rAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Friday, July 10, 1989

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Friday, July 10, 1959

It'll Tak Our Best To Break Even

Not Buying Any, Thanks

It is not unnatural for people to underestimate the ability of their opponents because of their confidence in themselves or others who .represent them.

It is not unnatural, therefore, for Americans to look upon their leaders as more skillful, more resourceful and more capable negotiators in international affairs than those of Russia or other communist nations.

'The reaction of several governors to top Soviet officials after conferences with them should re-emphasize to the American people that Soviet leaders are by no means less capable than those who represent the United States in the field of international affairs. In short, they arent pushovers and were fooling ourselves if we allow ourselves to believe they are.

In their trip to Russia, seven American governors had conferences with Premier Nikita Khrushchev and their impressions of Khrushchev are more meaningful to "fnost Americans than th impressions State Department and other high officials have had in the pas\

Gov. Luther Hodges, for example, termed Khrushchev as smart as the dickens. He is a worthy opponent and dangerous. One second he couid be ruthless and the next second he would have a fine sense of humor that would get him over the rocky places.

Gov. Stephen McNichols of Colorado after the conference termed Khrushchev one of the most adroit men I have ever met. He has The complete ability to draw on an immense fund of information without any

They Run Into Some Surnrise

By LYNN NISBET

SHORT-CHANGED As State departmental budget officers get into the job of fitting operations to the laws enacted by the recent Legislature, they are discovering additional instances of being short changed. Most of these are cases where new duties were imposed, additional auditing or inspection or reporting required, but no additional money to cover the costs.

Agencies which must keep personnel on the road a good part of the time are caught in another trap. Travel money in the budgets prepared and as approved by the General Assembly was based on the subsistence of $8 per day in the state, $11 for out of state trips. The Legislature upped these amounts to $9 and $12, respectively. But again neglected to increase appropriations. As a result the agency chiefs fear they will have to curtail travel, especially during the final quarter of the years. Some legislators made no secret of their belief that government couid be administered just as efficiently with less travel. No change was made in the mileage allowance for use of private cars. Operation of the central motor pool has succeeded in one of its avowed objectives reduction of use of private cars for public business.

One group of travelers are not worried about expense money, Representatives of the commerce and industry dividision in the C&D department have to do a lot of travel both in and out of the state. As salesmen for North Carolina they also must do some entertaining. We are cramped sometimes to meet competition of other states, said one of the veterans in the business, but we get along all right. Governor Hodges takes care of us. If we need to go see a prospect about locating an industry in North Carolina, we know weve got money to pay for the trip.

COMPETITION Competition is keener in the area of selling Industrial prospects among the states than in almost any other kind of selling. Right now North Carolina is losing its top salesman. Walter Harper, chief of the commerce-industry division, is going to South Carolina at about a 35 per cent increase in salary. North Carolina folks are not happy about that.

The department has lost a number of good promotion men in the past five years. Most of them have gone to private enterprise or to community and regional organizations in the state. That wasnt too bad, because they still were working primarily to develop North Carolina. It isn't so good when a top man goes to another state which is competing for industry.

Governor Hodges has sought to

build up interest among all the southeastern states for closer cooperation in selling the region.

< Governor Broughton during his administration attempted the same approach, with only indifferent success. He was handicapped by war time conditions.) The idea is for everybody to join in promoting the southeast, then each State move in to cop the prize after the whole area has been sold, to be followed by local effort to land the plant once the state has been selected.

Certainly the dog in manger attitude is less evident than it used to be. Rivalry is still keen, but there is more evidence now of area wide cooperation. It works sort of like this: The Raleigh chamber of commerce goes after an industry. When convinced it cant possibly be located here, the local group tries to get it somewhere else in North Carolina, When hope is lost for location in this state aid is offered to likely location in a neighboring state. If that also fails, then the original sponsors would rather have it anywhere In the United States than In Canada, South America or Europe.

RE-DISTRICTING The virtual certainty that North Carolina will lose a representative in the Congress after the 1960 cen sus arises the spectre of re-districting for Congress and for the State Senate. And that is affecting the thinking of ambitious politicians all along the line. Members of the North Carolina Legislature living in counties with rotation agreements for the Senate are wondering about whether to seek election to that body or to stay with the House of Representatives with assurance that no county will ever be denied at least one member in that body

The problem also confronts men and women who have desire to run for Congress. Whether to take on the Incumbents now and face prospect of being gerrymandered out in two or four years, or wait to see what happens to district lines and what seats might be wide open for new comers, is a bothersome question.

