PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Fridmy, Jmnumry 16, 1959

Friday, January 16, 1959

Congress Looking To 1960 Race

By Lines

Republican talk of reduced taxes at the outset of the 86th seasion of Congress sounds more like laying the groundwork for the 1960 campaign than it does a GOP commitment to a major drive to reduce the tax burden.

President Eisenhower has offered a budget proposal of 77 billion dollars for the coming fjscal year, approximately two billion less than the budget for this fiscal year. He has likewise asserted that in contrast with the estimated $12 billion deficit this year a surplus of approximately $100 million is in prospect for the comng fiscal year if his recommendations are followed by Congress.

New Republican leaders in Congress have been quick to take up this theme and have woven into it the overtone ... if the Democrats don't go on a foolish spending jag." Senate Republican Leader Halleck has declared that a tax reduction will be possible in two or three years if the President's recommendations arc followed.

Its pretty much a foregone conclusion, on the basis of Democratic comments on the proposed federal budget, that the Presidents recommendations will not be followed to the letter by the heavily Democratic Congress. Additional spending probably will be authorized by Congress particularly in the defense and space

Own No Stock Big Project

By LYNN NI8BET

NO STOCK In story here the other dty about the Research Triangle the statement was made that Luther Hodges, Robert M. 'Hames and George Watts Hill were among those who hsd advanced money tor stock In the original corporation. The fact is that the men devoted time and energy to get the project going, but none of them ever owned any stock, either with or without hope of proft.

DECENTRALIZATION The tentative agreement reached between committees representing the State Board of Higher Education and the trustees of the Consolidated University Is almost sure to be approved by the full boards and by the General Assembly. The agreement Is signilflcant because it represents the first modification of the trend toward centralization of control over State agencies and Institutions which has featured the Hodges administration.

It is a short step, because Dr. Harris Purks, chief ezecuUve administrator of the Board of Higher Education, says proposed changes in the text of the statute creating his board do litUe except legalize the iK)ards practices. Fact is, the hassle over alleged Interference of the Board of Higher Education with operations of the University Trustees steemed more from a little clause burled In a 19S7 act authorizing selMlquldatlng dormitories for Slate College, rather than from basic provisions of the 1955 act establlshtng the Higher Education Board.

The agreement does nothing to lessen control of the trustees over State College, a situation which has been a tore point with State College alumni ever since consolidation In 1931. It does nothing to lessen control of the Budget Bureau over financial operations of all the State tax supported colleges. In fact. It does not eliminate any consequential specific powers granted to the Board of Higher Education in the original act, It does clarify and to oras degree reduces implied power in some areas, It is a step, albeit a very short one, away from centralization.

CLOSE With convening date of the General Assembly less than three weeks away Interest In the races for presiding officers and speculation about budget recommendations Is very keen. There has been much more talk about the Speakership race between Addison Hewlett of New Hanover and Carl Venters of Onslow, but a lot of Interest ts voiced In the contest for president pro tem of the Senate. C, V, Henkel of Iredell apd Robert P. Morggn of Cleveland are in a close race for that post. Each claims enough votes to win, and both insist they are

gaining recruits from the other camp,

"President pro tem of the Senate is largely an honorary position, although traditlonaUy It carries chairmanship of the committee on rules and ex-officio membership on all other committees. Also It Is second in line of succession to the Governorship in event of death or dis-sbtllty of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor. In the current race there Is added incentive of administration prestige. Rightly or wrongly, Morgan is considered the administration candidate" while Henkel Is regarded as less certain to follow the lead of Governor Hodges.

The Speakership race- whk;h has been hotly contested since adjournment of the 1957 session involves a much bigger stake. The Speaker of the House will name committees, designate their chairmen, and channel bills to them. AdminlstrsUon prestige is less a factor here, Governor Hodges has repeatedly said he la taking no part in the race, and efforts of newsmen and legislators have failed to discover any activity on his part.

