THE DAILY REFXECTOR, GREENVILLE, N.

Thursday, October 29, 1959

Thursday, October 29, 1959

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Willing To Spend Where Necessary

Though voters were few and far between through-V out North Carolina on Tuesday, approval of the states

bond issues for mental institutions and educational institutions by wide margins reiterated citizens interest in these areas of state operations.

-. Approval of the bond issues for these two cate-'^^gorics will meairalmost $19 millions will be available

In the near future for expanding the physical plants of the slates institutions of higher education. Another $12 million will be available to provide essential facilities for the states mental institutions.

be able to care for more patients thereby reducing the backlog of applications for admission that come from every county of the state.

The bond issues approved Tuesday will provide no cure-all for the needs of educational and mental institutions of the state, but they at least put the state a step closer to achieving its long range goals in these fields.

Though North Carolinians at times have been cri-7cd from within the slate and without for their lack of attention to these ruenial and educational institutions, citizens have indicated at every opportunity in recent years their willingness to sixnid huge sums of money for educational and mental health programs. To be sure the state could have used to advantage more monev than has been available for these^facili-ties. Nevertheless, the fact th^t the cif.zenry as a whole has indicated its support for these institutions has enabled North Carolina to make great strides in higher education and in caring for its mentally ill.

AntiU. S. Talk Shows Castro An Uneasy Man

With the permanent improvement programs made possible bv the bond issues approved this week, North Carolinas institutions of higher education will be able to move forward toward providing facilities for the constantly increasing number of students on our college campuses. The stales mental hospitals will

The United States can ill afford to ignore the increasing anlo-American feeling being whipped up by the Castro government in Cuba and the strain this is putting on the U. S.-Cuban relations.

In recent weeks, as Castros government has faced one of its most severe crises since coming to power, there appears to have been a concerted effort to make the United States a whipping boy for Castros troubles. Obviously it is an attempt on*the part of Castro to rally Cubans to the support of his cause by suggesting inten^ention by the United States.

Board Lmphasis

Is On Specifics

The fact that U. S. denial of the charges have been brushed aside by Castros government indicates that the Cuban revolutionary leader is anxious to build anti-American feeling in his own country in an effort to strengthen his position. It should not be surprising, therefore, if in the coming weeks similar charges are made by Castro against other gov'ernments in Latin America.

By LY.NN MSBET

REPRESENTATIVE The Board of Conservation and De-\elopment has often been called has been less kindly referred to . the blue ribbon board in Stat government. At times it has been le.ss kindly referred to as the millionaire club. While the membership appropriately enough, and as required by statute is representative of the diverse facets of Slate economy, it also is well distributed geographically. Ldrimcr Midgette of Elizabeth City, responding to the address of welcome at the recent Charlotte meeting, noted that a majority of the members hail from small towns.

A check of the residence ILst against the 195d census shows that nine of the 18 members live and have major business interests in communities of less than 10.000 people.

SPECIFICS The keynote word at the recent C&D board meeting was specific. In presenting the advertising program -A for the State during the next six months. Charles Parker, chief of the advertising division, emphasized that it was using less generalization about good things in North Carolina, and placing greater emphasis on specifics, including a series of maps showing exactly how to get to the good golf courses, fishing waters, historic sites and other travel attractions. along with information about accommodations in each section.

William R. Henderson, chief of the commerce and industry division. said his agency is devoting more attention to detaiLs of where certain types of buildings and other physical assetswater, soil, climate, raw materials are readily available.

Dr. J.L. Stuckey, chief of minerals division, said his group Is making detail survey of just where and in what quantities specific types of mineral deposits may be found.

SURVEYS The word survey was used almost as frequently as the word research in the various reports on C&D activities. The basic meaning is the same, but research is being restricted to actual laboratory experiments and analyses, while survey is the term applied to gathering general data.

Parker told about the travel survey being made by Dr. Lewis Copeland under sponsorship of the Travel Council of North Carolina, which affords for the first time accurate figures on tlic economic value of travel and tourism. It shows that travel Iv worth $360 mlion a year to the state, of which $218 million is paid by outsiders.

Governor Hodges commended that procedure, and suggested that the commerce and industry division get an outside agency

to make similar survey of industrial development. Henderson confessed that this report was based entirely on information gathered by his own division and he knew' a lot of expansion of establisiied industry was missed. although he felt the figures were faii'ly accurate on new busi-ncjss.

