Welae Of Patients Comes First

Whether the new systeitj for controlling visitora card* to viait patients. An effort will be made to see at Pitt Memorial Hospital ia successful or not will that no patient has more than two visitors at a time.

What A Camel's Back!

depend largely upon public cooperation with the program that is to be instituted. ''

Hospital trustees have approved a plan whereby visitors at the hospital will be required to l?ave

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Ry WII.LIAM A. SHIRKS UPSET It was Just four abort j^ars ago that North Carolina voters, about 350,-000 strong, went to the polLs and upiwt a lot of political applecarts.

There is at least a baie possibility that It could happen airain next month. History just might repeat Itself on Nov. 2 whem the fate of a proposed $.300 m 111 i 0 n state highway bond issua la to be decided.

The thought bringa cold ehilla and shudders to Moore administration officials. They prefer to recall that Just a year ago the votersconvinced of needapproved a $100 million state school con .st mellan bond issue In a solid tnm-eut.

Also, tbay feel certain that tt sltugtloo this Fall In re- ' gard to the highway txmd Issue la Quite different from that of four yera ago.

, EFfTBCT - It was on Nov. T, 1961, that voters across the atate Quietly but firmly rejected each of 10 eparate cap-itgl hnpirovements bond issues total of $61,655.000-by margins of from 65,000 to ISO.-OOO votes.

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This came aa an almost complete aurxRise since most pre-election predictions were that the bcmd lasuea would carry without much trouble. The voters, however, apparently regarded the bond Issue iwo^ts as "fiiUs" and "luxuries.

The unaxpected, across the b(rd defei^ (tf the 1961 bond issues had long lasting effects on the state political scene.

It almost certainly changed the course of many plans already formulated by the then state admlnistratloathat of Gov. Terry Sanford. Some political Observers record it as a setback from which the Sanford administration never fully recovered.

PROGRAMS It undoubtedly was a setback which left the new Sanford admlnistra-tltti chastened, punled and cautious about recMnmmding additional costly spending programs during the next three years.

Sanford had taken office enly 10 months earlier and his administrationuntil that day had been riding high In the saddle. R plunged Into office boldly and amtdUously. With the help of 1961 House Speaker Joseph M. Hunt Jr., the man who Is now Moore's highway chairman, it pushed SaoftHds new quality education tox mtHrram through the General Assemblya program aldch Included extending the sales tax to food and other previously exempted Items.

omewhat Ironically, the capital Improvements bond Isauc proposals werent really Sanford's although he endorsed

them. They were recommended to the 1961 General Assem-bly by the Advtsory Budget Cdmmission of the previous administration, that of Luther Hodges.

Sanford, however, readily assumed much of the blame for the defeat of the capital improvement IxMids and accepted the, responsll^ty for what was described as public reaction against the food tax and other earlier actions.

SIMILARITIES There are a few similarities between the situation then and the forthcoming special election on the highway bond li^ue.

Some may be overdrawn, btit they Include these; The idea of a big new highway bond Issue originated more than two years ago. The Moore adm'n-l.stratlon, like Sanfords, has been In office Just 10 months. It has succeeded In pushing a broad pn^ram through the legislature. Much of Mooreg patronage has now been expended.

But there are differences, too. Moore's 1963 legislative program held the line aglnst Increasing taxes. Highway bond advocates are emphasizing no tax Increase will be necessary. Probably the most controversial piece of Moore-sponsored legislation, eompul-iory auto Inspection, does not go Into effect until next Spring.

Alsoand probably the most telling differencethere Is a fact thaat a vigorous, statewide campaign Is being waged for a favorable vote on the highway IxMid Issue. Sanford conceded after the 1961 bond defeat that the public had not been convinced of the needi

FIRMS Sixteen contracts for Quantity purchases of state agencies went to North Carolina firms and only five to out-of-state comanles in the most recent letting by the Board of Award.

Some of the successful low bids by North Carolina business firms included $11,460 for creosoted timber piles for the State Prison department submitted by General Creosotlng Co., of Gulf; $10,385 for folding gym bleachers for Wake County schools by Wayno Iron Works, Goldsboro: and $34.-830.24 for carpeting at North Carolina State University, by Prank Packard Carpet Co., Raleigh.

