PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

5aturda]r, September 26, 1959

Baturday, September 26, 1959

Goose With Golden Egg

Early Replacements Imperative

If Pitt County"^s Mental Health Clinic is to continue to be the effective and beneficial facility it has been since its establishment several years ago, the Pitt Board of Health and Board of Commissioners are go'-ing to have to make more progress than indicated recently in replacing clinic personnel who have resigned.

The resignation this week of Dr. Joseph Fran-zoni, director of the clinic, leaves mly a secretary and a case worker at the clinic.The first of this month the resignation of Paul H. Curtis left the clinics post of psychiatric social worker vacant, 4>,nd prior to his resignation the clinic had been without a full-time clinical psychologist for more than 18 months.

In establishing its mental health clinic several years ago Pitt County took a progressive step which gained recognition not only in this county but through-out the state and in other stales as well. Its importance to a broad area of North Carolina was evidenced in 1957 when the state legislature made a special appropriation of $30,000 in state funds to construct a modern clinic building.

The modern clinic buildmg has now been completed, but while the building was being constructed,

True Enough Man Bites Doq

By LYNN NISBET MAN BITES DOG Sion Kelly, chairman of the board of commissioners of Lee county, may find himself in trouble with his fellows on other governing boards. But he has furnished newspapers with the perfect storythat of a man biting a dog. It's like this:

The Sanford Herald some days ago had editorial criticism of the board of ccanmissioners for not letting the public know just what it was doing. In response to that criticism Chairman Kelly wrote the newspaper a guest editorial. In it he explained that no efigrt had been made to keep anything secret; to the contrary, full discussion had been given many subjects on which no formal action was takenand therefore no record was entered on the official minutes of the meeting. In striking contrast to b(rds which boot resporters out, Keny chides the Sanford paper for not having a reporter on the job all the time throughout the tntire session.

"This absence on your part. says, is a disservice to the l>eople of Lee county, as the People expect your paper to print all the business as it is taken up by the Board of Commissioners and not just that part that gets into the minutes of each meeting. I am of the pinion that a lot of people are interested in how and what their Sebresentatives (in this case Mie Commissioners) think on a b^icular subject.

For a long time the news-Jiapers in North Carolina and elsewhere have contended that how and what their representatives |hink (and say) is just as im-4ortant as the final vote records' on the minutes. Often the pro-aess of reaching a conclusion is Jnore significant than the decision itself.

: IRISH? The name Sion ilelly has a good old Irish ring. A man named that might be ex-(pected to be willing to speak his

itece in the open and defend is position in every instance. His kind constitute a minority among -iegislators and public officials.

General Assembly of North Carolina enacted a law in 1953 jproviding for secret meetings of 4egislative committees. The law Jras repealed in 1955, but the wal book was' amended to afford the same secrecy as to com-Biittee proceedings.

C County and city boards throughout the state Insist upon their tight to keep everything that goes on at meetings secret from the public, except to announced deciding votes. It is a variant Irom this procedure to find a oounty commissioner who complains about too little rather -iiiaa too much publicity on the debate leading up to the final vote.

: COLOR SCHEME Mrs. Charles Brady of Salisbury is credited by the Salisburj' Post -with a novel idea for controlling speed on the highways. She uggests painting the center line Ttlfferent colors to indicate the legal speed at that point on the

road. Ma.vbe green for maximum speed zones, red for minimum speed, with yellow and w'hite for intermediates. Traffic engineers are not likely to take the suggestion seriously. The varied colors would be hard to distinguish at night and impossible for color-blind driversof whom there are more than many people think. There is rather general opinion that the white and yellow lines now used as standard marking serve the purpose, There has been suggestion that too much yellow paint is being used: that double and

diagonal yellow streaks by slowing down and preventing passing at so many places tend to encourage drivers to take chances.

PLANNING? A groups of folks were discussing Mrs. Bradys idea for multi-colored center lines the other day, and the talk ranged on to the general matter of highway planning. Consensus among the group was that there has not been much long range advance planning of highwaysand that in the very nature of things there cant be much intelligent planning. What the highway engineers call advance planning is not mdth more than designing of highways to take care of traffic ifand only if the needs develop for the next ten .years along the same lines as they have followed for the past ten.

