FHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N.

Friday, October 30, 1959

Skeleton In Free Worlds Closet

Research Triangle Growing Fast

North Carolinas Research Triangle, that a rela-tivelv few months ago was a dream of a few men, today is taking shape as a reality which will have a tremendous influence on the development of the entire state.

The transformation from an idea to reality has come with such swiftness that it is difficult for Tar Heels themselves to grasp the full significance of what is taking place. The idea that was heralded as unique a short while ago now seems so natural that we wonder w hy it wasnt undertaken a decade or more ago.

The Triangle, with State College, the University of North Carolina and Duke University forming the anchor points, has been with us for years. But the Research Triangle, that is destined to have an important impact upon North Carolina and its people, is something new.

Announcement this week that the Dreyfus Foundation will grant two and one-half million dollars to the Research Triangle Institute to create an international center for polymer research has projected the Triangle into new' importance ip North Carolina and in the nation as well. The new center cannot help but attract the attention of individual industries interested in man-made fibres and plastics, but other industries as well.

Other Aspects As To Welfare

" By LYNN NISBET

WELFARE So much attention has been given recently to the cut in percentage of need met by welfare funds in old age ind disabled categories, some other significant aspects of 195?) legislation with respect to public welfare funds have not been publicized.

Two acts of the General Assembly designed to give the State of North Carolina a segment of control over expenditures for aid to dependent children have been nullified by rulings of the Federal Department of Health. Education and Welfare. The obvious intent of the Legislature in enactment of these bills must be considered in connection with the amounts included in the biennial appropriation act for all public welfare purposes in order to obtain anything like a balanced picture.

HB 631 was introduced by Rep. Rachel DavLs of Lenoir and others on April 22, It was ratified, with .some slight amendments, on June oext to the last day of the session, and becam Chapter 1210 in Session Laws of 1959. This bill provided for investigation by the solicitor of the Superior Court of questionable cases involving misuse of moneys appropriated for children who had been abandoned by their parents. to make sure the childi'en got benefit of the money.

HB 678. introduced by Rep. Hubert Humphrey of Guilford and others on April 23 was ratified on May 29 and became Chapter 668 in Se.ssion Laws of 1959. It privided for reports to the court on all moneys paid for aid to dependent children, legilmiate or otherwise, to make sure that the children got benefit of the funds, rather than having them dissipated by parents or guardians.

Enactment of these law's culminated a long effort to gain some control for the State over welfare funds. In the background was a lot of discussion about mothers of illegitimate children profiteering on w'elfare money allotted for their offspring.

QUESTIONED Provisions of the acts granting to North Carolina State courts any investigating authority or control over wel-. fare funds were questioned at the time by Dr. Ellen Winston. N. C. commissioner of welfare, and other spokesmen for the welfare agencies. They warned that if these provliions were enforced the Federal government would withdraw a.ssistance in these areas and perhaps in other welfare brackets.

So the General Assembly added a proviso that in event the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare notifies the Stale Board of Public Welfare that further payment of Federal funds for aid to dependent children, or any other public as.sLst-ance program, will not be made because any procedure provided by this Act is prohibited by the Social Security Act. as amended.

or by other applicable Federal states, or by proper and authorized regulations having the force and effect of law, then and in that event no person or agency shall take any further action pursuant to such procedure.

The ambiguous implications in the proviso, which to all intents and purposes nullified the main intent of the act. called for legal clarification. The State Board of Welfare appealed to the Attorney General for a ruling as to procedure. The Attorney General wrote the commissioner of the Social Security Administration in the U. S. Department of Health. Education and Welfare. The correspondence rile includes a lot of double and meaningless talk. When finally pinned down, after about three months of correspondence exchange, the Federal agency came through with a positive "No to the question of whether Federal aid would be available if the North Carolina supervision program were enforced. Federal control was absolute if Federal money were involved to any substantial degree.

CLOSED BOOKSThe gist of correspondence between the N.C. Board of Welfare, the Attorney Generals office and the Federal agencies involved, over the period from July to October, is that application of any law providing for information to solicitors or other court officers on which criminal prosecutions might be based for fraudulent use of the moneys would make it impossible for the Federal government to continue aid to dependent children under the Social Security Act.

OPEN BOOKS The record seems clear on two or three points about confusion has arisen. respecting intent of the General Assembly. The legislators recognized the chance of unfavorable ruling by Federal agencies of the aid to dependent children allocations, and wrote into the law an escape clause.

