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PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR GREENVILLE, N. C

Thursday, January 1, 1959

Thursday, January 1, 1959

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Hoifas Gesture May Spell Doom

It does not seem likely that the people of New wages by their employers, the people.' But in return York or Americans anywhere will tolerate the at-'for these things, the people expect firemen, police-tempt by Teamst^ Boss Jommy Hoffa to take over men and other government employes lend their full the police and fire departments of New York City and allegiance to the public welfare, the rest cf the nation. ^ ^Hoffa's very approach, to the attempted organiza-

If the men whose responsibility it s tq protect tion of the New York police and fire departments the public, prevent crime and catch criminals become dooms the effort to failure. If the Teamsters are will-subject to the orders of the bosses of corruption ridden ing to disrupt vital public services in their own interest unions, protection of society and law enforcement as we to organize firemen and policemen, would not these

have known them are sure to become extinct.

The Teamsters Union uinder Hoffa'*s leaderehip is being pressed by law enforcement agencies and by the courts. Congressional investigations have establish-

same union bosses go to any lengths to protect their own selfish interests once they had the law enforcement agencies under their control?

Hoffa up to now has been fairly successful in

ed almost without question a connection between the eluding punishment in his running battle with the Union leadership and underworld activities in the coun- law and the courts. But this time, in this bold attempt try. Because of action of its leaders, th# Teamsters to gain control of the New York police and perhaps Union was expelled from the CIO and court-appointed police departments throughout the nation, he has monitors have been charged with the responsibility bitten off more than he can chew, to see that the union cleans out its racketeering and It should not be surprising if this one act on the underworld elements. The situation in the Teamsters part of Hoffa and other Teamster bosses does not

bring about the downfall of the hierarchy which has gained a stranglehold on the gigantic Teamsters Union.

Four-Lane Highway

was found to be so bad that the courts also instructed the monitors to supervise the activities of the union.

Now Hoffa has made the bold assertion he intends to bring sufficient pressure on the police and fire . departments of the nations largest city to bring the members, of these departments into his union. wwwi

We frankly do not believe the American people II AnnitlOll

will tolerate such action from Hoffa or from any other ^

individual.' " Tranformation-of highway 11 into a four-lane

As public servants, poUcemen, firemen and o|ber thoroughfare from West End Circle in Greenville to government employes have a duty to all the citizens. intersection of highway 264 will alleviate a traffic

'To be sure they are entitled to fair treatment and fair

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situation that has needed attention for considerable time.

In conjunction with the new bypass crossing Greenville from north to south and the four-lane Memorial Drive, the new highway will provide a major im-. provement for the movement of through-traffic across, the western part of the city.

Though the project was delayed several months by revisions requested by property owners along the

By I.YNN NISBET SHELTERS The nail met

al ahelter* for achool children waiting for the buaea are familiar alghta along North Carolina highway*. They also are profitable source* of income for the company that makea and erect* them and aella mercantile algn* on the aide*.

Who originated the Idea of the. roadside waiting shelter* or where 1* not known. The first your reporter knew about them was in Alexander county nearly 20 year* ago. Sloane Psyne. then and now superintendent of school* in that county, raised fund* from contributions of public spirited people to have a number of wooden shelters erected to protect the Wd* from rain and wind as they waited before daylight for the school bus. It was some ten year* later that the metal shelters with advertising came into prominence.

There I* one hitch about their use. A Highway Commission or-dlance enacted pursuant to general Stale law prohibits any advertising on the highway rtght of way. Therefore the shelters must be set back from the road far enough to get them off the right of way.

E. N, Pope;"member of ths firm which handle* the shelters in this area, appeared before the Highway Commission this week to ask that an exception be made for a shelter to be placed at a road intersection in Garner. The commission, upon advice of the Attorney Generar* office, held that no exception could be pnadi as to advertising; but if the company or the school patrons wanted to erect a shelter wlth-H out advertising the deal probably could be arranged, provided the structure did iot obscure vision or create a safety hazard. The company apparently was not much Interested in contributing the $2riO-|3<X) lor the shelter, and the patrons have not shown much enthusiasm about footing the bill.

BILLBOARDS Discussion of the shelter signs naturally led to thinking of the billboard problem along the Interstate highways.. The Federal Government will make a bonus or premium allocation of one-half of one i>er cent of total Federal money for Interstate road* to SlatirA which ban billboards from view.

