Thursday, Decemlber 1965 ' , ^

Other States Take Different Path

In North Carolina there are those who throw up their hands in horror at even the siifirT^stion that this state can and should have more than one university.

S'ct, as teri'ifying as the idea may be to some, there are many states which are calmly going ahead with plans to develop a number of state universities whenever they are needed to sen'e the people.

In Virginia this week, for instance, a Higher Education Study Commission has issued its recommendations after long and thorough study of the states educational needs.

Among the recommendations:

Establishment of a new central Virginia state university on a 1,000 acre site. The university would absorb both Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia.

Establishment of a ne\v state-controlled university in Northeni Virginia based on George Mason

Great Year For ;?load-Buildina

His Pin To Pull

(Editors note: William A. Shires is on vacation. The following guest column reporting on plans for a greatly in-creased highway program in North Carolina is authored by tlic chairman of the State Highway Commission.)

By JOSEPH M..HUNT Jr.

Chairman, N. C. State Highway Commission

iRALEIGHrrNth Carolina is moving Into the greatest era of highway construction in Us history, and the impact of that stip will be felt from the mountains to the sea.

With funds from the Feder-al Appalachia Program, an expanded Interstate Program and the recently approved $300 million road bond Issue, the State Highway Commission will undertake a program of construction of primary, secondary, state sjrstem urban streets and Interstate mileage which will affect the lives of all North Carolinians.

Just to give you an idea of what this overall program means the Highway Commission was told by its professional staff on December 3 that tiie Highway Department's work load will increase by 75 per cent.

The Highway Ck)nimission Is already taking steps to meet this additional need. As chairman of the Commission,

I have appointed a special threc-rnember committw to interview and select competent, qualified consulting engineers. This will supplement the additional engineering manpower which the Commission will add to its own staff.

Commissioner John F. McNair III of Laurlnburg is chairman of that committee; Commissioners J. B. Brame of Durham and George Broad-rick of CHiarlotte are working with him.

MEANS-That is what the current program of highway construction means to the Commission, now let us look at what it will mean to the citizens of North Carolina.

What we are working toward is a well-balanced system of highways with good Primary roads to attract new industry and to allow these industries to move in raw materials and ship out finished products with ease. These same Primary Roads, In-con-junction with our Interstate mileage, and ferries, our moving highway links, will

provide the heart of a continuing program to upgrade an already flourishing tourist business in North Carolina. With good secondary roads which will allow the fanner easier access to the market areas, and to get our rural dwelling citizens to the clcs where they are turning more and more for employment. With good State System Urban Streets to take cwa of tt traffic once it arrives in our big population centers, and to keep it our of already congested downtown areas.

GOAlr-It Is the aim and goal of your Highway Com-misin to give North Carolina the best, most convenient and safest highway system that our engineers can design and the funds at our command can provide.

We have the wherewithal to develop this program. In a meeting several days ago with State Treasurer Edwin GUI, I got his assurance that money from the $300 million Road Bond Issue will be-avallable on an as needed basis. In addition, and 1 have said this before, we have 14 men on the Highway Commission who are among the hardest working and most dedicated men 1 have ever had the pleasure to know. But good as they are, they are not magicians, and you as citizens of North Carolina must participate in the new highway program. The key to your participation is cooperation. . .(Operation with your Division Highway Commissioner and with the Highway Commission as a whole.

In my travels across North Carolina prior to approval of the bond issue I became convinced of several things. First, North Carolina has a fine system of highways. Second, there Is a desire to move ahead toward the better life from one end of this state to the other, and if we are to satisfy this healthy restlessness we cannot afford to stand on our laurels. An even finer system of highways Is needed.

The Bighway Commission is now about the business of highways that will keep industry interested in this state, and the kind of highways that will keep the North CaroUna tourist business above the one-billion dollar mark and bring even more people to our Variety Vacationland.

College.

Changing the name of Virginia Polytechnic Tnstititute to reflect the term university,

Substituting before long the terra university for the term college in the title of Old Dominion College.

Rather than a consolidation program under the University of Virginia, the commission suggested that Mary Washington College^now a division of U. Va.might be separated, ending this practice of colonialism.

Mary Washin^on College, we might add, is more or Jess the original equivalant of UNC-Greens-boro, North Carolinas old Womans College. ^ The report received the praise of both Gov. Har^ rison and Gov.-elect Mills E. Godwin, Jr.

