PAGE FOURTHE DAILY RcrLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Monday, Saptember zi, i959

Monday, September 21, 1959

Hitch Your Wagon

The Thirty Years That Lie Ahead

Live

What will Eastern North Carolina be like 30

years from now? , ^

With frequent statements asserting the fabulous potential for development in this section of the state one can hardly help but speculate about what the future will bring.

Looking back over the past three decades, we can see vast changes which have taken place in Eastern North Carolina. In many respects the section has retained the characteristics of former years. But everything seems to be bigger, better and more progressive. Many new things have been added to enrich the life

of the section and its people.

During the past 30 years small communities have grown; into pleasant, progressive towns. Towns have grown into small cities moving at a more rapid gait than that which characterized the old, sleepy ways of the old way of life. Good highways and modern transportation have tied closely together communities that formerly were almost isolated from each other.

In the transition we have of ncessity sacrificed some of the good things that used to be. Eastern North Carolina has become more urbanized, its life faster and perhaps more hectic than before. Y'et with this progress have come other things which more than offset sacrifices that have been made.

Throughout the section modern medical facilities have sprung up where there we'*e noneibefore. Hospitals have been built and expanded to provide better medical care for the people. The system of public

3uilding Funds .eft To Voters

By LYNN NISBET

BUILDINGS The General Assembly of 1959 allocated the aggregage sum of $48,870,000 for permanent capital improvements at the various State eleesymonary institutions. Of that total amount $14,470,000 represented positive commitment. This money was derived from reappropriating $5,275,000 of a revolving fund estabUsbed in 1957, and the issuance of $9,195,000 full faith and credit bonds of the State by the General Assembly. That was the maximum amount of bonds which the Legislature could issue without vc^e of the people.

Avaability of the other $34,400,-

000 will depend upon approval

01 the voters in an election called for October 27. Ballots for the proposed bonds wrill be divided into nine items. One item will be for $18,891,000 for educational institutions; another will be. for $12,053.000 for mental hospitals. Tpe remaining $3,456,000 will go for various projects, which were discussed in an article here a few days ago.

Herewith is presented a rough breakdown of the allocations of prospective bond money allocations to colleges and hospitals. Since one cross mark wrill count as a vote for or against the entire amount of nearly $19 mU-libn for colleges and $12 million for hospitals, detailed delineation of every item is not important. It should be kept in mind, however, that when specific projects are set out in authorization for bonds, the bond money cannot be spent for any other projects.

It is noted that of the educational bond money to be voted $1,718,000 is earmarked W use below the higher educational level. That includes $1,491,000 for equipment at the industrial Education Centers throughout the state; $179,000 for the School for the Blind at Raleigh, and $48,000 for addition to the building at the Vocational Textile School at Belmont.

COLLEGES There is an al-locatkm of $500,000 Tor the State Department of Administration to buy Iwid for educational institutions. This is a sort of hole card reserve to enable the State to take advantage of good real estate deals when they develop, It is not attributable to any particular Institution. In the specific institutional allocations the Consolidated University comes in for more than half the total amount. The breakdown among institutions is approximately as follows:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. $4.240,OOh-mainly for laboratories and classrooms, and for dormitories, (Everywhere dormitories are allocated funds the idea is the State will pay 50 per cent of their cost, the other 50 per cent being

borrowed cwi self-liquidating arrangement.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Affairs. $1,090.000 for public health building and classrooms. That makes a total of $5,330,000 for Chapel HUl.

State College at Raleigh, $4,-799.000, mostly for laboratories and classrooms. Agricultural Experiment Station $85,000, a total of $4,884,000 for Raleigh-

Womans College at Greensboro $520,000 for alterations to the Curry Building (training school) and dining hall. That makes a grand total of $10.734.000 for the three units of the University.

East Carolina College at Greenville will get $1,490,000, mostly for modernization of heating plant, electrical system and dormitories.

Western Carolina College at CuUowhee is allotted $1,425,000 for classrooms, laboratories and dormitories.

Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone gets $1,577,000 for dormitories, science building and expansion of physical education facilities.

Pembroke State College gets $250,000 for a dormtory.

A&T College at Greensboro Is allotted $976,000. chiefly for laboratories. classrooms and physical education facilities.

Winston-Salem State Teachers gets $150,000 for a girls dormitory. Elizabeth City State Teachers College comes in for $71,000 for faculty housing and renovation of communication and physical education systqms.

