PACE POURTHEDAII. - EFLECTOR, GREENVIUE, N. k.

Wednesday, March 4, 1959

Faded Sumirier Romance

A Solution In Helicopter Service

Efforts by the city of Charlotte to establish feeder helicopter service into the Charlotte airport from the surrounding area has renewed Eastern North Carolina interest in a similar venture to proyide better air service in this area.

The woeful lack of adequate air transportation in Eastern North Carolina has for years been a matter of vital concern to many leaders of the area. In the past seven or eight years there have been several unsuccessful attempts to solve the problem through establishing a joint air facility owned and operated by several local governments. Each attempt has ended in failure.

Feeder helicopter service Into airports which have regular airline service might be an answer to the lack of regular air transportation in thiis area. Adequate helicopter landing facilities could be established with little difficulty even in those communities which do not nave airports, and workable schedules could be established by such a feeder service.

It Eastern North Carolina is to realijie its economic potential in terms of industrial growth better air service is essential. On numerous occasions, the lack of air seiwice has meant the difference ini this area's getting an industry and not getting it.

Those leaders in Eastern North Carolina who have worked so hard over the years in a vain effort to get better air service for this area might well find an answer in providing helicopter service. Certainly it is

not beyond the realm of possibility that an alignment of local governments might be arranged to provide such a service in this area on much the same basis as was provided major joint air facility in the area.

After all, many communities could benefit from such a service, and with a number of local government units joining in such an undertaking, the cost to each would be well within their means.

The sooner Eastern North Carolina has more adequate air service, the better off the area will be. And a feeder helicopter service may nrovde an answer where other endeavors have failed.

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Spokesman For West

3ig Advantages

or Legislators

By LYNN NISBET

LEGISLATIVE PAY Members and employees of the General Assembly are the only State workera except temporary and pedal assignment personnel who are paid by the day. Members of the General Assembly, and the Lieutenant Governor while serving as president of the Senate, are the only State employees or officials whose compensation is fixed by the constitution. All the others, from the Governor down to the lowest paid laborer, have th^ir pay scales set directly or ladlrectly by the Legislature, and except for temporary employees compensation is on yearly base, although usually paid monthly.

Prior to the 1957 session legislators received no subsistence or travel allowance. A constitutional axnendment ratified by popular vote in 1956 contained this pro-v||ton: The members and presidid officers shall also receive, while engaged in legislative duties, such subsistence and travel allowance as shall be established by law: provided, such allowances shall not exceed thost established for members of State t>oards and commissions gener-eCD^ *'

Under existing law the mximum allowance is |H per day for subsistence within the state and $11 for out of state trips. The travel allowance is 7 cents a mile for travel by private car or actual cost of the ticket on public conveyance if less than 7 cents a mile.

Per diem pay of $15 is limited to 120 days, but the subsistence allowance applies for duration of the session. Pursuant to the constitution the 1957 General Assembly allowed mileage for only one round trip during the session. Already passed the House and pending in the Senate is a bill to allow a round trip every week,

JUSTIFIED - Occasional visits home to confer with constituents and local officials can be justified as a proper public expense of legislators. Many people doubt that a trip every week can be justified on that basis.

The Attorney Generals office has ruled that the 120 days for which members can draw pay meaiis calendar days. Including Saturdays and Sundays, Attendance of more than a dozen of the 170 memt>er8 at any Saturday session is rare, and there are no regular or committee meetings on Sunday. (Juestlon has been raised whether action taken by the General Assembly o n Sunday would be valid. On the infrequent occa.slona when de-liberations rtn into Sunday the clock was officially stopped a few minutes before midnight so the Journal would show the action was taken on Saturday Yet legislators and clerks are paid the same as on work days

GIMMICKS ~ There are other gimmicks in the statutes which give legislators advantage over run-of-mlne officials and employees and to some degree violate the spirit of the requirement that allowances shall nut exceed th(Mie established for others, Officials and employees are required to support expense accounts by hotel and other receipts and lists of places and times where meals were eaten. I? these items total less than $8 a day, only the total is paid. If they run over $8. the employee must pay the difference out of his own pocket. He cant lump a $4. and $8 and a $12 day together and get $24 for three days. The disbursing office in the Budget Bureau is very strict about this.

But legislators expenses are paid without supporting data on basis of $8 per day. seven days a week. No person who lives or visits in Raleigh will claim that is excessive. It Is noted here only to show the favoritism accorded legislators.

