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EDITORIAL PAGE High Eitttrprist, Tutidty, Dte. 18, 1W2 Outlook Hardly Rosy DAILY MEDITATION For the Son of nun came to save the IS: 11. My friends, there is one spot on earth where the fear of death, of sin, and of judgment need never trouble us. the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can L. Moody.

JFK Says Talks Out With Khrushchev Weatherly's Mecklenburg Move Costly To Guiltord In his 20 years as Guilford County manager, together with a dozen more as purchasing agent for it, J. Harry Weatherly has helped greatly in distinguishing it as among the best governed counties in the nation. Now he has accepted a challenge to become Mecklenburg's first county manager, a position to which he will move Feb. 1. Guilford's loss is Mecklenburg's gain.

The qualifications which commended Mr. Weatherly to Mecklenburgh- ers, entering upon initial effort at having a county manager, were won in service of a Guilford which can ill spare the experience and knowledge of county operation he has demonstrated in a long and honorable career of considerate management of a county which has reflected his fine nature in its development. Perhaps Mecklenburg might have drawn Mr. Weatherly irrespective of the. change of political complexion which came with the Republican sweep of the courthouse in Nov.

6 election, but there are many who doubt that. He was the ablest man in sight for Guilford or Mecklenburg direction. His going is a price of change, one the county will have to pay, for no man is indispensable. Republicans, who have now responsibility for directing county the troubling task of filling big shoes in that upper southwest corner of the courthouse where the county manager's office operates. Chairman Dale Montgomery stated frankly he had counted on Mr.

Weatherly's experience to help through the four vears of his The decision is made and is something that could be called desirable as that may be. Guilford County owes'an unpayable debt of gratitude to Mr. Weatherly for de- voted as we regret his decision to undertake the Mecklenburg assignment, our good wishes go with him. and this county should press intangible and bi-partisan fash- ion appreciation of the magnificent- contribution he has made to its progressive on-going. By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON AP)--President Kennedy, in a sober and coldly realistic look at the world, paints no rosy picture about the days ahead.

In an heur-long interview with three reporters on television Monday night: 1. He gave American allies in Europe an almost brutal rebuke fer not doing their share against communism. 2. He threw cold water on any summit meeting soon with Premier Khrushchev and on any idea it would do good if held seon. 3.

He told those who think this country has borne too much the world's burden too long: "We can't lay it down in this century." 4. He expects about as much tough going with Congress in 1963 as he had in 1962. In this year's election Democrats picked up four Senate seats, the Republicans two House seats. 5. He indicated none the optimism which swept over some people here after Russia's back- down on Cuba.

They seemed to see" or sense big changes coming. The Allied forces in NATO are supposed te be their first line of defense against a Communist attack. The American, allies have been notoriously deficient in supplying their share of trotps. But this has generally been soft- pedaled by the American government, apparently for fear of offending the West Europeans. The United States also has been shouldering the big bulk of aid to backward countries.

Kennedy painted out the United States has six divisions in NATO, "about a fourth of all the divi- sfens on the Western front They are the best equipped. They can fight which is not KNOTTY PROBLEM IN THE YUIILOG SECTOR SadTldlngs Thy. iour-day Christmas i holiday means" an extra-long respite, but it will put Death to working overtime on the highways. The last four-day Christmas in 1958 was saddened by 594 traffic fatalities, and the four-day Christmas in 1956 caused 706 highway deaths. This still stands as the record number of road fatalities for any four-day period.

Death, with his companions, Drink and Speed, has -been hard at work in 1962. Motor vehicle accident deaths totaled 29,600 in the first nine months, up 9 per cent from the same period last year. The one-year record of 39.969 highway deaths set in 1941 seems certain to be surpassed in 1962. Ominously, the fatality rate per 100 million passenger miles, declining steadily since 1941. may go up for the Editorial Research first time.

In" with. .34.9, million vehicles going 334 that; rate was 12.0. Last year with 76 million vehicles traveling 735 billion miles, the rate per 100 million'pas- senger miles was" 5.2 This year an estimated 78.6 million vehicles are expected to travel 765 billion miles, and the rate may jump as high as 5.4. The National Safety Council can't say for. sure the cause of such an upsurge.

Some experts believe the answer may be in ever-growing numbers of 'cars traveling ever-greater mileage. If that exponential theory proves correct, travel by car may become increasingly dangerous. By 1976. for example, 114 million motor vehicles are expected to be on this nation's roads. The Skybolt Agony President Kennedy Wednesday begins a two-day conference in Nassau with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain.

