PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

Fridar. March 13, 1959

Friday, March 13, 1959

Jones Bill Certain

The Kindhearted Pirate

To Have Effect

There is a much better than even chance that the Highway Commission re-organization bill introduced this week by Rep. Walter Jones of Pitt will go a long way toward bringing the State Highway Commission back into a position much closer to the people of the state.

The re-organization bill proposed by Rep. Jones may not be passed by the Gener^al Assembly. Nevertheless, the fact that it has appreciable support both in the legislature and among the people of the state is sure to have an effect upon the Highway Commission as it now is constituted.

S^ince the re-organization of the Highway Commission into a seven-man body two years ago at the behest of Gov. Hodges, there has developed, particularly in the East, considerable di.atisfaction with the arrangement. The main objection that highway affairs under the new arrangement are too far removed from public feeling is both widespread and justified.

Rep. Jones bill for re-organization calls for four major changes:

1. To increase membership of the Highway Commission from the present seven to 14 members.

2. It would define the geographical limits of each of 14 highway divisions in the state.

.1. it would require that one resident of each division he appointed to the Highway Commission.

4. That each commissioner hold a public meeting at least once each month in his division.

The new re-organization hill is being opposed by Gov. Hodges, and it can be expected the governor will seek all ^he legislative strength he can muster against the bill. Even so, the governor several weeks ago indicated he would not be advc*rse to increasing the number of highway commissioners The major reason for the administration opposition lo the Jones bill apparently is the fear it w'ould elbninate the so-called state-wide approach to highway problems the new

seven-man organization supposedly brought about.

There can be no doubt that the provisions in the Jones bill w'ould give North Carolina a highway organization much more sensitive to public feeling toward the state's highways. At the same time it would not destroy the position of a professional director for the state's highways and the profesriona! highway staff.

It would, in our opinion, afford the state a commission with a statewide viewpoint equally as good as the present seven man commission, and at the same time give the commission much closer contact with citizens throughout the state. It would overcome many of the shortcoming of the states Highway Commission as presently constituted without placing in jeopardy the overall highway program of the tate.

VO A Announcement

Removed Uncertainty

^i^ivalry Between T axes, Spending

By I.YNN NISBET

MONEY A* the fifth week of the 1^59 Legtalsture nears its end rivalry between the appropriations and finance committees becomes more Intense, It Is the age-old conflict between the Rroups which have to allot money for public service and those that have to find sources of the money to be allotted.

Members of the finance committee arc saying, in effect, that If the appropriations group will hold the budget" line, we will provide the neceasary revenue and we can go home, On the other hand, the appropriations folks are saying that we have responsibility to meet the expanding needs of a growing State, and it Is your obligation to find the money to pay the bills.

By and large, the finance committeemen approach the problem from the business viewpoint; the appropriations committeemen approach it from viewpoint of need. The director* and manageri of a private enterprise first determine how much they have lo spend and allocate It to various purposes In order of their re-iatlve Importance. The head of a family must first determine the needs of his children for medical care, education, etc,, and then seek to find the money io supply the needs

The fundamental difference In philosophy Is whether the State of North Carolina Is to be operated as a profit-motive buslneas or a family in need of care. If the family concept la accepted, and majority of clliaens and legislators lean to that opinion, the fact must atlU be faced that there is a limit to capactty--the barrel does have a bottom. And there Is vital difference between actual necessaries for survival and desire for ease or luxury in livlag.

HUNTING - - Should the State require an eye-sight test as a requisite for granting a hunting license, comparable to the lest imposed for a driver's llcruse?

That question has been baited around legislative halls during the past few days Incident to dis cussion of bills outlawing rifles for deer-hunting and for free hunting and fishing licenses for 11 persons over 5.

Main Issue In the discussions of these bills has been the item of revenue to the State, with auxiliary and secondary consideration of safety. SpoiLsors of the uorlfle bill argue the safety facet, and opponents come back

with statistics showing that most hunting accidents have resulted from use of shot guns instead of rifles.

Proponents of the 65-year limit on requirement to acquire hunting and fishing license contend that these old fellows ought not to have to pay for the privilege of taking game from fields, forests and streams. Opponents argue chiefly that free permits will result in loss of 1100,000-plus revenue. None of the spokesmen before legislative committees have emphasl/ed the hazards Involved In-granting hunting license to persons of any age who are color-blind, near-sighted or otherwise handicapped In vision to the extent of Jeopardizing safety of others In the field.

