FACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Saturday, February 28, 18S9

Saturday, February 28, 1959

No Third Chance To Kill, Maim

Big Crop Of Rookies

The first frontal assault on North Carolinas highway safety program apparently has been rebuffed effectively by actipn of House Judiciary Committee IL It is in the best interest of highway safety and the safety of the people of North Carolina that the proposed legislation not be written into law.

A bill introduced by Rep. I^eonard Lloyd of Graham County proposed that three convictions for excessive speeding, rather than two as under the present law, go on a drivers record in one year before his operators license can be suspended.

Such legi.slation, of course, would decrease the effectiveness of the law which h.ns done a great deal to reduce speeding on North Carolinas highways. It would give* speeders sufficient leeway to take the third chance after having been caught and convicted twice in one year.

While the present law no doubt works hardship on some people, it likewise offers conriderahle protection for the live.s of a great many Tar Heels who use our highways. To relax the penalties for speeding

No Big Test Of Prestige As Yet

By LYNN NISBET

PRESTIGE It became apparent early last fall that one of the isauea in the current General Aaaembly, especially on the Senate aide, would be the influence and prestige of Governor Luther Hodges. With or without justiflcaUon that issue got involved in the contest for Senate President pro tem. That race did not afford a true test, because the Issue was not drawn clearly enough to preclude votes on basis of personal friendship and both Robert Morgan, who won, and C. V. Henkel, who lost, enjoyed the confidence and friendship of every member of the kmatc.

It was true, however, that Morgan was regarded a pro-lhKiges aflmtnistratlon and Henke] was classed as opposed to the administration. Morgan won by a vote of 2B to 21, and some observers decided that meant the administration was **ln the saddle" in the Senate, Astute analysts since that fli'st test vote have evaluated Senate sentiment as about 40 per cent, or 20 members. as willing U go along with the administration without question; about an equal numlxT willing to be classified as anti-administration, with some 20 p<*r cent or 10 members holding the balance of power.

Actually these percentage ratios are not accurate, because there are perhapn no more than half a dozen members who will blindly follow the Governor on all issues, and no more than ttiat who will oppoae measures Just because tlwy Irear the ad-mlnlstrntlon JabrJ. Some of the staunchest adminlstraLion men will oppose si>eclflc items In the Governor's program, and some

SAFE DRIVING TIP

Wi.^ h for podtotrlaftt wlion passing bMM tlopptd at ttia curb.

DItomborkIng possongsrs, Imrrylng to maks conntc* tiofis, ottsn ditrogard ttroot frame.

Tho Chicogo Motor Club romlfids drivort that tho blind spot In front ot o but r othor vthlclo Isofovor* Ita crossing point for cart* kMt podtsfrlons.Thty might ftop Into tho flow of traffic without thinking, to a motor* let ohoukl be on the lookout for fhom.

of his bitterest opponents will support specific recommendations,

TEST VOTE The first test vote aflef the election of a president pro tern came this week on a relatively insignificant issue. And the anti-administration folks won it, The basic issue, although it became involved in parliamentary procedure, was whether the rules should be suspended to permit Immediate passage of a local bill affecting only Columbus county.

Sen. Arthur Williamson of Columbus wanted the bill to allow his county comniisstoners to defer revaluation of property recalled from a committee and pirt to a vote. He was supported by Sens C. V. Henkel of Iredell, who had been defeated for President protem, and John R Jordan of Wake, who wbr vetoed two years ftgo by G<ivcrnor Hodges for secretary of the State Democratic committee because he did not approve the 1057 tax program sponsored by the Governor.

Rule susfienslon was otiixised by Sens, Pat Cooke of Oaston and Cutlar Moore of Roveson, lM>th rated staunch adrnlnistra-tionlsts. Net result of the affair was the rule were suspended, the bill was voted luwn and pass-i-^l, In this first test voUi the anti* administration folks won.

