PACE FOiniTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Friday, March 11, 1960

Friday, March 11, 1960

Wonder Why?

Good News Is Tribute To Planning

The prospects of Greenvilles being able to finance its proposed sewerage disposal plant without the necessity of a bond issue is good news indeed for citizens of the city.

It is a tribute, too, to members of the local Utilities Commission for their planning over a period of years which has made possible the capital outlay estimated to exceed $1,000,000without requiring a bond issue.

The disposal plant now being planned for Greenville is a type which will cost the city almost a half million dollars less than the one originally considered Even so, officials have given assurance that the plant now planned will be adequate for present and future needs of the city at least over a period of several years. The savings that will be realized by changing to the different type of disposal plant is important to the citizens ef Greenville. It is also important that the change in plans for the plant does not mean that an inferior type operation is being invested in by the citys Utilities Commission.

Over a period of several years members of the Utilities Commission have been planning toward the construction of a sewerage disposal plant which is needed by the city. A sinking fund established several years ago for financing the project now appears to be adequate to, finance the improvement. The sinking fund, which) now approximates a million dollars, was established/when the city utilities sold a portion of its rural lines in the Vanceboro area to Carolina Power and Light Company. Since that time approximately $100,000 has been added annually to the fund by the Commission.

In addition to this sinking fund, the city has been approved for $250,000 in federal funds available to municipalities for this type improvement.

There are times, of course, when the capital im-

Campaign Fever s Running High

By LVNN NISBET

HEADQUARTERS Campaign fever is running high <s around the Sir Walter now. There are state campaign headquarters on the first four floorsand chances are two or three others will open up before the final weeks of the campaign.

Senator Everett Jordan has the Manteo room and several bedrooms on the first floor hall. James M. Poyner, Raleigh attorney and former State senator. has been named manager for Jordan.

John D. Larkins Jr.. candidate for Governor, is based on the rrcond floor ^ the offices formerly by the busi

ness office of the Meyer Hotels and several bedrooms. Clyde S reve, former Guilford legisla or is his state manager.

On the third floor Is Addison Hev.-.eti, candidate for the U.S. Senate. First to open and presently highest in the house, headquarters for Malcolm Sea-well, candidate for Governor, occupy the front corner suite on the fifth floor. Armistead Mau-pin, Raleigh attorney, is direc-'he Seawel campaign.

Terry Sanford, who has been running for Governor longer than anybody, is ensconced on the third floor of the Carolina Hotelthe same hotel but not the same rooms front which Kerr Scott handled his successful campaigns for Governor and U.S Senator. Bert Bennett, Winston-Salem business man, is Sanfords manager.

The fourth Democratic candidate for Governor, S. Beverly Lake, has not opened formal headquarters or announced a manager. It is expected he will utilize his law offices and some additional space In the Capitol Club building.

Candidates for Lieutenant

Governor presently are operating

from headquarters in their home townsC.V. Henkel at

Statesville, Cloyd Philpott at Lexington, and David McConnell at Charlotte. Henkel and Philpott have indicated ix>.ssibillty of setting up working offices In

Raleigh, and have tentative reservation for space at the Sir Walter.

look like cake. Made by Mrs. J.L. Shealey at Wilson, the huge three-tier cake was decorated with 30 red roses with bright green leaves. 18 dogwood blossoms In national color, an American flag and an inscription wishing the Governor a happy birthday. It was his sixty^ second. He was born on March 9. 1898, in Virginia. He is the second North Carolina Governor in modern times bom out of the State. Gregg Cherry was bora in South Carolina.

CAKE That 40 pound birthday cake the bakers association presented to Governor Hodges Wednesday was almost too pretty to eat but it was all edible. It was real cake covered with real icinenone of this paper box stuff dressed up to

DEMOCRATS The weather man has not cooperated with the Democrats this spring. The meeting of the State executive committee which had been scheduled for Thursday of last week was postponed until Match 9 on account of the snow. After a week of fair, although cold, weather snow came again Wednesday morning to further interfere with attendance at the meeting. Old timers could not recall another occasion when a postponed meeting also was blocked by weather. One Democrat reminded his colleagues that the weather bureau at Washington is in the hands of Republicans.

GUESTS The readers of this column will be given a diversified diet for the next few weeks. The od man who has been putting It together is in the hands of the surgeons at Rex Hospital for a week or ten day?. During his absence the space will be fUled with arUcles written by candidates for Governor and other major statewide of--fices.

The plan Is to run one article a day until all candidates, both Democratic and Republican, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and United State Senate have had their say. Each of the candidates have been offered the chance to furnish a guest column and all who have been heard from were happy to do so. This will afford our readers an opportunity to learn first hand in concise form what the candidates are thinking about.

Ed Rankin, former secretary to Governor Hodges and an experienced newspaper man, will assist in tailoring the copy to fit the^ space and style of the column, the text wl not be edited or revised. If Lynn Nls-bets absence is prolonged beyond present expectations, Rankin has promised to round some other writers or provide some of his own excellent copy.

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provement needs of a municipality like Greenville must be financed through bond issues or delayed long after the need for them has become acute In the case of the sewerage disposal plant, howeviBr, it is gratifying to know that the major improvement project can be paid for without increasing its indebetedn >8S, the leas the cost of the project to the residents of the city in the long run.

