Wewtdiy, January 12, 1966

The Job Is Responsibility Of N.C.

Neither by design nor by default should the court for any part of the reapportionment or redis-General Assembly leave to federal courts the job tricting that didnt suit their fancy.

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of reapportioning legislative representation or realigning congressional districts.'

The problem clearly is one for decision by the elected representatives of the people of the state, and difficult as the decision may be, it should be made in the legislature rather than in the courts.

On the other hand, voters of the state elected members of the General Assembly to make the major decisions about state government They elected them to make the difficult, far-reaching decisioos as well as the easy, petty decisions. If the legislature fails to hammer out a workable, acceptable plan of

It is disturbing that with increasing frequency redistricting and reapportionnient, its members will there are reports of growing sentiment among legis- have failed to live up to the high trust to which lators to leave the whole knotty problem to the citizen of the state elected them, courts. This, of course would be the easy way out Many of the legislators are not in favor of any for the legislators. redistricfing or reapportionment in spite of the

They could throw up their hands, turn their court order. Others do not agree with specific por-backs on the matter and assert that since the courts tions of the plans which already have been offered, have ordered the change, the court can make what- Few, if any members of the legislature support any ever changes it wants to. Later they cbuld blame the of the plans without reservation.

Even so, there is a job to be done in Raleigh, and it should be done by the legislature, not left to the courts. It should be done this week, not next week or the week after after unnecessary haggling and delays.

No Carnival In ^.C. Assembly

By WnXUM A. SHIRES

MOOD The mood of legislators convening for the extra session of the General Assembly on court-ordered redistricting was quiet and serious.

There was none of the gay carnival atmosphere which often accompanies arrival of the legislature in Raleigh. The contrast was marked. There was not much joking, back-slapping and^ frivolity.

This time it was all business. And for a majority of the members, the business to be attended to was both distasteful and difficult. In many cases, they were plainly unhappy.

Quite a few realized full well that this perhaps would be the last time they would sit in the General Assembly of North Carolina and that before adjournment old legislative traditions would be wept away.

WILLIAM

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SESSION Gavels came down at noon Monday and the session convened with a minimum of pomp and ceremony and few flourishes.

Galleries of both House and Senate were packed with spectators and they too appeared to sense the seriousness on the floors.

Delegations were on hand from various countiesSurry, Rutherford, Bladen, Durham, and othersbringing strong objections to some of the pre-session redistricting plans.

Mostly they came knowing there was not very much hope for relief but simply to ask and offer encouragement to their sanators or representatives.

LIMIT The flrst act of the drama came swiftly. Within 20 minutes after convening a standing vote had been taken and there had been lively debate in both houses on whether to limit the session to redistricting.

There was a flurry of opposition tp limiting the session which had been recommended by the presiding of

ficers and by Gov. Dan K. Moore.

In the House, Speaker H. P. (Pat) Taylor Jr. warned the lawmakers that if the session was opened be prepared to stay here six to eight weeks. Actually, Taylor said, he felt that handling questions of legislative and Congressional redistricting is plenty for us to do and that injecting other matters would make it more difficult.

Rep. David Britt of Robeson also reminded the House that in South Carolina the legislature is deadlocked after four weeks on just one redistricting issue. We have three, and its a mammotlf job, Britt said.

OPPOSING Opposing a proposed rule to limit the session were Reps. W. J. Earnhardt of Chowan and I. C. Crawford of Buncombe" and Rep. Rogef Kiser of Scotland said that adopting such a rule before we even catch our breath is going a little fast.

Kiser and Republican Reps. Tom Bennett of Carteret and Jim Holshouser of Watauga suggested hearings on the proposal by the Rules committee. Taylor pointed out, however, that until adoption of a motion by Rep. George Uzzell of Rowan which ccmtained the limiting proposal no committees could be named.

Then, while Governor Moore was waiting outside to address the lawmakers in a joint session, the House voted for Uzzells motion, 76 to 33.

BILLS And before calling on the governor for his speech, both houses received bills for various redistricting proposals and alternate plans.

Two of the alternate plans call for constitutional amendments to permit increasing membership of the General Assemblyone to boost the House from 120 to 190 members and the other to allow the legislature to expand either house as it sees fit.