The General Assembly also wrote into numerous bills the provision that certain expenditures should be made from the misnamed Contingency and Emergency Fund. The fact that the Legislature did not write any provision or CvScape clause with respect to allocations for aged and disabled recipients of welfare funds would seem to indicate that the legislators regarded the amount in the biennial appropriation act as it on that point.

Whatever contingency or emer-agency may have seemed to develop since the General Assembly adjourned, the fact is that legislators had all the infonnation when they were in session that has been publicized .since adjournment, and declined to write into the appropriation act the provisos and safeguards which were included in the aid te dependent children, election expen-se.s and prospective casts of National Guard operations bills which were enacted.

North Carolinas Research Triangle in a relatively short span of time has attracted nation-wide attention, and the surface is just being scratched. That it will grow into one of the major research centers of the South and probably one of the great centers of the nation now seems assured.

Is is a prime example of what North Carolina can do with its progressive ideas, taking the assets it already has and building around them something of tremendous importance to the state and to the nation as a whole.

Better Than Average Season For Tobacco

Another tobacco selling season is now behind Pitt County farmers as they turn attention to completing harvesting and marketing the few crops left and to preparing fields for another years production.

As was expected with the unfavorable weather conditions during the summer, Pitts tobacco crop brought considerably less .this year than was the case a year ago. While prices tended to be higher for w'hat the tobacco farmers had to offer, total production was far below the poundage made on the 1958 crop.

fc^ven so, Pitt farmers found themselves with more tobacco income this year than was the case two years ago in 1957. Greenville Tobacco Market this year sold 16.9 million pounds, about seven million pounds less than la.st year. The market paid out $26.7 millions for the tobacco this year, which was about five million dollars less than a year ago. Compared with the 1957 selling season, however, the local market this year .sold almo.st two and one-half million pounds more and paid out almost three and one-half million dollars more.

While 1959 did not measure up to 1958 for the tobacco farmers of Eastern North Carolina, the year on the whole has proved better-than-average compared with the past half decade.

By ALVIN TAYLQB

On Per-vote Basis, A Picking Up Odd Pieces

Really Costly Election

On the basis of the per-vote cost, Tuesdays bond election in North Carolina-will prove to be one of the most expensive elections on record.

Approximately 125,000 of the states voters took sufficient interest in the million worth of bonds

at stake in the referendum to go to the polls. That made one of the lightest turnouts ^n recent years in a state-wide election. In spite of the^ight turn-out, the fixed costa of holding a state-wide election, meant that it cost as much lor those 125,000 to cast their ballots as it would have if four times that many voters had gone to the polls.

In Pitt County, by way of example, slightly more than 1,400 of the 21,000 registered voters went to the polls. Officials have estimated that the cost to the state for keeping the polls open in Pitt for the referendum came to about $2,500, In Pitt, that amounts to a cost of about $1.78 to the state for every vote which was cast.

If the issues at slake in a state-wide vote wont get dollar-conscious citizens to the polls, perhaps the cost of the election might entice fhem to cast a ballot just to make sure theyre getting their moneys worth.

Why All Tha 31ood In Cuba?

This is a topsy turvey world. We walked into a concession booth at the State Fair a couple of weeks ago. There on a table we noticed a ten ounce Coca-Cola and a six ounce PepsiCola.

Fellow columnist Heni'y Howard walked up the stairs of the Daily Reflector office the other night.

About half way up he heard your columnist delivering a speech calling for an alliance between the press and education.

He assumed that yours truly was addressing members of the Eastern North Carolina Press Association who were meeting here that day and he beat a

hasty retreat.

When he told us about it, we expressed our appreciation but pointed out we couldnt deliver a speech to the Garbage Collectors convention.

Actually the thoughts were Dr. Leo W. Jenkins who had spoken to the Press Association earlier in the evening.

Your columnist was just calling Dr. Jenkins comments in to the Charlotte office of the Associated Press for inclusion on that organizations night wire.

We recently heard about two local couples who got up a poker game with money involved. They didnt care for gambling so it was agreed that the winning

Other Editors Saying ... 'Decreasing Population

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)If Fidel Castro is earnest about w'anting a democratic Cuba, then why all the blood?

