PAGE FOURfHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Tuetdajr, Marcli 24, 1959

Tuesday, March 24, 1959

Disadvantage In A Later Primary

Baby State

There seems little if anything to be gained for North Carolina by moving the primary election day from the last Saturday in May to late June,

If anjthing, the change in the time of the primary probably prove a greater handicap than the present timetable for a large portion of the states voters.

North Carolina is still primarily agricultural. And summer months are farming months when those who make their living from the soil find their daily work load at its peak. In Eastern North (arolina particularly it would be much more difficult to get voters to the polls late in June than fate in May. And certainly it would be more difficult to get voters to the polls for a secondary primary in mid-summer than it is when second primaries are necessary under the present time schedule for primary elections.

The five-month lag between the late May primary 4nd the general election early in November has been a primary target of proponents of the later-primary recommendations. We fail to se^, however, where much advantage will be gained by the state by cutting the lag between these two election d'lys by a month.

Then too, there is the matter of vacation time in North Carolina which throughout the slate comes during the months of June, July and August for most non-agricultural workers. On any given day during that three-month period a good many more North Carolinians will be away from their home cornmunities than would be the case during the other nine months of

the year. . , ^ ' ...

One principal consideration In setting a date for an election mu.st be getting the voters out to cast their feallotft. It's hard enough to get Tar Heels to the polls for the state-wide primary in late May as the voting records of most counties will testify. It will be even more difficult to get large numbers of the people to tht polls for the primary if it is held in late June

.rigures

Missing

By LYNN NISHKT

WELFARE Sen. Wilbur Cur-rl* of Moore, chairman of the Senate committee on public wel fare, la concerned about the apparent attitude of the administration and the budget folkj toward the overall Federal-Stale-Local welfare program. The way be flgurei It. the State la mlM-Ing the boat In getting II ahare of Federal aid by a shortJilghted pinchpenny attitude.

Another effect of thla policy aa he ee It la to put a dte-proportlonate ahare of the entire burden on tbe counties. Currie I a conservative. He and hU family and asaoclates pay very ub-stanllal at all levels of

government. He la not so naive as to think that there U any such things aa "free money," and Is not taken In by the apcc-lous argument that If It comes from Washington It doesnt cost us anything.

But It disturbs him that millions of dollar which have been paid by North Carolinians are available for local welfare need If the State will put up matching funds not necessarllv on 50 50 basis, Countlca are willing to pay their hare, but Federal funds are obtainable only by the State. Meantime, the welfare appropriations In the counties are Inadequate for basic needs, even though already a burden on loc al property taxes.

Senator Currie Is writing conn ty commissioners throughout the State seeking udvlce on how the General Assembly should proceed to deal with the situation. One thing he Is greatly concerned about Is a twtter system of getting welfare funds, especially for dependent children and aged. Into hands of tlie real needy rather than being dissipated by liresponslble klnspeople

RUMORS This Legislature has reached the stage where rumors are current of deals among member and promises made by the administration to obtain support for pending bills or to help defeat them.

Almost every time a leglsliitor finds himself on opposite side from the Governor In relation t(j any proptwillon he chargea. with varying degrees of .sinrerelty, that the Governor is u.slng his apiKdntlve power to Influence votes In the Legislature. In many Instances the same miin who complains about that ha.t no he.s Itancy in "swapping votes" with colleagues.

It Is very difficult. If indi'cd not Impossible, to pin dnwti tuiy of these charge,s of vote .solicit

State 3oa

Ing and trading. The record will show that Governors through the years have given high ap-pointlvt officejs to men who supported their legislative program*. Whether the prospect of appointment had been dangled In front of the legislator in advance, or if made solely because of mutual Intere.st In the principle Involved can be known only to the two persons.

For example: Did Gurney Hood spouAor banking control legislation in 11)31 because Governor Max Gardner promised to appoint him as first commissioner of banking, or did Governor Gardner appoint Hood because of Hood's sponsorship of sound bank control legislation? Most people prefer the latter concept. Did William B, Rodman support the administration program In the 1H3S General Asscml-ly because of prospective appointment as Attorney General and Associate Justice, or did the Governor appohd him to these posts on account of his proven ability? The answer is obvious to everybody who knows Luther Hodges and William Rodman.

