The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-06-17
SOME OF LAKES COMPANY
DOESN'T RECOMMEND HIM

DOESN'T RECOMMEND HIM
/ was disappointed Tuesday in
Elizabeth City to note the ill-man-
nered display shown by supporters
of DIR. I. Beverly Lake for Gov
ernor. Had l not been already of
a mind to vote for Terry Sanford,
what 1 witnessed would have con-
WINGED me that DR.. Lake isn't
travelling in the best company
every where.
A picket line of people who were
not impressive as individuals pa
raded back and forth in front of
the hotel where Terry Sanford was
guest, bearing placards patterned
after the demonstrations in Toxic.
Maybe that's where they got the
idea. You recall how the "com-
mics" have been parading for
weeks, protesting against the visit
of Eisenhower, the head of this
Nation which picked up the trail
torous Japs out of their famine,
desperation, taxed us to death and
paid out billions to fill their bellies
and put them on their feet. That
may look big to some people, but
in my book it is in poor grace; it
isn't cricket to demonstrate; as
they have been doing and as was
being done in the face of Terry
Sanford and his friends.
l have never believed that in
tegration was good for anybody,
with the state of mind of the peo-
pie being what it is, and l do not
believe it should be stirred up and
magnified out of proportion, and
made into an issue where it isn't
an issue, merely to make votes for
some aspiring politician. l believe
in stating facts. l deplore what is
being done by Lakes supporters
who would make votes at any cost,
even the cost of creating ill-will,
and putting race against race.
Negroes are people, and they should
have justice and equal rights, and
white people should have equal
rights, but none will get equal
rights when rabblle rousers stir the
broth of hatred.
Terry Sanford made speech
packed with commonsense, mercy
and vision for North Carolina. He
truly has program. While he led
as highest candidate in Dare Coun-
ty by 213 votes in the May 2Sth
primary, his vote being 872 with
Larkins getting $50 votes, he did
not get over half the votes cast in
this county. But his was over
whelming in many of our neighbor
counties. His vote on Hatteras was
248 to 81 or 8 to /. Terry Sanford
had visited Hatteras Island, and he
had left the people with the as
surance that if he is governor he
will not permit anything to side
track the Oregon Inlet bridge which
was promised the people, come next
year by the present Hodges Ad-
ministration. Sanford led heavily
in Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills
and Mays Head whose people are
confident he will build the Ocean
Boulevard from Kitty Hawk to
the Virginia line whenever Vir-
ginia is ready to provide its part.
Here is a road that will bring many
new millions in money to the Dare
County coast, and our people surely
won't encourage anything that
might jeopardize it.
We hear a great deal of Lakes
support across the state. After see
| ing the demonstration in Elizabeth
City, much of it carried on by
teen-agers not old enough to vote,
we wonder just how solid this sup
port will be in the run-off on
June 25th. While the noise was
going on outside in behalf of Lake,
we noted that the group inside who
had come to pledge renewed sup
port to Terry Sanford, were mostly
people who have been in the fore
front for many years, doing worth
while things for their counties and
state. The comparison was striking.
Some of the group included peo-
pie formerly for John D. Larkins
or for Malcolm Seawell. But their
first choice having failed, they now
turn TO Terry Sanford as the man
mostly likely to succeed and to
serve North Carolina faithfully and
we'll. "Serve our state; stay with
Sanford and see success for North
Carolina" is good advice in the
second primary, June Is.
TIRESOME.--One of the most tire
some expressions in editorial work
is the frequent expression that
comes in concerning someone whit
has accepted a position" The ex
preston is really offensive to ones
finer sensibilities. Usually the pc
sitions are mere jobs which have
been avidly sought, and often they
concern the first employment some