PAGUE FOUR

THE DAILY REFLECTOR

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EENVILLE. N. C

Thursday, September 24, 1959

Thursday, September 21, 1959

Our Great Magician

Powell Bill Funds Are Not Gifts

Annual distribution of Powell Bill funds to cities and towns of North Carolina has become an important factor in municipal governments of the state being able to make financial ends meet.

This year more than $6.7 million is being distributed by the state under provisions of the controversial legislation passed several years ago that allows municipal governments to participate in gasoline tax revenues collected by the state.

Based on a formula w^hich includes population and the number of miles of streets^a municipality has, Pitt Countys incorporated communities this year will receive a total of $117,961.53 in Powell Bill funds to be used for street maintenance, paving and other street work. Allocations to Pitt County municipalities ranged from $71,872 for Greenville down to $409.76 for Falkland, the smallest amount received by any town in the state.

While the sum received by Greenville from the Powell Bill distribution will not nearly defray all the cost of street work done by the city during a year, it provides the city an important source of revenue which does not have to be produced by local ad valorem taxes.

If Greenville, for example, had to raise through local taxes the $72,000 it reqeives this year from Powell Bill funds, it would require an increase of about 28 cents in the local tax rate. The tax rate of other municipalities would be altered to a greater or lesser degree in order to provide the money, depending on their local government tax structure.

Like other funds which trickle down from one level of government to another, Powell Bill funds are not Tree to local citizens. They have paid their share of the total fund just as citizens in every other section of the state have. It is important to municipal governments, however, that they are getting something back from the state gasoline tax to help with maintaining streets.

The distribution formula provided under the Powell Bill has been a boon to municipalities throughout North Carolina, and it will continue to be increasingly important in municipal planning, both from the standpoint of street improvement and from the standpoint of financing local government operations.

Skeptical Attitude On Sweetness And Light

Olives Name Is

3eina Re-Raisec,

By LNYY NISBET

OLIVE Reports are that considerable strength is developing In the Piedmont, with some Interest manifested in other sections, for Judge Hubert Olive of Lexingtoii as a candidate for Governor. Olive was not available for comment, but some of his close personal and political friends say the idea is not at aU repulsive to him.

His entry would add spark and aest to the race. He is more widely known throughout the state in legal and political circles than any of the other current prospects. As a special judge, subject to assignment anywhere, he has held court in all sections of North Carolina. As a runner-up candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1952 he campaigned in every county, almost every precinct, and received 26,675 votes against William tJmsteads 294.1^). He is a former state commander of the American Legion, and is presently the resident Superior Court Judge In the 22nd district embracing Alexander, Davidson, Davie and Iredell counties.

If he should get into the race he would to some degree meet himself coming back from the 1952 campaign. He contended then that the governorship belonged to the west. Now, after almost two terms by a western Governor, the office belongs to the eastif the geographic rotation is to be maintained. Whether his defeat in 1952 will be a handicap, or the experience gained then a positive asset, will de-' pend up<m development.

Max Gardner was defeated in 1920 and came back to wn the nomlnaticm without a contest in 1928. Allen J. Maxwell was defeated in 1932, and again when he tried to stage a comeback in 1940. It is conceded on aU sides that the stroke suffered by Maxwell ten days before the primary had material bearing on the 1940 result. Ralph McDonald defeated in 1936, tried a comeback In 1944 and took a worse licking from Gregg Cherry._

WATCHFUL WAITING Despite very strong support for each of the three most generally recognized candidates lor GovernorTerry Sanford, John Larkins and Addison Hewlett-the fact is a large segment of the voting citizenry is not happy about having to choose a Governor from that list. Many of the politically-minded have adopted the philosophy of watchful waiting proclaimed some 40 years ago by President Woodrow Wilson anent the Mexican border situation.

Heard more often than any other comment is the expression

of hope that somebody else would get in the race, with capacity to capture the imagination and support of the people. Most of this hoping has envisaged some new and heretofore unknown Lochinvac who would raid the party and carry off the bride.

Historic fact is that North Carolina has never elected a Governor who had not proved his ability in the statewide political arena. Only time near approach was made to that kind of thing was in 1936 when Ralph McDonald scared the oldtimers. Luther Hodges jumped the barriers for Lieutenant Governor in 1952, and was nominated for a full term as Governor in 1956 without consequential opposition. But few folks think he could have won the No. 1 place in 1952.