The matte** at Issue was relatively Insignificant and many offside obM!rvera have wondered why the administration forces accepted a challenge on that kind of question. It 1r true they (lid not use their heavy artillery. It has been suggested the big batteries were being reserved for major issues. It cannot be denied, however, that the victory scored by opposition, however unimportant the item Involved, has put the administration m(re on the defensive than It was ten days ago

CANCER The re{>ort of the coimnlsslon to study the cjiuse and control of caucer lii Noitli (Carolina contains statistical information that undonbti'dly sur-prlsiHl many i>eople. It was found that 45().iKH> new cases are discovered each year in the United States, and that 2r*0,(MHI persons die of cancer. The national hoMpltal hill (Kcasloned by cancer is estimated at LUXl million a year. There are U.CKIO cases in North Carolina. In 1H57 there were 4,110 deaths atul at present trend It Is esllmaUHl there will l)e nearly fi.OOO deatlu in l7ll.

More men than women died of cancer laal year, and more school children die of cacer than any other disease. In 19(K)' cancer was In Bth place as a cause of deith. By 105(1 it moved to si'Cond place, exceeded only by ctirdlo-vascular ailments. The brlghUu* side of the plctiue Is that more va ople are lx*lng cured through education, early detection. fM*ompt treatment and ths marvelous advances of research.

The eommisslon iTConimeiuLs expansion of a Cytology program with n $50,(100 scholarship fund to aid young students; e.slabllsh-ment of a cancer ie.sesrch center at ChaixM Hill: enlarge-tnent (f activities of the State Hoards of Health and Public Welfare, and niore lll>eral aid l>e aecoixled the Cancer institute at Lumberton.

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would punch a big hole In the highway safety program North Carolina has so laborously constructed in recent year*.

Hep. Lloyd has been quoted as saying he fears hU bill will be killed by the committee because of the lack of support that has been evidenced for his proposal.

Like other bills presented. Rep: Lloyds should receive due con.sideration on its merits. Nevertheless, It should be obvious that the proposal to relax the laws pertaining to highway speeding would not be in the best interest of the people of North Carolina.

In the interest of saving livees and property, the legislature ahould seek to strengthen rather than weaken the highway safety program of the state.

Aroericans Can Count On 90 Days Of Peace

* Unless something gives before May 27, there is in all likelihood going to be a major clash between the United States and Soviet Russia.

Thats the picture we get from diplomatic and non-diplomatic words flying around.

it largely hinges on whether or not one of the two major powers is going to retreat from the firmest kind of policy commitments already made.

The possibility of retreat by either aide is largely felt today as negligible. Certainly the United States cannot, and Khrushchev is in much he same position.^ So it follows that America and American.* must be prepared for whatever is to come. There is no room for complacency in the 90 days that lie ahead.

In that light, two senators have urged some kind of action to prepare^ the people for the possibility of war,

Even the idea of mobilization ha.s been raised. Earlier this week it was diitclosed the Armys chief of staff had said the United States could resist force in Berlin IF the nation was willing to mobilize in time.

You cannot play around in this business unless you have a lot of blue chips in your pocket, said (ieJneral Maxwell D. Taylor. This is unlimited poker. Certainly it appears some degree of national *mo-biiiziition is called for. At least it would display a measure of determination; and at mo.st it would he^p insure not getting our teeth kicked in by surprise.

As for any surprise involved, the unfolding chain of developments forbids the excuse of a second Pearl Harbor.

To date, administration sources outwardly di.s-play faith in Soviet reluctance to fight. There are good reas.ins, perhaps, for that conviction. On the other hand, Russia is geared to war and ha.s been since the close of World War II.

The only out we can conceive at the moment Is that when East Germany is given full sovereignty by the Kremlin it may refuse to exercise the power to blockade Allied forces in Free Berlin . . . either through fear of immediate consequences, or under secret orders by Nikita Khrushchev.

Otherwise,

Bang!

'he Mountain

Of Na

By BILLY ARNOLD

1- areweii,

?ete

r ountain

Well. Ive always sorta hated but 29 year*

to say anything dlsta.steful about looks older,

the Lawrence Welk show because I like to watch It, No matter how corny and amateurish, and how well, sickening the show has been, I couldnt help but watch it and enjoy it.

old, although ho

But that's all over now.

