PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

Toetday, Falmiary 10, 19S9

Tuesday, February 10, 1959

Now, What S-Matter With Him?

Needed Closer Ties To The Public

Rep. Walter Jones has announced bis intention to introduce legislation which would strike at the very core of the major fault most North Carolinians have found with re-organized seven-man State Highway Commission.

Rep. Jones' proposal would put the Commission In closer touch with *'home folks throughout the state

While to some degree tho' new proposal would de-centralized the Highway Commtssion as it Is now organized, that should not prove a handicap. On the contrapr, it shouid prove a distinct asset both to the Commission and to the people of North Carolina. A 14*man Commission would give the governing highway body a better first-hand knowledge of highway

-where it should beand afford Tar Heels better problems as the people of the state see them. These access to highway bosses when they want to talk coupled with views of the professional highway offi-

about local road problems.

The two fundamental points of Rep. Jones bill would increase the number of highway commissioners from the present seven to 14. It would also define commissioner district# in the statutes.

Both these changes, in our opinion, would be of tremendous benefit to the State Highway Commission and to the people of North Carolina.

When Gov. Hodges proposed two years ago to re-vamp the Highway Commission to a group of seven members with a stale-wide approach to our highway problems, The Reflector voiced its tentative approval of the plan with certain re.servations.

Jn the two years since the new highway commission has been w'orking, it has become apparent that more and better contact with the Individual sections of the state is needed. And to satisfy that need, it must be met at the commissioner level rather than at a lower level in the highway organization.

While Gov. Hodges may oppose such a change in the Highway Commission, it is our considered opinion after observing the operations of the seven-man Com-mission, that the proposal offered by Rep. Jones should be enacted by the legislature.

It will certainly give the people throughout the state a feeling of being closer to the Commission. It will afford them a better avenue, through which to

cials, should enable the Commission to develop what in the long run will be a program of greater benefit to all of the people of North Carolina.

After all, the purpose of the Highway Commission. is to develop and carry out the kind of program which will be of the greatest benefit to the people of the state.

If Title Changes Help, We re All For Them

What's in a name?

Well, that all depends on the name, what it's supposed to represent, and what it means in the mind of individuals.

In the case of the county-wide development organization for Pitt County, we count it good strategy on the part of the Commission to change the name which was first given it. We also feel it was wise to change the official title given its full-time director.

From now on, what used to be the Pitt County Industrial Development Commission, will officially be

known as the Pitt County Development Commission,

_______ _ omitting the word industrial. And rather than having

take their highway grievances and problems to a mem- y* ^hl* development engineer, L, A. Weston, the her of the Commission, In the long run, we believe ft director of the organization, will have th%

title of economic consultant.

Why these changes in titles which seem to make little difference?

The fact is that they may make considerable dif- By DON SCHLIENZ ference over a long period of time.

In the first place, the county-wide, tax supported f r"T

development group will not confine its activities to ^

will enable the Highway Commission to better meet the highway needs of the stale as a whole.

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new YORK (AP> Why dtmt more milUonaires marry

Old School Tie Doesnt Matter

By By LYNN NISBET

SPEAKERS - Addison Hewlett la the fourth tlumoue of Wake Poreit College to become Sptk-er of the House of Reprenta-tlvtfl in recent year*, and on of two who obtained all hi* college education at that ' inaUtutlon. The other wt 0 M. Mull of Cleveland in i!Hl. Robert Grady Jobnaton <1933) and D. "Ubby Wird < 1939) got law degree* from Wtke Forest after taking academic work at Carolina. Ten former Speakers in the paat 40 year* were UNC men. Han^ P, Grier <1929), John H. Kerr <194.1), Tom Pearsall <1947) Kerr Craige Ram-sag <1949), W. Frank Taylor <1I), Larry Moore (1955) and Doughton (19.37).

Duke Univeralty has furnished four Speaker Willi* Smith (1931), Oregg Cherry (1937), Oscsr Richard*on <1945) and Eugene Bost (1933), Edgar Pharr (19Z3) graduai4d from Brskirve College and Reg Herrin (1933) is an alumnus ^of VMl, the only two to get their college education outside of North Carolina.

The old school color* have little significance when the chips are down, and It is not recalled that college affiUitlon figured in any of the previous speakerglup races. Certainly It was not a factor In the recent coiitest between UNC and W'F alumni.

At the game time, it Is interesting to note that while the Legislature has had many Har-vard and Yale men. and several Rhodes scholars, among its members. none of them has been chosen Speaker since current members began voting.

