FACE fomTHE DAILY fCEFLECTCHI,^ CRCENVrUJL If. C

Thurftday Jamiary iSt 1^59

Thursday, JTanuary 15, 1955

And What About Our River Port?

For Belter Or Worse

I^BEINSWtRiTTEM)

Aaaertion by the State Porte Authority that an inland port at Fayetteville would fit in nicely with its plans for port development brings up an important question:

What about other inland porta in the Eastern part of the state?

In Fayettevilles case the Ports Authority reportedly has told local officials to have a survey made of a proposed port site, and if the Authority approves the construction of the port.

Is it the plan of the State Ports Authority now to build a series of inland ports to use as feeder points for its deep water operations at Morehead City and Wilmington? Or is Fayetteville receiving special trea-ment from the Ports Authority in preference to other localities of this section of the state which already

Claims Overlap '.-OT SaeakershiD

jr LYWN NISBET SPEAKERS It is not yet eertala vbether Addison Hewlett of New Hsnover or Ctrl Venters of Onslow wtU be Speaker of 1SS0 House of Representatives. Each of the candidates and some of their most ardent sup-porters think they know, but since they have different optniona bout it the public will have to wait for the Democratic caucus on the nlsht of February 3 to be sure.

Overiappini claims of positive sommltments from members total several more than the entire membership of the House, Includlnf the four Republicans. Governor Hodges was asked at his latest news conference if he anticipated more than 120 ReprS' sfntaUvM, in view of these over* lapping claims. "No," replied the Oovsrnor, "but if this means that they expect reapporUon membarshlp in Une with the eon* sUtution I would be in favor of B."

Discussion the other night about who had previously served as Speakers and where they cams frwn sent your reporter to the library. Here is the record for the 20th century to date: 1901 Walter Moore of Jackson. 1003 Sam Oattis of Orange. am Owne Qulon of Craven. 1907 EJ. JusllCi of Guilford* 1901 A.W. Graham of Granville.

1911 W. Carey Dow<} of Mecklsnburg,

1913 George W. Connor of Wilson. Soon after the session adjourntd Connor was made a Buperlor Court Judge, and for the apseiat sessloo in 1914

Walter (Pete) Murphy of Rowan was elfctcd Speaker.

1915 Emmett Wooten of I.enotr was elected Speaker. He was killed in an sutotnobils accident very early In the session and Thomas C. <Tam) Bowie of Ashs wis fleeted and presided over most of the session. This gave Governor Locke Craig ths dtstlneUon of being the only chief executive In modern times to hevs four Speakers during his term.

1917 Walter Murphy of Rowan. iOnly man to be twice leetsd Bpeaker),

1919 - Dennis Brummltt of Granville,

192! - Harry Grier of Iredell. 1921 oo John 0. Dawson of l>enolr.

1921 -Edgar W. Pharr of Mseklenburg.

1927 - RT. (Dick) Fountain of Edgecombe, lail A H. (Sandy) Graham of Orange.

1931 Willis Smith of Wakt.

, 1911 R L. (Reg) Harris of Person.

1911 - Robert Orady Johnson of Pender,

1937 R. Oregf Cherry of Gaston.

1919 D L. (Ubby) Ward of Craven.

1941 O.M. Mull of Cleveland,

1941 - John H. Kerr Jr.. of Warren.

1949 O.L. Richardson of Union.

1947 Thomas J. Pearsall of Nuh.

1M9 Kerr Crstge Ramsay of Rowan.

1911 - W. Frank Tsylur of Wayne,

1951 Bugene T. Boat Jf, of Cabarrus.

lOU Larry I. Moore of Wilson.

1967 J. Kemp XXHigbton of

Alleghany.