HOSPITALS Biggest item in the $12 million mental hospital bond program is $4,500,000 for a western training school for mentally deficient childrenprobably to be located adjacent to the State hospital at Morganton.

Next biggest item is $2,467,000 for the Goldsboro hospital, including a new administration and admission hospital building. There is also an item of $1,252.000 for two dormitories at the Goldsboro training school (for Negro mental deficients).

The Butner Hospital asks for $1,800,000 for renovation of five wards in the main hospital and $1,225,000 for five dormitories for mental deficients at the training school.

Renovation of old buildings at the Raleigh hospital would take $450.000; renovations at Morganton caU for $84,000 and a sewage disposal arranagment at Caswell Training School (Kinston) Will cost $275,000.

ALL OR NONE Voters in the October 27 election can vote for or against the educational bones, for or against the mental hospital bonds, but there is no provision for selectivity among the items in each category. The choice is $18 million or nothing for colleges. $12 million or nothing for mental .hospitals-

schools has made the transition from the old one-teacher buildings that dotted the countryside to modern, larger, better schools that provide broader educational opportunities for the youngsters.

Where once Eastern North Carolina looked to other parts of the state for higher education, it has in the past 30 years seen its own institutions grow from small colleges to major .seats of learning in the state. New colleges have sprung up which promise to grow into major institutions in the next few decades.

The area is well on its way toward creating its own major seats of education, medicine as w^ell as its hubs pf business and economy that wull command recognition not only in this section, but far beyond the bounds of Eastern North Carolina.

If 'we are to believe what we read and hear, the progress of the past three decadeswhich has been significant indeedwill be a mere drop in the bucket compared with what the next 30 or so years will bring.

The section of the state is beginning only now, the experts say, to hit its stride in development and progress. Not only industrially, but agriculturally as well, they say we have tremendous potential which is yet undeveloped.

Of perhaps greater significance is the fact that the experts are not alone in recognizing these facts. The people of the area themselves have begun to grasp a vision of the potential and have set their course to take advantage of the opportunities that are presenting themselves.

What will Eastern North Carolina be like 30 years from now?

The answ^er rests wTth the people of the section. It will be the kind of area the people decide to make it. It may be progressive and orosperous beyond that which anyone today can imagine. Or it may be sleepy and backward, lounging in the backwaters of the economic and cultural progress that seems destined to engulf this and many other states.

The answer depends upon the people of Eastern North Carolina.

Demonstrating There

By HAL BOYLE

Are Big. Differences Youd LgQIH It In Mq..

For whatever else may be accomplLshed during the visit of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to this country, it is amply clear now that the American people can get under Khrushchevs skin and Khrushchev also rubs the American people the wrong w^ay.

Verbal battles between the Soviet Premier and American citizens which erupted during his visit to Los Angeles and those that came when he conferred with the nations leaders of organized labor show without question there are many conflicting points in U. S. and Soviet policy which appear out of reach of compromise.

Some of the questions asked Kbru.shchev obviously made him mad. And some of his assertions made his audiences no less hot under the collar. There is little reason to believe the situation will change during the remaining days of his tour of the United States.

These conflicts, of course, were expected. Whether they will lead to a better relationship between the two powerful nations of the w'orld is a matter of conjecture.

The face-to-face exchanges between Khrushchev and Americans during the visit, however, are certain to give the Soviet Premier and American citizen.s a better understanding of how the other thinks and what he believes.

Markets Role

;-or The Many

I NEW YORK (AP) Things a icolumnist might never know if he didnt open his mail:

Youre practically a new person every 12 months. Remember w'hen they used to say one's body changed every seven years? Now science says 98 per cent of the atoms in the human body are replaced whth new ones each year.

The underworld is interested in a new plastic surgery technique for permanently destroying fingerprints. They are removed with a high-speed electric wire brush.

How time does march on: For example, of the 176 million people in this country today, 71 per cent dont remember World War I. 57 per cent have no personal recollection of what life is like in a major depression, and 40

per cent cant remember when the Soviet Union was our active ally.

Prosperity item: Arthur A. Desser, president of a realty firm here, says there now is a waiting list for $100,000 homes.

About one out of every four freshmen who enter college drop out before the end of the school year, as many as quit in the following three years combined.

How big are your hands? In most people they make up about 6 per cent of the body surface.