Another bill which came in unexpectedly is legislation recommended by the N. S. Association of County Commissioners to enable counties to adopt optional methods of electing boards of commissioners. The bill, introduced by Britt, is an outgrowth of one man-one vote litigation already in the federal courts challenging the method of electing county commissioners in Onslow and Carteret counties.

Forward Looking Step For Developing Area

Organization of a regional health council for Eastern North Carolina is a forward looking step which should mean a great deal in the development of needed health facilities and services for this section of the state.

Purpose of the organization, as explained by its chairman Dr. Edwin Monroe of Greenville, is to coordinate and advance planning for new health programs in Eastern North Carolina and better utilization of currently available programs.

Certainly the health facilities in this section of the state may be expected to expand rapidly in the years immediately ahead. So too will services in the field of health. Already a committee tlie location for an alcoholic rehabilitation to be established by the state in this area. In various stages of discussion or planning are a vocation rehabilitation center, a workshop for handicapped children, and of course the establishment of a two-year medical school at East Carolina College.

In addition to these, there are a number of programs which might be developed for the area through federal, state and local cooperative efforts.

The active interest of a regional health council can be of tremendous help in the development of additional facilities and services in health and related fields in this part of the .state. We trust the council which has been organized here will receive support from citizens throughout this area.

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. By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN . Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The other day Mr. Frank Barnett, an able student of strategy who heads the National Strategy Information Center, remarked that what is needed in the present struggle with the Communist powers is a modern equivalent of the old William Allen White Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Mr. Barnett has a point But what do you do in a period in which the Allies, so-called, should be aiding you? To put the ti^ouble in its proper perspective, we mught try a switch and form a Committee to Defend the Allies by Aiding America. The main difficulty is that, to be effective, such a committee would need to have its basic chapters in France, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations who are currently being defended against the spread of Communism by American efforts

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The Russians have been cooking up a spicy diplomatic pudding. It bubbles )^th possibilities, but the proof of that pudding is still to come.

Aggressive Kremlin diplomacy, seems centered on removing threats to peace on the Soviet doorstep in Asia.

Success or failure may depend upon establishing dominant influence in North Viet Nam. If a current Soviet mission to Hanoi should be rebuffed, there would be little hope of anything but continued war in Indochina and tense So-viet-American relations-which at the moment may not be in the national interests of either great power.

A look at recent Soviet activity suggests an atmosphere of urgency on the part of the Soviet party and government chiefs, as if they might be laying their own leadership on the Une.

From more than just a propaganda standpoint, Premier Alexei N. Kosygin scored a coup at Tashkent, where he persuaded the Indians and

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN January 12, 1926 Tax Deduction Fight WiU Be Carried Senate

Fight for $500,000,000 Reduction being waged by Democrat members of Finance (Committee.

Program on Good Roads Enjoyed By Rotarians Week being observed nationally as good roads week; Many interesting talks.

Minnie-Ha Ha Entertains

The D. S. met at the Wigwam of Minnie Ha Ha on Monday afternoon at 4 oclock. We had a reelection of officers and the following were elected;

Wah-Wab-Tl-Si was elected president and the White Cloud, Secretary.

Two new members were enrolled Silver Star and Laughing Eyes. After delicious refreshments were served we, adjourned to meet at the Wigwam of Wah-Wah-Ti-Si on Saturday afternoon at 3; 30.

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Pakistanis at least to talk about peaceful delegations. President Johnson welcomed the result, but it is Ukely to enrage the Red Chinese.

The Russians have battered their way into the Viet Nam situation with a high-powered delegation whose aim, many qualified observers agree, is to outbid Peking for the loyalty of the Hanoi regime.

The Russians have sent a first team, headed by party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev, to MoogoUa. The meaning will not be lost upon the Red Chinese, who have been contesting with Moscow for influence in that Communist buffer between the U.S.S.R. and China.

The Russians^ appear to have clashed head-on with the Chinese in Cuba and to have won the upper hand at the so-called tricontinental ant i-imperialist conference there. The CJiinese already have made a public display of their anger.

All this provokes speculation that the present Soviet leadership has little expectation of reconciliation with Peking and now is trying to lesson the dangers that Chinese policies may pose for Soviet interests.

