rAce cmTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Friday, Augiift 21, 19B9

Friday, Aujnist 21, 1959

Can Only Benefit By Use Of Ports

Gratifyinfir progrress apparently is being made by in Tar Heel industry, and for exporting goods and the state in its efforts to bring into North Carolina products produced and manufactured in this state, ports foreign raw materials used in manufacturing in For too many years North Carolinas two major this state. ports have taken a back seat to the large seaports of

It may take many years to divert the bulk of such our sister states immediately to the North and South, shipments from other ports to the two deepwater ports Every step taken to rectify this situation is important of North Carolina, but efforts in that direction can- to our ports and the economy of our state as a whole, not help but build the importance of Tar Heel ports.

After a meeting in Washington this week state J ^^ ^

officials and members of the North Carolina congre^ dOIU0 v3a OUuCl ^jCtXuGCX sional delegation have reported some progress in their efforts to have Turkish and Greek tobacco shipments T

designated for North Carolina to come through More- 111 lx6IIlGSpii0A 1C Wully head City or Wilmington rather than Norfolk. American Export Line officials have agreed to ask the U. S. Considerable ground appears to have been gained Maritime Administration for authority to operate be- at the Santiago conference of Inter-American foreign tween Mediterranean ports and the two North Caro- ministers toward resolving the tension and trouble that lina ports. If such permission is granted, items other has been mounting in the Caribbean area for months, than tobacco in alLt>robability will also come into Tar Most of the American nations represented at the Heel ports from the Mediterranean. conference made clear that they continue to stand by

With its industrial i^wth, North Carolina is con- the two major principles that have guided hemispheric suming in its manufacturing plants an increasing quan- affairs for years:

tity of raw materials shipped by water from foreign 3. traditional policy of non-intervention in countries as well as from other areas of our own coun- ^he internal affairs of another member nation should

be maintained; and

2. a government should hold power only through the free expression of the "people it governs.

While words often are insufficient to dissuade

Its Just A Social Call

1 AiA/vor DEFECTING/

try. The more of this flow of goods which can be handled through our own ports, the ^eater the benefit to the state. Not only will the facilities at Morehead City and Wilmington become points of entry for goods

desi^ated for manufacturing plants in this state, they ^ould-be aggressors in international affairs, the over-

will become more important ports in the economy of whelming expression of the American nations that the other nearby states as w^ell. .1 _____

other nearby states as wen. , . , . - above-cited basic principles should be followed may

Certainly North Carolina should exert every ef- a.i.- ^ ^

fort to see that its deepwater ports are utilized to the

greatest possible extent for importing materials used

lOad

big Work In Comina Term

By LYNN NISBET

COURT The fall term of the State Supreme Court will convene On Monday, August 31. First oral arguments will be , called from districts 1,2,29 and 30 during that week, beginning Tuesday, September 1. One criminal case and 14 civil appeals have been docketed for the firs: week. Indkations are that the work load lor the term will be heavier than for the spring sessionwhich broke records to that time. All justices arc expected to be on the bench for the opening. The addition a couple years of research clerks for each member of the court enables them to carry the heavier load efficiently and expeditiously.

YELLOW ^ LINES It is generally conceded that the yellow fines beslce the white center line on highways Is a great contribution to traffic safety. Some drivers think the yellow line business has been overdone, particularly in three-lane roads, where the elaborate pattern is sometimes confusing. The safety engineers admit that the network of yellow with passing allowed only at designated areas slows down traffic. They say thats the purpose, and if the lines prevent one accident they are fully justified.

BRIDGE The suggestion that the bridge across Alligator River on US-64 be named the Lindsay Warren Bridge, if and when it is built, had met general approval. Lindsay Warren as congressman, chief of the U.S. general accounting office, and in other capacities has labored diligently through the years for the development of the area which the proposed bridge would largely help. There is always some question about the propriety of naming such public facilities for a living person.

US-64 Furthermore, the bridges across Alligator River and Croatan Sound have been loug range objectives of a lot of j^ple for many years. The Cro-fitan Sound bridge has been built and named for William B. Um-stead. largely because he made the chief allocations from highway surplus funds to assure its construction, and the job wa.s finished during the tenure of the highway commission which he appointed.

