Rocky Mount Evening Telegram (Newspaper) - August 20, 1964, Rocky Mount, North Carolina A Dill 01 f f TELEGRAM WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy tonight Friday little temperature 310 21 PAGES TWO ROCKY THj tf DAY AUGUST r 6e DAILY ISe SUNDAY 40e WEEKLY Bobby Happy With Present Civil Right By JOHN ATLANTIC Democratic platform drafters were optimistic today that a fight over a civil rights plank can be As the platform committee moved here to wind up hearings begun in members from both the North and South spoke hopefully of reaching agreement on a generally ac The civil rights may spark a sharp fight in another area the seating of delegates and The platform draf tiers ism was due in large part to tes timony by Robert Kennedy that he saw no need for a platform promise to seek new civil rights He said he felt the 1964 Civil Rights Act was broad enough to cover the partys 1960 pledges in this Civil rights leaders in testimony emphasized ment of the 1964 act and legisla tion to provide more and better job opportunities for Negroes rather than new civil rights Frederick Dut the White House aide who is executive director of the plat form still tagged the writing of a civil rights plank as the most difficult task for the The committee completed three days of hearings in Wash ington Wednesday and were to start taking additional ny here this afternoon with Sec of the Interior Stewart Secretary of Welfare An thony and Carl Sanders of Georgia among HAIL DAMAGE A hail de thit 10ocre field of tobacco and most of the other tobacco in the Strick Crossroads area of Nash County sent Steven left and Aboute one third of the crop had har Light hail and wind damage was re ported at far west as Telegram the The hearings are to be con eluded Friday and the commit tee hopes to finish its drafting work late Saturday or early testified that what heeded in the platform Is not so much a promise to civil rights laws as a prom jr generate the spirit of de dii which our coun its racial Alabama asked if he meant that no new civil rights legisla tion is necessary That is See PLATFORM Page 11A WEATHER Compiled by Federal Aviation Agency at Municipal Barometric reading trend al Ifl decreasing Relative humidity 82 Wind NR 4 mph Temperature Summary Highest yesterday 82 this morning 65 Precipitation Summary Total for 24 hours ending at 7 Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow tomorrow Full Moon 23 The which is about nine times as large as the will be in the south east and due south at It haft now reached its greatest Wednesday Thit farmed by Photo By Killebrew Jesse is examined by Dirksen S On Reapp BY ERNEST VACCARO WASHINGTON AP Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen pressed today for a showdown in the congressional battle over reapportionment and the Supreme Court immediately after Democrats hold their national The already snarled by a filibuster against proposal for delaying by She portion Co of both houses of state received a much tougher proposal from the House Urged to show Its intestinal the House approved 218 to 175 a that would strip federal courts of in reapportionment To to push his proposal Dirksen has offered it as a rider to the foreign aid one of the ures on the must Dirksen said the House meas ure would increase pressure i the Senate for adoption of hi amendment and might the fight Senate lib are making to prevent i vote on his If the filibuster doesnt sto when Congress reconvenes the Democratic National Con tion next Dirksen told i Ill have no but to file a cloture He said he was confident pro could muster the neces sary twothirds majority of sen present and voting to the debate to an Opponents of including Paul 41 Doug and Joseph ClarK said they would continui their talkathon The Senate recesses night until The Demo cratic National opens Monday in Atlantic City See CONGRESS Page 11A State Loses Dri Funds For Tob North lost out Wednesday in Its efforts to get funds under the Department of Agriculture appropriations for a tobacco research A Senate House conference committee agreed to the full amount of million for tobacco research at a new tobacco research laboratory in That amount has been approved by the but the Senate cut the item to million and directed that the money be divided between Kentucky and North One of the William opposed the move byNorth Carolina for a laboratory in the Tar Heel At the time of the Natcher said Wednesday it was noted that tobacco was in serious trouble and that Kentucky had built a laboratory which could be used for an expanded research In his efforts to obtain the money for the laboratory at the University of Kentucky at Natcher emphasized the importance of speeding research North Carolina officials argued it would be better to conduct research on tobacco in the area where To Obtain 3cco Research grows rather in where burley tobacco Is The tobacco producers and the public Natcher could not wait until a laboratory was to start this The contained one Item not subject to Natcher That was to modernize and repair a federal facility at for possible use in the tobacco research Stude Extended In By THE ASSOCIATED Tight measures wen in effect at to day for the first public schoo registration on a ever attempted in the Negroes were expected to ap ply for admission as firs grade pupils at several whit But there was no esti mate of the j Jackson was the second Mis city to attempt schoo desegregation below the colleg level within a Negro first graders