ACB POUKTHE DAILY RErLECTOR, CRLNVILLE, N. C.

Thurfdr. May 2S, 1C9t

Thursday, May 28, 1959

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Farmer Free, Must Also Be Wise

Defeat by the Senate of the controversial bill to outlaw use of MH-80 for sucker control of tobacco leaves Tar Heel farmers free of legislative fencum-branees in determining what cultural practices they will follow in producing their crop.

That is as it should be. The Senate chose the wise and right course in defeating the measure which would have made it a misdemeanor for a farmer to uae the MH-80 chemical on hia tobacco crop.

The matter of cultural practices followed in pro-ducinj? tobacco or any other crop should be left entirely with the individual farmer. There should be no law requiring him to do or not to do certain things in producing his crop so long as what he does has no harmful effect upon the health of those who consume what he produces.

If a farmer wants to ignore the advice of qualified agricultural experts and produce a poor crop of tobacco or anything else, he should be free under the law to exercise his own judgment.

While defeat of the MU-80 bill leaves North Carolina farmers free to decide whether they will use chemical sucker control on their 1959 tobacco crop, they would be short sighted Indeed to ignore the desires of tobacco purchasers to whom they will look to buy their crop after it is harvested. The purchasers, both foreign and domestic, have insisted that use of the chemical sucker control reduces the quality of tobacco and makes it undesirable. The purchasers

Satisfaction Is Good Salesman

By LYNN NI8BET

SALESMEN Truth of tht ftncient axiom that the beat ailea* man iM a aatialfied customer was Riven emphaata at a breakfast meeting the other morning. Honor guest was Erich Brndheim. foreign correspondent for Uie Foreign Trad Information Of* flee of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bendheim, whose hradquartera is In New York, has spent several days touring North Carolina with a view to gathering information for German in-lustrlallfits who might be In-Interested in expanding or relo-(Rtiug. He wasnt greatly concerned about weather or taxes or transportation. He could get that data from authoritative official sourcea. He wanted to know about people, partlculaiiy Ihelr aptitudes and attitudes.

He came to Raleigh from Wilmington and other eastern points and went from there to Winston-Salem and other western com* munities. At each place he asked about how the newly recruited Industrial workers responded to training and to unaccustomed working conditions: how the rest of the people In the community accepted new planU, and aimllar questions. The CAU and Carolina Power & Light folk who were hosts at the bieakfast here brought competent wUnesaei. Janies A. Bat>cock, manager of the Westlnghouse meter plant, and L. B. Binions, (manager of Ui Kellogg Switchboard plant subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph) were on hand and answered all questions very frankly.

Bal)Coek told the Oerman guest there was no need to apologise or<iuclnR about competency and adgptgbillty of workers in this ai-ea, because his company hnd cherishecl the same doubts. He found that recruited workers learned faster, showed more will-Ingnesa to give a days work for a day's pay and generally showed pride in their employmetit to far greater degree than compar-tble employees in the North.

"Bendheim said he would not have been surprised at the emphasis placed on this kind of testimony by piofcsjilonal paid promotors, but he manifested real pleasure at getting It from Industrialists who spoke from experience. He seemed particularly impressed with the report that workers here show ao much personal pride in doing a good job. rather than Juat getting a pay check.

OUR KIND The whole tenor of the breakfast meeting was in happy conformity with what hnd been said the day before at Governor Hodges' new conference when announcement was made of plans for Chemstriiul corporation to build a mulil-mll-Hon dollar laboratory in the Research Triangle Pnrk. Emphasis then was put upon the fact, as expressed by fieoiae Watts Hill, that these are "our kind of

folks. All through the Intense IndustriallaaUon expansion program waged in North Carolina during the paat five years the fact that the newcomers wanted (and are expected) to be "good cltteens of the community, sharing alike in the advaniages and the burdens of maintaining a sound economy and pleasant surroundings.

IN AND OUT Complications arising out of local factional rivalries in counties and towns, and difficulty experienced by reporters in keeping up with developments in local legislation were Illustrated by commlttoe action on the bill permitting county commlasioners to fill vacancies on Ihelr boards. Present general law empowers the clerk of court to fill vacancies. The Htate Association of county commissioners sponsored a bill to allow counties desiring to do so to let other members of the board fill vacancies. Postcard Inquiries were made to every county commlaaloner in the state.

Response to this questionnaire brought requests from 30 or more counties to be included in the bill. They were Included when the bill was Introduced. Then indlvidtjsl legislators asked that their counties be added or taken out. I tjje case mighty be. For two or three committee sesslona there were changes, and pro* bibly more will come in the Hou.se slid In process through Senate action. On local legislation of this type the Individual Representative is the big boss.