Sophisticated definition: Sing

er Sheila Reynolds describes a successful woman as: One who is seen in the right places in the right clothes with the right man. When my wife heard this she said glumly. Well, youre married to the worlds most unsuccessful

Other Ecditors Saying... Civil Defense Waking Up

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By RALPH ROBEY

Millions of our citizens own stock in American corporations directly and many other millions own stock indirectly through pension funds, insurance policies, savings bank deposits, and so forth. To aU of these persons whether the price of securities go up or dowm is a matter of major importance, although the indirect holders may not be too aware of this. The behavior of the market also has a significant psychological effect upon business sentiment, and the market still is believed in many quarters to have suostantial validity as a forecaster of the economic trend.

There are many ways to measure the market. The index which is most commomy used bf those in the security business is that of Dow Jones, This is not the best of the averages, but Dow Jones Ls the only company which reports the individual transactions on the market, and its average is calculated on an hourly basis. Further every important stock brokerage house has a Dow Jones ticker. Averages Based On Sti>ck Behavior

Actually there are three Dow Jones averages. That for indu.s-tnal stocks is based upon the behavior of thirty important securities; that for railroads is based upon twenty slocks: and, that for utilities is based upon fifteen stocks. Which of lhe.se three average.^ is of mast interest to an individual depends, of course, upon the type of se-curitie.s he holds, but the indius-irial average i.s most frequently quoted.

The high of the Dow Jones industrial average the all-tirne highwas last Augast 3. On that day it reached 684. To appreciate what this means one nreds to recall that as late as last November 25 the average was 541. Since the high of last August the market has been extremely nervous and has dropped, as this is written, by some fifty points. The big issue is what Ls going to happen from here on. Ls the major bull market over, or Ls this a mere technical correction?

As a foundation for attempting to answer .such que.stions certain basic facts need to be made clear At 684 the market was at an extraordinary level, not only in dollars or in relation to past levels, but as related to earnings and prospective earnings.

Even the yield on high grade stocks has dropped well below what can be obtained from the best bonds, Including those of the United States Government. This was true in the late 1920s, but has not been the case since then until recently.

One factor contributing to stocks outpacing bonds in regard to yield has been a general fear of Inflation. It is widely believed that stocks offer better protection against rising commodity prices than any fixed interest obligation. because stocks can rise whereas bonds and mortgages have a par value and have relatively little basis for capital appreciation.

Finally one needs to remember that the sharp shake-out in recent weeks has been touched off by a growing tightness of money, which means rising interest rates. First the prime ratethe interest charged by bank.s to their big and best borrowers was raised from 44 to 5 per cent, and all other rates were automatically increased. Then came, first the fear, and then actuality of a rise in the rediscount rate to 4 per centthe highest that rate ha* been since the early thirties. And it is generally believed that interest rates will continue to advance. Thus rauses the fear that the upswing in the economy may be hailed, and at the least that it must be slowed down.

Future Fussibilitiei

Aganusi thus background it ob-viu i.-ly LS impassible to make firm predioioiLs on the trend of sUKk prices. But certain im-pre.ssioiLS are feasible.

First, the market may well go to KUlI lower levels, although a general collapse, or really significant break, ls not at all likely.

Secondly, the business curve will continue upward for many months and this will add strength to the market, '

Thirdly, there Ls no sound basis for concluding that the bull market has come to an end. We have been witnessing a fairly typical behavior and perhaps this will be continued for some time.

Finally, the market probably w'ill recover, not only to its old high of 684. but to a level substantially above that figure. Among the careful students of the market a level of 72.5 is re-guidcd as pos.sible, but that will probably have to occur after the first of the year.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

If Greensboros civil defense director has scrapped evacuation plans for that city because they are unworkable in the face of succesful intercontinental ballistic missile development, then the same situation must apply to every other city, and therefore any evacuatoin program is obsolete as of now. Greensboro and High Point have been listed by the federal Civil Defense agency as a critical target area.

Even before the advent of intercontinental missiles capable of carrjdng nuclear warheads, there have been many capable observers who considered our evacuation program as inefficient and incapable of emptying our larger pities which would serve as prime targets for bomb-carrying jet planes. Thus, the scrapping of any such evacuation plan is of no great loss. One wonders why we had such a plan to begin with. Leaving a target area does not put an evacuee beyond the reach of deadly fallout.

Greensboros Civil Defense Director J.M. Thornton now plans to get down to the meat of the problemsomething the British have long since doneand that Is concentrate future efforts on getting residents to provide themselves with family-size shelters against radiation hazards.