Importance of detailed information resulting from thorough surveys was emphasized by Stuckey in connection with his report on activities. Governor Hodges had just predicted that within the next ten years the State will profit more from sports fishing than from commercial fishing. Because, he said, marlin fishermen are the craziest people in the world; they dont mine spending $5,000 on one fishing trip. Tying in the whole program of surveys and research and C&D activity, Stuckey reminded that we dont look for marlin in the Catawba river, or spogumene deposits on the coast.

The base for real progress in stale development Is detailed knowledge of where specific attractions can be found. Find em by surveys, and tell about em in advertising, seemed to be the general idea of C&D folks.

uEPENDABLES Governor Hodges told C&D board members and visitors that he is not greatly disturbed about other states grabbing off some of the personnel from our industry promotion agency. We are used to that, he said, because we are so far ahead of the others. He added that by the time those other states, with their utilization of the men we trained, get to where we were two years ago, well already be two to four years ahead of them with new ideas.

Then when Bill Henderson came along to make the division report, he said there were new ideas in the works and new personnel would be added to effectuate them. Just a.s significantly he said that of course the State of North Carolina regretted to lose such good men as Walter Harper and Gerald Albright to South Carolina, and Horace Cotton to a Virginia railroadbut. we still have the oldtime dependables like Paul Kelly and Bill Gutherier and we not only will survive but will go forward faster in the future.

CIGARETTES The prime compenent of a cigarette Is tobacco. That is still true, despite all the furor about filters and suDStitutcs. But cigarette production also requires a lot of wood. The C&D board was told the other day that it takes more acres of land to grow the trees which produce the wood for cellophane and cellulose, paper packages and shipping containers for cigarettes than it takes of acres to grow the tobacco.

Similar tactics were used by Castro immediately after his forces defeated those of Batista. They included attacks against the United States as well as attacks against other Latin American nations. And they served a purpose for Castros organi;:ation.

Such tactics would suggest again that Castro does not now have the support in Cuba the revolutionary leader would like, and that he is concerned for the future of his control of the country.

By HENRY HOWARD

!cXau^t Syndicate. Ii.

One More Time Arounc.

Saving Outer Banks Is So Far Mostly Talk

Residents of coastal North Carolina and a few high officials of the state including Gov. Hodges, have repeatedly called attention to the need for repairing storm damage to the states Outer Banks.

As you have probably noticed, the topic of dogs is quite common around here especially in this particular column. It Is likely ridiculous, but canines to me are an extremely fascinating lot.

For instance, last night we <a next-door couple, my own BH, and myself) were sitting around around a table laden with a delicious meal. As we ate, the couples pup wandered into the

kitchen and began'io cast longing looks at the table.

Its expression was so pitiful, it drew a dozen or so comments from the human beings seated - around the table. Not that these comments helped the little dog in his quest for w'hat he had picked up via his sensitive and quivering nostrils. Oh no, they didnt console him one bit.

With these laughingly uttered

In spite of these warnings, there is little to indicate that any concrete steps arc being taken to repair the damage, close the inlets and channels and strengthen ihe bank.s.

Other Editors Saying ... Dr. Messicks Resignation

(Washington Dally News)

Hurricane.s of the past five year.s have cut many Ms1ckpe^elt It Et new channels through the ba.nks along the coast. Lro- Carolina college has cast a gloom sion of the sand stripi? that separate our sounds from over Beaufort county. After all.

the ocean has continued at an alarming rate. And Messick is a native son of

Carolina as an outstanding educator, a Christian gentleman, and a man dedicated to his job of educational builder. The college could hardly do better than to elevate him to the presidency.

our county, a son in whom we have found great reasons to be

Lawyers Must Play Key Bolls (The Raleigh Times)

The role lawyers can play in

yet little more than talk has been the result.

North Carolina, if it is to preserve its Outer Banks, ^^^^resident of ECC, Dr. Mes-

must take positive action to keep them from being in the progress and service of this improving the administration of

eroded The storm-made inlets must be closed and the in the progress and service o fthis justice in North Carolina was

banks stabilij;ed. Otherwise the sea and the storms a'a SpaS

will continue to take their toll and the dividing barrier curricuium, aiong with a finer

between the sea and the sounds will become increas- faculty have all been a part of

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Stcelworker.s Union has lost the first two rounds in its effort to keep on striking. Now comes the third and final round when it asks the Supreme Court for a for-all answer.