We have looked at the portion of the report dealing with the university recommendations here merely to show that there is an entirely different school of thought on the Consolidated University concept. ^ j \

Pennaylvania Is cfqiating separate universiti4$: so is Florida. North Carolinas Consolidated Univer^ sity concept is based on the University of California plan, and even there, it is being recomended that individual campuses be given more autonomy. North Carolinas public should never swallow the idea that a one-university concept is THE modern idea in state higher education.'As the Virginia report shows, there is a considerable difference of opinion on this point.

This states university system should be constantly re-examined to make certain it is the most effective that can be created.

Fresident

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN TCk>pyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Lyndon Johnson s e e ms more preoccupied than usual when he faces the TV camera these days. Small wonder a profoundly political animal, he has always been able to find the secret lever of control inside his own country. But his tax and money troubles and his Democratic Parity troubles are now depend-^ ent on the course of a distant war, and Ho Chi Minh is sitting on the lever. The tax and money troubles are particularly aggravating because they will almost certainly force a retraction of a great promise. After the income tax cut, it was generally understood that there would be a new installment on tax remission each year. The excise tax cut followed, and automobile buyers in 1966 will still be getting the benefit of a progressive provision in the excise allowance but what else will becoming in 1966, whidi li an election year, yet?

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By FRANK CORMIER AUSTIN, Tex. (AP)-Prcsi-dent JohnFon, a confirmed talker and normally an expansive host at Christmas time, has become the sphinx of the Pedernales this year.

In marked contrast to past performance, Johnson has side-stepped repeated opportunities to rub shoulders with the sizable press contingent here and to give them the benefit of his thinking.

Last year, for example, newsmen were Invited to the LBJ Ranch three days out of four during the (Mstmas weekend for long, informal conversations with the President punctuated only by the distribution of unspiked eggnog.

Reporters traveled to the ranch area three days out of four this past weekend, too once when the First Family was serenaded with Christmas carols at Johnson City and twice for church s*vices. On none of these occasions, however, did Johnson invite the press corps to his home.

The usually loquacious chief executive limited himself to fleeting exchanges of Hello and Merry Christmas in greeting the newsmen who turned out.

This was so unlike the man that, quite naturally, speculation about the motives for his silence followed.

Most observers are agreed that Viet Nam has been responsible for the emergence of the now taciturn Johnson.

There have been guarded hints from some sourceses that the United States, in probing toward possible avenues for a peaceful settlement of the war, is involved in matters of such delicacy that any presidential statement would be ill-advised.

Thus there was no acknowledgment from the White House when a Christmas cease-fire was announced. There was only silence. And Johnsons acting press secretar>% Joseph Laitin, took pains to claim the whole affair was outside the ken of the chief executive that such matters were being handled in Saigon.

Although the cease-fire soon was fractured, American bombers did not return to the skies over North Viet Nam. Laitin, asked about this, again said it was a matter to be dealt with in Saigon.

One Texas newspaper, the Houston Post, summarized the situation in a banner headline: Bombs Silent; While

House, Too.

If no one at the White House was talking publicly, one source close to Johnson offered a possible explanation for the FTeside^ts own silence. He is silent because he is listening.

Presumably Johnson has been listening for any tremor of reaction from Communist capitals to what obviously has become new American peace feeler.^

In the past 86 hours, the total White House clampdown on any w6rd Involving Viet Nam has begun to crack.

First came a disclosure that Johnson had received an indirect message from Pope Paul VI expressing pleasure at the Christmas cease-fire. Then it was announced that Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara had been discussing Viet Nam, the cease-fire and related matters during lengthy meetings at the LBJ Ranch.

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40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN December 30, 1925 Officers capture two and arrest one man.

As has been my custom for these many years, I present the best news stories of the year. They were not necessarily the ones that made the headlines, but rather those that touched the heart The first one had to do with Robert Carre, who by chance happened to pick up in a second hand shop on Third Avenue in New York a small painting of an angel for $250. Mr. Carre hung it on his wall and thought nothing more of if until one day a friend who was a specialist in Renaissance paintings looked at it. He told Mr. 'Carre, That looks like an original da Vinci. But there seems to be an-, other painting underneath it. Mr. Carre became very excited and urged his friend to have the angel removed and see what was behind it. The

friend took it to an expert who removed the angel. Underneath he discovered a protrait of a smiling woman.