In England and other European countries this is no joke; it is not something to put off for future consideration. Since World War II, Europeans have been

acutely aware of the dangers of bombs. In America civil defense Is something to worry about in the distant future; right now it is merely a bother. And that attitude could cost us dearly.

Greensboros new plan for survival amounts to sitting out an attack instead of running from a target area. Such a plan has been under consideration for a year. As of now, obviously, the only alternative to an adequate number of public and private shelters is the evacuation plan now in effect.

What is the biggest obstacle to the shelter plan? Obviously its money. Gen. Edward F. Griffin, head of the state Civil Defense organization, said the evacuation plan is an interim plan until we can get shelters built and thats going to take billions of dollars. I dont look for that any time soon.

Thornton said the present evacuation plan is based upon the premise that we will have a -minimum of three hours warning of an attack by planes. But the coming of missiles is forcing a nationwide revision in Civil Defense policy because would not be anywhere near enough warning to cvactate target areas.

Even given sufficient warning to leave the target area, that would not solve the fallout problem, even though not one single person lost his life in the initial blast at the target area. Fallout still constitutes the primary problem in nuclear warfare, and it Is upon that problem that defense efforts should be concentrated.

woman.

Portraits of George Washington show him with a big chest and ruddy countenance. Actually, the first U.S. president was a bit flatchested and had a sallow complexion. Like Abraham Lincoln he was a champion wrestler in his youth.

In the kitchen of tomorrow, household engineers say. a gadget will wash dishes by sound. In many kitchens today dishes already are being washed by a gadget called a husband to the sound of, Its your turn.

It was Seneca who advised, live among men as if God beheld you: speak to God as if men were listening.

Strength

For To(dav

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ON THE SAME STREET

Here are tw^o homes, one right beside the other. In one hell reigns, in the other heaven. The mn and woman who live In one of the homes hate each other, are estranged from their children, vacillate between talking about a divorce and taking vengeance on the other by preventing a divorce.

The house next door is an entirely different matter altogether. The middle-aged couple there have to get along month by month on a medium-sized salary check. There has been one death in the family which cast the shadow of sorrow over all. But there are three girls and two boys who almost tear the house down with their romping and mischief. There is frequently the happy gathering together of relatives. The girls do odd jobs for neighbors by way of getting ready to go to college. Every Sunday morning the father and mother and five children are out early to attend Sunday school Jand church. They own a secondhand car which they have run now for five years. On the shelves of their library are the literary classics and the best of new books. They sacrificed considerably a few years ago for an expensive record player and the outstanding musical classics have been purchased after much saving.

The difference between the two homes is the difference between hell and heaventhe difference between hate and love, between sin and wholesome godliness.

,r ooas Valuec.

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By ROGER BABSON

BABSON PARK, Mass., Once each year I like to discuss foods. Usually it is at the close of the summer, which I spend at Gloucester, Mass. where I was born. There I once peddled vegetables and fruits from a milk wagon. I, of course, am writing only as a layman, surely not as o a physician or druggist.

VITAMINS, MINERALS,

AND BULK

In my youth I never heard of vitamins, minerals, or bulk in connection with food. In the spring we were given cod-liver oil, which I hated; and molasses w'ith sulphur on bread once a day. Then we were given jellies which my mother (bless her soul) had put up during the hot days of summer. We had potatoes, cabbages, squash, and carrots in the house cellar; but but no green vegetables from November until rhubarb came again.

When ill, we were built up on raw fertile eggs and raw milk. No other kind of eggs or milk was known. We had no bathroom in tl\e house, but walked through the snow to a little outhouse 20 feet in the rear. We walked two miles to school and back twice a day (while the children of 1950 are taken by bus and exercise in a beautiful gymnasium after arrival >. We always attended church and Sunday school whatever the weather,

DID LIVE SEEDS SAVE US?

As I look back to the food of those days, I realize that my mother unconcsciously fed us on live seeds. For instance, she not only refused to buy canned com; but went out in the garden and picked the corn ten minutes before dinner and we ate it on the cob when the kernels were alive. She always avoided cooking tomatoes or cucumbers or any berries because cooking killed the seeds. We got our fats from home-made butter; and our carbohydrates from oatmeal and corn meal; and the needed minerals from codfish dried in the sun.

The babies of those day* were started in life on mothers milk. If a mother did not have enough of her own, a wet nurse would be called in. Now babies are fed only dead pasteurized milk and baby food which has been dead for months in a can. Twice a day father brought cool fresh water from a spring; but now we boil the water and kill the vitamins, or else use city water which has chlorine or perhaps fluoride to kill the germs which we now cat dead instead of aUve.

