PAGE POUKPHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

i^aturdfty, July 25, 1959

Saturday, July 25, 1959

Guest Editorial

Theres The Hitch

The Industrial Climate Improves

Editors note: The following editorial was prepared by Leonard ^ W^ton. economic consultant with the Pitt County Development Commission, This concludes the current series of guest editorials.

Since February the Pitt County Development Com- ^ mission has been engaged in taking an inventory of the County's physical, human, social, and governmental assets, in an effort to evaluate how it can best promote the economic development of the County. The Commission has been aided and encouraged in these endeavors by individual business enterprises and by various business associations and organizations in the County. The methods, tools and techniques for carrying out a local economic program has, consequently, been upgraded day by day to a higher level of perfection.

LEONARD A. WESTON

As a direct result of the active support given to the Commission by responsible citizens and groups

State's Biaaes

^Business Grows

By LYNN NISBKT

SCHOOLS Within the next five or six weeks the State of North Carolina wUl launch the biggest business in its whole history. It is a business for the operation of which the State will spend more than $166 million dollars to develop a product which cannot be computed in dollar value.

Majority of the public schools throughout the state will open doors for 1959-60 term during the first week in September. A substantial number will open the last week in August, a few not until after Labor Dayand perhaps a dozen or more schools will open next week and close for awhile during crop harvest time. The opening dates are fixed by local administrative boards, not at state level. The split term used to be common in cotton producing counties, but now wily four or five units permit it in selected individual schools.

There will be more pupils and more teachers in the upcoming term than ever before, Figures obtained from the office of Dr. Charles Carroll, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, indicate that average daily attendance will break the million mark-Actual attendance last year was 988,452. Estimates for 1959-60 are for 1,015,000. Last year total enrollment. as distinguished from attendance, was 1.084,415. Anticipated total enrollment this year Is around 1.150,000 to yield the average attendance of more than a million. Despite efforts to eliminate all duplications and obtain actual net enrollment, some double listing is unavoidable when pupils move during the term from one school district to another. That is why teacher allocations and other costs are based on attendance rather than gross enrollment.

TEACHERS Last year there were 34,656 State allotted teachers in Uie public schools. <In addition to the State paid teachers many administrative units employed additional teachers paid out of local supplemental funds.) This year there have been allotted by the State 35,690 teachers, an increase of 1,034 over last year. The larger number was necessary to take care of the 27,000 increase in attendance. Since the average salary of school teachers is around $4,000, these additional teachers mean an increase of four million dollars to the budgetwithout any salary raise or enriched services.

Most of the schools have secured full complement of teachers. There are some scarcities in the categories of mathematics, acience, industrial arts, modern foreign languages and library services.

BUSES North Carolina

transports at State expense more public school pupils than any other State in the Union. Last year the bus fleet contained approximately 8,100 vehicles. The increased attendance this year w^ill require 8.300 buses, or 200 more than last year.

The transportation division has placed orders for 800 new buses600 replacements and 200 additions. The folks in the department have their fingers crossed about the probable effect of the steel strike on delivery of these buses. Information is that the manufacturers, both chassis and body works, have enough steel on hand to fill about half the order, or 400 buses. If the strike is prolonged unduly, there may be difficulty in getting delivery on the rest of the order. That might mean operation of buses which should be taken off the roads in the interest of safety.

NEW LAW The opening of the 1959-60 school term will be different from previous openings in two or three respects, because of laws enacted by the recent General Assembly. No child will be permitted to enter school for the first time unless he or she has been vaccinated against poUoor unless the application for admission is accompanied by a certificate stating that the childs parents affiliate with a recognized religious group whose tenets oppose compulsory vaccination. North Carolina is the first State in the Union to require this type of immunization against polio.