Under present laws anybody with five bucks csn buy a hunting license, even though the applicant might be totally blind. There are those who thjnk license to use guns Issued to near-sighted or colorblind persons might be more dangerous than If they were issued to completely sightless people.

REVENUE ImposlUon of an eye sight or vision examination for applicants for hunting license almost certainly would result in loss of revenue, because a lot of applicants could not pass the test. The revenue loss probably would not be enough to seriously impede the game control program and would be justified If only life were saved.

Governmental and private agencies concerned with promoting field and stream sports have spent a lot of money experimenting with colors for safety. Majority opinion now seems to favor bright yellow as the beat color for field hunters to reduce hazards of being mistaken for game. All of this color experl-mentation Is wasted for the color blind sportsman.

North Carolina several years ago standardized traffic signal lights with red at the top, orange in the middle and green at tlie bottom, Admitted reason for such standardization was to benefit color blind motorists,

OBJECTION One legUlator who expressed Interest In the eye test for hunters said he reckoned tn advance that the Wildlife Resources Commission would oppose It. Asked why he anttelpated opposition he said "It looks like every government agency Is opposing any plan for convenience and safety of the public that threateiw lo reduce Us revenue *

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With the announcement of the exact locations of its new facilities in Pitt and Beaufort Counties, the Voice of America has answered the question most often asked hereabouts since the initial announcement that the facilities would be located in this area.

The announcement brough relief to many property owners who found that their land was not included in the site locations. Alao it brouKht concern to some owners whose land is included in the three sites.

By and large, however, the VGA steered away from cleared farm land in desiirnating the locations for its sites. Some cleared land is included, but it represents only a small percentage of the total of 5,900 acres which will compose the three sites. The vast majority of the land included in the sites is w'oodsland.

The fact that two of the site.s are located within Pitt and the third is adjacent to Pitt in Beaufort (ounty leaves no doubt about the economic impact the facilities will have on Pitt, In addition to the $26 million to be spent in constructing and equipping the facilities, the 100 employes they will require on a permanent basis and the e.stimated $800,000 annual payroll for the most part are sure to come into Pitt County,

Thus the newest and one of the largest industries in the history of Pitt County moves one step closer to reality.

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By JIMMY ELLIS

Why He Is In Delaware

Blunter Words

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Jrrom Jr^resiaent

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (APi - President Elsenhower, who in recent weeks has had to depend more on himself than at any time since entering the White House in 1953, sounds more emphatic, blunter.

This showed at his news conference Wednesday. At his meetings with congressional leaders last weekend he reportedly was very much In charge.

The two men he leaned on most are now out of the picture.

Sherman Adams, Elsenhower's chief of staff in the White House until ho resigned last summer, was a, great cushion against the burdens of the presidency.

Becretary of State John Footer Dulles, now 111 with cancer, had an extraordinary relationship with the President. He was Elsenhower's eyes and ears In foreign policy and 'much of the time his spokesman.

Now far more of the presidential load has landed on Elsenhower's shoulders, along with Its many irritations. And Elsenhower to responding with a show of vigor.

In times past, if you attended one of his news conferences and didnt have to concentraUi on taking notes, your mind was apt to wander as Elsenhower rnmbled through generatltles that lacked a sharp edge.

Not Wednesday. He still got wound up In long, involved aen tences which often scrambled subject and predcate, but he made points that did have an edge.

Perhaps U was out of exasperation with congressional Democrats. who have been calling on him to pump more men and money Into the armed forces, that he finally said In effect;

Theres not going to be s land war In Europe; and if the Allied trooiM there cant cope with whatever Is done by the far more numerous Soviet troops, then the p W'hole situation has passed beyond the point of Itmlt-ed war

He didn't volunteer any atate-ment that If war could not be limited to land engagements then nuclear weapons might have to be tised. But under ques-tlontng he indicated he was not ruling otit the poaslhUUy of nuclear war.

This might have been Intended to make the Soviets think sob eiiy tiefore they tried any adventures around West Berlin. But, since it might also make Amerl can Allies In Europe edgy. he.

must have thought of that, too, before he spoke.

It was tough talk. But Elsenhowers attitude on the crisis Premier Nikita Khrushchev cooked up on Berlin has been increasingly, although no blatantly, tough.