This would not mean that Moscow has lost interest in fomenting revolution aroun(l the world. But it could mean that the Kremlin wants to be careful lest national interests be endangered In the process.

The biggest hurdles may still be ahead for Soviet dep-lomacy. The North Vietnamese regime has appeared to be dominated by pro-Chinesa elements. Should Soviet in fluence be rebuffed, the Kremlin would be powerless to create a climate in which the Viet Nam war might be brought to a conference table.

Even should the Soviet thrust in Hanoi be successful, there are other problems. Soviet diplomacy in Asia is tied to Europe. The Russians are unlikely to want to make things easier for Uncle Sam without reciprocity on the West German question. This shines through Soviet pronouncements.

What the Russians seem to want above all is assurance that there will be no Wtit German flnger on the nuclear weapons trigger. Given such assurance, they hint they might be willing to discuss a treaty on nonproliferation of nuclear arms.

Soviet diplomacy has trott^ ed out its heaviest artillery in recent days. This has ^v-en it the look of urgency.

Goldsboro News-Ar-gus Managing Editor Gene Price, over for a visit the other day, told about a novice wlw decided to tear down a house for the materials.

He devised a method of hanging to rafters, two by fours or anything else handy, and kicking off boards.

Finally he had kicked off all the boards and only the two by fours were standing. He was preparing to kick these down when a stranger approached.

What are you doing? the man asked.

Why, Im tearing this house down.

Well, youre just making a trap, said the stranger, who seemed to know some

thing about housewrecking. You kick a couple more two by fours and the whole thing will come down on you. You know, the novice house wrecker admitted later. I stood back and took a look at the thing and he was right.

The Richmond News-Lead-er says great debate is raging over whether to carry the presidents state of the union message in color.

It doesnt matter, says the News Leader. When LBJ gets to the budget in his state-of-the-Union remarks, theyll have to switch from black-and-white to red.

controversial subjects tonight, Utilities Commission Chairman J. Ed Waldrop announced at the beginning of the meeting last night. Some of our members want to go early.

In jest City Manager Harry Hagerty noted that other members of the commission are paid $10 for each meeting-all, that is, except the city manager. He moved that the city manager be paid, tooretroactive to 1962.

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Znd The Matter

ALVIN

(Wheeling, W. Va.

Intelligencer)

Senator Everett M. Dirk-sen (R-Ill.) who led the successful fight against right-to-work repeal in the last session of Congress, has served notice that an oblique approach to the same end will be as vigorously opposed in the forthcoming session.

Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, of Montana, has said he will call up the 14-B repeal bill early in the new session, which convened January 10. A similar attempt having failed last October when a Conservative filibuster could not be broken, some supporters of the legislation are reported ready to compromise by inserting amendments distasteful to organized labor as a means of winning added support. Senator Jacob Javits, of New York, for example, has suggested that it would strengthen the case of repeal were a ban on racial discrimination by labor unions included in the bill.

This newspaper agrees with Dirksen that this is not the proper vehicle for the imposition of union discipline in racial policy. The issue is quite simple whether the States are to retain the authority they now have to outlaw labor contracts imposing

union membership as a condition of employment, or whether this right is to be withdrawn, thus automatically legalizing compulsory unionism throughout the Ck)un-try. The Intelligencer, which regards this section as the most important safeguard of a workmans rights in the entire Labor Relations Act, also feels that the subject having been thoroughly debated in the last session, a vote should be taken without undue additional delay.

We believe a majority of the Senators, were they to vote their convictions rather than their political fears, would support the proposition that a man should be free to join or refuse to join a labor union without jeopardizing his job. Having been exposed to public sentiment at the grass roots since the last showdown on 14-B, they might return to Washington in January convinced that voting to retain this provision be, the time has come, we feel, to settle this matter oh its merits once and for all. Distrurb-ing as is the possibility of having compulsory unionism thrust on the Nation, we do not feel that the will of the majority of the Senate, what-ver that will may be, should be thwarted any longer.

He was promptly informed that this was a controversial matter. There it ended.

Recently the Utilities Commission had to decide between a wet clutch and a dry clutch in purchasing a crawler tractor.

Last night the conversation got around to a circuit breaker which, Director Leonard Bloxam noted, was immersed in oil and thus a wet one.

