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Tuesday July .7, 1959

Tnesday, July 7, 1959

Those Safety Campaigns Do Work!

It can be done. GonousFoujtts traffic toll; though the count wag

That was the word from Wyoming, New Mexico higher than last year* two-day period

who came trough All but six states had at least one highway death

the Fourth of July weekend without a traffic fatality, during the period. * ay aeain

True, none of the three are what you could call aii av a. a.

heavily populated states; and their automotive census f Dffv"pffnrf ^^se occasions of all-

probably Wdnt match that of, say North Carolina, ft , .I .'I

But to offset their relatively light number of cars and nnblic will inaUt hitrhif ?tor-

trucks pn the go, you have a comparatively fewer f. {I- -_j !*

Picketing Our Exhibit Before It (^lens

number of paved highway miles in the equation.

Delaware mobilized all its state police and state police office workers as well as allv local officers. It worked.

Wyomings highway patrolmen were also out in full force, and despite a higher authorized speed limit there were no traffic dead.

New Mexicos state police recruited volunteers from other state agencies as well as local enforcers. Roadblocks were set up to caution out-of-^tate drivers and the states rising highway toll stood still over the holidays. In the process, more than 1,400 traffic tickets were issued and 74 motorists arrested. But it worked.

for them and their families holiday periods.

not just during the

Those Days Of Are Far From

Crisis

Ended

The trouble over West Berlin and its related problems of trying to live in peace with the Communist world are still with us . . . only sleeping, and not dead.

When the respective foreign ministers of the Big Nor did North Carolina really fare too badly. Geneva, those uneasy evenings of

There have been any number of non-holiday weekends analpes and listenuig to analyses will

in our recent history with more than eight people dying on our highways.

The National Safety Council over-estimated the

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By LYNN NISBET

EMINENT DOMAIN The recent General Assembly moved to liat and restrict the exercise of eminent domain authority by the sovereign State for talcing private property against the owner's will That step was in opposite direction from general attitude of the 1957 session, which delegated such powers to private corporations to greater degree than ever before.

The sovereign State has always had power to take property for purposes of pubc health and safety. There are frequent occasions when It is difficult to distinguish between health and safety on the one hand and mere convenience and pleasure on the other. In any event the sovereignty of the State is not absolute. It cannot take property without compenaation, the amount to be determined by judicial process.

The State has delegated Its power of eminent domain to public utilities^railroads, power and telephone companies, which in return for that delegated power submit to regulation by the State as to rates and services r^dered. The 1957 Legislature extended the condemnation rights to quasi-public urban redevelopment organizations, and to some wholly private corporations for transporting dust coal and other types of fucL The 1959 session refused to allow the State itself to take property adjacent to the State Park on Mount Mitchell for the purpose of improvUig the appearance of the entrance to the park. It also declined to grant authority to the highway commission to ban billboards on private property, without compensation to the owners. purely for esthetic reasons.

REVERSAL This was reversal of the trend for many years, but it Is doubted that the action sets a precedent for the future. If roadside billboards can be classed as safety hazards, rather than as blights on the scenery, the State can remove them.

An entirely different situation was involved in the proviso of an appropriation bill which specifted that none of the money should be used to condemn or take without the owners wish any part of the lands belonging to the Wilson family on the slopes of Mount Mitchell.

The basic issue of wheUier the State should ever exercise its sovereignty to take private land for public recreation or beautification without regard to health or safety was subjugated to the personal feud between Governor Hodges and Sen. C.V. Henkel.

There are many people who think the State ought to be able to take any property it wants, regardless df use to be made of it, at a price fixed by the courts when negotiations fall down. Many others just as sincerely

feel that private individual rights to property transcend the right of the State to take it for whimsical purposes. That is a basic question. But it was not squarely faced.

No precedent for future policy was set. and nothing accomplished by the recent legislative act, except to take sure that until another General Assembly meets the Slate cannot take 27 acres of Wilson land to improve the Mtchell Park entrance, except at the price asked by the owners, The act docs not preclude the State taking any other lands for esthetic or conveniences reasons. Which poses the question: Does this act constitute special legislation for benefit of a private citizen in conflict wdth constitutional limitations on such laws? The Supreme Court may be asked to answer that question.

