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PHE DAaV REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

Saturday, July 4, 19S9

Saturday, July 4, 1959

Its July 4th

Spirit Of 76 Still With Us Today

The spirit which prevailed in Philadelphia 183 years ago when 56 bold men affixed their signatures to., a document that was to change the course of history still prevails in the land of their offspring today.

To be sure it may not be as evident on July 4, 1959 as it was on July 4, 1776. But it is here, nevertheless, expressed in different terms, exhibited in different ways, and supported by many millions not only in this nation but others throughout the world.

The document by which the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from the most powerful nation in the world has in the intervening years become much more than a sheet on which signatures w ere scrawled. It has become a living philosophy that has spread far beyond the boundaries of the original colonies and well beyond the boundaries of this nation.

For the beliefs set forth^ on that July day long ago, men have fought, bled and died in each generation to presence the freedoms and rights, the dignity of the individuals, which it held to be inalienable. Not only individuals, but entire nations as well have pledged aiid offered their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to preserve^ the principles the Declaration of Independence set forth,

' Just as the minutemen of coJjOJiial days in America had to stand ready to defend that in which they believed, this nation and its people today stand ready

in almost every comer of the 'globe to defend free' people threatened by tyrrany.

The road to freedom and independence was not easy for the colonists, and neither has. it been easy for the generations which have followed. In every decade there have emerged those who would snatch from the people their freedom, from nations their independence and make them slaves to various an(d sundry forms of dictatorship. Some of these enemies of freedom havcp^gained a measure of success before being struck down. Most have flourished for a Jbrief moment in history and - then have vanished only to leave behind them ugly scars and bitter lessons.

What price liberty and freedbih?

History has recorded the cost decade, after decade, generation after generation, and yet the full measure perhaps has not been paid. Those who would live under the flag of freedom must stand ready at any' moment to defend their freedom . . . not only theirs, but the freedom of other peoples as well.

I This Independence Day in some w'ays is differ-lent from those of other years. And yet, to those who enjoy its full meaning, there is the ever-present responsibility to see that the principles the day symbolizes are preserved for future generations .. . whatever the cost. I

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By LYNN NISBET

RIBBONS Ribbon cutting is a common practice in North Carolina, symbolically opening up for traffic routes over land, in the air and on water. Latest incident was the decidation" of Uie deepened and stablized Mason-- boro Inlet between Wrlghtsville Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. That followed less than a week after a ribbon had been cut opening the link of tiie Blue Ridge Parkway into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee.

There ceremonies were eventful for that they celebrated fulfillment of dreams and fruition of plans over a period of two decades. These two events are signicant, too, tecause they increase convenience for users of the Federally financed avenues of Travel, the land route In the west and the water route (Intercoastal Waterway) in the east.

Between these routes across the high mountains and along the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, there have been uncounted instances of cutting ribbons to pen new bridges, links in modern highways and runways at air ports.

A delightfully different kind of ceremony was staged last year when a party of State and Federal officials tied a ribbon which officially closed an inlet off the coast which had been cut by Hurricane Hazel. The closing of the new inlet meant stablization of the old in the area around the mouth of the Cape Fear river. The real effect of the ribbon-tying was the same as the ribbon-cuttingassurance of more certain routes of travel for commercial and business craft and speeded up communications.

The Masonboro Inlet project was designed to benefit fishing boats and pleasure yachts as well as freight barges, both local and from other places, plying between the sound, the inland waterway and the ocean. ^

PRECEDENT The project as designed and executed by the Army Engineering Corps also established a pattern and precedent for other stabilization developments to preserve the Outer Banks barrier against Inroads of the Atlantic and to make more usable the waters along the entire coast of North Carolina.

Col. Henry C. Rowland Jr., chief of the Wilmington office of the engineering corps, briefly reviewed the history of the project and the lessons learned from failures and sucedes in application Npf ideas. He intimated that expertentes here might well result in development of a new type shallow-draft dredge which woid save millions of dollars and result In greater efficiency in opening similar channels all 'long the coasts of the United StatesAtlantic, 'Gulf and Pacific.

So it was that when Mrs,>^Alton

Lennon, wife of the Congressman 4rom the seventh district, snipped the ribbon (which actually was a rope wrapped in a ribboR) formally opening Masonboro channel she was doing more than dedicating one water route. She was joining the army engineers in a far-reaching program of development.