That answer, if it comes, should be historic. The union so far has raised two main points and lost on both. Is the strike a danger to the country? Ls the .strike a danger to the country? Ls the governments effort to stop the strike constitutional?

The union lost round one when, over its prtesis, a U.S. District Court judge, heeding the governments request, issued an injunction to stop the strike for 80 days. The strike began July 15.

The union lost round two when it asked a U.S. Court of Appeals to throw out the district Judges injunction. Tuesday the appellate court upheld the judge, the injunction and the government.

The union now has until next Monday, but may be forced to move sooner, to ask the Supreme court to say the lower courts were wrong. Meanwhile, the strike continues.

The lower courts gave the union full benefit of the legal machinery by refraining from putting the injunction into effect until the Steelworkers had made all the appeals allowed them under law. .

Here Is the background in brief;

The strike threw 500,000 steelworkers out of jobs, shut down 85 per cent of the country's steel production. Its effects began to spread to other industries dependent on steel.

Now an addition 270,000 workers in those dependent industries are jobless The effects are spreading. The longer the strike, the wider the spread and the worse the damage.

Under the Taft-Hartley Act of 1047, when a strike becomes a peril to the national health and saft'ty, Uie Pre'.ieju, Mirougli the Justice Department, can ask for a court injiuiciioii to slop it for 80 oays.

In that period the government is supposed to try to gel both sides in a strike to roach a settlement. If there is .still no scttlc-uicut at the end o 80 days, the

strike can begin again. There is no further machinery to stop It.

So President Eisenhower, deciding national health and safety were in peril now. told the Justice Department to get the injunction.

Arthur J. Goldberg, lawyer for the union, made two main arguments in federal court against an Injunction:

1. National health and safety are not in peril. It isnt enough for the government to say it is.

It must prove it. Then its up to the court to decide whether the government has provided enough proof.

He said the strikers, because they have a right to strike, committed no wrong or crime in striking and therefore should not be stopped in doing it.

2. Goldberg argued that the section of Taft-Hartley which provides for an injunction was unconstitutional because it called lor an injunction was unconstitutional because it called for a judge to do something contrary to his job.

Goldberg protested a judge Is suppased to judge but that issuing an injunctionto give the government time to try to settle a strike makes a judge an administrative agent! of the government rather than a judge.

The appellate court turned down Goldberg on all grounds. It reasoned in part this way:

The action or non-action of employers and employes becomes wrongful when national health or safety Is imperiled. The court agreed with the government that the strike has become a danger to national health and safety and said we conclude the danger is great enough and calls for a remedy as sweeping as the law will permit meaning the injunction.

The court brushed aside Gold-bcrg'.s argument that issuing an injunction put a judge in in administrative rather than in a judicial role.

This was pretty much the ruling of another U.S. Court of Ap-p-als which upheld a Inweh cuuiti injiinctioij against a steel-woikers stiiKe in H52-5J.

Glubejg made the same argument then. But that previous case never was taken to the Supreme Court because by the time the appeals court gave its decision the strike was ending anyway.

the Messick program.

What he has done will not soon be forgotten. He has waged a good fight for the institution at every turn. He has been willing to stand up and be counted on the side of education at any time when leadership was needed.

Today East Carolina college -pwes him a debt of gratitude. But perhaps the biggest debt of gratitude Is owed to him by the people of Eastern North Carolina for what he has done in educating our children.

It is difficult to believe that he will be leaving. A man who' has been so closely identified with an institution for 12 years finds it difficult to divorce himself completely from the picture. Dr. Messick will find the difficulty ever more glaring as he sets out in new fields and on new opportunities.

He, in our opinion, has done a marvelous job. He has not been content to be an office president. He had to stand in the forefront of every fight for his college. And in every fight he gave great leadership.

So when we say well done, they are not empty words. The record speaks for itself And it Is a brilliant recordone of accomplishment.

As he leaves and the trustees seek another president, we would call attention to the fact that right at the college today is a man ably equipped to take Dr. Mes-.sicks place. Dr. Leo Jenkins is recognized throughout North

stressed at meetings of the State Bar here last week.