So, while there is definite tfend toward smaller and easily maneuverabie automobiles, the highway planners are laying out jnassive clover leaf intersections on 360-feet rights of way. Highways are being relocated and bridges are being replaced, not because the old jobs were worn outbut because they had become obsolete. Many folks who are not planning engineers are confident that if motor vehicle construction changes as much in the next quarter century as it has since 1930, the big new' roads now planned for 50-year service will be as obsolete as the 1925 narrow bridge long before they are worn out.

The same problem faces planners of school buildings, both as to type of construction and location. The architects cannot figure the probable course of population density, or how fast the nuclear engineers may develop presently unthought-of-ideas. Current plans for school houses call for lots of glass windows, while the trend in manufacturing plants is away from windows and toward completely artificial light and air conditioning.

The engmeer who suggested a roadbed magnetized so that no car could turn over, or run faster than a certain speed, and collision of two cars would be impossible; or the architect who propose(l a building with a heating plant no bigger than a quart cup. would be regarded just as crazy as were the folks who envisaged horseless carriages. airplanes and submarines not to mention the first guy who thought he could building an iron ship that would cross the ocean-

the staff which would operate the clinic has be^n virtually depleted. &

Obviously the clinic building will be of little benefit to this or any other county unless an adequate staff is available to operate the clinic and render the Mental seivices which are needed in this area. The fact that the Pitt Mental Health Clinic is a division of the county government places the burden of replacing the vacancies that now exist on the staff squarely in the lap of the members of the countys Board of Health and the County Commissioners.

If the invaluable service in Mental Health Pitt County has rendered to its own people and those of many counties in this area is to continue, it is imperative that the responsible county boards quickly fill the vacancies that now exist in the clinic staff. The greater tiie delay before the vacancies are filled, the more diiticult it will be for the clinic to pick up where it left off in rendering its important services to the people of this area.

The responsible boards should immediately give their attention to the pressing problem of bringing the clinics staff back to full strength in order that there will be the least possible interruption in its services to the people.

The Important Part Is Now Progress

The most important part of Premier Khrushchevs trip to the United States is now in progress as chief of the Soviet Union and President Eisenhower get down to brass tacks in their discussion of international problems.

During his cross-country tour, Premier Khrushchev showed friendliness and irritation toward this country. Alternately he appeared impressed favorably and unfavorably with what he encountered. In spite of the fact that he \yas well informed on the United States before his visit began, he is certain to have learned many things during his tour.

U is doubtful that what he has seen and heard during the past several days will alter any of the viewpoints he would have expressed to President Eisenhower had they sat down to their talks the day Khrushchev arrived. Nevertheless, the procf of the pudding is now in the eating. The talks between the two heads of state Vill have an important bearing on future world events. If they go well, a great deal may be accomplished. If they make no progress, we can assume the East and West will continue their path of war of nerves as one crisis develops and eases only to be followed by another.

Mr. Khrushchevs tour of the United States has received wide publicity both here and abroad, but the most important part of his trip is now taking place at Camp David, the Presidents retreat in Maryland. The world will not be told nearly as much about what goes on in the conferences there as it has been told about other events during the Khrushchev visit. What transpires at Camp David, however, will be of much greater importance to the people of the United States, the Soviet Union and the rest of the world, than the preliminary events which have led to this meeting.

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Their Services Honorec.

Toasting several of its mgst faithful and experienced employees during this week, the North Carolina State Highway Commission threw a real celebration out at the Silo the other night.

Honoring retiring veterans of 40 and 38 years with the Com-niLssion, the SHC presented recognition plaques to Division Two Engineer R. Markham and his assistant, J. L, Phillips.

In addition, plaques were handed to three other veterans with the SHC. W.J. Cannon, L.L. Bar-wick, and S.D. Weeks, who have retired since last July 1, were honored along "'with Markham and Phillips at the roast beef dinner.

Most of the higher-echelon personnel from the State office were on hand to sit around tables laden with food and heap praise

upon the quintet of senior employees.

Included arhong the celebrities were J. Melville Broughton. Jr.. himself: Ralph Morris and Fletcher Gregory, two of the seven State Highway CommLs-sioners from Kinston and Weldon respectively; W.F. Babcock, director of highways: C.W. Lee. chief engineer for the states highway network; Sam Beard, SHC public relations director: Personnel Director Sam Badgett; Harold Makepiece, secondary roads officer, and his assistant. Bill Ingram; and SHC Controller Ervin Dixon.

In addition, some 40 of the DivLsion Two top brass attended.

Air in all, itA a rare day when such faithful and efficient employees can be honored on such an occasion.

long-time owner of a controversial volume.