NOTES It U intereiiing to note that recognized legislative leadership has come mostly from the smaller counties, Only four of the 31 Speakers of this century came from counties generaUy classes as big or metropoUtan two from Mecklenburg, one each from Guilford and Wake. Also for most of them the Speakership was the end of the road, so far as poUUcal prestige was eon-earned,

Gregg Cherry was tN only Speaker to become Governor. Fountain and Graham moved up to Ueutenamt Governor and tried but failed for the top post. Graham served two terms as chairman of the highway commission. Harris also was elected Lieutenant Oovarnor several years after he served as Speaker. George Connor went from the Superior bench to the Supreme Court. Dennis Brummitt was several times elected Attorney General, and WUlis Smith was elected to the United States Senate.

GthiT ex-speakers rendered valuable sgrvic# in various capacities at the bar and in business. A number of them returned to the General Assembly as Representatives or Senators. The record would indicate, however, that so far as political prestige goes the House Speaker-Bblp is the top of ths stack rather than a stepping stone.

PURPOSE - A group of business men, representing very substantial sources of Stste government revenue, belabored the pro and cpn arguments snent the proposed temporary news room being constructed on the cast portico of the 120-yiar-old captol building. All of them regretted necessity (?) for doing anything that would (totract from the architectural beauty of the old building. The main question, however, was whether the captol should be maintained as a hu-torlQ shrine or a functional uUlity, There was unanimous agreement it could not be both.

FUNCTIONAL Opinion was almost unanimous that until the State can provide another building with adequate facilities for the General Assembly, the present captol should be adapted as nsgrly ss possible to current needs. Nobody present could re-memler of his own knowledge but two or three oldsters recalled that older folks had told them years ago ibout complaints when central steam heating was installed to replace original ftre-piaces, when electricity was substituted for candle lights, and when the iron fence was removed from around Capitol Sq\iare, Several of those present oould reinemlier the furor oc-oastoned when tres surgeons took out aomt of the growth on the captol grounds.

Tryon Palace, first permanent eapitol of North Carolina, is being restored as a historie ahrlnt, but not for functional purposes, Maybe the State captol at Raleigh, built nearly half a century after Tryon' palace was burned, should also be maintained as a shrine nr a museum, if and only when it la no longer needed for functional scdvllles of Stats government. Meantime, emphasis should be on utility rsther than history or archlU'ct-ursl perfection, in opinion of these business men who represent 1 lot of lax money.

hare fiort adlites of lonse sort.

ITie Reflector continues to hold the view it ha* previoufly expreaaed that small iji|and ports in Ea*. tern North Carolina would be important aaeeta to build-the states two deep watar port*. We question, however, whether the PorU Authority should undertake to build inland port* entirely with state funds.

It might prove far more advantageous to North Carolina if state funds to be made available for inland porta are appropriated on some sort of matching basis whereby eligible cities and counties interested in developing port facilities might receive state help if they put local funds into auch a project.

Greenville and Pitt County have an inland port on Hardees Creek operated for a brief period during the early '40s. The first boat came to the port with cargo in October, 1940, but because of the shortage of shipping during World War II operations ceased In 1942 and the port has been inactive since that time.

The authorized foot channel from Washington to Hardee's Creek gradually fiilcd through the years of inactivity and according to the U. S. Corps of Engineers the controlling depth along this part of the river in January of last year was only 7.1 feet at mean low water. However, no later than August the district engineers office in Wilmington gave assurance to Congressman Herbert Bonner that rif commitments for sufficient volume of commerce over the Tar are received, the office would be glad to request maintenance tunds for restoring the channel to its proper depth.

In the interest of furthering the economic development of this area through the use of water transportation, the Tar River Ports Authority and the governing boards of Greenville and Pitt County should look into this apparent new attitude to the State Ports Authority toward the development of inland ports.

If state funds are to be made available for the development of iniapd ports, Pitt County should certainly make every effort to see that the inland port facilities it once enjoyed are again activated.