A few months ago it seemed likely that no incumbent congressman would be seriously challenged in 1960 except the Republican member in the 10th district. Lately there are rumors that several incumbents might have to defend their seats, in the next primary. Some of the potential opponents are studying geography trying to decide what chances they might have to stay put in event of general re-, districting.

Prospective congressional candidates are interested, too. in where the leading candidates for Cox-^ernor and United States Senator may come from. As of now very few people think the ILst of likely candidates for any of these offices has been completed.

help. He is able to deal with you at any levelat the highest or in street fighting ...

* In this country Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan conferred with Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov for an hour in heated debate, after which Gov.

Williams declared, . . . he is shrewed, he is tough, in full control of himself at ail times and I think it will take a Yankee trader to beat him.

These impressions of the governors should be important to American citizens. They give some indication of what kind of men American diplomats are up against when they are called on to negotiate with Soviet officials. Added to the fact that the Soviet sense of values is nowhere near those innate to this nation, the job is made doubly difficult.

It offers another reminder that where so much is at stake in our constant dealings and negotiations with th#rSoviets, w^e must put our best minds, our best men forward to meet the Soviet challenge.

To do otherewise would be to give the Soviets an added advantage in the field of diplomacy which today largely shapes the course of world events,

A New Pattern For Hurricane Behavior?

Hurricane Cindy, while she was small as most hurricanes go and did little damage before blowing herself out over South Carolina, had some very disturbing aspects for this hurricane-jittery section of Eastern North Carolina.

In the first place, Cindy appeared about a month earlier in the season than we have come to expect hurricanes along the Carolina coast. Secondly, she apparently had her origin off the coast of South Carolina instead of farther south off the coast of Florida or in the Carribbean.

It makes one pause to w'onder if Cindy gives an indication that we are in for another change in the t>,. QOTIT TTT'\T7

pattern of hurricanes that have swept the East Cpast ^ LJvJlN oL/riljiJldN^ in recent years.

Until Hazel, Coastal Carolina viewed hurricanes as big storms that came only rarely and confined their damage to high waters in the immediate area of the coast. For the most part they kept far to the south where the people along the coast of Florida could worry about them w'hile the coastal area of the Carolinas only felt sympathy for coast of Florida.

Hazel blew in, spread debris and wreckage all

njoying rter jJisaDUity

Out our way weve been learning how to live with a leg in a cast. The two-year-old member of the Schlienzs suffered an accident and has since been enjoying her fracture.

4. ^ XT /t I- XL X Mary Jane cant walk with her

along the coast of North Carolina, then swept across cast, but gets around remark-

a large inland area of the state ruining crops, cutting ably well . . . sliding about on off communications and generally exhibiting inex^cus-

able behavior. In the past few years she has been neighbors have all been more

followed by others of her kind that have destroyed than kind in carrying her away

millions upon millions of dollars worth of property and v,

foL-iiTi rvionxr Ii'tt.. The little Miss hasn t had so

LUKen many iivts. much sympathetic attention since

After Hazel the weather observers declared that her baj^ days, and is lapping

hurricanes were changing their pattern and that the ^tran^ers^^ with^^^^a

Carolinas could expect to bear the brunt of their winds half-wtope/ and^^pointing ges^

for a number of years at least. Now Cindy has made

up far to the north or the usual hurricane breeding ii t

grounds, and she has come early in the season. ijt

Are we in for another change in the hurricane JO y li ly

pattern along the East Coast? If so, will the Carolina ^

coast be better off or worse off than it If^s in recent Dutier vs. Conservatives

years?

Maybe Cindy has just given us a recurrence of

oiir hurricane jitters, but it would be interesting to

know the answers to the questions?

ture to the cast. She throw's in the word broke, to get the point across. It would melt a heart' of stone.

Small matter that five seconds later shes laughing, Mary Jane know's the newcomer is good for that bit of extra attention she loves.

