FACE FOUR

THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Saturday, August 22, 1959

Saturday, August 22, 1959

From Airport To Industrial Park

Greenville and Pitt County have very little to lose and a great deal possibly to be gained by requesting that federal authorities release their claims on the Pitt-Greenville airport property in order that the property may be used for industrial purposes.

By all means the governing boards of Greenville and Pitt County should look carefully into the matter and give serious consideration to making such a request to the Federal Aeronautics Administration.

In the Pitt-Greenville airport property, the city and the county jointly own slightly more than 700 acres of land which would make ideal sites for prospective industries looking for new locations. The property IS drained, it is located adjacent to the river, it has fire protection, it has many miles of paving in its runways and taxi strips, and it is easily accessable to highway and rail facilities. It would make an ideal area to be converted in to a park for industrial buildings. . . X .

By subdividing the property and selling it to industries W'hich w'anted to build plants in this area, the city and county could get back the money they have invested in the airport with some profit to boot. Probably of even greater importance is the fact that if such an area were available in this area, new manufacturing concerns could be attracted that would provide

Rankin Is Ready To Call It A Day

BybLYNN NISBET

RANKIN Sometime around the torn of the year Ed Rankin will iMive the Governora office to head a Raleigh branch of the public relations firm of John Harden Associates of Greensboro. In leaving the post of private secretary to a Governor before expiration of the full elected term of his chief, Rankin W1 be following precedent set by secretaries during the past 40 years. He has already estab-hbe precedent of his own, in that he will have served as private secretary to two Governors ol North Carolina and for a longer tenure than any other person in modern times.

One oi the first public statements made by the late Governor William Umstead after his election in 1952 wss that Ed Rankin would be his secretary. He had served in that capacity when Umstead was in the United States Senate. Two dbays .after the inauguration, Governor Umstead suffered a heart attack. During the months of the Governors illness, which included the full period of the 1953 General Assembly, Rankin manned the fort and rendered services to Uie State of North Carolina that will require perspective of history to properly evaluate.

Less than two years later and before the next Legislature convened, Umstead died and Lieutenant Governor Luther Hodges succeeded to the offlce. He requested Rankin to stay on for a little while. The relationship proved mutually satisfactory and advantageous to State. The little while was prolonged to five years or more. There was never a propitious time to quit. Rankin thought he would step out immediately after adjournment of the 1959 General Assembly. Then came the problems incident to the Southern Governors' Conference at Asheville in ^ October and the proposed industry-hunting safari into Eu-r(H>e in November. He agreed to stay on for another little while.

FRONT MAN Responsibilities were less with an able Governor on the job and an administrative assistant in the background, but Rankin continued as front man. During the legislative sessions of 1955, 1957 and 1959, and between times, he was the first point of contact for news reporters, visiting politicians and crack-pots seeking audience with the Governor. Newsmen who cover the captol beat know better than most folks about the innumerable times the secretary has smoothed ruffled feathers, eased tempers and paved the way for orderly interviews with people who came for the avowed purpose of raising hell.

CONTINUING - A significant fact in Rankins forthcoming separation from the State payroll and joining the Harden

linn is that in many respects it will not be venturing into new fields. His relations with John Harden date back to the time when Harden was managing editor of the Salisbury Post and Rankin was a part-time high school reporter. The close association continued through the periods when Harden was secretory to Governor Gregg Cherry, Rankin was secretary to Senator Umstead, and when both later were with Burlington Mills.

Nor does the change mean that Rankin will discontinue service to the State of North Carolina. The Harden firm is closely associated with the industrial development campaign being carried on by the C&D department under leadership of Governor Hodges. From the background and sidelines, without headline mention. Harden and Rankin have contributed much to this program through the administrations of Governors Cherry, Scott, Umstead and Hodges. The increasing importance of public relations activities, as distinguished from straight advertising, suggests that Harden and Rankin may be in position to render more valuable service from behind the Ik^enes.

BURCHETTEAnother more immediate change in the staff of veteran attaches to the Governors office will occur on September 1. On that date Lloyd M. Burchette, pfc highway patrolman, will take the oath of a sergeant in the patrol and assume the duties of patrol aide to the Governor charged with handling the State No. 1 Cadillac. He succeeds Sgt. Harold Minges, The General, who has been promoted to the rank of Technical Sergeant and assigned desk duties in the patrol organization.

