ThurtdaT* October 22, 1959

Thursday, October 22, 1959

Caribbean Tirade Winds

The Organizations Work Together

From questions being asked, it appears that a number of Pitt County residents are confused over the number of economic and industrial promotion organi-xaons which have come' into being in the county in the past year or so.

Tlie various organizations all have the same goal

that of promoting economic developmentbut their

functions are different in that their functions are separate and each is devoted to a specific phase of the development program.

First there is the Pitt County Development Commission, county-wide in scope and supported by a special county-wide tax levy. This organization seeks to promote Pitt as a whole and interest industrial prospects in locating plants in the county. It prepares brochures on the county, assembles information for prospects, contacts potential prospects and seeks to bring together representatives of industries and representatives of communities throughout the county.

In practically every community of Pitt County now, there is a local development group geared to work with industrial prospects interested in locating in their particular community. These groups, with the cooperation of the county-wide commis>ion, work with individual prospects to .show them how the community can meet the prospects needs. It falls the lot of the local group, in the final analysis, to sell the prospect on their community and to finalize arrangements for a new plant.

In the case of Greenville, there are two local development groups that handle specific phases of the community program. Greenville Committee of 100 is

_ nsettled As The Weather

Bv LYNW MSBET

UNSETTLED There hs a story about a man who called his local newspaper and asked about the weather repo.n for the neKt day or two. The editor replied that the wea'hcr is just like your subscription account and hung up the receiver. It d.dnt lake the subscriber very long to figure that the weather was unsettled.

That story came to mine when a friend acco.^tcd vour reporter yesterday and asked him to write a siory explaining the

situation in the upcoming Governor's race. Because that .situation 15 just about as unsettled as the weather and the delinquent subscription account. Basically it has not changed much in the past six months. While the atmosphere has been cleared in some sectors, fog banks have moved in to cloud it up in oilier areas-

There are still three, and only three actively recognized candidatesand none of them has positively declared Intention to pay the filing fee before next March 18. Terry Sanford, first come of the plumed knights as a potential entrant in the tournament, is still leading the field, according to prevailing opinion. Addison Hewlett, latest entrant in major speculation, has surprised a lot of the oldtimcrs with his developing support. John Larkins, second of the big tri-umvmate to start campaigning. long identified with the Democratic pa-^ly organization, has a lot of organization support at Slate and local levels-

As of now, these are the three who must be reckoned with in the primarj'. Candor compels the admission that a lot of voters are not happy about having to

make a choice among them, and there persists a wishor a hope growing dimmer every day. that somebody else will get in the running.

ABORTTV^E The door is not closed, and will not be until next March. Experience of those w ho have sent up trial balloons, or bad them launched by friends, has not been conducive to belief that some Lochinvar can barge in and take over. The winds have not been kind to balloons bearing the names of Luther Earnhardt. Edwin Gill, Edwin Pate, Malcolm Seawell, Arthur Kirk-man, Beverly Lake. Hubert Olive, C.V. Henkel, et als in-finatum. Anyone of ihe.se talked-about potentials might still move into the arena in a big wayand somebody yet unmentioned may emerge as a real contender.

The most significant fact de-ducible from the political weather data accumulated on these tnal balloon flights is that majority of the people in North

Carolina expectand wantthe next Governor to come from the East part of the state. The ea.st-west rotation plan i.s not nearly so potent as it used to be, but Its mfllience is still recognized-

Ixigical conclusion follows that the Lieutenant Governor will co.me from the west; and any real contender against Everett Jordan for the U S. Senate would have to come from ea.st of where he livesright on the borderline.

GOVERNOR Let's get back to the governor.ship. and ihe current status of the big three presently in that race. And it must be remembered that we are discussing .entiment a.s appraised in late October, not pre

dicting developments in 1900. As of now, It is not difficult to file as a candidate for Governor. Your reporter has been surprised at the number of people who profess to believe that. The talk takes peniliar twists, t.hat just doesnt make sense to a veteran observer of political machinations in North Carolina.