Peto Fountain Is leaving.

Fountain is, o course, the rather odd-looking young man with the crew-cut. mustache, and goatee, who blows about the greatest jazz clarinet Ive ever heard. (Actually, though, when you get a gander at the other members of the Welk aggregation, Pete isnt so odd-looklng. In fact, hes about the most normal-looking one of the bunch.)

I have found out a few things about the man which arent generally known. To begin with, he's bald as a blllard ball and wears a toupee. Another thing, hes not

Fountain was born In New Or-leaas and has played Dixieland jazz there most of his life. Thats where Welk picked him up.

Fountain said recently that he couldnt stand all the California sunshine and that he missed New Orleans and good old Bourbon Street Jazz. Thats why hes leaving the Welk organization. Theres no feud or anything like that, he says. In fact, he and Welk are good friends.

I can sympathize with him, I think. Welk only used him about once during every show. Usually, there has been a set pattern; there would be about 57 minutes of an hour show devoted to ricky-ticky polka, honey-drip Irish ballads, and corny standards and about three minutes (one song) of good jazz, with Fountain doing most of the solo work.

When Fountain leaves, I leave.

Hv JAMEN MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Many a man has looked at the national debt big as a mountain in dollar bills and asked himself; "How can we cut H down to pt*l)tale size?"

The latest to look and be appalled is Rep, James C. Wiight Jr., 3(5, a Texas Democrat. He has an Idea which might take 100 years to work out. But he thinks it's better than Just sitting an<%-looklng.

Although Wright stuck a needle In the national conscience, and one House memlier after another arose to applaud him, nothing is likely to come of the Idea except that it may tie enshrined In a place set aside for noble thoughts.

The national debt now is 2H5 billion dollars, This year the government will have to pay $8.100,* (HXl.ooo In Intereat on it. without knocking of a dime on the principal.

Wright, like others, hate* to think of that going On Indeflnltelv. He told the Houae that with in-terc.st rates going up, the government soon will probably be paying iW.iMKi.tXHi.ooo a year In Interest. If we Jiusl assume the total debt remains unchanged and does not get even higher than It

Is (0W,

So Wright aald; "This means that if things go along exactly as they have l>een going, wtth-out any more Increases in the national debt and without still another Jump in tte interest rates, In 29 years we siiall have paid the total amount of the debt ami still owe every penny of it

Wright suggest# ('ogres tell the Treasury Department to set a.slde each year one per cent of the present national debt of 285 billion or $2,H5<).(gg).0tK) a year - to pay off the principal

ThLs, Wright figures, would l)e cutting down not only on the #t*/.f ol lltc debt each year but on the Uitcrest, too.

S.

Using a 283 billion dollar debt figure, which is now the permanent debt celling the temporary celling until July 1 Is higher Uian that Wright told the House: "In ItK) years we could completely rellre the debt by paying 495 billion In interest and 283 btUlon in principal, or a total of 778 billion.

"But If we pay nothing on the debt Itself, the interest alona for 109 years will be 980 billion, and we will still owe the debt of 2H3 htlllon, or a total of 1,263 trillion"

The only trouble wPh the Idea If It was going to work on schedule la that for UK) years the goveiomcnt would have to balance its budget and not go further Into debt.

But it hasn't been going that. The biidget, ur cost of running the government, ha.* been going im. While this year President Eisenhow'er Is making a try at budget-balancing, the chances are he wont make It.

His budget thLs year called for spending 77 billion and he estimated the Rovernment would take in through taxes and other revenue $77,UK).000.(KK). or $UK).(KKV (K) more coining tn tlian going out But even those estimates included higher postal rates and gt.soUne taxes, and some other changes Congress isnt likely to make

For Wright's Idea U> work that Is, for the government to siH'Ud every year around |J.8.5(),-(KKl.IKKl on paying off on the debt

' U>e government would have to be taking in more than it spent.