The prospect of Hubert Olive as a gubernatorial candidate has other interesting angles. He was sponsored and wholeheartedly supported by retiring Governor Kerr Scott in 1952. That experience gave him contact with the inner circles of the Scott organization, comparable to that he already had with the so-called conservative element of the party by reason of his connection with the Hoey campaign in 1936. If he should get into this race his entry will hurt Terry Sanford more than any of the other prospective contenders.

CITIESTOWNS The N.C. League of Municipalities has just published the 1959 edition of the roster of municipal officials. In observance of the 25th anniversary of reorganization of the League the current booklet has a silver color. A total of 584 cities and towns are listed, of this number 160 are classed as inactive, 17 as active but not reporting. For the other 407 the roster gives the names of administrative officials and attorneys, meeting time for governing boards, 1950 population and other salient information.

There are great many women on the governing boards, but a check of the roster indicates only two lady mayorsThelma C. Stone at Broadway and Rubye Hedrick at Lilesville.

Among the problems to be discussed at the Silver Anniversary convention of the League at Asheville next week will be the proper share of responsibility between the municipality and the suburban areas, and procedure for annexing adjacent territory. One thing Is certain, the 1950 census figures are far below the present population inside corporate limits, and if metropolitan areas arc counted the 1950 figure Is not much more than half the 1960 count.

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MostNaymen, surv'eying the international situation today with the exchange of visits by President

Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev and the probable summit conference in the next few monthsseem

to take for granted there will be no major crisis between East and West at least for a period of several months.

In the midst of the current exchange of sweetness and bouquets between East and West in recent weeks, however, there has come at leafed one slight indication that maybe all of the top brass isnt of the opinion the cold war is going to ease off.

Commenting on the possibility of his resigning his post as Secretary of Defense in the near future, Neil McElroy this week told reporters he couldnt step down until he had finished preparing the defense budget for next year. Then he added he might be able to finish his current job by December if a national emergency didnt develop.

So far as we know the Defense Secretary did not elaborate on that national emergency comment, but its safe to assume he didnt inject that into his comments about resigning just to have something to say.

Though the press of the nation accepted the re-m.ark as routine, perhaps it reflects with some accuracy the skepticism that high officials hold concerning the possibility of better relations between East and West in the months ahead.

On the surface at least, it would seem improbable that any crisis would develop to create a national emergency while heads of state are exchanging visits or gathering at a central point to talk over ways of alleviating international tension. On the other hand, it is reasonable to assume the top brass has access to a great deal more information than the public does. Therefore they should be in a better position to anticipate what course international events will follow in the months immediately ahead.

Maybe McElroys off-hand comment about a national emergency should be ignored completely. Or maybe it is a subtle warning that Americans shouldnt allow themselves to be lulled to sleep by the lullabies being exchanged between East and West.

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By HAL BOYLE

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Seek Old Home Remedies

An insurance company is beginning a search for North Carlina home remedies.

Spring tonic.

Allstate Insurance Company which a few months ago launched a search for the states oldest citizen, is now call for home remedies.

fBoth remedies emphatically failed to eaim the Taylor seal of approval.)

compiled into a booklet for distribution throughout the state.

NEW YORK (AP)Drat it, theyve done it again! Theyve low-rated the dandelion.

Some 43 countries have national flowers. They range from the ceibo of Argentina to the shamrock of Ireland.

The U S.A. and the Soviet Unfen alone among major powers ave no national flower.

ror 40 years ever suice Woodrow Wilsons secona lex ui congress has made tentauve gci?-tures toward picKlng a nauonax flower. But the legislators, busy waging war and peace, always ducked the thorny Issue.

But flower lovers lately have been buttonholdlng Congress to settle the blooming controversy once and for all.

The pressure has borne some fruit. Individual legislators have arisen this year, and in oratory reminiscent of the tariff debates, nominated a number of favorite son flowers to be the national floral emblem.

Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky nominated grass.

Where would the cow,t he foster mother of mankind, be without grass? thundered the Demosthenes of the Blue Grass State.

Well, to let Congress know now the people really feel, the na-Uons florists decided to poll the public on what should be the national flower.