No story of the efforts to extend US-64 to the Outer Banks would be complete without paying tribute to Wallace Tatum and Earl Gaboon, long time legislators from Tyrrell county. In the Albemarle Association and In and out of the General Assembly these stalwarts fought for the two bridges. To point up the

need Wallace Tatum prepared a short speech about US64 which he delivered on the slighest provocation and went something like this:

Highway US-64 is one of the few. and perhaps the longest, of transcontinental routes maintaining the same identification number all the way. It begins on the beaches at San Diego, the playground of movie stars who bathe their beautiful limbs in the Pacific ocean. It runs eastward through the garden spot of Southern California, across the barren wastes of the western desert, across the lesser mountain ranges of ie southwest, climbs and descends the slopes of the mighty Rockies. It crosses California. Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Oklahoma and Arkansas to the Father Waters at Memphis. Thence across the whole width of Tennessee and comes into North Carolina from the desolation of Copperhill and Ducktown, west of Hiwassee Lake, the most westerly entrance of any road into North Carolina.

Thence eastward across the state through the county seat towns of Murphy, Hayesville, Franklin, Breward and Hendersonville. Then on the base of Chimney Rock to Rutherfordton, Morganton, Hickory, Statesville. Mocksville, Lexington. Ashe-boro, Pittsboro, and passes under the shadow of North Carolinas hjstorlc captol building at Raleigh. Thence on to Nashville, Tarboro, WilUsmiston and Columbia. It traverses the state through rugged mountains, the throbbing industrial piedmont, the heart of the bright leaf tobacco and peanuts belts, going through many cities other than county seats, and then stops cold in the G d swamps of Alligator River twenty miles from the Atlantic ocean.*

Since Wallace Tatum and Earl Cahoon prepared that speech the, identifying highway number has been extended to Whalebone on the Outer Banks, a couple hundred feet from the Atlantic ocean, and Croatan Sound has been spanned with a bridge. Construction of the Alligator River bridge will bring realization of the long time dream of many promoters. The bridge will enable the traveler to stay on wheels for the longest possible distance across North Carolina, perhaps for the longest trip across the continent of North America, on one highway. That makes it more than a local project and justifies ~ careful thought about assigning a name to the bridge. It is a link in a long chain, connecting not only Manteo and Murphy, but Manteo and San Diego.

be sufficient to lessen tension In the Caribbean area. The fact that they are, for the moment, banking on public opinion in the American nations to keep troublemakers from making trouble isfor the time being at lea.stsound. If further, more direct measures are needed to prevent trouble, at least this first effort will provide an atmosphere in which public opinion will support subsequent measures.

There can be no doubt that the Santiago conference has strengthened the ties between most of the nations of the Western Hemisphere. In times of greater

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tions of the hemisphere in good stead.

From the standpoint of the United States, it may be a springboard from which this nation will give greater attention to its relationship with its neighbors to the south. It provides an atmosphere for a better mutual understanding between the nations of the Americas and it provides another situation which can i*ainbow? bind the vast majority of these independent nations dismissed the

closer together in a common cause.

At Foot Of The Rainbow

So youve been told about that pot of gold at the foot of a

Ccngress Should Not Run From Khrushchev

story as being ill-founded?

Glad y<m did! Because it just so happens that today we spend a few \vell-chosen words debunking that bit of lore. If you were a believer. Id be the last person in the world to tell you that pot-of-gold story is pure hokum. (At times the writer can be very tolerant.)

As is the case with every red-blooded American 1 too was told

Other Editors Saying As Simple As That

It has been suggested that Congress is pushing its agenda in an effort to adjourn before September 15 there was a pot of gold at the foot

in order to avoid the embarrassment of resolving the of a rainbow, some measure of

question of whether to invite Soviet Premier Nikita *^^ve

Khrushchev to address it.

^ , . , ,, . . , , , . speculation as to what could

Certainly there is nothing to be gained by having be done with a pot of gold, as

Khrushchev address Congress. It would merely afford

him another forum in which to expound the Soviet

propaganda line which we wiil do anyway during his

visit to the United States. Congress certainly should

not allow itself to be used for that purpose.

