Thursday, Octob^ 28, 1965 , ".

NegHgent I We Did Not Moke Bid^

Greenville and Pitt County would be negligent headed by Sen. Walter Jones of Farmville, will have

in their duty to themselves and to the state if they the job of selecting the site in the West and the

do not make a jierious bid for the new alcoholic rehabilitation center to be established in Eastern North Carolina.

It is a certainty, of cour.se, that almost every major city and county in the Eastern section of the state will make an effort to. convince the site selection committee that it is the logical choice for the new center. Each location in the running will seek to make out before the committee its best po.s-sible case to be chosen as the site for the new center.

The committee appointed by Gov. Moore and

A Legacy From Malcoto Ross

Something Wrong With This Picture

By Wn.LIAM A. SHIRES BOOK A rich new chapter i8t,belDff added to the pub-li&bed history of ..-rth Caro-Itan wltli A book by the late Malcolm Rosa chronicling the places, people end pest of the atatea largest river basin.

U la The cape Fear, latest pubUeation in a Elvers of Am*-rtca series by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Ne- York, on whteh Roes spent nearly five years In research and wrlUng. The t -k Is bebig published this week.

Ross, a New Englander ed* nested at Yale, was a careful, akUlful writer who wintered in Flcelda but who spent hla stsnn.ers at Burnsville, .C and who became Intrigued ' 1th the Cape Fear country long befare be was commissioned to write tile story.

R Is the second In the Rivers (g America series dealing with a North Carolina river, its people and their tnfhieiK^ on the course of American history. The first wae The Frental Ibxwd, written a decade ago by yvilma Dykeman Uiakty.

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the broad Chipc Pear system as having the appearance on the map of a lopsided, goblet The stem stretches 15(K miles Island from WilmlnRton. To the we.<tt of the stem s^tled the Scots highlanders. East of the stem, In low land plains, went the Scotch - Irish from Pennsylvania and English-

site in the East at which the new centers will be constructed.

It behooves Greenville and Pitt County to begin immediately to makeknown to the committee the tremendous a.ssets already here that would mean so much to the new center in the East

Pitt has a fine hospital and an excellent group of doctors including outstanding specialists in many fields. The Coastal Plain Mental Health Clinic which ser\es a large rea of the state is located here, providing an asset no other location Jn this section has.

There is the four-year school of nursing at East Carolina College and the medical school which has been authorized for ECC which could prove invaluable asseta for the alcoholic rehabilitation center. There are other facilities connected with East Carolina which would prove valuable to the center that can be offered by no other community in this section of the state.

The listing of assets could go on and on. But it is not our'purpose here to make a big sales pitch. Rather,Jt is to point out that as an excellent a location for a new state alcoholic rehabilitation center, Greenville and Pitt County take a back seat to no other location in this area of the state.

The many good reasons for locating the eastern center here should be carefullyand if necessary, repeatedlypointed out to the selection committee.

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CAPE AR -> Ross's Ctpe Fear, no less fascinsttng. Is a t * amUUous, more exhaustive uiKtortaklng. There Is more to tell about ttils older, bigger, more populous region and Rom has done It well.

It WM bis last work. The b was finished last April, just a month before the author's Lath. But it it a legar !tr both historian, researcher and the casual reader.

K Is a story of sweeping td-vert- , hlstorlc.,1 romance and i.soluteness, o religious infhiMioe. exploratlmi, Indian massaci. and the si^rit ot freedom. B Is a story of proud peeple.

Sail' s masters who spied the shoals off the river's meuth gave it the name "Cape of Fear." and it became the lair of pirates, Spaulsh p!und-ererr ; d raiders.

LAND Richness i h e land brought early settlers, and there were crown grants In hcgte that it would moduce wine, silk, perfume, spices and almonds. Ins*. its most valuable products turned out to be tar and pitch and deerskins.

But the land was fat with b'riccy, deer, ducks, gee, bear and buffalo, great pinet. forests and streams ot sparic-ling, pure water. So the settlers ca:.ie, bringtag Negro sUves, building idantatlon hinnes such as Orton and finally wrested the and from the bloody Tusciuoras.

SETTLED Rosa describes mSm'T .....---

from Virginia and pockets ot Swiss, French and Germans.

The bowl of the goblet, outlined the Haw and the Deep rivers, became the frontier from which exploration and further settlement pushed forth, In which Hillsboro became a colonial capital, in which the men of Onnge organised the Regulatora to op-pof taxaUon, oppression and corruption.

