PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C.

ATednesdajr, January 14, 1959

Wednesday, January 14, 19S9

Groundwork In Long-Range Plans

If Greenvilles School enrollment reaches the and 1970, the approximate coat of these facilities and 7,000 mark in the next 12 years as Superintendent how they may be financed, they will be in a better J. H. Rose has told the Board of Education it will, position to see that the needs are met at the proper Greenville will have to invest several million dollars time.

Grand Prix de Space

in new school facilities during that period to meet the needs of the increased enrollment.

It is well that the Board of Education has set wheels turning to formulate long range building plans to meet this enrollment increase.

An enrollment of 7,000 students in local public schools by 1971 will represent an increase of approxi- H.f the additional projected needs of the local school mateiy 45 per cent over the enrollment for the present sy^em in terms of additional teachers, operating costs.

The Greenville BQard of Education is on the right track with now long planning for the construction of new facilities. It is our hope that the Board will project and make available to the people of Greenville as long range a building program as is reasonably feasible. Ata later date it might incorporate into such an out-

s^dary supplements and other expense items which must be defrayed through local rather than state tax funds.

Over a long period of years citizens of Greenville have seen to it that the city has an outstanding public school system. If they are made aware of the long range as well as the immediate needs of the local school system, we are confide/it they will continue to see that those needs arc met.

Comforting Note In

school year. Even if - Greenville prevents classrooms from becoming more crowded than they are today, there will have to be a corresponding increase in the number of classrooms and non-classroom school facilities during that period of time.

In addition to careful planning for these new facil-itie.s themselves, there must also be careful planning of the method oif financing these new facilities as they are needed. By preparing a long range construction program as the Board of Education has now set about to do, citizens of Greenville will know what they will have to provide m the way of new schools to take care of the increased number of pupils. They will also have .some idea of what they may expect in the way of bond T /I 1

is.sues andVelated taxes to defray the cost of the build- w oXXXJjk/

ing program.

A dozen years is not too far in advance to plan for the school expansion program of a city like Greenville.

Certainly the plans will have to be modified and revised annually to meet the changes ,in conditions, but with a master plan to work from, Greenville can be reasonably assured of having sufficient school facilities to meet the demands made upon its school system.

If the people of Greenville can be told what new school facilities will be needed by 1961, 1965, 1968

A Tenuous Link With Carolina

By LYNN N18BET

BIBLE Announcement that Senator Alen Bible of Nevada will make the big speech at the State Young Democratic Clubs Inauguration party at Pfeiffer College Saturday night recalls a prior rather tenuous connection of the Senator with North Caro lina. Hia office U Suite 345 In the Senate Office Building which had prevloualy been occupied by aeven North Carolina Senators in a period a little more than eight years. The suite has ^ a tragic history so far as North Carolina Is concerned.

Senator J.W. Bailey had it when he died In 11H8. Senator William B. Umstead moved in when he was appointed to succeed Bailey, and surrendered the quarters to Senator J.B. Broughton, who defeated him less than two years later. Broughton died within about three months and the same suite was claimed by Senator Frank Graham, appointed to succeed him, Graham In turn was defeated by Senator Willis Smith, who moved Into the same quarters. Smith died after two and a half years and was succeeded by Senator Alton I,ennon. who held the office for about 18 months when he surrendered It to Senator Kerr Scott, who had defeated him In the 154 primary.

Scott moved Into the same suite and occupied it only fur about one month before convening of the 84th Congress in January of 19SS. He said at the time he believed the place was 'Jinxed and requested space on the floor above. Senator Bible, newly elected to succeed the veteran Senator Pat McCarran. who had died, moved in Suit# 345 which he still occupiesunless he moved this week In the new Congress shuffle.

JINX Senator Scotts moving out may have busted the Jinx on the office suite but it did not break It for the office of Senator from Eastern North Carolina. Scott survived in office longer than any Eastern Senator since Bailey. Even so, he died last April with more than two and a half years of the six-year term to which he was elected still to BO, Senator Everett Jordan was appointed in his place, the eighth man In less than 12 years to occupy that seat.

