Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 4

Backtalk: All, All Honorable Men Brown Bagging Law No Proper Answer THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN "Dedicated to the Upbuilding of Western North Carolina" ROBERT BUNNELLE, President and Publisher HXL TRIBBLE, Editor RICHARD B. WYNNE, Executive Editor Associate Editors: THILIP CLARK, LUTHER B. THIGPEN Tuesday, February 14, 1967 Governor Spells Out His Tax Cut Proposal (Editor's Note: Letters must be brief, signed, typed or, written legibly on one side of paper. We reserve the tight to reject, edit, or condense.) to know what one taken today in Asheville would reveal. Certainly not an improvement.

Several times In 1968 artic- 1 I believe Governor Dan Moore has made a serious error in advocating "brown bagging." Brown bagging is one of the worst evils facing the people, particularly in cities the size of Asheville. It is legalized bootlegging at its most dangerous level. It wili breed corruption just as prohibition did. It is insulting and demeaning, and invites official graft and corrup-. tion.

I have made a serious study of the effects of brown bagging in the country as it relates to cities our size, and have just completed a survey of every city within two thousand of the same popula-' 1 tion of Asheville, to deter- mine the effects of brown bagging. The results are amazing: In every city where brown bagging is the practice, as op keep children in school and perhaps open the door to college for many.) Give an additional exemption of $1,000 to people 65 or older. (Surely this is no more than a humane proposal.) Exempt all service' pay of enlisted personel and $500 a mqnth for commissioned officers while serving in a combat zone. Governor Moore's plan has not been fashioned at the expense of other State functions. His proposed new budget calls for biennial expenditures of more than $2.7 a high and more than 18 per cent above the current level.

It calls for capital improvements of nearly $180 million, the greatest ever, with $66 million for higher education. Public schools would receive almost 20 per cent more, and virtually all areas of State service would be given increased allotments. Under those circumstances, and in view of the continuing prospect for record-high revenues, a tax cut appears to be warranted. We have been fairly skeptical bout Governor Dan Moore's announced intention to reduce State taxes, feeling that any such move might deprive other areas, notably education, of ample appropriations. We've changed our mind.

The tax cut, as the Governor outlined it last night in his budget message, makes a good deal of sense. The State's credit balance, or unexpended surplus, is now expected to total $163 Moore would use only $23.3 million of that amount to ease the tax load. His program: Raise the dependency exemption on State income taxes from $300 to $600 a year. (That would bring the State deduction in line with the federal and more nearly approximate, though it wouldn't entirely cover, the cost of rearing a child.) Allow. an additional $600 exemption for each dependent enrolled for full-time study in any institution of higher learning.

(This would strengthen the parental incentive to les concerning the Asheville Ambulance Service appeared in your papers. One article in particular is remembered, in which statistics were 1 quoted and the staggering amount of unpaid bills was amazing. 1 When reading this, one is concerned about, the fulness and indifference of us- ers, and how it places the serv- ice in jeopardy. Am sure all realize the necessity and need for a good reliable service, and surely Ashevillians are willing to pay and -pay promptly when these crisis arise, leading to the assumption that something is lacking in the service. It is realized that a certain percentage of people deliberately delay paying bills, but don't you really believe if adequate service, help and understanding were given the service would be self-supporting? Certainly a better service could and should be provided for the people of Asheville, and an attempt made" to better North Carolinas service avoiding additional criticism in other national magazines.

E. E. Meyer Asheville. Bring Back Bags Thank you for giving first place to and promoting "brown-bagging" the MOST important issue confronting the people of North Carolina today. People need their booze, and they should be able to use it in posed to the cities wnere mere i are places where liquor may be obtained by the drink, those which have brown bagging have nine times the number of ar-.

rests for public drunkenness as those where there are cocktail lounges. These same cities have almost five times the number of arrests for driving drunk as those where liquor may be purchased by the drink- The most startling face revealed in my survey is that our city, Asheville, has the worst record of any city our size in the United States under our practice of brown bagging. William S. White Explains: Rockefeller Plays It Cool As an example: many cities where liquor is sold by the drink such as Warren, Ohio, Maiden, and Vallejo, all the same size as Asheville, the rate of arrests row down between Nixon on the one side and Rockefeller or Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois on the other side.

