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Wednesday^ July 1, 1959

Wednesday, July 1, 1959

Two Tobacco Industry Problems

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Two points continue to be paramount in almost every discussion of the problem faced by the tobacco industry and particularly farmers who produce the golden wood. I

1, Quality of the leaf produced . . the kind of tobacco which is in most demand by domestic and export companies, will continue to a great extent to determine the demand and the price for tobacco.

2. The tobacco industry as a whole must present a solid fiont in an effort to bring about a moire realistic stabilization program that will help prevent American tobacco being priced out of foreign markets.

Both these' principal points were sounded agaiff this week at the meeting of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association.

Farmers were reminded again that quality tobacco^the kind most in demandwill bring the higher price while other grades and types of tobacco of secondary importance to domestic and export companies will continue to be a drag on the market.

It is true that the demand for various kinds of tobacco have changed so rapidly in recent years that farmers have found it difficult to gear their production from one year to the next to meet the rapidly changing demands of their purchases. Nevertheless, it is well established now that body and aroma are key qualities both domestic and export companies want in their leaf.

Ten-Mile-Long nk In Parkway

By LYNN NISBET

WILDERNESS The newest link in the Blue Ridge Parkway between Wolf Laurel Gap near Soco and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park runs through a ten mile stretch of wilderness. unbroken by any sign of civilization except the road itself. Along most of the 470 "mile Parkway there are cultivated fields and homes in the valleys. The new link is entirely within the QuaOa Bdundary. familiarly known as the Cherokee Indian Reservation. There are no fields and if there are cabins they are hidden by Uie dense forests.

The ten mile link has five tunnels and numerous spots which afford spectacular views of the piled up Great Smokies often described as the greatest land mass in Eastern America. For more than 400 miles from Shenandoah Park in Virginia to Beech Gap south of Asheville the Parkway runs in a southwesterly course along the top of the Blue Ridge. Black and Pisgab ranges. At beech Gap it makes almost a right angle turn and runs northwesterly dlrJtly across the Balsams and the eastern prong of the Great Smokies. Por Uiat reason there are majestic mountain walls close in on both sides, and none of the wide panoramic vistas which feature most of the northern part of the Parkway. In some respects more awe-inspiring, the scenery is less attractive.

This new link was formally de* dicated and opened to traffic last Thursdy in ceremonies staged where the Parkway joins US-441 as the eastern entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park three miles above the village of Cherokee. Paradoxically, the ribbon cutting was at the other end after a drive along the new road. The eff^t of that was to have Uie ribbon cut in order to let people off the Parkway rather than enter it.

PEOPLE The opening sentence of the inscription on the largest wall plaque ifi the Ocon-aluftee Pioneer Museum near the park entrance reads: People first settled in these mountains about 1800. They were American pinoneers of English, Scotch-Irlsh, German and French Huge-not descent.**

The museum is administered by the National Park Service and features the crude farming and housekeeping implements of the white pioneers. Occupying the most prominent place in the display is a good quality liquor still, fully equipped with copper kettle and worm, condensing coils and stone Jugs apparently needing only some mash and kindling wood to start the process of liquor making. Although obviously Of post-pioneer type, the liquor still was the most popular subject for photographers.

There is practically no refer

ence to Indian culture In these exhibiits. The Indian Museum down the village, administered by the Cherokee Historical Association, features the early native implements and crafts. It does no pay any attention to white mens doings.

' Which probably explains why the reference to people** in the Park Museum plaque completely Ignores the fact that Indians were here at least three centuries before 1800. The opening scene In the fame Cherokee drama, Unto These Hills, depicts thd raid of DeSota and his Spanish soldiers in 1540 35 years before Sir Walter Raleigh's first expedition landed on Roanoke Island.

However many people were in this section 500 or 100 years ago, and where they came from, is interesting from viewpoint of history. The more important present fact is that they are coming now by the multiplied millions each year and from every part of the world.

BUSINESS Bu^ess is good in the mountains. People are coming from all over and are finding little diificulty in locating good eating and lodging accommodations. Eating places were crowded and No vacancy signs were conspicuous at the better motels adjacent to Cherokee. Scouts report similar congestion at other centers. But in Uie perimeter area 10 to 12 miles away such as Bryson City. Mafgie Valley and Sylva rooms and tables were readily available the middle of last week.