Minges, who had been serving Governors in that capacity from beginning of the Cherry administration, had to change jobs because of health. Bur-chette, who has been on regular patrol duty in Wake county, has filled in for Minges during vacation and other periods of absence for several years. He is actually on the job now, and has been for three or four weeks, but will take over officially on September 1.

While the principal duty of this assignment is to drive the No. 1 car where and when the Governor wants to go somewhere, both the Governor and the highway patrol organization regard it as much more than a chauffeuring job. The official assignment is patrol aide to the Governor. That involves almost everything from a sort of glorified valet to the status of confidential secretary or military adjutant. The man assigned to the position does not wear a chauffeurs cap. He wears the regulation uniform of a sergeant in the State highway patrol. with all the authority and power of arrest appertaining thereto.

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many new jobs and boost considerably the annual manufacturing payroll of the county.

A further consideration is the fact that as the property developed with industrial buildings the city and the county would realize considerable additional revenues in terms of taxes on the buildings and equipment located in the industrial park. Quite obviously both Greenville and the county as a whole would benefit by the economic growth which such a facility would bring about.

It should be evident by now to all the citizens of this county that the possibility of securing one-community commercial air service is extremely slim. We have tried for years without success. The only hope for adequate commercial air service is on an area or joint-community basis, and if that is ever realized, the local airport would not be suitable for such use.

About the only use that we can possibly hope to be made of the airport under present circumstances is for private planes. And even if the area is developed as an industrial part it might well be that some landing facilities can be preserved and used by individuals and manufacturing concerns.

All things considered, it appears that for the general welfare of the people of Pitt County, a great deal more benefit can be gained by convei^ing the airport property into a busy, humming industrial park than leaving it as a little-used airport partially grown up in weeds.

Properly handled, the present airport property could be developed into an extremely attractive industrial park providing industrial sites unrivaled in this area of North Carolina.

There was no hesitancy on the part of local or fedteral officials in releasing a portion of the airport for a highway right-of-way that obviously would bring benefits to this area. Neither was there any hesitancy in releasing a portion of the property for construction of an Army Reserve Center which is an asset to the county.

Why then shouldnt we give serious consideration to converting the remainder of the property into an industrial park which will in time bring far greater benefits to Greenville and Pitt County?

Hard To Picture N. C. As Marijuana Source

The cracking of a multi-million dollar dope ring by North Carolina and federal officers this week probably came as more of a surprise to most Tar Heel citizens than it did to those who found themselves caught by the long arm of the law.

Most of us who think of dq.pe rings and their sources of supply quickly get a mental picture of minutely planned efforts to bring in the .stuff from other countries. There are few North Carolinians who ever considered their own state a major source of supply for narcotics.

From time to time over a long period of years there have been a few instances in which agents found tiny plots of marijuana being cultivated in the Eastern part of the state. Most of these, for the most part, have been discounted by the citizenry. The big haul which agents made in Cumberland and Wake Counties a few days ago, however, puts an entirely new light on the situation.

The result of this investigation should prompt state law enforcement agencies as well as local officers throughout the state to keep a sharp watch for similar operations that may exist or may spring up later. North Carolina can ill afford for its agricultural area to become a source of supply for dope peddling operations in other parts of the nation. If narcotics operators are ever allowed to get a foothold in North Carolina their operationsand allied operationswill be extremely difficult to stamp out.

Law enforcement officers who cracked the narcotics ring which had its supply source here are indeed to be commended. Their discovery should bring about intensified efforts throughout the state to uncover similar operations if they exist.

Concern Grows

Sitting On Top Of It

McNtiiglit S.Midioite,

By MARTHA PIERCE

Another Summer

J

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Another summer comes to an end. For the past three summers Ive traded my school books for a summer job here at The Reflector. The writing and picture taking have been fun, but the thing that has meant the most has been the people the ones that I have worked with, those that have w'andered in and out of the paper and those I have gone out and met for the first time.

Looking back over this summer, I remember some things that arent exactly pleasant memories, but have fitted together with the nicer things to make a very interesting summer.

