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CAPITAL CUPBOARD Veep Couldn't Visit Carolina; Had To Go To Texas . . . With JFK By EULA N. GREENWOOD ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT . . . When members of the N. C. Good Neighbor Council were advised by the Governor back in October that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson could not come to North Carolina in mid November as planned, they wondered what was up. Vice President Johnson had told Governor Sanford at the Governor* Conference in Flor ida earlier In the fall that he would be the main speaker at a big Industrial conference ten tatively scheduled for Greens boro around November 15-M. This waa to have boon a gen eral meeting for a report on how the Negro Is progressing In the employment phase of In tegration in North Carolina. Then came the brief letter to the Governor. The President had other plans for him at that time, went tlje cordial note, and he Just could not make it to Tarheelia. So, the meeting was marked out. And, the replacement was Texas ? San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Dallas ? . CLOSE FRIEND ... Had It not been (or Lyndon Johnson's speeches in the Piedmont area of North Carolina in 1960, this State might well have gone Republican. He has a lot of close friends and distant relatives in North Carolina. A lot of the men and women who were with the National Y o n t h Administration, the Wf A, and in the cradle days of the Employment Security Administration ? called another name then, recall meetings with Jefcnson back In the M*s. He grew up deep in the heart of the New Deal . . . and now that be la President will net depart from It. He is a true Southerner, they lay, not a Westerner. We first took note of him some ten years ago when news correspondents in Washington voted him the most influential member of the U. S. Senate. ?? HATE . . . Consensus is that Hate killed John F. Kennedy. Then U a lot of hatred in Dall as, in the U. S., and right here in North Carolina. Nobody seems to have a corner on it. You find it on all sides: clubs, church, work. , And, the strange thing about it is that it is not the old hat red of the Democrats toward the Republicans or vice versa. That was a mild dislike. This current thing is real, deep-down hatred. The oltraliberals hate the altraconservative*. Party lines have little to do with it Some people among the rights and the lefts seem peculiarly adept at generating hatred. They do It vocally and through the writ ten word. They hat* with great Intelligence. This "gag law" thing is the moat recent bone of the hate mongert. It is Law. However, if it were not this, it would be lomething else. This peculiar Hatred which has developed here in North Carolina In re cent years ? and it is mostly among Democrats ? has in it the genesis to destroy the Dem ocratic Party. Its main foundation: lack of understanding of, or tolerance for, the other peraon's point of view. GAIN AND LOSS ... The man who gained the moat poli tically through the audden turn of events ia Dan L. Moore of Canton, buay candidate for Governor. Got. Terry Sanford la mot far Moore. Gov. Sanford ia an all ?at, no-hoMs-barrad supporter ?f R1 char da? Prayer of Greens bora. Now that Lyndon John son i? President, U. 8. Sens. Sam Enin ? a Moore man ? and Everett Jordan have new strength. They are old Senate baddies of the new President. President Johnson and the Governor get along. As Gover nor of North Carolina, Luther Hodges went to Los Angeles in 1960 an out-and-out Johnson man. The N. C. delegation were Bankers' Aid To F arms Wins National Award The bankers of North Caro lina have won another top na tional award for their continu ing service to agriculture in the state. The County Key Banker for Watauga County, Sam W. Dixon, Executive Vice-President of the First National Bank of Boone, was advised last week that the N. C. Bankers Association has won the top Agricultural Award presented by the American Bankers Association. This makes the 19th consecutive award the bankers of North Carolina have won. Almong the projects listed by Mr. Dixon which won the award are the annual Short Course in Modern Farming at N. C. State, attended by young farmers un der scholarships paid by their hometown banks; a farm credit conference attended by hund reds of bankers and farmers; and a land judging conference in which thousands of FFA members participate. News of the award was receiv ed by W. C. Barrett, vice pres ident of the State Bank, L*ur inburg, who served as last year's chairman of the NCBA agricul ture committee. Dr. J. W. Pou, vice president of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Greenville, was vice chairman and moved up to the chairman ship this year. The bankers' organization an nually appoints an agricultural liason man in each of the 100 counties, called the "County "County Key Banker." NCBA President John J. Ma son, of Tarboro, expressed the pride of all bankers for having won this recognition again. "It is important that effici ent farm businesses have the kinds and amounts of credit they need. I am glad that the banks of North Carolina con tinue to prove the chief source of farm credit and it is en couraging to see that they are meeting this challenge," Mason said. MICE EAT MARIJUANA Lob Angeles ? County clerks faund that mice had eaten their fill of wuito ?tared j? evi dence when they made a routine check in the etoHaroow. So hyped up wen the maoe that they turn ed on the men and growled. They anight advice on how to prevent the rodents from destroy ing valuable evidence, and. after severed remedies they decided bo call the county exterminator. Poison was applied end the prob lem was sotved. Johnsonites. But Terry Sanford, using the same savvy that made him Gov ernor at the age of 44 (he and our late President were each born in 1917), decided he would go with a "winner". Terry went down the line for John F. Kennedy, thus emerging as the Southern Governor closest to the President. Governor Sanford had more Influence with President Ken nedy than did Uy member of ?ur Congressional delagatlon. It has paid off In many, many way*? directly and indirectly. But now things have changed. There came a king who knew not Joseph. As a matter of fact, there had been talk in recent weeks ? and we also read of it here and there ? that Terry Sanford might be John F. Ken nedy's running mate in 1964. . . So, Moore gained . . . and lost. The candidacy of Dr. I. Bev erly Lake will cut very deeply Into Moore's strength. It adds np to this: the rich conserva tives are for Daa L. Moore; and the poor conservative* are for Dr. Lake. It is a pity, say friends, that the two could not get together. But they could not ? or would not. November brought gain and loss to Moore. 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