The book was banned in Alabama just a short time ago on racial grounds.

Funny thing is its a childrens book about a rabbit's wedding entitled, appropriately enough. The Rabbits Wedding. Nobody cared here.

Very likely, by the time this column goes to press, its author may be undergoing a drastic turnabout. Theres been a feeling lately that such a thing will definitely take place.

As a matter of fact, he couldnt even sleep last night. The melody (?) of Lloyd Prices latest hit kept running through his mind . .Its title? YES, IM GONNA GET MARRIED.

Now The Hear Of His Journey

Sheppard Memorial Library is ^ reminder:

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A Memory To Erase.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Nikita Khrushchev has made a shambles of a supermarket, a cornfield, and stuffed-shirt diplomacy. But now the time has come to see whether hes any more than a bull in a china shop.

His American caravan, more like a mardi gras t^n a sightseeing expedition, icluded hat-swapping, hot dogs, insults, tem-per-tantrums, baby-patting, pig-patting, turkey tickling, and a fling at the Can-Can.

He has talked peace and he has talked big. But so far it has been all talk and all vague. Now he has to gel down to cases with President Eisenhower. By Sunday, when their meeting breaks up, there should be answers to two questions;

Whether he came just for the ride and the publicity; or, whether he means business, wants peace, and is willing to take steps to bring it about.

Even if the talks are only a small success Khrushchev will look like a great man to a lot of the world, since he was the one who initiated all this and went to a lot of trouble, coming over and poking around, to find a settlement.

Hes done his best to create that picture of hiraself already.

If the talks finish in flat, deadend failure he can blame it on this country and still look good to a lot of people. He can point to hLs efforts. But if there is failure. and he keeps on talking, he runs a danger;

He may wind up looking like an international windbag, which Ls the large size

He and Eisenhower, as they sit down together, have one thing 111 common; A kind of inborn

effort and plenty of it, the world can be made wonderful. Trouble is, they havent agreed on how to do it.

optimism that with the proper

They do agree nuclear war is unthinkable although they keep on thinking about it but they suffered from a bafflement on how to prevent it.

They have a lot of unfinished business to discuss: Disarma-* ment, Berlin, nuclear tests, Laos, the future of Germany, American-Soviet trade, travel exchanges between the two countries, and any other problems they can think of.

Youd have a time finding anyone here convinced the two men will reach any flat or final agreements. Maybe the most to expect is that they will make a start, at least, toward some future settlement.

Perhaps just realization by both of them that Americans and Soviets dont want to hate each other will be start enough for the two men to go on to further and more fruitful meetings.

Traditional diplomats from Washington to Hong Kong, who for years have been long on palaver and short on performance, must be horrified by Khrushchevs revolutionary approach to foreign relations.

If his mission is a success, after the kind of pcrfonnance he put on. diplomats the world over may feel they had a disturbed childhood because they didnt work in a coal mine or were retarded because they went to college.

Khrushchev, despite all hi.s .shenanigans, seems to have created very little ill will in America. If he made any enemies Continued on page 6

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Tne Chicago W'hiie Soxand the teams not always faithful fanshave something extra going for them in the next World Series. They want to prove theres not a speck of black in those blue sox striped with white.

They want to blot out a memory that has rankled for 40 years, since the last Chicago White Sox ever to win the American League pennant went on to dump the series. Or, more precisely, since the scandal, long kicked about in baseballs inner circles, was uncovered by a Philadelphia baseball writer in September, 1920, and a tearful lad tugged at the arm of the great Shoeless Joe Jackson and begged, Say it aint so, Joe.

But Joe couldnt say it wasnt so, and neither could the other seven white Sox players who besmirched baseballs brightest moment and incredibly fixed the World Series.

The White Sox of 1919 were, on no less authority than that of Ed Barrow,-the general manager of the Yankees, the great-e.st team of all time. They also were probably the most underpaid and the most divided. It is reported that the scholarly team captain. Eddie Collins, spoke to one faction of his team-m.ates on the field only when absolutely necessary, and off the the field spoke to them not at all.

The rough, tough element, led

by the 29-game winning pitcher, Ed Cicotte, were perfect bait for the gamblers. Cicotte was being paid by the club only $6,000 for his greatest season; the fixers were offering a fat $10,000 each to the players who agreed to throw the series.

