spaed. Thats his friendly was of lafc-tiflg you know police are up ahead.

A new camera for missile tests has been developed that is so sensitive it can pick up the flight of a baseball betted 15 miles awey.

Quips from our contemporaries: Definition of a consultant: A man who borrows your watch and tells you what time it isCatholic Digest.

The name Potomac for the river which flows past the nations capital, comes from an Algonquin Indian term meaning trading placea bit of history which politicians Who still trade votes there probably never knew.

History lesson: Can you name who first started the custom of lighting Christmas trees? He was Martin Luther, 16th century Qirman religious (Continued On Page 5)

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1988, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Chicago, m.:A columnist making occasional forays into different sections of the country is inevitably impressed by local grumbling about the way the anti-poverty program is being administered. An idealistic housewife in the suburban reached of Cook County here in Illinois complains about endless talks with her $l4,000-a-year boss In the Ckiunty Office of Economic Opportunityand quits her own |10,000-a-year job as co-oriUnator in protest against being choked by red tape. A federal Congressman from the nearby Rockford area says it is scandalous that proposed Christmas holiday traveling allowincea for youths in job camps vastly exceed any holiday fare money allotted to men In the armed servicce.

The impact of tito local com-ilaints is almost certainly _ lund to disturb; President Johnsons hopes for easy control of Congreaa next year, and there will be an Inevlt-able spill-over Into the 1968 elections. Seeking to make^ hay with a promising issue, some of the House RepublicansRepresentative Charles Goodell of New York is one, and Albert Quit of Minnesota is anothr-havi already aliped themselvei with the poor agalns tthe urban machines. Since the city governments which wan tto keep control of tiieir own local antl-povenfy programs are heavily Democratic, it can be argued that it is good partisan Repub-

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lican national politics to fi^t city hall on toe issue of who spends what money where.

The deeper Implications of

the struggle to let the poor control toe placement of anti-poverty funds are nonetheless a bit ominous. The whole proposition smacks of dual government. We have heard of dual government before: it was what Lenin managed to establish in pre-Bolshtvik Russia when he created toe soviets In the factories of Pstrograd (as it was then) to serve as a political force paralleling the legitimats government of the Constituent Assembly. In time, the Soviets displaced the democratically chosen representatives of the Russian people, with calamitous results to the whole world.

The U. S. government is not likely to bo overthrown on a federal level by a revolution powing out of dual government in toe cities. Nevertheless the fabric of urban representative government could be badly damaged by toe pull-and-haul that is shaping up for the administration of the anti-poverty propam. It Is not inconceivable that Mayor - elect John Lindsay of New York will find himself disastrous 1 y embroiled with U.S. Representative Adam CTayton Powell over the issue of control of povsrty alleviation in Harlem.

Those among ua who tlirive on the designation of 'worriers are having a field day these days. Never has the worrier had it so good. Never has he had so wide and tempt-

Timts change. When grandma used to tell how many pints or quarts she put away, you knew she meant jelliei.Elysian (Minn.) Enterprise.

When Inflation Hits The Doakes

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Americans tend to joke about many British institutions and toe slow, methodical ways of traditional British life. But in teeming London, a letter posted in the morning will be oelivered anywhere in the city that afternoon; ^and if mailed before 6 p.m. Twill be received anywhere in the United Kingdom the following day.Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Advertiser.

The Bank of Tokyo expects to open a branch bank in Portland, Ore. next year. Goodness geishas! Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman.

A fortune probably awaits the dress designer who puts the hemline at the neck and the neckline at the ankle. Fort Myers (Fla.) News-

By ELMER ROESSNER The President, in mild Johnsonian tones, has warned that there is a danger of Inflation ahead. The Federal Reserve Board, in pavelly voice, has cried that inflation Is just around the corner. And some of us, just back from the supermarket, have wondered if inflation is not already here.

So well may the Joe Doak-eses ask, How can we protect ourselves and the money we have been putting away for our children? The first answer is: put the money in government-insured savings institutions. Interest rates, now high and with a built-in tondency to rise, will more than offset the decline in purchasing power.

FOR LONG-TERM PROTECTION That answer is good until inflation starts spiraling. Then here are tliipgs to do to pro

tect savings over the long term:

Invest in real estate. But do it wisely, and with disinterested advice. Avoid areas that have been leap-frogged in earlier expansion. But, watch local tax sales. Som-times rare bargains are available.

( SfEB ROEAaNER

Consider common stocks. Buy for growth, development and expansion. Common stocks are toet. traditional hedge, but often they do not keep pace with inflation. Often they lead to losses.

^ Watch tax-exempt bonds, especially ii you Doakos are

in a modsrate or hi|^ incoms bracket. They yield less than savings or stocks, but the exemption may be better. A family in the 90 per c e n t bracket can make as much on 3.5 per cent tax-exempts as it could on a 7 per cent taxed yield.

TANGIBLES REQUIRE

knowledge InvtSt in tangibles, but only if you know what you are doing. Gems, jewlery, gold,

coins, stamps, paintings, sculp-, tapestires, cattle, antiques, ulver and platinum

have yielded far more than stocks in recent ytartbut they hive produced handsome profits only for those who know the highly special markets. It Is proible that losses of the uninitiated have far- exceeded profits of those who know the fild.

Make foreign investments? Only if toe Doakes know what they are doing. Pitfalls to

foreign investments are treble those In domestic invest-mento. The difference in languages, the difference in business techniques, and toe lack of understanding foreign fields each multiply the risk. And then foreign taxes can quadruple the dangers.

if there is inflationand there is likely to be a large measure thereofthere will be great and even fantastic increases in doUar values of many tangibles, ranging from real estate to Renoirs.

Should the Doakes borrow money to buy such hedges?

Probably not. Interest rites ire going up. Consumer ratee are likely to rise from 18 to 24 per cent on averages. Even bank loans will Cost more.

If inflation is moderate and there are yet no reasons for fearing otherwise, costs of borrowed money will be greater than the increases produced by tafletioik