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No Substitute For Firm Enforcinc

If the administration's idea behind the Highway Pati'ol shake-up is to achieve better highway safety by substitutiing a public relations barrage for hard-nosc law enforcement, North Carolina is in for a bitter disappointment.

So far the only explanation given for the firing ot four lop MgTi way patrol officials is the assertion by Commissioner A. Pilston Godwin that the dismissals are a part of an effort to improve highway safety. Improved highway safety, of course, was one of the points Gov. Moore hammered on during the 1964 -gubernatorial campaign. And it is something North Carolina -needs.

At the same time, North Carolina needs a continuation of the high calibre law enforcement that has characterized its Highw^ay Patrol in recent years and brought to that organization eight consecutive, awards for outstanding achievement in .-jiolke traffic eupervision.

The selection of Maj. Charles A. Speed as tha new commander of the Patrol, suggests that highway safety wull now become the tail that ways the dog with the Patrol. Up to this point, highway safety efforts had been only one of several phases of patrol activity, and it was headed by Maj. Speed. TTie shake-up indicates the strong possibility that other Highway Patrol activities may by subordinated to emphasis on highway safety.

We had the distinct feeling that the states Highway Patrol was following the only sound path to better highway safety when it based its efforts in this direction on vigorous, fair, non-political enforcement of the state's traffic laws.

No speeches, posters, tv ahows, editorials or

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

PATROL Before the days of Ed Scheldt as commissioner of Motor Vehicles, the job of commanding the State Highway Patrol was known as a political plum.

But Scheldt called a halt to the prsctlcc of governors hiring and firing patrol commanders St their whim, or as politics! reward or punishment

He did so by insisting that the top post on the patrol and the patrol itself be removed from politics insofar as possible and by promoting career men from patrol ranks to boss what became recognized as the best state highway patrol organization in the nation.

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During Scheldt's 12 years as DMV commissioner, there were only two changes in patrol command both patrol ranks, both career men and in nether case was the re-placad commander dismissed from tha patrol. Thera were, of course, several shakeups Involving top highway patrol personnel on occasions but each time the men involved simply were transferred or reached retiram^t age.

SHOCK This is why the abnQ>t firing of patrol commander Col. Dava Lambart and vataran enforcement chief, Maj. C. Raymond WU-liams, proved ttaiiling this weck-

Both men, veteran career patrol officers, were asked to resign by new DMV commissioner A. Pilston Godwin Jr.

Godwins action carried the full approval of Gov. Dan Moore who named Godwin a few weeks ago to succeed Scheldt when Scheidt resigned voluntarily.

The motor vehicles commissioner himself, a virtual czar over the big department, serves at the pleasure of the governor who, under the law, may remove him at his discretion and without requirement of the assignment of any cause.*

REMOVE - In effect, Godwin and Moore feel this authority applies to patrol commanders and patrol offic e r s as well. But It had not been exercised in so many years through the administrations of Ck)vemors Umstead, Hodg e s and Sanford that the days of hiring and firing such patrol commanders as H.J. (Doggie) Hatcher and Tony Tolar were almost forgotten.

But it was not until the ap-pointmit oi James R. (Bull) Smith in the 1850s that a patrol commander had coma from tha ranks, and from the dwindling number of members of the original 37-man patrol organised in 1929.

With Smith's retirement, another of tha original patrol officers Lambert moved up from executive offcer in 1960. Lamberts dismissal leaves only three of the original 37 still on active duty.

One of these three, Maj. W. B. Lentz, figured in a top command shift Involving Smith, Lambert and the new patrol commander, Maj. C.A. Speed, during the Hodges administration but no one was dismissed.

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public relations efforts in behalf of highway safety will be nearly as effective as firm enforcement of the traffic laws.

Space Achievement Is Now^On New Plateau

Almost unbelievable accomplishments of Ameri-ican astronauts in the first space rendezvous leaves little question that the United States has taken first place in the race to the moon.