Agonizing reappraisal proved to be an empty phrase in its first usage. Its revival by Peter Thorneycroft. British Defense Minister, is a measure of the confused rage the American threat to kill the Skybolt missile has aroused among our cousins and allies. If we go through with the threat. Thorneycroft told U.

S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Britain will have to reconsider not only its defense policy but the whole Anglo-American alliance. The British appear to be in a shaking rage. The Daily Sketch calls it The Scotsman with more characteristic understatement suggests that the trans-Atlantic alliance might be "somewhat soured." Assessed with a measure of detachment, the Skybolt debate appears to have a good deal of" logic and right on both sides.

Britain originated the program for a long-range missile which, like Skybolt. could be launched by a bomber in flight while the plane itself was 1000 miles away from target. The U. S. Air Force began studies in the same technique in 1957.

The conclusion was reached two years later that the weapon was feasible. Thereupon Britain dropped her own Blue Streak project and agreed to buy Sky- bolt. At the same time, the U. S. Navy received permission to base its nuclear submarines at Holy Loch.

The joint effort was to be of mutual advantage: it would extend the useful lives of both the British Vulcan and the U. S. B-52 bombers. Five tests of Skybolt have been described by President Kennedy as "not successful." (The Air Force has kinder phrase--it says four of the tests were "partial successes." i A lot of money has been spent on Skybolt; S657.9 million already has been authorized and about S500 million spent and committed. Completion of the system and purchase of the missiles would require an additional S2.5 billion.

"There is really the question." the President observed at his most recent press conference, "of how much it is worth to the British and ourselves when we have competing claims for funds." This is all very well from the American point of view. Our atomic weapons mix includes seven major weapons systems B-47. B-52 and B-58 bombers, and Atlas, Titan, Minuteman. and Polaris But take away Skybolt and the British have nothing. Indeed the Macmillan government has been criticized severely for putting all of Britain's nuclear eggs in one basket.

The President conceded that "The British have a very important equity" in Skybolt. British technicians for some time have been working with Americans at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. By early 1963, 300 Britons were to be stationed at Eglin. So far in the Thorneycroft-McNamara talks it seems we have offered only to replace Skybolt with the air-breathing Hound Dog. which the Daily Express contemptuously describes as "a second-rate H-Bomb weapon." McNamara now will join the President in his meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan.

The President has promised to continue the Sky- bolt conversations at Nassau. There appear to be two realities to the Skybolt dilemma: The United States seems morally bound to come up with a replacement better than Hound Dog. And the blunt truth is that Britain's power role has in Dean Acheson's unfortunate but accurate phrase "about played out" and a Britain already supine under the American thermonuclear umbrella can no longer afford a private nuclear weapons capacity. The High Point Enterprise Established 1884 Published Every Afternoon and Sunday Morning AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published By THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE. INC.

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For home delivery ra te contact your local carrier. Ward-Griffith Company National Advertising WILLIAM A. SHIRES CAPITOL SQUARE CHATTER REMOVE Recent actions of two veteran state legislators from Eastern North Carolina have eliminated a situation that might have caused much bickering and bad feelins in the 1963 General Assembly. The latest of these moves was the withdrawal of State Sen. W.

Lunsford Crew of Halifax County as a candidate for president of the Senate. It was apparent and had been for some time that Sen. Clarence Stone of Rockingham County was leading in the matter of a. commitment for presiding officer of the upper chamber. Crew, however, had served as president pro tern in 1961 and is now.

in effect, the acting lieutenant governor of the slate. This came about because of the deaft of Lt. Gov. Cloyd Philpott and subsequent legal opinions that the office must remain vacant until the 1964 genera! election. Crew did not push this argument, but felt strongly that because of the situation he had a strong claim on the office.

DECIDE Crew therefore chose not to withdraw as a candidate last summer when Stone claimed to have enough support to be elected Senate president. His decision to withdraw was made in the past few weeks. He mentioned that a number of senators with whom he had been in contact felt that because Philpott was from the Piedmont his successor as presiding officer and technically as a i lieutenant governor should also be from the Piedmont. Philpott was from Davidson County and Stone's 15th district embraces Rockingham and Caswell Counties. SUPPORT Crew recognized too that a fight between his supporters and Stone's and even further pre-session campaigning would delay organization of the Senate 'and possibly disrupt party harmony.

Contests of posts of legislative authority have gone down to the wire in a number of past, sessions, being decided finally in stormy- party caucus on the eve of a session. And occasionally these inlra- party fight have left their mark on the entire session. Crew, in his satcment of withdrawal, pledged wholehearted support to Stone and stressed party and political unity and harmony for the 1963 session. A chief reason for this withdrawing. Crew said, was "my desire to insure party harmony." It is also necessary, he said, for the matter of presiding officers to be settled early enough to make certain preliminary decisions and arrangements.

