PACE FOUKTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

0turday, Norembar 2S, 1959

Saturday, November 28, 1959

YouVe Lookin Kinda Peaked

Martin County Becomes The Fifth

Martin County voters this week took another important step toward promoting the economic growth of their county by approving the formation of a tax sui^ ported development commission similar to that which Pitt voters approved in May of 1958.

Thus Martin County becomes the fifth of North Carolina's 100 counties to pave the way for setting up a development organization supported by county tax funds. In the case of Martin voters approved a special tax levy not to exceed five cents per $100-valuation to be used for promotional purposes of the county. The county will also hire a specialist to head the work of the new agency.

By the action of its voters this week, Martin joins Pitt County as the only counties in the eastern part of the state to undertake such programs. The other counties, including Union where the idea originated, are located in the Piedmont and Western sections of North Carolina.

tends to enhance the economic progress in Pitt. As the area as a whole progresses, the counties individually may expect to reap the benefits.

To a lesser degree the same is true for the three geographic sections of the state. Progress in the Western and Piedmont sections of the state is bound to have its influence on the progress of the Coastal Plain.

The step taken by the citizens of Martin County therefore is not of importance only to that county. It is important to suiTOunding counties, and the state as a whole, for it means another accomplishment has been realized that will result in further economic progress.

The more momentum individual economic development programs gain in this section of the state, the more they will mean in terms of progress to the section as a w'hole.

The fact that the county-wide approach to economic development is gaining more support in this section of the state is of significance not only to Pitt and other counties. Counties are not isolated by their boundary lines, and economic progress in one county has its influences on other counties in the area. Economic progress in Lenoir, Greene, Wilson, Martin, Beaufort, Edgecombe and other counties in this area

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7ime Is Running

Out In Politics

By LVNN NISBET ACTIVITY Time is running cut for the prophets who forecast there would be a lot of activity on the political front around Thanksgiving. The statement by Rep. Carl Durham of the sixth district that he would not seek I e-election to Congress occasioned a spurt of interest in that bailiwick and encouraged political talk (but little action) elsewhere.

So far there is no indication that any of the three other congressman who have age and tenure credits for retirement are thinking about stepping out.

Herbert Bonner in the first district has the highest number of credits, by reason of service as secretary to Congressman Lindsay Warren for some yeairs before taking the seat as a member in 1941. Next in line is Harold Cooley of the fourth district, dean of the delegation, with service dating back to the summer of 1934. Graham A. (Hap) Barden in the third district was elected that same year. J)ut did not take his seat until "'March, 1935. All the other North Carolina congressmen are younger in years and tenure.

Up to now there is no evidence of developing opposition to Barden or Cooley. Neither has been seriously threatened since first nominated, although they have faced opponents a number of times. The position of each is reinforced now by reason of committee assignments. Barden is chairman of the powerful committee on Education and Labor, and if he should step down seniority rules would give that chairmanship to Adam Clayton Fowell of New York, a Negro who has shown animosity tow'ard the South. Cooley has long been chairman of the committee on Agriculture, currently of vital importance to North Carolina. If he should step out. that chairmanship would go to Texas-BONNER Bonner is chairman of the committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. If he doesnt go back, that chairmanship will go to Alabama or Marylandboth of which are highly competitive with North Carolina in use of deep water ports and commercial fisheries. The ports of Baltimore and Mobile rank high in the list of all ports on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. North Carolina oyster and shrimp industries have to fight Alabama and Maryland all the time.

But there are factors in the first district which do not appear in the others. The situation is complicated by the fact that district has two multi-county State senatorial districts without specific rotation agreements. There is jealousy among the other counties because Beaufort has had the congre.ssional seat for almost half a century-through the tenures of John Small, Hallett Ward, Lindsay Warren and Herbert Bonner. There is con.siderable sentiment for breaking up that mono*

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Nothing To Hide, And The World Knows It

Pitt Countys Mental Health Clinicimportant to a broad section of the stateshould move back

w'hen the new director of the clinic begins his duties here:

poly.

Walter B. Jones of Farmville, Pitt county representative In the three latest sCvSson.s of the General Assembly, has been surveying the field for the purpose of determining whether he should challenge Bonner in the congressional race. Jones is non-committal. but his friends say he is getting enough assurance of support to justify the race. As of now, a primary contest in the first district is a definite pro-babiUty. ^

OTHERS A major race is shaping up in the mountainous 12th district, where Rep. Dave Hall Is expected to retire at end of his first term for health reasons. Rumors are in the wind that Ralph Scott in the fifth and Paul Kitchin in the eighth may have primary trouble, and Hugh Alexander in the ninth may have to defend his seat. Nothing definite on any of these. The 10th district, where David Clark challenged the only Republican in the delegation, Charles Raper Jonas, two years agoand was expected to have easy sailing for renomination as the Democratic candidate, may stage a big primary scrap.