As a signal to the gambling Insiders that the fix was indeed on, Cicotte. a control artist, hit the first Cincinnati batter in the back with the first pitch in the first game. Cincinnati won, 9-1. In the second game Claude Williams. also a control artist, walked tlp-ee men in one inning and lost. 4-2. And so it went. The uniiistinguished Reds won the final game and the series.

The last act was a shambles. The fixed players were never paid what was promised them. Eight were indicted, including iiifielder Fred McMuUin and shortstop Swede Risberg, along with 10 fLxers. but despite four confessions, which miraculously disappeared, all were acquitted.

But baseball got a new czar out of the scandal. Commissioner Kennesaw MounUdn Landis, wlio banished the eight Black Sox from baseball for life. For fans the lasting iroiiy was not in Ed Cicottes complaint that he dwie it for the wife and kiddies but in the fact that Shoeless Joe Jackson was such a natural hitter that he led both teams in that infamous 1919 World Series with a .375 batting average even w'hen trying to strike out.

shopping days til Christmas!

Opinions In Brief

One big cost of farming is often overlooked. A last years survey by Michigan Farm Bureau showed the averaged farm accidents costs about $700 in property loss alone. Ten per cent of the 6.000 members surveyed bad accidents during the year with property losses total-^ ing $70,000, medical bills amounting to $50.000, and injuries costing 64,000 man-hours of labor. East Lansing (Mich.) Farmer,

Unless there Is an economic need for continuing highway work on an accelerated basis from the standpoint of making employment, then we should build within present revenues. If the gas tax gets much higher. there will be an increasing trend to small cars to save gas comparable to European sltu-ation, which would just about defeat the purpose of a greater tax on gasoline. Chewelah (Wn.) Independent,

Lack of parental Interest and discipline starts children on the wrong track. Social workers say the youths of today are basically sound, but like any growing thing must be steered in the right direction.

By MARK KNIGHT r YOSEMITE NATIONAL. PARK.(AP) Its ^ fun to be poor; life becomes' so much more interesting and worthwhile.

Kit Whitman knows.

Her childhood ina pretentious mansion in Victoria, B. C., schooling among Englands blue-bloods, and several years the wife of a wealthy Englishman, all sharply contrast to her present life as social director in a Sierra Nevada resort hotel.

It really isnt as much of a contrast as it seems, says Kit. Whether it is outfitting a pack trip into therHigh Sierra, directing the childrens rides on burros, or arranging a bridge and tea for the wives of convention guests, the purpose is to contribute everything possible to the enjoyment of visitors.

In the ballrooms of British Columbia. London and Hong Kong the purpose was the same. The big difference is that here we are dealing with purposeful people, whose pleasure is real and rewarding.

The 200-room Ahwahnee hotel Ls Kits domain. As social di-ector, her job is to make everyone as comfortable and happy as possible.

This doesnt always entail supplying what they ask. she says. Most of them dont exactly know what they expect from the few days they will spend with us. so my job is as much ferreting out what they would really enjoy as providing what they request."

Shortly before the World War II Kit abandoned what she considered a pointless nomadic life of ease among European playgrounds of the wealthy and ob-taiped an American divorce in Reno, Nev. She waived all monetary claims. She was broke, or practically so.

The first money I ever earned, she says, "was at the Monte Cristo dude ranch on Pyramid Lake. 30 miles from Reno. For beans, as they say, I w'as conducting horseback tours, taking guests to Reno, picking up laundry and supplies. Then I became hostess, teaching dudes to ride and swim and arranging their picnics. The income from a few remaining Canadian bonds provided spending money.

While living in Victoria Kit had summered in Carmel. Calif. She returned to visit friends, did some organizing work for charities, established a profitable business and married Colden Whitman, a hydraulics engineer.

They bought 300 acres of foothills land on the Fresno River. For 14 years their home has been at the ranch, first in a sleeping bag, then a tent, around which walls gradually rose as money permitted; eventually a sturdy one-room cabin.

A year after moving to the ranch Kit took a social job at Camp Curry in Yosemite and a year later moved to direct the companys social program from headquarters in the Ahwahnee-She drove the 64 mountainous miles, home for week-ends, summer and winter.

Whitman almost single-handedly constructed a striking two-bedroom home on a granite outcropping overlooking the river and valley. It has modern plumbing, its own water system, central heat and refrigerated air-conditioning.

It is used for guests, with a week-end waiting list, but soon will become their home After we have completed a new living room with a huge stone fireplace. and an enclosed veranda,* Kltt remsu'ks.