APPOINTMENTS Some people learn the hard way that Governor Hodges cannot be stampeded into appointing men or women whom he does not want to appoint, and that pressure directed toward him more often than not backfires against the people seeking to exert it.

Also a great many people who ought to know better seem to think that the Governor of North Carolina can make appointments or do other official acts when he is beyond the borders of the state.

A number of appointments have been announced by the Governors office, including four special judges, but they were made and commissions signed before Governor Hodges left for Russia. The Governor had previously stated he would leave a number of major appointments until his return.

Death of E.L. White occasioning a vacancy on the highway commission, moved some people to try to get in touch with the Governor by telephone and obtain appointment, or assurance of appointment, for a successor to White. The appointment if made while Hodges Is outside of North Carolina would not be valid.

Another question often asked is whether the Lieutenant Governor can move in and perform all the functions of chief executive in absence of the chief, without taking a special oath of office as acting Governor. Controlling opinion is that he can. that as soon as Governor Luther Hodges crossed the state line Lt. Gov. Luther Bamhardt was automatically vested with all the constitutional and statutory powers of the chief executive.

There has never been an instance when the Lieutenant Governor or acting Governor exercised other than purely routine authority, but it is recalled that some 30 years ago Governor Max Gardner would not leave the state for fear of what Lt. Gov. Dick Fountain might do while he was gone.

return. They promise to have the same old message: no progress, and speculation as to chances of armed conflict.

There will be one difference in the over-all picture, and that is that time is running out. Russias Nikita Khrushchev appears determined to push tO the brink, if necessary; and who is to say he can stop there?

The Wests position at the bargaining tables of Geneva has been one of merely demanding that old apeements be hbnored. As bargaining material, it provides no leeway for the traditiojiai give-and-take of horse-trading. Rather, the parleys opened with the West operating from a last-ditch position from which there could be no real retreat.

The Communist spokesmen are noted for de-^ manding more than they expect to get, and .any stepping back from their original po.rition represents con- By HENRY HOWARD cessions. In that, they have us over a barrel. Theirs is an aggressive war-like diplomacy; ours would ap- \ pear to be operating under the delusion of peace. \ (J

We'll never know how the Geneva meetings

might have turned out if our diplomats showed ud who*

with a s^ing of outrageous demands as long as your new town exp^t?*How^does he

arm; and with straight faces insisted on those de- ^ treated by citizens

mands being weighed against Russias in the bargaining

sessions that followed. .

Frankly, most strangers, if

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It might have been worthwhile; and on the other theyre like a certam hand, it conceivably could have undermined the real ^ Greenville whom i know very message of quiet determination we want Khrushchev to understand: You can go no further. ,

Get Nowhere ..n Gladhandina

This particular stranger, now living in Greenville, had an empty, uncertain feeling about coming into a strange town little more than a week ago.

He entered Greenville one day last week after dark and paused several times (not necessarily because he wanted to. but because he had lost himself in strange surroundings) to won

der, Where th* heck am I?

After making several closely-connected information stops (whose informants were very kind and helpful), he made his way to the home of his new employer. At that moment he had experienced his first feeling of mission accomplished hed found someone he knew in the strange place. Hed also had his first taste of Greenville hospitality.

The next morning, after a semi-sleepless night and a hearty breakfast which included a third cup of coffee, the newcomer was escorted, by his new employer, to the office to begin his very first job since graduation from the University of North

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - There is international interest in the exchange of visits by American and Soviet bigwigs: Deputy Premiers Anastas I. Mikoyan and Frol R. Kozlov came here; Vice President Richard M. Nixon visits Moscow this month.

But do they mean anything?

So far as is visible these visits figure to make no change at all in relations between the two countries.

The gulf between them is so deep any change wlU come only from what each, after^ much tought and bargaining, thinks best for itself. Glad-handing wont change anything.

Maybe President Elsenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev could work out something at a summit conference. Thats ques-Uonable. H they do, it wont be out of Jolly good fellowship.

Nixon, Mikoyan and Kozlov certainly dont have authority to agree on anything. The two Soviets held out some bait. Nobody bit. If Nixon goes fishing in' Moscow, hell probably come up with an empty hook, too.