OTHFIR SIDE Current rumors that appointments to the Supreme Court and other positions have been promised in re-lurn for support of the constltu-tlouftl revision of the Judiciary set-up can be brushed off with the .same lack of consideration At the .mime time It caunot be denied that the appointive power of the chief executive in North Carolina, without the necessity for legislative conflrma-Iton applicable to mrwt Presi-denllal appointments in Federal circle, I a powerful weapon In the hands of the Governor,

The President of the United Ktatc.s cannot appoint a Judge or district attorney, or a member of an administrative board, without confirmation of the United Stales Senate. OuLstandlng historic Instance of that policy was ref\il of the Senate to confirm pp(tntment of John J. Parker to the Supreme Court of the United Slates.

State law requlies Senate confirmation of many appointments by the Governor, most of which are perfunctory, applicable only to Ijoards of trustees of tnstllu-tlon. High level adrntnlstratlve appointments, and appointment t^ fill vacancies in top level of-fires, are the sole prerogative of the Governor In that field the Governor of North Carolina has more imrestrlcleri power than (loe.s the President of the United States

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as now proposed.

If the state is to change Its traditional primary date, it should do so only because there are distinct advantages in the new date over the old date. While there are some good arguments lor moving the statewide primary to late June, the merits the case as we see it, are on the side of the late May primary in North Carolina.

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New Training .Center Is A Distinct Asset

Dedication of the new Army Reserve Training Center in Greenville Sunday marks the establishment of another facility which will be an asset to the community.

The new training center, fittingly named for Lt, Preston Clark who was killed in Germany during World War II, provides permanent facilities for Army Reserve units in this area. It will enable the reserve units to- better carry out their training programs and thus make a greater contribution to the overall military security program of ^the country.

It provides the reserve units and the community with a facility which has long been needed, and one which will enhance the position of the reservists in the community and the position o the community as a whole.

Something Ike Didnt Wan

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON <AP) Prel-dcnt Eisenhower is headed toward * summit conference he didn't seek, under circumstances he didn't want, and on problems not yet agreed upon.

All this adds up to a kind of victory for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who has wanted a summit meeting for more than a year and now has practically forced It on the West. But who will be the ultimate winnerIf ; ny-remains to be seen.

News coming out of Eisenhower* weekend of meetings with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has been understandably thin. The two men would hardly want to give the Soviets a full transcript of theU' conversations.

But of the several bits of information provided by their aides, this much was dominant: the President and prime minister had agreed on their approach to a summit meeting next summer following a foreign ministers conference in May,

Back In late 157, with the then premier Nikolai Bulgaln doing the writing for him, Khrushchev hart called for a summit get-together. He found both Elsenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles chilly to the Idea.

After quite a bit of letter wrlt-liig back and forth, the Idea blew up. Then last Nov. 27 Khrushchev took a step which disturbed the Allies no end. forced them Into action, and gave him a fresh excuse to call for a summit conference,

Khrushchev demanded that the United States, Britain and France get their occupation troops out of West Berlin. He threatened to sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany,

This had a real hooker in it: if the Allies kept their troops in Berlin and tried again.st the will of the German Conmuinists to lend supplies Uj their Berlin garrisons ttu'uugh East Germany

there would be war,

Khrushchev gave the Allies six months to get moving although now he says in effect It wasn't a hard and fast deadline but Just a date he picked off the celling. What he wanted moat wa.s action, he sah),

He kept calling for a summit conference to talk about the Allied troops In West Berlin and a peace treaty for Germany. The West's response was this; let's have a foreign ministers meeting to talk things over.

Eisenhower-~ever since the li)55 summit meeting's high pronouncements ended in smoke- has Insisted on no more summit meetings unless first the foreign ministers meet and show enough program and agreement to make a summit conference look worthwhile,

Khrushchev has consistently laughed off a foreign ministers meeting as a preliminary since he regards the ministers as mere errand boys for the heavyweights like himself and Elsenhower.

With the showdown on Berlin getting closer Macmillan went to talk" with Khi'ushchev. He reportedly came away with the Idea that a summit meeting was the thing to have. He apparently sold the Idea to Elsenhower.

When the ElsenhowerMacmillan aides said over the weekend their bosses had agreed to propose a summit meeting next summer, they gave the impression that results from a foreign ministers meetlrig first were not as necessary as before.

But while Khrushchev seems to want to limit summit dlscuss-lon.s to West Berlin and a German peace treaty, the Western Allies appear to want much broader di.scussions. The two sides haven't agreed yet on what they should talk about.