OVERLAPPING Several of these district races, especially in the sixth and 12th, will have influence on and be influenced by the campaign for Governor. Developments in the governors race in Buncombe and puilford will have more impact on congressional contests in those districts than is -the case in most other places.

This is as good time as any to make a point which very few people recognize. Neither the constitutions of the United States or of North Carolina, nor statutes enacted by the Congress or the General Assembly, require that a representative in the Congress must live in the district which he is elected to represent. Under the constitution and laws a citizen of Dare county could legally be elected as the congressman to represent the 12th districtmore than 500 miles away from his home. Such a development is unthinkable. but it is legally possible.

The overlapping congressional. State senatorial, judicial and solicitorial districts can make for funny business in North Carolina politics. Despite vigorous denials of alignments or slates or coalitions, the fact is that every hotly contested campaign involves tentative agreements or understandings of slates or coalitions, the fact is that every hotly contested campaign involves tentative agreements or understandings of mutual support.

The way things are sharping up now. it will be impossible for candidates for Congress and Governor tc avoid charges of lining upand if the charges stick, the candidate.s had jiust as well take advantage of the popular concept.

Crippled in its important w^ork in recent months because of the loss of key personnel, the clinic promises now to move back to its prominent place in service to this area under the quidance of its new director Dr. Philip G. Nelson who will come to Greenville from Duke University.

Though it is unfortunate that the operations of the clinic were interrupted for any length of time because of the loss of personnel, the County Board of Health is to be commended for seeing that the clinics period of below-peak operations were kept to a minimum. Announcement by the Board of Health that Dr. Nelson will begin his duties at the clinic January 1 is good news indeed for Pitt County.

Since its beginning several years ago, the Pitt ^lental Health Clinic has become an important part of the valuable medical services offered in this county. So far as the work of the clinic is concerned, it,reaches far beyond Pitt into more than a score of counties in the part of the state. It was in recognition of the regional service offered by the clinic that the state General Assembly in 1957 appropriated $30,000 in state funds to be used in constructing a clinic building. The fact that the clinics work has been at least partially interrupted since the resignation of its former director Dr. Franzoni September 1 is a less to other counties as well as Pitt.

It is comforting to know that shortly the clinics full sendees will again be available to the people of this area.

By HENRY HOWARD

Amazing Or Ridiculous

Maybe those things are common, but a couple of nights ago, I had my first contact with a ouija board.

Id heard of them, but had no earthly idea what they were for. In fact, if somebody hadnt geen there to announce the thing, I still wouldnt have known what It was.

One Senator In

The letters o-u-i-j-a are lettered across the top of the board, but what Id always heard was something like weedgie board. Well, anyway, it was a weedgie or ouija or whatever-you-want-to-call-it board, and it was eith

er absolutely amazing or ridiculous. (I havent made up my mind which as yet.)

It's a mysterious piece of cardboard with every letter in the alphabet lettered across it. All the Arabic numbers are there, too.

The most amazing (or ridiculous) part of the outfit is a little oblong, heart-shaped sheet of wood resting on three short, felt-tipped legs.

To be as brief as possible about someething that I, frankly, know nothing about, we began to work the ouija (well call it that to avoid argument) and

with amazing success.

There were several couples gathered around the thing. Two persons at a time could operate the board and the rest just stood and watched.

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Other Eciitors Saying

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By JAMES MARLOW Ironically. It seems safe to k!)CiiOOi"riy t iy

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP Why in this century has only one man. Warren G. Harding, been picked directly out of the Senate to run for the presidency?

This question has special pertinency in 1960 when live men connected with the Senate will be considered for presidential nomination

True, the Senate is a grand forum for a politician to stay in the public eye. Perhaps the answer is right there. Prolonged exposure to public scrutiny of where he stands and why and how may be politically fatal to senators seeking the presidential nomination.

A forceful, aggressive senator of strong opinions and a willingness to fight for them against all comers will develop a following. But, because he is In controversy, he will create in tense opposition, too.