It staggers the imagination even in this space age to contemplate the maneuvering of space vehicles to within a few feet of each other while spining around the earth at the speed of 17,500 miles an hour.

The highly successful flights of Gemini 7 and Gemini 6 puts manned space flight on a new plateau. Astronauts have done simple maneuvers with their apace craft before, but nothing compared with that achieved in the Gemini 6 and 7 flight.

Astronauts, by this latest experiment, have shown conclusively that space craft can be maneuvered freely, and that man can fly in space as well as simply following a pre-designed path of flight.

This new breakthrough is important to space travel and exploration. It is the key to construction of space platforms, to the linkingup of parties in space for various projects. It is the key to deep probes into space, far beyond what man so far has attempted. It is the key to providing materials and supplies in space that will be essential to man as he broadens his space activities.

The flights of Borman and Lovell, Schirra and Stafford represent an unprecedented space achievement for the United States,

Direct Contact

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -The war in Viet Nam Is President Johnson's most baffling exper-ence and in the end it may do him more political damage than anything that ever happened to him.

He has had great success, in the Senate and White House, persuading people he could reach by phone or in person. And for the most of his political life his problems were those at home.

But Viet Nam is half-way around the world and the Communists there are out of reach. And they wont listen.

And here at home, unless there is a settlement in the war before the 1966 congressional elections, the Republi-

In the process they have apparently talked themselves into a dead end since the terms each side laid down almost certainly would require the other to surrender, with no out.

Johnson has to be concerned to some extent about tha anti-war groups in this country because, although to a limited degree, they reflect divided option in this country.

He may feel it necessary to keep them in mind as he ponders actions to win the war, actions which will have to be more drastic than any taken so far if the war Is to be finished

But his real political problem at home will be the Republicans if the war drags.

cans are sure to make it a big isaue in the campaigns.

He can remember President i iiio LyLJ.Lw' Harry S. Truman and the Ko-

NEW YORK (AP) -IF you are bored with your present friends, there is an easy way to make more interesting ones.

You do it with Christmas cards.

Instead of sending them to people you knowa waste of penmanship at bestyou send them to total strangers.

There is little point in cluttering up postal bags with season greetings to people who make up part of the hamburger of your daily llv-

You know their hypocrisies, and they know yoi^, and the ordeal of the commonpalce has dulled your sense of mutual wonder.

To regain your sense of human adventure do this:

Get a copy of Whos Who in America, and send at alphabetical random a Christmas card to 100 people in 100 different towns and cities.

Scribble the following note on each:

Dear Joe(or Jack or Pete or Algernon):

Ill never forget your kindness in lending me a helping hand when I needed it, and now that I am in a position to return the facor I just want you to know thatwell, I guess 1 dont have to say more.

The chances are that by return mail you will get only 99 cards wishing you the best of health during the new year. The 100th person will be out of town or dead or something.

None of the 99 who respond, of course, will know you at all. But you will have piqued their int^est in two ways.

They will be flattered by the thought they have done a good deed that their Vanl-y doesnt rememberrDand they will cherish the idea that your undying ^atitude will support them if they ever

JAMBS

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Understanding Pakistan

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rean War.

One example of how much direct contact means to Johnson came Wednesday at the end of his two-day c<mversa-tion with Pakistans President Mohammed Ayug Khan.

American relations with Pakistan had become a little rocky since the Indian-Pakls-tan! war this year when there were anti - American demonstrations in Pakistan and each side complained the other was us^ weapons supplied by this country.

Johnson and Khan wound up their conversation with an agreement to deal directly with each other in the future on matters of common interest.

Bill D. Moyers, White House press secretary, said the two men had discussed the misunderstandings that had impeded communications between them in the past but that now the communications seem clear again.

Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk on one side, and the North Vietnamese on the other, in making their separate declarations on how the war could be ended were not talking to each other directly but at each other.

SHOP EARLY! MAIL EARLY!

By JOHN G. DUNCAN December 17, INS

A few minutes spent at Five Points during the busy season convinces most any of us that traffic signals on that comer are badly needed.