RFXIORDS Committee nja-nnuverlng on this and other bills occasioned questions as to what happens to committee iccor*ls. especlaUy the "work sheets" upon which sctlon Is based, sftcr the committee has performed its task and been discharged or the Oeneral Assembly adjourns. Nobody could be found willing to an.Hwer that qucstlon-

Offlcers of the Legislature were reluctsnt to admit that there are no permanent records kept of commmlttee actions, but absence of Information about disposition of the papers Indlcatf they go to Ihr trash pile.

Official journals of the House and Senate Include In minutes detail record of scllons on the floor, lown to names of honorary pages and pagelles appointed. The Jonrnals, however, do not record subject matter of amendments defeated, and somrllmes only by indirect lori Is the sub-.leci matter of adopted amend* menti included except as it integrated Into the fnRro,sRPd hill

This appears to be a serioua ommliston In the recoid of legla* Ittlve proceas. hecatvse It Is well known that mast Important ami controlling action li had in committee rooms. On the other hand it is obvious that if all the committee records, Indullng casual work papers, are filed there will hm a problem of warehouse space and secretarial help for Indexing there location.

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have said emphatically they do not want to purchase tobacco on which the chemical has been used.

Though the farmer has a government guarantee which placea a floor under the price he can receive for his tobacco, he would be foolish indeed to ignore the demands of the companies which will purchase what he produces. If the 1959 crop ha.s a high pei*cent-age of tobacco which does not meet specifications of purchasing companies, the net adverse affeirt on the farmer and the general economy of the farming areas of the ftate will be two-fold:

1. Reduced quality of tobacco will mean lower -prices on the warehouse floors and a large percentage of the tobacco going into Stabilization hands. Reduced income for the farmers and the area as a whole will be .tha immediate result.

2. If Stabilization is required to take in under support pricea large quantities of tobacco for which there is no market, it could well mean the breaking of the Stabilization Corporation and lead^to the coL lapse of the entire tobacco program which has* been the economic salvation of tobacco farmers during the past two decades. "

By defeating the MH-80 bill yesterday the Senate upheld the right of the individual farmer to determine how he shall produce his own crop. It left the farmer free to decide whether to follow proven cultural practices and produce a quality crop or ignore them and produce an inferior crop that buyers sky they do not want and will not purchase.

The welfare of the individual farmer and the entire tobacco program now rests where it should . . in the hands of the farmer.

If he produces the kind of crop his customers have declared they do not want, he has no one but himself to blame if his 1959 crop brings a low price. Neither does he have anyone but himself to blame if he produces I he kind of crop which once again floods Stabilization with unsellable tobacco and cau.ses the collapse of the tobacco support program which has put millions of dollars into farmers pockets over a period of years.

The Senate took the right course in defeating the bill which would have outlawed the use of a particular practice in producing tobacco.

We trust the farmers of North Carolina will be equally wise* this year in seeking to produce the kind of crop which their purchasers have demanded. We trust the tobacco growers of this state will decline to use chemical sucker control on thi.s year's crop in keeping with the expre.ssed de.slres of the people who will be expected to buy the crop.

If farmers do otherwise and find their crop rejected by purchasers and their tobacco support program collapsing, they will have no one but themselves to blame.

Carolina Isnt Going To The Dogs In 1959

North Carolina will not go to the dogs or to the racketeers thanks to the action of the House Finance (oinmiltee which defeated the proposal that rac track.s and pari mutuel betting be permitted on a local option basis,

'Phe .states brief experience with legalized racing and gambling several years ago should be sufficient to prev(nt the state from returning to such activities for a good many years and we hope forever.

Tax takes from such activitieswhile they always appeal to some officialsrepresent small compensation indeed for the state and local governments to offer racketeers and gambling syndicates a foothold in North (arolina. And as surely a.s North (aro-liiiH Hgain legalized racing and gambling, it will he inviting the racketeering and gambling hosges of the nation to come in and take over.

North (arolina would make a grave mistake to i.ssue .such an invitation either by legislative act or by local vote.

The state and local governments have gotten along well without token tax payments from organized, legalized gambling. It has seen the ill which legalized gambling and racing can bring in its midst.