How could A do that? In only one of two ways: either by reducing spending or getun? more Income or revenue, whicl) would mean raising taxes But government spending seems pretty aure to be going up, not down, And new taxes arent popular.

Other Editors Saying... Stronger Voice For U. S.

(Greensboro Daily News)

Those powerful Voice of America radio transmitting stations to be built in Eastern North Carolina certainly are. as Governor Hodges described them, the kind of high-class Industry any area would be proud to get.

When erected, the superpower Installatiorus will be operated by an organization of 100 persons with an annual payroll of $800,000.

This Ls a real shot In the arm for any economy, but as American citizens Tar Heels should also be happy about the international Implications of this project.

The sad truth is' that the United States, for lack of strong transmitters, has been unable to make its voice heard in the world even in this hemisphere.

Dr. Milton Klsenhow'cr, who toured Latin America last Summer on a special mission for the President, w*as shocked. Right here undt^r our very noses, he discovered. Radio Moscow and the Communist bloc stations can completely drown out our broad casts.

Last August when President Elsenhower addrevvsed the United Nations, the Voice of America and Armed FoVces Radio, made elaborate plans to carry his message td Latin America But tlte Conimunlsts u.sed 11 wave lengths and j.immed otd the President entirely.

Presumably Ihe new stations to be built in Pill County will

remedy this lamentable failure in Latin America as well as elsewhere In the world where the U S. overseas radio voice is feeble.

So ends a sorry chapter opened by the late Sen, Joe McCarthy In 1953 when he stopped work on similar transmitters planned for Eastern Carolina. Land had been bought, sites selected and over $l,000,0(Ki spent In buildings, drainage, water supply, etc. But as Senator McCarthys objection work was stopped completely and the property sold at more than a million-dollar loss to the taxpayers. In addition equipment purchased at a cost of $2,500,000,-flOO was sold for half Its value. Congress will appropriate another $10,000.000 to build transmitters on another site.

What was the reason for stopping this work and losing some six years in the International propaganda war? Senator McCarthy profe.ssed to see a Communist plot in the selection of'Eastern Carolina as site for superpower radio transmitters.

There was no such thing, of course. The site had been selected by such "radical" organizations as Ma.ssachusetts Institute of Technology, the Radio Corporation of America and the Army Signal Corps. But such was the authority of Jumping Joe" in those da.vs. Now tardily and expensively the United States is going to make up for its errors.

I used to actually turn the show on and suffer through it Just to listen and watch Fountain do his stuff. Then, Id turn the blasted thing off, of course. No more of that though. Id rather watch Roy Rogers or Hoot Gibson or even Skipper Jack or somebody.

Oh as long a* Im about It, Id Just like to say something that Ive been dying to say ever since the Welk Champagne thing has been on the air. You know that announcer that tall gawky, grlnny one who has that distinctive, groaning, crawling quality in his voice? I cant stand him. I bet hes done more to discourage the sale of autos than even Welk has.

I really dont like to be so critical, but this guy his name is Lou Crosby ~ just really gets on my nerves. His manner of delivery is so really annoying.

I mean, I can understand that hes probably trying to be unique and different and probably trying to fit his personality with the show and all. But have you ever noticed the way he sort of sneaks up on you, quietly, grinnlngly, and sort of groans out his lines as if he's making love to you or something?

Anyway, I dont have to watch it any more.

1 rams Student

Guests

By JOHN RODERICK

TOKYO (AP) Mrs. Robert Boyland, a strllEiiig brunette who has lived a busy and zestful Ufe ia the United States and much of Asia, has embarked on a new adventiire ia human relations.

Bom Margaret Kerr in Ada, Okla., she early decided that being a woman didnt mean ait-tmg cm sideUces while the reat o the work! went by.

She undm*8eored that point by becoming a civilian airplane pilot in IMO and spending most ol World War H aa a ferry pilot helping relaaee Air Force pilots for fighilag asMgnafteats.