SWITCH? They say Larkins will step out and not file as a candidate for Governor. That will be lus privilege, and he would not establish a precedent. Others have come to the deadline and declined to take the final step. Getting out is one thing, but switching from one major contest to another is a horse of different color. So, when they say Terry Sanford or Addison Hewlett may at the last minute switch from seeking the governorship to take a gander at the* United States Senate, it just doesnt make sense. Neither of them needs or wants just a job that badly.

It is common knowledge that both were pressured heavily to get in the Senate race months ago. and emphatically declined to take the bait- Each wants to be Governor of North Carolina, and both have gone so far m seeking that office neither can switch without sacrificing prestige and personal integrity.

How many names will be on the ballot for nomination for Governor in the primary next May. or what those names will be. cannot be stated now. Almost certainly the names of Terry Sanford and Addison Hewlett will be written there- And as of now, five months before close of the books for filing, and more than seven months before voting day. it looks very much like the real race will be between those two.

This column started with the story of a wise crack observation. It might appropriately end with another- The late Governor and Senator Kerr Scott once said that nobody ever .sewed up anything that somebody else could not rip out.

a purely promotional group whose purpose is to advertise Greenville to prospective industries, make surveys for prospects, send representatives to visit prospects and generally to interest new industries in Greenville and to sell them on the idea of locating here.

The other Greenville organization is Greenville Industries, Inc. which i.s primarily a financing organization designed to help prospects work out financial arrangements for constructing a new plant here, acquiring plant sites and matters of that ^ort.

At a glance it may seem that th^e are many overlapping functions with a number of such organizations all working toward the same goal. Actually, each of the organizations has a specific purpose, and while it is closely allied with the others in the overall development, each of the organizations play an important role. Jointlyrather than separatelythey are affording the county the best overall organization for economic development Pitt has ever had. It is the kind of total organization the county must have on a county-wide and community ba.sis to complete most effectively with other aireas in seeking to attract in-dustrv.

No Time For Family Squabbles In The Race

Dr. Wernher Von Braun has the right idea about the United States space program when he asserts that in.^tead of wasting time and energy in ponderous reappraisals and re-examinations we ought to pitch in to get the show on the road and get into space."

Certainly that should be the purpose of the space program, and obviously the U. S. has to pitch in and get its program on the road if it is to regain the ground (or space) it has lost to the Soviets.

To bring the space-age program of the nation^to a virtual standstill while a re-appraisal and reorganization takes place is out of the question. It is also out of the question for the United States to continue to operate its space development program under the present confused set-up. Some readjustments and streamlining of the program must be brought about if we expect to match Soviet space progress. And certainly the American people will not be satisfied until the United States regains its superior po.sition in the space age.

While the matter of getting the show on the road is not as simple as Dr. Von Brauns statement might imply, he has succeeded in cutting through to the core of the problem. Too much time and money already has been wasted in the countrys space program by red tape and inter-agency squabbles.

Its high time these stumbling blocks were removed so the program can move forward as it should. Otherwise the United States will expend its energies in family squabbles rather than competing effectively in the space-age race.

Someday, Idea. A Dead Duck

By "ALVIN TAYLOR

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Local folks are becoming accustomed to having their teeth rattled about wice a day by explosions.

And there is little doubt the big noises are caused by supersonic jet aircraft breaking the sound barrier.

The noises come so frequently these days, that few folks pay much attention to them any

more. Theyre simply accepted as symbols of the jet age.

Over in Goldsboro, people are bothered with the same thing, apparently. This prompted the Goldsboro News-Argus to query officials at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base officials said the jars and noises felt in the Goldsboro area

Other Editors Saying . Salesmen Of Sloth

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Bv JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP> The two dirtiest wordsfor big unions and big managementere compulsory arbitration. But thats what they may be headed for. In time, at least. The steel strike shows why.

Under a compulsory arbitration law the government would step mwhen union and management failed to agree on wages and working condition.sand dictate a settlement which both sides would have to accept.

The ideal in labor-manage-mcnt relatioas in a free society IS fur both sides to have complete freedom from government interference m settling disputes. Freedom includes freedom to shut down a plant or strike it.

This ideal is shared by the Eisenhower administration and perhaps by most Americans. Nevertheless, it is a limited ideal; It begin.s to lose its appeal when a labor dispute begins to cause broad damage.

There wasnt much of a national problem when American society was more primitive and injury from a strike or shutdown was pretty much limited to the union or company or companies involved. This is no longer the case.