It is apparent that the need for one large hotel, or for much closer coordination of small individual motels with a central convention hall, is as acute in the area around the eastern enti^nce to the Smoky Mountains Park as it is on the Carolina beaches.

There are beds and good food available in the area for as many people as might come, except on rare peak days, but despite some efforts in that direction there is no adequate central information point to tell visitors where to go and no place to get a large crowd together at any time.

Personnel at motels^lHid restaurants were found to be uniformly courteous, noticeable improvement over a few years ago. But questions asked at ha'J a dozen places about other accomodations or entertainment failed to get usable information. A waitress at one place where good and service was superb, and only a dozen miles from Cherokee, did not know whether Unto These Hills was scheduled for that night. At another place we asked about the Parkway dedication and the attractive and courteous waitress said she had read something about that in the newspapers.

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AB edvertlslnt oopy must bs reoehred st laast oqs day bafota pAtteatk* oate ,

Tobacco which does not possess these qualities are not going to command the price that farmers and expect when they go to market. ,

A gradual adjustment has been made by producers, but there still remains a lag between the qualities which purchasers are demanding in tobacco and the qualities in a large portion of tobacco now being produced.

So far as the price support program of tobacco is concerned, President Eisenhowers veto of the bill which would have frozen supports at the 1958 level for fout* or five years has been a blow to the entire tobacco industry. While possibility of overriding this presidential veto are not optimistic, the industry as a whole is faced with the problem finding some new approach which will produce the same end result.

It is not a problem which will be easily resolved even with concerted effort by all segments of the industry. It is a problem which will not be solved in the best interest of the industry as a whole if there is a division of effort.

Suffice it to say that the tobacco industry faces two major problems, neither of which can be solved overnight.

It remains a fact, however, that both the problems must be solved and in the near future unless the industry is to suffer further economic setbacks. j

A Beginning - Point To Meet Future Needs-

Greenvilles City Council should foffow th*e rec-^ ommendation of its Planning and Zoning Comm^sion to cooperate with the State Highway Commission in developing a long-range arterial traffic system for the city.

After hearing the preliminary proposal by the Highway Commission for such a system, the Planning and Zoning Commission indicated that such a development is needed for Greenville.-It is now up to the City p TTMMV T?T T TQ

Council to approve'or disapprove the action of the dllVllVlX iLLdjlo

Planning and Zoning Commission.

The proposals of the Highway Commission for /\ ^

developing such a system certainly does not provide jTi, ivj. the solution to all the traffic problems Greenville will face in the future. It must be realized^ however, that long range planning in this direction is needed if Greenville is to cope with increased traffic problems S'haioccSi with in the future. The gradual development of an arterial { personaUy startling and nerve-traffic system for the city is a step in the right direc- shattering frequency on The Dai-tion. It is a beginning point for something that will be Y

desperately needed in the future. My Fa Gwen! w rchln.

Unless long-range planning is made in that direc- The 'Twinkles and I are leaving, tion, Greenvilles traffic problems 'will become more We are moving from Greenville

complicated and its traffic congestion become increas- and^a^new^We^are waK for jngly serious. , us.

By cooperating with the Highway Commission in The new job does not include the development of such a system, Greenville will be writing columns, reporting gra-

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To You Adieu

This Is a sort of a finale.

It will be the last of these

making a sound approach to reaching the solution of one of its long-range problems.

The Council should, in this case, follow the recommendation of its Planning and Zoning Commission to launch the cooperative program.

Decision Needs Another Rulina

duations, sitting in on meeting of local government boards, listing names of recipients of marriage licenses, and many of the other things which have become 50 familiar since June 17, 1956.

What will be involved in public relatipii^ work with The American dotton Manufacturers Institute, central organization of the American textile industry.

It promises to be an interesting and challenging assignfhent in new surroundings and under new conditions.

We hardly * expect the rest of the world to make much of a fuss over the change. However, it has considerable meaning for us.

In a not-so-eloquent way, the change will include leaving what is home for all of us; interrupting the pleasantly large number of good and true friendships which have been established in Greenville and other parts of the county; departing from a routine which has been built over a period of years: and facing the uncertainty which is a natural part of anrthing new.