BUDGET MAKERS The members of the Advisory Budget Commission also took care of themselves several years ago by upping their own per diem from the usual $7 to 125 a day for the time between July 1 and December 1 of even numbered years. That la the period when Institutions are visited and hearings held In preparation of th# budget for the next biennium. It was argued the increase was-justified because of the number of days the budgeteers were taken away from the private busl-ness.

Certainly none of the members of the budget group and not many members of the General Assembly could afford to take full Ume jobs at 1105 to $175 a week. It has been many times pointed out that one of the chief sources of strength for North Carolina is the calibre business and professional men wllUng to serve on boards and commlssious. There are hundreds of men and women working for North Carolina at 17 a day, giving of their wise counsel and direction to policy, who in private business rale consultation fees of $5(K to $1,000 a day.

Your reporter recalls one visit to Winston-Salem Teachers College, a relatively small Negro luslltutlon. with the Advisory Budget Commission when three of the five mlUlonaU'es on the 9-member board of linistres sat In on the discussions. That was typical rather than exceptional among InstltuUnnal visits, although admittedly above average.

Maybe legislators are underpaid. as are many Stale officials and employees. But the weekly portal to-portal pay and subsistence allowance while at home gives them an advantage not permitted the rank and file.

Britain' Prime Minister Macmillan retarn from his visit to the Soviet Union a much more powerful force in diplomatic affairs between East and West than was the case 10 days ago when he arrived in Moscow for talks with Khrushchev.

With Secretary of State Dullees confined to a hospital with cancer, it is quite probable that Macmillan has assumed the position as chief international affairs spokesman for the bloc of free world nations including the United States, It is quite likely that the shift of power for forming Western policy has, for the present at least, shifted from Washington to London.

Full evaluation of Macmillans new power in international affairs between East and West must await the outcome of his subsequent visits to Washington and to Paris scheduled in the near future. It should be apparent, howeVer, that Macmillan enhanced his own position by securing from Soviet Premier Khrushchev an agreement for a foreign ministers conference on Germany after previous Kremlin rejections of such a proposal.

Such a meetingnrobably in Aprilmay go a long way toward avoiding a showdown between East and West at Berlin this spring. If it does bring forth any concrete accomplishments to ease East-West tension^ that in itself will further strengthen Macmillan's position as spokesman for the West.

Macmillans visit to Moscow might well have marked the beginning of a new period in which the foreign policy of the United State, and the West may be subjected to greater influence from London than at any time Sir Win.ston Churchill relinquished the reins of government of Great Britain.

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By DON SCHLIENZ

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You'll be surprised to learn I've been working much of the day In Florida. Or maybe It was the Texas Gulf Coast, or Southern California, (You know how It is. I seldom look out the window or up from my work to verify such things.)

There have been a number of trips into the tropics, too.

Interested?

this time of the year. I worked yesterday and the day before in my shirtsleeves and tie loosened. Something different from the expected decorum In such a decorous place as a newspaper office.

story involves so many inconsistencies that magic is the only satisfactory explanation.

By JAMEH MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviets are a bouncy bunch.

Last Nov. 7 Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave the Western Allies a get-out-of-Berlln-or-else warning.

Last Dec, 31 the United States. Britain and France suggested they and the U.S.S.R. have a Big Four meeting to discuss Berlin and the problem of Germany,

On Jan. 10 the Soviet Union sidestepped that Idea by suggesting a 28-nation cqnfrrencr to discuss a peace settlement with East and West Germany.

On Feb. 18 the Big Three answered, brushing off the 28-nallon idea, by proposing the American, Soviet. British and French foreign ministers meet.

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On Feb, 24 Premier Khrushchev loesed that Idea under the bed. saying a ministers meeting was a waste of time, and suggesting instead a summit conference.

On March 2 the Soviets replied formally to the Wests Feb. 18 note by agreeing to an expanded minister* conference while saying they preferred a summit meeting.

This may seem to mean a Soviet retreat and that the heats off.

Not necessarily. First, the Rig Three have to digest the latest Soviet move and give a reply.

They may lay down some new eondlUons or. If they dont and agree to a ministers meeting, the Soviets may toss in new condl-tlomi to mess things up.

In short: What looked like a crisis building up to May 27 when Khrushchev wanted the Allies out of Berlin may .still be far from over

It might seem heartening that the Soviets auugested that the foreign ministers start their meeting in April and talk fur not more than three monttus.

Three months of talk If everything was kept frozen by both the USS H, and the We.st until the talks ended would carry the world past the May 27 point.

But talks 80 M>u by the Big Fours foreign minister.^ rat,e.i a point which dldn1 appear iii the Soviets note but which they no doubt had In mind; In a conference which might last three months, who w'ould do the talking for the United States? Secretary

of State John Foster Dulles? Hardly.