In this present complex society. with its various parts growing more interdependent, a prolonged strike in one vital industry can throw millions out of jobs in other industries and stai't an economic tailspin.

And this nations complexities and interdependencies of today are only a shadow of what they will be in the years ahead as the population Increases and industries interlock in their needs.

It i.s possibleand this writer strongly believes it is likely that the time is coming when the government, for the sake of the nation, will not permit strikes in vital industries.

That, of course, raises a nice Que.<ition: What is a vital industry At this time and offhand It

Ls easy to think of some which fit that category because a strike in any of them affects the national welfare;

Railroads. Steel, Airlines, Communications. But right there an argument begins. Many industries are engaged in communications in some form, such as telephone, telegraph, newspapers, television, radio.

Would all of them be considered vital? If the time comes when Congress considers a ban on strikes in communications or any other vital industry it will have the fight of Its life on its hands, and for this reason;

Each industry, like each individual, and each union would want to retain for itself the maximum amount of freedom.

But if a ban on strikes comes, then the government will have to provide a settlement and that, in the end, could only be done by imposing compulsory arbitration.

The steel strike is now in its 1.3th week. At the start of it President Eisenhow'er refused to permit direct government intervention. He wanted the union and the steel industry to have the utmost freedom to reach a settlement of their own through collective bargaining.

The union and management between them made the collective bargaining process a farce. And on Oct. 19, when Eisenhower decided to seek an injunction to stop the strike for 80 days, he said;

In order to protect the interests of all the American people, this leaves me with no alternative. American hopes for a voluntary responsible settlement have not been fulfilled. It is a sad day for the nation.

He acted only when the effect of the strike began to spread into other industries wdth the danger, unless something was done to stop It, that the country might go tumbling back into recession.

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(Wall Street Journal)

In dispute after labor disput.e this year, companies have tried to get at the problem of union featherbedding. And important though thi^ problem of pay for no work is, it seems to us to reflect an even more serious matter. That is the apparent acceptance by many Americans of the idea that they dont need to work very hard, their apparent preference to get by with the least effort and indeed to demand progressively higher pay for progressively less work.

We realize that statement is subject to the perils of any generalization. We also realize that part of this countrys high material standards is this ability of individuals to live comfortably on the basis of relatively few hours of work. We further realize that many men nonetheless do work extremely hard and that some, or so it is said, thereby drive themselves to early graves.^

But what we are talking* about IS shirking on a scale more widespread than ever before in this country, and more prevalent in unions than any -where else. Throughout American industry there is a discernible employe apathy. Throughout the American economy there is featherbeddingrailroad firemen paid to tend non-existent fires, musicians paid for not playing, farmers paid for not farming, pilots paid for not flying, everywhere men paid for watching machines that do not need watching.

At this point it might appro-nriatelv be asked; If all this is so. how come the productivity of lajor Ls largely a misnomer. Capital investment in ever more productive machinery is the answer.

It Ls impossible not to wonder about the attitude of people who accept pay for no Work, year in and year out, or who do the least possiblea form of inactivity that might be called unofficial featherbedding. It is impossible not to w onder what has happened to their self-respect.

Here again there is an answer. Unon leaders not only sanction and encourage all forms of featherbedding; they defend the practices with a circuitous reasoning that would stun a Sophist. Naturally If the great god at the head of the unin approves, why should a mere union member bother about a pang of conscience Immorality exalted, it appears, ceases to be immorality. And the union example is followed elsewhere.

Conspiring with and reinforcing this union attitude is the governmental philosophy fashionable in our time. This would remove from the individual many of the cares of dealing with life, and most particularly remove his sense of responsibility; in a word spare him the bother of being a human* being wtih Inherent dignity and self-respect. It is not so surprising if many people are willing to do little when Government presumes to do all.

So much for causes. The effects are also evident with increasingly painful clarity. Frequently shoddy workmanship. Crippling strikes for whimsical reasons. Disdain for the contract. The enormous economic toll of featherbedding which is rapidly turning this into a high-cost economy, as reflected in the inability of U.S. products to compete as once they did in world markets. Perhaps most important of all. the erosion of values once held high.