Looking Ahead To The White House Meeting

Many Americans are anxioutly awaiting the outcome of the conference Saturday between Rudiiat Apparently news of a Pitt Firt Deputy Premier Mikoyan and President Elaen- 5,;

hower, ty Jsll found its way to Essex

Does Mikoyan have any new concrete proposal County officials in Now Jersey, from the Kremlin for settlement of the Berlin question? An Associated Press story Will he provide further evidence that Soviet leaders from Newark the other day said are backing down from their ultimatum of November County officials had de-

that the Western powers abandon Berlin or face the possibility of war?

WhiJe these questions remain unanswered until after the conference, there can be little doubt now that Mikoyan has access to the top policy planning in Moscow. One incident during his recent visit here has indicated as much.

Beveral days ago Mikoyan was asked about former Jeac*

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov who was exiled some too bad local prisontri didnt time ago to an insignificant post as ambassador to Out- know about the cake serving er Mongolia. Mikoyan said in response to the question business in Essex county. No t^hat Molotov oon wmild receive a more responsible .Sfe/'fortSeTil position aitnough it would be one which would not news of it had come this way involve the making of policy.

At mid-week, the Kremlin announced the Molotov /^i*U __

would leave his Outer Mongolian post to become the wt.lGr JijClltOrS OQVinO * * Soviet Unions new ambassador to The Netherland.*. ^ j ^

aws And Bombings

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Awaiting Prized Honor

before it was abolUftied. g

elded to cut cake from the penitentiary menu.

Cake will no longer be available, the story said. Neither wUl any other kind of dessert.

The county told Warden Geoffrey Berrien that sUcing off cake and things would savt $11,000 a

Tonight Pitt Countys Outstanding Young Man of 1958 wUl receive the Jayceei Distinguished Service Award.

The award will be presented at the clubs annual Bosses Night banquet to be held at the Moose Iiodge,

The winner of the coveted award doesnt know now that he is to receive it, because DSA winners are chosen by a secret committee.

Only they will know recipient, until the very moment the winner is announced by Tully D. Blair, president of S^urity Life and Trust Co. from Winston-Salem.

W. M. (Booger) Seales. Jr. has been the most active man in

Whether this wa part of a Soviet plan to impress

the United States with smiling Mikoyan, or whether

it was mere coincidence is a moot question. It lends credence to the auggestion that Mikoyan is in fact as well as in title the second in command in the Soviet Union.

It also suggests that he might well be earring in schools, churches, and snya-

hi. pocket orne new proposal which will be placed I'.T"woTpubc.n' ni

bef(ire President Eisenhower when the two confer at the White House Satunlay.

(Rocky Mount Telegram) Congress can anticipate mora than a few proposals at this session aimed at making bombinga

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)- The sen-tlmental gesture of the House to-ward Rep. Joseph Martin of Massachusetts- -after hr was booted out of his Job as Republican Itadei -may cost the tax-payera up to $40.000 a year.

I.eadera In Congreaa cost money.

The salary of the 74-year-old Marlin, like that of any other seiialor or representative. Is $22,.**00 a year. Congress voted itself that pav in 19.1). It has also voted Itself various kinds of expense money.

Bui as leader of the House Republlrsna, whleh he had been for 20 years, MarUn got some fxtras: A Cadillac, a chauffeur, and about $28,000 more for office help than is allowed the ordinary congresanian.

He lost those extras last week when his fellow Republicansap-tsrently Iwause they thought WHM slowing upbourn ed him as their leader and replaced him with Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana Halleck is 5.

The thought of Martin, with a reduced office stsff and having to Journey to work like an ordinary member of Congreiw. appeared loo much for both Democrats and Republicans in the House. They voted Monday to give him back his extras-Halleck, as the new Republl* can House leader, will, of cour.ve, also have a llmou.stnf, a chauffeur, and approximately $26,000 extra for additional office help

But MarUn and Halleck aren't the only Capitol leaders who get a car and ohauffeur for thpm.Hrlve.s. Otliers who do are: Vice IlTsUlent Nixon, Hou.se Speaker Sum Kavhuru, Hou.se Deiuocralio Leader Juhu VV Me-Rstph H

Roberts, fienaie Democ'rattc Leader Lyndon Johiuson. Republican Senate Leader Everett Dlrkk.sen. Senate Speaker Pro Tempore Carl Hayden, Senate sccielnry Felton Johnson, and Senate Sergeant-at-arms Joseph C. Duke. Viet rresideut Nixon and Speak

er Rayburn get a salary of $3.5.-(KH) each, plus $10,000 for expenses, While Nixon, as vloe president, gets $101,000 a year for office expenses, Rayburn gets $53 000.