He Is In the hospital, fighting cancer, and at this moment no one seems able to say for sure when or whether hell be back or whether heU have to retire.

At any rate, almost certainly he wouldnt be ready for talks In April at least for ralks that would go on for months.

Who then would 4ilk for th# United States? one dele

gated to act for Dues.

But such a delegate would be at a tremendous 'tlsadvantage and no one knows .hat better than the Sovleb.

If Dulles was still secretary, even though not able to attend the conference but able to run foreign affairs, his delegate would be unable to make a decision or agreement imleits it was dlcated by DuUes thousands of miles away,

If before such a ministers conference Dulles retired and a new secretary was appointed, the Utter would be at a disadvantage anyway.

It would seem, for one thing, he'd need more than a couple of weeks to prepare himself.

Further, since President Elsenhowers confidence In Dulles has been extraordinary, it could hardly be expected hed have the same amount of confidence in Dulles' successor.

So the new secretary would have to be second-guessed, probably. by Et.senhower, by Dulles if he was still able to give advice and Elsenhower wanted his advice, and by the .State Department .staff.

At this point the Soviets agreement to a foreign ministers meeting may be more cute than cooperative.

Before going any further, no travel expense voucher is involved; so you can just forget about reaching for a checkbook.

Yesslr, Florida, Texas or Southern Cal is nice country t

How did I wind up working in the semi-tropics while the rest of th# staff toiled in th# Cotanche Street building?

A good question.

A mighty good question!

I dont know the answer, really; unless you arc willing to ride along with the Uloglcal solution of magic.

As a matter of tact, my

Mentioned earlier, where I work resembles that of sun-kissed Florida or some such happy land w'hose habitants Uve in Bermuda shorts and short-sleeved, open-neck shirts.

Other Editors Saying...

Authority To Use Force

(Rocky MiHint Telegram)

Opinions .'.n Brie

It l Hn,uilhng to think that thr tlv'xilny of KuiO|* might depend n It (ltd twenty years ago uiMm t'O unpredlrtahlp and ap-pHiently unstfible a rharucter n. Ml KhiU'itiihev As Mr. Mar-mlllun tn.sista, hi* V'slt to Ru-ta WHH a voyage of dl.'^covery. He ti*4 dl'COvered plenty!--l^nUon Dally Mall.

Would President Eisenhower go to Congress for speciilc authority to use armed force, If necessary, in the defense of Allied rights in Berlin? He avoided a direct answer iii IS news conference of Feb. 13, but the apparent answer seems to be In the affUma-tlve, judging by the past.

For example worsening relations between Israel and the Arab states early in the spring of 1956 raised the posslbUity that the administration would ask authority to use troops in the Middle East. The President on April 4. 1956 said that he would never be guilty of action that can be Interpreted as war until the Congress, which has the constitutional authority, says so. The Berlin situation would present a case "on all fours, as the lawyers put It. Speaking of Berlin, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on Feb. 18 declared: Everyone reiltzes that If Anybody starts shooting that wouId mean the beginning of a war, The Presidents answer to die raestlon put him Feb. 18 was "We have not Rild we are iising force We are saying we do not abandon our responsibilities. And on Feb, 25. he said, on Berlin; ' We are i.ot going to give one single inch in the preservation of our rights and . . . responsibilities.

,*ate Department officials are reported as calling Berlin a special case, in that our rights there are those of a war victor. Even so, specific Congres-ftonal support of the President in using force to defend them would evidence national solidarity on the issue. That was true t'f the Defend Formosa rcssolu-

tlon of 1955 and the Eisenhower (Middle East) Doctrine of 1957. In neither case did force have to be used, though It can be argued that the show of it was needed.

The Defend Formosa resolution cleared the House by a vote of 410 to 3. The Senate vote was 85 to 3. Sen. Wayne Morse <D-Ore), most vocal of the upper chamber objectors, called the action an authorization of the power to start a preventive war, Sen. Ralph E. Flanders <R-Vt.), who voted for the resolution, announced on the Senate floor: In plain English this Is preventive war.

The response was much the same to the Presidents request for authority to use force in the Middle East In 19S7. Sec. 3 of the authorizing resolution reads; If the President determines the necessity thereof, the United States \a prepared to use armed forces to assist any such (Middle East) nation or group of such nations requesting assistance n gainst armed aggression from any country controlled by inter-.'.ational communism. A proviso requh'ed use of . S. troops to be consonant with the treaty obligations and the Constitution of the United States.

