ThufMicy, Jnufy 13, I960

Controls System < Proves Worth

A reduction of 8,5 per cent in eurplus tobacco Stocks held by Stabilikaaon duiitig the past year is another indication of thi effectiveness of the acre-age-poundage program in brinfint production in line with demand.

Sales of tobacco held by Stabilization in 1965 were the highest since 1961 and more than four times the sales during 1964. Also siraicant is the fact that sales of tobacco by Stabilization during the year were twice the number of pounds thi corporation purchased through thi pnct support program.

Last year for the first time flue cured tobacco production was subject to a poundage. control as well as an acreage control for production, 'fhert were some misgivings throughout the tobaccO producing area about the program evin though It received overwhelming approval from farmers in a referendum. Total production of flue cured-tobacco dropped sharply from 1964 levels. Total income from tobacco was down from the previous year although the dollar reduction was not as great as the

;Real Fear Was Over Deadlock

fiy WILUAM A. SHIRES

PLANIts outlines scrawled on [4eoe8 of paper and maps of various shapes and sizes, a **new plan for Congressional ridistricting appeared on the second morning Of the extra session of the General Assembly.

It was not unexpectednor did it come from an unexpected source. >

Its appearance, however, signaled the start of the biggest ami probably most bitter fi^t of the special sessiona massive attempt to scuttle a much-criticized con-tressional plan drawn earlier ^ a joint eommlttae appointed by the {H-esiding officers.

Sponsors of the new plan claimed they had enough votes In the Senate, at least S8, to kill the earlier plan. But they Were not sure immediately whether they had enough sii^ port to pass their plan, iK>r whether the House would ac-tept it.

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SHIftCS

en senators taking part In drafting the idan said "something had to be done. We counted 21 In our group alone ready to vote to kill the committee plan without a substitute-even if it meant Itl^ ting the court do It"

The resulting substitute quickly became known as the Piedmont plan, sponsored by senators from Piedmont counties stretching from Durham to Cleveland. The groups leadifs included Sens. Her^ man Moore and Irwin BeDt of Mecklenburg, Thomas Seay of Rowan, fred Mills of Anson, Jack White of Cleveland, Jimmy Johnson of Iredell and veteran Claude Currie of Durham.

SUPPORT Ito sponsors gave the plan final approval in a dosed (kxH* meeting, sent it off to be printed and began moving to enlist additional suppmrt.

By mid-morning when tiie daily legislative session convened, they were claiming 15 of the necessary 26 votes for the plan in the Senate and growing support for it in the House. The House, however, appeared committed to the original joint committee version and began considering this by noon Tuesday.

Earlier Tuesday, the House whisked a committee-drawn House reapportionment bill

reduction in poundage of the 1965 crop.

On the basis of experience by Stabilization with Its tobacco stocks during the first year of the acreage-poundagt control program, it appears certain at the huge surplus that has been hanging over the tobacco industry will be brought to a more reasonable level. As this is accomplished, there is reason to believe there will also be a s^ngthening of the market from year to year for the annual production of tobacco.

The tobacco industry is not rid of all its problems by a long shot, but at least it seems to have taken a significant stride toward getting out from under the staggering surplus.

State Cant Afford To Cutback On Education

With the need for educationaf facilities in North Carolina anti the demands by its citizens for educational opportunities, it is unthinkable that the state may face the possibility of limiting community college enrollments during the coming year.

Dr. I. E. Ready, director of the State Department of Community Colleges, has declared that the community college program may not have the funds with which to begin new programs requested by the institutions for neirt'year, and it may even have to deny admission to some applicants because existing programs are filled to capacity.

The budget for the current biennium was based on an estimated enrollment of 21,000 full time students in the community colleges and technical institutes of the state by next year. Already this year, however, enrollment in these institutions is About 26,000 with the prospect of a further increase next year.

Certainly it is a matter which should receive the careful and immediate attention of state and local officials. With the need for additional educational opportunities for its people, North Carolina can ill afford to turn away from its community colleges and technical institutes people who are anxious to better prepare themselves for the future

By some means It must find the funds with which to permitt its community colleges and industrial institutes to meet during the coming year the demands being made upon them by the people of the state.