Jordan was elected last November for the remaining two years of the term to which Kerr Scott was elected In 1954, becoming the second man In history to be elected by the people of North

Carolina after going first Into the Senate by appointment. Senator Sam Ervin, appointed to succeed the late Clyde Hoey, was the first.

The record Is that for the 12 years period between the general election of 194A and that of 1938, representing two full six-year

Citizens of the nation should be thankful that a vast majority of their senators elected to follow the leadership Sen. Lyndon Johnson and his common-aen.se group rather than those of the ilk of Douglas, Humphrey, Chase and Javita.

While the new Senate rule on limitation of debate may not be to the liking of many Southern Democrats, it ia certainly much more to their liking than was the proposal by Sen Douglas that a simple majority vote be required to limit debate on a matter. The new rule whereby two-third.a of the Senators present and voting are required to limit debate, i.a, from a practical standpoint, very close to the old rule which reqired

two-thirds of the total membership to limit debate. u -r v" A 'DXTrvT n

And if the vote on the rule change ia any indica- tiy XjIJLijX AKJNUJLJL) tion it will be difficult for Douglaa and company to muater the necessary two-thirds of the senators pres- X ent and voting to shut off debate of any matter before the Senate.

A good many things may be read into the meaning of this first test of strength in the new session of the Senate, depending on the individual viewpoint.

Whatever the viewpoint, however, it must be conceded that Majority Leader Johnson has shown clear- other day.

Harry Can Pin It Down

A wlno named Harry, whos a good friend of mine from down In Dog's Head, was telling me about Cuba and Pldel Castro the

the eastern part of North Caro-^ to he led by the nose by aome of its more liberal mem-

And, latly, though the number of Northern and Jordan, Among th^st seven Pemocrats has increaaed sharply since the last session, there were four deatM and the Southern bloc till asserts a great deal of power

nd authority.

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Ip his position of strength to withstand many chal-luu six-year .. t it- i li.A.xi ^he bottle. He offered me some

term., eight men have rvetl In /lengoa during the aesnion. It la alao evident that al- but I'm i Coke drinker. Harry the United States Senate from, though Congress is heavily Democratic, it is not likely always seems to have pocket

change and a bottle of super market wine despite the fact that he doesnt work. He claims he has a weak heart and avoids work "becau.se of my doctors orders.

He wont take money from the unemployment bureau. "I got principles," he says, "when the Demcrata get back in office maybe I wlU. But not from no republicans. (I spell republicans without a capital at his request, )

Harry U about 4.5, short and frail, with alert grey eyes. His hair Is greying and Ive never seen him wear anything but a World War II army Jacket and a pair of pin-striped blue trousers, He seems to have been everywhere, although Im still a little suspicious because he has a rather raw Carolina country manner of speech.

About the only things Harry

three election defeats, of the seven urvlveOr now with United Nations ^nd Lennon In Congress from the district,

Senator Jordan is further challenging the Jinx. He is already an active candidate in the 1980 primary and election, If he wins he will add to the credit of being the first appointed Senator from the East ever to be elected the further honor of being first elected to that seat more than one time since Senator Baileys third election In 1942.

ELECTIONS Senator Bailey was the first man to get into the United States Senate by popular election. He was nominated In the Democratic primary of l9:io and elected that year to succeed Senator F M, Simmons. Simmons had served for 30 yearsfive full terms. But the first three times, in 1901, mi7 and 1913, he was elected by the Legislature, Senator Lee 8. Overman also was twice elected by the Leg lain ture 111 1903 and 1909. three times by the people, in 1914, 1920 and 1926.

The 17th amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for popular vote rather than legislative election of Senators was ratified In May of 1913. Under provisions of that amendment Overman was elected In 1014, 1920 and 1928, Simmons was elected In 1918 and 1924, But both had been In the Senate for some years. The 1930 election of Joslah William Bailey wiw the first time the people as a whole has put a new man In the Senate.

