PACE POUETHE DAILY REFLECTOr rT^.ENVILLE. N. C.

Thurdayt January 4 1960

Thursday, January 14, 1*960

Some Victory

Adding Up To A Strong Contender

With the current session of Congress only a week old. Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson has suddenly taken on the appearance of a senous contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, and one who may have sufficient strength to emerge vic-torous from the field of candidates.

Two events this week which occurred almost simultaneously at least have the surface appearance of greatly enhancing Johnsons chances of obtaining the nomination.

House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who previoiwly has voiced his support of Johnson for the nomination, announced he will not accept the post of chairman at the Democratic National Convention next summer. This convention, he says, he wants to participate in from the floor. It is unlikely that the Texas combination of Rayburn and Johnson would be involved in the scramble for tre nomination merely to gamer votes to throw to some other contender once the balloting starts.

And with Rayburn as an official or unofficial campaign manager. Sen. Johnson must be regarded as a candidate who cannot be placed at the outset with those who may be looked upon only as favorife sons.

The other event that boosted Johnsons position as a potential candidate for the nomination, was the overwhelming manner in which Democratic Senators thwarted a move to strip the Majority Leader of much of his power to determine party policy in the current session of Congress. Regarded as a move by liberals to reduce Johnsons authority, the effort was defeated by a vote of 52-12. It left the Majority leader in control of the situation in the Senate so far as Democratic policies and tactics are concerned. Defeat of the liber-

Personal Aspect Of Heinz Rollmdn

By LYNN NISBET

ROLLMAN Heinz RoUman is a relattve newcomer to North Carolina politics and is a disturbing influence to the old guard in both parties. He is an Independent individualist who knows. what he wants and consults nobody about the best way to achieve his goal. He wants a seat in the national House of Representatives. He doesnt want to be Governor of North Carolina or President of the United States. He wants to be the congressman from the 12th district of North Carolina.

He entered the Democratic primary in that district in 1958 but could not bump off Congressman George Shuford. When Shuford resigned as a candidate after the primary, Rollmao hoped to get the nomination from the executive cMnmittee. The nomination went to Dcve Hall. Some months later RoUman renounced affiliation with the Democratic party, registered as a Republican and has already paid the filing fee as a Republican candidate for Congress from the 12th district. He expects opposition in the primary, and more* vigorous (n>* position by the Democratic nominee in the general election next Novemberbut he expects to win both bouts.

He had a dinner party at his home in WaynesvlJle Saturday night, which this reporter at-texxled along with a dozen or so other newsmen mostly from the 12th district. He was a genial host and he Uved up to the promise in the invitation that in the post-dinner conference no questions would be barred and aU answers would be for the record. The conference presented an interesting study in poUtical sagacity and political naivete. He knows where he wants to go, and he has planned his course to get therebut in many instances without any consideration for North Carolina practice or N(Hth Carolina laws about participation in nominating primaries.

PERSONAL - The fact that RoUman changed party affiliation from Democratic to Republican emphasizes his lack of appreciation or respect for party re-spoDsibUity. Nobody who hears him talk can doubt his s^erity of desire to contribute something to the American way of life by service in the Congress. Nor can there be any doubt that Ws whole idea is that Heinz RoUman as an individual, not as a Democrat or a Republican, governs his poUtical attitude.

As a candidate for the Democratic nomination two years ago he reported spending more than $30,000. U)e highest spending ever reported, though not perhaps the ^ost ever spent, in a congressional primary campaign

in North Carolina. He says he expects to spend between seven and eight thousand doUars in the upcoming RepubUcan primary. Buthe also said he had prepared advertisements for newspapers and radio and television to go through the General election, campaign, which he confidently expects to be in.

INNOVATION The RoUman .approach is an innovation in North Carolina p<Ultics. Party lines have generaUy controUed voting in this state. Sure it is that in some cases, like ChiVrles Raper Jonas In the 10th district, a RepuUican candidate was elected to Congress by votes of registered Democrats. Jonas and his famUy are indigenous to North Carolina and ancestrally have been affiliated with the RepulUlcan party. Through good times and bad they have not changed party affUiatioo for Immediate or temporary poUtical advantages.

PHILOSOPHER Outside the realm of practical politics v^^here he seems naive, the

wealthy shoe manufacturer of WaynesviUe has an economic-social phUosophy which makes a lot of sense. An inunigrant German-Jew who found and

capitalized on oppm'tunities in this country, he is vigorously opposed to enforced integration. In striking contrast to the attitude of NAACP and other organized champions (?) of racial and religious minorities, he holds that enforced integration is unfair to minority groups.