The specialist returned it to his friend. I was right in the first place, he told Mr. Carre. The angel was a da Vinci, but the portrait underneath Isby some hack. I wouldnt give you 50 dollars for it.

the package?

Postmaster General Lawrence OBrien received a letter from a boy who said he sent a birthdfw gift to his girlfriend. But because of ^e delay in the mails his girlfriend never received it in time, and the youth asked Mr. OBrien to write to his girl and explain it wasnt the boys fault.

Mr. OBrien replied, The post office never makes mistakes. Are you sure you sent

Other Editors Saying

Sets Creditable Example

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Resolutions

There is no good reason why New Years affords a better time to make a good resolution than any other season of the year. Any date on which one may reach the conclusion that one would be better for desisting from some practice to which one is addicted, <M* to adopt a course which one had not hitherto followed, is a good time to begin. However, New Year is a favorite date because it is the start of another year. It is easier to make a resolution than it is to keep it. Resolutions have to do with im-irovements. It does not require resolutions to do worse than one did in the old year. A worse course offers few difficulties in execution. To do better Is the one which requires fortitude and persistence.

Editorial Page

At eleven p.m. Thursday night the annual watch service will be held at St Pauls

Episcopal Church.

The Sanford Herald

It is a political tradition in America that an ex-Pres-ident or ex-governor, upon retirement, is accorded all the honors extended a statesman. It is a generous gesture. The tribute iSunot always deserved.

Some officials who have years of service possible yet dont give them. They are tired, understandably; but their knowledge and experience ought to be passed on to enhance the width and scope of the public trust, an institution unique in a democracy.

An exception has been Terry Sanford, immediate past governor of North Carolina. Sanford, since his tenure, has gone about a life of speech-making, writing and stu(jfy-ing. His public statements primarily have been about a national compact of education he is organizing. This compact arose out of a study he is making of state governments which intends to show states how they best can function as separate entities within the federal government, rather than acting as its puppets.

Sunday newspapers carried a story quoting Sanford as

saying he is not going to criticize his successor. The new state administration was not the choice of Sanford, who supported Richardson Prey-er, defeated in a second primary by the combined forces of present Governor Dan K. Moore and Dr. I. Beverly Lake.

Instead, Sanford said he made up his mind when he left the governors office that he would be as helpful as he could to the new governor.

There has been talk that Sanford may try to be the scc-od man in North Carolina history to be governor twice. The first was Zeb Vance. Speculators point out that Sanfords present project is scheduled to end in March 1967 a date they {eel would be convenient for a man to begin shaping a campaign for 1968. In our state, a governor cannot succeed himself, but there is no law which would prevent him from doing so after an interim term.

We dont, of course, know Sanfords plans. But we do feel that he has set an example by constructive activity after leaving the governors chair and by his attitude now about the man who won the governors chair without his support.

answer but a few days later, much to his surprise, he received a reply. It said: Dear Allen, youre the second person that has asked me that question this year. Sincerely yours. Dean Rusk.

Ezra Kurnitz was arrested in Miami, Fla., on a bank robbery charge. He confessed to the crime and was given five years in prison. While in pri- son he appealed on the

grounds he diitat have to con

fess. The court upheld his appeal and ordered him re-

He then pleaded not

guilty. This time he was found guilty and was given* 20 years instead. Ezra is now appealing his first appeal.

A former aide to the late Presidcsit Kennedy announced he was going to write a book about the Kennedy administration. But, he said, I shall not deal in personalities, nor shall I discuss any conversations I had with the President, nor will I write about any per-(Continued On Page 6)

A youth At the University of Michigan burned his draft card on the steps of the Ann Arbor draft board. His action was immediately reported to Washington where <ttt offi-cals urged immediate disciplinary action. The matter was of such importance that they took it to Gen. Lewis Hershey who just laughed and said, I was a boy myself once. Give him another deferment.

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Ten-year-old Allan Bem-heim wrote a letter to Secretary of State Dean Rusk which said: Dear Mr. Rusk, could you please tell me who we are fighting in Viet Nam? I know you are a very busy person, but I would appreciate an answer.

Little Allen didnt expect an

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The small businessmen of America, who account for the employment of more than 30 million people, are already complaining that welfare taxes are going to make business expansion .difficult for them in 1966. In January the Social Security bite on payrolls goes up. The crunch will biTfelt in February, when the first installment of the increased tax becomes payable. If the tax could be passed along to the consumer, that would be one thing. But small business is (>mpetiUve business, and the market controls its prices. The consumer is also bound to feel the effect of his own share of the increased Social Security bite on his purchasing power.