Since then the people have elerted Senntora Robert R. Rev-nolds and Clyde R, Hoey, J M. Broughton, WlUls Smith and Kerr Scott from the F.ast and have been served by short -tenure appointed Senator* William Urn-atead, Frank Graham and Alton Lennon, Sam Ervin and Everett Jordan, who began their service by executive appointment, were subsequently elected

?roiessionaiism Of Sen. Johnson

can do, I guess, is drink wine and philosophize about the world In general. But he can do both of those things uniquely. Here is a sample of his comments. Ive tried to preserve Ma word order. . .

"That country la a chopping block for pigs. Castro is the top pig now. Batista was the top pig before. He chopped up those tan people down there and made hlsself a bunch of money did you ever see that picture of Batista with the tommy gun Well, Castro is the top pig now. He Isnt no different. You listen to the radio. Hes already started killing those tan people . .

"It's a magnlficient place, down there. I been down there. It looks like heaven with grass growing out of it and flowers and hills; and they built little white villages dqwn In the bosoms of Uiose hills

Acting Career Is Hare.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK <AP)~Ever ycgr for tha glamorous Ufe of a actreas

Well, take R from Barbara Bdl Geddes. who has made a success on stage, screen and television, there is more hard work than glamor in a tlwaUlcal career.

"When I first started,* she recalled. "I thought it would be aU fun Uke appearing in a high school play. I didnt realize the disclpUne Involved.

Ytm have to treat yourself like an athlete. Youre always la training. Ycm have to save your-sell lor those hours on the stage or before the cameras, when youH need every bit of enwgy you possess."

Barbara la the damditer of the noted designer, Norman Bd Geddes,

Although Barbara enjoys HoBf* wood, she feels a Broadway star has one big advantage over a movie star.

"A stage star, unlike a film star, has privacy after she finishes her days work. People dont bother her.

"I like that. After a show, I like to go home and Uve my own life. I like to put on a comfortable pair of shoes and breathe.

"The Uteater Is in the theater. You dont have to take it home with you.

Barbara, who Is hazel-eyed and flaxen-haired, Ukes to dresc casuaUy in a skirt and cloee fitting blouse, open at the collar. She usually wears neither UpsUck nor rouge.

"When Im in a play, she explained. "I get sick of looking la the mirror as I put on makeup.* She is fond of outdoor sports, and looks Uke the outdoor type.

One of the worst problems of the acting profession. Barbara said, is the endless waiting.

' "You cant Just sit down and do a Job by yourself as a painter does, she continued. "You have to wait for so many people. You have to wait for the playwright, the producer, the director, and the public.

"But there Is one wonderful nationalize all U.%-financed busi- thing about acting. It never really nesses and take over aU prop- bores you.

against the green . . .

"Castros a trouble-making kid. Hes not but 32. All he's ever done was raise heU. Look, I read he kUled 75 people yesterday. Zip-Zlp-Zip Just like that. Everybody had a trial, he said. Listen, he said two years ago his government would ought to

erties Batistas government had formed . . .

"Hes a fanatic. Hts plans for government are a fanatics plans. How else you think hed be able to get aU those wild people with him He may change, of course

"I dont say Castros bad for Cuba. Trouble with Batista is that he got fat. Like Caesar. Have you seen a picture of him I dont think Castro wiU get fat. Hes got a lean and hungry look.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP> - Senate Librala looked amateuriah compared with the profeaalonaliam of Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texaa who outmaneuvered their ef-forta to make It much easier to smash a filibuster. ^

To make a long story short; When the showdown came they didn't have the votes. Johnson did. Knowing the thoroughness of Johnson, It seems safe 10 say he had his votes lined up beforehand and the liberals didnt.

What happened would Indicate one of two things about the fight they made:

1. Either they were overly op-tlmlsUc on the support theyd get from the rest of the Senate and (Udnt make a nose count, or

2. They knew their chance was slim but decided to go ahead and fight anyway for the sake of the record and to get at least some concessions,

Under the old Senate Rule No. 22 a flllbusU'r could be stopped only by a Iwo-lhlrds vote of all the senators, or 68 of the 98 senator*. A filibuster is a prolonged talking spree who.*e sole purpiwe Is to prevent some bill or measure from coming to a vole.