Racial, religious and social

animosities are contagious, he says. He is sure in his own mind that Uie current resurgence of anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism was inspired by Moscow, and in Its early stages financed by the International Ck)mmunist organi-zati(m. He also thinks it didnt cost the Communists very much, because they had to hire only the first two or three operators. After the game started there were enough low mentality followers to carry it on, most of them without realization of what they were doing.

SUMMARY The conference with Heinz RoUman was enlightening and instructive. In a way it is typical of the general trend away from the traditional American concept of organized or group responsibility and toward the idea that the man is more important than any poUtical party.

It may be significant that such argument is emphasized by mi-uority groups which seek to impose their wUl ovpr majority opinion as represented by popular vote. Majorities usuaUy are wiUing to go f long with esUbllsh-ed practice.

a] vote likewise may be looked upoivas an eadorsement of the middle-of-the-road Democratic policies that Johnson has followed in the past.

In any event, the demonstration on the part of Democratic Senators of their support for ^en. Johnson is bound to have political repercussions. It is doubtful that he would have the same degree of support from Democratic Senators in a bid for the presidential nomination. but it may well be that other contenders will have to re-evaluate their own positions in the light to the support shown for Johnson.

The fact that Sen. Johnson is from a Southern state, the fact that he suffered a heart attack a few years ago, the fact that he is more conservative than some elements of the party desire, all will have a bearing on his chances of receiving the Democratic nomination.

The developments of this week, however, thrust him into the position of a strong contender for the nomination. Speaker Rayburns move suggests that Sen. Johnson may openly campaign for the partys nomination at a later date. The crush of the liberal revolt which sought to reduce Sen. Johnsons authority in the Senate suggests he may have a good bit of latent support among the Senators that will come to life if and when he should openly seek the nomination.

We Can Expect Soon To Feel VO A Impact

Another step toward bringing to reality the proposed Voice of America facilities to be constructed in Pitt County is good news for local citizens.

Since the announcement last year that the multimillion dollar facilities were to be located in this area, there has -been considerable anticipation of the day when actual construction work would begin. The facility itself, will add an appreciable economic boost to the community when it is completed, employing some 100 people and having an annua] payroll estimated at 1800,000.

It should also be evident that actual construction of the $25 million facility in this area will have an immediate economic effect upon Pitt and neighboring counties while construction is underway. It is not unlikely that a considerable number of jobs will be available for local residents during the construction period in addition to the specialists, who will have to be brought in from other areas to handle the highly .technical phases of construction on the facility.

How much of the estimated $25 million construction cost of the project will be represented by payrolls has not been annoupced, but it is safe to assume payrolls during the constiuction period will amount to several millions. A portion of this at least will find its way into the local economy before the facility is actually completed.

With bids being taken by the VO A next week for clearing of some 4,000 acres of the land involved 'in the. project, at least the first phases of the construction program can be expected to begin in the near future. Pitt County may reasonably expect to feel the economic impact of this new major facility in its area long before it is completed and put into operation.

Johnson Waits Jefore Shootina

By DON SGHLIENZ

The Unfounded Worries

There were these relatives from Michigan visiting here for a short spell; and before wending their way further South into Florida they said.

We want to take you out to dinner before we go, and the thought sounded good.

Later, there were second-thoughts.

Was this to include our brood (aged four and two)?

It did.

Then came misgivings.

The eating habits of Four-year-old and Two-year-old were all right at h<Hne where a measure of privacy prevails. And too, at home you can prepare for spilled milk, gravy drops, butter here-there-and-eversrwhere, morsels unexpectedly finding their way to the floe-those things can be almost overlooked. oix;e youve been broken in.

And at home one can look up

, to find one of the brood missing from the table, with no great qualms because they cant get very far before being retaken (we know the trails).

Also, privacy permits a certain amount of loud exchanges between the two. without disturbing the adults who have acquired a sort of Dstunil Immunity. For Instance,- when the elder says I HATE squash!, and the other says Me TOO. It is no reflection on the squash hecadie they do get around to eating it. Away frcnn home, such things can cause consternation.

So with mlsgivinss came secret thoughts of maybe we can find somebody wholl take the pair off our hands for a couple of hours, and Why. oh why, dont we have a contract with a babysitter?.

Of course, those solutions were no good. The Michlgenders would

Other Editors Saying...' Will The Credit Backfire?

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)Lyndon Johnson, the taU Texan, acta toward the Senate Uberals like a man waiting at his window with a shotgun for prowlers. He lets them come close and then shoots.