An ordinary House member gets $33,000 for office help, It there are fewer than iioo.ooo people In his dLsUict, and $40.000 If there are more than 500,0 In his district.

A House member also gets this extra expense money: $2.50 for office machinery like adding machines: free mailing privileges for ordinary letters; $400 for air mall and special deltverv tamps: up to .1.(X)0 minutes of long distance telephoning; 20,000 telegraph words free; $1,200 for tationery; plus $1.50 a month for the expense of having an offict back In his home district,

This writer could not obtain a corresponding breakdown for luendjers of the Senate on office exi>en.srs, A request for the in-formatiou was turned down flatly at the Smate Appropriations Committee, at the Senate rit.*-hursing Office, and by Senate Dlaburslng Offlot. and by Senate Secretary Johnston. I was fold this was pretty much of a secret.

A proteat that taxpayera* money was involved and tlwy were entitled to the information got nowhere. Johnston is not a senator but a Senate employe.

But senatora and representative.*! are allowed to deduct $3.000 a year from their $32,500 salary for personal llvTng expenses because they have to maintain two hornea: On# here and one back In their own state.

Members of Congress can pay 7*, iwr cent of their salary into a pcuRlon fund. A meiuber of elUu'i house who tia** ReiveU at )eet ftrwTlTilT age 62 can retire on a p'nslon of $;i.(kH) a year. One who hu icrved 30 years can get a pension of ItR.ikki.

Whatever benefits me^viber.s of Congrci-.s get were voted by ihenv elve.H rhfi'c has long been the (ConUnueti oit Page 6)

from New York, Jacob Javiis and Kenneth Keating have introduced a seven-bill package making such bombings a federal offense and banning hate literature from the mails as well.

A similar bill, broader In some respects but confined lo bombings, is scheduled to be introduced this week by tws Democrats. Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sam Ervin of North Carolina, This measure is expected to carry the endorsement of about 40 senators. A bill introduced last year was designed to make a federal crime of ahlpptng exploaives across state lines for terroristic purposes. The bill would have Juatified immediate entry by the FBI in bombing cases by setting up a presumption that explosives used In bombings had been brought across state lines.

But the Dept, of Justice takes the view that ordinarily crimes of violence, including bombings of buildings, are subject to exclusive state JurlftdlcUon, "even U they are a conspiracy and even if the conspiracy is operating in several states," Nevertheless the FBI has been active in recent bombing cases, through Director J. Edgar Hoover has

said that there had been no Indication of federal law violations. Agents and technical experts were sent to Atlanta, scene of the October 12 bombing of a Jewish temple, at the express orders of President Elsenhower.

Laboratory facilities have been made available and cooperation extended by covering out-of-state leads of Interest to state and' loo law groups. However, Hoover insisted that bombing outrages public opinion, a coordinated effort on the part of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, and by stern treatment of the perpetrators."

Without discussing the merits of the case, one can point out some of the difficulty in prosecution by local law authorities under local laws in the case of one of the five men arrested In connection with the Atlanta bombing. The foreman of an Atlanta Jury trying George Allen Bright, whom the prosecution charged with llnf a vehement anti-Semite, reported the group "hopelessly deadlocked* after 22 hours of deliberation and on December 10 a mistrial was declared.