More than a year ago Khrushchev proposed In a letter to Eisenhower more trade between the two countriM. Its pitifully low now. Mikoyan came here earlier this year and talked trade. Now Kozlov talks trade.

All three got the cold-shoulder. Over the weekend the State Department in a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave the Soviets the full icewater treatment.

The department repeated what has been American policy all along: it does not see much reason for stepping up American Soviet trade, plenty of reasons for not.

This country Is quite willing and able to sell the Soviet Union large quantiUes of finished consumer goods, but the U.S.S.R. wants little of these, more of oth-ert hings.

This Is the unchanged policy: No strategic materials for the Soviet Union, since they woujjcl

help her warmaking potentials: no materials that would help the Soviet Union economically by letting her in on American technological advances.

This country has reason not to help the U.S.S.R. get any bigger economicaUy since Khrushchev solemnly has promised to bury this country under Soviet prosperity.

And, while Khrushchev, Mikoyan and Kozlov have been talking friendlier relations and better trade, the Soviet Union has been trying to force the Allies out of Berlin.

Khrushchev and Kozlov even chose the very moment when Kozlov was here, shaking hands and patting babies, to warn the United States not to get rough about] Berlin or it would get well roughed up.

While all this was going on. of course, the Soviet Union was building up its missile supplies, the United States was building up its missile bases around the Soviet Union and, on the subject of Berlin, telling Khrushchev to go jump in the Volga.

Happy days? Not yet.

Opinions In Brief

Some of the congressmen seem to be thinking the sanie thing a little boy in fourth grade was thinking. Teacher asked the class what is the thing the United States exports most of all. The kid answered, Money. Amarillo Globe-Times.

Other E(ditors Saying Government Financing

Opportunltes for Income tax evasion are becoming fewer and fewer. This may be frustrating for those who are so Inclined, but it is good news for the millions of taxpayers who carry their full load of the cost of government.Tere Haute (Ind ) Tribune.

(Wilson Times)

There is a new school of thought on government financing in both the county and city governments. Both are looking for revenue and certainly both have found it. With the new valuation estimated eferywhere from between 90 to 110 million, both the county and city will have more money to spend on services than they have had before.

But the demand out numbers the income, eyen with the revaluation and higher percentage. So with ever increasing budgets and a rising interest rate, the city and county governments are looking toward the pay-as-you-go plan.

This is wise, for too much money has been going to the money changers. And if the governments are ever to get on a pay-as-you-go. basis this is the time.

The county tax rate is tentatively set at $1.30 a reduction of 13 cents for the county. Of course those in Wilson township will be paying $1.53 which Is a high tax rate on the present increased valuation.

The city has stopped its support of the county health department saying this is double taxation for the Wilson township residents. We are confident that if there are other areas as the health department these will come in for close scrutiny. For when you are on a pay-as-you-go basis the money has to be in the treasury or bank.

The city is carrying a heavy bonded indebtedness so it is smart to pay this off as fast as

smart to pay this off as fast possible and save the interest for the ever increasing needs for the citizens.

The county is talking about puting the schools on a pay-asyou-go basis. The figure named to provide funds for school improvements is $300.(X)0 a year. The major portion of county tax revenue goes to the schools.

Of course there will be temptations. But the school fund should not be tapped for anything but school buildings and classrooms. We are glad to see the city school board cut the request for landscaping and improving the Pike High school grounds. The major request now is for grading and draining. Other improvements can come on a gradual basis. And with the city recreation facilities and the city owned stadium, the major recreational need Is for practice fields.

Citizens are thinking more and more of schools in the Ught of their original function training the minds The Daily Times approves pay-as-you-go basis for financing.

It is not going to be easy but with interest rates going up, it is now a necessity.

Both governments will have to study closely all expenditures, provide for the needs and cut out the frills. The next few years will be the hardest, for we are paying for bonds, interest and what improvements are possible on present revenue.

But the time will come when we will rejoice. For many services could be bought with the money going today to pay Interest.

Carolina just a month before.