Prime Minister Castro has been in effect dictator since his rebel army last New Years Day threw out Fulgencio Batistas dictatorship and took over.

He has called for land refoiTns, probably badly needed, and other social changes. But Cuba is In growing turmoil. Criticism of his regime is rising.

He was an inspired rebel military leader but now gives the impression of a man too emotional. chaotic and disorganized to run a govenynent.

As the heat increases, he thinks of vengeance. He calls for death for his enemies by firing squads and depends not on ballots but on mobs for support.

His government suspended Con-pre.ss Jan. 6, put off new elections for 18 to 24 months, suspend, ed criminal courts, and, through military courts rolled up 555 executions by firing squads.

Yet he said Cuba will remain a democracy. We are men of the law.

The firing squads worked for months, were finally stopped. But his troubles continued. Thus week he summoned 250.000 Cubans to a rally in Havana.

He outdid Hollywood by arriving in a helicopter, gun in hand, denounced the United States and asked the mob for approval for new firing .squads. He got it.

Thu^ wa.s reminiscent of last January when the firing squad execution of so-called war criminals was being severely criticized abroad and he called together a rally of a million Cubans to approve what he was doing to his enemies.

Hus idea of justice was to try a foe in a sports stadium, with not a single witness appearing in his defense, before 18,000 people. The crowd included American newspapermen hus government invited down to see the spectacle.

This was what happened in the case of Maj. Jesus Sosa Blanco, who had directed Batistas army operations against Castro. There was never any doubt of the out^ come: the mjor was sentenced to death before a fuing squad.

When Castro addiesscs a mob l^^harangues. he .screams, he ^a^ealsj to hate in a way Hitler or Miussolim rjiight have found refreshing.

He denies he is a Communist but turns with fury on any who say he is or complain that Communists are infiltrating his government.

He has done this three times to men once close to him.

On Oct. 19 Maj. Hubert Matos, one of Castros most respected revolutionary leaders, resigned as commander of Cama-guey province, charging the Castro regime was being penetrated by Communists-

Castro had him arrested and before Monday nights mob virtually signed the majors death warrant by asking approval for Matos execution by a firing squad. The mob responded: Firing squads! Firing squads!

On July 13 Manuel Urrutia, Castros handpicked president, blasted Cuban Communists although declaring Castros government has absolutely nothing to do with Communisls. Why this threw Castro into an emotional spin is not clear. But it did. He accused Urrutia of near treason.

He flajed Urrutia on television and. in a play for mob support against the President, resigned as prime minister. A few hours later Urrutia resigned. Then Castro went back as prime minister.

The most sensational case was that of Maj. Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, who resigned June .30 as Cuban air force chief, fled to the United States, and told a Senate committee Castro was a Communist. Cuban officials called him a liar.

On Oct. 19 the same day Matos resigned Havana was plastered with leaflets from a plane flying over Havana. This was the latest of several similar leaflet air drops.

The former air force chief several day.s ago told U.S. authorities he had piloted an unarmed aircraft over Havana last Wednesday. Later he publicly denied this statement. He is in the United States.

These various episodes so inflamed Castro that at Mondays rally he denounced the United states "The U.S. State Department protested in a stiff reply. The episode of the plane put this country in an embarrassing fix.

But Castro didnt gain anything, except mob approval, for his performance. The net- re--Milt: tattered relations between Cuba and iha Umted States.

(Washington Dally News)

Many of our rural Eastern North Carolina counties are steadily losing population each year. And that factor offers us many problems, and it makes solutions to many other problems ever more difficult.

Why do people move way from a county? Why do young people go elsewhere to make their ways in life?

The answers to these two questions are relatively simple. When a family cannot make sufficient income to support its members in a given community, then there is nothing else to do but go where the grass is greener. When a young person finds opportunitie.s unavailable at home, he has but one choice and that is to go elsewhere to make his way in life?

Thus, a lack of industrial or economic opportunities creates one big problem. But another problem is closely linked with this one when those who are now living in a given community have to leave because they cannot survive.

Then w'e get back to the point where we realize that when we lose people, be they young or old, we lose them to some other community. That other community gains by the number we lose.

The problem then is how to keep what we have here at home and also to attract others to our shores. Greater employment created through Industrial and economic development offers the answ'er.