But the Jury had only two alternatives: acquittal or the death penalty. It is reasonable to see how a Jury could hesitate to bring In a verdict of death in the case. Stem measures are called for, of course. Perhaps the federal law, if such is passed. will provide for stern punishment in such cases.

town for the past few days m he made preparations for the banquet.

Named last years DSA winner, Scales was chosen by Jay-cee President John Ray Hardy to serve as chairman of this year's program.

He Is being-assisted by Prank Diener and W. C. Taylor, Jr.

In addition to the big award, President Hardy will present special awards to club members who have done exceptional Jobs as project chairman.

Who will be the DSA winner? Your guess is as good as ihe next mans.

Who ever it is. doesn't have to be a Jaycee, although he has to be in the Jaycee age group from 21 to 86.

Other than that, the only thing on which you can base your guess is who has done the most civic good within the community for the past year.

Opinions In Brief

After teaching her second graders America Th Beautiful, the teacher listened while they sang it lor her. And one voice rang out above the rest; O, beautiful for space-ship skies!' * Batesville (Ark) Guard.

Charity-

Under

Stress

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK CAP) Curbstone comments of a Pavement Plato:

"It 1 not a matter for the tate/ murmured Frank Chion-chio. "It is for God to decide.**

The question at issue was what was to be done with Jean lavarooe. accused of kidnaping the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chionchlo 2^ hours after her birth in a Brooklyn hospital.

To the consternation of offi-clais neither young lawyer Oii-onchlo nor his wife wanted to press charges against widowed Mrs. lavarone. mother of eight children bcrteif, after a tip to pdice led to the discovery of their daughter to her home, not far from Brooklyn police headquarters.

The young couple who had home themselves with dignity beyond hysteria during their long ordeal, were not interested In punishing the kidnaper. They were only happy and grateful they had their baby back, alive and wen.

This attitude was incomprehensible to the forces of the iw, who had thrown from S(X) to 700 men into a ten-day-and-night, streetrby-street search for the stolen infant.

To Chionchlo, 28. a lawyer for the Port of New York Authority, ' Mrs. lavarone, 43. was "a poor, sick woman" unable to comprehend the enormity of the crime or the suffering it had caused.

Only after considerable pressure by legal officials, during which it was pointed out that he himself could be held as a material witness in the case, did he reluctantly sign a complaint against Mrs. lavarone.

Even then, as he left the conference the young father murmured stubbornly: "It is not a matter for the state. It is for God to decide,"

To many, the attitude of Mr. and Mrs. Chionchlo must seem Incredibly naive. The instinct for revenge and retribution is overwhelmingly strong In most of us, and when someone hurt* us we want to hurt them back Just as soon as we are able to.

We pay lip service to the Ideals of forgiveness, turning the other cheek, and doing unto one another as we would have them do unto us. But in our daily life we often don't Uve up to these ideals. We turn to the older law of fang and claw.

It is inconceivable, certainly 'for most of us, to think that Mrs. lavarone, if proved both sane and guilty, should go unpunished by the laws of man.

But It is unimportant whether Mr, and Mrs. Chionchlo are right or wrong. In an angry world, surely sicker and just as confused in many ways as the woman who stole their baby, their Christian charity under stress stands as a bright beacon of true faith.

Instead of retaUation. they have responded to this blow against their happiness and family security with forgiveness, a reach for understanding, and a desire that a higher Judge decide the case.

It is an example of humanity at lU best, at rare as it is inspiring.

: Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

QUITE POSSIBLE Some time ago I referred to a friend of mine who speaks with the angels. My observation was that, like most people, I would, under ordinary circumstances, declare such a person to be psychotic or Insane. I did not feel that in the cast of this man I would be Justified in such t Judgment.

For we are all different. Whether one is a Swedenborglan or not, certainly every open-minded person must confess that Emanuel Swedenborg was ons of the best, most sincere, and most unusual men that ever lived. He claimed to talk with the angels, and here are millions Including the present writer who believe ht did (and I am not a Swedenborgian),

Of course, a Swedenborg ap

pears only ones In a millennium. But there are some souls who appear so ftnely attuned to the spiritual world that they have contacts wltt^it which the rest of us do not enjoy. In speaking of my friend who Ulks with the angels, I made the observation that some people seem to have, as it were, one foot in this world and another in the world from which they came.