Chairman Melville Broughton atated that the commission will hold a public hearing at its next meeting, January 22 or 2:J In Raleigh, at which time garden clut^ and others opposed to blUboards will be heard'. After that recommendation will be made to the General Assembly as to advisability of banning billboards. The school shelters pro-bsbly will not be affected by

such decision, because it Is contemplated that school buses will not perate on the interstate limited access rogds. '

BIO WEEK ~ The week of January 19 will be a big week highway-<vlse in North Carolina. There will be the regularly scheduled highway construction contract lettingi on Tuesday, the 20th, including a two months accumulation of Job* since there was no letting in December.

Also on Tuesday morning the first State Highway Conference will begin It State College, and will run through Thursday, 22nd. This conference is jointly sponsored by the Highway Commission, State College and the Carolinas Divisin of Associated General Contractors. The program will feature panel dlscusslons on such highly controversial matters as relative superiority of bl-turtllnous and concrete paving, force account and contract maintenance, different technique* for rural and urban construction and maintenance, and relationship among Federal. State and local governments with respect to highway work.

As soon as the dbnference breaks up around noon Thursday the Highway Commission will go into its regular monthly meeting, which is likely to run through Friday, In addition to approving contract bids for several million dollars, and the billboard hearing, the commission will receive and discuss the report of the engineering firm on feasibility of toll bridges across the Alligator river from Sandy Point to East Lake and across the Cape Fear at Wilmington. Also there will be discussion of other recommendations or re-^ quests tu^ be made for legislation by the General Assembly.

BILL DRAFTING Attorn-ey General Malcolm Seawell sayt his department has cleared the decks for service to Stale agencies and legislators for preparing bills to be introduced In the Leglflature. This operation will Involve practically every member of the staff, under general direction of Col. Wade Bruton, senior assistant attorney general.

"We are working on tentative draft of the budget appropriation and revenue bills," said Seawell, "and we have had a few request* for special bill*. Up to now, however, the members of the General Assembly are not falling over themselves to gel bills written." General Seawell announced some weeks ago that facilities of hi* office would be available 'through January for that purpose, and voiced the hope many bill* could he drafted ahead of convening date That would relieve pressure on his staff and eliminate later congestion In the legislative committees.

proposed route, there ia little room to doubt now that By JIMMY ELLIS the project will now be completed by the end of 1959,

A federal-aid project under the anti-recession grram, the project must be completed by 1959 in order for the state to receive federal provided for the project. Certainly the state will see the project is completed in time for it to receive the federal funds.

During the con.struction period, the make-shift arrangements along the stretch of highway will cause some inconvenience to motorists who use the route daily. This inconvenience will be minor, however, in comparison to the major improvement which will be a reality when construction is completed.

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WASHINGTON fAP) The little guy, any little guy going home on New Year's Eve, looked back on 19.^ end could hardly see it. It waan't muctt pf a yeaf, a kind of ho-)mffl year, a real second-rater, as year* go.

Nothing was settled. It wa* a kl|id of in-between year, full of thing* left over to be settled later. It wa* like a boy carrying a bunch of packages from 1957 to 19,59.

He had mixed feelings about it, and about himself too: both glad and uneasy.

, When the recession hit. It was like being missed by lightning. Million* of guys lost their Jobs but he kept his. He knew a reces-fllon la like lightning. It would hit again some time. Next tinje It might not miss him.

There was something to be uneasy about. Not too uneasy, but a Uttle unsure. like all th^ times on the way to work when he wondered if he had put out that last cigarette befqr he left the house.

There was one thing didnt make him hjMHJy: it was the feeling that*Tn the whole year he should have done more with his life. Maybe he could have done better if he were smarter, or thought harder. Baloney,

He had this same feeling of time being wa.sted at, Pie end of every year. No readon to. This was the way he afas; he had no Illusions: he had realized long ago he'd never set the world afUe. gd why feel disappointed? /

He knew he felt smaller in ,JW5g than In any year of his life, and the worldliffikethH4gger. He fell less andP^^^s a ^rt of thlng.*, more and more left out. It was easy t tell when that started with him.

It was In the fall of 197 when the Rvisslans .sent their first Sp\it-nlks vip. It was like being tluxiwu bodily Intn s new world and he wa* unprepkred for it. He had spent his whole life earthbound, looking down, not up

The Sputniks were like a can--opener; they lifted the lid on a

jwhole new world over his head and men were talking of sailing out into It, to the moon and even to the planets beyond.

All of sudden scientists were the princes of the new order, the guides to the future, the magicians of time and space. He wished his kids would fit Into the new world coming, better than he knew he'd ever be able to.

He told himself: "You sound a little phony, moaning about all you dont know about space and rockets and things like that. How much do yoti know about what's going on around you down here?

It was a good question. He knew he wouldnt get high marks on that one either. There were too many things happening in too many places for him to knbw more thwn Jtmt Uttle pieces.

