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THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Wednesday, January20, 1960

-Wednesday, January 20, 1960

Senate Parking Lot

Suggest Closer Look At The East

From its wealthy citizens to its lowly banker ponies, all of Eastern-Carolina has come under the fiery blast of Gov. Hodges.

While easterners readily admit their area has not progressed economically as rapidly as they would have 'liked, they are fully justified in resenting the state-tmnts Gov. Hodges made this week before the Board of Conservation and Development.

We could use more forceful leadership. We could profit by more diligent work toward boosting the econ-^omy of the area. Agriculture might be made more profitable,by further diversification, better farming -practices.

In the heated words' of Gov. Hodges, the East must learn, if it wants economic development, that the cow has to be milked and fed seven days a week. No truer words were ever spoken. But why should the Piedmont development cow be handed sops from Raleigh seven days a week while the Eastern cow gets only a morsel from Raleigh only now and then? Has not the rate of growth of development efforts in the East in recent years been greater than that in the Piedmont? Perhaps we are not doing as much today to attract industry as another section of the state, but compared with a few years ago, the East has come a long way.

All of these things are true, but what area of North Carolina, or the nation, for that matter could not profit by such things?

Eastern North Carolina is not void of leadership. "Neither is it void of hard work on the part of many ; citizens to bring about better economic conditions. Ite farmers have made significant strides toward diversi-'fication and better farming practices in the past decade. Certainly we could have done more, but the East has not been sitting on its hands waiting for prosperity to fall into its lap.

Eastern Carolina is not without its faults. It is not without its own man-made handicaps when economic progresses considered. But neither is any other area.

From his heated statement before the C^and D, weM suggest that Gov. Hodges take another more careful look at Eastern North Carolina to see what has been done and wlvit is being done.

Wed suggest he look over the area more carefully than can be done enroute from Wake.County to the Outer Banks on a fishing trip.

More could have been done for the economic pro- PiBlCT .gress of North Carolina in the West, in the Piedmont, ^ 22

and we might add, in Raleigh. But again, that is not _ T' 1 * Oli^ ^

to say that efforts have not been made and progress Jf ClCljlltV X CtKHlOT iDllClD

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DeDartment Of

Wide Activities

By LYNN NISBET

- DIVERSITY Every meeting jBf the State Board of Conserva-iion and Deveiopment pro-liucea amazement at the diver-aity and scope of that departments activities.' So much emphasis has been put on the industry promotion phase the average citteen is apt to overlook the equally significant contributions of other divisions which build the foundations upon which Industrial development is based.

Governor Hodges, billed as ihe States top salesman for industry, warned fellow board members not to let the dramatic and spectacular blind them Jo the vital importance of the -more prosaic activities.

Statistics about new and expanded manufacturing plants and increased payrolls get the pig headlines. But as the division chiefs made their reports It was apparent that Bill Henderson of commerce and industry wouldnt have had much to *talk 'about, if it had not been -Jor the activities of the other -divisions advertising under Charlie Parker; commercial tvsheriea under Sheriff Holland; community planning under Robert Barbour; forestry under yred aaridge; mineral resources under Jasper Stuckey, and parks under Tom Morse. Rec-Teational facilities and attrac--tions for travelers are recognized as no less Important to overall de'Velopment than water resources and equitable taxation.

- Your reporter has attended most of the C&D board meetings within.the past 20 years. Board membership has changed. as has the administrative and working staff personnel.

"The primary objective of conserving and developing the economic, human and natural resources of North Carolina has remained constant.

Paradoxically, as the responsibilities of the department have become more diversified, the efforts to meet them have become more closely co-ordinaU ed.

UNITEDDespite more than usual upheaval in personnel during recent months, with inescapable Implications in some Instances of personal jealousy Zand individual ambition, total efforts of the Department of Conservation and Development are better co-ordinated than ever before.