In the end the whole Idea of a summit conference may break down over a discussion on what the sumrnlteers could discuss. Al the moment a summit conference looks more likely than not.

U; ' . 'Z

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Noticed On A News Beat

Took a walk through First St. Saturday afternoon just to see how far along work crews are on the project.

Theres some mighty sticky clay still on the road, as I found out when I tried to scrape it off my shoes. But alMn-all the street work is moving along. It appeared the curb and gutter was practically completed, except for connecting up at the intersections.

The new .street which will give a paved thoroughfare from Greene to Woodlawn Ave., Is expected to help considerably in moving traffic around the business area. And the new section of the street will certainly be one of the widest In town.

The street Is being con.stnicted with bond issue money voted by the citizens some time ago. It required a fill to bridge the ravine across which the street must pass. It appears it wont be long before the street will be tn use giving citizens in the ea.stern section of town a new route across

town which avoids business area traffic.

Dont look now but after nearly three months of 1959, there has not yet been a traffic fatality on Pitt County highways.

The Jaycee traffic safety board on the Court Houselawn still shows a big zero after "Killed to Kate In 1959". And the red light has not flashed as yet.

Its too much to hope that such a fine record will continue through the remainder of the year, but It Is encouraging to see the perfect record continued this long. Heres hoping the zero remains up for months to come.

Beauty can come of the Jet age! Everyone around these parts is familiar with vapor trails ~ those thin lines of White left In the sky by Jet aircraft which fly so high they can neither be seen nor. heard.

The trails are so familiar over Greenville that most people hardly take a second look these days.

But yesterday two jets left trails of such extraordinary beauty that they must have caused those who saw them to pause for a moment in the busy day.

The invisible aircraft left their marks in the western sky. Just as the sun was sinking below the horizon. The trails appeared the same size and height as others which have been seen so often here. It was the coloring that made these different. They took on a golden hue from the light of the setting sun. It was as if some unknown artist were painting lines of gold across the sky. The beautiful trails moving slowly were to be seen only a short while; for as the last rays of the sun disappeared, they gra-nually lost their color.

Other Editors Saying.. A Blow For Everybody

Strength For Today

By EAHl L. DOUGl.A.S.S

WE ARE MADE FOR VICTORY

We should always bear In mind the place which victory hokls In the Chrlstlnn's life. We are now n\ade for defeat but for victory. Persecution and death ha.s often been the lot of Christian be-' lievers, yet this was not con-fctiluted defeat. It has constituted victory.

What U Christian victory? It is the ability of persons of faith to rise above Ihelr doubts, above the power of events to strike them down and destroy them. Life Is replete with problems. We n\ny complain about them hut without problems our moral lives wouhi not itevelnp, God puts ol> stRtles before u.h which we must surmount. He turns u.s buck, H*

allows us to fail. He appear* to taml by while the events of life get us down and attempt to de-*troy us.

But this la all part of His training of our souls. God has nothing in mind for any of us but victory. We may appear to fall, but fall we never do if God walks by our side. We may appear to be overwhelmed. but overwhelmed we never are *o long as we can clutch to our hearts some measure of faith and press on.

Just rememb*r when the going really gets hard, that Ood has made iw all for victory. Nobody ha.s l>een made for defeat There is no possibility of defeat when men keep their faith, live their fatlh, tru.st their faith We are made for victory. W* are destined to achieve it.

ONi OUT OF FIVI MOTORISTS LACKS VISUAL SKILLS FOR SAFI DRIVING

(Kinston Free Press)

A proposed one-cent crown tax for bottled soft drinks, which is pending In the North Carolina General As.sembly, would be grossly unfair to bottlers. Some of the smaller firms certainly would be hard pressed to stay In buslne.ss. Many might actually be forced out of bu.slness.

A reduction In the v'blume of sales would reduce from other taxes now Imposed on the In-diwtry. It would actually kill the goose that la laying a golden revenue eag for the State at present.