During October 11,000 members of the Florists Telegraph Delivery Assn. will set up ballot boxes and invite every American man, woman and child to vote for his favorite flower.

The ballot lists 20 candidates. It includes those already nominated in Congress: the blackeyed susan, corn tassel, carnation, daffodil, marigold, mountain laurel, rose, shasta daisyand

The company is offering prizes totaling $150 for the most valuable home remedies submitted.

Here ai'e a couple they cite:

However, a news release from the insurance company said that information gathered in the contest will be turned over to medical researchists in the state for possible value in treating disease. Validity of the value of the home remedy will be judged by leading doctors and researchists and prizes are to be awarded on the basis of their opinion.

Home remedy recipes should be sent to Nevin J. Rice, Regional Manager, Allstate Insurance Companies. 222 South Church St.. Charlotte, N. C.

The search for remedies will last through December of this year.

Take one dozen earthworms: pack them in corn meal; bake

them in the oven for 30 minutes and you have earthworm oil-good for arthritis.

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Take one quart of vinegar, one quart of water; mix together: dissolve therein nine square nails, and you have a potent

The release goes on to state that a drug from India, rau-wilfia serpentina, was for many years used by the people of that country as a home remedy. Today, it is an extremely valuable adjunct to the treatment of high blood pressure.

David J. Whichard, the boss, says the pre-school age kids of the Forest Hills section have come up with a modern new Lame.

Is a game that the children of yesteryear would have never dreamed of playing.

Remedies gathered will be

Seems the bosss daughter, Kathy, came in the house one day not long ago and asked her mother for a pencil and paper.

grass.

But the florists have overlooked the best bet of all. the common dandelion, a flower Mary Margaret McBride and I have been extolling for years.

America can have the dandelion as its very own. And it should. This golden democrat of pasture and home comes unasked to allrich or pooras free as the God-given winds that float its myriad gray parachutes.

Come October, go to your nearest floral ballot box and cast a write-in vote for a real all-American flowerthe dandelion.

Let the bald eagle soar fore-ever with a peaceful dandelion in his fierce beak, symbolizing a land both proud and humble I

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Things were quiet for awhile so Daves wife, Kay, went out to see what was going on.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) There are three Nikita Khrushchevs. Two are actors and the third is a publicity man with such good timing and change of pace he makes the Madison avenue boys look as lively as Spanish-American War veterans.

There is Khrushcev, the Soviet Premier, with his eye on the main chance. There is Khrushchev, the top economist, playing on the American stage to one audience in the West and to another in the rest of the world.

And there is Khi*ushchev the publicity man, working to advertise the other two. Although his every movement and word would get headlines anyw'ay, he has managed to do at least one thing every day to get added attention.

As leader of the Soviet Union, which represents itself as the friend of all people, he talks peace, peace, peace and trade, trade, trade, although saying it doesnt matter whether the United States wants to trade with the U.S.S.R.

But if he can make any yardage hereif he can get any concessionshe will consider his trip a big success.

The irony of all his talk of peace Is that out of a cloudless sky months ago he created crisis by threatening to shut off West Berlin unless the West gets Its troops out of there. He hasnt budged an inch. Because he hasnt, he has been invited here to talk things over.

As he moves around, talking peace, he holds over the West the same threat of a shut-off Berlin. He wants concessions. There is no sign he came to make any. So he got this trip and world attention at a cost of nothing more than a threat.

Then there is Khrushchev, the Communist actor. He gave a possible insight into his conduct here when he spoke of this country In a heated moment Sunday night while talking to labor leaders: You have been polled by everyone bowing down, by everyone cringing and crawling.

He apparently set out to do just the opposite. He brags of Soviet progress, has very little flattering to say about American achievement, and even gets personally insulting, although so far he has picked targets who cant hurt him.

He told labor leaders they were management stooges; he questioned whether the mayor of Los Angles could read; and when a frankfurter man happily told him hot dogs need good meat, Khrushchev hit him with: Any fool knows that.

This performance by the ma.s-ter 0 communism riding roughshod through the citadel of

capitalismcannot help but be impressive to the Communist, neutral and backward peoples ot the world.

It was like hearing him tell them: I got those big shots told off, didnt I?