Such a two-thirds vote Is tremendously difficult to get In the Senate, where so many member* traditionally clierlsh the right

which any one of them might waul to use someday to block a dislHStrful* measure.

In addition, the rule provided no means at 11 - not even that big two third.* vote for slopping a fillbu.sler aaaliwt a motion to change the rule.

The llberal.s .set out to get the rule elmnged right at the start of this .se.*slon of CongreNS last Wednesday. They wanted It ohangfil to let a simple majority 5(1 0 the 98 members slop a ftUbu.sler

Hut Johnson, leader of the majority Democrats, grabbed the

floor right from the start. This was his right, as leader. And he beat the liberals to the punch by proposing that Rule No. 22 be changed this way:

To let a filibuster be stopped not by the full two-thirds vote of 66 of the 98 senators or by

BO of the 98 but by a simple

two-thirds vote of Just those senators present 00 the floor at voting time.

This may seem lots easier to get. In actual practice, it probably wouldnt be. because on anything so important as breaking a filibuster, most of the senators would be present anyway.

But it was a concession to the liberals. Southern Democrats, who have used the filibuster to block oivU rights legislation, didn't Uke the concessions. It was more than they wanted to yield. It was less than the liberals wanted.

Bui Johnson, whose Job Is to try to keep all the Democratic senators working together during the year on legislallon he wants passed, is a master at compromise. What he proposed about * 1C rules ^ change was enough of a compromise to win the votes It needed for adoption.

From the time Johnson made hts propcLsal, the liberals had almost impossible going. The reason: Johnson had made a con-ces.*lon that wouldnt antagonize the Southerners too much and would .satisfy those other sena tors who thought Rule No, 23 ought to be softened a bit but not too much.

The result; The lltsMHls were voted down on one attempt after another to gel the rule.s changed to tlieli' liking. thu.s paving the way for overwhelming adoption of Johnsons propo.ial.

There'.* no doubt the liberal* did a lot of homework: Re.search O the hlHtory of Rule No.22 and the flUbuster. But In thi ter-itbl.v important field of practical politics votes whatever they did wasn't enough.

Other Etditors Saying- -People Must Demand It

Barbara is a woman who isn't sure Just where she lives, sh and her husband, Windsor Lewis, the stage director, have a 60-acre farm in Putnam County, New York; a 100-acre farm in County Galway, Ireland; and right now they are dwelling in a small house on the East Side in Manhattan.

In this menage they have two daughters, three turtles, two hamsters, a miniature marmoset monkey, two golden retrievers, a Maltese dog, two cata and 20 fish.

"By the time I get them all fed in the morning, said Barlmra, "its time to start preparing them lunch.

Opinions In Brief

"Education doesnt guarantee a man succest. but it helps him give a scientific explanation of his failure."Ella vllle (Oa.)

Sun.

An executive is a man employed to talk to visitors so that the other employes will have a chance to work. New York Dally Mirror*

"The whole theory of the unlveroe is directed unerringly to one .single individualnamely to You."Walt Whitman.

"Preedum I* the ability to do a* you plea.se, without con.slder-tug anyone except the wife, the bows, tha police, the neighbors and the government. "Carlsbad Current-Argus.

"If property could be bought for whai it Is turned in for taxes, you would see some bargains in real rstnle." Kparta tOa.) l.Mnaellte,

"The v^enple o the .state deserve the rii;ht to make a clear ctuuce between our court system a.* It Is and as it could be." Charlotte Observer.

(The Greensboro Daily News)

Superior Court Judge J. Braxton Craven of Morganton, in a speech in his home town, pinpoints the principal mission of the N.C. Bar Associations committee on court reform:

If you ran Drexel Furniture Company for one year like we run the courts of North Carolina, In my considered opinion It would be bankrupt. Furniture might still be coming out at the end of the production line in reasonably good quality, but Uiere wouldnt be any money in the bank.