SUPPORT Both Hewlett and Venters have records of loyal support of administration programs in the 1955 and 1957 sessions, Both have many strong administration friends In their camps. It Is well known that most of the administrative executives appointed by Governor Hodges are plugging for Venters. This situation, plus the fact that Venters is serving a second term on the Advisory Budget Commission, and no budget commission member has ever been defeated for Speaker by a nonmember, led to early predictions that Venters would win In the show down. As time for ths election approaches these predictions have less assurance.

Hewlett claims a certain 62, a probable 64, vote among the 118 Democratic members of the House, Venters claims a certain .59, and says he will get several more. Obviously some members have promised both, or the candidates are basing claims on tenuous rather than firm commitments of aupport.

Information obtained from elected lextilatori is not tiust-worthy, because their statement*- if not their honest opinions -are colored by their desires, and the way they will vote. Majority opinion of lobb-Ists, who have a real stake In the outcome, and of newsmen, who are concerned only with probabilities and facts, is that the race will continue close, will be decided only by the vote at the caucus on Tuesday night before the Genersl Assembly convenes on Wednesday. February 4; but betting odds as of now favor Hewlett to win by a msrgln of between one and six votes

development categories, and perhaps in the public welfare categories as well.

With that in mind, the Republicans probably ere planning to use in 1960 the theme, "we could have cut taxes if it hadn't been for those free-spending Democrats."

Whether they could have or not will be a matter for the voters of the nation to decide in 1960 when a new Congress as well as a new PregMent will be elected. At the outset of this new session, however, it seems to be shaping up as the experts said it woulda session heavily dotted with strategy moves by both sides desined to win votes in 1960, And the Republicans are getting an early start with their tax cut talk.

Another Indication Of Citys Vigorous Growth

Greenville new building record during 1958, a year which passed through a recession in most buri-ness activities, is another indication*of the continued vigorous growth of the city.

While the major share of the $3,898,000 of construction work begun in the city during 1968 was for commercial and institutional use, more than $1.7 million of the new congtructioji was designated for 149 new houses on which construction was begun. This figure for domestic construction alone compares favorably with total construction authorized in the city not maiiy years ago. It is equal to well over half the total of $2.7 in new construction which was recorded in Greenville as recently as 1955,

The year of 1968, according to figtires of the city building inspector, saW construction work begin on $1.3 million in commercial and business construction, and another $824,000 in the building of a new classroom building on the East Carolina campus and a new Army Reserve building for Greenville.

This breakdown shows a healthy diversification In building for the city during the past year. It bespeaks not only an increased demand for housing, but likewise a step-up in the need for commercial buildings and a growth of the city's institutions,-

Castro Sowina

By DON SCHLIENZ

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (APt Tht tnnounced purpose of Fidel Castros revolution, which threw out the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was to restore democracy to Cuba. The question now is will It?

The revolutionary government established by Castro with the Provisional President, Manuel Urrutla, handpicked by him has dissolved the Cuban Congress and announced it will rule by decree for at least 18 months.

That means no matter by what name it la called now how benevolent It may be Cuba will be under a dictatorship for at least another year and a half. At the end of that time, new elections are supposed to be held.

The stated reason for the 18-monlh delay la to let new political parlies organl^R so they can compete In the elections,

Just because Uiere will be a dictatorship until then, new factions may arise, even among Castro's followers, because of dissatisfaction with the revolutionary government and the course it follows.

Fsctlons mean disputes and disputes can lead to new civil war.

Castro has pledged that hts country will remain a democracy. But the executions being carried out now by his followers against former lackeys and

spies of Batista are not tn accordance with democratic processes.

The men executed by firing squads have not been given regular trials, with full legal protections. At best they've been given revolutionary trials. Castro justifies them on these grounds:

That "anyone who has killed 15 or 30 people has no right to live." This is Castro passing judgment. It is not a d^ision reached by democratic process or agreement. It's Castro deciding what's right or wrong.

He has the power to make such decisions because he has the backing of his armed forces, a situation which a political phll-ospher could reduce to a simple explanation: Its a case of might makes right. But its not democratic.

At a minimum these executions will leave behind them a trial of the men slain by firing squads.

They will make some, perhaps many, Cubans uneasy about the future course of the revolutionary government, just as they have already dismayed many members of the U.S. Congress.