So much deference and attention could spoil anything less than a perfect angel. Not having quite reached that status, our girl has come to expect an equal amount of extra attention when household chores or other distractions call for a measure of priority. This irks her no end, and the cherubic facade of sweetness and light

Predictable As To Segregation

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WASHINGTON (AP) The present Supreme Court is not completely predictable on anything except its opposition to various forms of racial segregation.

Of the nine justices who handed down the historic and unanimous decision on public school segregation in 1954, only justices Warren, Black, Douglas. Frankfurter and Clark are left.

Yet the four "justices who joined them since then Harlan. Brennan, Whittaker and Stewart

have voted in unanimity with them in case after case involving segregation.

Once outside that field, forecasts on opinion day get hazardous. Yet, year after year, the opinions of this court are much more on what is called the liberal than on the conservative side.

Justices Warren, Black, Douglas and Brennan vote together pretty consistently but not always as a liberal bloc. But there are only four of them and there are nine justices.

Thus the view's of these four men can never prevail unless they are joined by one or more of the other five. It often happens.

Those five Frankfurter, Harlan, Clark, Whittaker, Stewart

can be considered more conservative than the other four, but in varying degrees. Whittaker and Stewart are perhaps the most conservative.

Yet, to make the picture more confusing, Clark, a frequent dissenter and often a fiery critic of the liberals, sometimes votes with them and does so consisten^ ly on segregation cases, even though he Is a Southerner.

Frankfurter and Harlan seem the more flexible, Prankfu|-ter has been credited with major influence on the conservative side as a restraining force. Actually, judging by votes, this influence may be exaggerated.

Some examples snow the switches in the court:

In the famous John T. Wat^-kins case of 1957 Justices Warren, Black. Douglas, Frankfurter, Harland and Brennan cracked down on congressional investigating committees.

ened up their hearings.

Then this year, confronted with a somewhat similar case, the court majority upheld the fairness of a committee hearing. Just as in the Watkins case, in this one Justices Warren, Black, Douglas and Brennan also voted for the defendant. But this time they were in a minority and lost.

Frankfurter and Harlan who had gone along with the liberal bloc on Watkins joined forces with Whittaker, Clark and Stewart to make a majority on the other side.

Yet all nine justices joined together to throw out in three other cases the^^contempt convictions of people who had balked at answering questions by state or congressional committees.

And, the nine justices voted unanimously to beat down a New York censorship ban on a movie: Lady Chattcrlys Lover.

Then again the court ruled, 5-4, that radio and TV stations have immunity from libel suits for remarks made in political broadcasts. This time Clark joined Warren, Black. Douglas and Brennan to make up the majority.

Just as some people thought the court showed signs of backing down under criticism for upsetting too many congressional and governmental programs and operations, the court showed its muscles unimpaired:

It threw out the Defense Departments industrial security program because neither Congress nor President Elsenhower had authorized it. Under this prograhi those defense plant employes tagged as security risk could be fired without a chance to confront or cross-examine their accusers

On this the vote was 8-1, with Clark the lone dissenter.

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No believer in the basic principles of free trade unionism could today ccncelvably desecrate these principles by under-

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

While the Republicans watch with satisfaction, the Democrats may be heading toward a showdown for party leadership in their latest intra-party feud. The whole thing started when National Chairman Paul Butler said last Sund^3&4hat quite a few Democrats were unhappy about the performance of the Democratic-contr oiled Congress and that the party will be in a tough situation in the 1960 presidential campaign unless Congress provides a more progressive record.

When he said quite a few Democrats we assume he means the liberal element within the party, such as Hubert Humphrey, Wayne Morse, Stu Symington, and others of that category. At the same time, there were quite a few of the other brand of Democrats who were unhappy over Butlers remarks, and most of these were of the conservative type, such as Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn, both of whom have been leading stalwarts of the party for years.

In reply to Butlers statements, House Speaker Rayburn said. Butler can do the talking and well do the acting and make the record. Apparently Butler is more interested in trying to impress the voting public than a solid record by Congress. For example. Butlers main quarrel with Johnsons Senate leadership is over Johnsons strategy of cutting down various Democratic bills to the point where he thinks President Eisenhower will not veto them.

In other words. Johnson is thinking of the welfare of the nation by getting various bills through despite the consequence. He of course, would like for the Democrats to get credit for any beneficial bills, but he is not placing the partys interest over the good of the country. Butler, on the other hand, would make all bills impossible for Eisenhower to accept, so that the voters could get a contrast between the Democratic program and the administrations.

