MCE rOURTHE DAILY REH^ECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

TuoHny Decinl>r 22, 1959

Tuesday, December 22, 1959

Were Losing Some Friends

In Final Analysis, Up To Drivers

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Behind the shimmer and glitter of the anticipation of Christmas there hangs the sober backdrop of knowledge that before the coming holiday weekend is over highway accidents will take another fearful toll throughout the country.

Highway Patrol officials in North Carolina and other states already have taken what precautions they can against the expected heavy traffic and highway accident .rate that will accompany the holidays. A mammoth* campaign designed to warn motorists to exercise extra caution while on the highways already is taking shape across the nation.

In spite of it all, however, the law enforcement officers, the publicists and the officials know the effectiveness of their efforts are extremely limited. In the final analysis the highway death toll during the coming holiday will depend largely upon those individuals who are behind the wheels of automobiles.

If drivers exercise the caution of which they are capable, the death toll could be one of the smallest in history. If, in the rush of the holiday, drivers elect to take chances with their lives and the lives of others, the death toll could be the most staggering in highway history.

The Reflector joins with others in urging drivers in this area particularly to exercise extreme caution while on the highways during the Christmas holidays. Because Christmas falls on Friday this year, the holiday will be longer than usual for a great many people. That will mean more people will be traveling greater distances during the holiday period. Highways will be

3udget-Writing Work Is Begun

By LYNN NISBET

BUDGETING-The State budget olficer has notified numerous agencies and departments that they are expected to have tentative estimates for their budgets for the next biennium in his office by February 1, 1960. Some other larger agencies have until April 1 to get their reports in. And remember that these estimates arenot for any time this year or next. They are the basis for budget allocations to be made by the General Assembly which convenes in February. 1961. more than a year after the estimates are due. and for the period which extends until June 30. 1963two and a half years after estimates are filed.

North Carolinas Executive Budget Act has been held up as a model system of governmental financing, and it has been studied and adopted by many other states. The strength of the budget ststem is in the requirement for advance planning of expenditures. It is respectfully submitted that request for estimates of needs thirty months in advance is an imposition on the administrative officials asked to make the estimates, and a travesty on the soundness of the budgetary system.

One departmental chief quipped the other day that if he were smart enough to antici pate his needs that far in advance he would not be working for the State of North Carolina at a mediocre salary, but he would be making millions for himself in private business. It is hard enough, he said, to give the Legislature dependable information 18 months in advance. It is utterly inpossible to make anything approaching accurate estimates two and a half years ahead.

PRISONS Governor Hodges told newsmen at his latest meetr ing with them that some money is available for transfer in the prison departmnet appropriation for more guards, or better pay for a higher standard of guard personnel. The money is available because the prison population has not increased as rapidly as the bud-gcters thought it would. The base prison budget was approved by the advisory budget commission just a little more than one year ago, was adopted by the General Assembly about nine months ago. If discrepancies in this instance very fortunatehave occured in nine to twelve months, is it leasonable to expect^ State agencies to anticipate heeds with any degree of accuracy for thirty months in advance?

CENTRALIZATION While the difficulty of each agency, department and institution pre

paring a budget two and a half years in advance is obvious, the necessity for getting information into the Department of Administration early as possible is also recognized. The North Carolina budget is a sort of package dealeverything wrapped up for consideration by the General Assembly.

This package must be made up by the budgeting division of the Department of Administration In time to get it to the printers so they can deliver the report to the Legislature around February 1, 1961, With more than a hundred agencies, departments and institutions to deal with, each one calling for individual study, it Is Apparent that the time between February and December is none too long for a decent job.

That situation has raised the question, more frequently asked every year, whether biennial meetings of the Legislature and two - year budgeting is sound practice: or if one year budgeting might be an improvemtnt.

FORESIGHT Most of the prospective and potential candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and other top level elective officers have said they will make positive statements about their intentions around or after February 1, The deadline for filing formal notice of candidacy for these offices is March 18. If these prospective candidates cannot forecast de-\elopments for more than six weeks, why should State administrative officials be expected to guess two and a half years in advance on what they will need to operate their services?