But this same performance has had a different effect in the Western world which has watched with astonishment his unpredictability, his mercurial temper, his impetuosity, his belligerency, his too obvious attempts to appear contemptuous and superior.

Since this man holds the key to peace, and presumably to war, the West cannot avoid misgivings and worry about dealing w'ith him.

But while the West may consider much of his performance an act. it cant be sure all of it is. Some of it may be real and an indication of emotional instability.

That gives him an advantage in dealing with President Elsenhower and the rest of the Western leaders, since they may Jean over backwards in trying to avoid angering him unnecessarily.

It is hard to believe he is emotionally unstable for the simple reason he had to show extraordinary self-discipline in clawing his way up in the Commulst party. It is unlikely his fellow Comiwrists in the Kremlin would have chosen as leader a man who might bring them all down in ruin in an impulsive moment.

But day after day publicity man Khrushchev has built up this picture of the other two Khrushchevs by doing something to get even more than the expected attention.

The fu'fit day it wasnt much. He refused to conform to Western custom, and went to a formal White House dinner in a a business suit; the next day he displayed the volatile Khrushchev by anger at a National Press Club luncheon. ,

The third day he broke out of the routine and prosaic round of luncheons and Innera by getting angry with businessmen. The fourth day he made head-linea around the world with his proposal for complete disarmament.

Next day he blew up a storm at a Los Angeles dinner. Sunday he switched roles and patted children on the head. That night he switched again, stormed at labor leaders who tried to bait hnn: Monday he did the unexpected by marching into the Long^horemens headquarters In San Francisco and having a pleasant day without a flareup; and Tuesday he bounded into Dc.s Moinc.s, now the plea.sant, homey Khruf-hchev, except for irusultiag tiie hot dug man.

(Kinston Free Press)

James P. Mitchell, secretary of Labor in President Eisenhowers cabinet, speaking to the AFL-CIO convention at San San Francisco, informed the union men that he had sent a special note to James Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, directing him to report with-ing 10 days giving a list of any officials of the Teamsters Union who had been convicted of crime in the past five years or who had been a member of the Communist Party in that period.

The action was in accord with the Landrum-Griffin Labor bill, which passed Congress in its final session.

The Labor Secretary not only announced that he had sent this special note to the president of the Teamsters UnionIn this connection it will be recalled that this union was ousted from the AFLrCIO ranks a year or more ago because of the alleged mishandling of funds by its leaders. The secretary went further and said that it was not his purpose to go witch hunting as the majority of the unions he felt were conducted in an honest manner but that he proposed to carry out the wishes of the people as expressed in the overwhelming vote of the members of Congress for the labor bill.

Some of the labor leaders continue to claim that the Landrum-Griffin bill is an attempt to wreck all unions. Thinking union

members, the rank and file, should realize that this righteous law protects their interests as well as the general public. They are being assessed regularly and deductions made from their payrolls for welfare funds. Notoriously some of the union leaders, particularly those of the Teamsters Union, allegedly have appropriated huge sums running into the millions for their own personal use.

As a result of the disclosures of this misuse of funds the 1958 session of Congress enacted a bill requiring a report of the handling of all welfare funds. It included those of employers who furnish all of the welfare funds through insurance and created some complaint on that score.

As Secretary Mitchell said the majority of unions seem to be conducted on an honest basis, but in those large unions where it has been shown that their leaders were dishonest and were misusing funds entrusted to their keeping a very careful and scrutinizing investigation is justified. The rank and file of the membership of all unions would do well to give their support to the application of this new labor bill.

Theres one thing certain: If in Its application the charges that it was an effort to destroy unions is proven to be correct, the right thinking people of this country will demand amendments or repeals as are necessary to correct such conditions.

All the children were gathered around a table, she said. Oil the table was the paper and on 4he paper w'ere several marks.

Then Kay found out what it was all about. An air craft flew uver and the children looked up

through an opening in the trees.

They made another mark on the paper.

American education has one great strength; democracy. An American child has three times as good a chance of going to university as an Englisli child of going to the sixth form. Perhaps some of the universities would not impress an English don; even so, the benefits to American society, psychological as well as material, are incalculable. This is still the noblest part of the American dream, and no amount of concern with outdoing Russia should be allowed to sacrifice it. The Manchester (Eng.) Guardian.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ARE WE LOSING OUR RELIGION?