Perhaps that is why in this century political parties have looked elsewhereto governors or lawyers or a general and picked men whose views were not weU known and who therefore had not created broad antagonisms.

This reasoning, of course, does not apply in the case of a President seeking a second term.

The door to speculation on this was opened this week with the disclosure for the first time 0 the late Sen. Robert A. Tafts own analysis of why he lost the presidential nomination in 1952 to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Taft put the primary blame on the backing Eisenhower got from Wall Street and the newspapers. Nowhere in his analysis did he note what may have l)een the biggest factor in his defeat.

This was the fact that he was Robert A. Taft, a hardworking but highly controversial figure. His fellow^ Republicans apparently decided Eisenhower better fitted their needs or had a better chance of winning.

Ironically. It seems safe to say no senator in his time got as much newspaper publicity as Taft. Because of this his personality and views, widely known for years, got him friends, but also sturdy opponents.

And here enter other possible factors in the selection of a presidential candidate the mood of the country at the moment of choosing and national circumstances.

Taft was a conservative who fought New' Dealers. But by 1952 the mood of the country was increasingly liberal. Perhaps Taft was too much a symbol of conservatism for the Eisenhower wing of the party which, when it took over, not only accepted some New Deal programs but expanded on them.

In 1952, when the country was becoming more international-minded. Taft may have seemed too isolationist.

He had fought strenuously against some key International measimes after the war. Eisenhower was internationalist.

Further, Taft, a tough fighter for what he believed, was in constant conflict with Democrats. But by 1952 the country, consciously or unconsciously, may have been fed up with conflict.

It had just gone through World War II. it was in the cold war with the Soviet Union and in the hot w'ar in Korea. Republic-cans and Democrats were in constant cat and dog fights and the nation was split by McCar-thyism.

These troubles probably work-ed in the favor of Eisenhower, a kindly man whose views were not well known, who was not controversial, who had not created a big bloc of enemies, and whose record as a soother of troubled waters made him look like one who could restore peace and quiet.

These factor.s probably worked in Hardings favor in 1920 (Continued on Page 6)

The Greenville Delta Democrat Times

Parents who have worried about whether or not their youngsters were being wooed away from the childrens classics and other good reading by television and comic books should feel more assured by a recent poll taken by Junior Scholastic, a weekly classroom magazine for grades 6-8. Some 20,(KX) ballots were entered in the all stars poll taken by the magazine, to the question of what two or three books I would most like to get as Christmas presents

The girls first choice was Pat Boones best-selling Twixt Twelve and Twenty, which has been widely praised for its practical approach to growing pains, and the boys preferred Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe. The girls also cast many votes for The Diary of Anne Frank, Little Women and other Louisa May Alcott stories, and those hardy perennials. the Nancy Drew mysteries. Horse stories and books on good grooming were especially popular. The science fiction of Jules Verne and nonfiction science books in general were top favorites among the boys. Series books as The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and Tar-zan hold a firm place in their affections, also.

Both boys and girls asked for Mark Twains books especially Tom Sawyer, and for Black Beauty such recent ones as Old Yeller. Dennis the Menace, and Kids Say The Parndest Things. Biographies of great men and frontier heroes (Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone in particularii were requested. Atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias and the Bible also had numerous supporters. Thus list should quiet the qualms of the

most ardent supporters of childhood literary classic outside Elsie Dinsmore, who fortunately is not mentioned.

Each person must rest his or her fingertips lightly upon opposite sides of the little wooden heart-on-legs. One must concentrate intently upon an unspoken question while the other party in the team concentrates just as intently upon answering that question.

As the two sit there with 20 fingers lightly touching the little vehicle (it really is a vehicle, as you will soon see), the little wooden table begins to move.

Ill admit, you have to see it to believe it, but that darned thing DID move. As a matter of fact, it moved until it spelled out answers to question after question.

Silence Is Far Less Than Golden (The Charlotte Observer)

He didnt sign his name. We wish he had. Hes our kind of people, I envy you folks. he wrote. You always seem so cer-., tain of what has transpired and what is going to happen. Its true. Relatively true-

A writer of editorials states his major premise and then attempts to prove it. He convinces, sometimes, himself. Not always, but sometimes. This is hardly a season for positive conclusion. And yet. consider the alternative:

We could sit down and beat out a set of facts that you know already and add We dont know what they MEAN. This is helpful? We sit, instead, an4 beat out a set of facts and say, with deliberate confidence, They mean this. That opens at least two possibilities; You can agree, or you can quarrel with us. If you agree, it bolsters our own conviction that maybe only maybe we diagnosed the matter at hand with some semblance of logic. If you disagree, we have the advantage of taking a second look.