Teachers Need More Job Security for public drunkenness aver-ages about 450. Asheville re-; ports arrests of about 4,505 an- i nllAllv far nuhlip rirllnlronnpee While denying his own "can- didacy" and in the literal rhy far largest number of simply the measure of Rockefeller's new maturity as a politician. Such frenetic activity would not only cause him to be instantly labeled as still an amateur. It would also, among other things, revive memories of his embarrassingly pointless effort to offer, too little and too late, a halfway challenge to the nomination in 1960 of the man who already had it made, Richard Nixon. sense of the term denying it in arrests for this offense in the United States for a city this size.

This holds true for driving drunk also. Where the other cities report around 60 arrests for driving drunk, Asheville reports 49S arrests annually for the same offense. In the belief that all other offenses are somewhat connected with drinking habits, I an adult manner. What with the Dauchaus, Koreas, Viet-nams, not to speak of nagging wives, ornery neighbors and impossible moral demands made by our Judeo Christian heritage we need something to deaden our senses, kill our fears, salve our consciences, and lessen our tensions. Furthermore, there are relatively few vices left for us to One way to upgrade the dignity of the teaching profession and encourage more capable people to stay in it is to provide continuing job contracts for principals and teachers in the North Carolina public schools.

Senator Joe K. Byrd of Burke County has introduced a bill in the General Assembly that would require all school boards to furnish written contracts to teachers, principals, and other, professional employes of the schools. The contracts would run from year to year, unless terminated in writing by the school boards. Byrd's measure provides that "any teacher whose contract is being terminated must be notified before the end of the current school year. Some school boards in North Carolina give advance notice when a teacher is not to be rehired, but many others do not notify them until it is almost too Me to obtain a job elsewhere.

Especially in view of the. seasonal nature of the hiring of teachers this law would prevent an injustice. Principals and teachers should not have to wait until the very end of the school year to know whether they are going to be retained or fired. The Assembly should pass this measure. made a further study and found that child beatings, wife beat- WASHINGTON The avowed noncandidacy of Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller of New York for the 1968 Republican Presidential nomination is developing in a highly sophisticated degree two qualities he never had before. The first of these is a political savvy so subtle as almost if he will pardon the expression to make him a peer of that ablest of all intuitive types, the typical Southern Senator. The second is patience, the capacity to play a waiting game without quite seeming to be playing it. What the Governor has wisely done is to remove himself as "a meaning that while making' no overt move to push himself, he is coolly moving to be available, if and when. This costs him nothing, and gains him much.

For there never was a chance anyhow that he could be nominated next year except as a compromise choice. His decision not to go running around with his shirttail hanging out to use a rancher's phrase sometimes employed by the old master, Lyndon B. Johnson, to describe theatrically undignified and futile political activity of any kind is all truthfulness Rockefeller! is at the same time dropping' portentous suggestions that, aft-; er all, the one man really to be feared is Nixon. Let all us liberals end moderates be big-minded, he is saying, and not" allow unworthy personal ambitions among the good guys to become so sharp as to open the door to Nixon. Thus Rockefeller for the first time in his life is emerging as the symbol of a unifying sort of Republic canism.

Furthermore, a policy of unselfish gelf-restraint among i the Rockfeiler people has now become so Spartan that one never hears from them the smallest reference to the j. great reality that Is making his noncampaign a real enjoy any more! Dope and drugs are outlawed and smok- ings, divorces, desertion, non- fog is too hazardous, our gov support and such related fami Moreover, the new Rockefeller strategy to play it cool avoids early and unnecessary enmities and leaves him in a position to go along in good heart with the winner if the dice should fall that way. Most of all, it puts him in the posture of a truly good party man where once he had been an ideological evangelist concerned more to divide the last good party sheep from the last bad narty goat than with the ultimate goal of G- O. P. victory.