A Senator from Butlers own state of Indiana. Sen. Vance Hartke, took the floor of the Senate to declare that Johnsons concept of responsible Congress was credited with Democratic victories in last years congressional elections. He said polls show that the people share the feeling that we are doing the right thing in Washington. One result of Butlers views was a suggestion that Butler may be working to name new officers for the 1960 Democratic National Convention and to deny seats to some Southern delegates. This could be possible. Butler has made no secret of the fact that he thinks the Democratic party can get along very well without the Southern delegation.

Whatever the outcome of this latest family brawl, the Democrats had better get it straightened out before next year. Party strife could damage the chances of a strong campaign for the presidential election. A solid front would go a long way toward unseating the Republicans in the administration.

Never watched a Little Leagu^ game? Then youve missed som? thing.

You just wouldnt expect such little fellers to play real baseball. much less act as though they knew what was going on. Yet, those uniformed mites carry on like their bigger brothers who. play for pay.

The pitcher is apt to have a wad of gum in his cheek that resembles the big chaw characteristic of the pros. He adjusts his cap, kicks his shoes, ties a lace and looks around before filing.

The batter is equally at home. He may scoop up a handful of dust to dry his palm, take a couple of tentative swings before standing up to the plate: and after a pitch or two, step back and repeat the process.

Its all very genuine. Those boys have been studying their Game of the Day on TV.

On The Glorious Fourth I was out for the Little League Field Day the Moose staged. One lad I wont forget in a hurry.

In a field full of little guys he was one of the littlest. When he stood up at the plate the pitcher had a double problem: his strike zone was so small It was hard to find, and if he found it there was always the danger Shorty might connect.

The lad with the bat was obviously pretty much aware of all this. He was eventually walked, as he may have been expecting all along.

It reminded me of the time Bill Veeck sent a midget to bat, but with a difference. A member of the watching citizenry volunteered our built-close-to-the-ground rlghtfielder had a good throwing arm.

Yes. you could have done worse this summer than watching the kids play ball.

Change

is replaced by thunderclouds and teardrops.

The doctor suggested two or three weeks of keeping her leg in a cast would restore it to normalcy: but he didnt say how much longer it would take to restore her unspoiled self.

After all. a girl cant wear a cast all her life just to get some special attention; and what can she do when its removed?

Just adjust.

(Oh come now. Doll! your pappy had to write a column about something . . , and how could he possibly get along any more without you, and your cast, anyhow?)

in me

Model?

. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Will the atomic age create a two-headed human race?

Will the man of the future have six eyes, perhaps, and three legs and five arms?

These possibilities, admittedly remote, must be at least considered in view of what happened to the Florida frogs.

You remember the strange case of the Florida frogs? Unusual frogs were discovered last month near Gainsville, Fla.

They had extra eyes and extra limbs. At first no one paid much attention to them, tolerantly figuring they were probably just a new breed of Yankee tourists, and all Yankee tourists look odd anyway.

But scientists, after studying them, theorized they were homegrown frogs whose ancestral genes had probably gone awry as the result of atomic fallout radiation.

Not all such mutations are necessarily bad for a species, of course. They might even improve the breed make it better able to face the problems of a troubled world:

Stretching the long arm oi possibility a bit farther, what might happen if more and more nations develop hydrogen bombs, and the rate of test explosions Is stepped up steeply?

Well, it is likely that in time we might start observing a few dramatic mutations among human beings.

Would that be good or bad for the human race?

A person with three legs would have no particular advantage over a two-legged person, since civilized people dont use their legs much anyway. If pants had three legs in them the cost of suits would go up again. So would the price of a trio, instead of a pair, of shoes.

The advantage of a third eye, however, is obvious to anyone. Today it is just what both pedestrian and driver need to cope with traffic.

The advantages of extra arms are even more obvious. How often have you heard a housewife complain she had only two hands? With three, four, five or even six hands could do many more things easily, and housework would become a breeze.