For another two years at least, the niatter of racing legalized gambling i.s a closed issue in North Caro-liiiH. Hut we can rest assured that the interests behind such ventures will continue their efforts to gain a foothold in this state. We must remain alert to prevent their being succe.ssful,

Geneva Break

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By JIMMY ELLIS

GraduationWorkPiledUp

Last week, picturea of fradu-atlng classes at each of Pitt County's 14 high schools were printed in editions of The Daily Reflector,

With each of the pictures were Identifying cutllnes. In addition, there was a aeries of stories outlining significant details in each of the commencement ceremonies and activities.

Moat of the pictures and other material had rather prominent places in last week's editions. Even so, they appeared as rather routine items in the general make up of the papers in which they were printed.

The process of taking the pictures and assembling the information was anything but routine, however. The process Involved a vast amount of cooperative effort between county school officials, personnel from each of

the schools and Reflector personnel.

Conservative estimates compiled by the news staffs Jack-leg statistician show that photographers travelled more than 250 miles to get pictures of 13 of the 14 classes, and writers spent in the neighborhood of 40 hours assembling information and composing stories before and after the series of exercises.

The mileage estimate Is possibly much less than the actual figure, and certainly less than what it would have been if Orlf-tons Principal Ed Bright hadnt made prior arrangements to have the picture of his schools graduates taken by a private photographer.

Estimates of time spent in assembling information and writing stories includes visits to each of the schools where picturea

Other Editors Saying .,. 'Reducing The Debt

By JAMKX MARLOW

WASHINGTON lAP - The HIk Four foreign ministers si*e tiiklng a two-day break in their Geneva ronference, Its a break ior everyone flse, too.

There have been a number of fin elan mlnlstfi a meetings since Mie war but none more boring than this one has been so far.

Three week* of talks and the result is nothtngv It's been diplomacy in a goldfish bowl with amplifiers.

More (han 10() aide.* aurrnund-ed the forelgn imnlAiers of the United States, Britain. Frsnee and the Soviet Union at their meetings in the Palace of Nations,

Then the press officers of the Big Four reported on what was said Even when the ministers enfertsmed one another at night their conversations were reported

This would have been fine If they had had something new to say. Hut after each had stated hus pasltlon. they spent the rest of the time repeating themselves.

Nobody moved an inch Nothing WAS gained. Nothing was lost, except time.

All four minister* played the unbudglng iron men role a Pf>se that seemed clearly tntsnd-ed for propaganda but not for serious negoUattni with public avowls of where they stood and how they couldn't be moved.

It was the kind of performance that was a lead pipe cinch to lose respect for diplomacy or the .lerlous intentions of the four govetnment.s to work out anything by i>c,ireful neuiHlatinu

There ha vs bet ti rxplanatiuns

out of Geneva that this has *11 been a kind of ritual dance through which dlplomaLs go before getting down to serious and earnest bargaining.

If so, it's been"' long dance.

But the death of former Secretary of .state John Faiier Dulles svt the four minwters a chance to knock off the conveisatlon.

They finished up Tuesday and then took planes for Washington and the Dulles funeral. They'll sll be back in Geneva Friday to ^art gain,

PerhaiKs they had come to the conclu.sion that Ihey had gone far enough with the kind of performance they put on and it was bout time for a switch.

Just before they left Geneva the word was given out that they will go into secret sessions W'hrn they return.

11 seems too much to expect thst they will find any big or general or final .solutions.

Perhaps the moat to hor>e for U some klmt of stop-gap settlement 00 the Soviet demand that the We.stern Rig Three get their troop.s out of West Berlin.

Quote. .

"Inflation is already a grsve threat to the United Btate.s Ona does not have to approach the years of a centenarian to know that living coM are much hlgh-r than ilu-y were a f-'W years ago We can no longer measure the value.s of rmh1s and property lv I hr dollar, for the value of the dollar lues Ixmune uu.stable." Sonici.set ila * Aniejican.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Pre.sldent Eisenhower has again mentioned the nece.s5lty for reducing the federal debt, and he intimated to Congress that it would be wise If that body left some of the anticipated revenue for fiscal year I960 unspent, in order that it might be applied against the record federal deficit, now in the neighborhood of $2 billion.

This la going to be a difficult task, inasmuch as fiscal lO.'je appears to be heading for a $10 billion deficit, and proposed spending levels in the coming year are consistently higher. The Picsidenta budget, as submitted to Congress, was precariously balanced to show a surplus of about $100 million a surplus easily erased when considering appropriation* of multiple billions of dollars.