Perhaps the best sign of his bluntness came when he was asked what he. thought of Khrushchevs proposal that maybe the Berlin problem could be solved by letting Soviet troops Join AlUled troops In West Berlin.

At first, almost as If from force of habit, Elsenhower launched out on an explanation with a generalized moral tone.

He said this country would consult In the most democratic way with Its allies in framing an answer to the Soviet demands about getting out of West Berlin and leaving It a free city.

Then, as if Impatient with himself for not getting to the point on the question about Khrushchevs proposal, Eisenhower wound up by saying: "Now, as to the violating everything I have said. I'd say I dont think much of it."

One of the problems facing North Carolinas 1959 General Assembly is what to do for, and with, public education.

Operation of the schools Is already the states biggest business. It takes a larger bite out of each tax dollar than any other phase of state government.

Despite that, educational administrators. teachers and laymen interested in public education have long said that more must be done. They claim the state must do more Immediately to put North Carolinas educational operations on more of a par w'lth those of other states.

The administrators, teachers

and laymen point particularly to salaries and other school conditions. The best that can be said for them, they claim, Is that they are "bad", when compared with what other states have.

er In a North Carolina city. Hs now lives and teaches In Dela-

A potent piece of supporting evidence for those arguments has been inadvertently advanced by a friend. 'The word inadvertently" Is used because what he said is contained in a personal letter to a Greenville resident. The writer has no objection to publication of the letter in whole or In part, but he will not be identified other than to say he is a graduate of a North Carolina college and a former teach-

Other Editors Saying,.

Program For Youth

(Henderaoa Dispatch)

Opinions In Brief

"Now that the Army has s new device thnt ran see in the dttrk, mnybe they'll use it to find out who's doing all that whistling,"New Orleans States and, Item.

The Four-H movement 1s essentially a project for young people. In recent years It has caught fire with the youth of the land, and here in North Carolina is one of the most outstanding and promising undertakings to arrest the attention and claim the enthusiasm of the very groim for which it exists.

This State is in the forefront of the Four-H organization In the whole country. More than 160,000 boys and girls are enrolled, and training to not only in the art of good living, but includes likewise the social, economic. spiritual and physical development of all trembcrs.

Of particular significance Just now is the fact that this Is the golden anniversary of the Pour-H movement. In these 'ifty years millions of boys and girls have been imbued with the idea of becoming well informed and useful citizens, aa most of them have.

lina has participated in the International Farm Youth Exchange program. It has received forty-five delegates from twenty-seven foreign countries, and twenty-fine Four-H members from the state have been sent to 23 different countries. It is impossible to measure accurately the wholesome benefits deriving from that phase alone of the over-all program.

To many, the Four-H Community Club Is, as it has been termed, "a way of lif." It is appearing in many countries in North Carolina as an important part of the larger program. In communities where this undertaking has taken root, there is general acceptance of responsibility to youth. Leaders have volunteered their .services and are giving of their time and thought to the work. They are finding It a moat rewarding activity for themselves as well as for the young peopD.

Four-H members are enthused

From their ranks have risen lead- over this pew departure In their

"L.lfe of the 8ente Rrkets Committee wss extended for a third year; may Uve long enough to Rcp H law passed "Memphis Press-8< Imitar,

"A national magazln* has tome up with s survtv U what w()mon think l.s most Important In a goo<! husband They rated; gO(Hl irlend, 41 r>er rent; good lover. 33 1 per cent; giM)d father', 18 I tier cent; 'gw>d provider, 7.2 per cent. This finding indtente.s that diamonds are not a girls b<'st friend. Further. It may imply that old hardw irking Ham or Ji>e tor Reginald or D-Arr'yt should quit s^wndlng so much time muIUng moola, hold hands more often, gnrt make with the eaU ew. Come dinner time, of course, the ataUsttra may shift. Blrndngham News.

PIS in many areas of activities in Iccal communities and in the state.

Originating in the form of Corn Clubs in 1909 the first one with only a dozen members Four-H hoys and girls in 1956 completed 111.055 projects on farming, homemaklng and cotn-mu;lly service.

This week 1* National Pour H Club Week, and will be ile occasion for tUrecUn; att"ntlon to countless achlevement# which stand to the clubs c*cdit. fine of these la the annual encampment, where supervised training is given in recreation, leadership, handicraft, forestry, nature atudy, life,saving and citize.\ship. Since Us beginning, North Caro-

project. end, ss has been said, are finding tle community clubs a doflnl.e way to make the best better." .