The flotilla of vessels crossing Masonboro Channel, led by army engineer and coast guard ships; the caravan of cars at the Parkway opening, carrying license plates of the Federal government and more than a dozen states: the Initiation a few weeks ago of the F-27 planes on the Piedmont Airlines home field at Winston-Salem, combine to prove that North Carolina has definitely outgrown the horse and buggy era. Initiation of de luxe bus service across the state, both east-west and north-south, further emphasizes the change in methods of transportation.

BOGGLE Another bobble or boggle or confusion in meaning of laws enacted in the desperate rush of the late General Assembly to quit before it properly finished its work has been discovered. This one probably will not require a Supreme Court decision to determine its effect, but the act cannot be effectuated without violating one part of the law.

Rep. Rachel Davis of Lenoir introduced a bill of April 28 (HB 703) providing for establishment of a swine diagnostic center at Kinston to be kept open 24 hours a day seven days a week and appropriating funds to operate It. The bill was reported out of the House appropriations committee on June 18more than seven weeks after its Introduction and two days before adjournemtn amended -to cut the approrpia-tion to just enough to operate the center for 40 hours a week. It passed the House like that, went to the Senate where it was further amended, came back to House for concurrence, and was ratified a few minutes before final adjournment on June 20.

Butas ratified the act still requires the center to be open 24 hours a day. seven days a week, with only enough money to operate 40 hours a week. If it isnt established the law will be violated. If it operates less than 168 hours, it will violate requirements of the law. If it spends more than enough to operate 40 hours, it will violate the law.

It is expected that as State agencies and departments have time to study the acts, especially those passed in the final hours, of the General Assembly other conflicts will appear. And responsible officials will have to decide which provisions of the law to Ignore or violate. All because the General Assembly was hell-beant to quit not later than June 20, whether or not its job was properly done.

While Pitt Countys two largest municipal gov-jernments, those of Greenville and Farmville, have tentatively approved budgets holding their tax rates at levels of the past year, there is little hope that the Pitt'County Commissioners will be able to do as well tax wise for Pitt Countians as a whole.

There is one primary reason for this over which the Commissioners have little if any control.

In order to meet the debt service obligations of the countyand at the same time maintain county

College For. Ole. ?eoDle

By KENNETH ISHU

KODA. Japan (AP) Tha woman peered into the registrars office at Kotobuki University and asked if she could enroll.

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operations on anywhere near the same level as in the past yearthe County Commissioners are going to have to increase their tax rate for the current fiscal year. ^

In a large measure the increase will be due to the $675,000 bond issue approved in a referendum last September for the addition to Pitt Memorial Hospital. These hospital bonds will be of relatively short maturity as local government bonds go, the last of them maturing in nine years.

It will mean, of course, that a larger tax levy will be required during this period to retire the bonds, but it also means that Pitt citizens will be receiving some distinct advantages in the process.

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Outside of Ingemar Johansson, his family and manager, my father is the only man I know and the only man Ive heard of who said (before the fight) that the Swede could lift the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson.

He said it in the cool of an evening while we were enjoy-

or environmental conditioning, take your choice.

It followed I should have listened; but for the life of me, the suggestion Ingemar might win was so far out in left field I just couldnt see any point in arguing the issue.

Now, long days after the upset,

ing a vagrant breeze under the . my opinion of the new heavy-carport; so I should have weight boxing champion has ris-

The first advantage will be that of a lower inter- probability

realized he wasnt touched by the sun in voicing such an im-

est rate on the bonds when they are iold-later this

en a little bit; and my opinion of the deposed titleholder remains unchanged.

A champion in any weight division must be able to use and get the most out of both hands, skilled in infighting as well as

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year than could possibly be expected on longer term my own leanings in that direc-bonds. While recent long-term bond issues of local might be traced to heredity governments in North Carolina have brought interest ^ '

rates of four per cent and higher, officials expect

Pitt to receive an interest rate of less than four per cent Lwi O kJvJ. y ii ly

on its hospital bonds. j

By borrowing the money for a nine-year period rQQ0C V IT.

rather than 20 or so years, Pitt County will have to I

pay considerably less interest on the bonds before they (Henderson Dispatch)

mature. That means, of course that the total cost to Eisenhower took the

Pitt County taxpayers will be less than ii the bonds advice of Agriculture Secretary

were for a long erm period. Benson and the American Farm

Though the bond program will mean a higher f^eau

county tax rate this year, the overall program for these guarded the fiuecured tobacco

bonds certainly appears in the best long-range interest industry for the immediate future. Eisenhower kriWs solittle about

of the people of Pitt County. And certainly the people fy doing so, he opened the way agriculture that he relies upon

of the county are confident that the need for enlarged sSent^of AmericarTagri-

and improved hospital facilities justifies the expense, culture.