Solicitor John J. Burney Jr., of Wilmington, stressed the need for reforms in the justice of the peace and constable system. Many of the reforms he outlined will require legislation, and that legislation should be forthcoming. But, he also suggested that lawyers conduct schools for justices of the peace. That is a sound idea, and it wouldnt require a single law. He also thinks lawyers could screen jaypee candidates who apply to Superior Court judges for appointment. That w'ouldnt require any new law, either.

Judge Rudolph Mintz of Wil-rningtipn, newest Superior Court judge, told the group that the legal profession had better take the lead in expediting justice or court reform would come from outside pressures and could only damage the legal profession. Judge Mintz suggested some speeding-up activities which lawyers should take to start court reform from the inside. Lawyers, he said, might stop putting cases on court agendas when they have no intention of trying them. Attorneys might agree before a jury is called if they intend to ask for waiver of jury trial. And, lawyers should be diligent in bringing coses to trjal.

The judge and the solicitor might have been embarrassingly frank in their suggestions. But. what they said has been needing saying for a long time, and it is good that it has been said by people high in the legal profession.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK lAPtSome people dont like to pet up in the morning, said Eddie Jackson, So they go into show business

Thats how it was witli me. I couldnt get up early enough to look for any other kind of work, he said.

Dixieland music is back, bigger than ever, and Struttin Eddie, who has been singing it for 45 j-'ears, is cashing in on the boom.

I dont know any other kind of music. I like the beat of rock n roll, but I cant catch the lyrics, he said.

If you put a gun to my head and asked mp to name three words in any rock n roll tune, I couldnt do itnot even lo save my life.

The banjo-eyed veteran, slowed up a bit by a double hernia operation a few years ago. Is still one of the most active survivors of the heyday of vaudeville. Eddie, now 63, started as a singing waiter in Brooklyn. He teamed in his salad past with Jimmy Durante and the late Lou Clayton, and played at the old Palace here, the mecca of vaudeville, no less than 29 times.

Jackson loves to recall the Prohibition Era of the flaming 1920s.

There was a lot of money around then, and it was being spent, he said. Anything they couldnt get Is what people wantedso they all seemed to want to drink.

But I don't miss the night clubs. Those were closed-door days. They had some rough college boys around then who aren't around nowif you get what I mean.

words, he merely became more sympathetic with himself and began an audible barrage of his feelings.

Well, you know how dogs act at times like that. They go on and on until you neglect to give them the benefit of attention.

As usual, our conversation continued to run along the doggy line. Its surprising how many true stories a single mind can remember on the spur of the moment like that.

Also as usual, all four canine authorities had doggy tale to top each previous one.

Last night, however, our chain of stories was interrupted earlier than usual by an ^inusually prolonged round of laughter.

My own BH had related the evening's topper;

There once was a dog who lived next door to her (in times past> who was notorious for eating chickens (I didnt even know she was a country girl 'til this tale).

He was a friendly ole dog, but just couldnt be kept from devouring his feathered yard mates. His master hated terribly to end ole Sheps life, but something had to be done.

The master broke axe handles over the carnivorous pets back; he locked Shep in sturdy pens which couldnt hold the dog for more than a couple of hours: he even tried a muzzle, but neither would that tactic w'ork.

Being perplexed with his problem, the master loaded Shep into the old pick-up truck one morning and away the pair went with Shep looking longingly backward at the chickens scratching in the yard until they were out of sight.

The master returned later that day without Shep. A couple of weeks passed and everybody was saying that the chicken thief had been done in.

Well, about three weeks later, the master. returned hpme one day with Shep sitting on the seat beside him. Everybody was astounded as they watched the canine stroll casually nose in the air by every chick in the yard without batting an eye.

The dog wouldnt even look at a bird! Something had cured Shep of the habit people said it would take an execution to correct.

Now, to really appreciate this, youd have to have seen and heard it on the spot. When we all asked impatiently what had cured the chicken thief.

In all sincerity and with the most confident and assuring voice, she said:

Psychiatry!

BH is generally interpreted as Better Half; here it could mean Betty Howard.

People dont go for the night clubs so much now. They all stay home and keep their television sets warm. I do myself.

As he talked of the old days, Eddie cocked his head sideways as if he were listening to the faint echo of a distant song.

The greatest entertainer that ever lived was A1 Jolson, he said. No man ever thrilled me like that man.