The Pythian Lodge will meet tonight at 7:30 oclock in the Pythian Hall. This is the semi-annual election of officers.

'Hiere will be a Christmas dance in Knotts Warehouse, Farmville, Tuesday night December the 22nd. Music Tal Henrys Orchestra of New York. Dancing to begin at 9 and continue until 2 oclock.

Mr. and Mrs. Durwood Tucker and little son, Billy McGee left this morning for Greenwood Mississippi to spend some time with Mrs. Ticker, mother.

Mrs. Earl Jeanette of Henderson has arrived to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tyson. Sr.

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Now that President Ayub is in the United States, this is a good moment to pause to try to uncierstand more sympathetically why he and his countrymen have taken the various tacks that they have. This does not necessarily mean that we endorse these tacks. But mutual recrimination is likely only to increase unless an accurate assessment is made of what lies behind them.

Ihe key to It all is Pakistans deternnination to establish an Identity for itself. Before 1947, Pakistan was part of British India. And since partition and independence, India has been the virtually sole beneficiaryto the exclusion of Pakistanof the tradition and i(ientity established under the Raj. It could hardly have been otherwise. Four times bigger than Pakistan, India was bound to inherit continuity from the past. Pakistan, to the outside world, was a splinter state that had to start from scratch.

Rightly or wrongly, the Pakistanis have seen the Indian shadow under which they emerged into independent

statehood as the greatest obstacle to establishing an identity for themselves as Pakis-i.anis. To make it clear that they were different and dis-tinquishable from Indians, they tended to take a course diametrically opposed to that chosen by India. When India trumpeted nonalignment, Pakistan sought alignment in the then Baghdad Pact When India was assailed by China and drew closer to the United States for protection, Pakistan veered away from alignment with the United States and toward closer relations with China.

Perhaps the rest of the world should recognize nwre clearly the Importance of Pakistan as one of the greatest Islamic lands in the world. But in all frankness, Pakistanis would be mistaken to argue that any such recognition should be at the expense of India. India is important too. Frankly, we do not believe that either is out to destroy the other. There are wounds on both sides still to heal. Yet It will be a happier day for both when each voluntarily lives and lets live.

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No man can rise in the world until he decides to settle down.Lamar (Mo.) Daily Democrat.

plain about their wives, their troubles with their children, their ailments. Tliey will send you their stock market tips, and ask you to send tem yours.

It doesnt have to remain a friendship be correspood^ice alone. If you travel about the country, you will always be a welcome guest In their home. They will wine you and dine you and think it a privilege to do so.

Sooner or later, of course, a puzzled look will come across their faces, and they will tactfully try to question you about that great facor they did you in the past.

You look them straight in the eye and reply:

Well, Joe, you may have forgottenbut I'll always remember. Lets leave it at that. Shall we have another spot of bourbon for auld lang syneand call it a night? You will leave them feeling they are nobler than they knew.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Ck)pyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Prior to the French presidential election of December 5 they meaning the expertswere saying that de ^Gaulle had a safe majori-'^ty in running for a new seven-year term. The same they, not in the least abashed by de Gaulles failure to get an absolute majority in a show-down against five opponents, are now pre-Le Grand Charlie in the com-Le Grand Charles in the coming run-off election. But if you plot the possibilities on a graph in the well - known American pre-election manner, it must appear that de Gaulle could be in for a fearful humiliation.

need help.

All people, including those listed in Whos Who, like the romantic illusion they have a rich uncle from Australia who may remember them n his will. This is your roleand you might as well play it to the hilt.

At the next yuletide they will send a greeting card to

you with a warm message. They probably will include photos of their family.