Neither, it seems to us, should Congress rush

through its important business merely to avoid the

erabarrassment of not havin? Khrushchev to address Thf""w^Fof pen5oTfor

It. Alter all. the business before Congress is of utmost our war veterans is an extremely

importance to the people of the United States. Hand- delicate one. if anyone suggests

ling it hurriedly merely to adjourn the session before

Khrushchev arrives certainly would not be putting the case of illnesses and'disablements best interest of the'American people first. which did not arise from mili-

Congress, in our opinion, should go about its busi- *^7 ervce, he is in danger of ness deliberately, conducting its business in a usual S?*o*;Sttg the manner without regard to the designated day of the flag.

Khrushchev arrival. If it gets through before his ar- Editor Francis Horrigan of rival, fine. If it is still in session when the Soviet Pre-

mier arrives, what of it. It can still go about its busi- service with the Army Signal ness of looking after the affairs of the American Corps, part of it bloody people without taking time out to hear an address by

the big boss of the Communist world. reading and remembering:

We have no objections to Khrushchevs visit to For the widows and orphans

the United StatjCs and his conference with President toe servlcemp who didnt

Eisenhower. But the suggestion that the Soviet Premier (them, wTdo, too! fo? Will run the United States Congress out of Washington toe men who made it back.

well as wondering how one could ever get to the foot of any rainbow I ever saw. . .they were always at a distance.

And as things worked out, I never did get to the foot of a rainbow to dig until a little over a week ago. By that time my confidence in the tale had waned to a big fat zero.

How I got to the foot of a rainbow is a long story. . .so to make it brief, our fishing party was in a boat off Beaufort Inlet and the weather included an infrequent sprinkle of rain.

There came a time when in one of those mistlike showers someone called out to the effect we had a rainbow right over the stern of the boat.

Sure enough, it was true. One

easy

of the Nation, in that order.

The choice was made for you by Japan and Germany,

Youand every other G.I. could have sat it out. But youd soon have been on a diet of rice with no pensions, most likely, from either Hirohito or HiUer,

Or you couldas you did join with those selected to serve with you in defense of our Nation and thus, with the help of God, save your own neckand those of your loved ones.

And thats the way .it was. Misterjust as simple as that.

IS unthinkable.

A Good Chance lOno Strike

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The steel strike had been going on since July 15 and President Eisenhower and SecretaiT of Labor James P. Mitchell decided to do something about it, but in-a very restrained way.

They hadn't taken sides. And they werent taking aides now. although if the strike continues into late September the shortage of steel may create a national emergency.

The two men thought it might be worthwhile to give the public some facts and figures which various government agencies have gathered on steel workers earnings and productivity and on the steel Industrys prices and profits.

The steel dispute really began early last May when negotiations started. But from the beginning both sides have dawdled in one of the most Itckadalsi-ctl negoUaUoQs in American tUa-tory.

And even now, with the strike costing 300 million dollars a week in production and 70 million dollars in wages, neither side shows a pressing anxiety to reach a settlement.

So Just how laying down some facts and figures on wages and profits might hasten an agreement isn't at all clear. But Eisenhower and MltchsII decided to go ahead and make the figures public.

Mitchell announced Tuesday the governments figures would be unveiled at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

As each reporter walked in he got a 42 page, brown

paper covered booklet masses of statistics and charts. The information it contained had been gathered from government agencies and some of it even from the steel industry itself.

The booklet had an explanatory foreward by Mitchell. In it he said: There are no conclusions drawn in this booklet. The responsibility for a settlement of the strike rests upon management and labor in the industry.

If the President or Mitchell had drawn conclusions from toe figures they produced, they would have been putting the beat on one side or the other in the dispute to get off the high horse.

But without such official conclusions, the result had to be every man for himself in dc-'* elding what the figures meant. The reporters realized this, of course, but were glad to sec the government figures anyway.

But toeh they read elsewhere in Mitchells forewsrd this statement: Management and labor already know these facts.

One gray-haired reporter, who has been around Washington a long time and has never been easily Impressed by the pronouncements of government officials. read that sentence from Mitchells foreword to some of the reporters around him.

He said it reminded him of a couple of vaudeville comedians he saw once. One of them was lying on the stage, supposedly wounded in battle. The other said: Tell your mother.

But the one Ijring on the stage said; "You dont have to tell my (continued on page 10)

but not as whole men. Spend money for veterans hospital, services; pay compensation to those who were hurt, and pay, too, for needed rehabilitation programs.