CHA*:.CTER Because of the early pattern, however, the Cape Fear valley unl<iuely became what Ross describes as a' patchwoilc (g peoples, holding hard to their prejudices.

There were settlements of clannish Scots and of peace lovi: ff Quakers and later, after Bishop August OotUieb Sp.ngenburg exiored to the Yadkin and established his Wachovia, the Moravians.

Tsloatlon toept them apart and ROSS writes that it fieally required violence and Woodshed to meld them.

SMOOTH State elections board secretary Alex K. Brock has sent a letter of congratulations to all county elections board member, registrara, assistants and secretaries for their work In the recent registration.

It proved unmlstak ably. Brock says, "that we haw the finest and most dedica ted group of people working in our election process that could be found anywhere. *

"We did not have any complaints or dissatisfactions ex-messed from any area. This is truly a record for you to take pride in. R was your ac-ctanplishment.

REGISTER Brock spe n t Mmday foUowtng the closing of registraon books for the Nov. 2 special election checking with various counties to determine whether there had beeoi any .trouWe nr complaints.

"Eveiythinf went smoothly," he said. "We didnt hear of a single complaint."

A spot check indicated additional Negro regiatrsilon was very light- In the first groito of c(HiQties checked, heavtest Negro registration oecurr e d In tiny Camden County which added S4 voters to its books 38 Negro and 16 white bringing its total registration to 2.123.

Mecklenburg County, with the state's largest registration, added (Hily 157 new voters and only 10 were Negro. Mecklenburgs registration Is 115.508.

Three Negroes and 11 Indi-ins were among 36 new registrants in Robeson County, Only 11 Negro registrants were counted among 233 new votera In Wake. Stanly County had 16 new registrante, all white. In Cumberland. 38 white and three Negro registrante were added.

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Congress Fails To Do Own Job

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)Con-grei has come to expect a vacation of two or three months, unlike the rest of the populatlqp which considers a Job a yearly occupation with perhaps no more than a month off at most.

Th' the moans and groans about fatigue and overwork and the need for rest coming from the Capitol before Congress finally closed up for the year Oct. 23-The big exception waa in 1963 when It stayed until r^. 30. No peacetime session waa ever longer. But in 1964 it quit Oct. 3. In 1962 on Oct. 13. and in 1961 on Sept. 27.

This was a highly productive Congress President Johnson called it "fabulous and it was probably the greatest producer In American history but this very fact raisca a question.

\^y should such production be so unusual?

It wouldnt be so unusual if Congress generally woriced harder, cut out some of the bombast and curatory and stalling, and, Instead of voting as parttes, lined up ior or against a piece of legislation or its merits.

There have been few Congresses In hl^ory which could not have dcme more than they did. And In a society like this, with political parttes, there will be polltf s in legislation except perhaps in emergency.

But Its an unhaw)y refleo-tlcni on the congressional process when Ctmgress is most productive only In timca (rf national peril or when prodded, driven and guided h. a strong president.

The two most producUve peacetime Ccngresses In this century were in the depression days when President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal was trying to avoid disaster and now under,.Johnson.

Johnson, the most experience' of all presidents in the wa.vs of Congress since he spent 25 year there, happens to be a political genius.

But even thte would not have been enough to get his load of major legislaticxi ap-provtd this year If ' Democrats had not won such overwhelming control of Congress In the 1964 elections.

And even that might not have been enough If Johnson, who has practically no outside recreation except when on his Texas ranch, hadnt worked almost around the clock lining up congressi(xial votes for hts legislation.

When this Ccmgress finished, the Republican leadersSen. Everett Dlrksen of Illinois and Rep. Gerald R. Ford of

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Michigan made the usual comments that minority lead-erw make at a time like this.

Ford comidained about the "evils of onc-party domtasnce" and that, under the Insistence of Johnson for action, a lot of Democrats didnt know "whether to clap their hands or click their heels. He called this a "hlp-pooket Congress.

Dlrksen, closer to Johnson than Ford, called tbia Congress an echo, not a choice.

But the question neither Dirit-sen. Ford nor anyone has offered, an answer to is this: Granted Johnson never got off Congress' back, but why does Congress have to be pushed into a great performance?

Why cant it do the same Job on Its own? The answer of history seems to be: It Is not car-ble of It by itself. It would be nice to think otherwise but the record speaks for Itself.

