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JOCKEYING . . . It is impossible
> to predict what will happen todav
predict what will happen three years
front now. There are, howdver, cer
tain straws in the political grind that
it. _
Certain people are making a move
to line up support for Woodrow
Jones for governor come the next
election. Woodrow,' the former
Congressman, and former Chairman
. of the State Democratic Party has
«tf the earmarks of a formidable
_ candidate.. He has experience and
connections both throughout the
State and In Washington.
He is' good looking and a good
speaker. As someone put it, “He
showed he has 'good sense when he
decided not to run for reelection to
Congress and instead came home to
North Carolina”
A loti will be hear about Jones
during the next few years and as
of now he looks like the candidate
of the Conservatives. . ■
Bert Bennett, the present Chair
man of the State Democratic Party,
is being given a lot of attention —
> especially by the • Sanford Admin
istration, and he will have first call
on Sanford’s support in the event
Tie decides to make the race.
Bennett has considerable personal
support among the Conservatives
due to his. friendship with many of
' the states most wealthy and influ
ential business leaders. He would
have a basfs for support from a
lot of different and conflicting
sources. His chances will be deter
mined, to a great extent, by the
success or failure of the Sanfortf
Administration to satisfy the people
during the next few years.
There will be many other poten
tial candidates whose “balloons" will
be sent up before filing date. Joe
Hunt,. the friendly and well liked
:Speaker of the House in the last
legislature, has many supporteres.
not only in his native county of
-Guilford, but throughout the entire
state. Joe probably has more sup
port among members of the Legis
lature than anyone at the present
. time.
The man who has more enthus
iastic support among the rank and
file at'present is Dr. Beverly Lake.
He has no real support among the
'leadership of any group or faction.
. But he has support from a lot of
plain folks all over the state.
Depending on events there will
be a lot of other prospective can
didates. Former State Senator, C.
V, Henkel may be bored with' his
various business interests by, the
-time the next Primary rolls around,
^ind this modem political "Bull of
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But the politicians are scattered.
Those around Kinston feel that the
Pfiper should be located in Kinston.
Those in New Bern feel their town
is more strategically located and so
on around every court house from
Warrenton to Southport.
Effort has been made to expand
the circulation of less blatant house
organs of liberalism, but these have
failed £pr numerous reasons.
The Greensboro Daily News has
tip-toed on several occasions into
Eastern Carolina, but its insipid ed
itorial page was a poor substitute
for the biting slanting of the
“N&O”. And the Daily News finds
its economic and political base in
the Piedmont, and has little in com
mon with the coastal plain.
llie existing daily papers in the
Coastal Plain have followed one of
two directionsi 1. Having carved
out a profitable niche in their par
ticular bailiwick they do not relish
the financial and intellectual strain
of circulation expansion, or 2. They
have sneezed when the "N&O’' has
taken snuff.
Tfie strangest factor in all of this
speculation is the failure of tiie
business community to understand
a first lesson in North Carolina ec
onomics : There is not a single trad
ing center itf North Carolina whose
relative gross retail sales is not
based upon total newspaper circu
lation. For instance, taking the larg
est 20 retail trading centers in'
their order,- one finds that they fol
low the population pattern except
in those instances . where a parti
cular town has a larger newspaper
circulation than its population.
In a survey made recently, Ral
eigh ranked 4th in population but
3rd in retail sales and its ranks 2nd
in total newspaper circulation. Win
ston-Salem, 2nd. in population was
4th in sales and ranked 4th in news
paper circulation. Kannapolis ranks
10th in population but 19th in retail
sales, has 15th position, in newspa
per circulation. Hickpry, ranking
20th in population, ranked 12th in
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This week' Congress entered the
eighth month of- the currant ses
sion. I am informed that as of Au
gust 7th the Senate had passed 670
measures and confirmed 43,558 Pres
idential nominees - for appointment
to office or positions of trust'with
the United States Government.
Speculation continues daily about
the Senate adjournment date. -As
Majority Leader Mansfield pointed
out the other day, there still re
mains considerable amount of leg
islaltion to be acted upon by the
Senate. The Majority Leader in
dicated on that day that he would
call up for Senate'action a varied
group of tax bills, a bill protecting
Wilderness areas, 4 bill creating a
new Department of Urban Affairs,
some eight Merchant Marine meas
ures, a Migratory Labor- ‘Bill, a
Mexican Labor Bill, an act con
tinuing aid to impacted school are
as, a proposed, change in Senate
Rule XXII which governs debate,
and four appropriation • bills yet to
be considered according to the Ma
jority Leader are these four: for
eign aid, District of Columbia, Pub
lic Works, and 1961 Supplemental
appropriations. It can readily be
seen that this outline contains a
•large number of legislative propos
als which could cause the session
to stretch out until October 1. How
ever, a great deal of harmony can
newspaper circulation. In every one
of the top 20 cities of North Caro
lina there is an inflexible ratio be
tween newspaper circulation and re
tail sales.
On this basis, it follows that the
businessmen of Eastern North Caro
line have lax more at stake than
the politicians in building their
home town circulation.
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be engendered, by the Senate when
the hint of adjournment beckons
and it is entirely possible that a
week from now the final gravel of
this session may sound.
CONSTITUTIONAL HEARING —
As Chairman of the Subcommittee
on Constitutional Rights, on Sep*
tember 1 'I recently concluded four
days of hearings on the complex
problem of "The Constitutional
Rights' of the American Indian".
This is the first time a Congression*
al Committee has held hearings oh
this subject. The Bureau of Indian
Affairs in 1960 estimate that were
some 360,000 Indians living, on res
ervations and 160,000 living off res*
ervations. As the Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior, John A. Carv
er, Jr., pointed out in his testimony
before the Subcommittee, it is al
most impossible to generalize 'about
constitutional rights'of the Indian,
but many reservations need to take
more^adequate measures to protect
Indian civil liberties under the' 4th
and 14th amendments of the U. S.
Constitution. In a number of de
cisions the Supreme Court\of the
United States has stated that due
to the peculiar relationship between
Indian tribes and the federal gov*
"On his yny back from the Ivory
Coast where he represented the
President at Independence Day
celebrations, Attorney General Rob*
eft F. Kennedy fell into conversa
tion with a newsman in Paris. The
name of Ghana President Kwame
came np.
" We’re against him,’ said Ken
nedy flatly.
" ‘No, Bob. We’re not.’ said the
newsman. Why your brother had ,
him on a state visit is Washington.’
“ Well I think we’re against him,
but I’ll check,’ ” said the Attorney
General. He went to his hotel room,
came back in about ten minutes later
and said:
" “Yeah, you’re right. I looked
him up on the cards and we’re for
him.’ ”
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ernment, these amendments do not
apply to the "on-reservation” In
dians unless the tribal constitution
safeguards these rights. Out of these
hearings may come a new awaken
ing on the part of the Congress and
the people of the jteed for protect
ing the basic rights and liberties of
America’s first settlers.
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