The current situation Is further confused by the fact that

the next budget will be pre

sented to the General Assembly by a Governor who will not have been nominated until four months after the tentative budget requests have been required to be filed by the agenciea.

It will not be surprising to

many people if the next Governor has substantially different ideas about budget allocations and centralization of control over all State government operations in the Department of Administration. Some of the candidates for Governor voiced the idea that control should be more widely diffused among statewide elective officials and that appointed administrative officers should have wider discretion in their own bailiwicks.

These are basic Issues. Each new Governor and each Legislature has different Ideas about them. What the next one will do is problematical. Meantime, the budget folks are going along on the assumption that what it will be.

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more congested than usual even during holidays and the driving hazards will be increased.

Every driver knows the hazards he faces when he gets on the highway. He knows that he must watch out for the other fellow as well as for himself. And he also knows that tragic experience has shown that death comes suddenly and often when least expected on the highways. A moments carelessness can mean the difference between a joyous holiday and one marked by personal tragedy.

If you drive during the holidays, drive carefully.

Its the best present you can give yourself, your family and the other fellow as well.

Another Experienced Officer In Command

Appointment of Tom B.. Brown of Greenville as the new commanding officer of Troop B of the State Highway Patrol with the rank of Captain brings another experienced and capable officer into command of one of the Highway Patrol units in North Carolina.

During the 10 years he has lived in Greenville and served as executive officer of Troop A of the Patrol, Tom Brown has been highly regarded as a law enforcement official and an administrator. In addition to the duties of his position, he has been active in community affairs.

His background, his years of experience with the Highway Patrol and his specialized training which includes completion of the course at the F.B.I. National Academy well qualify him for his new and more responsible duties as commanding officer of a Highway Patrol Troop.

While we are reluctant to .see the Highway Patrol in this immediate area lose the services of an officer with the capabilities of Capt. Brown, his appointment as a troop commander will strengthen the Highway Patrol. The fact that he has been selected for AT.VTN TAYTjOR

the new post is a credit to him and indeed reflects credit upon the entire Highway Patrol organization.

Vi'''' McNaugfat STndieate. In

Last Actor Of Great Drama Has Passed On

Told Him Over And Over

Received a letter from F.R,

Adams. Jr. of 104 Park Drive yesterday.

He took iormer staffer Jimmy Ellis to task for use of the ex-

The final curtain was rung down on an era of presin sufficiently strong American life last week with the death of Walter W. enough.

Williams a former Confederate forage master who quoteTom"etter'whi"h Jimw was the last survivor of those who fougnt in the Civil wrote last week to the Reflector War. staff. The letter was quoted in

At 117 years of age, Walter W. Williams has out-T Jill- X L.J.* Til j Boy* now many times have we me a juu wucic x

liv'ed all his^ contemporaries who fought in^ ^and Ellis don't use suf- ficiently strong enough.

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enough to keep from breaking. silver. The leaves are then used Jimmy, wed scream. Dont in door or table decorations.

use sufficiently strong enough.

This went on for years and the phrase got to be a passion with Jimmy.

Finally we screamed at Jimmy once too often.

He blew up.

To heck with you, he shot back. If I cant use sufficiently strong enough around here Ill get me a job where I can use suf-

in Gray during the most trying period in the history ficiently strong enough. of this nation. The scars of the battles which were Jimmy, wed say. Youve fought in that war a century ago have long since diaap-

peared, save those which remain m the minds of a few strong enough. It just dont individuals. This nation which was torn by the internal sound right. conflict has long since emerged from the struggle to Jimmy would hang his head

takeitspositionastheleadcrof the world. iSt sSientbTstongeno'Sgh'w

In spite of the fact that almost a century has quit using it.

passed since the last suryivor of the great war donned Well, things would go along all

hi.s uniform in active militarv .service, there is a feel- "Ji; a"<i then at the thinga whtoh can be

- , 4^1 4. *4.u /u 1 j 4.U 4. in would come another story, used for Christmas decorations,

ing of loss that comes with the knowledge of the last Buried down in the I8th para- A week or so ago we learned

survivor of the struggle is now gone.

man in Charlotte.

We can only shake our head at Jimmys glaring error.