At first glance it might seem that the C&D boards concern with industrial development had no relationship with speed or traffic traps. Yet. when Charlie Parker reported that travel business was growing in value to North Carolina, and , that operation of some of these peed traps was impairing the value of State advertising to attract travelers. Governor

Hodges and several other board members manifested, keen interest. They pledge support to efforts of the advertising division, working with the Travel Council and the Department of Motor Vehicles, to correct this situation. (Parker got unexpected support' when if developed that some of the board members had been victimized by traffic traps in this and other states.)

It might appear at surface gla-nce that the threat of balsam wooly aphid infestation in the Mount Mitchell area would be of concern only to the forestry and parks folks. A bit of discussion disclosed that this liggle bug constitutes a real threat to the development of the Christmas tree Industry, rapidly becoming important in North Carolina. It has been promoted by National and State forestry folks for years. Only recently some of the big banks have undertaken financing of Christmas tree production. So the commerce and industry division. as well as forestry and parks, gets interested In the wooly aphid.

. MINERALS Dr. Jap Stuck-ye, chief of the mineral division and classified as state geologist. began his report with some big names of minerals. Governor Hodges suggested he break them down to the grammar grade education level of the board members. The geologist tried, but about the best he could do was to say that pyrophyllite is sort of kin to soapstone or talc, but different.

His report did include some items which Governor Hodges called exciting. For fixample, the Lithium Corporation of America has moved its main offices and processing plant from Minnesota to Bessemer Dty, N. C. Result is the Bessemer City plant will be the only place in the United States taking lithium from its raw ore state into the finished product a multi-million dollar operation.

The old iron mines at Cranberry are being reopened, and the tjmgsten mines in Vance county are back in operation. Explorations are underway in the coal fields of the Deep River area, and with respect to spodumene deposits in the

Kings Mountain section.

PRCXJRESSTime ^ was when North Carolina was famed for its tar, pitch and turpentine products. Then came the big lumbering era, followed by cotton and tobacco. Now papor-pulp and minerals are challenging attention as natural pro

ductsplus the efforts to tie in all these resources with a program of processing the raw

products into finished goods.

That is the challenge facing C & D. __

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additional information becomes available on the^YWje-^ol^America facilities to be constructed in and Bea^ort Counties, the size and importance of the project is increasingly impressive.

The Austin Company of Cleveland, Ohio, an engineering and construction firm which designed the facility, pointed out in an announcement this week that the transmitting and receiving stations will include a total of 93 antennas held aloft by some 400 steel towers. In addition there will be at each site a building of considerable size to house the huge amount of specialized equipment ne.ce.ssary for the operation.

McNaufht Syedwie, la^

By HENRY HOWARD

To add to the impressiveness of the announcement, it has now been flatly stated that the VO A facilities to be constructed in this area will be one of the largest and most powerful radio transmitting installations in the world.

Good Guardsmen, Too

In the era of gigantic spending that often refers to outlays in the millions and even billions, the announced cost figure of $26 million for the project somehow left only a vague impression of the huge size of the installation. As more information becomes available, both the size and the importance of the facility begins to take a'more tangible shape in the minds of local citizens.

Sometimes, you run into some pretty funny things. . .

For instance, the other day, Mayo Allen over at Battery A was relating the phenomenal success his Guard units been having with its current enlistment cam-

The VGA facility will be a major asset to the area of Pitt and surrounding counties. During the construction period and afterwards when the facility is put into operations, it will have an important economic impact upon the area. In addition to the facility itself, there is every reason to believe that its very presence in this area will attract other businesses and perhaps industries and thus further enhance the economic position of the area.

paign.

Back before Christmas, the government authorized the National Guard here to recruit enough men to bring its numerical strength to full capacity.

He said there have been enough neiE men during the last two months or so to leave only four more openings. Seems like full strength was 80-some men. ^

Anyway, after 'looking over s(xne of his new names, a question arose.

Judging from a pair of the new names there, you might be led

to believe Mayo had padded the roster. I said to myself: What he tryin t pull here? Man, he cant do that.

He saw my quizzical expression and was quick to explain. You lookin at those two names, he said, pointing where my eyes had come to rest.

Yeah!

Well, you wont believe it. but theyre real, he declared with finality.