The late General Assembly also provided full pay for teachers for two or three days before and after the regular instructional period of 180 days of the school term. In order to give time to do the book work and orientation necessary to operation of the schools. Administrative details for effectuating these before and after activities w'ill be adopted at the August 6 meeting of the State Board of Education. Meantime, Dr. CEwroll has circulated a memorandum suggesting that the first paid-for day be devoted to teacher orientation, the second day to teacher-pupil orientation, with the third day of the pay period to begin regular classroom instruction. A significant sentence in the Car-CarroU memorandum, possibly made with fingers crossed and tongue in cheek, expressed the hope that no teacher will attempt to use a Saturday as one of the extended employment day days. In his memo Dr. Carroll expresses the hope that teachers will use these extra paid days to such good advantage that benefits will merit continuation and po.ssible extension in future years.

throughout the County, considerable interest has been shown by a number of leading manufacturing firms in the potentials of Pitt County. This interest has manifested itself through extended visit to the County by representatives of the firms and their requests for proposals from individual communities. As the interest in the County developed, the need for industrial buildings increased. Realizing this, community government organizations, civic groups and private citizens in each community have, as part of their self-help program, taken specific action to raise necessary funds for the erection of industrial buildings to be used by the potential new business enterprises. In order to as sist the communities to conserve their available building construction capital, the Pitt County Development Commission has made direct contact with large industrial financing firms and persuaded them to explore the investment potentials of this County and work closely with both the prospect and the community on these financial problems.

Influential citizen groups in various parts of the County have, over the past few months, been paying increasing attention to the problem of creating a more favorable bui^iness climate in their areas. They have become convinced that many factors which could contribute to a higher level of economic activity locally have been neglected for years, and that local efforts to improve these factors can enhenee the economic status of their areas. These are growing movements which recognize the large role that self-help, local initiative and local resourcefullness must play in insuring that Pitt County maintains the highest possible level of economic activity. By creating an environment in which business can thrive, each part of the County is contributing to an over-all beneficial climate for industry.

It will be noted from the above that some progress has been made toward achieving the desired economic balance here in Pitt County. However, without in any way slackening our efforts to encourage the movement of outside industries into our County, particularly those that tie in to our basic industry agriculture, we should now encourage and develop locally organized and owned industries in the towns and and communities of Pitt County. Any community in the County can have one or as many industries as it is willing to work for. The establishment of one or more home organized industries bears a direct relationship to the enthusiasm, determination, and effort a community puts into the process of getting them.

Profits of foreign-owned industry usually leave the community, but home industry profits accruing to local residents are spent locally and thus plowed back into the community economy. Industry, like individuals, tends to cling to the place of its birth.

The future appears to be bright for the solving of some of the economic problems of Pitt County, however, we believe that all communities, after having examined their physical advantages, should look into the mirror and adjudge whether their natural advantages are supported or offset by the pervasive and potent climate of public attitude and opinion. The community which is ripe and ready for industrialization will get it; those which are not, will lose it.

An Old.

Oream

Lives

Mj HAL BOYLE

HAPPY VALLEY, Labrtdoi (AP) Kathleen Mary Lutely, affectionately known as Jo along Labradors east coast, is iulfilling a girlhood dream of adventure and helping others.

Miss Lutely, 41 native of Devonshire in England, came to Canada in September of 1957 as a nurse with the International Grenfell Association. She is in charge of the.six-bed station in this community near the Hamilton River.

The devoted and energetic nurse is proud of the fact she had delivered some 150 babies without the help of a doctor during her work here and at four other Labrador and Newfoundland Grenfell stations.

We delivered year, she said.

77 here last

Air Force Helps

The nursing station is a branch of the main Grenfell Mission Hospital at Northwest River, 40 miles away. Emergency cases brought here are normally transferred to the main hospital or, If necessary, to the RCAPs hospital at Goose Bay, seven miles distant.

I would have many more grey hairs if it wasnt for the Air Porcess assistance, she says.

By MARTHA PIERCE

The Labrador settlements, she admits, are not what Sir Wfred Grenfell envisioned when he began his work as a medical missionary in this area in 1892.

Very Social Park Affair

Now, its a mixture . . . Eskimos, Indians, and more and more Canadians.

There are some parties that never seem to hit the social page. The small shindig that the news room gave Thursday night in honor of Clarice Galloway, teletypesetter operator, who is moving on to Ahoskie, perhaps deserves a place of prominence matching that of the social page. Editorially speaking, it might even deserve , more comment than some parties.

swinging in the swings. Some of the guests who enjoyed the playtime activities were Alvin Taylor. Mrs. Don Schlicnz, Anne Ke-ziah, Clarice Galloway, and Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Savage.