A Fimny Tiling Happmed on

By ART BUCHWALD

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The Tod Hanoi-Watcher

As the Johnson peace offensive goes into its third week, more and more attention is being paid to responses from Hanoi. Every

one is looking for some sort of sign that North Viet Nam is ready to come to the negotiating table, and every reply to our peace overtures

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) - The longer President Johnsons peace offensive runs on without decisive results the closer the President comes to the day when he must decide whether to resume the bombing of North Viet Nam targets.

DEADLOCK-Many ob-Servers felt that such a fight Over congressional redistflct-ing might end la deadlock and a reluctant decision to let the federal courts do the job.

While remaildng outwardly neutral on the (^ipoeing plans, legislative lead^ and the governors liaison itfr were armed about the poasibUlty of deadlock.

Word went Out that one of the congressional fdana of an acceptable compromise must be enacted.

EVOLVEDThe new congressional plan reached the State Legislative Building in the pockets of sleepy-eyed Piedmont lawmakers, almost III of them senators.

It was evolved the night before in a series of hotel room meetings which continued until the wee hours of Tuesday morning.

One of the nearly two doz-

nouse reapponionmeni om ppv i

through on second reading I nlQ L/Q.!** with one minor amendment.

ARGUED- Additional support for the new congressional plan offered by the Piedmont bloc Gama quickly, however, when Its spons^ began spreading the work about certain advantages.

Their arguments included:

-^It removea most if not all of tile objections registered to the earlier committee-drawn plan.

It leaves Congressional district lines drawn in such a way that no incumbent member of Congress is thrown against anotiur in the same d^trict.

That since Gov. Dan K.

Moore made no specific proposals on redistricting the administration is not committed to any particular plan, leaving lawmakers free to change the original proposals as they see fit

40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN January 13, 192f PRESBYTERIANS DISCUSS PLANS FOR NEW CHURCH

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ALUMNAE WILL PRESENT PERGOLA E. C. T. COLLEGE The Pergola, the memorial to Mr. C. W. Wilson, who for years was a member of the faculty of East Carolina Teachers College will be presented to the College by the Alumni Association on Saturday afternoon, at 2:30 oclock. The exefcises will take place in the Auilitorium of the college.

STOCKHOLDERS OF THE NATIONAL BANK HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING JAN. 12th

GREENVILLE BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING JAN.12 At 2 p. m.

GREENVILLE VISITED BY TWO FIRES

Greenville was visited by two fires during the last week. The first alarm went in from Box 72, and was the shoe repair shop on Albemarle Ave. The second was a house on First Street.

It will be a hard decision to make.

Much of the good will which the United States has harvested around the world since the bombing pause began at Christmas time is likely to be quickly lost if air strikes start up again, reviving the spectacle of a great power battering a small one.

Yet if he does not resume them, the military and political advantages gained by bombing the North will in turn be lost.

Washington o f fi c i a 1 s presently assume that at some point in the future if there is no peace, the air raids will be started again. But that point may not be reached soon. The President is said to be well aware of the need for time to let the leaders of North Viet Nam consider their predicament.

The predicament is essent-, ially this: if the Red leaders do not find some way to bring the war to an end, they face the possibility of massive damage in an expanding conflict. But if they do move to end it by accepting the U. S. offer of negotiation, they face the possibility of losing their struggle to seize control, through Communist guerrilla forces fighting in the South, of South Viet Nam.

If they felt reasonable sure of winning South Viet Nam at the conference table, then presumably they would elect to negotiate.

Their problem is also complicated by the rivalry between the Soviet Union and Red China.

The impression in Washington is that the Soviet Union would like to see the conflict in Southeast Asia settled before it can explode into general Asian, war but that Red China is determined to have (Continued On Page 5)

Other Eiditors Saying

^Elnemies Of The South

(Richmond News-Leader)

The news brings one more maddening rejwrt on a senseless and vicious killing in the South.

This time the news comes from Hattiesburg, Miss., where a Negro civil rights leader named Vernon Dahiner was burned to death in a p r e-dawn firebomb attack on his home. His wife and 10-year-old daughter also were burned, the child seriously. The Associated Press reports that the attack came one day after the former president of the Hattiesbiirg NAACP was identified in a radio broadcast as leader of a voter registration drive.