Soon after they moved to th# ranch a Yosemite park concessionaire asked them to pasture a few burros and Shetland ponies. The Whitmans fell in love with the shaggy, stubborn, good-natured burros.

They started a herd of their own. concentrating on a crossbreed of small, tough animals especially suited for children pets.

One of thes days, says Kit, when our construction is completed, we will settle down, enjoy our days with the burros and the evenings in front of that beautiful big stone fireplace, at home to all the wonderful friends we have made.

Planners See Changing Pattern

Strength For Today

By E.\RL L. I)OlGI..\SS ...

PonderBut Dont Weep

It may seem a rather lutnibr-ious way of looking at life to say that we should always be prepared lor death. But prepared we should be Death may come to any of us within the next rniiuile. Or it may not come for many year.^. but come il certainly will. Therefore, we shoull live our lives every day in such a spirit and after such a fashion that w'hen it comes weare ready.

For each individual this means .some different thing. Business matters need to be arranged definitely. This needs to be indicated for her and for him unless you want your survivors to start feuding over iuruiture,

clocks, and rugs. Whether a man has an estate of a thousand dollars or a million dollars, his affairs should be arranged so that when he dies there will be no doubt as to how' his survivors are to proceed.

Spiritual preparation if the most necessary. Some people think they can w'ait until they are old and then in the last few years make ready to die. We should be so ready spiritually at all times that, when death comes, the time of Its coming is of no consequence. People sometimes die at fifteen after living a full life, whereas others die not having lived at all.

LuRiibrioius Not at all. Sensible, wholesome, iorlhright.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Changing income patterns of the American public may ge the most important factor in advance planning for business.

Long-range planners are considerably occupied at present with the changing patterns of the age groups.

These are surely important and significant.

Because of the increase in birth rates, both the number and the percentage of younger people are increasing. This means more school construction, higher sales of products for young persoius, a swelling bulge In the teen-age groups and. incidentally, a rise in the number of juvenile probation officens.

Because of the medical advances, the proportion of oldsters will Increase, and wdth il the market for senior citizens housing. foods, apparel and other goods. And while the middle the middle group will n>t decrease in numbers, it will shrink in proportion to the total. And that total Itself, constantly increasing but not necessarily at even rates, is significant.

AN OVERLAYING PATTERN

No executive trying to determine what his market will be in 1969 can afford to ignore those changes. Studying them may indicate how much more productive facilities should be planned, what changes in the products should be made, what new kinds of products should be esearched and so on.

But none of those calculations may be valid unless the Income patterns are taken into account.

These are somewhat more difficult to determine. The Census, plus birth and death statistics, fcs enough for any seventh grader to calculate the approximate number of giils who will turn 18 in 1964. But income patterns require more praciicea guessing.

One factor is the tremendous sw'ing from blue collar to white collar jobs. Since the end of the war, employment in factory and other blue collar jobs has tended to decline in proportion, if not in absolute numbers, the Northern Trust Co. of Chicago recently pointed out. Virtually

all the net growth in nonfarm employment over the last nine years has been in white collar work, it stated.

WHERE GROW THE GAINS

The largest relative gain has been in state and local government employment, it noted. This has risen 57 per cent. (On June 2. this year, this column predicted that by June 2, 2022, at current rates of increase, every American would be employed by Federal, state or local government.)

Employment in nonmanufacturing Jobs, such as sales, offices. and research and development have increased 50 per cent since June. 1950. Employment In the service industries has gone up 30 per cent since then.

Ten years hence, as automation s^dvances, we may have even fewer production workers than we have now. but the number of workers away from the oil and grit will be greatly increased.

At the same time, great chafig-ps In Income levels will occur. A Prentice-Hall calculation show

that in 1947, 25 per cent of the income groups (largely families) earned less than $2,000 a year. In 1958, only 14 per cent earned less than that amount.

In 1947, .58 per cent earned between $2,000 and $6,000; in 1959 47 per cent were in that bracket. In 1947, 17 per cent earned more than $6,000; in 1958, 39 per cent were making more.

When the frlttered-away buying power of th dollar is considered, those figures may not be as impressive as they seem. But even adjusting them for Inflation, the trend is unmistakable.

When the total received by each group is calculaWd, the data show that in 1947, tho-e making more than $6,000 got 32 per cent of the total Income; in 1958 those in that category got 66 per cent of the total.

A company looking at its 1969 market will do well to consider the number of persons In the age bracket interested in its products, but it may do even better to consider the number of persons in the Income bracket that can afford it*