Otherwise they would not have approved the bond is- The President was misled by

at longer ranges: able to think clearly and calmly during flurries, with mental processes intimately linked to reflexes. All this, besides good conditioning, punching power, stamina, courage and determination.

' Patterson has all those qualities, and demonstrated them repeatedly. Johansson hasnt shown them all yet.

In another day, Max Schmel-ling pounded out Joe Louis with a big right hand, but in their second match the German wasnt given a chance to use it. Something like that could happen in September.

Anyhow, Id like to be right for* a change.

at helping the farmer, and which in this instance has not thus far cost the government a 'penny. But it is going to cost the Federal Treasury under the effects of the veto of the tobacco freeze proposal.

Truth of the matter is that

sue at the polls last September.

They-Got Along Retter Dancing

By JAMES MARLOW

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WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and the Soviet Union get along better when they stick to dancing. Everybody liked everybody during the Bol-shei dancers two months stay in this country.

But the 100 nimble-footed Russians left just a few days before the arrival here late in June of Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov. He smiled and was jelly and was pretty nimble too in hopping around to see everything.

Then suddenly Thursday he sounded like his boss. Premier Nikita Khrushchev: he gave a very chilly warning that the Soviet Union would meet force with force if the United States resorted to military action in the Berlin crisis.

His statement followed by a few hours published reports In this country that Khrushchev was very tough in talking about Berlin to former Gov. W. Averell Harriman of New York In Moscow. There was an air of gloorn-and-doom about the reports.

They were put in perspective later when Lincoln White, the Slate Department.s pre^ officer, said he didnt know of any American alarm over what Khrushchev is alleged to have told Harriman.

But why should there be? Theres nothing new in Khrushchevs being tough about Berlui. And since Kozlov u Khrushchev messenger, there nothing very surprising about hi commenu either. He could hardly do anything but echo hi bo Khrushchev has talked tough about Berlin all along, ever stuoe last Nov. 27 That when he lir*t waimed the Western Allies to get ' their troops out of Wfiit Berlin Since he knew tttt wo Id create a crisiswhose end no one could be sure o^it mi^ist he assumed his warning was well thought out. And no'wonder. West Berlin.

Soviet Union since the end of the war.

It was so much of a pain that Joseph Stalin, more than 10 years ago. tried to force the Allies out hy blockading the city. President Harry Truman broke that with the airlift. There was only one reason he could get away with it.

At that time this country which had the atom bomb while Stalin didnt was militarily stronger. The Soviets for 10 years .then played quiet on Berlinuntil they were equally strong with bombs and missiles.

The fact that Khrushchev said Get out' last Novemberafter waiting 10 years to resume where Stalin left offis pretty good evidence he feels powerful enough to get away with it. Its a gamble, of course.

It could lead to war if the West refuses flatly to budge, But he apparently felt strong enough to lake the gamble. Meanwhile, the Allies, seeking a peaceful settlement but refusing to get out. have talked with the Soviets for six weeks at Geneva. The talks re.sume July 13.

At Geneva, the Soviet Union refused to back down from Its over-all demand that the West get out; the West refused to oudge from its overall position that it wont. The Soviets made aome concessions, the West made more.

Since the talks will start up again It would seem poor bar-galnig for Khrushchev to switch auddenly to a conciliatory soft Bne now when, he sounding tough, be may hope to wring more con-, cafsioiia from the West later this mooUi.

It would be foolish to hold Khrushcheva threats and wam-tnga lightly. But jt would hard-

his advisors. He discarded the appeal and the' approval of the tobacco industry generally, and has left the door open for incalculable harm to come to growers. In the producing end of the business, farmers are not wholly blameless, but what Ike has done will not help matters, it will only aggravate an already critical situation.