We had dry and wet clutches, retorted Sugg. Do we have wet and dry circuit breakers too?

As a matter of fact, answered Bloxam. We do.

Opinions in Brief

Business leaders sometimes express concern over the wasted manhours that result from prolonged coffee breaks. Maybe one solution would be to put the picture of the boss at the bottom of each coffee cup. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle-Herald.

Those tape players in cars now enable back seat drivers to stay home provided they have recorders.

in Vietnam and the Caribbean.

The allied countries, of course, would laugh at the idea., of such chapters. The fact is that we are almost alone in carrying on what should be a common struggle. True enough, Britain has cut down somewhat on shipping goods to North Vietnam, and in South Vietnam we are getting some active military support from the Australians and South Koreans. But Britain, which looks to the United States for help in sustaining a trade embargo against Rhodesia, obviously doesnt care figs about reciprocating TAYLOR who comes to embargoing Fidel Castro.

Cuba, indeed, haes been getting royal treatment from just about every nation that should be defending its own longterm interests by aiding America. Red China may turn Castro down on a rice-for-sug-ar deal, but Canada is right in there pitching to help Castro stay alive. Wood pulp, eggs, breeding cattle, fertilizers and agricultural machinery flow from Canadian ports to Havana. Some of the wood pulp, made into propaganda -carrying paper, goes right back to Canada for transshipment to the United States. It turned up on American campuses during the peacenik troubles. Worst of all, Cuba gets a supply of essential U. S. - made spare parts through Montreal intermediaries. The U. S. Department of Commerce has recently cited Canadian subsidiaries of U. S. firms for go-between activities that violate our Trading With the Enemy Act. As for Mexico, it has profited for years by its trade with Castro.

The U. S. is denying oil to Britains breakaway colony of Rhodesia, but Castro is receiving British-made diesel locomotives. More diesels are going to Cuba from France. The French are also supplying Castro with Berl i o t trucks. De Gaulle may proclaim himself to be above the battle that goes on between the U. S. and such enemies of the free West as Castro and Ho Chi Minh, but it is ironic (Continued On Page 5)

ong-Term Losses For New York

By ELMER ROESSNER

The subway and bus strike in New York cost business $100 million each day, according to businessmens estimates. But this Isos may be small in comparison to the long-term loss, which will be the economic loss when businesses move out of the city and other busineses decide not to move in.

New York is especially vulnerable to a transportation strike, since the business center is on an island. When subways and buses step, there are only a limited number of tunnels and bridges by which workers can get to jobs in Manhattan.

Furthermore, business regards the administration of Mayor John Lindsay soft on unions. Although the strike was illegal, the Mayor and the Transit Authority continued to negotiate with the union.

Neither the city nor the Transit Authority made any effort to break the strike, despite newspaper demands that the National Guard be used to operate the busses. In fact, the city called off an examination for motormen scheduled during the strike.

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In addition, Lindsay insisted that employers pay wages to workers who could not get to their jobs.

PRO-UNION CLIMATE Organizedlabor is powerful In New York. The Liberal Par

ty, largely made up of union members and run by union bosses, holds the balance of power. The pro-labor climate may be judged from the fact that when Michael (Juill, the transport union chief, collapsed during the negotiations after being ordered to jail for contempt, both Senator Robert Kennedy and U. S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg sent him get well messages.

This climate, plus other union tactics, such as the lengthy newspaper strikes qnd threats of more, will tempt many businesses to search for sunnier cUmates, both weather-wise and labor-wise.

allows states to outlaw union shops.

In Washington, leaders are demanding that the Democratic party make it the first order of business, even if a filibuster against it would block most of the work of the session. President Johnson, who spoke for the repealer but pulled no wires last year, is being pressured to make it part of his must program.

Significantly, a study by the University of Michigans Bureau of Industrial Relations shows increasing editorial demands in the labor press for-the repealer. Sen. Everett Dirksen, who led thq success-

LABOR BEGINS TO CLAMOR filibuster against the bill

FOR END OF RIGHT-TO-WORK LAWS

Speaking of labor, it appears to be increasing demands that Congress repeal section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which

last year, has been called anti-labor, John Bircher and double-crosser, This may be a warning to other Congressmen that they, too, will be smeared if they oppose the repealer.