The murder of Vernon Dahmer comes just a week after the murder in Tuskegee, Ala., of a young civil rights worker there. And the minds eye looks back sadly on a hundred other bombings, burnings, and cowardly assassinations over the past ten years.

Ever since the Braden case in Louisville, there has been sound reason to believe that some of these bombings and burnings are the work of Negroes or Negro sympathizers seeking to attract publicity for their cause. Yet no rational person doubts that 99 per cent of them are the work of white lunatics whose demented minds somehow imagine they are helping to

achieve white supremacy. These killers presumably believe that if only enough civil rights workers are slain, the Negro revolution will collapse.

One marvels at the ignorance of the Southern bigot. Two thousand years ago, the Christian writer Tertullian laid down the maxim that applies today: The blood of mart-yers is the seed of the church. The slaying of a Medgar Evans, or a Jon Daniels, or a Viola Liuza), or a Vernon Dahmer serves only to inspire and strengthen the Ne g r o cause. Thos Southern whites who bitterly resent the Negros belated rise toward equality are not helping even their own benighted interests. They are hurting the South and helping to inflame the racial leaders.

When will these killings stop? They will stop on 1 y when the decent leadership of the white Souththe political, social, business and religious leaders who are sick but silentrise up in wrath and revulsion and demand the relentless prosecution of the criminals responsible for these acts. Such a surge of w'hite protest is long overdue. If Dahmers death helps to galvanize the respect able South into counter action, the 58-year-old Negro will not have died In vain.

is studied by our experts in minute detail.

Therefore, what might sound on the surface as a complete rejection of an offer could very well be the opening weve been looking for.

I went over to the State Department the other day and talked to a U. S. Hanoi-watcher, who was, at that very moment, studying the latest North Viet Nam radio broadcast concerning our peace offensive.

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It looks promising, he said, as he shoved hte magnifying glass to one side. Hows that? I asked. Well, listen to this, he continued, reading from the report. The U. S. policy of aggression in Viet Nam remains unchanged and shows the arrogance of President Johnson in pretending he wants peace while American and puppet troops intensify their attacks on innocent women and children.

Thats promising? I said.

Its a very mild statement compared to the one they made last week. What else did they say? U. S. imperialists will be thrown into the sea long before any peace swindle can be made, and their lackeys in Saigon will be chewed up by the democratic peoples of (Continue4,.,Qn Page 5)

Hurts nions

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

Its an election year. Its also a year in which organized labor is flopping in its public relations. Putting tlie two items together, what chances does the AFL-CIO have in 1966 to pressure the U. S. Senate to repeal the Taft-HArtiey Acts Section 14 (b) which currently lets the separate states vote yes or no on the subject of compulsory unionism?

If there had ever been any chance for repeal, it is ten to one that New York Citys transit worker boss, Mike Quill, has killed it. You cant condemn eight million people to the Inconvenience of slogging to work or to the downtown shops without giving the union movement you speak for a pretty black eye. Its not only New Yorkers that Mike Quill has inconvenienced, its hundreds of out-of-town-ers who, In the first days of

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January, simply put off scheduled trips to the Big City.

Old Henry David Thoreau said that most men live lives of quiet desperation. T a k ing this as a reasonable approximation of a vital truth, one of the quickest ways to make an enemy of a man is to add a maximum inconvenience to what seems hard enough to bear under any circumstances. A strike in the factories of Detroit might cause some universal grumbling, but there is little inconvenience in postponing the purchase of a new car if the old bus is Btill running. You cant, however, postpone the use of your feet when the subway isnt running and the boss insists on your daily presence.

Somehow, by a strange series of coincidences, all the recent strikes have been tops numbers of people. There have been the cab strikes in New York and Chicago, nothing very serious but still enough to make the air blue with uncomplimentary a ma^. is caught while trying to get across town. There was a truck strike In Philadelphia, which had the misfortune of being identified with the devil-shape of Jimmy Hoffa. There was a news-pap^ strike in New York, a fretful thing for people whose tastes in reading are set. Then there was the strike at Olin-Mathison in Alton, Illinois, which happened to close down the one plant in the United States that was capable of producing a much-needed pow-dei* for use in the Vietnam War. Patriots everywhere resented this, even some patriots who belong to the union movement.