He was introduced to his working associates who greeted him warmly. He was feeling much better already. He met the person he had come to Greenville to replace, a veterarr of severE years in town Jimmy Ellis. A nicer, more thoughtful guy would be hard to find.

Shortly afterward, the strang-er-ln-town accompanied the veteran on his daily tour of the town and county. Meeting so many different people who were so warm and kind In their greetings made a world of difference in the newcomers feelings. He began to feel like a small part of the strange community of people.

Two days later, Jimmy left Greenville for a new job in a strange town, leaving bhind him a huge gap to be filled. His replacement in Greenville began to realize that people DO leave their friendly and familiar surroundings to seek other such environs some of necessity, some of merit, some of ambition or desire.

Taking in what had happened so sudden^, the stranger was forced to look realistically at the situation. Well, its happened, he said to himself, Ill have to bridge the gap, not try to jump over it. I believe he was right.

Suddenly, the strange town wasnt so strange anymore. Everywhere we went the newcomer met the kindest and most amiable people imaginable. He began to think how fortunate he was to become a part of such a friendly town.

As a matter of fact, this very morning I said to myself: "Hank, ole boy, you suddenly found yourself in just about the friendliest atmosphere youve ever seen. Thesw people are wonderful do 'em a real favor every chance you get!

1 the Ught of ion, which is f

of the pupils. I H ]0 P proves of the

The real problem 1$ the man called Negro. If he would spend as much time dignifying his race as he does decrying its designation, he would quit worrying about the label and concentrate upon Improving the product, the stuff Inside, the name would take care of Itself. Ebony Magazine.

With racketeering and extortion charges hanging over the Teamsters Union, Jimmie Hoffa says present labor laws are suf-

Always

Want

Go Out

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) There li one question about wives no hu& band can answer.

The question is, Why do they want to go out In the evening?

Why? No husband ever, knows.

When you first marry A girl, all she says she wants in life Is to make a home. Make a home? What she means is she wants you to make a hmne for her.

So you rent a nice unsbed room-and^-half flat on the Uiir floor of a walk-up aparfinent, and figure youve got Ufe solved.

What happens? Inside a year she says it is too smaU.

We need a home of our own to be really happy," she says. Just a Uttle cottage out in the ountry."

So you pawn your soul to the banker^ and buy her a Uttle cottage in the suburbs. In another year shes restless again.

AU I want is to make you a nice home," she says. But ^ what Is home without a child?

So you give her a child. You give her two children. You give her three children. Anything to keep her quiet.

So what happens? One day she announces:

I feel like the old lady in the shoe in this Uttle box of a house. Were too crowded. Why dont we get a bigger house farther out in the countiT where I can have a garden. Thats aU in this world I want."

So you take your soul again to the banker and buy her a house twtee as big and four times as expensive. You buy her enough flower and vegetable seeds to feed China.

You buy her a rake and a hoe and a:-power mower. You rent her a landscape man "to give the house a proper setting.* Now well ha^ to fix up the inside of the house If were really going to have a dream home, she said.

Back you go to the banker.

So you buy your wife the latest modern furniture, plus wall-to-waU carpeting and ceiUng-to-floor draperies. You build a fine entertainment room in the basement, complete with games table and wefi-stocked bar. It has a television set. So has the living room.

You have a total of five radios through the house, so your wife can hear music wherever she goes. You buy her a sewing machine, an automatic dishwasher, an electric washer, dryer and ironer, a vacuum cleaner, an electric hair dryer, an electric massage machine,, a home freezer that will hold a three-month supply of food.

You think you have thought of everything, but you havent.

It would be ideal here, if It didnt get so hot in summer," murmurs your wife. So you go to the banker by now he is calling you by your first name and borrow enough to air-condition the house.

So you enlarge the garage and buy a second car.

You have at hist achieved the ultimate. You have the American dream house, stocked with all the gadgets science can devise to bring you comfort and joy.

And what happens? You reach the front door, glad to have made it through another day at the office anJ eager for a restful, relaxing evening at home.

Hurry up and change your clothes. Were going out," the wife says.

I kind of thought we might stay home tonight and take It easy, you protest.

If you think Im going to stay here night after night staring at the same four blank walls, youre>crazy, she replies.