He likes to get It over with early. Two years in a row now, right at the beginning of a congressional session, the liberals started Jostling Johnson, leader of the Senate Democrats. Both times he flattened them fast.

Last year they wanted to change a Senate rule to make it easier to smash Southern Democrats filibusters against civil rights blUs. This year they wanted to take away some of Johnsons free-wheeling authority.

In 1959 Senate Uberals of both parties teamed up behind Sen. Paul Douglas (D-fll) to get the rule changed. A fight over this could have lasted weeks and spUt Northern and Southern Democrats.

Douglas had hardly opened his mouth before Johnson moved in, took over, and proposed his own rule change which, while it required some concession from the Southerners, also pacified most Northerners by giving them a concession.

It caUed for a very slight change. The outnumbered liberals found out In a hurry it was aU the majority of both partlea would go for. The Uberals were swamped in the 72-22 vote.

Unabashed by the clubbing they got, some of the Utxrals smong Johnsons own Democrats began banging away at Johnson himself. This was particularly true of one newcomer. Sen. William Proxmlre (D-Wis).

Their complaint boiled down to this: That Johnson ran the Senate

too much as a one-man show, that the other Democrats werent consulted enough on what Senate Democrats should do. support, or oppose in policy and legislation.

This discontent with Johnsons leadership although one complainant conceded the Texan was the ablest Democratic leader around in his Ufetime bubbled over when the Senate opened for business this year.

The' Uberals insisted, for instance. on more closed-door private meetings or caucuses among Democrats so aU could have a voice in what was to be done on the open Senate floor.

Johnson, as usual, was poUte and patient with them. He could afford to be.

No one in the Senate knows as well as Johnson the views of every senator of both parties on every Issue and how he can be expected to vote. The reason he knows Is that he works hard it finding out. He Is a master of detaU.

So Johns(m pulled a surprise. He called a secret meeting right away. No wonder. There is no doubt he knew the majority of the Senate Democrts would Une up on his side against the outspoken Uberals. who are a smaU minority.

Sure enough thats how it turned out. The Democrats met behind closed doors Tuesday and the liberals .suffered a crushing defeat. The vote was 51-12 in support of Johnsons way of doing things.

In all thil Johnson never got mad or raised his voice. But then, of course, knowing what Johnson knew, he didnt have to. He Just let the Uberals stumble around It his garden, creep up close, and then-bang.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The steel strike settlement brought immediate lu^ise to Vice President Richard Nixon, who appeared once mcn-e to be in the right place when the Ughtnlng of events struck, but it now appears that the'credit that seemed due him may backfire.

The Implications involved those favoring Nixon at first and those that could hurt him are. of course. poUtlcally bom and bred. Republicans were anxious to enshrine their expected presidential nominee as the man who finaUy settled the steel mess. It ^dnt take the Democratic propaganda mills long to start finding blame for Nixon instead of credit.

One of the first Democratic broadsides foUowlng the strike settlement was made by National Chairman Paul M. Butler, a man often given to shouting when he shouldnt be heard at aU. Butler immediately charged that Nixon got a secret agreement from the steel companies to hold off any price hikes until after the 1960 elections.

Whether Butler Is right on this, or is merely grasping for a poUtical straw, he made a pretty smart move. He knew he could rely on the fact that the companies would naturally wait awhile before hiking up steel prices. He no doubt realized that steel management might even consider it body to back it up with any sort of proof.

cannot do Nixon any good. And neither can another development that has come about.

Not long after Butlers blast David J; McDonald, chief of United Steelworkers of America, suddenly came out on TV with the announcement that financier Joseph P. Kennedy, father of presidential candidate Sen. John Kennedy, should be given s(xne of the credit for ending the steel strike. The elder Kennedy, McDonald claimed, played a vital part in the settlement by heading up pressure on WaU Street to persuade steel management to agree to terms.

McDonalds statement was probably drawn out when a nation-aUy syndicated columnist claimed that the steel chief had agreed to aid Nixons presidential aspirations because of the very generous steel settlement provisions.

None of this sounds good for Nigon. Nor does the fact that many experts now are saying the strike could have been settled earlier and with less inflationary terms if the Elsenhower administration had been Willing to obtain an official finding of facts on the steel dispute and pubUclze it thoroughly.

Nixon at first appeared to have gained a poUtical pot of gold for the part he played In. the steel settlement. But due to po-htlcal maneuvering, he may . find that his pot of gold is stlU at one end of the rainbow while he remains at the other.

have been disappointed if their very smaU-slze friends and kin had been absent for the evening. Resignation set In.