Nelson Rockefeller, in short, is positioning himself to become the fallback choice of both liberal and moderate wings of his party should the present front runner, Gov. George Romney of Michigan, falter. In such an eventuality, the contest would in fact nar- ly offenses follow the same pattern here and in all cities i where there is brown bagging or complete prohibition as lated to those cities, where liquor is sold by the drink, We can't have a decent city until we get cocktail lounges here, and eliminate the evil of brown bagging. George Coggins Asheville. Head Of Household Is Due A Break ernment tells me.

What's, therefore, a man to do? Roy O. Frank Brevard. Signs Dominate In connection with Lady Bird Johnson's national highway beautification plan, and the current hue and cry against billboards, I submit the following anonymous verse which I recall from years ago. I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree; Perchance, unless the billboards fall, I shall never see a tree at all! Stuart Sewell Rt. 6, Asheville.

This is the towering circumstance that Romney is still far outside the Republican main- i stream on Vietnam and1 Rockefeller is well within that mainstream. vorced women who want to keep on living in their own homes. According to II. C. Stansbury, head of the State Department of Tax Research, the proposed change would cost the State approximately $27 million annually in tax revenue.

The savings to the individuals affected would run. from 50 cents to $70 an Reps. High and Raynor of Cumberland County have introduced a bill in the legislature to extend the $2,000 State income tax exemption to all individuals who maintain a household. This measure will remove an injustice to widows, widowers, vorced and single individuals without dependents who wish to in their own homes. Under existing N.

C. law, unmarried, widowed, or divorced persons without dependents who maintain a home receive an exemption of only $1,000. All other heads of house- Bad Publicity The February issue of Reader's Digest carries an article on the deplorable quality of North Carolina ambulance care, and that survey was made in 1965. It would be interesting Hemlines Rise: Roscoe Drummoiid Approves: Bobby' Trips Are Innocuous nually. At its December meeting, the N.

C. Legislative Research Council recommended that "as a basic principle" the same $2,000 exemption be given to all persons who maintain a household. This would remedy an inequity with Only a minor loss of revenue to the The Assembly should approve it. Knees No Longer Secret WASHINGTON It seems to me pretty petty to berate Sen. Robert Kennedy for talking with the heads of the British, French, German, and Italian governments and the Pope while he was in Europe.

Mr. Kennedy did not do any "negotiating," he didn't holds are entitled to a $2,000 exemption. Obviously this inflicts a special hardship on many widows and di From The Dallas Morning News Chancellor Kiesinger and others. It would be a great mistake to let differences over Kenne- dy's political ambitions and: motivations build up resistance to the idea that members of Congress ought to travel abroad i and learn all they can. They should do this all they can.

Nothing takes the place of seeing things on the spot, and the private views of other government leaders privately expressed are valuable to members of Congress. Obviously, Robert Kennedy has special advantages in getting to see the highest for- eign officials with ease. His name, his No 1 rvwiiinn To Tell The Truth Words And Music On The Move pretend to represent the U. S. government or the Senate or anybody but himself and it is obvious that he did nothing to embarrass the President or the Secretary of State.

However aggressive he may be as a politician, Robert Kennedy doesn't go roaming around the world intentionally making it more difficult for the man in the White House, where he himself expects to be someday. He is correct and careful on that podnt, and to accuse Kennedy, as Rep. Rogers C. B. Morton, R.