The change will also mean answering an opportunity which, to us, seems remarkable, and accepting the challenge of new and slightly different work.

For the little ones Wee Urchin and The Twinkles we

presume the change will come easier than for My Fair Gwen and \ae. They have, certainly, their own little worlds here, but little people seem to forget so much faster than their parents, and memory of things past seems of much less importance.

If we could have our way. My Fair Gwen and 1 would have them forget none of the life we have had in Greenville and Pitt County. The time and timing of it have been Important for all of us, but especially for them.

Whether they do or dont realize it now, the little ones will have ties here forever. They are perhaps stronger than the ties My Fair Gwen and I have.

Realizing all these thliurs. It is hard -- harder Uian usnal, it seems ~ to say good-bye to the people and the things we have come to love. Under the circumstances, this is probably the best way to do it.

It is certainly the easiest way.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court has opened a door which may get so crowded with intruders that another Supreme Court decision wi|L be needed to clarify what the court did Monday.

It said in a 5-4 ruRng - that policy-making government officials are absolutely Immune to libel suits against them for something they said or did in what they considered line of duty.

But Chief Justice Earl Warren, one of the four who disagreed with the majority opinion, raised tiie specter of these officials defaming their critics under the protection of absolute imiiiunity to libel suits.

It will sanctify the powerful and silence debate, Warren said.

Under the majority opinion could a policy-making official, angered by newspaper criticism of him, deliberately and dishonestly, under the guise of official concern for his agency, defame the newspaper with immunity?

It's not clear. The opinion doesnt seem very clear to Warren.

He said the court, by its reasoning. has set up an uncertain standard which is not a guide at all for these policymaking officials to follow.

He suggested the court will have to ^ve new appraisals

BECAUSE he does not think this opinion is clear enough to be final on almost every charge of defamation by a government official.

Mondays opinion involved two government employes who were suspended and denounced in a press release in 1953 by the director of rent stabilization for the way they handled casn an- f jlOininn^ nual leave setUemcnta for some iiiwiio

agency employes. - , r\ r

Justice John M. Harlan, writ-' In Kr]PJ ing the majority opinion, said the problem was one of balance: the protection of an indlvidiual citizen from oppressive or malicious damage by a government official against the protection of the public Interest by shielding government officials from the harassment and inevitable hazards of vindictive or ill-found damage suits.

Harlan wrote: "In this' Instance It has been thought in the end better to leave unredressed the wrongs done by dishonest officers than to subject those who tiT to do their duty to the constant dread of retaliation.

Justice William J. Brennan couldnt accept this reasoning. In 'his dissenting opinion he said absolute immunity for officials below Cabinet rank goes too far.

That kind of immunity makes thehl libel free even though they

defamed someone amliciously and untrhtufuUy.

Brennan would grant polky-making officials below Cabinet rank no more than qualified libel-immunity. That is, they would be protected in tiieir honest mistakes against a libel suit but not when It could be shown they had committeed dishonest and malicious defamation.

In one way or another high-ranking members of the three branches of the government-legislative, judicial, and executive already have absolute Immunity to libel suits under certain circumstances.

But this is the first time It has been extended so far down in the line of command.

The Constitution itself gives members of Congress absolute immunity against a libel suit for anything they say In Congress. This does not mean they are libel-free if they defame someone, say. on TV or radio.

But the Supreme Court Itself has never ruled on just how much immunity members of Congress have for what they say or do outside the Capitol and their congressional office buildings.

About 65 years ago the court gave absolute immunity to libel action to members of the Presidents Cabinet department heads appointed by him for matters committed by law to their control or supervision.

And the Supreme Court has ruled that judges of courts of superior or general authority are absolutely immune to civil suits for damages because of actions by the judges while acting officially, no matter what their motives. ,

Other Editors Saying .. Quote . Bird Brains, Egg Heads

Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times)

Dr. John Guy Fowlkes of the University of Wisconsin came down to Oxford last week to urge the University of Mississippi Education Conference not to overemphasize the gifted student.

H.e said more concern should be given the uneducated persons who exhibit smallness, intolerance and prejudice.