It may not be particularly noble to balance a personal inconvenience against a working mans desire for something better than the $138.80 iplus overtime) a week he has been getting for running a subway train. But thats the way people are. They can be objective when It comes to supporting the demahd of a (Continued On Page 5)

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More Price Increases Are Aheac

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS.

NOT NECESSARILY SO

Politics. How I hate politics and politicians. Why cant we have honest men running our government?

Now wait just a minute.

Because a man is a politician ' other line.

The reason very often is that he is not a politician. He does not know how to administer government and to solicit and utilize public support for his measures, even though he may be outstanding in some

does not mean that he is not honest. There are honest politicians and dishonest politicianswith the honest politicians very much in the majority. Politics is an art. There are some people who have a natural flair for politics and others who do not. A politician is a man (or a woman) who knows how to administer the affairs of government and to secure popular support for the issues involved. Sometimes a man of very high calibre runs for public office and when lie chievea it is either an Indif-^ fercnt success or a failure.

Honesty and patriotism are the key-words in government. If a man lacks there he is unfit for any responsibility. If he has these qualities, then he may serve his country magnificently. And it must be admitted, the better politician . he Is the better he is in a position to serve. He may be wondrously wise or he may not be, but if he is honest and patriotic and has a flair for politics, we can be sure that he will serve his country well.

So lets stop hammering the politican unless as an individual he deserves to be hammered.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Despite the success of the governments jawbone campaign to prevent price rises in copper and aluminum, and Its partial success in restraining the steel industrys rise in price of certain industrial shapes, there will be more price, increases in the near future.

While President Johnson has taken a stand against both wage and price increases, he appears to have placed more weight on one foot than on the other. He had given public consent to 3.2 per cent wage rises, ofi tht theory that national productivity has increased by that amount a year. . .

However, his administration looked the other way when the auto workers insisted on and got a 5 per cent rise late in 1964, the aluminum workers gained 4 per cent early in .1965, and steel workers fnade a sizable gain last fall. The White House insiitfl the iteelworkers riae was within the 3.2 guideline:

business says it exceeds it.

The only thing certain is the wonder of mathematics, which can calculate just how much power is required to rendezvous two ships in space, but cannot figure a unions gain in simple percentage points.

PRESSURE UPWARD ON PRICES

The reason for expecting other price rises is the pressure exerted by higher wages. The aluminum industry is now paying' the highest wages in history, although its prices are uncter the 1959 levels. And the shortage of skilled labor is forcing the

DSLVmeili of hiflhAT waam ia

scores of industries.

Some industries will probably try to use the steel formula. The steel price rise and the governments action surely built a, hurrahs .nest. But, in perspective, Bethlehem Steel was guilty of clumsiness more than of inflaticjn-ary action.

First it announced an increase of $5 a ton for certain structural shapes, without giving the government much notice. Then the White House denounced the Increase as inflationary, and Defense Secretiry McNamara announced that his department would buy only stael which prices had not been riisad

This was a surprise to those of the publicho thought the government always bought from the lowest bidder. Ilie surprise was in the fact that McNamara didnt know this, or that the Defense Department had been awarding steel contracts to favorites Instead of lowest bidders.

Than RaLhlahitn anoouiia-

cd that It was cutting its raise to $2.76 a ton, an(l the White House approved this as noninflationary.

It was not inflationary, because Bethlehem and other steel companies had developed lighter steel that had the strength of heavier steels; the structual steels at $2.75 a ton more are much cheaper than the older shapes. In fact, even at $5-a-ton rise they are probably cheaper.

j)And since the rise affects only 4 per cent of steel production, if any rl6$ were inflationary, It was just a teeny bit. As one economist pointed out, the IncreaM Of hog prlca> n Novitnbir hid a far fe. impact on wholesale |) than the iteel boost.

The hurrah did giVi Roger M. Bloi#, U. S. Steel chairman, i chance to utter a sentence that will go down in Bartletts:

' Prices cause Inflation like wet sidewalks like causa