of Maryland did in Congress, of "appointing himself as a future President or one man State Department touring the capitals of stuff like this is untrue and unfair. I don't know whether the Senator was a recipient of a Vietnam "peace feeler" at the French foreign office, but If he was, he had the good sense to deny it as the French denied it and as the North Vietnamese mission in Paris denied it. This is the time for private diplomacy. And Kennedy did not conduct himself in any way to handicap private diplomacy. He did a good thing, not a bad thing, in enlarging his background by talking at firsthand with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, President de Gaulle, "Be purty now and keep your dress down," was the one outstanding admonition given young girls by country mothers 60 and more years These girls when dressed and ready for church, Sunday school, or just a play visit to a neighbor's house, would be followed out to the steps by the mother and with a proud smile she would send them happily on their way, 'Be purty now and keep your dress down." Observing the styles today, my mind goes back across With the then prevailing styles ankle length skirts, sleeves to the wrist, with necks high and snug to the chin, with underwear what it was, a pair of straight legged drawers, sewed to a body, buttoned up behind, with the back part of the drawers to be unbuttoned in an emergency; a straight petticoat all of these made either of domestic cloth or gray striped outing .1 can't imagine what more they could do, and neither can I imagine what for they could do it.

With our fashions what they are today we might consider such an admonition a necessity, yet impossible to adjust. At church, on buses or any place of get-togetherness, we can see grandmothers pulling and tugging at their skirts, seeking to cover displayed knees. Even those knees that are well -Jpadded with cherub shaped contours are frantically pushed together and sought to be covered, while others of calflike structure, fare likewise; ail viewed by the world at large. I always have appreciated the late Edith Head's advice to us women, "Any part of our anatomy not perfect in. contour or perspective, should when dressing, regardless of the fashion, seek to camouflage it.

Dress to draw attention to some other part of the body more attractive." i Still, with decree for skirts six inches above the knees, I can't imagine how we would deal with knock knees, knees, and bow legs. The young teen age girl do not seem to mind the above knee length skirts. This non interest in knee and thigh exposure is perfectly natural for them; this natural condition comes over from babyhood. Girl children from diaper stage to one or more years of age have their little panties lace ruffled across their posteriors. We all admit that with their plump little knees and thighs they are cute.

I wonder if and when, a few more inches lopped off the skirts, will fashion decree lacy ruffled panties? Bessie Elliott Davlf Black Mountain. A number of Americans of wealth have given much unself- ish service to their country. That men like Averill Harri-man and the late Bernard Ba-ruch were always listened to by the various administrations, and frequently heeded, is a tribute to their wise counsel. "Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and Ms words are not heard." Eccleslastes 9:16 -The Bible A deserter from the Army stole, a single-engine airplane and crash-landed it out of gas less than a hundred miles away. He complained to police: "If only only the stupid owner of that plane had filled the tanks I could have made it to Mexico." "If you're looking for sympathy you can try to find it in the dictionary between shoot and suicide." -Attributed to a U.S.

Marine Corps Drill Ins tractor It will probably come as no surprise to American parents to learn that a British rock 'n' roll group has made a hit record of the British traffic code, set to music. Some might think that this information, recently relayed by Insider's Newsletter, settles forever the question of form vs. content in the arts. i i However, such is not the case. The London telephone directory, which has also been recorded by the group, has fallen on stony ground, saleswise and otherwise.

As musical numbers, the telephone numbers did not ring the bell with Britain's teen-aged record fans, and the telephone people threaten to sue for copyright infringement. In one respect this is a shame, for it could have become the first rock 'n' roll hit record with a cast of thousands. In another respect, the people whose names and numbers; were immortalized in this composition were probably relieved by the song's failure to make the charts. One must spend enough time talking to strangers trying to sell baby pictures, exterminating service and galvanized guttering as it is, without having one's home phone number make the Top 40. Unfortunately Great Britain, in a belated attempt to square things for has recently developed a bad habit of exporting its een-ager.

crazes to this country. So we can prepare ourselves to hear the Texas state traffic laws on the disc jockey shows any day now. This should not be the cause for total despair among the parents of Texas teen-agers. The music cannot possibly be any worse than that which has gone before, and there is always the chance that the traffic may remain on the hit parade long enough for the youngsters to learn the lyrics. of power in his brother's administration, and his own political prospects open doors which are not as readily opened to many other Senators and Congressmen.

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