In appropriation authorization hllLi which have passed Con-gre.s.x, little savings have been realised over the Presidents re-qupsU. To the contrary, many have exceeded the sum asked for. Even if revenue estimate* are exceeded, as current survey* pleasantly Indicate. It will take diastic reductions in coming appropriations to achieve a balanced budget in the year beginning July 1. ^

The President is wrong In asking for a reduction in the national debt he should demand it. Approximately l billion annually now 1* being spent on

interest on the national debt, or about 10 per cent of total federal expenditures. It is tragic to realize the federal government is now spending an amount each year ~ for no better purpose than to satisfy Its creditors which is equal to the total cost of the national government lest than 20 years ago.

Is this record what American* want to hand to their children 20 years hence, compounded many times over? It will be exactly that if strong leadership Is not soon forthcoming to direct the nation away from complete fiscal irresponsibility.

The President, who ha* the power to exert that leadership, might begin by trimming back the expenditures which fall on his immediate doorstep. In comparing cost* of the White House during the past three administration*, the House Appropria-Uons Committee found they were $647.000 in 1936; $3 mUUon in 1952 and $5.4 million requested for 1960.

In this 22-year period, the White House payrpU has grown from 162 to 615 person*, an increase of almost 400 per cent.

Definite action by a person who recognizes and espouses the need for reform has a contagious effect upon those who agree passively. It will take a strong had to return the operations of government to the credit side of the ledger after three decade* of almost uninterrupted red ink bookkeeping.

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS LIFES GREAT INTEREST

Two men who were in a position to talk about world affair* with some authority sat recently and with flashing eyes and gesticulation and occasional laughs were quite evidently engaged In a spirited conversation and exchange of ideas.

Certainly they must have been talking about great world problems. Their whole demeanor denoted thia. As a matter of fact, however, they were talking.- about their children and grandchildren. Each had something to tell the other about what his son or daughter had done. Each had a funny story to exchange about the grandchildren. When it was a over, they laughingly agreed that, after forty. people live for very UtUa else than the advancement of their children and. after aixty, the welfare of their frandchil-dren.

King George V of England lay tossing on a bed of pain aomt forty years ago. It waa believed that he was fatally ill. Was he

were made, and countless telephone call* to confirm point* of information or to request additional fact*.

In any event, the time estimate indicateiJhat the job was almost a full-tim^e project for one person, although the actual amount varied from day to day. The days on which the writing assignment* were particularly heavy were Thursday, Friday Tuesday, with time taken out from the county graduations on Monday to report the East Carolina College graduation exercises.

The point of aU this, if there is a point, is that theres much more to a picture and a story, or a series of pictures and stories, than sometimes meets the eye. Occasionally, it will surprise and frighten the people who have been in the midst of all the work.

Some of us in the light of our Jack-leg mathematiciana report about how much time, effort and travelling is Involved have pledged to be somewhere else when the next county graduation time rolls around.

The way we figure it. finding out there's so much work involved takes Uie edge off discovering that high school graduating classes still have a high proportion of photogenic members.

Slrength

High

Grade

Grads

By RELMAN MORIN

NEW YORK (AP) The white card, embossed with a gold coat-of-arms, announced the date of graduation exercises for a high school in Virginia.

Inside, a smaller card bore the name. Jame* D. Ream Jr.

Well, June i* at hand. June is the month when, all over America, the high school band play* "Pomp and Circumstance,* or some other march, and the senior* step up (or diplomas.

These cards, however, the big one and the smaller one, represent something unusual, something special.

On a chiUy night last December, I .crossed the bridge Into South Norfolk, Va. and found the Oscar P. Smith High School. Light* burned in the clasarooms. the study halls, the auditorium, the library. The ground* outside were quiet and the hall* deserts cd.

It was a litUe after 8 p.m.

Isn't that the hour when teenagers are supposed to be munching popcorn in the movies, or hot-rodding around town looking for a traffic accident to get hurt In?

There was an air of purpose about this school.

It was a night high school. The pupils all came from nearby Norfolk, where the regular schools had been closed in the dispute over federal court orders to integrate. In South Norfolk, authorities offered their facilities at night for all who wanted to use them.

Nearly 800 boys and girl* did.

They had started at 4 in the afternoon, taken a half hour break at 5:45, and gone back to work. The final bell would ring at 9 oclock.

No truant officer compelled them to be in school. They were there because they were determined to get a diploma.

E. E. Brlckell, the principal whose ;Own hours at that time were from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. said attendance was running better than 95 per cent. Disciplinary problems? Practically none. And grades? Above average.

I asked if I could talk with some of the pupils.

He called in a pretty, serious-faced girl, Adelia Watson; and a tall, lean, clean-cut boy, Jim Ream. Both were seniors, both 17, Both hoped to go to college. Adelia Watson said she wanted to study interior decorating. Jim Ream grinned, said he expected to be an engineer, and would like to study engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, if he could get the appointment.