LOBBYISTB - Illustrating pefhapa the switch In sources of pressure brought upon meir-bers of the General Assembly is the fact that the first person to register with Recrrtary of Stale Thad Eure as lobbyist was (Kl* Banks, secretary of the State Highway Employee* Association: the second registrant was aifton Beckwith, secretary of th# state Employees Asocis-tlon, and the third was Claud# Farrell, field representative of NCEA, the public school teachers organlsstlon.

For a numbtr of sessions after th# lobby register was requiicd In 1033 the first name to be entered was that of ttie late Willard Dowell, long Urn# aocreUry of the State Merchant* Aissoctatlon. He took pride in grUlng hi* name on

first and announcing that his main obiecttve was repeal of the "temporary three percent general sales tax. Close behind Dowell came names of spokesmen iof other groups of taxpayer*.

LobbylsU seeking larger appropriations seldom registered, offering as the reason they were rciidcring public service rather than working for selfish interests. Criticism of that attitude has brought a change in attitude and in recent years nearly every person who appears regularly before committee* or works legislators outside th# captol has signed the book in the Secretary of States office.

It iff fxpected that by th# end of week there will be at least 23 name# on the book, qualifying the signer* to buttonhole legislators in behalf of pet bills

or against them.

POTPOURRI - The folk* at the press table in the Hotisc were not surprised when Rep. Roger Kissr of Bcotiaud on opening day ^^(t^lliltloned from the supply room an amendment pad, the ruled table sheets that make it easy for a member to writ# amendment# to pending bills. You're running tnie to form," quipped one reporter. Why not? replied the Scotland members. You don't expect me to swallow everything that's offered, do you?

It was by accident rather than design that Reps. Fred Holcombe of Madison and Jack Palmer of Cleveland got adjoining acats just off the center aisle in the hall of the House, Both are fimeral directors. They have promised colleagues they wiU use discretion in embalming and burying bills. . . ,

Newsmen have been handicapped during the early day* of the Me^imi in making full uae of the Buffalo Club, the temporary tlaaa-fnclosed work room on the East portico of the captol. Publicity given the lustallation of Uie facility attracted so many visitors, legislators and oUiers, the news folks at times were almost crowded out. One veteran legislator who at first resented th# deawci aUon of the old capUol building, said it added so much to efficient use of the building, and detracted so llttl# from appearance, he is in favor of making it permanent and building a comparable facility on the West portico for legislative clerks

geeking industrial development alone for the county. 1 iic It will seek to further develop Pitt Countys agrricul-ture as well as every other phase of the county's econo- it must have been around one my. That has been its purpose since the organization o'clock Sunday afternoon when was proposed, and there is no more reason for having

the word industrial in the title than it would be to gratefully loosed my belt two have agricultural or business' in the official title, notches.

As for the title of the director, people who have While that kind of gesture is

been in this business of trying to secure industry from ^

other areas say titles like development engineer often bu to ho ifbor to

make it more difficult for a community's representative fill the inner man and would

to see people in indu.itry he wants to see. Hounded by ^appreciated if you just people trying to convince them to move a pUnt here. S^^torpVbe?. there, or yonder, some industrial executives are much less inclined to give an appointment io an industrial engineer than they are to spare a few minutes for say, an economic consultant. ___________

7'hough the new titles cut little ice with the people ffi to rin'twoshutiu here in Pitt County, if they will help us achieve the Anyway, sagging back in my goal of greater economic development for Pitt, we're all for them.

?ruits Of Summer

Its more comfortable.

As usual, the table was loaded with platters, bowls and dishes; and there were so many appetites to be sated the diners

chair, I was reminded anew of how much during winter months

the farm dinner table relies on the canning and freezing that is performed in the preceding summer.

Those string beans that formerly filled a sizeable Ik>w1 on the table the bowl was now empty had been put up last summer. (I only took out two quarts of em for dinner today, muttered a voice at the table, and I should have know it wasnt enough.). Those beans, they were just one example. Some food had come from the freezer, some from the smokehouse, more from quart Mason jars, some from a grocery store. But In Uie main it was a meal dominated by work done months before.

Being the city boy type, this sort of thing is especially intriguing to me; largely because

Dise Or Fall In Turn O;:

Othe: E(ditrs Saying... Caught Red-Handed

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WASHINGTON (AP) Time and events between now and IWW will affect chance# of both Vice President Richard M. Nixon and New York's Gov, Nelson Rockefeller for the Republican presidential nomination.