We would have liked to have heard all the qualifications and shades of opinion that Dr. Fowlkes lent .to this thesis, but since that was the extent of the news that reached most of the public it must bear comment as it stands.

Certainly the uneducated, small-minded and intolerant people are in the greatest need of enlightenment, but our school systemsal-ready seem to have put too much emphasis on being one great intellectual levelgr, yanking up the mentally deficient, which might be helpful, but at the same time trimming down the larger brainy to fit the pattern, which is tragic.

One mindedness is the real threat to democracy, not the prejudices of the Ignorant. A continued alert leadership stemming from the inquisitive minds of exceptionally bright students is

the genius of the phenominal progress America has made over such a brief span of history. The quality of a full education is more important than the quantity of the semi-educated.

Certainly each person should have the opportunity to learn; to develop his mind to the extent of its capacity so that each can reason with logic, communicate with intelligence and enjoy the finer aspirations of man. But where there are minds of unusual ability, we are robbing our nation of its hope for the future when we do not provide for them special opportunities to realize their full capacities and when we insist on boring them to wasteful distraction by holding them back with the slower students.

We would agree with Dr. Fowlkes that every human being is gifted in some way and that each such talent should be allowed to develop, but there seems to have considerably more effort made in colleges all over the country to getting everyone Into schools of some kind rather than offering full opportunities to those among the more gifted in the population. If it comes to a choice between the bird brain or the egg head, and we hope it does not, we think that the old riddle should finally be resolved and let the egg come first.

Maybe Americans dont read as much as they used to or are not as select in their reading as they used to be, but the book publishing business as a whole doesn't seem ready to fold up. Nor is there any dearth of would-be authors bent <m writing the great American novel, unfortunately, too many of them actually try it.Anaheim (Calif.) Bulletin.

Coming

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Every year they troop here the kids with the big hope.

They all have the same goal to make a name in show business, to carve themselves a niche in the American theater.

They come from every part of the land, from every kind of background. Some are the sons of laborers, some are the spoiled daughters of the wealthy. Some wear the stamped neatness of the ly League, some look 'like the bom beatniks they are.

Many ^f them share a startling lack of talent. All share a single thing a vision of stardust, a picture of themselves posturing before an applauding world.

Why does anyone set out to be an actor or an actress? What motivates them? I can never decide whether it Is blind ignorance. blind courage, or a blind and mystic compulsion they have no control over whatever.

It cant be sheer ignorance, be^ cause most of these kids know what the odds against them are. They know many actors are lucky to make 11,000 a year at their 'craft They know the average performer doesnt earn a fifth as much as a plumber, a tmth as much as a dentist. Yet each is sure in his heart, for a time anyway, Ill beat the odds.**

There is something magnificent and tremulous In the way these young people smash against the impossible. It is rather like winching massed infantry march, singing, into certain disaster against massed artillery. It inspires you even as^'it breaks your heart.

In the beginning art is everything with them, and money means notiilng. They take all sorts of odd jobs to keep them alive while they wait for the one break.*

Pew ever get That big chance** and even fewer go on to real success- Most of them succumb to these twin eroders of most dreams time and common sense. They give up and go away.

And the one in a thousand who does come out on top in show business? If he was lonely before, be is now twice as lonely and three times as fearful.

Success, he finds, is not a perch but a prize fight ring with no real rest between the rounds. Finding the right rde is now even more terribly important than getting that big break** used to be.

He cant afford to take a chance. He is a big financial human pie, cut into many pieces for the producer, his press agent, his manager, his family, ^the tax collector.

But if you asked him why he doesnt get out of the business, hed say, Are you crazy? After what I went through to get here!

Why does anyone' really want to be an actor? Only an actor knows and he probably couldnt tell youl

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE ETERNITY BEYOND

The Book of Revelation has often greatly troubted Christian believers. It is a mysterious book describing heavenly things. Most of its symbolism appears to be beyond human comprehen-but Its beauty is lost upon no one who appreciates beauty of thought and language. Also people whose hearts aspire for higher things find in this Book of Revelation an assurance and comfort which greatly supports their spiritual lives.