Vonoo county has for years had its Pcnr-H clubs. Thousands of youny oeoole In the past several (I:rade.4 have #;iUMed In the rinsemen'. and have found It in ev?rv f.mse stimulating and help-fi:. Extension workers are giving it everything they have in the way of encouragement, and are meeting a response which fully compensates for their efforts. There is every reason to a.ssume that the best still lies ahead In this most worthy youth mov*>nient along the rvural boys and girls of the county as of the State and nailon.

Actors

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By HAL BOYLE

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A portion of his totter includes these statements;

After you toft, I thought, Ill bet I sounded awful to you and your friend. I shouldnt brag so much, but we do have a good school system.

Here are some of the things I feel we t^kxe ahead of North Carolina:

1. B.S. salary, $3.600 to $5,-900; $400 more for masters; $400 more for masters plus % hours; and 5400 more for doctors.

2. Full-time nurse and visiting teachers.

"3. Free courses at the University of Delaware fw Delaware teachera.

"4. All teachers have one free period each day (I have two, counting a small study hall).

3. Paid vacations.

6. Ten days (annual) sick leave, accumulative to 40.

7. Ample supplies (and) equipment, janitorial and secretarial help.

"8. Good students from 50 per cent to 70 per cent attend college.

9. They help you ftnd good summer jobs. I make $100 a w'eek running this club swimming pool.

10. Administrators accept you as equals. The relationship between administrators and teachers is excellent."

He goes on to say, in the letter, that he could list more of the things I feel we have ahead of North Carolina, but I wont". He does say, however, he w^ould prefer North Carolina.

Actually," he wrote, if I could, I would love to return to North Carolina. My Dad has an old farm and about S(X) acres that has been in the family since 1791. He and I have some beef cattle. He has retired.

If 1 could afford to, I would love to teach school in North Carolina and have some farming on the side. As it stands now, I would lose about $3,500 a year and work twice as hard teaching.

When you see your friend, tell him I didnt mean to kick North Carolina. Im just bitter because I cant return to my heritage, . . As I see it. a young person to foolish to ght the battle of

teaching in North Carolina when teaching can be enjoyable in other places."

In what seemed to be a sort of side thought in his letter, he

mentioned that the school in

which he teaches has 1.1 faculty members who attended East

Carolina CoUege. He also said more" were on the way.

NEW YORE (AP) Gene Lockhart, one of Americas all-time great actors, appeared in hundreds of films, but the public knew very little about him.

He died two years ag^ but be to still much alive in the thoughts of his actress daughter.

Many people didnt know it, but father also was very active as a songwriter, said June Lockhart, ciurently starring as the young - mother in the TV network. Laasto."

He wrote 66 or 70 songs, among them 'The Wta-ld Is Waiting for the Sunrise.

Father was vT vKwatile, talented and kind man. He was a doer and a giver, and be gave more of that thing that to most precious to all of us time.

.When he was young and poor he didnt even have an overcoat. My mothw. who was also in the theatw, noticed this and sent him one and I guess thats how she got him.

Father, as he grew older, was a very devout man. He helped many people come into the church. He was a very dedicated man dedicated to his ieUow human beings. He i^ed to spend hours every day helping people with their probtoros.

He had tremendous drive and a great capacity for work. After a long day at the studio, he would write most of the night on plays, sketches, songs, letters to people in trouble. He never sloughed off a Job, no matter how nail.

In the household he was boss. There was no doubt of that. But he had great humor.

We had a very full relation-shh> as father and daughter, and nothing that should be done was toft undone, and therefore I did not grieve too much when he died. We had done so much together. We were very close."

With June Lockhart herself it has been pretty much a case of like father, like daughter, She to blonde and blue-eyed, witty and pretty, warm-hearted and wonderfully likeable because she to still wonderfully natural.

June never has had an acting lesson and never needed one, since she was born to the theater. She made her professional debut when she was eight as Mimsey in the Metropolitan Operas Peter Ibbetson,

Her role as the ingenue in For Love or Money" made her the toast of Broadway in 1957.