The prfssure of events, and the two men's responses to them, will almost certainly raise or lower their political attractive-ness, at least as compared with each other, before its time for the Republican nominating convention.

The very nature of the vice presidency ordlnarUy leaves the holder of that office overshadowed by the White House and with little more to do than pre-id# over tlu Senate. So Nixon might #eem the one least likely to be affected by event* and Ujerefor# best able to retain what popularity be already has.

Rockefeller's job rcqiUrc* more direct action. The governors leadership, his administrative ability, his poUclea and hts thinking and therefore his voter apt***! will undergo in the next two year* both testing and examination.

He cant stand stlJl. Mi* performance as governor of th# nation's richest and most populous state will tend to Increase or dlmlnlfth lila presidential prospects, since voters of both parties around th# country will b# watching him.

He ha* already shown a willingness to stick his neck out. Al-nwMit hla first action a* governor has called forth protests by some voter# wlto would be affected by what he wants: he has asked the Republican run legtslatur# for a 277-millton-dol-lar Ux increase, Including a boost in income taxes.

His reasoning: he wants to avoid 1 deficit in state spending

and balaiwf the bufUtet still providing enough funds to avoid cutting tome state social programs, like aid io educaUon and localttlea. He has a fight on his hands and at this moment can ncrt be sure of winning.

Nixon, whose J<R) calls for llt-Ue need to stick out his neck, could rock away his time in the Senate, avoiding stands on controversial issues which might cost him popularity.

But Nixon ia an aggressive man.

He may feel it necessary for him to take aides < he may feel forced into it as a member of the Eisenhower administration on issue# pending before Congress and involving various Eisenhower program* and policies from civil rights to defense and controlled apending.

Aggressive stand* on such issues could boost him or bruise him, particulsriy since organized labor and businesa would have an interest in moat of the issues.

The President already haa given him an assignment which could affect his 1960 chances and lies in the same field economic* which haa Rockefeller Involved now.

The President named him chairman of a Cabinet committee to examine the problems of inflation and seek ways to maintain reasonable price atabUity while sustaining economic growth.

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For years the world has known that Communist planes have been shooting down unarmed aircraft from the West and then strongly denying such crimes. There has actually been very little the Allies could do about it. except to issue warnings to see that it didn't happen again. But It always did happen again. Chances are these depredations will continue in the future.

But at last the U.S. has proof of a Russian attack on an American plane, proof that cannot be shrugged off. The U.S. State Dept, came Into possession of a recording giving a graphic account of how Soviet fighters shot down an unarmed Amertoan transport plane last Sept. 2. The U.S. has presented this reciwd-ed account to the Soviet, but as usual the Soviet ignored the facts and denied information on 11 missing airmen involved in the crash. Six were known to have died in the crash.

The tape recording covers the operation'of five Soviet fighter pilots from the beginning of a sesrch for the transport over Soviet territory until after it was destroyed. State Dept, of-fciaU refuse to say how they obtained the recording, knit labeled it as authentic.

Reaction in Washington was In-itint and vigorous. Said Sen. Symington (D-Mo.): It becomes more and more clear that some day we will have to stand against the growing Communist aggression. We will never put our defenses in a proper position to take this stand^ by tailoring our

defense to a balanced budget. Others demanded that our defense prcMcram be strengthened to meet such threats.

Well, it Is true that defenses must be in first-class condition before we can face Russia with a show of strength, but at the same time will not prevent such tragic Incidences from occurring again and again. What the U.S. must do is to try to prevent these ruthless attscks in the first place and that can be done simply be providing Jet fighter escorts with each U.S. transport or passenger plane that is likely to be attacked.

It might be foolish to advocate a policy of shoot-first and ask questions later, but we are of the opinion that this tough attitude might dampen the spirits of some of those Soviet fly-boys who fatten their averages on defenseless aircraft. Such a protective policy on our part isnt likely to cause a major war, as some milquetoast characters in Washington would have us believe,

There was the question of the transport plane being over Russian territory when it was attacked and shot down. This m-o-bably was true, but the State Dept, has a suspicion that the crew may have been misled by Soviet radio signals and lured deliberately over Soviet territory so the Red fighters could have some target practice.

Repeated warnings on our part will not stop the Russians. What wUl stop them la a dose of their own medteine. W# strongly prescribe this for them, to be started Immediately.

I've seen some of the effort and strain involved In putting up foods during the summer.

My sister-in-law, Thelma (may Heaven protect her pickled green Unnatoes), would possibly prefer to see me help during her canaing sessions rather than standing by making small talk ... but its safer that way. My Missus occgfilonally Is around to lend a hewg hand, and thats how I happen to know the scofe if not the game.