Came the day.

The two small tlme-bomhs were scrubbed and polished to a fare-thee-well. Blond curls brushed, blond bristles slicked down.

For goodness' sake, they were cautioned; **try to remember to be good at the table.

Well, the party wss seated and dinner ordered.

Tlie wee one settled on fried shrimp (for which she has a great liking), end her brother was Intrigued by the thought of eating frog legs.

Their psrcnts were strategi-caUy positioned for constant ob-sa^stion and prompt action when it became necessary.

They were watcted ss few people have ever been watched. Ears were attuned to catch any change of Inflection that might denote social catastrophe.

Nothing happened.

Oh. they ate. There was some small chit-chat about why frogs in our backyard' werent big enough, ig ettt Aod A demonstration of hCMT 0 gat shrimp without biting t)B Thats aU.

In no time at cutslde again and going* to the cars.

Wasnt I good tonight?, asked the boy.

And his parents agreed.

I say it must have happened to soifiebody else.

Their mother Just sighs once was enough. . .

'Behind Scnes Story'

By SAUL PETT new YORK (AP)-Accordlng to the papers, the old steel strike crowd met again the other night at the home of Richard M. Nixon In Washington.

The stories said 'tiiat the top negotiatom of both management and the union gathered at the Nixon place to celebrate the settlement they bad worked out aft* er many nights of oegoUatlon.

Beyond lisOng the guests, the stories didn't say what happened at the reunion dinner except that the late bitterness wss dissolved in expansive good fellowship/* But as to who said what to whom, the reports said nothing. So. Ive been trying to Imagine that evefiing.

As nearly as I can visualize It. the Nixons served drinks In the Uving room to their guests, who included Secretary of Labor James P. Mltcbell; Roger M. Blough, chslrman of tbe board of U.S. Steel Corp.; R. Conrad Cooper, chief Industry negotiator; Dsvld J.' McDonald, president of the United Stetiwcwkers Union; and Arthur J. Goldberg, union general counsel.

Tbe cocktail hour went off nicely sltbough the maid once gave McDonalds bourbon to Blough but Blough passed over the mistake lightly.

There wgp another round and then they* went Into dinner.

Automatically, tbe boys started to line up on opposite sides of the table, union on one side, management on the other, but Pat Nixon Insisted they mingle on both sides, and they did. and that went off fine since all the guests were expert at eating with one hand and keeping tbe other on th^ wallets-

. Several guests remarked on the tastiness of the filet mlgnon and, glowing, Mrs. Nixon observed. Im delighted you like it. gentlemen, but Isnt It awful the way the price of steak goes up every day? ResUy. I d(xi*t know what well do about thii inflation.* There followed a strained pause during which management tnd labor avoided looking at one another and the vice president and the secretary of labor studied the lint on their lapels.

But the wine glasses were refilled and the expansive good fellowship expanded even further. The party then adjourned to the Uihng room and the cigars were lit.

McDonald, looking Intently at the fireplace, said to Conrad Cooper: You know. Con, it was right here. In front of this fireplace, that you accused me of not tnurgalnlog in good faith for the exact 100th time.

Wasnt that light after you said 1 was deliberately misrepresenting tbe facts about the price spiral?* Cooper asked, his neck muscles tightening slightly.

Whst did you fellows think of the bowl games? Nlxmi interposed.

But the football talk never got off the ground because Mitchell was feeling nostalgic.

You know, boys. he said warmly, when 1 think of how hard you battted each other In this very same house and bow you finally agreed, like the fine Americans you are, to end the longest steel strike in history right In this very same house, well, theres something wonderful about a reunion like this. Iday-be. for old tlines sake, we ought to meet here again next year.* Well, maybe not precisely this bouse. Nixon said quietly, almost to himself.

Opinions In Brie::

Would It be unreasonable for the states to require that cars be equipped with mechanical speed governors? It may be said that It would be hard to enforce such a regulation; but a few suspensions of licenses where a governor is found missing or inoperative, could have considerable effect. Christian Science Monitor.

new attack on slum properties. In the future such property is to be assessed for tax purposes on the' basis of its income-produeing cspabilities Instead of the physical condition of the property. Greenwood IS.C.) Index-Joumal.

An automobile saves you almost aa much time as you have to spend looking for a place to park It.WaU Street Journal.

If Castro prefers not to trade with the United States, we can buy our sugar from our own producers.San Francisco Examiner.