Wed told him and told him that what he really wanted to say was strong sufficiently enough.

The world is full of trouble.

We never cease to be amazed

Signs Of Change

graph, there it would be: The dam wasnt sufficiently strong

that the ladies wanted Magnolia leaves which they paint gold or

in hisennower

Other Editors Saying . Ready, Willing, Anxious

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Whats changed President Eisenhower?

Theres been a big change this past year in the tactics and attitude of this 69-year-old man who has just 13 months left in the presidency.

Some examples: His dealings with Congress: his greater role

This effort alone would be a plausible explanation for his activity in 1959.

But perhaps other forces were at work on himforces which he himself may not have consciously realizedto give him a greater sense of freedom and mission and a greater sense of self-dependency.

In foreign affairs: his new attitude toward personal diplomacy.

For most of his White House relied tremendously on two

(Henderson Dispatch)

Adlai Stevenson, who twice tried unsuccessfully to capture the presidency for the Democratic party, continues to declare he is not a candidate for a third nomination next year. But he hasnt burned the bridges behind him.

A deadlock as between active candidates for the nomination

years he was mild with Congress. This year he used a bullwhip.

As late as last August he took a dim view of personal diplomacy by heads of state at summit meetings. Look whats happened since then.

Hes met with Premier Nikita Khrushchev; will meet him at the summit in April; will go to Moscow next summer; has just finished a presummit meeting in Paris; has journeyed to three continents: and now wants more summit meetings.

Why the change? It could be this simple: With his presidency drawing to a close he wants to extend himself to the utmost on both domestic and foreign fronts. His big push at home has been on less spending; abroad, its peace,

^ Although the Democrats overwhelmingly control Congress, Eisenhower kept them meek by continually beating them over the head with the big-spending charge. They trotted along, as he directed.

Eisenhower could crown his double service as soldier and President if, before leaving of-

Through convenUon

to turn to him again as a last

menSherman Adams, chief of his White House staff, and the late secretary of state, John Foster Dulles,

Adams, who quite 15 months ago, was Eisenhowers buffer in dealing with Congress. He was truly an assistant president, without the title. Dulles so completely dominated foreign affairs ha overshadowed Elsenhower himself in this field.

Dulles never seemed to feel anything was done right unless he handled it personally. The proof is the record number of his journeys. This left Eisenhower at home, in the background, while Dulles did most of the work.

resort. In that event, Stevenson will be ready, willing and anxious to imitate the experience of William Jennings Bryan, who tried three times to win the election and each time failed.

It is highly doubtful that the presidency is in the bag for the Democrats in 1960. Prospects are not as bright today as they were some months ago, although still promising. It is reasonably certain that just any individual who might be nominated cannot win hands down. It will be a hard fight at best. At least In the convention it will be a match between liberals on the one hand and the

With Adams gone, Eisenhower cnf rvatlves and middle-ol-the-

became increasingly aggressive with Congress, although he avoided both belligerency and un-unpleasant personal dealings."

But the shadow of Dulles, who died in May, still hung over Elsenhower as late as August when he told friends he did not like the modem development of diplomacysummit conferences.

He said he considered it a step backw'ard for heads of state to

road group on the other, one cannot bring himself around to the conviction that some of the ultra-liberals can be nominated or elected. The trend is toward liberalism, but the "American people are not yet ready to em

brace socialism as such nor even by some other name.

Stevenson can scarcely be classed as a middle - of - the-road candidate, although is by no means as far to the left as some who are trying for the honor. For the Democrats to select a candidate who is de-cidely farther to the left than Stevenson will drive a lot of party people away from the ticket, There are millions in this country who would enthusiastically whoop U up for a man of the Hubert Humphrey type, but many more millions would turn the other way if he were the partys choice.

Senator Ervin says Senator Senator Richard Russell is the best equipped man in the party for president. For our part, we would definitely favor him in preference to any of the others who are most prominently mentioned and who are trying hardest to persuade the convention to take them. Russell is more a conservative than the ^ current leaders in the scramble. And it might be surprising how very many people would be attracted to his standard.

Adlai Stevenson would not be a popular candidate with many Americans. He has two strikes against him at the outset, but would be more acceptable than a lot of aspirants who could be mentioned.