registers for white schools in Biloxi las Friday without Hit At Depressed Farm Prices By JACK DONOVAN Iowa CAP The National Farmers complaining of depressed has called for withholding of livestock from the market in a move for greater bargaining The call to growers to keen their livestock off the market went out Wednesday to 23 states from the Rocky Mountains to the East A similar action was staged by the NFO for 33 days in 15 states two years where their park chops and We want people to tte Johnson Signs WASHINGTON dent Johnson signed Into law today the anti poverty Sponsors laid it would sup the civil rights meas ure because many of the bene would be Negro families and jobless Ne gro The authorizations are for fiscal If the program is to continue beyond that Congress will have to vote new Some of the meas ure at the Capitol privately ex pressed doubts as to how effec tive it could be in the trial peri od Many Republicans argued it was a politically inspired measure which would make little dent on Is Willing To Debate On TV By WALTER MEARS WASHINGTON AP Re publican presidential nominee Barry described today as willing to face Presi dent Johnson in a television se ries proposed by the National press Paul said the Arizona senator wouldnt be interested in a format that would have the presidential contenders appear Johnson was silent on the NBC invitation to put him and Goldwater jointly or separ ately In the air in a full series of Meet the Press tele vision NBC board chairman Robert Sarnoff outlined the offer in identical telegrams to er and He said the plan was designed to substitute for actual television Goldwater 4 could not be reached for but Wag said the Republican nomi would accept on a faceto face basis Separate ner nee Separate appearances hardly a lional Senate oper from Job iW night is sec an Na n Burch ob ta in ma night to leg aimed paving the and the way for debates on radio television by See 11A In North Gavins Team Planning Drive At Precinct Level By JOE BROWN High Point Enterprise Written for Associated Press HIGH AP The political team behind Rob ert Gavin says it is confident Gavin will be the first Republi can governor of North Carolina in modern times because has been ress toward a real system in the is better known than he was four years ago and has been doing a lot of political state GOP is unified and contrasted to Demo cratic party Carolina is still class ed as a poverty state after a long line of Democratic voters are disenchanted because promises have not been Nick Gavins cam and Raw leigh chairman of the Gav in for Governor art mit they made similar predict years ago and that they past were sort of the Their present belief that they can turn a per cent effort In 1060 to more than 50 per cant margin next they is based on political As or Gavins platform and his statement of the issues of the campaign against Democrat Dan these must wait until 3 when a kickoff rally will be held in High Evers and Rawleigh say they plan no Madison Avenue ap proach and no name Weve got enough real is sues to show the people of North Carolina what kind of governor they can expect from Robert Evers In Gavin polled a sur prising But only 54 per cent of the eligible voters went to the polls as Terry San ford was elected Evers and Rawleigh this Novembers turnout will be much bigger because of a grow ing awareness of politics in the slate and the rise of Republi Will the campaign be much different from that of It Rawleigh in that there will be different om There was a lot of antl antiadministration vo ting in Moore is n differ out Right con testing with Moore is like trying to box a Nobody knows how he stands on the In Rawleigh Gavins campaign was run by a Citizens for Gavin group be cause there was no effective steaks come from and for farm ers to receive a fair said Oren Lee Staley of NFO The drop in farm prices started some 12 years ago and is now part of a longtime he been making progress in the bargain ing But this holding action will give farmers the opportuni ty to suddenly stop their punish ment at the market Slaley In his ninth year as said the action will be by far the greatest show of bargaining power that Ameri can farmers have The now in its 10th See PRICES Page 11A Final Hearings To End Lengthy Tour Of Budget Group RALEIGH AP The Ad Budget Commission was legend its tour of Institutions to day with a final round of bud get Slated to be heard were the Highway the De of Conservation nod the community colleges the State Board of Juvenile 5o the commission has asked to recommend leg approval for capital im totaling mil lion during the next North Carolina State put in a request Wednesday for 3 million to help finance a build ing program In at would cost The remaining See BUDGET Page 11A dered public school first grades at to lower racial barriers this In another Mississippi devel Reuther s Union Considers Nationwide Strike In Auto Contract Dispute OUTLINES DEMONSTRATION PLANS James national director of the for Racial at he notified the Democratic Platform Com in Washington yesterday that civil rights sup porters will demonstrate at the national conven tion next week in Atlantic Farmer laid th planned demonstrations will be in protest what he the in both AP Wire photo By ROBIN MANNOCK LEOPOLD the Congo AP i Premier Moise moved today to oust thousands of citizens of nations accused of undercutting his re as fighting raged in the east Congo city of in by rebel As the spreading Communist backed rebellion