Slums are municipal sores, breeding fires, disease, crime and other social stresses which add to the citys burden. But such property often brings rich dividends to Its owners. Now Chicago has come up with a

The abandonment of money-losing short lines has Just about run Its course. With these im-profltable drains gone, It remains for the railroad either to end service altogether or to make their mainline, through trains competitive. The Greensboro Record.

Better Than Most Salary Hikes

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

What shaU we do with tbe people who peddle dope?

We can be sure that the law as It stands at the present time Is shamelessly easy on these monsters. The death penalty Is richly deserved for people who make their money by fastening a hopeless addiction on weak human beings. And as for those who peddle dope to teenage boys and girlsone has to restrain his anger and Indignation lest his desire for vengeance exceed the hmits of wiAdom and moraUty.

Wht do we fool around with a situation of this sort? Why can we not take hold of it resolutely? There Is not a person in the country, save narcotic addicts themselves and the people who seU narcoUcs to them, who has a syllable of defense for

people who seU narcotics to them, who has a syllable of defense for people who traffic in this awful commodity. Liquor addiction is bad enough. One tenth of all those who start to drink end up alcoholics or problem drinkers, but everyone who takes dope becbmes an addict after a very few Indulgences.

Cant the nation rise up and sweep these people out of existence? What inhibits us? The law a swe have it appears to be honestly and well enforced, but we need stricter laws. And we need a united Nation to get these stricter laws. ^

The dopester needs all we can give himand more; and worse. Let us waste no sentimentality on the likes of him.' Let him have the works, and let us make them worse and more painful to take. '

By ^LMER ROESSNER Lets face it: Any union leader who asks for an hourly wage raise, or any executive who insists on a salary increase, has rocks In his head.

Unless he is in a very low wage bracket, any wage earner getting a raise will share from a fifth to a third of it with the government In taxes. The steelworkers struck and suffered to get a wage Increase; in the end the government will gain by about a quarter of the wage Increase, or about $100.00000 a year.

And any execuUvc^who demands an Increase in pay will share a large part of Itfrom a fourth to nine-tenthswith his Uncle Sam, But the union leader who demands tax-exempt or low-tax fringes, and the executive who gets low-tax or capital gains benefits, stands to benefit greatly. They profit at the expense of those who pay the full, going tax rate on their increment. PENSIONS MAKE I^ONDER-FUL GRAVY

Fringe benefits go back centuries. King Arthur gave his knights free funerals. Now one expert has listed 113 types of fringes, possibly including that of a British union that gets a penny per worker per week to finance members divorces.

The First National City Bank of New York, in discussing the burden in its January newsletter, says. Pensions arc the most valued and also most expensive of fringes. . .While numerous plans call for employee contributions, the trend Is toward having the employer meet the entire expense.

When the employer picks up the whole tab. the benefit to the employee is greter than from an equivalenb-wage Increase because there is no increase in the employees taxable income.

Private pension^ fnds defer taxable incomes until after retirement. Then, at age 65. the former employee becomes entitled to g tax-free Social Security pension, a double personal exemption, and a retirement.Ip: come credit. So payments froda

private pension funds will be taxed more lightly or perhaps not at all.

PEOPLE HAVE GROWN TAX-WISE

The popularity of fringe benefits is partly explained by the fact that people have grown tax-wise and take a particular pleasure out of thipgs they can get free of deductions for taxes.

Perhaps after reading this you. too. are a bit more tax-wise. And if your union Is about to ask a pay rise, or your boss is offering a salary increase, you might say. Lets talk this over. How about some more pension gravy instead? Or some stock options that will yield low-tax capital gains? Or some company paid insurance? Or better meals in the company restaurant. Or more turkeys and hams from the management? Or company cars for business purposes? Or Isrger expense accounts? Or larger discounts on appliances at a company store?

A friend in the $18,000-a-year bracket was due for a hefty increase la pay.

I can save you money, he said to his employer, if i get a raise, the government will Uke exactly hall of it. So suppose you give me ten weeks off a year instead of three? Because that would fit in well with the somewhat seasonal nature oft he companys business the boss was delighted to make the arrangement.

NEW MACHINE TELLS HOW FAT PORK 18

Previous attempts to protect consumers from excessively fat fresh and cured hams have failed because Judges have generally held that there was no way to deteAnine the sUnmmt of fat without cutting the meat.

Now the Department oK Agriculture has a sclntiUaUon counter Tn operation at research center at Beltavllle. Md. Isotope potassium40 appears naturally in muscle tissue but not fat. But measiuing the gamnu rays from the isotope.' the peroen-tage of fat and nonfat can be determined.