Whether this adequately explans such rare souls, one cannot say with confdence. But let us be hesitant about ascribing insanity or ignorance or perversity to those who disagree with us about spiritual matters. There is Indeed more truth in heaven and earth than is contained in your philosophy and mine. People may be vastly different from us and yet right and better ^ hard to believe (and take) but quits possible.

Furniture Show Problems Rise'

By ELMER ROESANER

One of the most competitive indiatries In America the furniture business is having show problems.

.Currently, the biggest one of the year, the Chicago show, is on. It will be followed by other shows in various sections of the country, and these will be Inler-apcrsetl with other shows of Im-poriance to furniture dealers, gift-ware shows, curtain and drapery shows and so on.

Thats the problem. Dealers say that if they attbndi^ all the shows, they would be spending all their time travwlln* bttween Chicago. Grand ^ Rapiiia. High Point. N C., Los Angeles and other cities, making (wo visits a yrar to some, fuur to olher*. and wwHJ tww' nt Ttnw teft tritef'* the stuff they ordered.

ONE .SHOW A YEAR

In recent years thers has been a great deal of dealer iKlt-ttion for one show a year or. al least, one new line each year, ptefriahiy brmiBht out in the slack winter months.

The flrit is impossible. The furniture inditstry Is one of the most scattered in the United States. Only some food lines and some specialfred enterprises, such at well-digging, are more dispersed.

It w'ould be Impcjaslble to get all manufacturers to one center, such as Chicago, at the same time. The Furniture Mart, the Navy Pier and all other exhibition places in town couldnt hol'd the displays, Shipping samples from all parts of the country and back again would bankrupt many smaller manufacturers. And Chicago hotels art so Jammed during the January shows that th(}u-sands of dealers vow they'll never return They'always do.

It might be possible to have

of acceptance.

TOO Midi COMPETITION

One reason is that the industry is too highly competitive. It is an iudu.stry ttiade up of Umu- ' sands of small preducci.^. a few medium size ones and only one real giaoL

Competition is so keen that if one manufacturer shows a new piece that attracts attention, a dozen others will have competitive items at the next show% a few weeks or months away.

It has even been charged that when one manufacturer has produced an exciting piece at a show, competitlors w'Ul buy samples. change the hardware or a bit of trim, and take orders on the sample as their own product, taking a chance that they can produce the piece at a sUghtly reduced price.

FYeight rates are the major reason the industry is so dispersed and so competitive. If the industry were centered, say, in Grand Rapids as the auto in-du?*try U in Detroit, materials 1 to fruni

all over the country, at high cost, and Uie Miiisjed pieces would ha\e to be (shipped out again, once more at high rales, HOME-TOW NFJWi PROSPER

SmuU manufaciurcrs in every rtietropolitan aren can .set up plan*s and by buvint: and selling locaUy', produce fui ntturt at less

than It can be made in Grand Rapids and shipped, say, to Pasadena.

The auto industry was like that once. But making autos has become a vastly complicated operation, employing thousands of skills. Once a handful of specialists could put out a competitive car. Just as today a handful of skilled men can produce hirrUture competitive with that put out by the larger compantcs.

The public has benefited double, First, the regional nature of the furniture industry has produced a wide choice designs. The rise of California style furniture in recent years is oriy one exadnple.

Second, competition has kept prices down John Snow, execii-

mm w VB" wHv '

tional Association of Furnitum Manuficturers, and Hal Spunger, Vice preaident of Dunbar Furni-ture, told a Michigan Unlveralty group that in thy last ten years furniture prices had risen an aggregate of 7 per cent w hile prices of other consumer goo^ had gone up 25 to 10 per cent.

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