Not content with that, I wanted to know more. He explained the first of the two In question was recruited in December. I checked his birth certificate to make sure, and his name was what he said it was, he assured me.

He continued: The other day, this other one showed up. I was just about immune by that time and didnt even check.

I decided he was on the up-snd-up about it all. because the official records show two of the latest recruUs in the local battery are Jesse James Anderson and Bob Steele Shackelford.

Mayo says he believes /cowboys make good Guardsmen, too.

Within sight of the armory. In the court house, something else funny happened recently. The lax department, currently neck-deep in this years .tax listings, employs to pleasant ladies.

Lately, these two have been alternating in producing the large tax sheets already on file for citizens filing by to confess how much property they own.

With initial stages of construction of the huge installation scheduled to begin within the next few weeks, the Pitt county area should begin to feel in the near future some of the economic benefits that will come with the facility.

Other Editors Saying ...

One of them was preparing a new sheet for a local property owner who hadnt listed here before.

7he Big Difference

He was being cantankerous to say the least. He absolutely would not supply certain vital Information bis mailing address.

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7od Exoert On

Defense Issues?

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The one subject on which the American public knows practically nothing is defense needs. It has become a specialty for experts. And the experts disagree among themselves.

For example. President Eis- . enhower and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army chief of staff, dont see eye-to-eyc at all although both spent most of their lives in military service.

When Eisenhower asked Congress In hig budget message Monday for 41 billion dollars for defen.se next year, the reaction was as predictable as saying Monday follows Sunday.

The Democrats raised questions about Eisenhowers defense wisdom and foresight. The Republicans defended him.

It has always been a good arguing point and this year will have a little extra attractiveness since Its a presidential election year.

Eisenhower has set himself up as practically the most expert of experts on defense needs. He told his news conference last week that on this subject he knows more than almo.st anybody.

Is that so? Gen. Taylor, now a civilian, wrote a book, Th Uncertain Trumpet, to show his disagreement with the defense needs thinking of the Eisenhower administration. It was published this month.

Taylor complained the budget.

or economy - mindedness, and the idea of massive retaliation have so dominated the administrations planning that the Army has been relegated to a minor role * with diminished manpower. He said this leaves too little room for discouraging and deterring small flareups.

This is only part of his books criticism.

The innocent bystander, who figures to get his skull fractured If in time of a showdown American military planning in I960 wasnt good enough, can only wonder.

For instance, the administration has almost chilled to death the concept of the B70 bomber, designed to carry hydrogen bombs at 2.000 'miles an hour. The administration has canceled production orders and limited the program to development of two B70 planes.

Why? Because of the development of ballistic missiles. This was just about the same explanation Premier Nikita Khru-schev gave last week when he said the Soviet Union wad discontinuing the manufacture of bombers.

He said the U.S.S.R, was developing fantastic new weapon.s.

The Democrats have wondered, of course, whether Eisenhower was thinking urgently enough about matching Soviet military development or whether he was so anxious for economy as to be penny w'ise and pound foolish.

(Washington Daily News)

America is becoming more and more conscious of academic standards. Sometimes we tend to confuse academic standards as demanded by our high schools and those demanded by our colleges.

As a result of this confusion we so often express the opinion that our high schools are not doing an adequate job. We see some of our best high school students enroll in colleges, and then when semester grades are posted, we see where our best high school graduates are having tough sledding in college. Then we say our high schools have not prepared our graduates adequately.

High schools deal in the realm of public education. High schools must offer learning to all childrenthe gifted, the average. and the slow. A curric-ullm must take Into account that public education is for all children. To date we seem not to have found a practical answer on the matter of accelerating a high school program for the gifted while at the same time doing an adequate job for the slow students. Progressive education does not seem to be the answer.

Now when a boy or girl gi-ad-ules from high schodl, he or she might enter college provided the high school record is good enough. Colleges can afford to be selective today because 50 many more young people, are seeking admittance than the colleges can enroll. As a result of this trend, thus eliminating so many boys and girls who fall in the category between average and slow.

