PAGE POURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

Thursday,- Octobar 1, 1959

Thursday, October 1, 1959 ' '

Hazards In Industrialization, Too

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North Carolinians this week heard some stem warnings that they should not expect their determined state-wide effort for indua|;rial development to bring all peaches and cream with no headaches.

At least two speakers before the N. C. League of Municipalities meeting in Asheville warned of hazards which Tar Heelia may expect as it develops industrially. Richard Graves, executive vice president of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. warned that the state should make provisions to protect its rural beauty and provide for efficient^land use. Robert Kennedy, former chief counsel for ^the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee, warned that the state may expect in the next five to 10 years the same problems which other areas have met. It's all going to come into your area with indusirial growth."

It is not the first time Noi-th Carolinians have^ heard warnings about these and other aspects of what changing conditions they may expect as the state develops industrially. Certainly it will not be the l^st.

North Carolina, which is just beginning to realize its potential in economic development, has not ignored the warnings that have come to it m the past. There is every reason to belive: the people of the state will heed the warnings which come in the future. It has taken stock of what has happened in some other states that are much farther advanced economically than North Carolina. It is constantly planning for the future development which it confidently expects.

Already North Carolina has taken positive steps

in the hope it can prevent its priceless water resources from being ruined as those of other states have been with the coming of industry. It has undertaken long range planning for the continued development of its schools, state institutions, medical care and other facilities to meet larger demands that come with a growing* economy.

Equally encouraging is the fact that on local as well as state level there is evidence of long range planning to meet the problems and needs that will come with greater development. Most cities, large and smaL-iprecent years have undertaken planning programs and most of them are building sound foundations for their future growth.

There will be, to be sure, many problems for North Carolina to face as its economy develops. Few citiens of the state have clolsed their eyes to that fact.

It is significant, however, that North Carolina al-ready has begun a program of positive planning to cope with those problems which are anticipated. It is seeking to avoid the pitfalls that have beset other states and it is gearing itself to prevent, insofar as possible, many problems that otherwise might become major obstacles as the state develops its economic and industrial potential.

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By LYNN NISBET

CONTINUING The basic problems of municipal government have not changed much in the past half century. The amount of-money involved for required services, the types and the technical procedures for rendering these services, have multiplied and become more compleic.

lit his presidental address at the opening session of the 50th annual conventon of organized municipalities in North Carolna, the 25Lh annversary of the found-ng of the present N.C. League of Municipalities, Mayor Earl Eller of Asheville briefly reviewed the half century. He quoted from minutes of the first meeting-in 1909, from newspaper stories during the teens and 'twenties, emphasizing tbat municipal government was hamstrung by limitations placltl by State law upon its taxing authority. That is one of the principal handicaps in 1959.

President Eller noted that a special session of the General Assembly was called in 1921 to deal with this problem, after the Supreme Court had outlawed the first nranicipai finance act passed in 1917. He pointed'out that this special selon resulted from. united effort on part of the organized cities and towns in the old Mcnicipal Association. Legislation enacted then served to afford temporary relief. As demands for service increased and the depression of the late 29s and early 30s tended to reduce municipal revenue, further steps were necessary.

So it was that in 1934 the present League of Municipalities, with permanent headquarters and a full time staff, was formed. Fundamental problems remain, chief of which is the continuing lack of adequate revenue for local government. Conditions have been tremendously improved,

EQUITABLE There is more recognition on part of the State, as 'fnsigiested in legislation by the General Assembly, of the plight of cities and towns. Progressively through the years municipalities have been given more State collected tax money from Intangible, franchise and beverage levies. The Legislature does not yet accept the idea that public road inside corporate limits, which is called a street, should have the same conside-^ ration as a public road in the-country used and paid for by the same people. But almost every Legislature in the past quarter century has given more help to city streets from the State-collected gasoline tax. _ ^

The trend toward urbanization of the population may be.responsible for this attitude. It is expected that the 1960 census will show more than half the

people of North Carolina living in counties and towns or in metropolitan area suburbs. Many of the municipal officials attending the convention in Asheville this week predict that within a few years residents of incorporated communities will be accorded the same rights and benefits as have long been accorded to citizens living outside .these limits. That is one of the objectives of the League of Municipalities,

FUTURE While the 1959 convention gave a lot of attention to the gold and silver anniversaries and past history, it was made very clear that the past is less important than the future. Old-timers were honored for what they have done, but newcomers were given a challenge to carry on. Emphasis was placed on the fact that municipal gavern-ment is closest to the people of all levels of administration. It deals more intimately with such things as garbage collection, water in the kitchen spigot, police and fire protection than any other governmental agency.