Of course, we cant realize economic piogres.s just by admitting that we need or want it. We must work for it. Perhaps

in past years we have not done the selling job so necessary to sell our own area. More and more farmers are leaving the soil each year. When they leave the farm, they move to a town or a city. Thus in recent years we have a trend where the populations are becoming more urban and less rural.

The fight for industrial development in Eastern North Carolina as well as the whole of our state, has become a highly competitive matter CommuniUes are waging all out battle for factories. Let a factory come to some community and employ 100 men. That means that approximately 420 persons are directly affected there since the average family in Eastern North Carolina contains 4.2 , persons.

Some people say that we in Eastern North Carolina have been asleep for a long time. They say w'e have w-atched with indifference our populations decrease until we have reached a serious point for survival today. The situation is not that critical, but it could stand for much improvement.

Perhaps we need to take inventory of our real assets, and then see what we can do about utilizing them to the fullest. Leadership, enthusiasm, and some money will be required. And of course, ability and salesmanship are always handy to have.

After all. there is nothing w'rong in counties now lading population that a factory or two couldnt cure. Greater employment has a way of giving gain.s to an entire community those w^orking in the plant and those in whose community the plant is working.

couple would donate the money to charity.

Well one couple, of course, came out winner by something like $7.38. Off went a check to one of the local fund collecting agencies.

That should have been the end of it but the fund collecting agency couldnt understand the odd amount. They contacted the wife to find out if it were a payment of a past pledge or for any specific purpose.

The wife, who didn't want to ow'n up that it was won in a poker game, replied, No, its just a donation.

That should have ended it.

But the check went to another official. The wife was contacted again. .

Again the wife told the caller it was simply a donation.

This occumed several times. We never found out if the wife ever really told them she won the money gambling.

In fact, w^e never found out for sure if the whole dad-blamed story was true. Oh well.

Next W'eek is Childrens Book Week and National Cat Week. On Nov. 1. 1952 the first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll and on Nov. 4. 1879, humorist Will Rogers was born. Nov. 5 is Guy Fawkes Day in England. On Nov. 6. 1869, Rutgers beat Princeton six to four in the first regular college football game-Also on- Nov. 6, 1854 band-

march composer John Phillip Sousa was born.

Oh yes, on Nov. 7, 1917 ?42 years ago) the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia.

'.n Brief Opinions

The wise man will always favor the smallest of governments. He will favor his own nation above the United Nations; his own state above his own locality. In the end he will govern him.self and favor that kind of government above all el.<ie. Santa Ana (Calif.) Register.

If Congre.ss had worked half as hard trying to stay within the Federal income as it didTn trying to find new ways to spend money and increa.se taxes, it could have made headway in balancing the budget and saving the value of the dollar. Clermont (Fla.) Piess.

Friday, October 30, 1959

Comedy

Has Its Grief

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy. for a dozen years one of the best-known husband-and-wife teams in show business, have decided to start parting companybut only professionally.

They jointly and cheerfully announced their impending career separation the other day.

Were not going to be as much of a team in the future as we have been in the past, said Pete.

Mary's enchanted with the theater, but I dont like long runs. I want to. go more to writing and TV dramatic acting, not comedy.

Both i>ointed out that since 1947 theyd teamed mostly in night club comedy and song routines. Now they want to concentrate more on individual dramatic careers.

Actually, I dont want to work terribly hard. I want to go to school and study archeology, foreign languages and dramatics, Mary said.

Pete looked surprised.

Almost 19 years weve been married, he marveled, And I didnt even know she could say archeology.

But the light-hearted pair, who live in suburban New Rochelle with their two children, are still busy collaborating as a team on a couple of projects.

Both are starred with Ed Wynn in a program scheduled on the NBC-TV network on Nov. 27. And together they are writing a book, the story of their domestic life.

Petewhase wife calls him Peter Grim Hayes when he's at the typewriteris also finishing a second book, largely a collection of theatrical aneodote.s.

One chapter is entitled The Tragedy of Comedy.

All the comedians who made America laugh for the last 50 years had tragic lives, he observed.

My theory is that it all started in grammar school because they werent physically attractive. So they chose another route to be admired.

Most comedians are sad. It probably is because they feel they can never be attractive romantically. he said.

Even the woman a comedian marries eventually comes to laugh at him rather than with him. Then, I feel, he becomes a more tragic figure than any dramatic figurebecause he is so lost.