When a penny was added to soft drink price. In 1957 It w'a. a nrntter pf economic necessity. The five-cent figure had prevailed for over half a century, despite the steadily rising trend of everything connected with the Indu.stry. The smaller companies wore being forced out of business and the larger ones had to invest more and more capital in rolling equipment, higher wages and overhead. As a matter of fact the nvm\l)er of bottlers in North Carolina dropped from 202 In 1948 to a new low of i;i9 In January of 1959. That 1. a la,. of firm. In 11 years, which must be charged primarily to the high co.t of doing bu.slness with a "fixed" income product

The propovsed crow'u tax would be collectible in advance and would greatly increase the cost of opt'ratlons Bottlers would have to add tens of thousand. of dollars per shipment of crowns

to their present heavy capital investments. This would tend to freeze out the small operators, who are in the majority in the soft drink business throughout the State. Local bottlers estimate the hike would boost the cost of a carload of crowns by some $72,-000 to $75,000.

Where this tax has been imposed in other states the increase in price has cut down volume as much as 25 to 30 per cent. Such a cut would materially reduce present Income taxes from bottlers. It would leave the State with a lower net return from income. franchise and Class B taxes. The later tax (class B) ts Imposed on machinery. Local plants pay up to ll.KW per annum In this levy alone.

But the strongest argument agaln.t a crown tax Is that It would be discrlmtnatory. It would single out an Industry which is already reaching the point of diminishing return* on Its thin profit margin and make U an even easier target for competition. Other food items In the range of five and six cents each. Including chewing gum, candy bars and the like, may reduce the size of the package and hold the price line Soft drink bottlers cannot do this.

Sponsors of thl. legLslatlon Include Rep. Ed Kemp of Guilford County and Rep. Frank Snepp of Mecklenburg. They and other legislators should be reminded that the tax is unfair and discriminatory and should be killed.

Pet peeves: That caution light at Boyd and Dickinson Ave. which by staying on yellow longer than any Ive ever seen, causes many a false start by Impatient motorists. Maybe the extra-long caution is needed as a safety measure, but I doubt it. However Im willing to be shown.

Tractor operators who drive down the highway at dusk with the flood light in the rear turned on. I ran up on one the oUier night and it was impossible to tell If It were an auto headed my way and in the wrong lane. White Ughts are meant to shine foi ward. Red lights for the rear of vehicles.

?low.

A New ?ielc.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) "The more people say a tiing cant be done," said WiUiam R. McLain. the greater the opportunity for ttie right man to do it,**

His wUlingness to try the possible has enabled McLain* president of a Nashville. Tenn. toy firm, to parlay $300 into a five-milUon-dollar annual business.

All his life McLain, a slender* 42-year-old chemical engineer, had wanted a Iwslness of hi* own. In 1945 he decided to make the gamble with $300 mustering out pay he received when h* left the Navy.

He and his partner, Earl Horton, a college friend, decided to enter the competitive toy field. Their families shared a farra shack outside NashvUle while the partners drew up careful plans.

Impressed by their thoroughness and enthusiasm, a hanker lent them $55,000they had no collateralto get started. They grossed $285.000 in 1946. their first year In business. And every year since then they have done better.

Today they have three plants, 350 employes. In addition to a line of 32 toys, they now turn out dozens of industrial plasUo items for some of the nation* largest firms.

McLains success ixinclple* are simple.

"Dont try to Imitate the other fellow," he drawled- It pays to be different, to-plow a new furrow.

"Hire good people, treat them well, andas far as you canlet them alone.

"Money tind machinery are important in a firms success, but the biggest factor is people. They've got the answer to most of your problems.

"We believe in starting them young and giving them responsibility. At 42, Im the second oldest executive In our company."

The average life of a novelty toy is only two to three years.

"One of our most worrisom* problems is peopfe who keep writing us with ideas for new toys," said McLain. We are not in the market for them. We have our own staH, and we like to originate our own toys."

Could another man start from scratch now and do as well as he did?

"Certainly." be said. "He ought to find it even easier. The opportunity is greater now, and it should be even greater in the next few years.

"AU he has to do Is to find something that people say eant be doneand go ahead and do it. The trouble is that few who have the desire to succeed have the willingness to put out th* energy and drive that is required."

Opinions In Brief

It is doubtless true that many Congressmen and their constituents sincerely believe in the need for higher federal spending In one' area or another. But it Is equally true that Congress and the public at large are getting concerned about the steady upward march in the public debt.*Lima (Ohio) New,

tornar general of Mewfouxdland.

"The so-called cold war is centering more and mor upon tiie battlefield of industrial production. But to call it merely a war of production is to miss the point. It 1. primarily a war of productivitya struggle on the part of every cMnpany, every Industry and every nation to become the low-cost producer of the things W'hlch It offers tor sle In world markets.Roger M, Blough, Chairman of the Bmrd. U. S. Steel Corporation.