This challenge gauntlet was flung to the convention attendants by Mrs. Davetta L. Steed, long time executive director of the League, at the opening session of the Asheville convention. She supplemented President Ellers review with the statement that the recent 1959 General Assembly enacted far reaching legislation for the benefit of cities and towns, which can be made effective only if used by municipal officials.

WOMEN This is as good time as any to pay tribute to some of the women who have contributed so much to the progress of North Carolina. Mrs. Steed, affectionately known among municipal officials as Sis Steed, is accorded large CTedit, for the achievements of the League during the past .quarter century. Some man might have done as well, but it would be hard to find a mayor or city manager or council member who would say anybody could have done a better job.

The same thing can be said for Mrs-. L.Y. Ballentine, Queen Bess, in the N.C., Automobile Dealers Association, and of the late Miss Beatrice Cobb, Miss Bea and the Sweetheart of every member of the N-C. Press Association.

As your reporter mingled with attendants at the League of Municipalities convention he heard many questions asked. Almost invariable answer was Ask Sis. Sure, Mrs.-Steed did not have all the answers, but almost every time she knew > where to duect the inquirer to get the information he wanted. The same thing has. happened at many meetings of automobile dealers and newspaper folks.

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Citizens of Grimesland have taken a progressive forward step in approving plans tq provide a municipal water system and fire protection for their community.

By their overwhelming vqtc in the referendum Tuesday, Grimesland citizens evidenced their determ-^ination to provide these facilities which every municipalityregardless of its sizeshould have, and they likewise indicated their confidence in the growth of their own town.

In approving the ^expenditur-3 of some $70,000 for the w^ater system and a fire truck, the people of Grimesland have placed their town in a position where it wfll be able to offer greater benefits to its present residents. They have also taken action that in the years to come will make Grimesland a more attractive community in which new people may be more inclined to make their homes.

By standards of some municipalities, the $70,000 capital outlay for new facilities may seem small, but for a community with approximately 500 people it represents a considerable undertaking.

Certainly the people of Grimesland are to be commended for taking steps to assure the new facilities for their town. It is a progressive step that will stand the town and its residents in good stead in the years ahead.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

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Advice

By FRANCIS STILLEY

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NEW YORK (AP)Having returned from a vacation, I nov. offer several bits of wisdom ant sage advice for other vacation ers. none%f whom will pay thv slightest bit of attention.

Do not take a vacation. Worl good for man. Butwhen you do, do not return moaning about' how hard It is to go back to work afterward. Your fellow worker can moan louder and longer than you.

If you go gallivanting around the countryside, leave most ol your money at home. Otherwise, you will always manage to spend more than yon can afford.

Be sure to take the children.. They will learn muchabout the different types of hot dog and soda pop stands.

Never, never stay in the plush hotels and motels, or eat in fancy restaurants. They will make your wife awfully dissatisfied with life at home the rest of the year.

As a father, remain aloof from all family arguments as to where to go, what to see, routes to take, etc. Then after all the squabblers have run out of steam, do just whalryou intended in the first place.

By all means carry along all the clothing you possess. You wont need any of it except for what youre wearing when you start, but it will starve out the moths at home.

Try to cover about ^800 miles a day if by auto. You wont have much time to relax and see the sights, but think how happy it will make the gas and oil com-

Those little numbered metal tags are beginning to pop up on the road sign posts in this area just as the State Highway Commission said they would. ^

Were referring to the new numerical system of designating rural roads which the commission has inaugurated.

and Old Creek Road for years, telephone office.