Some people have said that our colleges are today seeking to train a super race of our intelligentsia. That Is a severe criticism. Colleges today are taking the brightest students and leaving the slower ones behind, And even among those who get to college, many of the slower ones are eliminated quickly.

Now If colleges and high schools were on the same ba.sis, the problem would become relatively simple. If high schools were set up so that every student could be given courses to prepare him or her for college entrance only, then in effect, wed then be by - passing the slower students. But public education demands that all students be given an academic course in order to allow them to acquire the best educations they can muster.

So the high school and the college standards are based on different concepts. The high schools must educate all students; the colleges can be selective and take only the top students.

She pleaded with him to give with his address, but he pretended to misunderstand what she wanted to know.

Whers do you live? the asked.

Over yonder

She tried again, *;Whats your mailing address?

Just Greenville Township, was the replj-.

Finally, in exasperation, she demanded fiercelj, Tell me.. Where do you get your mail? He gave her a silly little smile and wryly replied, "In a little box beside the front door.

Ill hush.

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Who Is preaching saving today? Who is using the old proverb of laying up a few dollars for a rainy day? The general idea is to spend everything you have and then go on relief of some kind.Knoxville (Iowa) Express,

Wives Side O

Story

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)Henpecked husbands get a lot of sym^thj outside the kocne.

. **But. nobody, wall a lady reader. *evei% worries or feels sorry about hnsband-pecked wivesand there are million of them In America.

The'lady has a point, altbougli she may be off In her figures. Here and there, even in our ma^ tiiarchal society, there must be vestiges 0 the barbarian past^ homes in which the man Is still boss, and wears the trousers la the family*

Probably the reason husband-pecked wives get so little sympathy is that It is so hard to tell them.

How can a wife know if shee husband-pecked? Well, the probably is if:

Her husband brings his uncashed pay check home in his mouth, and forces her to handle all the money, so that if the family doesnt save anything, she is the one to blame.

He samples her medicines regularly but hoards his owa medicines and wont share them with her.

The alarm elock ie three feet nearer her twin bed than his twin bed, so that ahe has tura it off each morning.

He fives her a tool ehest for

Christmas.

She is Um one who spanks the children when they are naughty, and he Is the hero who then takes them to the drugstore and buys them candy.

When they havs finished a dinner she has labored over tdr five hours, he says In front of the guests, Never mind the dishes, dear. Ill do them later.

No matter what kind of new hat she buys, he always praises

it. so she is never quite eure whether be thinks she looks ridiculous or lovely.

He insisU that she buy all his clothes, so she cant retaliate by criticizing his own taste.

. When its lime to curry the

lawn, he guides the power mower. and ahe gets down on all fours to pull the crab grass.

On Mothers Day ahe stays at home with the kids, and he take# bla own mother out to dinner.

He tells her. I sure wish my secretary was half as smart as you are. and she wonders If what ^ he reaUy is thinking la. I wish you were half as pretty as she is.

A wise husband learns, If you cant fight 'em, fool em.**

Opinions n

Freedom la being able to de what you pleese wrlthout considering anybody except a wife, boss, state, federal and dtf laws and the nalghbora. Greenville (SC.) Piedmont.

Many parents could take a lesson in patience wrlth children from the city awimmlne lesson instructors. Tallahc (Fla.) Democrat.

Many Americana have preferred more leisure to more goods. That is perhaps the msJn reason why economic growth In this country has slowed down.'* SUver^ring (Md.) Record.

"Foot public offldale are elected' by good clUaena who dont go to the polla,"Grand Junction (Colo.) Svm.

With this thought in mind, perhaps at times we are being rather harsh on our high schools for what we think are inadequacies in the curricula. We admit that some of the criticism is certainly justified. The fact that the American public today is becoming more and more acquainted with both the problems of secondary and high education Ls a wholesome thing.

And out of practical knowledge and understanding could eventually come some sympathetic answ'ers.

4-7-12

LXtra Shopping Day Helped Out

Strength For To(day

By EARL L. DOUGLASS COIT.D THEY USE LIBERTY?

Kudyard Kipling was both great poet and a wise observer! He declared that east is east .and west is west and never the twain shall meet.