We are not calling for some nebulous national moral resurgence. though the problem is a moral one. We are saying that if there is softness in America today it is not primarily inferior education or inadequate public spending but this union and statist-sponsored philosophy of indolence. There are other countries.. some friendly and some otherwise, where that philosophy docs not obtain.

And we are saying that a little moral indignation ought to be directed at the salesmen of sloth that weaken our society.

yesterday and again this morning (Tuesday) in all probability were caused by planes flying through the sound barrier, the Goldsboro newspaper said.

There is no way of knowing whether they were Seymour Johnson-based planes or not. Base officials said that while pilots are instructed not to exceed the speed of sound over populated areas, some of the planes at the base now are extremely fast, and can ease through the sound barrier before the pilot realizes it.

It was explained that there is no sensation in the cockpit when the plane breaks the barrier: The only way you can tell it is be looking at the speed guage.

Base spokesmen said the planes are flying so high when they go through the barrier that there should be no threat of damage. Force of the boom dissipates as it travels.

TTi'artlde aid one Goldsboro resident complained that a window pane in her home cracked from the sonic boom.

This supersonic jet and space age is a strange one. Aircraft we cant even see now cause explosions which rattle windows and startle earth bound individuals.

In this months issue of "Tarheel Wheels the North Carolina Motor Carriers Association publication, there appears an article on the rescue squads of the state.

It is written by Roy Hardee, state commander of the North Carolina Association of Rescue Squads. Roy, of course, is from Greenville.

Illustrating the story arc several pictures of various rescue squads in action. Included is one of Greenville Rescue Squad members dragging a lake in search of a drowning victim.

The article points out that rescue service is relatively new for this state, but it is fast growing. It points out that one years ago there were less than 40 known squads in the state. At the present time there are over 80 squads in North Carolina. Others are in the formulative stage and countless others are being talked.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)If Broadway has a king today, he is David Merrick, a lawyer turned

producer.

On this theatrical boulevard

which la so often a highway to bankruptcy. Merrick has ridden to a fabulous financial success.

In the last five years 10 of his 11 plays have been hits, returning seven million dollars in pro-lit. \

Ive sort of been running a 10-horse parlay. Now Im patiently waiting for the six flops in a row that are sure to come, he says.

But Im not at all afraid of flops. That would be fatal. Im not exactly looking foi the sure thing. I like to be adventuresome.

With the opening tonight of Take Me Along, Merrick again will have five shows on Broadway for the second year in a row. By the end of the season he hopes to have seven or eight running simultaneously, a record unmatched in the history of modern theater.

Stage-struck all his life, Merrick abandoned his legal career in 1946 in St. Louis. Mo., after winning a big case. He began an intensive study of the theater, working at everything from press agentry to play reading.

I never wanted to be an actor, he said. I would prefer to be a playwright, but I dont have the talent. So, being stage-struck, I put on the other fellows plays.

Merrick has no personal explanation for his high batting average of hits in an industry where failure is the rule rather than the exception.

If I read something I like, I simply put it on, he said.

But Merrick is known for a showmans skill rivaling that of the late Phineas T. Barnum. His promotion geniusv-has enabled him to take shows that opened to mixed critical reviews and turn them into big hits.

I've been able to show that critics are human and sometimes err, he remarked.

He plans each season as a general might plan a series of battles. He keeps a talented staff that moves on from play to play in turn. Merrick takes a direct interest in every detail of production.

He has started a custom that endears him to stars, directors and playwrights-but annoys his fellow producers no end. ^

The backer usually gets 50 per cent of the profits for putting up his money, he siiid, and the other 50 per cent belongs to the producer-if he can keep it.

I never have. I always split it wdth the creative artists involved In the production.

You cant take it with you, so I believe in passing it around. Besides, I didnt come into the theater to make money. Thats not my motive.

He still gets a heady joy from the excitement of the theater, would like to make it even more exciting.

There was a flamboyancy about Broadway in the 1920s it later lost, he said. Id like to help bring it back.

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A letter to a newspaper In one of those citie.s where expressways arc a reality protests a road sign which advises traffic to squeeze left at a point where three lanes narrow into two. Weve heard of .several alternatives:Blend Left. Homogenize Left, Integrate Left and Bull Your Way Left. Another suggestion Is a sign simply stating Youre On Your Own. Memphis Commercial Appeal.