By ART BUOIWALD

A Logical Exponotion

The other night the members of the press gave a party for Larry OBrien, the President's chief lobbyist, who te 4vtng the White House to become the Postmaster General of the United States. Just before the

party someone slipped me a letter purportedly writtoi by President Johnson c(mceming this appointment. 1 cant swear for the authenticity (rf the letter, since it wasnt signed, but after I read it to the assembled

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To The Editor,

In the face of greatly publicized anti-Vietnam and antl-drait dem<mstrations <m the part of some American college students, a group of Pfeiffer College students have formed a committee to exmess our appreciation for what American servicemen In Vietnam are doing. It Is our plan to send a Christmas card containing a hand written note of ai^reciation to as many servicemen in Vietnam as possible. We want them to know that they are not forgotten and that their contributions are appreciated.

We are seeking the names and complete mailing addresses of servicemen now serving In Vietnam. We are asking that people everywhere send us this Information before December 1st. In return, we wUl send a Christmas card containing a personal "thank you note to each serviceman.

This is a student project with the one goal erf letting our servicemen In Vietnam know there are college students who do deeply appreciate what they are dcrfng. We invite support <rf this project by the sending of names and complete addresses of servicemen to:

Students For Soldiers In Vietnam P.O. Box 19

Pfeifer CFiege Mlsenheimer, N. C. 28109 Your assistance in heli^g us secure names and addresses will be warmly appreciated.

Sincerely, Sally Louise Steinert For Gyration Students For Sirfchera In Vietnam, Pfeiffer College

To The Editor,

I read with deep Interest your editorial pointing o uft that the United Fund of Pitt County had reached 50 percent of its goal for the next fiscal year. As a resident of Pitt County, a supporter of the United Fund, and as Chairman of Pitt County Chairfer of the American National Red Cross, I was delighted to hear these figures. I sincerely hixie that your editorial will influence those who have not contributed to the United Fund to do so In sincerity and haste.

If all of us would stop and - analyze the good that the United Fund does and the es-pense that it saves each of us throughout the ytax, I am sure that our contributions would be Increased as well as sent in sooner. For instance, the Pitt County Oiapter of the American Red CTross, through its regional BLOODMOBILE PROGRAM, saved the residents of Pitt County $43,625.00 last year while operating on an overall budget of only $15.-000.00. This, of course, was made possible by a voluntary blood contribution program.

I think it would be ot interest to your readers to know, also, that during the 1964-65 ftecal year that the residents of Pitt County used 1,736 pints of blood while contributing only 1,689 pints (11 pints less than we contributed). Prom these figures, you can see that we are willing to accept charity.

While the main function of the Red C^ross, an agency of the Pitt United Fund, is really to save lives, the Red Cross undertakes many other phrases of humanitarian work, To men-ticm but a few of the services offered by Red Cfross, we would of course have to bring out first the AID TO THE ARMED FORCES and to the familtes of the men and women % the armed forces as well as the veterans. In this Instance, many men In the armed forces need and use Red Cross services at some timesuch as when sick, wounded or In need of welfare or recreation. The Red Cross will advance money In an emergency with no interert charges as well as arranging emergency leaves for the service men when their families need them

during critical times. In the case of veterans, tjie Bed Cross help them get benefits by aiding with appeals, claims for dteabdUties, ser-vioe records, discharge papers, and hospitalization or death benefits for the families.

When one thinks of disaster, ones thoughts naturally turn to the Red ChDss which Is soon there. Though our area has been blessed by the lack of disastera, we can always know that the American Red Cross will be here with the rest (rf the United States backing them up in the event that we ever need them.

The RED CROSS FIRST AID PROGRAM is believed to be one 0 the finest ever estatr-lished. Trained Red Cross instructors in First Aid teach classes in Pitt County each year giving Junior, Standard and Advanced First Aid Courses in order to prevent, protect and take action in times that First Aid te needed. Along with this program, we have our WATER SAFETY PROGRAM. Having trained many thousands of people in Pitt County to swim, we are extremely proud of this Water Safety Program and feel that through it. many Pitt County lives have been saved. Along this line Red CYoss also has Nursing Services in which Red Ooss volunteer instructors teach the care of the sick and Injured.