This past year Johnson has been supporting his freshmen Ckjngressmen with rather lavish patronage gifts. One particular Democratic freshman from Illinois boasts fiiat he got 11 new post crfflces for his district where his Republican predecessor only managed to win four in a long career. Others among the 48 Democratic freshmen have been doing almost as well. But, with the Vietnam war threatening to force a Pentagon budget of $60 billion, this sort of munificence can hardly continue. The Freshmen Congressmen are having other troubles. A Long Island Representative, inviting his constituents to meet with him for a talk, found himself in the middle of a hectic argument about the war, vdth stouts going up that Jotoson had taken over the Goldwater policy. The Republicans in the district, who had seen their own candidate beaten on the Goldwater issue, are keeping their peace and smiling.

So the eff(ffts of the Democratic NationM Committee to hold what used to be called normal Republican Districts may be negated by the war and the attendant money troubles that are giving L^don Johnson that preoccupieti look.

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Strength For Today

Lxported Industry Having Impact

By EARL L. DOUGLASS AN UNQUAUFIED PROMISE

It is he (Jesus) that shall save his people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21).

How shall he do this? We are not entirely sure, for the most wonderful of Gods plans can only be partially apprehended by these limited rninds of ourfl. But we know that the great^t need we have is the need of forgiveness, and Jesusthrough his divine power and significancebrings about for us, if we trust him, tlie forgiveness of our sins.

A great military leaders who saves a nation from destruction is regarded and venerated through the ages. But how great is a Saviour from something vastly more debasing than political tyranny, namely spiritual tyranny! Every

day we are conscious of the fact that temptations assial us which with our own strength we are not able to resist. We bear heavy burdens. We often walk in darkness. We have anxieties, fears, weaknesses, great and small, which assail our spirits. We are not able with our own sfrtiigtb to hamfle the situations which these realities eaust to arise.

There is an outside help. There is a Spiritual Being who left the world physically as he ascended into heaven but who has remained in the world spiritually to bless his followers.

We do not have to be perfect to turn to him. All we need is to have desire, trust, and the willingness to do our best. The divine promise is unquali-lifled. He shall save his people from their sins.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The United States has exported a whale of a lot of jobs In its electronics industry.

Thousands of workers in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and various Euitpean nations are doing Jobs that American workers might be doing and which American buyers are paying for.

Now, of course it looks as if it may have been a good thing to export those jobs, because the rising shortage of skilled men makes It doubtful if America could have filled them.

However, if the United States had stepped up efforts to train men for more skilled work when this exporting of jobs was first reported here three years, today there ml^ht be more men to fill the skilled labor shortage and less

drain on o u r gold su{ ALL HAVE SOME FOI EIGN-MADE MATERIAL When we buy foreign-made productswe give foreign nations, through their central banks, the right t o demand payment in gold.

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OBNNER

There are no electronic products on the American market today that do not have s(une foreign-made ipaterial, Paul M. Davidson,, president of International Imports, declared in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission.

He said he knows of no U. S. manufacturer of home electronic equipment who does not use some foreign components.

At the same time, the Electronics Industries Association reported that foreign-made radio and television receivers bearing U. S. brand names increased greatly during the first half of this year.

U.& BRANDED IMPORTS GAIN

Sales of radios bearing U. S. brands were 10.8 per cent of total radio imports in the first half of the year, compared with 7.5 per cait in the first half of 1964.

Sales of imported TV receivers with U. S. brand names were 68 per cent of sU imports in tha first half of 1965, compared with 54 per cent te the first half of 1964.

The gains were less than

appear at first glance, because total imports declined.

Meanwhile, ihe EIA pointed out factory sales of U.S.-produced television receivers in the first half of the year represented a decline in total sales. However, U. S. manufacturers still have the largest share of TV receiver salts.

DID you CONTRIBUTE TO FOREIGN CHARHES?

Heres news for those who sent charitable contributions to orphans in Korea, the afflicted in Viet Nam or starving natives of India; That was pure charity, because donations to foreign charities art not deductible in making income tax reports Contributions are only deductible when made to organizationso n the Internal Revenue list, which includes practically no foreign charities.