Yesterday we noticed that staffer Stuart Savage had a large pile of used flash bulbs on his desk. He had been asked to save them to be used for Christmas decorations, he told us.

The idea fascinates us. We had always thought there was nothing more useless than a burned out flash bulb.

A flash bulbs life is very brief. In a fraction of a second It does the job it is designed to do and then photographer tosses it away.

So now during the Yuletide season, the flash bulb gets a new lease on life. Decorated so, tliey are hardly recognizable as flash bulbs they become a part of somebodys Christmas decorations.

Opinions

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Nomination for tiie wires most garbled paragraph for 1959He lost so much strength from his last attack that he just spends most of pneumonia since July less than two weeks ago.Tallahassee Democrat.

Getting to know people Is a basic requirement of diplomacy. Its hard to do when you cant talk to them. The Miami Herald.

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Ediors Note: Fifteen years ago today, . S. Gen Anthony McAuliife gave the nation a lift when he replied Nuts to a German surrender demand during the Battle of the Bulge. Hal Boyle, who tells of the incident in* his column today, covered the battle as an Associated Press war correspondent.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Fifteen years ago today a . S. brigadier general became the first soldier in history to win military immortality with a four-letter word.

.The word was Nuts! and., the man who said itand later came to hate the word now feels it changed his whole life.

This bit. of American slang, delivered as a defiant reply to German surrender demand, infuriated a Nazi army. It set the^ Allied world rocking with laughter and pride.

Today It is still the best remembered symbol of the greatest engagement fought by American troops in World War lithe Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.

' The batUe, personally planned by Adolf Hitler in a last-ditch gamble, began at 5 a.m. Dec. 16, 1944, with a bombardment by 1,900 German artillery pieces.

The Nazis, attacking with 212,-000 troops and 1,000 tanks through the Allied rest camp area in the Ardennes, achieved complete tactical surprise.

The acting commander, Anthony (Old Crock) McAuliffe and the 101st Airborne Division were rushed by truck to Bas-togne. There, strongly supported by elements of the U. S. 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, McAuliffe held the vital Belgium road center against frantic German breakthrough efforts.

The enemy couldnt bypass him. They had to destroy his force to go on. And if they couldnt go on their cause was lost.

It was a bloody battle fought In a frigid hell. The . S. forces cheerfully gave the map code name Merry Christmas to the 20-square mile area they held that blocked the gigantic German advance.

By Dec. 22, McAuliffe and his 10,000 men were surrounded by seven Nazi divisions and outnumbered four to one.

Through the morning gloom four German soldiers carrying a white flag trudged up to an outpost three miles south of Bastogne.

They carried a message which said in part: The fortune of war is changing. There is only one possibility to save the encircled U. S. A. troops from total annihilation. That is the honorable surrender of the encircled town.

If this proposal should be rejected, one German artillery corps and six heavy battalions are ready to annihilate the .S.A. troops in and near Bastogne.

The four Germans, blindfolded by their own truce flag, were handed McAuliffes quickly scrawled reply: To the German commander Nuts! The American Commander.

When one of the Germans who spoke Snglish complained he didnt understand the me.ssage, he was told it meant go to hell. He said he understood this, and the four were blindfolded again and led away.

The battle raged on for more than four days and four nights until an armored column from Gen. George Pattons 3rd broke thought and Ufted the siege.

Old Crock, a square-jawed, 5-foot-5 soldier who weighed only 135 pounds, performed heroically before and after the Bastogne siege. After the yar he rose steadily in the service un-tU he retired in 1956 as a full general commanding the U. S. Army In Europe. He is now a vice president of the American Cyanamid Co.

Although over the years he had to tell the Bastogne story so often he shuddered when anyone at a cocktail party passed the nuts, he now is reconciled to the word nuts!

A modest man, he feels it was his spur-of-the-moment choice of this odd one-word classic answer that helped send him later up the Army ladder.

At the time of the Bastogne siege he wore a brigadiers, staf, but' his permanent rank was that of colonel.