Thus the Castro people, who professed to despise the undemocratic brutality of the Batista followers toward prisoners, art leaving themselves open to ac-custlon of doing the very things they said they wanted to destroy.

In another three and a half months imaybe its four), another Miss Greenville beauty queen will be named. Prom that rung, she goes on to the North Carolina contest which might be as far as shell go; and then again, maybe not.

Too early to talk about the next Miss Greenville contest? No. Not for the winner. The future Miss Greenville or Miss North Carolina either Is, or should be, going into training any day now.

The reason is pretty obvious.

Many girls are beautiful; and of the beautiful, many may have charm and poise. But in the talent category the field Is most apt to be narrowed.

It takes time to develop a rank amateurs degree of talent to the

glitterlnf quality of near-professional showmanship . . , time and work. But when contestants beauty, charm and poise are fairly evenly matched then the weeks of talent preparation are likely to pay off.

So, girls. If the thought of venturing into the beauty contest Held has been in the back of your mind, the time to buckle down is now. The prizes make it pretty much worth your while.

On your mark. Get set. Go!

In my "Save It" drawer has been reposing a Christmas story from the Information Office at Port Bragg.

According to the handout, just before Christmas the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg

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headquarters received a Christmas greeting from a 12-year-old girl in Tennessee.

"I am sure that some of the men wont be home for Christ--mas", she wrote, "So I am writing this letter especially for them. Most of us take our armed forces, for granted. I wanted to take a few dminutes to say thank you for what you are doing.

And the wished them all a happy Christmas and a happy New Year.

I hope the story wasnt rigged by a publicity conscious mem-ber of the Information Office. I hope it pretty hard; because something like that tugs at the strings of my sloppy sentimentalism and 1 dont want to waste any.

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A TWO WAY LINE

Wf Rencrally think of heaven as something slwve us. something above the bine firmament. And for many people, heaven is not only up In the sky ~ it is up in the sky and stays Uiere. They have no idea of a heaven which comes down to earth or a communlCRllon on the part of man which goes iip to heaven.

But one of the mustanding messages of the Bible in fact. It might be called basic to all Biblical message.^ I that communication l)ftween heaven and earth, between earth and heaven. is possible. We communt-cale by belief that b, as st>on as we begin to believe that communication Is possible then communication in some form begins to laka place. Wc communicate

by worship. Most signlfi.cantly of all. we communicate by prayer. Let us rid our mind of the idea that prayer consists simply In asking for something. It does on-slst tn such reqtjests, but there 1s a lot more to prayer than mere asking. Prayer is primarily communication between God Rivd man. And it is two-way communifRtion, We talk to God, God talks to us We may begin by a.sklng for things; our prayer is not complete until our hearts and minds are filled with a sense of Gods real presence.

Communicatton with heaven Is real. The way to prove this truth is to try It out. All the book* written about prayer will never help you as much as a brief prayer, uttered alncerely, and often.

(HendersMi Dlapatch)

Any one who haz looked in on the State Legislature and observed the handicaps newsmen experience In getting their material together for the public knows that facilities for their services are intolerable. They need more room in which to function. For that matter, many other activities carried on in the Capitol are outmoded and Inadequate, Thats why a new State building is needed.

We cannot see justification, however, In the decision of the Council of State to mar the handsome ancient architecture of the structure, one of the rarest of its kind in all America, by filling up the second story fascade looking out on New Bern avenue to provide accommodations for reporters. Our sympathies are all with these fellows in the difficulties they face. No one knows better than a newspaper man how much better job can be done when It is possible to work without being crowded or interrupted every few minutes when a deadline has to be met.

Construction of quarters on the east front of the Capitol building 'to facilitate work of the newsmen Is said to be only a temporary arrangemenU If only U could be certain it would be no more than that, one might accept the plan with more grace. But every one knowa how temporary things oftener than otherwise become permanent. Wit* ue.ss the sales tax Imposition twenty-five years ago a.<i an emergency levy, and which la still there, and will probably always be.