I MAKE A FORECAST

We can still buy fresh oranps juice rather than canned or cooked. Fresh fruit juices will always be in demand, but the time may come when we will taks an orange seed as a pill once a day! These seeds are now sold at a premium for the pigs and chickens, which also get the best of the fish of which we buy tha fillets. Frozen foods have a wonderful advantage for distributors; but they are dead foods valuable largely for bulk.

Let me repeat, I am speaking only as a layman (readers should not pay too much attention to my forecast). But hera It is: Someday your grandchildren wlU buy packages of seed (now sold by the supermarkets for planting in the spring. These seeds they will soak and eat alive during the year just as we now take vitamins, minerals, and other exepnsive pills which are sold at drug stores. Furthermore, they will get a variety of seeds in order to get such proper diversification as tha family physician may order. The old motto Prom Rags to Riches may become From Seeds to Health.

WHAT ABOUT GRAVITY?

Life Magazine for September 7. 1959 has an excellent articlo on Bulbs. It. however, omits one important fact, namely that bulbs and seeds have one very unique power the power to defy gravity. They got only know when spring has come, but they have an exclusive Ood-given power to defy gravity and push upward through the hard soil which has been froeen all winter.

PS. When you read this I will be on the ocean headed for Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and elsewhere. Am taking a packago of mixed seeds with me.

More Look-Aheads In Business

By EL.MER ROESSNER

Here are new look-aheads in business, mostly based on analyses of current developments and the rest on Information from reliable sources:

Sharply higher unemployment totals will be announced in mid-October. The figures will reflect current situations, when many steelworkers are on strike and the secondary effects of the strike are spreading. However, if the strike Is over by the time the figures are announced, the situation then will be much better than the statistics indicate.

Cheaper television sets will result from the development of a new square, nonlaminated picture tube. The manufacturer is quietly allowing set manufacturers to test its new tube, claimed to provide a better picture than others.

More faiicy foods will soon be pushed on the market. General Foods was considered wacky a couple of years aso when it brought out gourmet foods, pre

viously considered items for small, specialty producers. But acceptance has been such that General Foods has been testing new onesincluding a Cointreau marmalade-and will introduce them in a few weeks.

TAPE FIRMS PROBED

A recording-tape crackdown Is coming. A Federal grand jury is investigating an alleged monopoly and is drawing up indictments right now. Charges involve suppresssion of competition.

Luminescent dashboards are coming fast. Chrysler is using this no glare lighting on dashboards in 1960 models, and other makers are rushing to offer comparable lighting. Instruments so lighted are said to use less juice andmore importantlyto be easier on night drivers eyes-

Higher parcel post rates are almost certain. There ha-s been little interest in Interstate Commerce Comml.ssion hearings scheduled for October 9. and if thi.s indifference- or resignation continues, the ICC 1* surf U>

recommend increases of from 1 to 35 per cent...

NEW TOURIST CAMPAIGN

Greater competition confronts Florida winter tourist Interests. Thirty island countries of the Caribbean have united to promote winter vacations In the tropias. While only a small dent may be made in Florida business this year, the threat may become serious in the next decade.

Cheaper canned foods will be available to careful shoppers in the coming season. The pack of fruits and vegetables Is plentiful. and wholesale offerings are under those of recent months.

Costlier soy oil is- a certain consequence of lighter plantings earlier t.his year. Higher prices seem certain when harvests come in a few weeks.

Higher glycerin is in the cards. One big producer ha.s upped prices of the synthetic type beginning October 1. and this will tend to .stiffen all quotations. BALLOON ANIMALS?

THEY MAKE A CABARET

Youve seen these people who take balloons and twist them into shapes of strange animals? Well, if they do it in cocktail lounges, the proprietor must levy a cabaret tax on the customers. So says the Internal Revenue Service (in Rev. Rul. 59-281). OI.D PROMOTER APPROVES THE GENTLE SELL

A postcard from the Old Promoter:

"The most diabolic commercial I ever heard is the one by a secondhand fur shop in New York, The gimmick line Is, Many came to browse and returned to buy.

Think how clever that Is. If it was. Many came to browse and stayed to buy, it would frighten most women. They would be afraid of the hook. But the idea of returning w-ipc.s away that scare: it assures all listeners they will have free op-poriunity to think things over. I think it will pack in twice aa many prospects as any line about staying to buy. The old boy aoun(ia correct.