Geography Is one of the most inflhential factors in human life There Is a distinct and decided difference between Asiatic and European p'(^oples. For centuries the Asiatic' has been living under some kind of despotism. The people of Russia would not have the slightest idea how' to use the free democratic Constitution of the United States of America or the basic freedoms of the British Constitution. We had to strive for almost 15(K) years to gel the freedom we now enjoy Best of all. in' getting this freedom we learned how to use It. The Russian knows noUung

about such freedom. Neither do most of the people who Jive In

It may sometime be deinltely shown that communism is just the crystalizatlon of an Asian outlook on life. The people dt , Western Europe think of their government in terms of Magna Carta and the French Revolution, The people of Russia remember Ganghis Khan and Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible and Lenin the murdered. The people of China have been trying to make democracy work for a generation; for centuries before* i^espotksm. .

By ELMER ROESSNER

Confounding skepticsincluding your columnistretail sales in December did set a new rec-rd. but not by much. o

December retail sales. In the Department of Commerces preliminary estimate, were $21,657,-000,000! compared with $21,174,-000 000 In 1958. But there^ was one exta shopping day in ^December. 1959, causing Commerce to characterize sales, after adjustment for seasonable factors and trading day differences, to be about h per cent below Ng-vember, 1959 and virtually unchanged from Decembei. 1958.

This communist problem may -be larger "Ihan we think It is. It may indeed be that these people do not want and would not know 'how to use the liberty which we prize above* life itself*

However, the whole years .sales, largely due to the boom before the steel strike, were $215.616.000,000, a good $15 billion above 1958. All major cla.ssl-flcatioas showed galas over 1958. and the biggest gain, both in percentages and in dollars, was tliat cl the automoliv* group.

with sales of $39,506,000.000 in 1959 compared with $33.859,000,-000, in 1958.

DEPARTMENT STORE A ITGUKES ^ Federal Reserve figures show^ that department store sale.s In 1959 through November were 7 per cent above a year earlier, and weekly gains In December Indicate that 7 per cent was the gain for the year.

The January-December figures show a few' spectacular rises. While .some - of the.se may be caused by new department stores in areas In qiie.stlon. In general they reflect generally proyjerous conditions.

The biggest gain was in Jacksonville, Fla., where 11-jnonth .sales were 21oper rent above the same 1958 period.,Then theyVere up 19 iier cent in the week ended December 12; 17 per ceiit higher in the week ended December 19i and 44 per cent in the week

ended December 26.

Th Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. and the San Jose. Calif, metropolitan areas showed 11-month gains of 19 per eanV RITNNERS-UP

Other metropolitan areas with spectacular gains were: Augusta, Oa., 16 per cent; Sacramento, Calif., 15 per cent; Detroit, 14 ner cent; Memphla, 13 per cent; Lancaster, Pa., 13 per cent; Los Angeles-Long Beach. 12 per cent; Dallas, 12 per cent; Houston, 12 per cent:^San Diego, 11 per cent; Portland, Ore, 11 per cent, and .suburban Bo.ston, Quincy. Mass., Springfield. Ohio, Indianapolis, and Milwaukee, each 10 per cent.

Only a few areas showed declines. 'They were downtown Baltimore, dowm 7 per cent; Loweli. Mass., down 3 per cent, and Wheeling. W Va,. downtown Poston, central Atlanta, and riowntow-n Kansas City, each down X per cent. . .

In soms cases thass dacllnat Indicate a transfer of shopping from downtown stores to suburban shopping centers.

STATES PAUSE IN LEVYINO NEW SALES TAXES No new state sales taxes have

been Imposed In the last thres years, the Federation of Tag Administrators reporta, ^owever, this 1 leglslatlvs year In moet states.

Furthermore, 10 of the M states with tales taxes have raised them since 1956, the Federation reports.

SMALL washers BEAT MAJOR CONTRACTORS PRICE

Crhlcago police cut the cost ef washing their autos by having .^mall flrm.s do the job. the National institute of Governmental purchasing reports. Previously it ha.^ let a single contract for all washing.

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