The really grim part of putting up food on the farm is thst so much of it must be done In the summer when tobacco is also being put in.

Thelma, as do most farm wives, gets into that act too; up long before dawn to start l^r day . . . and our summer days are hoi .toe late after

noon houra shes back in the house working up supper which is immediately followed by preparing foods, jars and lids for the nights work.

Her story is duplicated to a greater or lesser degree in hundreds of farm homes around us. Part of it is based on simple economics of farm life, part of it is traditionsl, and theres the ctxppulsive element of we want to eat next winter. But back to toe scene.

In BO time, the already hot kltchoi turns into a sort of steam bath with most of the stove burners going and pressure-cookers hissing. On the screened porch the men of the house may be found preparing the fruit or vegetables (let*, say theyre snapping beans, because at least thats one field in which 1 shine).

Often the talk gets around to how it was back in the days when there were no pressure cooker*, etoves burned wood, and there wasnt even one electric fan to create a small draft in the sweltering kitchens. It must have been one of the reasons why the good died young.

But this modern farm kitchen ordeal goes on to weU after midnight before things are put away and the long, long day is brought to an end: to be followed brief hours later by one more day of summers work.

The canning - freezing labors carry over into several nights of the week for several weeks. By itself, s lot of work; but aimul-Uneously there is the seasonal tobaeco crop also demandUig long hours and strenuous effort.

Of course, it must aU be easier now than it used to be; but stocking a farm pantry for future montos is no part-time job It doe* pay off. No doubt about It. I know Id be bankrupt in no time trying to pay the food

poor but honest working girls?

If you go into a drugstore in any buMnees office area America during a coffee break, you'll find half a dozen AWOlI secretaries and stenographers debating.

Why cant I find t tall. dark, handsome millionaire who wia marry me and take me out of this world 0 work and worry? is toe topic.

Every time obe of these fe-male desk Jockeys snags her nylon hose, or the boss bawls her out because her typewriter can't spell, she asks herself, Why cant I find me a nice tall, dark, handsome millionaire?*

She never asks for a tall, dark handsome plumber or bus driv-er. She w(m't even settle for a short blonde, balding, pot-bellied millionaire.

While this wish can be dismissed as a hopeless dream in most cases, it isnt altogether an Idle dream with many office girls. They scrimp and save to go on expensive cruises or to take vacation trips to Mexico or the Bahamas places where they fondly imagine every palm and pine tree sbades a love-bun-gry milliooaire.

And whom do they meet? Vacationing plumbers and bus drivers most of whom, alas, have brought their wives. And the girls come home bitter and one year nearer to being old maids.

Not long ago I met, a young, tall, dark, handsome millionaire bachelor. I asked him why he didnt marry some poor but honest working girl a girl desperately eager to make him happy.

Id be crazy, too, he replied crisply. The poor but honest working girl you describe Is suffering from a Cinderella psychosis. She isnt looking for a husband. Shes looking for a helping hand.

She doesnt have a romantic urge. She just has an urge to acquire some valuable male real estate without even putting up a real down payment. She wants something for noflng.

But wouldn't a girl like, that make a good thrifty wife? I asked.

The man gave a hollow laugh. Why, a girl like that would have me broke in two years. he said. She expect an apartment on Park Ave., a winter home at Palm Beach, and a summer place on Long Island.

Shed want diamonds, furs, servants, and a new RolL^Ro^ C every year. Shes expect a trip to Europe every year, too.

Working girls have big ideas about bow milUonaires live, but their ideas are a generation behind the times. A millionaire doesnt live that way anymore at least guys with only one million, like me. We dont have that kind of dough.

Well, if you are a poor but honest working girl, there is the true reason you cant find a tall, dark, handsome millionaire to marry you.

Hed like to but he simply cant afford to. You are too expensive for his pocketbook.

! Opinions In Brief

Second offenders on parking violations are rare In Beirut, Lebanon. The police just let air out of the tires instead of writing tickets. Memphis Press-ScUnitar.

A thief In North Florida stole two mattresses from a moteL Police hope to catoh him napping.Port Myers (Fla.) News-Prcss.

In the matter of Latin t)^ade market.s, the United States would like to make Russia the little piggie that stayed home. New Orleans states Sc Item.

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bills represented by those groaning farm dinner tables which bear toe fruit of summers labor*.