Th right to Mnlraiize. to bargain ci^lectlvely, and to strike locally should not be impaired (so long as public welfare and national security ar* not endangered). But unless th* threat of nationwide strike* in key industries 1* removed, tha Inflationary trend cannot bo checked. Richmond Timea-Dispatch)

"The APL-CIO exocuHv* ooun-cll wants Oongrei to reduce th# 40-hour week to 35 hours. But then how could the nation produce enoi^h fishhif tackle and golf clube?"Fort Mfon (Fla.) News-Pres*.

"No citizen, when there Is no strike on, has a right to Interfere with another mans property. No citlren, when there 1. no strike, ha any right to ob-truct another citizen. A thing that was unlawful before the strike is unlawful when the strike Is on."L. R. Curtis, at-

"In Palm prings, Calif., after Georgia Mae Love hit her husband on the noee with a claw hammer, stabbed him In the arm with a steak Imifc and trid to ram his truck with her Kiltanan Minx, polios booked her for disturbing ths peace aad fhsoover* ed a three-foot bullwhip in her brassiere.^News Item.

(Theres nothlrm wnrss Huua a grouchy woman.) "Ctuurlott* Newt.

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By FI.MF.R ROK.SSNFR

Corn will be pouring out our ear by f,tU.

The nation will probablv pro ducc more than four billion biLsieU thl. year. That will be a new record.

It will ttLsu net a record for agriculture probhun.

For the fu.Ht tlinr in many years, farmer. will be treed of acreage resUictioivs on corn. They can plant a. much as they want. ferlUtre s. heavily as they dare.

But they sUll a pncc guar antee of ll 12 a Ini.sluT.

That'. coiutdcrably le.v; than the current pnce, aroumi $l 50 a iHLHhel. Rut U a solid floor Any fainter wlu> cat) erow corn at a cot of le,s.s than $1 12 a hu.'-hel I. bound to lu.tkc monrv. even tf the market piioeM*!** tindiT $! a hvi.shel. <

NF.MH HKfORE

Laat year American farmers produced 3.8 billion bushels for a new record Before 194.5, the average'crop wa.s le^s than .3 billion.

The amav.lng part is that farmers are producutg more corn on less ground than ever before, In the years 1931 to 1935. farmer devoted 102.390.(XX) acres of land to corn nnd produced crop.s averasing 2 330.0tX).X) bushel.

Last years, farmers ' sowed about 75.000.000 acres and harvested a new record crop There are two reason: hybridt-rafion, fertilization The bountiful yields of hybrid corn was only beginning U be understtuKl in the early IPW's. Now , farmers rarely plant any Ihttu: cbM' and the hytaids have btcn iniproved Fctiillzallon t corn In ilte Pin. wft. larijely confined sn hi'tucmode stuff manure and stalkvS, the latter oftea burned.

Now farmers spread thetr land thick with commercial fertflizera that have an almost guaranteed return.

Ini addition, other chemicals, such as weed killers, Increaae harvests

BENEFITS OF SUPPORTS

The minimum government support of $1 12 a bushel is * cents * higher than last year and compares with 77 cents for barley, and 50 cents for oats. Congressmen from farm states want these supports Increased, but they face strong Administration opposition.

What to do with the crop will be a great and embarrassing problem Some of it well eat. Count on a government campaign to popularise hush ptippies Some of it we will give away; Southeast A.tau3 will be persuaded It is Yankee rice

Much of it will be diverted to live stock Rnd poultry Pru^s of pork and poultry hav* been

ontewhat dprs*od by ttvt r*-cord corn crop of hast year. Unless government Imylng and othr support action can tablUz* pricesan unlikely prospectpork and poultry, and poasiMy beef, will be even eheeper later thla year.

And weTl still have lots of corn left over, for tucking way la warehouses at taxpayers' expense.

JAMfARY SALES TOF YEAR-AGO TOTALS Retail sales in January tkcre perky, the Department of Commerce reports When adjusted for seasonable factors. February .ales were per cent above a year ago, and 0.5 per cent above January, 195$

All broad categories gpporled year-to-year gains except the apparel group, whose sales were dotrn 3 per cent. Liveliest Increase was made by drug and proprietary storea* up T per acnt.