Turning again to the Regional Bloodmobile Program (one of which we are both proud of and embarrassed because we do not meet out quotas),

I would like to point oiit that thte te a free program for the residents of Pitt County. This Is a program in which Pitt Countians can receive 'ree blood not only in our local hosirftals but anywhere in the United States.

Again, we want to thank the DAILY REFLECTOR most sincerely for encouraging the people to participate in the United Fund. May I at this time through this means remind everyone that were It not for the United Fund, we would have ten or ftfteen separate fund raising drive as we have had in the past.

Sincerely, Thomas W. Willis

Chairman

group everyone agreed it was the only logical explanation as to why the President chose Mr. OBrien for the job. It begins:

Dear Larry:

Im sorry about that Federal judgeship that 1 pitmils-ed you, hut I did tell Teddy he would have first crack at naming someone. I thought his nomlnatioa was an admirable one and I only regret I didnt bear about Francis X. Me*-rtssey hetora I aMxrfntod Abe Portas to the Suixeme Court.

I know weve had a bad year up on the Hill, Larry, but I dont think youre completely to blame. The 89th Congress has bei dragging its feet all during the session and as far as Im eoncemed any legislative body that wouldnt pass my Home Rule and 14-B bills te a do - nothing Congress in my book. Im not saying you didnt try your best, Larry, to help me get tMfe legislation thr(xigh. But your best just wasnt good enough. 1 cant run this government all by myself, and if you cant help me get through just two lousy bills, Im going to have to find myself a new boy.

"Dear Lany"

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BUCUIVALD

Now I dcHit want to seem ungrateful, so Ive got another position to offer you. It may not have the same prestige, and you will have to give up your White House car pri-vUegca, but its a job you dont have to be ashamed of.

Im thinking about appointing you Postmaster General. Now before yoa turn it down let me point out that this job does have a certain amount of respcxwibUlty.

Mail te important to a lot of people and you would be In charge of seeing that the right letters got to the right addresses, in a reasonable length of timeair mail in no more than a week, first class mail within the same month.

You would also be in charge of placing some sons of Congressmen In summer post office jobs, which to no small chore in Itself.

But your main function would be to build new post offices ansnvhere they are needed. Im enclosing the plans of one I have In mind for Johnson aty, Texas. You will note In the (Continued on Page 6)

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Does the Negro like what Is currently being done for him under the anti-poverty programs that have their origins in Washington, D. C.?

Its a good question, and there are probably twenty or thirty different answers to it. But the most challenging answer <rf all Is one offered by bright young Negro writer named Myrna Bain, who is one of tl founders of a new- Negro magazine called Advance, published in Newark, New Jersey.

Ive run into Myrna Bain a couple of times while covering political meetings. She is a recent graduate of Hunter College In New York City, and what struck me about her was her ability to ask uninhibited and entirely unconventional questiais. She wasnt being a "Negro, nor was she being a "conservative" or a "liberal. She was just an original. Now I come^ upon an entirely unorthodox discussion of socialism undr her

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by-line in Advance. She begins by quoting a young Negro worker of Danville, Virginia, who remarked In a moment of frustration that "the Negroes were the first and to a larare extent the only American citizens to experience socialism throughout their history in tl^ Northern hemisphere.* Miss Bain remarks that "slavery as a synonym for soclal-temis a very strange andunusual concept. But she finds much that to relevant la the coriipariwm.

"To the extent that a slave, any slave, te not free to do as he or she pleases with her life and property, she says, "to the extent that the old slave master provided food, shelter and burial for their chattels, to the extent that all slaves were treated equally as slaves (whether In the home or field), to that extent slavery aw>roximates and carries <xrt the cradle to grave protection and equal distribution erf wealth and pro-peity that te Inherent in all socialist doctrine.

Miss Bain goes tm from this Pirfnt to suggest that "the current anti-poverty program plus Its provious predecessors, such as the WPA, CCC and Aid to Dependent Children, has all too much In common with the "old system of paternalistic slavery. She finds excuses for the WPA-OC approach as It was adapted under emergency conditions back In the depression period of the Nineteen Thirties. But "today Is 1965, and the welfare recipients of the SixUes. "while they are receiving monthly checks to buy food and pay the rent are doing so under conditions and with results that keep them in a continous and everlasting cycle of poor rat-infested apartments, crawded rooming houses, crime laden streets and poor schools for their children and no real hope for their future.