There are some people today who believe that we are in grave danger of losing religion as a factor of world development.

These, of course, are cither the communists who declare they are going to make atheism rampant or else pe<H)le who are so impressed by the communists that they have the feeling that communism may indeed win the fight. Christians can never bring themselves to believe that our faith will vanish from the earth. The whole truth of Christian teaching is that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church and that, come w'hat may. Christianity will not only survive but at last triumph.

However, this does not obvi

ate the fact tliat millions of people under communist influence are deserting the church and what it stands for. We indeed have a solemn fact to face in the situation of great masses of humanity breaking away from Christian teaching and embracing its precise opposite. Here in our own country where there atre so any churches, and churches which are full week after week, we find it hard to believe that godlcss-ness could ever make any particular difference so far as we personally are concerned. But the declaration It could happen here is something which needs to be pondered. What would multitudes do If atheism really rose as a massive power in our midst?

We may well be anxious over what the future holds in this regard.

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3hose Services To ShoDDers

By Elmer Roessner

Shoppers can get more for their department store dollar if they make full use of the extra services offered, Nathan J. Gold president of the National Retail Merchants Association believes.

Todays modern department store is muoh more than a mere merchandise depot. Mr. Gold said. He Is chairman of the board of Gold & Co.. oper-atoi's of a Lincoln, Neb., department store as well as chief executive of the N.R.M.A., which represents more than 11,500 department, special and chain stores throughout the world.

The modern department .store Ls practically a city within a city, complete with almost every type of service offered by a municipality, and often with its own po.st office as well, he pointed out.

Many .shoppers fall to make use of all the proffered services, and a large part of them dont know how many are available he said.

SIIOI*l*ING KKGISTRY

One of these services is personal shopping, Mr. Gold point

ed out. A personal shopper is a member of the stores staff who shops for customers. This can be a boom to busy career girls, busy housewives and to men who must get presents for their wives.

Personal shopping service is now offered by more than 75 per cent of the nations department and tells it what she wants. A shopper picks it out and the store delivers it. A housewife can bake a cake while the store docs her shopping for her, and if the shoppers choices dont add u% to precisely what she wanted, the store will take the unwanted goods back cheer-fullv.

Many department stores offer a brides regLstry service. The bride-to-be picks out her china, silver and glassware patlenus and the .store keep.s a file on the.se choices, plus any other gift preferences slie may have. Friends are referred to the store for assistance in purchasing wedding gifts, and the store keeps a record of each purchase right in the bndc.s personal file.

PEIi.MA.NENT FILE

A bride may keep the store in

formed of any other gifts she receives, and the store Is able to counsel her friends and relatives on their purchases, not only for wedding gifts, but for house-wanning and anniversary gifts, as well. The brides file can be maintained indefinitely and orlen comes in handy 10 years later, when the names of the silver and china patterns have been long forgotten even by the gal who picked them out as a blushing bride.

Department stores today often run schools in which customers aj-e taught needlework, rug making, nutrition, cooking and even the art of gift wrapping, Mr. Gold pointed out. Some stores offer home development services for people who are building or remodeling their homes. This Ls in addition to the standard interior decorating services offered by practically all department stores.

Most larger stores have auditoriums In which fashion shows end other programs are held. These auditoriums are usually available to civic, charitable and womens club groups for special programs.

The men who run department stores are pretty solid citizens, too. Retailers are vitally concerned with the welfare of their communities both as businessmen and as residents. They are always found in the forefront of any civic development. When a group needs help with civic plans or any other worth-while project, the typical department stores president will be willing to give all assistance in his power, Mr. Gold said, Considering that hes the mayor of a city within a city,* hes got quite a lot to offer.

Curious And Significant Business News Notes

At National Airport, Washington, a hotel Is to be built with Pullman-size roomettes, to bo rented by the hour to travelers waiting planea. . . . There are more gas refrlgeratora in Russia than in the U.S., reports Elisha Gray II, Whirlpool chairman- . . Ties made from lavtender bed-sheets used by Kim Novak in the movie Vertigo, did not sell at $10 and the Ban Francisco mtnufacturtr cut the prlct to $3.50.