The envelopes vIMch will contain new 1966 automobile license plates going on sale In January cost the state about $18,000. One contract for envelopes went to a RiehnuHid, Va., firm for $10,178 and another to Norrlf Paper Co., Ra-Iclght, for $7,860.

BUILDING A record construction boom which reached Its peak in North Carolina about a year ago apparently Is leveling off.

The State Lab department reports building permits In 36 cities of more tium 10,000 population were up by only 2.3 pw cent during the first eight months of this year. The totals Were $224,875.486 for 1965 compared with $219.952,800 for the corresponding period last year.

In August, however, new construction starts across the state took a sharp drop of 20.4 per cent from the totals for'August, 1964.

This system may sound somewhat drastic for a hospital in which visitors have come and gone pretty much as tliey have pleased for a number of years. On the other hand, if the welfare of hospital patients ia to be placed above convenience of hospital visitors, the new system is bdth necessary and reasonable.

A hospital can be a noisy place during visiting hours unless some reasonable measures are instituted,

Individual rooms can be so clutered with visitors that the net effect detrimental not only to one patient, but to others who share the same ward or who may be located on the same hall.

In instituting the new. card system for visitors,

^the hospital trustees certainly are not seeking to prevent visitors from seeing patients in Pitt Memorial. They are seeking to reduce the unnecessary noise and confusion in the hospital during,.visiting hours.

They are seeking t^tio what is best for the patients.

We trust citizens of Pitt ounty will lend their full cooperation to this new system for visitors at the hospital. Some visitors may be inconvenienced from time to time, but in the long run the patients will benefit.

A hospital, after all, must be operated for the welfare of those in its care; not for the convenience of patients* visitors.

A Timely Remind^ Of

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Conservationist Role

Gov. Dan Moore sounded an important note By HAL BOYLE this week when he reminded the State Board of Conservation and Development they are responsible for conserving the states resources as well as developing them.

While most people are aware of this fact, the

emphasis in recent years has been more on develop- new YORK (AP) One of

ing the resources of the state and thereby realizing the biggest unsolved problems

economic gains that are sorely needed in the state, of the American husband to-

emphasis continue to be on development as North ho^ Jo

Carolin moves to raise iU economic ievel and that "SeiTmd tS jro^'ftad

of its people. an old-fashioned male who con-

It is important, however, that those who push frols the family financee and

for economic development likewise keep in mind ^ skl^y

xrifoi house-hold allowance for which

that vital resources of the stateshould they be g^e must render to him atrlct

ruined m the development processmay not be accounting, regained. But in m o t homes it ope-

It is significant?,that Gov. Moores reference to fhe other way. The hus-conservation as well as development was made in the area where the vast new phosphate indiwtry is mt wife, after developing. There have been numerous expressions the head, deposits the check of concern in recent months about the effect of the ^ the bank, phosphate industry development upon ground water thI^Sen?w^some*^dS resources of the area. Assurance have been given Monday giv their husbands that the water resources will not be ruined in the the funds that are supposed to process of developing the phosphate industry. State them through the week, officials and company people have taken and con- older

tmue to take far-reaching steps to safeguard against system'doesnt work. They have

such a disaster. found out from experience that

It is necessary that the state develop its re- it they give a husband his full sources. And as Gov. Moore has so vividly pointed Monday hell be

out, it is likewise necessary that the state conserve its vital natural resources for future generation of Tar Heels.

More Luncheon Money

time? Not one.

A quarter a century ago she started giving me 50 cents a day for lunch, uid It was okay then. I could get a three-course dinner for 45 cents, and that left me with a nickel to buy a cigar afterwards,

But she still gives me only four-bits a day, and nowadays youre lucky to get a peanut butter sandwich for that.

her with Wrd seed.

In the long run, however, the wives are really hurting themselves. If the average husband Isnt passed out a little more folding money to buy himself a decent midday meal, he soon wont be able to bring home the bacon because he wont have the strength to tote it.

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December Showdown?

broke by Wednesday morning and whining fw more.