As for toe remainder of the boys who .donned a uniform when the Nation was attacked, one can only ask those seeking pensions:

*How do you figure you got a pension coming from Uncle Sam?

Because I went to the defense of our Nation In time of War I they might reply.

To that there is but one answer:

What you AM. Mister, was go to the defense of your own neck, first of alland those of your loved onesand those of the rest

TOO OLD FOR TAXES (The Florida Times-Union)

Heres a case of logic that you cant refute. A 54-year-old resident of Panama City applied for a job with that city through the Civil Service Board. He was turned down because the board has a rule that no person over 45 may begin work with toe city. The board chairman explained ;

One of the hardest jobs I have Is to tell a man hes too old to work. Its been my experience that older men often are more industrious and do better work than their younger counterparts, but we have our rules.

The city has its rules and the applicant has no Job. But he did have the last word: If Im too old to work for the city, Im too old to pay taxes to the city. There must be something wrong with this logic, but can you find It?

During the last 60 days the Government has spent $7 million buying up eggs to try to support prices in the face of ruinous overproduction. During the same 60 days the Government has loaned $1.1 million to people who want to get Into the egg-producing buslne,!s. Now, what other problems can we turn over to the Government for solution?Lenoir Newa-Toplc.

The thoughtful soul In his' solitude must realize that millions and millions of gallons of water are bound to be wasted daily because our engineers are unable or unwilling to take the trouble to devise a positive cutoff valve for a bathroom fixture.The Columbia State.

dinky iitUe old rainbow had a foot resting in the stern of the boat. . .right atop the fishbox.

What followed might lead one to wonder if the Schlienz family tree included such names as Gallileo, Edison, Archimedes or Copernicus in its makeup.

With a studiously casual air, this researcher into the trivia of fables and foibles flipped back the top (a flip-top, I might add) of the fish box. and peered within.

For the record. . .no pot.

Also for the record, the bottom of the box was not even covered with fish: the couple dozen or so inside were all remarkably small.

So.

When next anyone hears casual talk about a pot of gold at the foot of a ralnbox. , .any rainbow. . .Just remember research has proven otherwise.

Just as we all know today the world is round, the inquisitive mind has shown rainbows hold no promise of easy money. They dont even point to a good catch of big fish.

Just promises, promises, promises.

Opinions '.'.n Brief

The decisive W'eapons of the future will be aerospace weapons. That nationor group of nationswhich maintains predominance In this areanot only In its military forces, but also in Its laboratories, in its industries and In its technologywill possess the means for survival. Lt. Gen. T. D. White, Chief of Staif, USAF.

3ioness

Is. Jror Movies

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Is toe film colossal getting too colossal for Hollywood?

Producer King Vldpr, one of the last active survivors of the film colonys epic past, says yes. He feels toe epic movie Is now too big and costly for the Hollywood wallet.

I doubt if ever again you can make sprotacle movies in Hollywood which require toe building of vast sets and 4,(X)0 or 5,(X)<>-man casts, he said.

Its impractical. Too expensive. Too many crippling rules ^and regulations, Vidor said.

To shoot a crowd scene with 1,000 players would cost $20.000 a day in Hollywood. In Spain you could do it for around $1,-000 a day.

Vidor recently returned from Spain where he spent two years and six million dollars making toe biggest color spectacle of his career, "Solomon and Sheba. The death of Tyrone Power forced him to shoot a third of the film over, added a 'million dollars to the firms budget.

Unlike such early giants of toe industry as D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille, Vidor has never been an exponent of personal showmanship. But he has been one of toe screens most consistent experimenters.

Starting more than four decades ago as a ticket seller and newsreel operator, he learned the directors trade fiy turning out tworeelers. His first, which dealt with auto racing-Vidor was an early hot rodder himself cost $500.

And thats probably about what it took in at the boxoffice, he remarked wryly.

The Big Parade, made in 1925 with John Gilbert as star, was one of the greatest sleepers in fmdoms history. It cost only $245,000 to make, and the last I heard it had brought 16 to 18 million, Vidor said.

But the graying, mild-mannered producer isnt a man who believes in looking back.

Everything is new, he said. When I start a new project. I begin a whole new life. I dont believe in dwelling on whats behind you.