All that is proposed Is. generally speaking, that the courts be permitted by the people of North Carolina to set the Judicial house In order and to make their own house rules. There is not one single solitary word or sentence in any of the reports, nor is there ,*uch a word or sentence in the proposed revision to the Constitution, that diminishes the power of the Legislature of North Carolina over the substantive law of North Carolina.

Judge Cravens plea points to the one thread of purpose running through the court reform program; The need for pinpointing responsibility. "It would be funny, he notes, "if it were not so tragic, that the people of North Carolina have vested in their courts Judicial powerthe awful power to take life, liberty and property- but have thus far withheld from the courts the power to make their own rules by which they exercise the power vested in them over property and

life itself" Then he adds:

It is about like saying to the Kiwanis Club tonight that it has the power to change all the municipal laws of Morganton and abolish taxes but that it does not have the power to decide when and where it shall meet to do so, or whether it shall have a luncheon or a dinner meeting.

Judge Cravens remarks offer the clearest explanation so far rendered of the need for court reform in North Carolina.

It is not in the quality of Judicial decisions. It is not substantive law.

The trouble lies in the house-' keeping duties of the courts the shockingly overloaded and Jammed-up dockets, the cases which hang fire for months and even years, the slow grinding out of justice which unduly taxes the well-to-do litigant and overwhelms the poor.

An example of this slow- moving Justice came to light recently In a simple automobile accident ca.*e. Only insurance damages were Involved, but the litigant who finally won the case commented in the.*e terms: "Why was it necessary to wait five months to try the case? Ttie amount involved was less than $)0, By the time the case finally reached court everybody involved, even the police officer, had forgotten .some of the details of the accident. A case -of this kind, it seem* to me, could be settled in a matter of weeks."

This single example could be duplicated 100 times. The attorneys, of course, will answer that

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they needed five months to prepare the case properly. But too often the matter does not concern necessary delay. It involves, simply, the convenience of the lawyer rather than the public or tlie litigants.

Under the N.C. Bar Associations reform program the very officers of the courts who now have too little responsibility for housekeeping duties would be Invested directly with that obligation.

Certainly, as Judge Cravea notes, that would mean bo handsome augmentation of Judicial power for the Judges, in the usual sense. It would mean more hard work. "As a matter of fact," he. notes, "we may as well face it, the Judges personally would be a Uttle better off it the Befi Plan never comes to flower,**

The same, of course, goes for the Judicial profession as a whole. Many of its members will fight any and all changes, because they know they will have to iwe-pare their cases sooner, cut out the delay until "good" Judges arrive and otherwise meet standards of a vastly more efficient court aystem.

Thua it is clear that if the bar associations program eomee to fruit, it will oome because wdi-nary citizens are aroused about their courts and want to see them Improved. Vested interests will not take the lead.

Only the people will suoeeed la fetUng court reform.

Vending Machine Industry Happy

Sti ength For Today

By FARL L. DOUGLANS DON'T UNDERKiiTlMATE

In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul wrote of himself. "I am the least of the apostles, that Ain not meet to be calletl an apostle, tiecause I per-eculed tlu' church of God,

If St, Paul was unfit for Christian work, we might wonder. then, who could ever be eon-.*ldered fit? But Paul answers thlx que.*tion Immediately, for hi* next words are. "But by the grace of God I am what I ani His great ml.satonary work wa.* ing fm ward, PauLaHiM*H4Mii dr spite hi* own unworthlneas. by the grace of God.

To uiulere.sllmste our own value for Gods work 4s to underestimate God's tH)Wet. It was suggested to A meiuln*r of our church that he try to bring .some new nrlghbora to church with him.

"Who am 1," he asked, "to lie telling other people that they should come to church ?"

"The que.stion l* not who you AIT," wa.s the reply, "but rather, who Is God. that you should fall to try to bring these people to His church"

Elsewhere In the same letter to the Corinthians. *St iaul wrote. "But God tmUi cluKsen the foolish things of the world to confound the wl.*e; and Go<1 hath chacen the weak things of the world to confound the things winch, are mighty."