The vote in the House, Jan. 30, 1957, was 355 to I. The opposi-Uon had been chiefly against a closed rule that prevented floor amendments. The Senate vote was 72 ?o 19 In a roll-call vote of March 5.

If the President should ask again for thb kind of blank check, as much reluctance might be voiced as on the previous tc-caslons. But. as before, the vote would probably be heavily in favor of a carte blanche.

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But (and geL^jthisI), while all this is going on, our esteemed Womans Editor can be seen a scant twenty feet from my desk, grimly reading her desk thermometer. Obviously she Is on the job in the Reflector building; and some of that typically untypical cold, damp weather is prevaing.

over the rattle of teletype machines, the sound of a teletypeset-ter-perforater operating under fuU steam, the humming roar of the alr-circulator and tap-tap-tap of typewriters. . .over all this, and the distance from her desk to my own balmy clime, I hear (faintly) her voice calling Schlienz, its 65.

I should have said MAYBE I hear her calling: because her voice is femininely soft despite trying to penetrate barriers of sound and distance. As often as not, I needs must drop my chain of happy thought and walk all those twenty feet to find out the score.

Schlienz, it's 65, she repeats; and I get the message.

Up GreenvlIle-way, on Cotanche Street, In the Reflector building (second floor), where the Wo-manf Editor presides, it is not as warm as in Florida. As a matter of fact, her personal thermometer confirms her growing suspicions. She is chilly.

So 1 march back to re-adjust the thermostat.

She is now happy.

I resume my working stance in Florida and bask In the warmth.

Things are going just dandy until the warmth waxeth hot like maybe Acapulco or San Juan del Pinar: which prompts me (when the lady Is not looking) to readjust the thermostat to Florida temperatures.

All goes well for awhile, until above the rattle of teletype machines, the clatter of the teletypesetter perforator, the tap-;ap-tap of the typewriters and the humming roar of the air circulator I can hear over the distance, Schlienz, its 65 again.

So I rise, give the thermostat another quarier-turn and return : 0 my desk for a periodic visitation to the tropics again.

A man sure does get around In the newspaper business.

Doesn't he?

#i fat mea. Watt, wbat about tot womofi?

My Bbi Irlaeds rKtoiz# m# btatt##, oMordliig to tbeir stand* trd#, I am 40 pound# overwelgM. But 1 f##l Mm and my busband say# b# bkes m# ik* way I am.

Why do p#of>l# tough at tot lathes: Wbats #o funny obotd teem?

B WM stgatol; rot Lady."

Tb# n#w#r, U our##, to ther# to nothing funny about tot todies. They u'e deM^iMul. Those who laugh at tot todies, lik# Urns# who tough at tot men. ar# eor rlous kholto.

Hioy dont know what tiicy art miastng. You should laugh right back at them, tot tody.

The present vcwu# for slender dames to only a passing passion, a fad of the last quarter century. It was originated by beanpole male couturiers, many of whom hate women anyway and do their best to make them look ridiculous.

The natural man looks for an angle In everything in life except the ladles. But them he instinctively prefers in the round.

The Turkish sultans, noted con* noisseurs in these matters, filled their harems writh ladies who were living symbols of padded plenty.

What about Helen of Troy? Does anyone think that a Greek, then or now, would launch a thousand ships to go after a married gal who was built like a fence post?

And what about Cleopatra? It Is true that she herself rolled up into a rug in order to get in to see Julius Caesar. But that doesnt argue she was thin. They had mighty big carpets in Egypt in those days.

And who have the most famoui artists and sculptors preferred to immortalize in paint and stone? Chubby lasses, almost always. In the world of the artsfrom Venus dl Milo to Kate Smith and Mary Margaret McBride ~ the plump girls have been standouts.

A skinny dame has ao more secrets than a goldfish. It Is the plump dame who is a dimpled mystery and holds depths of unplumbed allure.

Let us admire fat ladles, not jeer at them or their girdle problems. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, God must have loved fat ladieshe made so many of them.

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To The Editor:

It was Gods plan that we have the different nationalities of people. After the flood, in Genesis, eleventh chapter, beginning with first verse through nine, you will find that they were going to build a city and a tower, whoses top may reach unto heaven. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded. When He came down they didnt built it at that time, ibey were all of one language, He confound their language. The Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth. Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of ail the earth.