' So, despite the modem numbering system, we guess people will continue to stick to the picturesque, accustomed names.

As was pointed out, such roads will no longer have to be referred to as a rural road lead-4ng4i:pm the Old River Road to Parkers Chapel.

After all, the number for primary highways still arent popular in Pitt County. N.C. 11 north continues to be known - as the Bethel Highway to people in Greenville. N.C. 43 west is the Falkland Highw;ay. N.C. 11 is the Ayden or Kinst(^ Highway.

Folks who make long distance calls have been greeted until recently with the rather abrupt sounding Operator when they dialed O.

Apparently with an .eye toward making the voice pleasant, the telephone company has changed that traditional line.

Now the operator says, ^May we help you, please?

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Before setting forth, order all the maps, travel folders and incidental information available; Next winter, when the snow lies deep around the old homestead, itll be fun to learn what you

Walt a minute, now, all yo% good travel agents, resort operators and everyone catering to the traveling public. Put away those blunderbusses. We were only kidding.

Partly, anyhow.

But what do you expect but sour grapes from a guy who has to wait a year now for another vacation?

Baseball Returns To Center Of Spotlight

Now when the commission calls _for bids it can say that rural road 1581 is to be paved.

For tfie next several days the attention of Americans will drift from the pressing problems of national and international affairs. What goes on in Washington, Moscow, London and Peiping will ruiVa poor second to the events which take place in Chicago and Los Angeles.

\ Weve come again to the time of year when Americans focus their attention fiist and foremost on the World Series. Spirits of the fans will rise and fall w ith every inning . . . indeed every pitch, and millions of Americans who havent known all year which teams led the leagues will overnight become avid World Series fans.

Baseball, despite its misfoituries in the business world in recent years, remains the American game. When it comes time for the Series to decide the championship everything else is relegated to a position of secondary importance . . . and its probably a good thing for Americans*and America That we can forget our national and international problepis for a few days each year while we worry about wlio wins the Series.

That might be all right for the State Highway Commission, but weve got our doubts it will catch on with people in Eastern Carolina.

We ev.cp knew of a fellow from Winterville who coiftplained to the Reflector that N.C. 11 was always called the Ayden Highway in the newspaper.

Try it and see.

Just once, he pleaded, would the newspaper call it the Winterville Highway?

So be it.

No. 1581 just doesnt sound right to people who have been accustomed to names like Azalea Road Old River Road

There have been some changes made in the familiar voice at the

Other Editors Saying.. Nebraska Pays Cash

Druggists say they get the demdest messages sometimes.

Parents send their kids in with hastily scribbled orders for medicine. And adults themselves bring in slips of paper with almost unrecognizable requests.

Thus, says druggist John Biggs, he received a tiny slip of paper the other day. On It was written; bottled ol flusking catroil for children.

The pharmacist gave the bearer of the note a bottle of castor oil and at last report it had not been returned.

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We are not fighting America as yet. But once we have deprived her of her markets, crisis will follow and cause confusion. After we have taken her markets in Europe, expelled her from Asia and elsewhere, she will have no market where to dump her merchandise, she vtill curtail her production and then Will follow unemployment. Our opportunity to square accounts whh America will be at hand. V. M. Molotov (1946).

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

?erhaDs Nikita

s Lookina Ahead.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (A) Chiang Kai-shek was-* too much for them once. And back in the early 1930s a little band of indestructible Chinese Communists made a long march to the northwest to escape him.

They survived. They waited. They were determined to win. And they did, helped along after-world War II by the corruption In Chiangs government. In 1949 they finally overcame Chiangs armies. He fled to Formosa.

Now In Peiping the Communists, masters of China, are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their victory. Chiang is an old man now, 73. still head of a government, but this time on the island of Formosa, 100 miles from the mainland.

In those 10 years Red China has become one of the strong powers. Its volunteer armies fought the United States to a standstilj in Korea. It is pushing against the frontiers of its neighbors. It is ah ally of the Soviet Union.

The Chinese Communists, in consolidating their power, ^ent uncounted thousands to graves in Red purges. But they have pr-ganlzed their countfy, its' efforts and its people in a way never seen before so fast.