The compulsion for him to go on making people laugh becomes almost psychotic- Hes always on stage. There are people in the business worldthe life of every party typewho do the same thing.

The only cure is to stop trying to be funny all the time. Comedy is the hardest thing in the world to sustain anyway.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WATCH AND PRAY

Will Jesus Christ return?

Unless Hedoes, a great deal of the Bible is untrue. He said repeatedly that He would come again. The angel who was present at the time of the acension assured the disciples that Christ would return to the earth in the same manner in which he had left it. People sometime* make too much of the second coming and live in such holy expectation that they neglect duties near at hand. But on the whole, the modern church is not giving enough attention to the second coming. When Jesus Christ re-turnsas return He certainly willthe whole earth will be changed. This will be t. the greatest event ever to take place in human history. It will not come about through anything that we do. All God expect* of us is that we be ready, prepstred, waiting, watching, and faithful when the Lord* return actually takes place.

How will He come? When will He come? How long will Ht remain? What will follow hi* coming? Sincere Christian* differ widely in what they believe about such mattersor rather, what they believe the Bible teaches. For the Bible 1s not plain in these matters and is probably not intended to be.

"Watch and pray wa* our Lords admonition. Do that and God will do the rest.

Stress Is On Overweiaht Danaer

By ELMER ROESSNER

Fresh medical concern over o\erweight in men is adding new bloom to dietetic food sales. It offers new opportunities foi food retailers to promote sale.s of health foods, especially those with low fat content and with nonsaturated fats.

The dangers of overweight were twice brought to public attention in recent days:

1, The Society of Actuaries Issued a new table of average weight by height, age and sex. These showed that the average American is 20 pounds heavier than he should be for sound health.

2. Dr. Jeremiah Stamler. director of the Chicago Board of Healths Heart Disease Control program, told the American Public Health Association at Atlantic City that solid fat in the diet, both animal and vegetable. Is the basic caiuse oft he high toll of heart disease in middle-aged American men.

BACK TO DIET INC

ShcutJy aiici' Uie last war, m>

terest in dietetic foods incrra.sed New companies sprang up to prepare and package low-fat, nosugar. no-salt foods suitable lor restricted diets. Health food stores broadened their lines Department stores and Health food supermarkets added "dietetic corners and the like to their selling floors.

Almost all of these enterprises are still going, although with some lessening of enthusiasm. There has been a drift by the public away from strict diels toward so-called easier methods of reducing weight, such as appetite-curbing pills, massages and gentle "courses that involve only mild diet restrictions.

The public has been jolly well confused, too, by statements of various medical authorities. Most medical spokesmen haye agreed that chloresterol. which develops from eating "saturated fat-s, clogs arteries and causes heart disease. Some doctors have called upon the overweight public to avoid all fats: some have called fur avoidance of only sat-UiElcd fats (usually tlie solid

kind); some have suggested that nonsaturated fats, such as olive oil, actually reduces the amount of chloresterol in the system: and a few' authorities have said that some chloresterol is beneficial.

GOOD EXCUSE

Human nature being what it is. many persons have gone off diets until they were sure. The medical confusion provided a good excuse to eat what they wanted.

This may not be typical, but a m-arket a few blocks from where this is being w'rilten carried half a dozen brands of water-packed canned tuna a few years ago. Now it carries only one.

But the new double charge of excitement over overweight will probably have its effect on dietetic merchandising.

It Is significant that Ih new concern involves men more than women. In the p>* . men have rarely gone on aiet.s until they were warned they w'ere impar-ing their health: many men,

while dieting at home, were em-bari^'assed to avoid certain food*

when dining with bu*ine *sso-ciates. This is a natural action: following a diet may bt taken hn indicating poor health and hence an inablility to fill a contract or to fulfiU a higher job.

On the other hand, women have gone on diet* to improve their figures as well as for reasons of health. Hence, more women dieted than men.

But from now on, mcwe men will be involved. Many a wife, having read the recent news, is right now taking a look at her husbands figure. He may be closer to going on a diet than he knows.

EXCISES CAN BE COLLECTED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

The Internal Revenue Service has undersigned an old principle w'lth a new ning. The ruling Rev. Rul. 59-312) specifies that all sales of taxable items, even sales of second-hand items, are subject to tax when made bv a seller who is in the bius-ine.s.s of selling at retail. Thus each time a fur Is sold at retail, the excise tax applies.