In the 21st chapter of Revelation, John says; And I saw no temple therein. He had just been describing the glories of high heaven. Amazing as it may seem. John declared that there is no church in heaven. He saw glorious things In that heavenly setting.

but he saw no church.

Why? Because there never was and never will be any need of a church in heaven. Here on earth we have to set aside times, places, buUdlngs which we use to the deepening of our spiritual capacities. But 4n heaven Is there are no set-aside areas of holiness. The whole of heaven is sacred. There is no need for a holy church in heaven because heaven is holier than any earthly church could possibly be. It is the enlargement to infinity of what we have in small compass here on earth.

No church in heaven! And lor good reason. No area In heaven set aside for sacred use because all of heaven is completely sacred.

We begin to live the heavenly life here on earth; we complete 8, in the eternity beyond.

Needs Of Com fnercial Aviation

Our friend says hes not self-made, nor can he attribute anything to his mother or l>is wife. In fact, bis life is more the kind of thing that would have been put together by a committee. Asheville Cltlzen-Tlmes,

Truth has only to change hands a few times to become fiction.* ^k Haven (Pa:) Times,

Our lights are guaranteed by the constitution, interpreted by the courts, true, but here is one more factor and that Is public opinion. lire Publishers Auxiliary.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Domestic aviation needs five things to increase its service to the public and its own prosperity. holds Harmar D Denny, retiring member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, on which he has been a frequent and outspoken dissenter. ,

These five things are: *

1. More feeder lines, bringing passengers in from smaller places to make connections with main alrUnes.

2. Greater state and municipal action to generate (thats the word in airline lingo) mpre traffic for feeder lines,

3. New planes combining the small-fipace landing of helicopter and the forward speed of con-ventonal planes* with low-cost operation. Such planes have been designed but Commissioner Denny says their performance and economy are still to be proved. UNTANGLED ROUTES

4. The generation of more domestic cargo.

5. Unscrambling the routes across the Canadian and Me*!* can bSrderSj^ ,

The Increase in the numberof feeder lines has been a pet project of the commissioner. The CAB has been conduting a number of so-called area hearings, weighing appllations for new feeder lines. Th* country has been divided into eight areas, and hearings have been* held In each area in an effort to work out patterns so that new feeders will furnish passengers for the major lines, and the major lines will provide passengers lor the feeders.

The Federal Government, through the CAB, is now subsidizing feeder lines to. the extent of $60,000,000 a year,* he said. That Is the only subsidy 'the government is paying airlines. All th major domestic and American International lines are new makii^g profits without subsidies.

However, to get all the new feeder lines we need, subsidies may have to be increased to about $90,000,000.

/States and cities, and civic organizations must help these feeder airlines. Feeder lines must

bick up an average of five persons a day at each stop. If local governments dont want to lose plane connections Wdth the rest of the country, they baust encourage at least that many people to travel by air. MANEUVERABLE, LOW-COST PLANE NEEDED One difficulty. Colonel Denny aid. is the cost of establishlog airports close to smaller cities. The answer will be a place with a 20Q-mile-an-hour forward 'speed which can land like a helicopter. A helicopter can land in an average parking lot, and that much space is almost always obtainable But such a plane must be cheap to operate because of the relatively light' iraffic.

In addition, these feeder lines must have more freight. The Trans-Atlantic lines have done a great job in selling their freight services, largely because competition is so keen. But domestic lines have not yet convinced business that domestic air freight cah sometimes be cheaper than other forms.

The two biggest pii^-order

houses have discovered that the savings in warehouse costs, time and collections make air freight a bargain under many circumstances. and they are using a lot of it. But the domestic airlines have not got that fact over to business generally.

Passenger trips across the border are sometimes awkward because of limited routes allowed* For example, take a trip from my home city of Pittsburgh, Pa., to Montreal. Youd have to take Capital to Buffalo, American from Buffalo to Toronto, and ITans-Canada from Toronto to Montreal.

The CAB Is working on some new route exchanges with Canada and Mexico. They will rfeed State Department approval.

NOT QUITE AS LATE AS YOU THINK Watch and wait for our coming fire sale. advertised a Plainfield, NJ. store. It wasnt planning a'fire. A near-by blaze caused smope and water damage, so the store used the watch for ad while it repriced the merchais disc.