Actually, the whole machinery of me State Legislature Is

cramped for room in the present Capitol. A move is on foot to erect a new State building, and the coming Legislature should not adjourn without taking positive steps to that end. UntU then, however, surely newsmen covering proceedings of the lawmakers could get along as well as they have in the last several sessions.

The Council of State shows no indication of backing down from its decision, despite the lack of unanimity on the project to mar the Capitol with this cheap looking monstrosity on the east front If, therefore, the plan Is to be carried out. come hell and high water, as .the saying goes, could there not be some assurance that this ugly duckling will be removed completely and promptly when the Legislature adjourns?

This Is a day when historical landmarks are being lemolish-ed almost everywhere when they stand In the way of commercial advancement. It ought not to be that way. Much of the cultural life of a people is being lost* by such diaregard for priceless possessions of a former era and even of the present.

North Carolina is justly proud of its stately old Capitol building. It has stood for a century and a quarter as the pride of the people and until now no one has dared lay a hand upon it. The building is not to be demolished. not even if and after a new legislative temple Is provided. Thats for siue. But neither should Its appearance be besmirched or dishonored in the name of transitory convenience. The urgency to accommodate the newsmen is not that great, even on a temporary basis.

Watching Buddy Ebsen, who /ortrayed the companion of Davy Crockett . . . and more recently has been working in another TV series . . . reminds me of his brief taste of near-glory In Hollywood.

Not as a nygged outdoors type, mind you. but as a dancer.

AU this was long ago when I was an carly-to-bed and early-to-rise (for school) lad In Orlande.

That Florida city was pretty proud of the hometown boy who made good, and when he and his sister appeared in a musical production the local motion picture house made a big splash about it-

No denying, Buddy was a good dancer; but after two or three filnvs with supporting roles the slender young man dropped out of sight.

His dancing success proved a smaU bonanza lor Buddys father who operated a dance studio In Orlando. My parents sent me there for a few weeks, but it didnt take.

The thing that impresses me is the switch from hoofing to over 20 years of oblivion, and then emergence in a pioneer character. It shows a certain amount of flexibility, sttck-to-itiveness and (theres that word again) talent. *

Opinions In Brief

"African Women Clamoring for American ClothesHeadline. So are American women, sometimes to the extent that at bargain counters they clamor all over one another." Jackson <Tenn) State Times.

A Poke

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Minds

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) "The

biggest enemy of human progress is mental indolence," said Robert Maynard Hutchins, who wUl be 60 years old Saturday.

"As Aristotle said, Learning is accompanied by pain, Too many people wont go through that pain. he said.

"The biggest mistake man makes is that he doesnt think through the question of just what is really worthwhile."

The onetime "boy wonder" of the educational worldhe was secretary of Yale at 23, dean of its law school at 28, and president of the Universlti)^ of Chicago at 30is still a figure of controversy as head of the Fund for the Republic.

At 60 he looks 50. His crew cut hair li graying, but his 6-foot-3 frame shows no sign of a pauiKih. Nor does his mind. Ho is as ready as ever to fight for his ideas, but stl professes surprise that his ideas stir up so much controversy.

"It is remaricabte to mo that people think of a critic in an adverse sense," he observed. "Criticism to me means appraisal. To most people it seems to mean attack. But to lay tho basis for improvement In any field you first have to point out ' that things are not already perfect.

Hutchins has been aasaed as an iconoclast, a cynic and a pessimist. He regards himself as more of an optimist, feels the general level of the world today Is better than it has ever been, and is strongly hopeful of human progress.

"Yes, I am hopeful, he said, smiling. "But if pressed for specific grounds for my optlmisrn I might be at a loss to explain why.

"I dont believe, however, that things Just get better and better by themselves every day. A tremendous exercise of human will and intelligence Is necessary to achieve progress.

"And I think that everything that is called progress isnt necessarily real progress.

"I do feel, what many of my contemporaries dont feel, a sens# of crisisand it has very little to do with the Russians. If all the Russians were to disappear tomorrowor become Republicanseverything wouldnt be fine. We must find our own standards and our own purposes, and not measure our own effort by ihe activities of people w# deplore.