When Interplanetary tran* portatioo has been worked out someane la sure to propose abandoning earth and new start ehwwhere. tonta CN.C.) Gazette.

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Strength For Today

By KARL L. DOUGLAS# er. We shaU keep all these YOU ANSWER THIS ONE things. she said. The way te He had lost his Job. The boss meet a sltuaUon of this sort Is paid him through toe day and told with faith, not with surrender him to go. He had started pay- and retreat.

menta on a new house. He and hi* w),fe had planned many things but they had not been able to

put much aside In a savings account .

When he got home and told hi* wife about it. her reaction was strange Indeed. We are going

Now these clroumstances are related in order that you may ponder them and reach a conclusion. Was the woman wise or unwise? II financial misfortune strikes us. should we order a new car and begin entertaining? Now remember that

right on toe same as we planned toe woman did not do this on any

and dreamed. You remember that we had planned to turn in th# old car on a new one. W# wUi go tomurrow and complete tost UanstcUua. then she made e Ust of menos they wished to entertain at dinner Just a few week* b?fure she had ptirchased a new washing mactoiue and dry-

otoer basts than that of faith. In fact, it was her wey of de-monstraUng that she was tb-aulutely sur# ev#r,vthlng would come out to to* cud.

It did In her cat* and her husband's. Did she pursue a good policy or a foolish one? Thst * for you to answer;-

By ELMER ROCSANER Each of the Big Tree auto manufacturer* is trying to decide whether to bring out a smaU car next year. ,

A* of right now, the chances are strong that the answers will be ji'es.

The smalt foreign car has loet it* snob appeal Back In 1955, when only 58,465 smallles were ImiMrted. it wm a mark of distinction to scoot around In one. But with Imports of 340,000 little ones last year,' buyers are no longer set apart.

But the itiob appeal Is being replaced by other considerations The two growing rea-soix* more Americans want amaU car* are taxes and parking Smaller cars beat taxes hall a doaen way*

HOW THE BfTSIES SAVE Smaller car* eot lew, hence toetr prices include le<js txvise tax. If made. In America, or leas corr#*pundmg duly U made abroad Being cheaper lh#y carry smaller sales taxes and small-er proiSerty taxes to ttfts and

cities where those levies apply.

License fees are lower in states tost charge by weight or alze. Because of lower value, theft insurance is less. Because they hsve less glass, property insur-snct is lower.

The big savings, however, ar# In gasoUue and gasoline taxes. Taxes have been splraling upward. Now toe Federal government seems likely to Increase toe U.S. gasoline tax and at least 25 Btate are considering gas tax raises this year. Taxes already make up 41 per cent of the retaU price of gas. Since small cars use much leas gasoline. costs of both fuel and taxes are lower.

Parking is another money-plus Ume factor. SmaU cars more easily find ftee or meter parking. Dltferentlali are btglnmng to appear to charges by garages and perking lots. Prcmlunr fees are being charged for toe )wHt ltnrs and discounts offer*d for mail cart

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They have disadvantaget. how

ever. In Fords Buyers Digest of New Car Facts for 1959, both advsntagea and disadvantages of snaaU cars are discussed, but so-many disadvantage* of the smaU cars are cited that toe booklet may be emtwrrassing to Ford If that company ever bring* out a

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Smsll car* are often damaged by other cars and trucks because drivers cannot always see them; small car* have less of a pickup and hence are haurdoii* In passing: luggage space In in-adequate for touring: engines won't take long, highspeed run*, and small cars, with shorter wheel t^ses, take more bumps.

'The Ford summary concludes With an anecdote abqut a truck driver who crunched tot unseen pack of an Ihu'opean car wait-mg in front of him 'Jn court be matototoed in aU seriousness tost such cars should hotst hal-Ijoni to advwrtis# their presence.

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guiar or optional equipment? THE COMPETITION AT HO.ME

There is another reason why odds favor new small cars by toe Big Three. American Motors Rambler and Studebaker-Pack-ards Lark have been selUnff well enough to strengthen boto compsnles. Their smallles have been competing with the -Big Three no less than foreign cars.

Ford, General Motors and Chry sler are reported to have Invested 110,000,000 In plans and dies. Just in case they decide to produce small cars. Plans call for six-cylinder cart, with the engine in the rear in CM model* and in front in the other two. These cars will have more power and pickup than toe usual foreign imports.

Decisions on production will have to be made by toe fti** of April If toe new cars are to make toe 1960 market. But ihei^ Will be no fanfare with toe dy cisioni. The manufacturere don't want to disturb 1959 salek which are now plcking up considerably.