The bill which had been approved by both houses of Congress by substantial margins would have held price supports at the 1958 level for several years, and would to that extent have removed the threat of the loss of export markets by reason of continually rising prices on the commodity. There would have been no additional cost to the government, in fact not as much as the potential in permitting prices to advance further in the-next few years and thus drive foreign buyers to other fields for their requirements.

Secretary Benson has for years been sniping at the tobacco program. admittedly the most successful of all the systems aimed

his assistants and advisors, and in this particular instance got the wrong advice. It will be harmful to the government and to growers and the tobacco industry generally.

In the light of the veto, the whole industry becomes engulfed in confusion. Farmers will receive more by reason of higher government supports, but their foreign markets are threatened as a result. Exporters will suffer similar losses. In the end. the highly beneficial tobacco program may collapse, to the detriment of all interests involved. .

The future is darker for grow- * implication of fond tribute ers because of the Presidents a nice guy and his girl.

Something of a rare occur-, ance took place Tuesday evening. It was a gathering of The Reflectors news staff to wish Godspeed to Jimmy and Gwen Ellis.

The rarity is that the newsroom crowd seldom convenes in a social atmosphere after working hours. Its as though having worked together during the day, theyre willing enough to let It go at that. Offhand, in all the years Ive been with the paper I can recall no such unanimous turnout as the Ellis departure occasioned.

The lets-get-together inspiration has been raised about once every summer, and the response is relatively cool. It may be a meeting night for one; anothers spouse may have something planned; another has a date; or perhaps someone just wants to catch up on some lost sleep. It takes a remarkable degree of arranging and prodding to round up the regulars for a bit of socializing.

So Tuesday's little gathering possessed an out of the ordinary

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Were happy to have you, said Mataro Shiga, the school', chief administrator. You meet our requirementa admirably.

He wasnt joking although the woman is 90 years old.

For Kotobuki means long life, the name appropriately given to an institution established in Ko-da in 1957 as unique and remarkably successful experiment in meeting a little-recognized need in postwar Japan.

The New Japan New ways of thinking and living have come to Japan since the end of the war, says Shiga. Our society has becoma democratized. But the old folk, whose minds are deeply ingrained with feudal, old-fashioned ideas, have often found it difficult to adjust to the new Japan.

Our university is an attempt to help the old people of Koda make this adjustment, so they can understand and enjoy their new environment Instead of feelp lug useless and discarded.

At 90, widow Ju Suzuki is tha oldest student at Kotobuki.

Youngsters under 70 do not qualify for admission, though many would like to.

EnroUment 1 <0 We kep enrollment down to about 60o for financial reasons. The 'university' operates on an annual budget of $277 dollars apportioned out of local taxes by the Koda town assembly. And tuition is free.

There are 32 men and 28 women in the class of 59 from a town of 18,000 people of which about 800 are over 70 years old.

Classes are held once a month at the Koda town hall to which the old folk commute by bus, on foot, and sometimes in muddy weather on the rear luggaga racks of bicycles pedalled by sons or daughters.

Ten classes constitute a complete course, but attendance at eight of these is siffucient to assure a student of a diploma.

Classes last from two to five in the afternoon and are divided into lecture and recreation seiteions.

For lectures, Shiga explains,^ we have teachers come to dls- cuss problems of the old in our changing society, which is something no one ever considered before.

Students are encouraged to talk about their particular problems and this serves as a basis for general discussion.

We also have talks on politic and other subjects of current interest. And travalogue movie are also popular.

For recreation, the old folk try their hand at handicrafts, or play games, for example, trying to walk a straight line with an apple balanced on the head. They seem to enjoy themselves as much as small children.

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A major cau.se of inflation is heavy government spending and debtcaused by our demands on government. We can remove this cause of inflation by stopping our demands for government handouts and by demanding government economy instead.^hewelah CWash.) Independent.

action. They are faced with the increasing necessity of recognizing the seriousness of the plight in which they find themselves. They need to do one of two things, perhaps both, namely, go all out for production of the highest possibly quality of leaf and look to other sources of supplemental income. Both agricultural and government leaders are now confronted with the necessity of finding something different and a way out of the morass into which this segment-of agriculture has been pushed by the Presidents action.

On every Fourth of July somebody somewhere is going to urge Americans to read their Declaration of Independehce.

This column wont go so far as that, because everybody is quite sure they know the Declaration well enough, and If it was good enough for Grandpa, well But there is a side to this important document that people sometimes overlook when reading or in jogging their memories. The statement includes four specific references to the dependence of our nation on Almighty

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God.