An equally heartening prospect is the possibility that in time atomic radiation might produce people with two heads. There is Con Inued On Page 5

Strength '-or Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ELOQUENT BUT TOO LATE

As a minister was putting th finishing touches on his sermon one Saturday night, received a telephone call asking whether or not he would conduct a funeral service the following Tuesday* afternoon. He replied that he would, and asked if he might call on the family. He was hurriedly told that this would not b necessary. They would see him at the funeral parlor.

He discovered to his amazement just before the service began that he had been called In to say a few words over the remains of a famous gangster who# had been murdered a few days before in a gang war. The minister girded up the loins of his mind and soul and gave them a sermon on that occasion the like of which few had ever heard at such a gathering. The listeners were the members of the dead mans family, a rather sizable group of gangsters, and a half dozen detectives who were there to keep their eyes on the mourners.

At the grave the dead gangsters father insisted on saying a prayer. The members of his family tried to stop him. But he knelt down, and directing his words not to the Aliplghty but to the recently departed, he said, Son, your mother had a right to expect something better from you than this. Amen,

Perhaps if the father had been as eloquent in prayer twenty years before, the picture might have been different.

Another Puff On Inflation

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Despite current campaigns against inflation,t here seems little doubt that we shall have another puff on the old opium pipe.

Inflation generally is a certainty because the United States is operating on fait money. It can no longer be traded for gold. It can still be traded for bread, vittles and other things, but as you may have noticed you get a little less of them almost every time you go to the store.

About the only thing you are guaranteed you can get for paper money is Federal tax receipts and thats about the most painful guarantee possible.

Assuming that Inflation generally is certain, there are specific reasons for some sharper inflation in the immediate future.

WHY INFLATION NOW

eral increases. But even if -by some fantasy the steel situation were resolved without a pay rise, increases in other industries would guarantee considerable inflation.

Since the first of the year, every expiring labor contract has been renewed at higher pay, generally In the 10-cents-an-hour range. And lets not fool ourselves: some way or another the steel conflict will end with a pay increase for that industry.

In the end, most wages will go up. Then prices will go up, first, because enterprisers will need more money to pay higher wages and. second, because wag-er-earners will have more money to spend.

And il higher wages and higher prices dont add up to inflation, they will do until something etse comes along.

They ruled .a witness, betare . to vWl a country whoM . K,ten.ll U* ateaJJabOB-.negoUa..---GHBR UCE8.- ANYWAY

without a strike, these reasons

for not answering, had to be shown that the questions asked were pertinent to the investigation. This angered many members of Congress. But they tight-

40 years of it.s exi.stence been the avowed and uhcompromLsing enemy of ail human rgihts. George Meany, AFL-CIO Piesi-deuL

will prevail. They are:

I. Wage rates arc ri.slng If there js a peaceful steel settlement, there will be some gen-

2. Prices are rising. Getting further Into fantasy and assuming that there wont be any more wage increases, there would still be more inflation becau.se pnces are rWug from other

causes.

The consumer price index kicked a new high in May and present indications are that the June figure, due in a few days, will be even higher. We are only nine days into July but so far it looks as if we are on our way to another successive high.

The food component is still rising. Some crops promise to be more bountiful than ever, with possible slight price drops, but others seem small enough to force prices higher.

The Administration succeeded in getting some limitations on farm supports, but they arc generally regarded a.s minor and the government itself will be pushing up the cost of eating again.

GOVERNMENTAL PRESSUES 3. Polltic.4 and government make further infllLtion inevitable. The Igsf flsdal year, ene itine days ago. showed a deficit *in the Federal budget of $12 billion more.

That is a direct mca.siure of inflation. The government, in effect. created $12 billion more buy

ing power than it took up in taxes. The only reason that was better than just printing that much paper money was that the government promises to pay it back.

Its doubtful if it will ever pay back much of the national debt, but at least it will pay Interest on it.

Theres a simple way to halt inflation: Increase taxes to pay for what we get. But that would prove very unpopular and few Congressmen have the courage to support such a move with elections jst around the calendar.

4. There is another reason for expecting Inflation; the people expect It. They are putting their savns into stocks. Florida and other real estate, and other tangibles ill the belief that these Investments will In.sure their savings against attrition by Infla-on/ .:

Trf a'certain extent, they are right. BUT, right or wrong, many people are sure more Inflation is coming. And once the public Is convinced of that idea, it is very difficult to stop inflation itself.