There was the time I was to interview Miss Greenville EARLY In the morning before she left for Durham. I knocked

on the door of the address that w as listed in the phone boob under the name of her hosts. A lady finally struggled out of bed and met me at the door with a Sorry, never heard of them." Alice Anns hosts had moved, but I didnt find this out until I had walked up and down Ninth Street looking for the right house.

Wherever I have been, the people have been considerate and understanding. One woman on Ninth bravely let me into her home that same morning about 8:30 and let me use her phone.

Its been a learning process, too, Chester Walsh, who has been in the business for years, has shared some of his early newspaper memories with me. Everyone has helped. The ex-

Other Editors Saying Democrats In Trouble

Jror ine Jruture

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)American leadership is showing a growing concern about the ability of this countryat the rate and in the way we are going to keep up with Soviet progress.

Time was when Soviet claims to achievement were taken with a grain of salt in the United States.

That attitude began to change when the Soviets showed how far advanced they were, industrially and scientifically, first by making the atom bomb, then the hydrogen bomb, and then beating us into outer space with their Sputniks in 19.57.

Earlier in the week thLs writer reported President Eisenhower :

1. Is concerned about the driving urge to get ahead which the Soviets seven-year plan is giving them.

2. Thinks this country needs an incentive toward harder work something similar to the seven-year planwhich he believes is providing the Soviet people with the moral equivalent of war.

3. FeeLs Americans must be induced to work harder, think more of achievement, le.s.s of leisure and money.

Now comes the Draper committeea 10-rnan group headed by the investment banker. William H, Draper Jr. which sounds like a direct echo of the 'PresidenL -------------------

Eisenhower created this committee to study the United States program of military assistance to other countries. Its report, made public Thursday, urged even bigger aid and went much beyond talking in terms of weapons alone.

The 10-man group sought to look at the Soviet challenge from many anglesits progress, its productive expansion, its goals, and its tacticsplus the need it creates for American efforts to match Soviet efforts.

The committee, noting the Soviets are maintaining a higher rate of growth than the United States in industrial production and in their technology and technical education, said;

Their objective of equaling and exceeding the United States in selected areas of their own choosing has provided an unusual psychological stimulation to their people which we must more than match by dedication to our own cause.

These trends in the Communist world cannot be ignored. They suggest the need for real concern about our present and prospective rates of progress w'hlch W'ill determine our future ability to compete with communist states.

All this requires a positive individual and national dedication, greater emphasis on hard constructive w'ork and thought, less rather than more emphasis on leisure, more rather than le.ss application to our task.s.

The similarity between Eisenhowers thinking and the committees statement may have been the result of the Presidents having seen the Draper report before it was made public.

But he was concerned about this problem of competition and incentives many months ago. He announced in his State or the Union message last January he w'ould create a committee to .fiUidy and then propose, nalional goals.

The Soviets seven-year plan is in their case a national goal. Eisenhower is ready to name his committee as soon as he can find enough private organizations to finance its work. He doesnt want the government to foot the bill.

But neither Eisenhower nor the Draper committee has come up with an answer to the question they raise:

How can Amerlcaiuspeople (Continued on Page 6)

(Washington Daily News)

The National Democratic parly is in trouble, and there is no need for any good Democrat to try to cover up the serious predicament the party finds itself faced with today.

Indeed, the only thing to do is to make a serious effort through positive action to recoup the losses which have been so evident within the past few months.

The Democratic party a few months ago looked to 1960 as the year in which it would capture the presidency and at the same time have a strong majority in both the houses of congress. A year ago it seemed merelr to be a question of which Democrat w'ould be the presidential contender with the general concensus of opinion being that any one of a half dozen potential candidates could lead his party to victory in November, 1960.

Several things have happened to change the picture. But perhaps the most notable actor revolves around the labor bill controversy now before congress. The Senate has passed a labor control bill, and so has the lower House. But the House bill is far more stringent in its content than the Senate bill. Now members of the two houses through a committee are attempting to come up with a compromise bill which can be acceptable to a majority of both houses.

But if failure to come up with an acceptable compromise fails, then the Democrats are in real trouble. There is no need for Democrats to sit around and try to put the responsibility upon the

Republican party for failure of congress to take positive action. Regardless of how much the Republicans are actually to blame for failures, the people of this nation look to the party with a majority in congress to act. And since the Democrats have sizeable majorities in both branches of congress, it is the Democratic party which will be tabbed with the inability to act, if no labor bill is passed.