It is only when you are silent that we doubt the actual validity of our analysis. What good is conclusion that falls flat on its face? What we mean is this: We get all the facts we can gather and attempt to weigh them on an unbiased scale. But we err, on occasion, because any mans standard of judgment is bound to be biased.

So fuss with us. Or agree Just dont sit there, coddling your silence. Weve considered the value of silence and we have concluded that it sells surprisingly cheap.

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Each time the thing would stop, a letter or number appeared directly under a circular window cut through the small wooden pallet. The sequence of stops indicated a series of letters or numbers that spelled out answers. i

It was amazing! Everybody asked everybody, You sure you didnt push it? Naturally, everybody swore up and down they hadnt caused the thing to move.

I took the fir;^^^ot at it, and It worked. Hov^er, I figured something was rigged, because I was playing it with its owner. You know how owners can be sometimes.

But. next thing I knew, a couple was sitting there astounded at the movement.^ Theyd never seen a ouija be-* fore and had only tried it to see if it really moves, It did.

So the evening went. Questions were asked and answered and apparently satisfactorily, too as everybody stood around the ouija board. Everybody tried it and ole ouija performed without a hitch for all comers.

The older persons there said they used to play the ouija boards when they were kids. According to them, the little thing moved for them just as it moved for us the other night.

I saw it move with my own eyes, but. that theres foul play (or something) afoot. . . .Im still very, very suspicious.

loday

By BfeTTT A DIETZ

Daytoa Newe

DAYTON (AP)Boy meets girl, boy marries girl.

That just about summarizes the modem eourtship. American-style.

If shes lucky, however, todays sweet young thing with the stars in her eyes may be swept off her feetas the saying goes by a roimd of football games, a platter of pizza and a bit of woo at a drive-in movie.

Whatever happened to the old-fashioned courtshipcomplete

with hearts and flowers?

The girls themselves are to blame, judging from the results of an informal survey here.

American girls are trained to face the world alone. Theyre so independent, muses Mexican-born Mrs. Adam Trapp. Even in Mexico, all the wonderful courtship customs are fading from the picture, Mrs. Trapp adds sadly. Reason, she says, is the presence of numerous exchange students there. The chaperone has all but disappeared.

Modern girls are too practical for romance, one young wife says, adding that hers is the voice of experience.

I wish now I had insisted on some elegant eveningsyou know, theater and dancipg. But I thought we should save our money. Were still trying to save, she adds wryly.

But even the most practical girl expects candy and flowers once In a whilemaybe only for special occasions, points out Mrs. Jack Ellis. If he fcHgets before marriage, though, look out.

A bright-eyed girl in a gray flannel suit, however, turns down on the fofmal type of courtship. This working bride, married last June, admits she delighted in the kind of informal fun her husband served up during eour-ting days.

No plana for me, she explains. I like to be surprised

Little fun gifts rate higher with most of the young women than the more costly presents.

You can buy good costume jewelry anywhere, says one bride-to-be. Id rather have a single flower or some little gadget. Maybe a stuffed animal- One of her co-workers still treasures a Chinese back-scratcher from her husband-

A former small-town girl stiL' gets dreamy-eyed about a date who brought her gardenias from a plant in his mothers garden.

The old fashioned courtship might not be such a bad idea after all, suggests Mrs. William Blalock. At least it would be different. Might even prevent some divorces.

A man used to send cut roses the symbol of loveor orchids. Today he wants a blooming plant, signs Herb Mitchell, l<x;al florist. It has to last for a few weeks.

Mitchell blames the women, says their own practicality has nipped romance in the bud.

Thats the problem, one recent bridegroom point* out;

The girls want to be sensible to prove theyre good wife material, but once they catch the guy, they expect to be courted the rest of their lives.

Opinions

in

Lets see now.

Senator Proxmire has attacked Senator Jolmsan. Senator Morse has attacked Senators Kennedy and Humphrey. Senator Kennedy has attacked Senator Morse. Senator Proxmire has attacked Senator Motse. Senator Morse will Invade Wisconsin to attack Senator Proxmire.

"The Democrat* ahould be in fine fettle for the 1960 oem-palgn.(The MHwaukee Journal)

"Mixlem women epend IB per cent of their time tting down figuree how." CJlevlaiid (Ga.) Courier.