"The crisis I feel is a crisis about the whole American tradition. The question is whether our own democratic institutions ca stand the strains and pressures of large, heterogeneous, bureaucratic societywhether the individual can stay free

(kmvinced that civilization cannot withstand another general war, Hutchins sees only final disaster in a continued armament race.

Hutchins still feels American universities spend too much effort teaching students how to earn a living histead of developing their jmellectual powers, still feels n^n will never learn to live reasonably until they first learn to reason better.

His own philosophy, he said, is summed up in this quotation attrllnited to both Charles the Bold and William the Silent;

"It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

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estimates there were 1.500 fewer traffic deaths in 1958 than in 1957. It was the second ctmse-cutlve year a decrease was reported despite the increase in motor vehicle registrations. People do listenand do heedif you never let up In the battle to save lives."Macon News.

"People vary widely In their capabilities and their individual rates of phyrical and mental deterioration, in some cakes 90 would be too early for retirement. In other cases 50 wouldri^ be soon enough."Dally Okla-. homan.

"The National Safety Council

"'Then Uteres the fellow who said he bought his wife one of those hula hoop* and it just fit," Spearville (Kan.) News.

Cheap Shortcut For Surveying

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Modern development of the old aleieopticlan viewer, plus the electronic computer, ts making surveying and outdoor inventory work faster and cheaper.

A Long Island firm. Lockwood, Kessler A Bartlett, calculates inventories of coal, ore, sand, gravel and other bulk materials this way.

It measure* coal stockpiles for Consolidated Edison, the depletion of .sand and gravel pit* at Northport and Port Washington. N Y,, and it is doing experimental work on strategic ore piles owned by the government at Point Pleasant, W. Va.

Btockpilesor holvaare photographed with stereoptlctn camera in planes Dimensions are measured on grids and the dimensions. the sht>'s and the altitude of the plane are all fed into vomputers. The atiswer com

out in square yard*. The results, says Ford Bartlett, president, are more nearly accurate than ground surveys with rod. chain and transit.

FOR HIGHWAYS, TOO

Meanwhile. Massachusetts In-aUtuie of Technology experts hsve perfected a similar method for surveying highway location*. Three dimensional photos are made and then projected In red and blue light by an operator who wear* spectacles with one blue and one red lens

He i* able to measure graduations of the terrain; the data ts fed into an electric brain and the data is ready in minutes or hours, instead of in weeks or monihs required by large crews of ground surveyoi s

Here are some other more or ls amaung bu.*iineA.s developments :

HEIR CHEATERS: Fully 70

per cent of the death taxes paid to the Federal government are not necessary, *says Cheater L. Chambers, estate analyst. Recent changes in Federal and state laws enable many persons' to reduce Inheritance levies by fulfUUng certain conditions. He says government figures aup-port his contention that people overiMiy death taxes by 70 per cent by falling to get their estates into tax ahelters.

STICKY FINGERS: Known

loasea in Federal credit umona were very small until 1951. Then, for reasons not clear, they shot up.

Losses from operations or defalcations never exceeded $100.-O0d_^a .year beftMre HWl. They jumped to $337.1)00 in^l^2 and were higher in 1953 FigtJrea since then are Incomplete, but they seem to have been going up. to around S900 OOO in 1957 and $1.300.000 la^t yagj:. Jbi addlUMX,

two cases of defalcation uncovered in 1958. although going back several years, may add $2,000,-000 to the total. "Report on Credit Unions" call* it "a growing problem," and urges more audit*, more surety bonds.

SBIC: A new abbreviation has raised its dissonant head in Washington. Its SBIC, for Small Business Investment Companies. They are the companies to be organized under new legislation to lend money lo small buai-ne*s*; tl#y surely will benefit blg-buslness lenders.

COALS TO NEWCAST$.E; Tht average person thinks of German hardware as the finest tn the world. But the Department of Commerce ha* announced that the German firm of Adolf Klein. Remw:heid. Germany, it seeking an American license to manufacture a line of metal hardware, and small kitchen histriy mnAlR,