So they dole it out dally. But some husbands seem to be In a rebellious mood about their luncheon allowances Judging by a bull session at an office water cooler I overheard recently,

Ive been married 25 years and in thi^ time the boss has given me five iwrlt raises, volunteered a marital veteran. But how many merit raises has my wife given me in that

I know what you mean, remarked another husband. The only way Ive been able to stay alive is to shake a couple of quarters out of my kids piggy bank every night and put in a couple of washers to replace them. But that cant go on much longer. The kid's getting wise.

My wife tinks Im keeping another woman on the dough she gives me for lunch," said a third. But if I had a mistress who ate like a bird. I couldnt afford her because I dont have enough to supply

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By WALTER R. MEARS

WASHINGTON (AP) Republican policymakers may be headed for a December showdown on tile nagging question mark of J(Am Birch Society influence witiila their party.

The Questicm roomed into prominence when Sen. Ttiruston B. Morton of Kentucky tied into the Birch Society and said its influence should be booted out of the OOP.

Morton, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Champaign Committee, charged the mili-tantly conservative organization Is trying to take over the party.

GOP floor leaders of the House and Senate joined him in declaring the society no part of the GOP.

The Birch Society promptly denied it has designs on the Republican party. As the Democratic National CJommittee gleefully noted, society founder Robert Welch aald that would be petty larceny.

Most state GOP chaiimen said they doubt the Capitol Hill denunciation will have any particular Impact on Uie ixsrty it-

This Date-

40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN r.. DITNCAN Oct. 22, 1925 lion. II. F. Brooks To Speak

At Fair Grounds Friday

Prwninent, Smithfield man to make closing talk at special Thaiiksglving service.

Revival Servkc Now in Progresa Iramanne! Churrh

A splendid revival meeting Is now to progress at the Immanuel Baptist Church. Dr. W. H. Horton of the First Baptist Church (rf New Bern is doing excellent preaching.

self.

The denunciation was more for the edification of the public than the party, said West Virginia dialrman John

Scott.

At last years San Fruicisco convention which n o m 1 n ated Barry Ooldwater for the wes-idency, delegates Jeered to defeat a platform amendment that would have denounced the society.

Now a aimllar proposal may face the next session of the Republican Coordinating Committee, a council of party leaders due to meet in Washington Dec. 13.

Morton and Michigan Gov.' George Romney have said they may seek to have the commlt-^4 tee declare itself on the Birch Society,

Goldwater, who has denounced the poslticms taken by Welch but not the societys members, serves m the coordinating committee.

So does New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who has expressed delight at a growing awareness that the John Birch group Is trying to gain control of the party.

Goldwater has said he sees no vsuch threat, but he has suggested that Republicans re-tgn from the society and spend their time wrorklng for the party.

That represents hUle change from a position he took long before the pretdential nomination, when he said he had urged some society members tt> quit the organization to protest against Welchs leadership.

Most state GOP chairmen agree that the society Is not a potent force within the parly.

Since hit original denunciation of the society. Morton has said there are iwnbaWy as many Democrats as Republi-cans In the Birch Society.

Later, he charged that Birchers of the left had a hold on the Democrats.

SUPPORT YOUR

Public Forum

To the Editor.

For eight years we have been most grateful for efforts of the United Fund and the many donations that have been made by each and every individual w!w have contributed to help United Fund reach a potential destination.

The United Fund has for eight years been the leading support for agencies providing for children who would not have had the privilege of attending school. The Trainable School for Retarded Children was organized eight years ago with twelve children and limited activitiei. Today, twenty-five children are enrolled and participate to many activities such as dancing and bowling. Outdoor sports are limited but arts and crafts are a great asset to these children.

With the help from nUited Fund these children are enjoying activities and the privilege of family love, community love and the combined understanding of family and community. Being able to attend school gives a retarded child the feeling of Importance as they

prepare to go to their schools each day. Life is most rewarding to parents of a retarded child when we know we can give our less fortunate child the day to day love that we could not give this child If he was placed mUes away from home to an institution with occasional visits.