These are the references to God we find in the Declaration;

. . .the laws of nature and natures God entitle them. . . .. .all men are.. .endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. .

. . .to the Supreme Judge of the world. .

. . .with a fijrm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.

Airlines Breokino Old Routes

By ELMER ROESSNER

Airlines are about to bj-eak the oovered-w'agon pattern of routes.

The main traffic routes of the United Stateson land and in the allgrew from the fact that

oxen need Water.

When the great growth of the nation began more than a century ago, migrants and homestead- cities connected by the old wagon ers moved out largely in covered routes. This was true in the

lots of water, of course, but that was not important. The highways used the old routes principally because they connected population centers, and they connected them by routes that were roughly surveyed and which had negotiable grades.

When planes came, neither water nor grades were important, but demand for travel rose in the

wagons drawn by oxen. Their routes had to be over grades that oxen could pull loads; they could never be too far from w'ater. While it might be possible to carry some water, there had to be water stations along th^ routes.

There were three general routes: one to the Northwest; one through passes in the Sierras, such as the Donner and Jackson passes to Northern California. and others across the

East as well as the West. Boston, New York. Philadelphia, Washington and cities to the South mostly on old turnpikes and post roadswanted service and the service had to parallel those same roads.

And today the airlines maps of the United States ar not much unlike the old road maps, straightened for shorter air distance, of course.

ly make sense for American gov-

emment officials to get pneumonia skirting mountains and

even' time Khrushchev sneezed, across , the Mojave Desert to

TThe whole point Ls slmply^thls: California. _

any toughness he's showing, or ROUTE.S OF ROADS, PLANES

Kozlo^ iii showing, is exactly the Cities sprang up at the termi-miks inMde eomraiK same fewir)ear hae?" nsl^: rtfiAf at

nlst East Germany. Is occupied been showing all along." Theres grew. So 'when- the automobile

by Allied troops and a popu- nothing new in that came, it was natural that high-

latlon whose allegiance la to West - It would be new if they did ways rouehly ran along the old

Germany. iCs been a pain to the anything else. route. The early cars needed

MIAMI TO LOS ANGELES

In the old days, no one wanted tx) go by covered wagon from Florida to California. Some went by-auto,'but there was no heavy flow of traffic.

* '>An'^aif todsty "ihere major air service* between the two orange-growing, tourist-luring. sclf-boo.sting states. To get from one to another there is

much changing of planes and airlines, and the route is somewhat wiggley.

However, the Civil Aeronautics Board has stepped into the situation. Its studies indicate a need for a direct service between the rival states, with good intermediate service for cities along the main toute, and a good system of feeder lipes.

Most of the major aiilines reaching into that part of the country have applied for such routes. The CAB has held hearings in Houston, Los. Angeles, Miami and Washington. The hearing examiner will soon make recommendations; the lines will be given time to file briefs and prepare oral arguments. After those, the CAB will award the route, and service is expected to be in operation by early next *year.

It is expected that the CAB will award the main route, probably from Miami to Los Angeles, to one airline, which will provide nonstop flights and flights with stops at New Orleans, Houston and at the Dallas-Port Worth Center. With, such a service

CAB will award routes for feeder service that will bring and take passengers from other Southern cities to the main line.

Advantages to the entire South are expected to be 'great. Its economy can be strengthened by a two-way flow of passengers and freight from the Orient and California: no longer will they have to travel a zig-zag rout* across the country.

LITTLE BY-GOLLIES IN THE BUSINESS NEWS

The fur of the hamsterthat lovable, little, fast-reproducing animal. Is becoming popular for fur coats. . .Boat fenders, those snarls of rope hung over the side of ships to soften bumps with tugs, piers and other ships,-arc now being replaced with inflated watermelons made of toughest tire nylon and rubber.

. . .A civilian faculty member ia a military school may deduct the cost of uniforms not sultabl* for ordinary Wear, the Internal Revenue Service rules. . .'The U.S., Soil Conservation Service has Invented a slide rule to

Fh?rtda eowM f d'K* showthe nnmher'mf ^is aT' rectly to Los Angeles and then tillage operations that will

on to Hawaii. Tokyo, Hong Kong leave sufficient amounts of

or other Oriental cities. grain stubble on soil surface to

In addition, perhaps later, the control soil blowing. *

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