seemed to take a turn for the Tshombe said he believed a report that rebel leader In another Mississippi was dead Di the Council sourceS e of Federated Organizations an the Mississippi Sum mer Project would be expand ed and extended into the winter as the Mississippi Robert COFO told a Jackson news confer ence that more than 200 stu dents who participated in the during the summer elected to He said vot er registration drives would be See RACIAL Page 11A lieve the former edu cation minister was alive in the former French Government forces in Bukavu were reported pushed back to the citys European but Leonard said he believed he could retake the re part of the city if rein forcements were cargo planes airlifted two loads of troops and supplies to the be sieged city during the The said that its seven or eightman staff in Bukavu fled to neighboring Rwanda after heavy street fighting erupted A planeload of 40 mostly arrive din Leo Wednesday A government garrison of some 800 troops was fighting to salvage the capital of cen tral Kiyu Province and the only important city in turbulent northeastern Congo still under government Thek who hold an esti mated 25 per cent of this vast and cap tured the key city of Stanley ville two weeks The Bukavu uprising came after a government order in to deport citizens of Burundi and Mali whose governments are accused of backing the Denouncing the governments as accomplices of Communist Tshombe told a news conference that his order would be lifted only if their support of the He accused China of moving to use the Con go as a base to take over all of UNSCHEDULED WRECKING JOB buried in bricki that showered from the A huge earthmoving rig two Panama Hotel in south downtown then smashed into a four hotel in The driver of the who it central Seattle after rolling off an em wot the only injured in the on a conduction The Both of the cart are in the fora described ai a wai partly AP Wirephoto Union Taking Strike Vote Of Members By GENE SCHROEDER CHICAGO The United Auto Workers Union backed by a strike is expected to select its prime tar get today for a possible nation wide strike in the auto UAW President Walter scheduled a series of meetings the status of negotia tions threeyear contracts covering more than a half mil assembly line Out of the talks is expected to conic a decision on which of the Big Three automakers Gen eral Ford or Chrysler will be tagged as the l tar get for a possibly crippling walk The union is taking a strike vote among its members in all three A UAW spokesman estimated that strike an average of per week in benefits to each would support strike up to eight weeks at longer at Ford or All the Big Three contracts are due to expire at midnight Union if precent is would then be to halt production with a mass walkout at the target companys extending contracts with the firms on a day L L strikebound company be hit when It hurts the just when 1965 models are beginning to roll out of the meanwhile would have the auto les UAW and the Big Three have entered their eighth The union rejected as mis inadequate and terrk bly disappointing parallel of Monday calling for higher earlier and larSer UAW leaders contend that all three firms have chalked up fantastic profits in the past months that should be shared with their The Big Threes economic of fer would increase basic wages from 18 to 36 cents over a three year boost pension pay ments from monthly or each year of service to and make 60 years the normal age instead of Todays Telegram Bridge 9B Classified 101 IB Comics 98 Crossword Editorials 4A Horoscope 5 A Local IB Obituaries HA Sports 25B 8B Women Burch Sees Johnson Wealth As Legitimate Political Issue By JACK BELL WASHINGTON AP Re publican National Chairman Dean Burch indicates he be President Johnson and his family are a lot richer than accountants say and that Re publicans intend to make a campaign issue of how the first family accumulated its who was handpicked for his job by GOP presidential was like listing the value of Manhattan Island at He Insisted the fair market value ought to be the basis for assess ing the family Some published reports have placed the family worth as high contending the market value of the Johnson holdings far exceed their book Burch said he found it peculi nominee Barry told ar that the bulk of the fortune a news conference Wednesday was made in areas subject to accounting firms government regulation over a mate of the Johnsons wealth at period when he said Johnson was incredibly The accounting was made at Johnsons request and the re port was released by the White Burch complained that assets were listed on the basis of cost to the He said this was making an average of 000 a year in public Observing that a public cer must avoid not only evil but the appearance of he said the Republicans want to know whether there was any See FINANCES Page 11A in Border Prices Steady By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Quality was volume was fairly and prices were steady Wednesday onthe South Carolina Border North Carolina flue cured tobacco The Federal State Market News Service said a few select brought and per hun dred most grade aver remained at or were only Tuesdays Principal marketings were low and fair primings and the service Volume of sales was fairly light on most A decrease in good primings made the quality of the ings Lugs were replacing primings for first The percentage of slick tobacco hns doily since the service See TOBACCO Page UA