Our school supported by the United Fund and other civic clubs and orginizations has provided our family as well as the other families tovcdved with a ccinplete family without a missing link. The retarded child was born into this world not because he wanted to provide for these children his family wanted him to be retarded. It is our obligation to provide fort beee children the same lumuies and on>orUi-nltles to the fuUest extent of our abilities that we are mvldtog for the most normal and most talented child.

We graciously recognize the United P\md.

Henry Dunn, Jr., Pres.

Pitt Oounte Association For Retarded Children

To the Editor, am grateful to Professor Prank Adams for the several kind remarks be made about my recent book to his weeekly column on Sunday, October 17, However, I must respond to hJs crlttciem that my new views are either as theoretical as Cldss or based on research not yet done. In my book I have carefully documented my theories with the empirical (factual) findings of over forty political scientists and sociologists. These studies that I cite in my book were carried out by trained social scientists to test the actual operation of councll-management government. Robert Childs, the subject of my book and the founder of eoun-cil-management government, has never accepted these findings and therein lies my (juar-rel with him. His theories are not, founded upon empirical (factual) flndtogs but are pime-ly conjectural, while my theories are suw>orted by evidence.

This debate is not perhaps of great interest to most of your readers, but since Professor Adams brought It out to the open I must resp<md to his misunderstanding. I realize that a book review critic feels a compulsion to be critical. however, I think it Is elementary that his criticisms should in fact be valid. In his casual reading of my book Professor Adams has Ignored the fact that I do base my theories upon verifiable evidence; therefore, my new views are not as theoretl-cal as CWldss.

In brief, I thought It might be useful to bring to the attention of your readers that Professor Adams Is confused and muddled on this matter.

Sincerely yours Jo!m P. East

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When todays children become parents theyll probably brag about how tough It was traveling three miles to school on the pokey old bus.Port Myers (Fla.) News-Press.

..rony In Choice

Of

By JOHN .CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, Ktog Features Sjmdicate, Inc.

Next year Is the tenth anniversary of the brave but unsuccessful Hungarian Revolution. Ironically, It could also bt the year to which a Hungarian Communist, Karoly C^tordayj who helped Khrushchev suppress the patriotic uprising of 1956, becomes President o the General Assembly of the United Nations. This would amount to -bestowing the blessing of the world parliament on a Hungarian Communist government which still refuses to release political pdconcrs who were mere teen-agers when they stood up against Khrush- * chevs tanks back to 1956.

The story behind the push to advance Karoly Qsatorday to a supreme poaltlon of honor in the UN goes back to Popt Pauls visit. Prior to the Popes decision to come to the Unit-ed^^tates on hto^lsdQn^o|_ _

peace, the Yugoslava were touting their ex-forelge mlnlstef Koca Popovlc, a diplomat who also happens to be a poet, for the presidency of tibt twantletli

JOHN CBABSBERLAIN

UN General Assembly. Popovlc Is a Communist, even though of the dissident Titolst variety, and the point was quickly raised that it would hardly be appropriate to have a Communist welcome Pope Paul to tho UN, So Popovic obligingly withdrew his candidacy. To provide the proper setting for the Popes visit, the Italian Foreign Minister Amlntore Fan-fan! was installed as President of the General Assembly after bringing him back from aa Interrupted tour of Sotttb America.

As a consolation prize for the Communist bloc In the UN, the Hungarian Karoly Czator-day was made chairman of the General Assemblys political committee, more formally known as the First Ctommittee. In the normal course of events Czatorday would have a very 'good claim to prmnotion as President of the General Assembly next year. The Asiane might dash hie hopwi, for they can present the argument that if is their turn to 1966-67 for the job, which has been held successflvely by an Africen and a European. But the C(xnmu-nists very much want the poel for a B^arian if only to legitimize their barbaric killings to BaKptst ten years back.

The claims of the Red Hungarians to important (^Ice to the UN are mlghtly peculiar when one conelders that the Communist governments to Budapest holds it high treason for a Hungarian to make aa appeal to the UN to writing. There Is, for Instance, the case of Tibor Pakh, a Hungarian author whoee great-grandfather was one of the hcroee of the now legendary mid-Nlneteenth Ontury Revolution of 1848.