Elm Street Park was the scene of a picnic supper Thursday night given in honor of Miss Clarice Galloway who arrived early to help greet the guests and guaurd the food.

After all had arrived two tables were laid for the 18 people present. A white cloth of stapled newsprint covered the tables which were decorated with food. When the last couple straggled in. word was given and the tops were popped from the soft drink bottles.

for the occasion by a reconnaissance plane of the National Guard. A farewell address was given by Miss Galloway who expressed deep regret that she was leaving the staff for better things.

The talk was Interrupted while she went to an adjoining room to stitch and patch the cut forehead of a six-year-old boy, who had bumped into the side of a car just outside.

Back in her bright living room, she surveyed a collection of healthy houseplants and said:

After-dinner conversation at one of the tables turned to the subject of food, while at the other table the usual party talk and compliments were being passed. Johnny Hudson, sports writer, received many compliments for his chocolate, coconut and caramel nut cup cakes.

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ixon Tour Off

On Sticky Start

As the guests arrived they were directed by hoots and yells to the play area where they participated in some before-dinner activities of see - sawing and

The one course meal consisted of deviled eggs, fried chicken, potato salad, sandwiches, cup cakes and soft drinks. Food was passed from table to table with all pVesent assisting in serving.

Dinner music was furnished

Another topic of conversation was the improved method of chicken execution. It was generally agreed that buying de-feathered birds at the market was preferred to the older method of hand-wringing their necks.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon's good will Soviet visit has started off sticky and can get worse.

If it does. President Eisenhower and the Senate will have to ask themselves if their timing was bad.

Nixon, whose gladhanding La-tin-American tour a year ago was met with spot and stones, got a shocking reception Thursday just about the time he landed in Moscow and started shaking hands with all in sight.

Twenty miles away Premier Nikita Khrushchev, angered by a recent anti-Communist gesture of Eisenhower and the Senate, was deriding the United States and calling Nixons visit part of a plan to embarrass the Soviet Union.

On July 6 the Senate, by voice vote and with little debate, passed a resolution calling on Eisenhower to proclaim the third week in every July as Captive Nations Week. Eisenhower issued the proclamation July 17.

This was the latest of many similar American reminders that the Soviet Union was holding the satellites in thralldom. It was supposed to serve several purposes:

To remind the satellite people the United States hasnt forgotten them; and to strengthen Sec-rear y of State Chi'istian A. Her-ter's hand in dealing with the Ru.ssiaiLs at Geneva on the Berlin problem.

How this could strengthen Herters hand in dealing with the Russians at Geneva on the Berlin problem.

How this could strengthen Herters hand is hard to see. A Senate resolution on an old theme wasnt going to make the Russians weak-kneed. It was nothing more than a gesture.

And, since this counti-y isnt going to war to free the satellites and there Is no visible likelihood of their getting freedom otherwise, the only immediate result could have been expected: it iiTiiated the Rus.sians.

So. since Nixons Soviet visit Is billed as a good will tour whose climax is interviews with Kh-riushchev, the judgment behind (he tuning of this resolution and

proclamation is open to question.

For this reason: When Nixon landed In Moscow it was in the middle of the Captive Nations Week as proclaimed by Eisenhower.

Khrushchev, who had just returned to Moscow himself from a trip to Poland about an hour before Nixons plane touched down, hastened to address a Polish friendship meeting 20 miles from the Moscow airport.

He was in a savage mood. Whether this was due only to the proclamation or was part of a deliberately get-tough-wit'n-A-merica campaign he seems to be building up is not clear. But the proclamation ga\e him a good excuse to strike at the United States just as Nixon arrived in the Soviet Union.

He told the crowd Nixon was a representative of the panic-stricken American imperaiisus and said Nixons trip was deliberately timed to coincide with a campaign against the Soviet Union.

The Senate and the Elsenhower administration both might have anticipated that by letting Captive Nations Week coincide with the week of Nixons arrival in Moscow they might be giving the Russians a chance to embarrass him. And the Russians chose to react just that way.