Alter IlM war aha look a job ifi pubKe relatloas with Narth* east Ahrteea. BIm met h^ husband, who was pubhe relations maa for Parks Air College in East St. Lottia, Bl.. at aa aviation wrtters eonlerenee. And eventu-aBr, thats how she got to Jap-aa.

Robert Bo$1nn Imd dreamed of Japan since tee thnc, 13 yean carMer, he edited a hook on the Japanese people hi the mhMary govemmest fitold.

He went to Singapore ior the United States Information Agency and teen to Australia as treasurer 0 the Pulbright Commission in his long trek toward Tokyo. His efforts finally were rewarded last year when he came to the American Embassy here as chairman of the Pulbright Commission and director of tee exchange of persons twanch o<

flijt temHoRRV

Robert was deUghted with Japan, The reality was as good u the promise.

While her husband threw himself into his program, Mrs. Boy-Ian decided that she, too, wanted to know and understand Japan through its people. She has done so as head of the embassys program for coaching Japanese students in English. American women in Tokyo have volunteered their services as part of the plan which includes all of the Japanese who obtain Pulbright grants for study in the United States.

"I'm so enthusiastic about it,

I hesitate to start talking for fear of being a bore. he said with a smile.

The students come to her lovely and spacious home, stocked with Aslan art objects, for two hours each week. As the Pulbright students approach their departure time, this is stepped up to two or three meetings a week.

"They know more grammar than I will ever know," she said. "All are college or university graduates. But many times they have been taught by Japanese and need pronunciation help. I try to give them working Eiu?lish for use in the United States.

"I am constantly impressed by their kindness and generosity,* said Mrs. Boylan who rounds out her time with Japanese brush painting,-* ceramic* and raising two children.

"It has given me a wonderful opportunity to know Japan through their eyes. They always show a deep appreciation for any small thing one does. But'I get more than they do out of tha experience.'

Opinions In Brie.:

Governments are no different than Individuals in money matters. If ihe individual fails to practice thrift, if he continually spends more than he earns, hes headed for trouble. So with a government. It may get by longer than the individual but theres always a day of reckoning. So we can no longer afford more talk about economy. We rau.st Insist that our lawmakers really practice it. Sound as a dollar once meant something. We must see that It means something again. El-slnore, (Calif) Leader-Press.

on incentive wasnt capitalistic. Call it what you will,' Khrushchev replied. It work.s. Industrial News Review.

To take a flippant view the United States might answer Fidel Castros demand repatriation of Cuban political refugees by saying that in the course of time C.astro himself will be given sanctuary if he seeks It. History suggests he may need it. Daily Oklahoman.

"One of the surest of all truths is that life will give you no more than you give it." Norman Vincent Peale,

"The sociall.st-minded continually harp on the profit motive as .something evil, 'but none other than Nikita Khru.shchev said; 'You can't get production without incentiv*.

Senator Huber Humphrey, who was interviewing Khrushchev, asked him if his statement

Some educators declare we are producing too many scientists, ethers that we are not turning out enough; aid we dont know wliether they take turn.s on thts, or let each man flip a coin before delivering his speech. Columbia (S. C.) State.

W'e dont believe anyone wiU i.ccuse u.s of being reactionary if we state a preference for high car.s with low prices over low cara with high prices.' Charleston News and Courier.

Story Behind The Sales Data

Strength For Today

By KARL L. DOUGLAS.* MISSING THE MARK

Modern ClulaUan* shy away from the wo*rt "aln." It has a fanatical ring to 11. 11 casts a depressing shadow over many of lifes pleasures It 4s a he.ari-ache, a heartache, general distributer of ones peace of mind. Why not forget abopt it? Maybe, its not ri'al after 11 The trouble Is. however, that It Ls very real "Sin" Is Biblical word. In the Hebrew of the Old Teslamenl it. meaiw "failure, erroi, transgi c.Hsion In the New Ie.stHment Greek the word meaivs "to mtxs the rmw k " U b the figure of an archer aiming at a target ami bending hLs bow. The arrow trav(U through the air with gieal specd and furco but