There has been some talk of having Governor Sanford call the 1963 legislature into a special organizational session a few days prior to the convening date of Feb. 6. With the matter of presiding officers settled, however, this apparently will not be necessary. HOUSE--Several months prior to Crew's conceding the Senate presidency to Stone, veteran Rep. Thomas Woodard of Wilson County withdrew as a candidate for speaker of the House.

Woodard, who is chairman of the Advisory Budget Commission, threw his support to Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Moore County and Blue has virtually completed his preliminary work. Woodard, on the other hand, has been equally busy guiding the Advisory Budget Commission's labors and getting the proposed 1963-65 biennial budget act into shape. CHOOSE Stone has chosen a member of the Advisory Budget Commission.

Sen. Thomas White of Lenoir County, to be Senate Appropriations a i a Sen. James G. Stikeleather Jr. of Buncombe County also is on the Advisory Budget commission.

White was chairman of the Legislative Building Commission, the arm of the General Assembly which directed and supervised the planning and construction of the new State House which is nearing completion and will be occupied for the first time by the 1963 General Assembly. White also was a leader in supporting Stone for presiding officer of the Senate and Stone re- Notes On The News ferred to White as "my campaign manager." LEADERS In the House, Rep. Gordon H. Greenwood of Buncombe County was a leading Blue Supporter and is slated for an important House role. Woodard also will be among the House leaders.

Both houses have a strong representation of veterans and a fair sprinkling of newcomers. Among the veterans, of course, are such established legislative leaders as Sens. Claude Curris of Durham, Ralph Scot of Alamance, Henry G. Shelton of Edgecombe, Wflbur M. Jolly of Franklin, Adam J.

Whitley of Johnston, N. Elton Aydlett of Pasquotank, White and Stikeleather. Sen. John R. Jordan Jr.

of Wake and Rep. H. P. Taylor Jr. of Anson will be among leaders in dealing with court reform legislation.

In the House, Rep. J. Shelton Wicker of Lee County served on the Advisory Budget Commission as did Woodard, Reps. Ernest L. Hicks and James B.

Vogler are veterans from Mecklenburg, and there are such other veterans as John W. Umstead Jr. of Orange, Carl. V. Venters of Onslow, Phil Godwin of Gates, John Henley and Ike O'Hanlon of Cumberland, Steve Dolley Jr.

of Gsston, Joe E. Eagles of Edgecombe, Raynor Woodard of Northampton. David Britt of Robeson, Clyde Harriss and George Uzzell of Rowan John H. Kerr Jr. of Warren.

Sam Whitehurst of Craven and Riser of Scotland. Quotes "Until the new expense account rules are clear no speedboat." The trouble is he prefers animals to humans I do not think I would have minded so much if he collected other women the way most men do. --Mrs. Cyril Broomfiwi-Payne, of Woolland, England, after her ex- husband was ordered to remove his pets--14 cats, 10 kittens, 60 guinea pigs and 2 goats--from her home. If the leaders of crime continue their inroads upon our society then this country will soon be perilously close to clandestine rule by a group of gangsters will make the current crime chieftans appear to be schoolboys playing simple games.

-Sen. John L. McClellan, on big-time crime. true of most of the other units. "So we are doing our part there.

And we ara also prtviding the largest natfal force in the world. We are also providing the nuclear force in the world, and we arc carrying out the ma- space program for the free world, as well as carrying the whole burden in South Viet Nam." He said the United States is more thaa doing its part and "we hope Western Europe will make a greater effort on its own, both in developing conventional forces and in assistance to the under- develeped world." This is as blunt as any president has talked to the Allies in public. Kennedy sounded like a man fed up with listening to excuses. Last week Khrushchev made a fairly mild speech on Russim- American relations. Kennedy referred to this speech to sty "we are better off with Khrushchev than with the (Red) Chinese." But if anyone thought this meant Kennedy saw.

a new era coming, he quickly provided the disillusionment with this single sentence: "But Mr. Khrushchev does not wish us well, unfortunately." And he-added: "I don't think we are about to see a whtle change in Communist policy "Until we see some breakthrough in some one area I don't see there is much advantage in Mr. Khrushchev and I meeting, even though we have been hi communication I don't think there is a need for us meet now. I think he probably feels the same way." Holt When that pair of Look Magazine All-American City specialists left this morning they had a picture of High Point--and what makes it tick--that we wish even- High Pointer might get City Councilman Arthur Corpening Jr. and associates hosted a dinner last evening at the New South Motor Inn which turned up such testimonials to the attractiveness of this city and its dynamic nature as have cheered the heart of every good citizen.