Any of the years 52 weeks could just as easily have been designated Captive Nations Week. Why, then, was the choice made of the very w'eek that Nixon went to Russia? The answer seems to be: thoughtlessness all around and not deliberate timing.

The resolution was offered by Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill', with Sen. Jacob K. Javlts R-NY) joining in.

Thursday night in the Senate Douglas was asked if the third week in July had been designated in his resolution so as to coincide with the arrival of Nixon in Moscow,

He said no, that the timing was purely coincidental. Originally, he said, the resolution called for the week after the Fourth of July. This was changed, he said, after there was a delay in passing the resolution.

Other Editors Saying ... Speech Focuses Attention

(The Raleigh Times)

Wake Senator John R. Jordan, Jr.. has some ideas on the current makeup of the State Highway Commission. Senator Jordan is a very definite anti-administration man, but his views on this administrations Highway Commission are worth the study and consideration of all Tar Heels interested in their government.

In a speech here this week. Senator Jordan had this to say about the Commission:

The Highway ^Commission is now more politicar than ever before in its history. He said that many legislators now are expressing regret that something was not done about the Highway Commission.

Look at the record:

1. State Auditor Henry Bridges has revealed that the cost of operation of the new operation o! the new highway administration has soared upward to a phenomenal figure.

2. The crowding out of Chief Highway Engineer W.H. Rodger's, veteran career official of the commission.

3. The wholesale retiring of 77 more key personnel by October 1st of this year, many of whom held politically startegic jobs. The big question is who will replace them and why?

4. The legialative activities of certain high Highway Com-mls.sion officials,

5, The peculiar political ma

neuvering behind the defeat of the proposal to ban the use of bill-boards on interstate highways in North CaroUna and by doing so to increase our portion of the Congressional appropriations.

6. The coincidental political timing of the recent decision of the Highway Commission to build a series of multi-million dollar bridges in the eastern part of the State.

Senator Jordan undoubtedly sees this Highway Commission and its actions through very partisan eyes. His comments should be considered in that light, but even in that light his comments do not show up the Highway Commission in too favorable a position.

The forced resignation of Chief Engineer Rogers has done much to bring into clearer focus the public view of the Commission and what it is doing. The action in Rogers case seems to make absolutely clear the Commissions determination to break away from all that had been highway custom in this state.

Undoubtedly, aU that has been done in the past hasnt been all to the good. But. there is so very much of so great value in the past. It should all be pushed to one side, just as Bill Rogers, has been pushed to one side.

The Rogers case has assured the Highway Commission of top billing in the next guberna-tional campaign.

When the party broke up, the guests scurried to their cars. One of the departees tried to take off in the airplane anchored In the park: but without an engine, she didnt get any further than the Moose Lodge.

I love gardening. These are my pets.

Her garden is a bright spot in this village. She had a bumper crop of vegetables last summer, including a 10-pound cabbage.

Snowmobiles In her nursing duties she has the use of snowmobiles and aircraft as ambulances, and she trades information, news and wea* ther reports with other Grenfell stations on her radio-telephone.

Two doctors from the hospital at Northwest River alternate on twice-weekly visits to the Happy Valley station, which developed from a first aid post in 1948.

For hobbies, besides gardening and reading, Miss Lutely has an Increasing stack of records with emphasis on Newfoundland folk songs. In the summer she goes boating on the river. She also has a hula ho(H).

Its very practical, she said. Central heating may have its advantages, but this place can get pretty cool in the winter, and what better than the hula hoop to help the circulation?

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HEAVEN What is it like up there? Jesus told us very little about heaven. The Bible gives a description of heaven in the Book of Revelation which transcends human understanding and is probably Intended so to do. Because, as a matter of fact, eternity and the life that goes with it are so different from anything we can comprehend or imagine.

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The success of powerful labor organizations in tying up basic industries to enforce higher and higher demands, is booming automation. The result is a constant drop in available jobs. Any product or .service can price Itself out of the market and labor will find it is no exception to the rule as lower cost imports cut deeper and deeper Into domestic production. Bojrcotts and strikes wont build payrolls or force consumers to buy. Industrial News Review.

that their nature can be only hinted at and most Inadequately described.