Before long you will be exchanging friendly gossipy letters with them. 'Hiey will com-

What the December 5 election campaign demonstrated is that some fifty-six per cent of the French voting population is far from reverential about the man who sets himself up as his nations father flgwe. The five candidates who ran against de Gaulle exploited several sets <rf grievances. Francois Mit-terand, running as the candidate of Frances perennial har(k:ore Left, garnered some thirty-two per cent of the vote; Jean Lecanuet, a man of the center who stood for European unity within the shelter of the western alliance, surprised the world with his sixteen per cent. Hie extreme rightist, Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, a violent anti-Communist, held five percent, and the two fringe candidates, Pierre Marcilhacy, a moderate, and Marcel Barbu, a supporter of better housing for the masses, shared toree per cent between them.

If the spraad against de Gaulle bad been worked out by an anti-GauUist general stafl, it couldnt have been more cleverly devised to pull separate votes. But now that that Mltterand, the Leftist, is toe only candidate remaining to challenge de Gaulle in the run-off, the pundits are prognosticating a safe return to the fold of most of the strayed sheep.

The pundits could be wrong again. Without having had the benefit of any polls, this l(mg-distance kibitzer would not be in the least surprise if a hefty chunk of the Lecanuet and Tixier-Vignancour vote were to go to Mitterand. The reason is that Mitterand, though a Leftist in theory, has sudenly turned out to be a pragmatist who is willing to run on a center platform. In short, he is setting himself as a surrogate, or a trustee, or whatever you want to call it, f(wr toe several candidates who kept de Gaulle from getting a presidential majority the first time around.

The question that is at issue is whether Mitterands move to the middle can seem sufficiently honest to attract sincjere people. Analyz-his pre-December 9 speeches, it must seem that Mitterand has not really turned his coat. He stood for a resumption of Common Markets in the December 5 election, whidi marked him then as enouiJ) of a good European to satisfy* thosa who might object to de Gaulles go4t4ilone nationalism. So it could be that he will pick up votes from among (Continued On Page 5)

Worse Labor Shortage In 1966

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Ironically, there never has been the need for a genuine conscientious objector to bum anything. Like everyone else in this amazingly flexible society of ours, he has a place in the social structure, even in wartime." Ontario (Calif.) Report.

Men are wise in proportkm not to their experience but to their rapacity for experience. Georat B*fird Shaw.

By ELMER ROESSNER The shortage of skilled and semi-skilled workers may be one of the greatest problems facing businessmen next year.

While the latest government figures show around 4 per cent of the labor forces unemployed, that includes a large number of workers between jobs and unemployables.

Almost every large employer is having difficult\ in hiring more than warn bodies today. Last Sundays New York Times carried 300 29-inch columnsalmost 33 pages of help-wanted advertisa ments and 22^4 pages of display advertisements. Contrasted were 10 columns of situa-Uons-wanted adz.

WHY SHORTAGE WILL GROW

Here art the reasons the shortage will worsen:

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1. Government military orders are increasing and plants with contracts are frantically seeking qualified workers.

2. The economy is still expanding, needing more workers

a. Drait-calls are iuoh

4. Hie high premium on college degrees and dislike of the draft are reducing college dropouts.

5. Soma hoarding of labor, although its exp^^ve unless costa can ba IMd off against a government oantract.

6. A growing raluctance of collegians to cbooaa Idaalis-tic pursuits instead of business careers. Daniel Yankalo-vich, head of a large social science research organization, told the Institute of Life Insurance that a crisis of purpose is brewing among the top 10 per cent of toe 18 to 25 age group.

MANY SHORTAGES REPORTED

Uaaowhiia. raporU of acar-

city of employees come from many areas.

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, at New Haven, Conn., said it needs 1,000 people a month tor the next 14 months. Faf-nir Bearing, in New Britain, is seeking 1,000 employees. Electric Boat wants another 1,000 at Groton, Conn.

General Motors reports It la havm diffkmlty in recruiting pro(kictlon workifi in tha Detroit area, where UMOoploy-meet is laaa than 1 par cent It alao reports shortagaa la Laming an Pontiac. Tna new ChryNar pint at Balice, 111., hai created lax icarci-ties as far away as Rockford, 111.; the city Is trying to at-trac 2M00 flonra workara.