They Deal In Condensed Time

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOl GLAS.S IS SATAN A MYTH?

Few people today believe in the existence of a personal devil. One recall*, however, the oft re-patel statement of the evangelist Billy Sundry; I know there is a personal devil, Sunday often shrieked as he pounded the pulpit, and the reason I know is that Ive done business with him."

. Someone has said that the smoothest piece of work the devil did was to spread the report that he had died. Do you believe in the devil .aid a little boy to hLs pal. Naw, said the other little boy, "Ysee. it'.s like Santa Claus, it.s your Pop.

But the Bible undoubtedly teaches that a supernatural evd

personality referred to as Satan, which means Adversary) is at work contravening the plans of God and destroying men's sOuls. Martin Luther thought he beheld Satan on one occasion nd threw an inkwell at him. We may smile at Martins excitement, but that doesnt explain away the devil.

The Bible writers knew nothing about impersonal force-To them all supernatural power was personal. They believed and taught that there Ls a supernatural power working evil in the world, just as there is a divine supernatural power working for pood. And even a cursory reading of the Go.spels revals that Jesus shared this belief.

By ELMER ROESSNER

One of the most fascinating things about space travel is the theory that time runs differently, A man gone 10 years orbiting a dLstant star might be only tw'o years older on his return. By extension, a spaceling might return before he left. Off in October, he may be back last February.

Mundanely, we have something that approaches this time distortion. So far, it is not possible to recreate last Saturday night in a laboratory. (For which I am thankful.) But it is possible to compress two years into two months. A scientist, for example, can look at a transistor on next Decepiber 22 and see what it would be like if It were In constant use from today until October 22. 1961.

This can be done because there are dozens of private and collegiate laboratories around the couhtry which, althouph they cannot make time stand still or speed up, cau measure the ef

fects of years in the space of months.

PRESIDENTIAL PROFESSOR

One of these laboratories one we happened to run across some facts aboutis headed by George Pihl. for 15 years a professor of Electronic Engineering at Northwestern University. He is president of Acton Laboratories. Inc., named for its home town. Acton. Mass. it give to think; suppose it had been started at Mlltow'n, N.J.?

One of the specialties of this laboratory Is the reproduction of weatlier. and on an accelerated scale. Suppose a manufacturer invented a plastic lawn hose. He thinks it.s lough. But could it be left out.side all winter? For seven winters

He can answer the first que.s-tlon himself by leaving a hose outdoors from now until March 21. 1960. But he can't wait until 1966 for the answer to the second question. By that time, belter hoses may be invented, or lawn-growiiig giveu up as impractical.

TIME LAID ON THICK

He can go to Action, where the moisture, temperatip-e and weathering conditions of several years can be compressed into a short time in the laboratory. There he can learn, for a fee, whether his hose Is as rugged as he hopes it is.

A maker of a new paint can pet similar services. It can be applied to a surface which will then be subjected to salt spray and salt fog: several years worth in less than two months. Meanwhile, it will be tested under intense conditions of sand, dust, sunlight, rain, grease and so on. It Is possible to apply the equivalent of a year of suns ra.v.s in a few houns.

At Action and at other laboratories around the country, manufacturers can get rhe verdict of the future on their products in a short time.

They are rewarded doubly. They can pass up products that seem doomed to fail; they can use the laboratorys verdict to

back up sales and advertising of products scientifically evaluated for success.

WHEN LS DIVIDEND A CAPITAL GAIN

Heres a problem that will keep lights burning late in Internal Revenue Service offices in Washington:

To conserve cash, Atla Corp. offered a years dividend to stockholders in stock, with the proviso that it would buy a certain amount of the stock back at the market.

If a stockholder sells, w-lll he get a capital gain or dividend income Normally, sales of stock dividends result in capital gaias, with low taxes. But this looks like a dividend, fully taxable. Or i.s it? Suppo.se the not-earnings are enough to pay the market value of the* stock? Suppose they are more? Or less? Ask your accountant to write his opinion, and check it against the Revenue Ruling that will come along eventually. Thats one way to fiud out U he knows his stuli.