Actually, it might be a case of the Republicans not wanting to pass any labor biU. Even if that should be true, then the majority Democratic party still must live with the action or lack of action which takes place.

Latest polls show that both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller, leading potential Republican candidates, have gained ground.

This nation today is calling for labor reform. Some shocking stories of labor leader exploits have been handed the general public. And now that public is demanding positive action.

And it is not too la^e to give this nation action. If the Democratic congress fails to come up with some labor reform bill, then the party could actually be handing the presidential election to a Republican next year. It is just that serious, as we see it.

If congress adjourns in September as planned, and if no labor reform bill is enacted, then it can only work to the dis: advantage of the Democratic party and to the advantage of the Republican party, as we see the matter at this time.

perience of working wdth a staff that pulls together like a team has been invaluable under three red-headed bosses who are really top notch to work with.

Ive learned things about human nature too. some folks just plain dont care to .see their names in print. Others are more than glad to take their share of the blame and credit that are passed around.

There have been mistakes. And the bosses were very patient when I listed Henry Carter as head of the music camp Instead of Earl Beachand w'hen the w'ater ran over in the darkroom and flooded the downstairs while Rosalie Moore was on vacation. They didnt fire me.

Ive had a chance to interview a wide variety of peopleseveral octogenarians, a debutante, and a former Japanese ambassador.

And the conclusions Ive reached?

It isnt so bad to grow old if you remain active.

You meet interesting people in the newspaper business.

And I would like to work here again.

.ady 'Milks Sniders

By TOM HENSHAW AP Newsfeatures Writer

HOBOKEN. N.J. (AP>Catherine Luciano is a milkmaid for spiders!

Each working day in season from late May until the cold weather sets in she spends several hours handling the scary little critters and coaxing them to spin their webs in the interest of engineering.

The fine but tough strands of gossamer eventually end up as the cross wires on the delicate precision instruments, like surveyors sights, manufactured by her employer, Keuffel fe Essel Co.

Catherine got her unusual job 10 years ago through the simple expedient of volunteering. Between milkings she perform.? a second chore of filing the cross wires onto reticules.

*T had the normal di.slike of handling spiders at first but I got used to it," says Catherine. "Its just part of the job now.

How do 3T0U milk a spider?

First,, you select one that looks plump and well rested. Then you pick him out of his box and drop him on a table, grasping with your fingers the tiny bit of gossamer protruding from his body.

The spider takes off across the table top, spewing a single strand of w-eb behind him. The w'eb is collected on an aluminum spinning frame which can hold up to 75 feet on a good run.

The frames wound with gossamer so thin it can barely be seen are stored in specially con.struc-ted dust-free boxes for use during the cold off-sea<!On when spiders are unavailable.

Catherines job may be unusual but theres nothing exotic about the spiders. They are plain old New Jersey field spiders, collected by a farmer in nearby Secaucus. He gets 30 cents apiece for them.

In the course of a milking season. Catherine handles about 1,500 spiders in her studlo-llke workshop on the fifth floor of a grav factory building not far from the Hoboken waterfront. special trouble or expense. They are housed in boxes with air holes. They provide their own food by eating each other.

But explaining her job and her informal title of "spider lady occasionally presents a problem for Catherine You should hear me try to explain it to a date. They dont believe me at first."

There are other small problems, too.

Sometime.?, w^hen Catherines vigilance slackens, the wirv little monsters stage mass escapes from their box. Then Its strictly up to Catherine. Pew of her coworkers are willing to help in the recapture.

And occasionally there are spider bites, too. Catherine de-.scribes them as like being bitten by a mosquito. The bite is treated with alcohol and, moments later, she is back at the spider table.

Opinions In Brief

Let private enterprise do it. Private enterprise pays taxes. Newton (Iowa) Daily News.

There are some w ho v onder whetlier a legislature not reapportioned as required by the con.stitution technically is a legally constituted body. Wonder

what would happen if someon te:t? that iheory court? The Raleigh Times.