Politics, for Instance, He knew American poUttcs pretty well. He could spot a big mouth in an empty head as fa.st as the next guy. What about economics? He was glad there wa* no one around to pin him down on economics. But then even the economists themselves never seemed to agree. So he felt he could aj;)Ud off on prices and wages 'tlthout sounding too Und-.

But b* really bogged down when he began thinkini; of what went on between toe United States, and the Soviet tfnion, and Red China, and other countries. Then he didnt know wUat to think.

Was anybody say the United States or the Soviet Union - getting ahead of anybody? He knew all the talking, all the dickering. was Just preparation for son\ething. He didnt know. Maybe hed never know in hia Ufe-time.

He was living better than he had ever lived. He liked to think it would always be like that; better evejy year Not so much for hbnself For his kid*. He didnt know. He couldnt be sure.

All he knew, whrn he reached his house New Yeiirs Eve and went inside, it wasnt jio much like closing a door 6n r year as it was like closing a door on Just another day.

BUly Walker. The Daily Reflectors carrier boy in toe Fountain area for nearly five years, is branching out in his newspaper work.

Ordinarily, properly deliverirjg a daily route is enough for most carriers, but Billy, in addition, is in the process of developing a personal interest in another physe of newspapering. He's a writer and editor.

The high school senior Is chief of staff for Farmvle High Schools News n Views", the student newspaper. In the lal-est edition of the publication, he had at least four articles, ranging from a young reporters view of coverage of a majof news event to m humorous edi* torial page column.

The work he is doing on the Farmvllle student paper is building a reputation for good, solid! reporting for Billy, but so t& as a reputation in the profes

sion Is concerned, he could have guaranteed himself an outstanding one on the merits of his delivery work alone.

Hi* boss, Reflector Circulation' Manager J. E. Keziah, says. Hes a good carrier and proved it by winning one of the special awards at the carriers' recent Christmas party. He has Increased the size of his route by about 50 per cent since he took it over in March, 1954, and he ranks now as the second oldest, in length of servtee, among The Reflectors 56 carriers."

Billys reputation as a carrier is built largely on faithful service in every kind of weather to his customers, but he gives part of the credit td^his mother. She picks up his papers, daily in Parmville, where they are sent by bus, and Mrs. Walker has delivered the route on occasions when Billy had other commitments.

The stories written by the

young carrier for the high school paper' indicate, according to

teachers and other observers, a certain measure of genuine promise. As editor of the paper, he has shown, they say, an ability -to organize toe work of the staff, covering every phase of the

schools aqflvities. As a writer, his stories offer proof of his abi-

Other Editors Saying--Profit in Aromatic Lea

(The AshevUte Citizen)

Western North Carolina farmers who are alert to new opportunities may well consider the profit possibilities in growing aromatic (or Turkish) tobacco.

The United States imports more than 80,000.000 pounds annually. We lo not produce 1,* 000,000 pounds annually. Obviously the market is great for domestic production.

Aromatic tobacco is a relatively new source of income for farmers. It dates from the experiments conducted between 1939 and 1946 by Duke University scientist*. They proved it could be grown in the Southwestern part of the United States.

Experiment stations and extension services in North ahd South Carolina and Virginia showed that through seed selection and other methods desirable qualities of the leaf could be enhanced and sleeper" portions diminished. Because of this, three pounds of domestic aromatic tobacco were found to possess the sought after qualities of four pounds of imported aromsUc tobaixo brought in principally from the Balkans.

Aromatic tobacco is described as Jthe "golden-haired queen" which lends flavor to ctoarettes. It is blended with commonly grown domestic tobacco. Because of the flavor, there is a heavy demand for It. Yet there is a great under production In the

United States and no allotments....

A farmer in the Southeast can produce 1,000 pounds of better aromatic tobacco in less time and with less effort than that required to produce 250 pounds a fw years ago. T^hat is due to many improvements including harvesting methods. The yields are gratifying, averaging more than 1,000 pounds per acre.

Thirty-six growers tois fall sold at Rutherfordton a totaT of 6,285 pounds at an average price of $1.10 per pound. All told, there were 53 growers in Western North Carolina this year. The Farmers Federation, which is encouraging the growing of the tobacco, hopes' there wUl be 100 next year. A number of farmers have expressed interest.

The Hlgh*quality aromatic tobacco is grown most successfully or relatively poor or intermediate soils.

The tobacco leaves are small. The biggest part of the labor-through light is in harvesting.

It provides opportunity for the entire family to work together in increasing its income.