Eddie came from a poor family his father was a pushcart peddlerand knew lean years of struggle himself.

I believe in doing the other fellow good: I never hurt anybody in my life," he said. I don't mind how big the other fellows yacht is, or how green his yard Isjust so theres a little green in my own yard.

Strength ^-or Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

SPEAKING OF FRIENDS

How precious is a true friendship! Those of us who can look back over quite a few' decades appreciate friendship as youth never can. For friendship in our experience has been tried.

It may in a few instances have been disappointing. In the case of one person out of many, friendship is betrayed. But usually friendship Is something which leaves behind it many fragrant memories .Of childhood friendships we remember the scrapes we got into and the excuses we tried to make in explanation. In youth w'e suddenly became very seriously intent on solving the worlds problems and pledged ourselves to other friends that we would solve these problems, cost what it might. The problems, for the most part, remain unsolved. Then the friendships of college and after that the friendships of young married life.

One seldom contracts a friendship of enduring nature after middle life. But what does happen often Is the revival of a former acquaintanceship, and the development of an acquaintanceship into a warm friendship. Here was a person we knew vaguely in our hometown who becomes our neighbor in another community. Here was the girl or boy whom we greeted on the campus years ago and about whom we knew almost nothing, but today we are fast friends.

Neighborhood, business associations, hobbies, intellcctuabiu-tercsts draw us together in later yeai's into friendships-not emotional bonds, but respectful and valiicd companionships.

Good Arauments On Either Side

By ELMER ROESSNER

Whoever you are. you have a stake in the dispute over high interest rates.

With interest higher than it has been in the last 29 years, there is a great clamor for government action to force it down. There is also as much demand for a hands-off policy, letting the law of supply - and - demand set the rate.

Whats best for the economy and the country?

You can get complete and persuasive arguments for cither position. Most arguments involve a lot of abstract theory and it's difficult to detennme which one Is corrector most nearly correct.

Whats the best for you?

Ah' Thats an easier question to answer 'ihe factuis aient ab-suact but as tangible as your wallet,

PICK YOUR SIDE

Your own self-interest will best be served by a forcing down of Interest rates Ui

You owe more money than is owed you.

You are planning to buy a house or a car on time. '

You regularly buy most of your major items on installments.

You are a member of a union that is in positloijkjo demand higher wages as inflation pushes prices up.

You are planning to buy a biw-Iness by payments over a long period.

If you fit into any of those cate-goncs, you can advance your interests by writing to editors and Congressmen, joinping protests against high interest rates, and telling everybody who will listen that high rate.; are strangling tlie eronomv THE OTHER SIDE

On the.uther liiiid, you stand to btnefU fioni hiah Interest rate. if:

You normallv* luiy for ca.sli.

You are owed more than you owe.

You ow'n bank stock.

You own bonds, or if you are in an income tax bracket in which tax-free interest on bonds is highly profitable.

Your insurance coverage high, or 15 largely in the nature of an investment.

You are the beneficiary of annuities, pensions or other fixed incomes. (Because forcing down Interest rates would breed more inllation.i You are not a member of a strong union and would have difficulty getting your pay increased to match higher prices.

holdings fend to increase. However, there ls no real gain.

If $.100,0(10 worth of stocks or real estate rises to Sl.ooo.ooo solely bccau.se of inflation, the holder will have no gain because the $ 1.000.0(H) he can get for his holdings will have no more buv-inv power than $500,000 used to have.

So those are the genei;alilie.s of both sides of the question. Choose your side. You might a.s well pick it on a ba.sls of .self-interest, because thats how' everybody else will.

If you fit into any of these _________

categories, beat your breast, shout .SMOKING SINGAPORE loudly for a sound currency, and BUYS AMERIC.AN

bombard Congressmen and-* editors with letters protesting any return to managed money and gou-rnment Interiertnce with economic laws.

Soma ptU'.sons, W'lth heavy in-Vf.stments in real e.state and comnion .dock.s, often favor low interest rates and inflation because the fact value of Uieir

Three months ago a Singapore nianularturer pul two bramls of Amerlcan-t\pe locally-made cip-artttea-on the market. They are proving a hit and other manufacturers are producing sbnilar bU'iid.s. Salas of co.stly Imported American braiuls. and English-type brands made of pure Virginia tobacco, art faJIujg oiL