OTHER EDITORS SAY
aniNUORO DAILY NKWI
Yo, ho. ..what?'
We blinked — several times,
in fact — when we noticed the
other day that a local depart
ment store had put up a display
of tinsel and rolls of bright
wrapping and bright silver bells.
Christmas?! For heaven’s sake,
we haven’t even got to Colum
bus DAY!
The idea was so incredible that
we just dismissed it poof!, as an
autumnal hallucination. Appar
ently we were quite mistaken,
for the next day we picked up
our newspaper and read that
Postmaster General O’Brien had
urged people to get busy on
their Christmas mailing. “Shop
early,’’ he said, “mail early, and
use Zip codes.”
It is, we suppose, the patriotic
thing to do, like spending your
summer vacation in Sioux City
of drinking California wine or
buying savings bonds or sym
pathizing with Hubert Humph
rey. “The Night Before Christ
mas”? Who needs it? Let’s have
an efficient Christmas.
We’re willing to cooperate.
We’re going right home and
haul out the Christmas mailing
list, and send all our Mends
their cards pest haste — or poet
torpor, depending, on how the
mail’s running. We’ll get a nice
big tree and put it up in the
living room, and decorate it with
popcorn, cookies and ginger
bread men. We’ll bring out all
the old Bing Crosby records, and
hum' “White Christmas” as we
drive to work each morning.
We’ll mix a bowl of eggnog, and
toast the new year. We’ll hang
our stockings by the fire.
Of course, by the time Christ
mas rolls around the tree will be
brown, the popcorn and cookies
will be green, and we’ll be set
ting up the fireworks for the
Fourth of July. But why not take
a cheery view? After all, the
decorations will look real nice
for the World Series.
OTHER EDITORS SAY
the new* and courier, charleston. *. c.
Singing A New Tune
It all depends, they say, on
whose ox is being gored. We
are reminded of the adage in
reading newspaper columns by
Ralph McGill, the liberal lion
of Atlanta.
Mr. McGill was all for the
Student Non-Violent Coordinat
ing Committee and other civi]
rights agitator organizations
when they were marching
through Mississippi and Alaba
ma. He still says “Snick” had “s
magnificent record” in the garlj
1960’s, when it “included som<
of the sweetest, bravest peopl*
of those days.”
Mr. McGill doesn’t love “Snick’
anymore, now that it has invad
ed Atlanta and damaged the
city’s carefully cultivated im
age. Suddenly Mr. McGill dis
covers that “Snick” is “no long
er a student movement. It is nol
now a civil rights movement. II
is openly, officially committed to
a destruction of existing socie
ty.”
Moreover, Mr. McGill says,
“Snick’s attorney in New York
City is a registered agent for the
Castro regime ... In civil rights
circles it is said that Havana
money ‘took over Snick’.”
What’s wrong with that?
When Mr. McGill went to Cuba
in 1959, he applied a coat of
whitewash to Fidel Castro. Now
it sounds as though he doesn’t
want Castro to dominate Atlanta.
In the past, when suggestions
were made that communists
were behind civil rights pro
tests, Mr. McGill strongly re
jected the notion. We wonder
whether he would be talking
about “Havana money” — or for
that matter, Chinese or Russian
resources mentioned in his col
umn of Sept. 8 — if the target
had been Jackson or Birming
ham instead of his hometown
Atlanta.
Cqmmunist penetration of the
civil rights movement is nothing
new. Communist citations
abound in the records of many
protest leaders. The thing that
has changed for Ralph McGill is
the ox that is being gored. Now
it’s his.
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Top prices paid for
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f. No Commission Charae
The Senate Subcommittee on
Flood Control — Rivers and
Harbors has been conducting
hearings on projects to hdlp pro
tect North Carolina’s coastline
from the effects of hurricanes
which have caused millions of
dollars in damage in recent
years,
On September 26th, I ap
peared before the Subcommit
tee which is considering the au
thorization of Federal public
works projects for North Caro
lina’s coast These projects,
which I urged the Subcommit
tee to approve, include beach
erosion control, hurricane pro
tection, harbor improvements,
aids to navigation, and mainten
ance of existing navigation faci
lities.
Beach erosion during great
storms has rendered the North
Carolina coast more susceptible
to future ravages of hurricanes.
Tides and winds have followed
storms to seriously damage the
area, and a major purpose of
these projects is to strengthen
beach protections.
Other recommendations would
improve harbor facilities and
navigation aids where they are
needed. All the projects have
the approval of the Army En
gineers and endorsement by the
Bureau of the Budget.
Federal Highway Act
Several weeks ago, the Presi
dent signed into law an Act ex
tending the Federal-Aid High
way Act by another year to 1972
in lieu of the former expiration
date of 1971. The stretch-out
recognizes the importance of
completing the Federal road
building program, and sets up
some new formulas to accom
plish this purpose. One new
standard provides that the In
terstate highway system be com
posed of roadways having at
least four traffic lanes.
Highway appropriations for
1968-1972 have a ceiling under
the new Act of $19.7 billion for
the five fiscal year period. The
1968 fiscal year appropriation
ceiling is authorized at 94.6 bib
lion. That authorization will rise
to $5.1 billion for fiscal year
1969 and taper downward to a
low of $2.6 billion for fiscal
year 1972. , \ ... .
The Interstate highway pro
gram has already meant much to
our State, and as the program
moves toward a linkup of the
thruways, it will make an out
standing contribution to our
State and its economy.
SPENCE ON MANEUVER
Marine Private First Class
Okla C. Spence, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Noah J. Spence of Star
Route, Maysville, is a member of
the Battalion Landing Tram,
Third Battalion, Second Marines,
with the Landing Fane in the
Caribbean.
ROUSE BACK FROM CRUISE
Aviation Machinist's Mate
Third Class Willard Rouse Jr., of
Route 1, Kinston, who is attach
ed to Air Anti-Submarine Squad
ron 34, has returned to the
Quonset Point Naval Air Station
after a three and one-half month
goodwill cruise in the eastern
To Language School
Airman Ernest S. Clayborne,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clay
borne of Rt 2, Kinston, has
been selected for training at Ft.
Meyer, Va., as an Air Force lan
guage specialist. The airman, a
1966 graduate of South Lenoir
High School, recently completed
basic training at Lackland AFB,
Tex.
Atlantic, aboard the support air
craft carrier USS Randolph.
ONE
HIGH
STANDARD
The same thoughtful consideration and
complete dignified service is accorded all
regardless of the cost of the funeral selected.
Gamer's Funeral Home
Dial JA 3-2124 or JA 3-2125
Kinston, N. C.
State Hunting Season Opens Friday,
October 14th for Deer, Bear & Squirrel
PUBLIC HUNTING
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