St. Matthew 28-18-20 When Jesus came and gave his life for remission of sin and rose from the grave he told his disciples that all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations. Baptizing them In the name of the Father, and the Son. and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo. I am with you alway. even unto the end of the world,

I believe that teenagers wl be asking if their soul will be saved by integrating for they have heard more about that, and going to the moon than they have things pertaining to their' (Continued on Page I)

Potential

iQwyers Gold Mine

By KI .MER ROESSNF.R

Strength For Today

B> EARL L. DOK.I \SS IK WE 111 T WAIT

In a poem T read recently I (MicoMnleied the word. "Il'.s I-way noontime somewhere Yes Always noontime, Always aunltghl somewhere. We get (he picture of God's gractmu.ne.<i gdtng abotit the world, his sun .ihlnlnR on the good and evtl His rain fnlltng on the ju.'^t and un .lust The general Impression eon-veved ts tliat the world. In .spite of all Its trouble and sorrow. Is a place ot light IF.s nlwavs noontime .Honn'where Wl\en fortune turns against n.s oi pain col^e.s m to plague \is, tt Is very easy to believe that God has forgotten U.S But no. Darkne.ss must follow day The sun will rt.se again H's always noontime aome-

ihere

The Biblical teaching of the fatherlumd of God gt'cs us that , security which comes only with ' the reaU/atlon that we are members of a great group and that one vastly above us ts oiu* Father Jesus was always trying to get men to see that God wtnild take care of them. We have very little control over the baste factors of our lives Sunshine, fresh air. the harvest, winter, and the coming to Ufe of the world tn the foUowing spring. Here we see God at work."

Millions are asleep In some other pari of the world as we work But mwatlme will be the portion of ever.vone if he but watt a few hours.

Ii's always noouliiae somc-whwe.

A gold mine for lawTcrs and ti?; accountants may have been opened up by the Supreme Courts decisions last week Ui the Northwestern and Stockham Valve ca.ses. The decisions five nates the right to tax out of-stale corporations on that part of their net Income calculated to have come from activities with In the state.

The decision was handed down just when most statos ore in dire need of additional revenues and when many state leftstotures are In fcasion. Proposals to levy such taxe.*. have already been made in several stales^

There bi no doubt that Uiese axes wUl be burdeiusome on most companle.f doing bu.sleesf tu more than one state In dissenting, Justice Feli* Krankfnrler said h' was e.spi'Clil ly concerned o%er the effecis on small and medium-tz cor por-aUon.s exchwively tJvteraia.'e buomeoa spread evejf otvsral

states. They might be buried by lawyers and accountanta they would have to hire to keep up with various state tax laws, he warned-

BIG ONEA HIT HARDER

However, Uve giant corporations may be affected even more An auto company doing business nationally might have to deal wtth the tax laws and assessors in each of 49 atates.

The problem of determining just how much of General Motors profits come fnvm its acU-Uvlte in. fiy, Georgia, could be an intricate problem requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars In paper work. When this cost is multiplied 4* timw. there is a distinct probabtUty that the cOst of calculating tax Uablllties would exceed the taxes themselves

There is another danger Most states would be tempted to claim a high portion of etnvlag.s came from within their boundane. In the end. a corporstton may be asked to pay taxes on cm-rderably aaore than iOO per ceot

of its earnings.

These costs and taxes would eventually be reflected In higher prices for autos, appliances and all other goods sold nationally. and in articles sold by mailorder houses and chains.

.MORE WORK FOR LAWYERS Keeping up with state tax tows, as Mr. Frankfurter suggested, will provide plenty of high-paid work for lawyers and accountants. But there to an even richer lode in thto mine.

Businesses, big and small, will take steps to avoid these tax UabUlUe*

Ways to do this will depend upon the structiu-e of various state tax laws. One wav may be to separate each state's octi-vtUes. disposing of interests in each state to local conxvrations Another way may be to spin off separate corporations for each state and manage them so that only the central corporation makes more than token profits.

There fnay be other ways of avotding new etaie levies, oil to

tal. An auto manufacturer, for iastince. might transfer Utk to its cars only in Michigan, leaving shipping to distributors. And even legal beagle will have a dozen other ways to minimi*# taxes by distant itotes.

Now dont you wish you kod studied corporation tow or lax accounting?

LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE SAID TO CCT HOUSING COSTS

A fireproof house that three men can erect in three days has been developed by a Chicago building materials company, it aya the house to' 30 per cent cheaper to (sonstnict than comparable structures.

The basic material to Calsl-Cfrete. a cellutor concrete to light it float* It aerve for walls, partitions and roof, a three-bedroom house o constructed has been opened for exhibition at Factflc. a auburb of St. Louto. It to said to meet FHA standards and could be sold at 12..500 ies. than a house of standard constmcUoo.