it does not atrlke the center of the target or anywhere near the center - or. as we could call ,11 toda.v, the bull's eye SomeUme.s 9 strikes the target near Us edge and not near Its center. It constitutes a miss Tor the archer Ain is mis.slflg the mark. We were not made for sin* We were created in the image and after the likeneas of God, This nbam*. theiefoie, that we are to Iw like Him But when .something within US makes our aim bad, when we fall into folly and umiglUeons-nesx. then this is sin. We ini.ss the mark Sin is not Ulierfv and plea-.sure. Sin Uh servitude and ml** cry. Theie is no glory or la.st Ing .vatbJacilon in ml.ssiug Ihe mark.

By Ul.MFR RDKSSNER

Total retail sales In 19.58 were $2tK).353.(K)0.(WK), compared with $:AK).(K)2.tHK).(KK) In 19.57. according to revLsed Commerce l>e-partment figure# The $35l.(KK),-(KH) gain U less than half of 1 pcT cent. r I

Since the purchasing power of the dollar declined more than I .5 per cent during the year, the t'ommerce figures show that as far as consumer goods ai'e concerned. the standard of living declined They indcale that, because of higher pruc.s, people paid slightly more money for somewhat ft wer goc^ds.

There are other elemeni.s in the standard of living, such as .service.s. tian.sportatUni and housing, Defuuilve data on thus m>c-loi of the standard of living are not yet avaUai>Uv.

NON HI R ARI.E.S DO REST UommeiTe figure.s showed that stoie.s selling nondurable gooti,s did bi'tu.'j Uxau #iuic sel

I

durables. The durables sales were goods that last, such as were 7 per cent under 1957; nondurable*, 4 per cent above. Durables are goods that last, such a.s autos, appliances, furniture and furnishings. That is. they are suppo.sed to last, Nondurables Inchnde apparel, food and drink.

The biggest gain last year was registered by family clothing stores, up 10 per cent over 1957, Shoe .stores were up 6 per ceAt and womens ready-to-wear stores up 4 per cent. But the total of all apparel sales was up only 2 per cent and mens and boys* clothing and furnishing stores were down 6 per cent.

The fooil group made a sutMdan-tial gam of .5 per cent over 1957. with gains of 7 per cent by Ixikerics, 6 }>er criU by me*t markets and 5 per cent by grocery ,'^loie.'^ Other categories made lesser gains

The general merchandrse group ot stores made a modest gain of 2 pet cenL Aiuottg the**, d**

partment and dry goods stores and other general merchandise outlets increased sales 3 per cent, variety stores were up 3 per cent, and mail order houses selling department store merchandise Increased sales 5 per cent.

MORE DRINKING AT HOME

The figures also Indicate that drinking is becoming more of a private vice Total sales by drinking places were down 4 per cent, while sale.s by liquor .store.s were rising 6 per cent. Eating places, however. sold 2 pe cent more, some of which was probably accounted for by higher prices.

Drugstore aales were 5 per cent higher, and lumber and building materials Increased sales by 3 per cent.

Now for the dark side of the economic moon. Sales by passenger car dealers were 14 lousy percentage points below 1957 marks, although service stations Increased gross by 5 per cent.

Sides by housthold apiduJKo*

store.s were down 11 per cent, and the entire house appliance. radlo-TV group was down 7 per cent. The furniture and appliance group was down 2 per cent and hardware stores were down 3 per cent. The year, ^n the w'hole, wasnt one of our best.

Some December - to December figures which may indicate some trends in gift giving:

Sale.5 by camera and photographic supply stores were up 34 per cent, December to December; typewriter store sale* were up 17 per cent and sporting goocLs and bicycle stores were up IS per cent in the same period.

Farm equipment sales in December were '36 per cent higher than a year ago. reilecung recovery on the farm sector.

Sales by furriers and fur .shop* in December. 1958. were 31 per cent under a year ago. while book store sale* were up exactly the same percentages Promise her anyteing. but give hef a baak. ^