Every football season is dls-illiLSioning. Some of the boys who made the fierest faces in the pre-season photographs end up on the third string.Asheville Citizen.

We think primarily of tazc* in terms of the federal burden. 'Thats only reasonaUe, lor the federal tax bite Is the largest of all. At the same time, we cant afford to overlook the state house, the court house, and the other tax-collecting agencies of local government. Induetrlal News Review.

Strength For Today

A Real Rumpus Come January?

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA

Bet you dont know what the word means. Its a new word, less than twenty years old. It means fear of the number thirteen.

It would be hard to say how the morbid fear of that number got started. Perhaps it was because there were and are thirteen steps to practically every gallows. If the proposed new calendar is ever adopted, every thirteenth of the month will come on Friday. Then get ready to build bigger sanitariums. It will be really worth all an educational career costs a parent if he can just be sure his son will be a psychiatrist. Trade along that line will be brisk.

I have a friend who will go around the revolving doors twice, or sometimes oftener, in' order that a certain kind of jinx be avoided. He wouldnt take a salt celler out of your hand for

any amount of money. Yon must lay it down and he will pick it up.

A learned professor in our town used to touch a certain number of pickets when he walked past a fence. He would step over all the cracks in the flagstone pavement. Yet he was the acknowledged world authority in a subject so erudite that only he and tvro other men knew what it was all about.

To me the only superstitious custom which really wearies and disgusts me is that of saying God bless you when somebody sneezes. Linking the Al-might's name to a silly phobia is just about the limit.

Now dont write me and tell me of the whole.some and religious origin of the custom. I know .ind I still think its crazy to be superstitious and to parrot God bless you or Gezund-heit.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Unless the steel dispute is settled within the next six weeks, jou can expect a rootin, tootin rumpus when Congress reconvenes in January.

The blood pressure of the union, employers and the public generally is rising. The political Interest of members of Congress IS keeping up with it. and there will be more proposals to set affairs aright (and put the proposers in the political catbird seat) than ever before.

Measures to put both unions snd employers in their places will pop up like mushrooms after a fall rain. They cant do this to u.s! will be the cry behind

n.any propo.sals to compel one side or both to give in.

Most sensational, and with least chance of action, will be proposals for a government take-ov r of (lie .steel industry. This may get support from many Biu election years are no time to go socialist. Besides a veto would konk thatr idea.

OVER LOOK ~ AHEADS

Here are some more forward glances in business, based on analysis of trends and events, plus a dash or two of advance information:

especially if it is in a metal cabinet. The steel strike has slowed production. However, there ought to be^ a full choice through Christmas buying.

NEW SMALL CAR COMING

this year, total tnveatznaiit may be dose to tbe 1969 figure. Thats because of hUrher prices, notably steel.

Slow-down in loan check plans. Merchants are cooling off on those plans whereby a consumer can arrange a line of credit at a bank and get checks with which to use it. Retailers, who loved the idea of additional people writing checks, are now realizing that these credit checks are no different from other checks, and that If a checkwriter overdraws his loan, the retailer Is stuck. Most banks will go along with a small overdraft if the borrower has impeccable references, but after that, the joke is on the retailer. So retailers will take more caution In accepting checks agaiirst consumer loans.

Another compact car. A new small auto will be introduced next year as the aristocrat of the economy cars, It will be seen in Mercury showrooms, which hints which manufacturer 1* getting it ready.

Joint retailing promotion*. Noncompetitive retailers are working on a plan for Joint group promotions. One department store giant in each of several cities may participate In plans for joint promotion of both hard and soft goods, perhaps using a common trademark. The plan is being dis-cus.sed now.

Better tire*. A new addiv for auto tires is ready lor the market. It will reduce oraoking in sidewalls, mlniminizinf an important cause of tire olMOle-scense.

TV .set shortage. Some people may have difficulty In getting exactly the make and model of IV receiver they want next year,

Good hoiLsing year. While li)6() wont see another record in hoiLsing starts, it may be a good year In dollar volume. While total units may be less than

WE'RE DARING RACE,

SAYS OLD PROMOTER

A postcard from tha Old Promoter:

The cranberry aeitacnant was just a warmup for whats coming. When th new Federal food additives law goes Into effect next March, the yelps of food processors will make the cranberry cries seem like chirps in a distant bog. Then almost all processors will be In a bin^.

Dont know what the cranberry people are worried about Americans didnt really amoke clgarette.s until somebody said they caused oanoer,