Last week, mellow, handsome con inved On Page o

fice, he managed to help bring the spend their time on work that world into a new era of peace. . Continued On Page 5

Strength For Today

Harboring Bookmakers In Midst?

By EARL L. DOUGLASS GOD IS LOVE*

Yesterday we spoke of hate as the badge of satanic evil. Look across the whole of the created universe to the reality which stands at the other end, namely, love. In this vast stretch one sees the ultimate In evil and the ultimate in good.

The Bible tells us that God is love. It does not just say that God is loving, or loveable, but that He Himself is love. The Creator of the universe by His very nature is committed to the initiating and continuing of a project in harmony wherein all parts serve a definite end. This is the divine enterprise at the center of which is love. And since God is lovesince It is the essence of his beingGods enterprise of harmony is given life and power by the presence and gui

dance of the loving God Himself.

Satan works against man and against the divine enterprise with the cruel weapon of hate. God is love and because He is love. His presence is irresistably pushing back all opposition and rendering the universe a decent place

By ELMER ROESSNER The curious suspicion arises that some of our large corporations may be harboring bookmakers and carrying part of their overhead as well.

It springs from the testimony of Harold Lipset, a San Francisco private ear, who told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights that he was an expert wiietapper.

In one case, the owner of a large chain of furniture stores was suspicious of supposed in-

for right-thinking people to make ventory shortages, -and he put their eternal abode. Gods pro- Lipset to work. Lipset tapped

ject Is the project of creating, im- wires and discovered a betting

plementlng, and eternalizing love. ring. Whether he also discover-

The santanic rebellion is the ed employees who were send-

evil attempt to impede and de- ing furniture out under phony

stroy this project. orders was not disclosed.

This is the season of the year Private E. Lipset was one of when we are thinking of the few witnesses who defended Gods great love for mankind, wiretapping ' and electronic It is a season when His love eavesdropping. In this case, he

comes down to bless us with indescribable tenderness. Yet. rot only at this season but through every season, God is love.

said the owner was able to break up the ring before the police got wise. If the cops had cracked the case, the owner might have been under suspi-

even a girl as beautiful as she cion and he might have lost his telephone service.

This suggests that a Job in a department store might be a fine cover for a bookie operation, assuming that Lipset and his like were not bugging you. Or it could be in any other kind of business that involves a lot of telephoning.

Suppose one Gus gets a job in a big corporation and finagles a transfer to a department, such as shipping control, that has a large volume of telephone calls.

He can use the company phone number and his own extension to operate a bookmak-ing operation. Bettors call his extension and place their wagers: he can call them to his layoff man. and nobody is the viserunless some Harold Lipset Is around.

ALLAYING SUSPICION

having a little trouble ^ith

packaging the FC2 Catawbas. whatever that is. Another trick would be to slip the girls a re tickets on the Irish Sweep-some use them for greasing

stakes. Most bookies carry Sweeps tickets as a sideline: some use them foi^ greasing

cops.

In this situation, a bookie ought to do pretty well. He .is insulated from suspicion. Why shouldn't people call up big stores or large corporations? He escapes both In-coming and cut - going phone charges. He pays no rent. Furthermore, he draws a salary, probably more than warranted by the work he does between calls.

This may be something that all managing executives might look into. How about the recent rise in telephone bills? Hks personnel fully checked the -backgrounds of new employees?

from men? Especially just before the starting time of each race at Tropical Park?

If the phone operators note Sayhow about all those calls the rise in telephone calls in the executive secretary makes? and out of his department, ne Is it reasonable to think that reed only explain that they are would get so many phone

CASTRO FINDING MOLASSES SITUATION STICKY

FIDEL Castro is finding his economic situation sticky. Literally.

The sugar mills have about 135,000,000 gallons of molasses on hand, and new production seaswi starts In January. Britain is working on a deal to take 50.000,000 gallons, but the carryover would still be unwieldy, further depressing business on the island.

American business Interests show no inclination to bail Castro out.

COCOA PRODUCTION AT A NEW HIGH

Estimates put the 1959 - 60 world cocoa crop at a new record high of about 900,000 tons. Prices have dropped as much as 25 per cet from a year ago. This may lead to a little fattening of the 5-cent chocolate