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Waste Persists In 35-Hour Week

By KLMER KOESSNFR

Strength For Today

By KARL L. IMHGI.Akii TIIK DIVINE VOKK

The Utile chUd Samuel wa.s lying awake In his bi'd at the Ule of the altar in the Temple of Jerusalem Near him the oUl high priest, EU, was sleeping soundly. Suddenly there was a voice saying, "Samuel. Samuel " The child hunled to the bedside of Ell, but Ell denied that he had called the boy. Three times this occurred, The third ,llme, EU knew that the Lord was sp'aklug and he bade the child reply. Samuels response was. "Siieak. Lord, for they servant heareth" Then came a message h um the Lord. It wa.s a fearhU message KU. offlclr.l repri'sentatlve ol Uie Lord In Lsrael. should have b<'en able to hear the mrssagr, but EU had grown physically fat, in-

tflleotunlly dull, and what wa.s mast to lie deplored in a high priest, spiritually insensitive. The Lord stioke lo the little child, and had EU been the divine ser-sei v.uU he should lutve been, he would have heard the voice and r{M'f*l\e<l the message. But EU w'n.s heyond hope; not t>ecaiuse he 'WiLs a bad man for he was not but because he was an Indulgent, scU-centered, carele.ss, no-account person. The child was alert, and he heard the'Lord speak, and knew wliat the Lord .saUi Some people gel out of touch wtih Ood because they are' wicked. Most iM'ople get out qf touch with God because they grow care lesss. indulgent, and indifferent to splrttnal vcntie.s Only the splrituttll.v alert hear God when He .speak.'s and He .stieaks now Just as He always did.

One dramatic idea probably did more than anr other to sell John Maynard Keynes economic philosophy to the Western

'world,

I. wa.s Uie idea that unem ployment mas an avoidable waste of an economic resource.

The thought had beer, approached many times tn the past Others had felt that leaving a million men Idle was a* waste (ul as letting thousands of tons of water flow over a man without harnesstng U.

Bit. Lord Keynes (pronounced Kaytut argued that the waste of manpower wak avoidable. Just as added investment capital would make U ea.sy to build a generating plant at a dam, so would more capital create more jobs.

The thought was electrizing. F.coiuHTil.st.. iioUticin.s and other,'. dtramad that U the millions of unemployed w ere put to work, there would be more goods for everybody to share pork sail-s.ige.% automobUea. And

Lord Keynes offered ways by which he said it could be done,

I'RiNCIPLES ACCEPTED

HU theories are said to have had great Influence in shaping the New Deal, and they certainly were greatly responsible for the FuU Employment Act.

The truth that unemployment is a waste of manpower, and tltat every person loses some ahare of total production as long as any able person U without work, is accepted by both political partle and by people on all economic level*

Unemployment now besets us. The unemployed total in mid-January was 4.724.000 and while It nlay have decrea.sed since then, it to still piinfuUy bigh.

The AFL-CIO has a solution' Reduce the work week to 15 hours

That, it argues, would provide Jobs for the 4.000,000 plus unemployed.

FLAW IN PLAN So it might But it would not end the economic wssto. Instead of wasting

the skills and talents of 4.724.000 men and women, we would be wasting about one-elgbth of the productivity of the total labor force of 67,430,000.

Haig Babitn, editor, writes in New York Universitys Economic Affairs newsletter;

"Better tools, machineryl automation V these are at me base of labor dlaplaceraent , < . Now. la it not true thaj 'spreading the work. overmanning our machines and cutting down on the work week would result In as much underutilization of resources as having 5.000,000 unemployed!

"Is It now true that America can be greater, stronger and a better place to live in if we produce as much ss we possibly can? Since the entire physical value of the U S A, comes to only about 1*20.000 per American family, is it possible that we hav'e too Uttie production, and not too much as George Meany telto us?"

Dr. Bahian blames both labor and management for the failure M, train emplaces for now work

before they were displaced by machines. Since neither has handled the problem, he concludes: Unfortunately, It to precisely this difficulty that forever toads us to the halls of government to find the resolution of our problems. As we continue this procesa decade after decade, what then will become of the tradl-Uoiia that we as a society. value the most?"

INSURANCE COMPANIES HOLD $3.3 BILLION IN U.S, STOCK

Life insurance companies holdings In common stoclU haa been a matter of considerable interest. Because these companies buy for interest and Income, and do not trade for quick profits, tholr holdings tend to stabllze the market.

As of December 31. insurance companies held $1,676,000.000 In common stock and $1.646.000.000 In preferred In addition, they owned tl.796.000.000 in fordgn corporate aeeurities.

All this, large as U to, to but about 5 per cent of the companies' total assets of 1107,4 If.-000.000.1.