Miss Bain does not ten us how the cycle of "relief so-cialian can be broken. "But somewhere,* she says, "at some time, the true need of the poor clients wiU have to be considered. For It te not too harsh under the present situation to call the whole concept and execution of welfare a studied and ever-self-perpetuating boondoggle to enslave the poor and make the merchants and credit companies and slum landlords rich.

If Miss Bain te the harbinger of a new line of Negro thought, It Is a most entwura-Ing manifestation. For it Is entirely possible for the slum dweller, no matter what hte race, to break out <rf the cycle of dependence on "charity socialism. This was dem-

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Ixical Atemnl Of Duke

University To Meet Tooight

The Pitt Owinty Alumni Association of Duke University will hold a get together meeting In the basement of the Methodist Church this evenhig at 6:30 o'clock.

Every aluminus In the county te urged to be present, supper will be served by one 0 the circles of the church.

"Hier# was a time, before motorcars and missiles, when \ the most trying thing man had to contend with was pants bagging at the knees. Al-goma (Wis.) Record-Herald,

This Time May Come: When someone will not be extolling the good old days. When oldsters will n(H be viewing with alarm the goings-on among the young people.

When the comic sheets will not pretend the husband.s are henpecked.

When a man will work as hard as he leads hte wife and friends tothink he works.

When 4U1 employee admits he is being paid all that he 1s worth. . H-

When wmrSody v ill not he ptophrsylng that tlie world i.v coming to an end

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"Number of employes in the Federal executive department went down 602 last year to 3.468,663. At this rate, it will be completely out of business in about 4,000 years.Mem-pills Commercial Appeal.

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By ELMER ROESSNER While Congress has pushed the governments take . and-give total to more than $127 bilUoD this year, state legisla-tores and subdivisions have also been boosting taxes and spending.

A study by Cwnmercc Clearing House shows that state and local taxes, which totaled $47.8 billion in the year ended June 30. 1984, were $51.6 billion In the year ended June 90. 1965.

And since some new taxes already voted art still to go into effect thte y^ar and early next, and since leilslatures in moet states meet again early next year, it to likely that state and local taxes will set more records in fiscal 1966 and calendar 1966.

And cities, counties, townships and assessment (Bstricts can levy taxes at any time, and many are doing it.

In the last Rscal year, states collected $96.1 billion.' and sub-riivi.'dons took in $?;.5 billion. liri.K^ENDINl IME States and cities piobably

spent much more than the $51.6 bUlioD, because they have a weakness for Issuing bonds, which swells their spending power. The federal government also does a bit of thte too.

The federal, state and local take in levies te therefore nKwe than $178 billion, and with more than $20 Mllion In borrowings, these governmen t s have about $200 billion to spend a year.

This means the employment of mllons of people. It also means the purchase of every kind of product made in the United States today, from colas-sal structures to teddy bears sold at PX*. R means the

purchase of C(mntless services. from designing new planee to finding call girls for CIA objectives.

Therein lies an immense opportunity for business. $200 billion in opportunities. No businessman can afford to ignore the poesibilities in this, the biggest market In the world.

HTIERE THE MONEY COMES FROM

Getting back to state and local taxes, the biggest gain in the last fiscal year was in corporate and individual income taxes. Corporate taxes were up 13.9 per cent, yielding $1.9 WUion, and individual , income taxer, up 10.9 per cent, yielding $4.1 blUion, for a total of $6 billion.

But this did not top sales taxes. The increase was (xily 8.5 per cent, but the total bite was $7.9 billion.

Prwerty taxes, mostly levied by local governments, yielded $23 billion, an increase of 7 9 per cent. Mrttor fuel taxc.s were |4.S bllon, up 5.9 per

(%nt, and motor license fees brought In $2.1 billion up 4.4 per cent, Commerce Clear 1 n g House reported.

And collections In the current fiscal year will be bigger.

YOU CAN HAVE THAT CRANKED PHONE. LEGAL LIKE

Ben phone companies will now install their own components in antique teiepbones bought by customers.

But BeU. and aU the independents are opposed to foreign attachment Amerl cans keep adding to their telephones. They growl that unauthorized attachments endanger both service and emplojrees.

But George Levine, director erf the American Teleph one Consumers Council, objects. He declares that irfione companies have no right to mooopolize auxiliary equipment than an electric company would have to monopolize appliances. He said that half a billkm dollars a year was siphmwd off by phone companies in rental charges on equipment.