Pour blank walls? This dream house that took so many years to make!

But out you must go. It makes no difference to a wife whether youre going out to visit a . neighbor or out to watch a f tree blood transfusion. Shell drag , you to anything just to get out of the house.

Why? This Is tiie question no husband can*answer.

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ficlent. Bufficient, that Is, to permit Hoffa and his crew to carry on their activities as usual " - Washington (Iowa) Evening JournaL

?BDI Shows The,..Boom Is OnStrength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

CONCERNING READING HABITS

Reading maketh a full man. So does food. But there Is nothing worae for the health than poor food, or high calorie food, or food which aggravates some physical disabilityor even too much food.

Although we live In a country where practically everyone can read and write, nevertheless, we find it hard to use our capacities along this line to their best advantage. One could read a book a day and at the end of the year be* surfeited and spoiled. One might read a book a year, and from it gain ina]DlaratftHQ>'and' thr spirit of new life.

For people of moderate education the reading of a book a we^k is not too much to expect. Here is a suggestion if you follow

out a program of reading: Make it one book in the field in which you are particularly interested; the second book a classic; the third book a modern production. Be sure to run In a religious book once in a while, for there are hundreds being written and published today which carry good news to the soul of man and much spiritual a power. Read the Bible every day. Dont start in at Genesis and read through to Revelation. Dont make it a chapter every day. Even a few verses carefully read and deeply pondered will carry you over many a rough

,.place.

*^^ mc^ thoM be^ wMows By which yilu look out upon a world of varied Interests. It will be a better world for all of us If we read with regularity and choose our bookj$ with care. ,

By ELMER ROESSNER I walked into a department store. Two salesgirls were chatting behind the counter. I cleared my throat several times. Finally I said, right out loud, Please miss

Im busy!" one snapped.

I decided to postpone shopping until after lunch. I took a seat in a restaurant and ordered scrambled eggs, corn muffins and coffee. The waitress poured the coffee. By the time the coffee was cold, she returned with the eggs and two slices of toast, not muffins. I realized I should not complain. It was a scorching day and the toast cooled my corn; cr of the earth.

Readers, I have news for you: ^e recession^?* or whatever it was, Is over.

. K^opsnt mjaJie any diSferenee what the Gross National Product index is, or the Consumer Price Index, or thg. local bai^k; clear-Ings.

The big American indicator the Public Be Damned Index

Is fast climbing back toward 100, and that proves, better than anything else, that little people arent afraid of their jobs which, in turn, proves that the boom is going on.

BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT A few days ago I called up an American airlines office with a rather complicated request for a reservation. Just as I fin-

of merchandising have expressed similar concern.

The Carl Byotr organization, usually dedicated to proving that business is as lovely as a cool day in July, recently Issued a story starting, Who has not had the experience of walking out of a store after fruitless attempts to find

a clerk from

4V..,,u --------- whom to make a purchase? Or

ished, the phone connection brokeka.trying to wheedle product in-

I called back immediately and asked tot the woman I had been talking too. Miss Adams has gone out for lunch," I^was told. I started again with another girl and got understanding treatment. 1 suppose that by this time she has left to get married.

A few days ago on a jet flight from San Francisco to New York on an American airline. I

formation out of a listless salesperson after having been lured to the point of purchase by effective, hard-sell advertising?"

That was no Khrushchev speaking, but Mammon, inc., U.S.A.

And In another release from the number one publicity omn-ization of the country, you could read:

As jobs become more plentt*

iDSfi n^^seat ^Cx&go lah' mnrtf eontatneni tncmtstng '

some clerk had sold the seat

to somebody else.

The National Retail Merchants Association officially noted a recession In our relations with neoDle. Other reoresentativ.es

ly find a lackadaisical attitude on the part of sales and service people. The sellers' rtiarkeL l back, complains a householder who in one week got broken promise or wrona goods from his

clcMws. his milkman and hla

employes a little more Independent, a iitue

more cocky.

"More and more biulneu flnda it harder to com-

*>elp the idea that the public is always right.

Denefir of any doubt. -So If you get clobbered verbally the next (time you try to buv an aspirin or-an auto, sit back and enjoy it. its proof that

iScSfe."

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