Five years ago Tibor Pakh addressed a memorandum to the UN asking for Intervention on behalf of the 1956 re-volutionarlee who had been taken to Siberia or left to languish to Hungarian JaUt, Somehow the memorandum, which should have been kept confidential, fell into the hands of the Budapest government. Pakh was sentenced to death for high treason for making hi* appeal in behalf of human rights. The death sentence wai later commuted to fifteen yearn in prison. A sixty we -yea^ old man, Pakh Is now betof kept on a bread and water diet the so-called fourth ration wMch costs two dollars a month, one-half of the charge being saddled on the prisoners relatives.

Pakh cant get any action from the UN. Nor can e^hl young prisoners of the Budapest government who were iConttoiMd 00 page I)

Misleading Employment Data

Merchants Association Members Attention The Board of Directors of the merchants association in special .session heartily endorse the efforts of those responsible for the special Thanksgiving Service to be held here tomorrow.

The Greenville grad e d schools vlll observe half holiday tomorrow on account of the special Thanksgiving service which will be held st the Pitt County Fair Grounds.

FITT COITNTV IMTED FUND

By ELMER ROESSNER It has been reported here that there is a shortage of skilled labor and no great abundance of unskilled workers. It can now be reported that the natioiial figures on unemployment can be very misleading unless they are closely examined in detail.

For example, the Deinut-ment of Labor reported that there were persons

unemployed to August.

It later reported, "The opening of schools to September reduced teenage unemployment by 2,160.()00 from August and accounted for the addition of 550,000 adult womtn (mainly teachers and other school employees) to the employed total.

Thus it appears that students and teachers on summer vacations art counted as unemployed.

And if their total. 2,686,000, were subtracted from the 3.-256,000 unemployed, there were only 608,000 honest - to-Wlrtz unemployed.

WERE THEY LOOKING? HARD?

TTif 2,650,666 studipits and teachers caitie uniicijv the de

finition of unemployment because they were not wocktog and were looking for work.

Some of the teachers undoubtedly were currying about looking for new connections for the faU; others were surely seeking summer work to supfde-ment their Incomes as teachers.

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But there is room for suspicion that many were not looking very hard because they would be back in school ta September. And some, it may be surmised, were lociktog for work wUh hope they wouldnt find It.

The total unemployed, if thats what they real^r arc, dropped from 3,258,000 to gust to 2,875,000 In September. It didnt drop hiore because

lay-offs to agrtoultural employ-ment partly oftoet the numbers going back to school. Labor Departments figures ehow a dT(H? of 368,000 to farm em-pl(qmient from August to Sep-teniber.

But Labor Department itself caeto doubt on this flgure, saying, Farm employment declined more tium seasonally, probably because o generally unfavorable weather during the survey week.

PAR-TIMERS?

DROP-OUTS?

The towering total Is made furttier suspect by the departments statonent that o toe

2.875.000 unemployed, 663.(0 were looking for only part-time work. There may be many reasons for {xurt-time-work seekers, so there is no telling what percentages of them are peo-ide In no dir need of employment who want a little extra spending money.

The figures also show that of the September unemployed,

771.000 are from 14 to 19 years of age. These probably include many drop-outs, but they pr(d>-ably also Include many young people living at home with no spur or no father well-

aimed foot to hunt work diligently.

An even more startling fact is that more than one-third of the unemployed 1,011.000 ^ consist of women of 20 snd over. Thi may be a Jolting ft^tic to anyone who has tried to hire a two-handed typist or a household worker In recent years.

While the Job Oorpt hae much to commend it for, perhaps a greater need 1 for a Retread C^>rpe for unemployed womm over 30.

Incidentally, the New York Times last Sunday carried 414 cc'umns of help wanted advertisements, of whleh 128 columna were for females.

ELECTION DAY PAID HOLIDAY IN MANY U.S. COMPANIES..

Polling 100 companies, Pren-tice-Hall found that 25 per cent of the office employee and 18 per cent of the produe-ticxi workers get paid bt^daya on Election Day. All the rest give part time off oa the day, with 62.5 per cent paying office workers and 45 per cent paying plant workers for time lost.