Growing of aromatic tobacco is taking hold slowly but steadily in the mountains. With demand great, prices good and improvements made in harvesting, it Is beilpved that it offers a fine opportunity to farmers with land suited to growing it. The extension service.* have the knowhow which they are most willing to pass along for the asking.

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When Southerners sought to amend a resolution lauding Chairman B u 11 e j;** position, they failed again. TOvote was 84 to 18. It is high tbne^that we of the South quit ourselves. Whats more, our political leaders should stop kidding us."Jackson (Miss ) State 'Time*.

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lity to look with a kei and perceptive eye on the basic issues in a news situation and then present the flndmgw * in a good, readable style.

BUlys .story (Ml coverage of the opening of Parmville s multi-million dollar Flak eboard plant is perhaps the best illustration of his BILLY WALKER

view of newspapering. The story is a comforting balance between* a rosy-eyed view of a reporters Job and the realization that it is hard work.

Among his 'comments were these;

We sat . . . at the luncheon . . . feeling very governor-conscious and frequently glancing around to see if we had missed anything. We had Just witnessed a moving example of modern automation at the new plant and were eagerly awaiting the Governors comments.

Being present at such a gathering of newsmen has a permanent affect on one: A reporter in action is really something . . .

And soon the speeches were over, and the newspapermeh Were on their way home; equipped with photographs and notes; full of creative thoughts and Ideas, way to make their story different, unique, and, yet, thoroughly wlginal . .

A tough assignment? Yep, a pretty tough assignment."

By W- G. ROGERB NEW YORK, (AP) A Bronx eabdriver has Just had toe heartwarming satisfaction of seeing his son win one of this country's maj< music prizes.

And when Himgarian bom Melchior Schwartz satin Town Hall for young Josephs suecc**, ful New York debut last month,' he was entitled to reflect though hes too modest to <> that he had a hand in helping his boy at three critical points in his aureer.

Melchior didnt do It alonet Joseph, who is 25, has for nearly 20 years followed a heavy schedule of practicing. He doee It willingly enougdi now, but his father recalled:

"Hed want to go out and play baseball, at the start, and sometimes 1 had to go out in tha streets and look tor him."

'And stand behind me at the piano, too," the son added'with a grin. He has curly black hair and an equally personable atr-whetho* on the platform m ting acrofis the table from you.

It began with a radio proipi ram, xa mayb even farther back m the ^^larkenfrig early-evening streets of an eastern Hungarian yfllage. Asked whether there had been musicians in the family, the father said;

"My wife used to play the ida-no a little. But no musicians, not in the way you mean. But instead, there was music. Muslo mattered. When the young peasants of my Tillage went out to court their girls, they sang folksongs as they walked through toe streets to meet their dates.

I sang them, too."

Did young Joseph court his wife who has a masters degree in music" education and has taught at Columbia by walking through Manhattan streets and singing on tlie way? He did not.

"I have a terrible Toice," he said.

So the native interest in music already existed when, safely settled in the Bronx, Melchior, Schwartz heard a 5-year-old girl tested on the Major Bowes radio hour to show she had ^perfect pitch. Why not his son, too? Joseph had it and from then on he practiced, like it or not. .

^ "By 10 or so," the prize win-lier said, ,I had about committed myself to piano playing for good. We moved to Los Angeles where for six years, from my 11th to 17th, I worked with one teacher. At 13 I made my actual debut with toe Huntington Park Symphony Orchestra out there and at 14 I won the Junior Division of the HoUjrwood Bowl auditions." .

Now the father stepped into the picture again. He was working as a mechanic in a wartime factory in California, but his son needed Jullliard training and he moved the family back to New York. Joseph lived at home ahd had a JuillWd scholarship. The father got a cabbies job, five days a week, from 4 in the afternoon to 2 or 2 in the morning, and when his son won the coveted Walter W. Naum-burg Foundation honor and was scheduled for a Town Hall recital. the father pasted one of the advertising leaflets up in his cab.

"My daughters said it was slk ly," he recalled. "But every now and then a passenger would notice that my name was i^hwartz and the pianists was. too, and theyd ask me if he was my son. Sure, 1 said, and gave them one of the advertising bills with his picture. It seems a columnist noticed it,one day, though he didnt tell me who he was."

Alfred E. Rossin, Josephs manager, of the National Muslo League, explained: You know how careful managers are about sending out notices. Well there was more interest in this than we could account for. In fact we had the biggest crowd at a Naumburg concert in some years.

So we discovered Leonard Lyons used a paragraph about him in the New York Post, and we know that gave him many extra listeners."