"A candle and a teacher both consume themselves to give light to others.Matton (111.) Jour-nal-Gazette.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SPELLED OUT FOR US

The New Testament speaks & great deal about witnesses, and the Greek word for witness is "martus from which we get the English word martyr. Usually we think of a martyr as a person who suffers, and because of the indisposition of human beings to accept the truth, martyrs frequently have had to suffer. But a martyr 1 really a witness. He tells what he has seen or heard.

Christian believers are expected above all else to be witnesses. The church got its start by the witnessing of simple, courageous men and women. In the beginning there was not the great church organization we know today. A little group of men and women simply went about telling persistently and in excited tones certain experiences

they had had through their contacts with this remarkable man Jesus. Most of_them had known Him personally. If they had not known Him personally, they had known the disciples who had been close to Him throughout His ministry. The message in the beginning was simple. This Jesus of Nazareth is God Anointed One, they declared. He Is the promised Messiah. He is God Himself come into the walks of human life to redeem man from sin and to train him in the ways of righteousness.

The Christian church did not start out with great fanfare. It was first just a little group of witnessesmen and women telling the things they knew about the Lord Jesus,

The legacy of Christ to us is, Ye shall be my witnesses. There is the divine directive spelled out with utter plainness.

All Business Cateaories Picked Ud

By EL.MER ROESSNER

Not one major category of retail business failed to make gains in sales during the first half of this year, compared with the first half of 1958, according to Commerce Depaitment figures.

All subdivisions except one participated in these gains. The sole exception was meat markets, whose sales were 10 per cent under those of a year earlier. Lower prices for meats was undoubtedly the meet important reason.

All retail stores, in the January-July comparison, showed a gain of 9 per cent.

Of these, the durable goods stores showed the largest rise. 16 per cent, compau*ed with 5 per cent for nondurable goods .stores. Just as the nondurable ratio was pulled down by Ipwcr meat prices, the durable total was pushed up by the automotive group.

Franchised car dealers increased sales 22 lovely per

centage points: tire, battery and accessory dealers registered a 15 per cent gain. Service stations did only moderately better-7 per cent up.

BUILDERS SUPPLIE.S STRONG

Lumber yards increased sales 19 per cent, largely becau.se sale.? a year ago were pretty sick. Hardware dealers gained 7 per cent, and the total rLse for the lumber, building, hardware and farm equipment group was 14 per cent.

This boom was not attributable entirely to the housing broom, although that doubtlessly had effects. because most builders do not get supplies from retail lumber yards and hardware suppliers. So it may be assumed that do-It-yourselfing is again on the rise.

Despite the modest gains In soft goods, some segments made forward strides. Mailorder sales of department store merchandise were up 15 percent. and department stores and general merchandise stores war*

10 per cent above a year ago. Variety stores were up 8 per cent.

The apparel group was 6 per cent above a year ago, buoyed up by womens ready-to-wear stores, up 9 per cept. and family clothing stores, up 7 per cent. Sho stores increased sales 5 per cent, and mens and boys clothing and furnishing stores, up 2 per cent.

MORE DRINKING AT HOME

Eating places showed a rise of 4 per cent and drinking places an increase of 3 per cent. However, liquor stores sales rose 9 per cent, which would seem lo indicate thatafter recent price risespeople are doing more drinking at home.

Drug stores were up 9 per cent and furniture and appliance stores up 7 per cent.

Meanwhile, the preliminary report for July has come in. It shows a slight drop from Junea natural occurrenceand a 9 per cent rise over July, 19.58

All major categories showed

gains, the largest being In the automotive group, up $670,0(X).-(KX) from $2.907,000,000 sales in July, 1958. Thats a rise of more than 20 per cent.

SALARY MAY ADD TO GENERAL FRUSTRATION There seems to be a premium on frustration in England.. Au. advertisement seeks, Frustra^*" ted area manager. Must be frustrated because we feel that a man of personality and ideas will become frustrated if prevented from exploiting them by short-sighted management. We are frustrated ourselves. . . The salary offered: $3,50 a year plus commissions, use of a car and fringe benefits.

GOVERNMENT TO NICK PHILATELISTS AGAIN The government has figured a new way to get money out of stamp collectors. Now it offers commemorative stamp posters, containing enlarged illustrations of new stamps, plus Informar tioii on subject and getting first day covers, for II a year.