Personally, I think heaven may be a lot more like this present world than most of us are accustomed to believe. There are some who hold that heaven will be a perfected world, physical, just as the world in which we live, but Inhabited by spiritual beings who will find a perfected physical world precisely suited for their habitation. Tima and space would appear to be categories of this present life and categories which will not exist in the eternal heaven. It will be a realm of peace. In the physical world we live amid constant and unbelievable turmoil, with atom chasing atoms, planets whirling about, the whole universe rushing somewhere (the astronomers are at a loss to know where).

But in heaven the wild oscillations wUl be over. Peace and quiet at last the first time the human soul has ever experienced it, Its beautiful cried Thomas Edison, coming out of coma and then closing his eyes in death. And every holy aspiration within us believes he saw something, and described it*

Give It Away... But Gareful

Oainions In Brie.:

We reiilly hate to pick on televi.sion again, but this tme an NBC .survey tells u.s that mo.st of us think Uiat the television set Is the most important thing in the home more Important than the relrlgeraVoi, s.Vave, wnrher and dryer, and much naore important even tlian beds.

Oh. come now. The Publishers Auxiliary.

North Carolina now ha.s 164.-000 members of 4-H Club.s, more than any other State in the na- -D4;))Aa*-ihat good eecord,

we can use more o them.- The Raleigh (N.C.) Times.

By ELMER ROES.SNER

Federal taxes bother you? Caiuse you to bay at the moon? (Full next on August 18.) Grow ulcers?

Then give something away.

But be careful what, when, how and to whom you give it.

In our Alice Through the Looking Glas.s tax situation, two studies have emerged to show how to save by giving away. They top the silliness of running hard to stay in the same place.

One of these Is How to Save Taxes by Dividing Income among Your Family, by Pren-tice-Hall, The other is Giving Through Private Charitable Organizations," by Thomas W. Hudson. Jr., CPA, published in the July Journal of Accountancy.

If you are a salaried stiff, read no further. These avenues of tax escape are limited, the first to persons with Income from invesinvanta Uve.&cond to growing corporations.

HOW TO GIVE AND SAVE

Preiitice-Hall is quick to point out that income and the tax

there on goes to the person who earns it. or who owns the property producing it. Giving the income to members of the family doiesnt reduce the tax liability. But by dividing the property Itself. the tax liability can be

divided too.

And, of course, this dividing must be done according to Law of Put and Take, otherwise known as the Internal Revenue Act.

It cites this example:

It costs you $2.600 a year to

send your son to college. You are In the 53 per cent bracket, file jointly and take credit for your son who has no income. You must earn $5,700 to produce sufficient funds to cover his expen

ses.

A PROFITABLE DIVVY

"Your son. however, needs only an $3,100 to cover lvi&

expenses of $2.600, Thus, by dividing your properly to give him

separate income of $3,100, the actual cost of his education is reduced by some $2,600. (This saving will be cut somewhat because you may lose him as an exemption.)

There are other suggestions for other situations, such as the bona fide employment of a family member and so on, most hedged with technicalities that must be observed.

CPA, Hudson's suggestions are equally complex. Basically, he says that a company expecting a rising net Income can accumulate capital for expansion by giving previously unissued stock to charitable foiindatlons.

The method Is far too complex for exposition here, but in one case he describes, giving away $40,000 in stock over three years would mean a net of $19,900 additional cash for use in company operations.

InlovmaUau lu. Uda .W,

far Inadequate for launching a do-it-yourself tax-saving program.

If you have a chunk of real estate and securities, or if you own a prospering corporation, take the matter up with your tax counsellors. Or write to your Congressman, who probably voted to put these Looking Glass provisions into the law. HIGH TOBACCO PRICES LOSE FOREIGN SALES

It is often charged that high American wages are pricing our manufactured goods out of the world market. Our sales abroad, in their declines, seem to support that.

Now there is evidence that our high farm supports are also costing us sales. The governments Foreign Agricultural Service reports that while Belgium is Importing more tobacco, it is buying less in the United States. "The U.S. position in the Belgian market has been decUng for nearly a decade, it reports. Manuiac-;>^turer8 report that high prices for U.S. leaf force themio seek sub-sUtules.

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