Once determined to be musician, Schwartz had a hard time of it financially despite his fathers help. Several summers he was music counsellor in 'X camp. Once he tried peddling ice cream on a three-wheeled bicycle, but lie could take that two days. Once he tried ng messages, but only for one day.

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Strength For Today

Bv ELMER ROESSNER

By Earl l. uoikilass

.NEW LAND Ye have not paiwed thUs way before" (Joshua 3:41,

New' Years Day. We have never before stood on this ground. Our faces have never before been turned this way. A new experience lie* l)efore Us We can go anywhere we care

Not, of course, a.s those teenagers grow, but in an equally significant way. The truly great people are those who never cease to grow. If they live to be. eighty, the truly great conUnue to grow.

This week wjll see the first real test of the effectivenea* of the Federal Trade Commission'* new rules against fictitious prlc-

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haji been customarily chrged for the article. A one-time sale, or a sale long ago is not a "regular price.

ceptance of the principles, may be doing all merchants a favor.

CLEANSING COMPETITION

EVERYBODY CAUTIOUS .SO FAR

There are a few tmfflc rules

the Highway of Life, and those who break them either get frowned upon socially and morally, or. in extreme cases, find themselves occupying a cell. But for tlie most part we are free to go whither we will. We have liberty. and ,1$' Ls suggestive that the word 'llbtTty'' conn's originally from a Sun.skrlt word which means "to grow," We liave liberty. and the purpose of liberty is to give UH Rn qpiKirtunUy to grow.

So wt should grpY year.-

There is a thrill in entering domain into which we have never been before. Ahead lies adventure Oh," you say. "Im

too old fer adventure." Or, "How can one have any adventure In his life or hers where its a matter of keeping the nose to tpe grindstone, or the hands in dishwater, or going to the office /or ,tre as 1 have lor many ycar.s?"

Adventure .'springs not frorp clr-cumstancr.y -bnt from our attitude toward clrcunustancc.'*. And .stretching out three hundred and sixty-five days ahead of u.x is a ucw era of oppurtuiUl).

Christmas sales always leave heavy stocks of retnalnders. The newspaper strike in New York City Increased these inventories. Lack of advertising cut Christmas volume painfully. Many stores, in addition to clearance sales of their owm. will transship surplus goods to branches or other stores elsewhtire.

Retallei;^ will be under severe temptation to use comparative pHcinf to the Uinit to move the leftovers. Some will .uocumb to the urge to exaggerate, in violation of the PTC guide

These rule* prohibit exaggerated claims of savings, and the mlsreprcscntaiion of price reductions. For example, it is not permitted to sdverUse an article at "half the legular price unless toe prict is bail ol what

So far, the guide has been foP lowed closely as a rule. Many retailers suspect toe FTC is Just waiting for a few good cases for a crackdown - to make an example of a few flagrant violators as a warning to merchants everywhere that it will enforce its rules.

Of courJe. it is proper lo advertise any item at "half price," at "60 per cent off." "formerly higher" and "was higher," if those ai' tnie statements. And In the present situation, many go<Kis will be advertised thks week and next honestly with thase claims.

That fact will Increase temptation for dishonest retailers to Jom the parade,

Actualb'. the ETC and the Better Business Bureaus, which are co-operaUng to bimg about ac*

Certainly they are doing honest merchants a service by putting legal brakes on dishonest competitor*. But benefits may be even broader.

"Half price." "regularly sold for" and the other cliches of retail advertising have become boring and incredible to many shopper*. "Factory price" and "whole.safe price" claims are generally 'suspect. No retailer can consistently sell at factory or wholesale prices and stay in business not even If he makes a small profit on the paper and string.'

With the FTC looking over the shoulder of gdverUslng writer*, perhaps there can be some new fre.xhness and new credibility lo price advertlAlng, Instead writing, 14 95. formerly' $9 95," ^lacopy writer might be templed to say, "$4 9S sold at $9.95 on December 22."

The first statoment may bt true, and 11 it is, X if acceptable, But R Is also a very tired claim. The second statement, if ued, had petter be true. But if it is, it cfurries convictiOD and it* own Offer of proof.

In the end. to* FTC may have put a new pltaUty into retail advertising.

NEW IDEAS. TESTED IN MERCHANDISING An Idaho appliance store offered farmer* a $10,07 allowance on old horse blanket* toward new electric blanket*. It puUed . . . Dozen* of record store* are glvtng a ticket with each record sold and holding a drawing one a week. The winner get* a free rord . . .An Iowa department store racked' up ttg days sales in history with a "gay NineUes" sale, with all employees in period coatumea a Wisconsin store held a Tithing Day" event, during which 10 per cent of all .sale*, receipts were given to charle of to* bur-rs' choices.% ''