Vidor believes the answer to the epic costs of making film epics isnt to turn out fewer of them, but to turn out more of them abroad.

Weve got a big'screen now, and we have to fill it up, be said. Let people who like small themes and small screens watch television.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HOW MUCH IS MONEY WORTH?

Money isnt everything.

We often hear this statement. Yet, when we observe peoples behavior, we are led to the conclusion that there are millions of people who actually believe that money is everything.

But that person Is equally wrong who says money is nothing. Money is a measurement.

It does not measure true success, but It does measure the kind of achievement which is capable of being measuredthe amount of goods sold, the success of a play or book written, the appeal of a recorded song hit, the real scoop of public interest made by a movie star. These things are measurable. If we do not put them first in life, they still have real value. But they become a delusion and a snare, they become a curse, when we put them before things that are really valuable.

What are the most v valuable things in life? An honorable name would come first. Happy family relations next. The capacity to meet evil and resist its encroachments. Success in ones work. The capacity and willingness to lovefirst, those near and dear; then ones neighbors; then all mankind; then the God who made us.

If we put these things first and are willing to follow them provided we know how to with monetary success, then everything is fine. We can throw up our hats for money and takt satisfaction In financial success treat money.

But dont let It get to tot place where It can order ypu aboutor kick you around.

Near Agreement On Tax Ruling

By ELMER ROESSNER

Both the Senate and the House are near agreement on a bUl to take some of the sting out of the Supreme Courts ruling that states could impose taxes on out-of-state corporations doing business within the taxing state.

For yearf most Inferior court decisions have held that, since toe Constitution gives Congress power to regulate interstate commerce, states could not tax out-of-sate corporations. But the high court, ruling in the Northwest Portland Cement and Stockham Valves cases, decided that a state could tax these outside corporations on the business done within its borders.

A biU, S. 25J4. Introduced by Senator Harry P. Byrd (D. Va.), provides that interstate firms would not be liable for state Income taxes solely because of sales or solicitation of orders ^ by one or more Independent contractors, or by their own re* presenlative.

NOT SCOT FREE This would not change the right of a state to levy taxes on interstate firms that maintain warehouses, inventories, salesrooms or offices within toe state.

81no firms with such faculties get protection, services and other benefits, both the Court and Congress think they should pay something.

A seeondary purpose of the Byrd measure, and of the somewhat slmUar House Joint Re-solotlon 4S0, Is to block any ex-teniloQ of state powers under the Court decision.

Conceivably, a state might try to tax an Interstate company that did nothing more than make sales through national magazines circulated In that state. '

Thats not as ridiculous as It sounds. Some states already levy sales or cigarette taxes on such transactions.

REASONS TO FEAR TAXES Business opposition to taxes on interstate corporations is based on twowell, threepoints. ^ First, the cost of additional

bookkeeping is burdensome. An Interstate company doing business in all 50 states might have to keep 50 sets of books and retain enough lawyers to keep posted on laws and Interpretations in 50 states.

Second, because each state would decide aU borderline cases In its own favor, and issue its own definitions of sales, ineome and profits, a company might find Itself paying taxes on 150 per cent of its sales, income or profits.

Third, nobody hkes to pay taxes anyhow.

The situation, even with Congressional action, may offer some rare opportunities to enterprisers.

Companies of all sizes, but particularly those of small or medium ^size, may be eager to sell branches and. parts of businesses In other states. This will be especially true of companies doing 80 to 90 per cent of their business within their own state, and the rest in one other state. Many of these fragments, purchased by local

residents, might be buUt into pro* fitable Intrastate operations. Watch toe ads.

SWISS IS SWISS IN JAPAN. ANYHOW

The Japanese government has instructed woolen goods exporters that exports of scarves in Swiss designs are prohibited. The United States government, however, stUI permiU the manufacture of Swiss cheese in this country.

RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE

Two British organizations are offering translations of Russian technical information.

Production Engineering Research Assocation, Melton Mo-bray. Leicestershire. England, is offering complete monthly translations of Btankl Instrument, Russias leading production engineering periodical, at $12 a year.

Engineering InformaUon Services, Klrkham. Preaton, Lancashire, England; offera abstracts of leading Soviet technical journals at $18 a year. It provides about 40 abstracts a month.