Miss Charlotte Brooks, a whiz of a photographer who handled that assignment charmingly, and David Maxey, research correspondent, must have been impressed, for the questions they directed, together with comments, manifested unusual interest in the way this city made its case for selection as an All-American city. Asked what makes a city All-American, Miss Brooks suggested that forward movement distinctive and exemplary, and integrity of presentation are basic. They liked, and wanted to know more about the way second, third, and in some cases fourth generations of the same family are active in civic direction. Chamber of Commerce president R. T.

Amos, who presided over the session, without saying a word about it made a powerful case in that he follows in footsteps of a father who has made, and continues making, distinctive civic contribution while heading the family industry. Same thing could ba said for P. Hunter Dalton. who as chairman of the Redevelopment Commission represents the third generation of devoted Dalton leadership here. They liked clearly the heritage of hospitality, the wholesome race relations, the drive and devotion which characterize community, but which carried on actively in the past 12 months, the period of accomplishment the competition covers.

They noted the way High Point, as a center of furniture and hosiery production and marketing, has long been in the mainstream of American Me, with the past 12 months recording such added accomplishment as to be distinguishing. Sponsoring Jaycees wouldn't let them overlook the remarkable breadth of industrial know-how, the civic consciousness, the vigorous development and redevelopment and self-reliant nature of the place, which they maintain have been more evident than ever this past year. But it was the testimony of native sons who had wandered over much of the world and had come home to cast their lot with a home town that had welcomed them, given opportunity to make useful lives, and drawn upon their devotion that made the point of this city's innate wholesomeness and charm perhaps more than any other thing. Negro attorney Samuel Chess led off, saving he had opposed at first suggestion of High Point as an All-American City because, much as he loved the home town to which he had returned and which has been good to him, he did not regard it perfect--and to him All-American meant perfection. But upon reflection he realized the goal, not the accomplishment, is perfection, and that High Point is moving toward that goal wholesomely, as his own accomplishment and acceptance attest.

He said he had travelled far and wide, had seen numerous cities with varied attractions, but that he had chosen to return and cast his lot with his native city and has never regretted doing so. Wholesome race relations are so clearly a factor that Chess's statement impressed not merely the visitors but also those who live here, who love the city and cherish its Quaker tradition of friendliness and consideration irrespective of color. High Point is no johnny-come-lately in the matter of integration, for the Henry Pettiford family lived amid white neighbors on South Main Street, the Jess Edmonsons lived in one of the best houses on Willowbrook, respected and accepted amongst white neighbors, Peter Graves lived out a long and happy life surrounded by white neighbors, 50 years before the Supreme Court spurred integration. There are other instances, and while there are problems of integration evident here there is also evident a purpose and intent to work them out cooperatively while respecting civil rights based more in consideration than compulsion. High Point has a way of minimizing differences by keeping them unimportant Dick Culler, who came home to win business success after a brilliant career as a baseball player in the big leagues, had lived in many cities.

His testimony was effective. He played in that game when Negro Jackie Robinson broke into major league play- in fact, he caught the first ball Robinson hit, converting it into a double play--and he has lived and worked among Negroes in cities all over America, but nowhere has he found a more wholesome attitude on the part of white and colored alike than evident in High Point this past year. Dr. J. C.

Morgan, a Negro dentist, entering his 42nd year of a practice here, scored quite a point when he said that he treats more white than Negro patients. It caused his friend and colleague. Dr. J. J.

Wilson, to interject humorously that Dr. Morgan Vas thinking of restricting his practice to whites! That was a touch of humor which brightened a discussion that was so frank and open it was a tonic not merely for the visiting pair of specialists but also for the white civic leaders who wanted more than anything to justify such testimony by Negro leaders. Attorney J. V. Morgan, another native son whose service and education wanderings have taken him to far places, affirmed the way High Point gives a "poor boy" a chance and a challenge to good among those who may have been born with a gold or silver spoon in their mouths but who have to manifest civic responsibility for it to have value or meaning.

Those are a few facets touched upon at last night's final ses- si6n, following a busy day in which Jaycee President Ed Post and others helped substantiate High Point's representations for the All- American City honor. The story which developed spontaneously, and unrehearsed, is something we wish might be repeated in a town meeting because such straight-from-the-heart testimony is a tonic and a credit to any community that can produce such devotion. Irrespective of whether High Point wins the accolade of an All-American City--and we sincerely hope and trust it will--it has won far more in the self-esteem and understanding of itself the analysis and investigation have stimulated in way of self-appraisal and recognition of true values..