Was it much of an adjustment to go to school at night? In effect, turning the days inside-out?

"Not too bad,* said Jim Ream. "Its better in some ways. You can do your homework in the morning this way, while youre fresh."

Adelia Watson said she found it easier to study in the daytime, too.

Yea, they missed the sports, the social life, the extra-cur^ ricular activities that go to making the high school year* aome of the best in an American kids life.

"But I guess nothing 1* too mucht 0 pay for an education,* said Jim Ream. *It* worth it."

"'What about your social life? Doesnt this cut in on your dating?"

Adelia Watson shook her head.

"My parents dont let me do any dating on school nights anyway," she *ald. Jim Ream said he had been too busy, what with one thing and another.

When Jim Ream's card came the other day, announcing graduation day, I thought of him and Adelia Watson and hundreds of bright-looking, Intent boys and girls In the classrooms that night.

So heres a salute to you, Jim

Ream, and to you, Adelia Wat

son, and all your friends in the class of 1959. Youre getting a special diploma in a few weeks.

And all of you are mighty

pedal too, In my book,

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thinkinff and talkinf about the empire? Not at all. "Where are the boys?" he kept asking. The royal sons were scattered to the ends of the earth. He wanted them brought home. He wanted to see them. A king? Yes, but a father first.

So whether It is throne or workmans bench, castle or hovel, the human Interest is the same the world over. And wa can thank Ood that it is.

Business Broadened By Airplane

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The Irplane haa been responsible for many obvious changes in American Ufe. Biusineiwimen in almost any part of the country can set up a confeitnce at 9 a m. tomorrow in Utica or Pasadena. Salesmen think nothing of flying from Boston to Reno at the drop of an inquiry. Travel to Europe has swelled .so much you can t get a reservation at Hotel Galling in' Pans before 2 p m. June 2. 1960.

But many of the changes have been overlooked pos.sibly because they are so ohvtous For instance, neither Alaska nor Hawaii would be stale today if U were not for the modern plane. Congre&s would never have seriously considered statehood if the only body-to-body com-municntlon had lK*en by means ol Jennie, or .shijvi There are many other change.. RF.LIFK jr.KT A SWM.I.GW.S I I.H.IIT AW AY The au-planc luus uuiuubui ab

ly speeded the t.empo of modern busineas. Today, some 28.000 airplanes arc used primarily for biLslness pitrposes: to get salesmen from HiUicr, Mass., to Yon. N M . to rush engineers to Ecuador, prospects to Las Vegas.

Of the 7,000 airports in the United States, about 6,400 are used almost exclusively by privately owned planes. And of these planes so many are business plane* that msny amateur flier* cant obtain hangar space. Many flvtni hams hava given up.

Planes are used in a great number of indiuatriaJ surveys; to spot Umber stands. radioacUve depasUs. Ukely oil prospects. They are used to hop executives from central offices to far-flung chain store., branch factories, ranches and other establLshmenls.

There miwt be aome figAire someplace on hoR many farmer, have a plane on thetr south forty, but we haven't found it.

The toUl must be large, or the farmers would miss the 8:10 show at tht Bijou theater in town.

IN REAL ESTATE

One use not generally known is in real estate. Pew new plant sites are finally accepted, or few new housing projects signed until all principals have flown over the site and obtained a vdsuai perspecUve far more satisfying than studyint a map.

This phase has expanded so much that a National Real Estate Fliers Assoclalton has been formed by realtors using atr-oraft in their business. This trend is csusing many communities, esger for new plants, to primp up local airports, where real estate ss4esmen can land pros-pecU. ^ '

There is another important business factor; A good fleet of company planes, piloted by crack ex Air Force men. can be a treat indcemeui m lurmg execuUve

talent. A $5fl,000-a-year raise might mean litUe, after Uxc., to an upsweeping execuUve. But a few company planes, including one that would take him to Pari* or Guatemala for a va-caUon, and a helicopter that would take hun from home to office, might cause a rising star to quit General Hellectrlc and sign up with a small, imaginative corporation-

HOW TO STARTLE SNOOPING BUS RIDERS

If you see someone reading a book In a jacket that proclaims it to be "How to Dispose of Your Mother-in-Laws Body," remain calm. Dont scream copper.

A new fimmiok ia fake book jackets. You can wrap a copy of Moll Flanders in a jacket readttit, "Blood Letting fur Teenagers," or a book on l.o-fope. m a jacket for Appendectomy Self-Taught." You may ling these jackets In your fav onte greeting card shop. .