They ara trying to bring China abreast of the 20th century in a rush while giving their people a sense of direction and destiny. They have disrupted family life and reduced the people to labor battalions. But they are moving.

Sovll Premier Nlklia Khrushchev, who flew to Peiping Tuesday to help celebrate the lOth anniversary of victory over Chiang, boasts thdiBbviet Vnion will surpass the United States, In time Red'China may sur* pass both of them. K has more people than both /put together. Its population is. exploding at a frightening rate.* More than IJ

million Chinese are born every year.

In the end, through arrogance, ambition and the need for room. Red China may turn on its Soviet friend whose largely uninhabited eastern provinces skirt Red China and extend to the Pacific.

It is possible that Khrushchev, looking far ahead, fears this and would like to have friends in the West as a future bulwark against his present ally.

It does not require much imagination, if you are willing to look at the crusading spirit of com-mufiize all Asia and may well do so. It doesnt have to use direct military force. Various pressures -economic, political, internal subversion - are excellent weapons.

Red China is. surrounded by , backward Asian nations. The more effective it will be against its neighbors, particularly where there are wide gaps between rich and poor and there is drift instead of progress.

Such a conquest of Asia cant -eeeur overnight. But it could increase a.^ Red China grows in power, both economic and military. This would mean grief in time for the United. States which is up to its neck in trying to keep the rest of Asia non-Com-munist. .

Texas and Nebraska are showing truly remarkable stamina in the continuing drive by bureaucrats all over the nation to reach bankruptcy before the turn of the decade.

While every other state now has a sales tax, an income tax, or both, Nebraska and Texas still thumb their noses at the harassments of the populace. Envious spenders have not forsaken their dreams of enriching coffers with across-the-board levies, but the disease of taxation has largely been stifled hy inoculations of good sense in these two states.

Nebraska, without the aid of revenues from gas and oil enjoyed by Texas, is one of the most solvent states in the Un-on. With a constitution which safegu%frds its affluency by a clause stipulating the state may, to meet o^ual deficits, or failures in the revenues, contract debts never to exceed in the aggregate of $1(X),000, and no greater indebtedness shall be incurred except for the purpose, of repelling invasion, suppressing insurrection or defending the state/ public officials who might be inclined to let their enthusiasm for pet projects upset fiscal responsibilities find themselves on a tight rein. ,

Nebraskas pay - as - you -go plan has ^en the butt of mny a joke^y visiting dignl-. taries, parti^larly when they encountered projects half-finished waiting for money to finance completion. Will Roger, on a return visit to Lincoln, made the

tongue-in-cheek observation that he was glad to see the captol building progressing so well another story had been*^ added to the still uncompleted buijding since he had been there 15 ye^ars ' before.

Nebraska has the lowest per capita cost of government in the country - $53 a year for each citizen of the state. Deficit spending is a powerful opening wedge for , increased taxation, and the Nebraska prohibition against indebtedness may receive much of the credit for low taxation. Many of the states which now have general levies accepted them only after ^ irresponsible administrations vacated the capitals, leaving behind huge deficits for their successors to taipKle.

Size of a business unit has no bearing on fiscal responsibility. Any body whether it is a government, a corporation of a familywhich cannot live within its means is derelict in its responsbility. Nebraska has provided a valuable lesson in the conduct of public affairs Which the other statesand the federal governmnt as wellrhave chosen to ignore.

Only historians from a distant vantage point will be able to accurately assess the damage to public morals caused by irresponsible leadership, but it is evident that respect fpr political representatives is not enjoying a peak period in American history.

> It matters little to Nebraskans whether the rest of the nation follows their example, but it should matter greatly to those who live outside her borders.

Opinions In Brief

When better cars, are built, where will they find words to describe them?Dawson County (Ga.) News.

If you feel like you have no friends, just rent a cottage at the beach. Dawson County (Ga.) News. ,

It is conceded that crime doesnt pay, but hardly anything else does, either. Anderson Independent,

A bi'ide is a girl who has discovered thajt where there is

There are people in the world who read the Bible just to find out where it agrees with them. Galax (Va.) Gazette.

smoke there probably Is toast. Richmond (Ky.) Daily Register.