-4k>d' fmwer is ahesrs-gieatrr than our wfeakne.**. lat \\h .stop thinking about our weakness and think tnstrud of His strength Let us 'put nut of our minds our sins and mlstRkes, and rememlier that through Rim we have tor Rlveness. and In Him 'reunty as we walk lifes pathway.

R.v KI.MER KOEHSNKR One Industry is very happy to ace wages go up except, of course, tn its own plants. It I* the vending machine Indust-*>

Every time wages go up. work-cr.s have more coins to drop into vending machine slots.

Rut far more Important Is the fact that every time pay ri.*c. vending machine.* become more economical This dlflerenttal I* no more draniAticall.v lllustiAted th.*!! in the New York subways. At the Attended subWA.v ncw.'stnnd.*. what .AIT usually referred to as mckel candy bars are 8 cenUs, A few feet away the identical bars RTF snm'b.xnilirtTrtnr^

Vending machine^ now .sell 1.5 out of every toil p.ick.s of cwa-reties, 2.* c.i: of every Itio soft drmks and 20 out of every ,100 eandv tmr.s In the Uhitd Sfafr.*

( OIN !\ SI (r CAI-KTFK14S Al the momen; vending m;i cluue* Hic r.ipUili' sprcuiuig ui

a new field: the robot seUlnf of hot food.

In the four years since late 19.35. when the first machines to vend hot foods were introduced. sales of packaged hot foods Jumped from sero to 118.500,880 In 19.S8, estimates Robert Z. Greene. pre.*ident of Rowe Manufacturing Co.. a major manufac-tufer nf nutDinatlc vending equipment.

In five years, he predicts, sales will reach I30.000.080 to IIOO.OOO-080. Both vending machine manufacturers and food processors are working on ways to sell more type.*, of hot food-*.

Bat tenes of food vending machines conslUuting a roundi'd eaiYTWr' sih-ftwv nrr^Tiow osed In plants and factories, offering hot and eolii dishes, drinks, ^!e.^^ert.. candles and cigarettes. HOT TAMAI.FS

Ftiods already packaged for .srrvln hot from vending m chines include tamales with chill, tuille oup, chop uey, cheese

ravioli, beef stews, chicken gumbo. spaghetti and meat balls, corned beef hash and chili con came. Best seller by a wide margin: pork and beans.

Nine nationally known companies and many smaller ones are competing for the vending market sales. Mr. Greene ald. The latest Industry directory lists 28 suppliers of coffee, 31 suppliers of pastry and other baked goods. 21 suppliers of soups, and 1.5 of other specialties, ranging from cheese to stews.

There are now about 50 automatic food installations, feeding more Uian 500,808 workers a day.

An industry estimate is that there are now 19.900 hot food

Tnactrtnes. 29.000 sxndwtcir XTHt

pastry macht ies. S;..380 machines selling cookies and crackers, 83,-.508 coffee and other hot drink machines. .5.000 trutf JulcO machines, ,33.000 milk vending machines. 31,.300 ice-cream machines, 863.000 bottle machines and 94.r00 cup machines for soft

drinks.

These made sales ef Jiiet ibmt

$1 billion last year.

A recent developmeot k the use of vending machines ia school lunch programs. A hot food vending machine is being tried at the Freehold, N J. Intermediate School, where 75 to 100 pupils get hot aoupa and mam dishes from coin machines. The vending machines, which offer eight hot dishes, euceeed becau.se the school is too small to support A cafeterlA,

The machines require cooka, truckers and service workera, but manpower requirements are far below that of cafeterias. In a plant, lor example, only a few Of ttbOf tf'Teqfed to service a robot cafeteria operaU log 24 hours a day. But a cafeteria with a "live" staff might require payroll costs -of 150. 300 or more hoiu*s a day And Uie rising cost of those hour* is booming the vending machine industry*