Through trade we can destroy other powers that are opposed to us.N. Khrushchev.

The most perilous part of an airplane trip is the ride to the airport.-Elbertson (Ga.) Star.

We can slip in our Communist Ideology through the weak spots in mens character. Chou En-lai.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS r'All Well And God Is With Us

In one of K. M, Wallenius stirring stories of the seafarers of Finnish Lapland, an old captain takes his sailing ship on a , partlculATly long and dangerous voyage. There are storms; the ship runs aground and is trapped in the ice; some of the men, hunting walrus in small boats, are lost for days. But every night in his diary the old man ends his entry with these words: '^AU welland God is with us.

How many of us. in the course of our much less dangerous lives reflect at the end of each day,All well and God is with us? Were we to look back over

the record of our TCrsonal hu?-'' tory and consider the work accomplished, the gains made, the happiness enjoyed, we might be more likely to utter such a sentiment. For mo.st of us, indeed, though we do not often' stop to express our gratitude for It, all is well; and our continued health and day by-day living in company with our family and friends seem to shdw that God has been with us whether or not we have known it-Whether life Is calm and placid or stormy and eventful, there is no better frame of mind for facing It than the trust and confidence expressed in the old sea captains words: All well and pod is with us.

Lvidence Business Is_W acky

UNITEO"^

By- ELMER' ROESSNER

Here Is another docket of evidence in the campaign to prove that busine^ is ftrange and wacky, but still a lot of fun;

Fifty million credulous people have''paid more than $5,000,000 for Zolar horoscopes In Wool-worth stores,in the last 25 years.

This winters sale of antifreeze wiU total 118,000,000 gallons, enough to float the Queen Mary . . Ulased circuit television is used to keep watch on patients under radiotherapy In the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital.

Save Januafy 24, next year. Its the fiftieth annivensary of the first commiclal use of the beer can.

Of those taking a Dun ti Bl-ad-street credit and financial analysis course, 29 per cent are officers of corporations. . .Auctipn-ing used city cars instead of trading them, in saved Wins

ton-Salem, N.C., thousands of dol^ lars, it reports. . .Despite the 'steel strike, more than 70 steel mills are SUII operating.

DON'T COMMIT YOURSELFJ, * Giovanni Geloso of Milan has invented a recording microphone for executives desks that looks like a penholder.

The Rulsa National Bank loans strollers to mothers shopping -downtown. . .More than 38 cities have been charging attorneys and other fees for digging facts out of records. . .The Institu of High fidelity are- not Inter^angeable term.*5, as any hep teenager could tell you,

Federal agents are wise to the stunt of cashing checks with druggists and then claiming the total as medical deductions-Michlsuke Sugi, president of the mic growth is largely due to trade with America. , .The National Lightipg Bureuu savs 85 per cent

of alj^tail establishments have inadequate lighting. . .Sales of little'Cigars increased 3000 per cent in a year.

BOBO Makes no booboo Too much diversification by an industrial company is like a farmer raising too many things he cant seU, Robert L. Bobo. Federal Pacific Electric vice president, decliu-ed. His own company make.s 2,000 different prodacts, he sa^d. but they all have something to do with distributing or con-tiolllng electricty.

A tranquilliier for chickens is said to help them cope with modern stress,

'A supermarket chain is planning to lease space to discoun-rters, mostly to di-aw In 'more traffic. . .Shopping centers now makes 30 per cent of the nations retail sales. . .Medical Economics calculates that of every $1 Americans kive tp char-

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SECOND THOUGHTS ON SUPERMARKET TV

. Television commercials have recently been Intioduced in supermarkets. But operators are now having second thoughts. They fear that shoppers, entranced by the television commercial, will stop dead to watch. And most supermarkets profits are geared to last movement through aisles.

AUSTRALIA POURING FROZEN BEEF HERE

More than 2 billion pounds ,of frozen beef are being landed In America this month from Australia. Slightly more than half was landed on West Coast piers; the rest in New York anil PhadeJjUtM