Continuity Needed In Pan-American Policy

It appears a little ironical that less than a year before he leaves the White House President Eisenhower suddenly assumes the open initiative in building better relations between the United States and its Latin American neighbors.

This new move by the Eisenhower administration is better late than never, but it is unfortunate indeed that it did not come years earlier. The past seven years have brought about important events that have completely changed the international significance of many Latin American countries. And for the most part the United States has given little attention to these changes while it lavished its attention on nations of Europe and Asia.

Now, as his eight years in the White House move into their final months, President Eisenhower belatedly has set about to take a personal hand in building firmer relationships between this country and our neighbors to the South. Something, to be sure, can be accomplished in thesenext few months. But if the President does succeed in building a more positive program for cementing Pan-American relations, there is no assurance the program will be continued after the change of administrations early next year.

We trust the Presidents concern over relationships between the United States and the nations o Central and South America is shared by the leading contenders to succeed him a. president. We trust also that the career people in the Department of State and other government agencies which share the responsibility for shaping our foreign policies are likewise concerned over the attitude the United States displays toward its Western Hemisphere neighbors.

With the Soviet Union already making its influence felt in this hemisphere in Cuba, perhaps with the idea of using that as a base from which to operate, the United States must see to it that no further inroads are made by the communists in dividing the solidarity of the Americas on the side of the free world.

A Word Of Thanks Is Due Public Employes

Snow like that which fell on Pitt County Wednesday always brings inconvenience to all the residents of the area. And were it not for public employes who work diligently during such periods of bad weather, the inconveniences would be considerably greater.

Certainly city employes and those of the state highway department are to be commended for the job they did in opening city streets and highways following the snow.

By yesterday morning most of the streets in Greenville were at least passable, and principal thoroughfares as well as streets in the business district were practically cleared of snow and ice. The sidewalks of the business district that were covered with a sheet of ice and snow Wednesday night were cleared by the time stores opened Thursday morning.

It was no small or easy 'task accomplished by those public employes who were at work opening .streets, highways and sidewalks long before the rest of the citizens ventured out into the snow Thursday morning. Particularly is this true when one considers the fact that this section of the state is ill-equipped to deal with the quantity of .mow that was dumped on the area this w'eek.

Those public employes deserve a word of appreciation for keeping public inconvenience at a minimum during the unusual weather.

^iCeeping Their

By DON SCHLIENZ

When Fancy Holds Sway

There are occasions when fancy holds sway over reality, and one of those times is when the weather outside is cold and snow is on the ground.

For one thing, the cold is supposed to put a sharp edge on a persons vigor and vim and inspire a get-things-done feeling. Maybe soout of doors; but theres more evidence people enjoy a certain amount of indolence (indoors) than that bright, brisk attitude.

Matter of fact, my laziness at such times is something of a hallmark.

Just the other night, while imagining myself snowbound, it

took will-power to go through the motions of picking up scattered pages of a newspaper.

On a night such as Wednesdays, it would have been more fitting to contemplate the dancing glow of a fireplace while ensconced in an easy chair; a hot buttered rum within easy reach hot buttered rums are always associated with a wintry night; the hi-fi softly playing; house lights turned dim and the picture window broadly revealing a snow-covered scene.

Sounds real wild, doesnt It?

Of course, realities of the situation were well removed

fr(Hn actuality.

Other Editors Saying .

; ^ow Much Can He Stand?

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Those two leaders who will soon have to face each otherPresident Elsenhower and Premier a Khrushchev are keeping their hands on the table and their voices down.

It has been an Intensely Interesting study to watch the way these two men have handled themselves since they met last year at Camp David and agreed to meet in May at Paris in a summit conference with Britain and France.

Both have avoided anything which might leave either of them open to the accusation of ruining chances for summit success by word or conduct before the meeting ever started.

Khnishchev practically blackjacked the United States into inviting him to a visit here, after he had demanded the Allies get their troops out of Berlin.

Although the foreign ministers of this country, the Soviet Union, Britain and France' had long meetings last year to try to settle the Berlin issue, Khrushchev never permitted a settlement.

One thing which irked the West was what seemed to be a deadline laid down by Khrushchev for the Allies to get out of Berlin- He later denied setting any deadline, and at Camp David he agreed there should be no fixed limit on the negotiations.

It was only because he did that Elsenhower agreed to meet with him at the summit. The Pre.sl-dent took the position that the United States could not be threatened by Khrushchev into a summit meeting.

Since then, despite what may have .seemed hostile statements by both men. the two actually have carefully avoided saying anything which would wreck the summit meeting before it be

gan.

Every once In a while Khrush-chevr since his visit here, has said nothing which indicated he might be ending his peaceful period.

But the bouncy Soviet, in one way or another, always managed to give bland assurance that he zealously desired the most peaceful attitude by East and West before Paris.

For example: When he returned to the Soviet Union from his Aslan trip last week practically his first words were insistence that no one do or say anything that could disturb the atmosphere before the summit meeting began.

Elsenhower this week gave a similar demonstration of earnestness In wanting the Paris meeting to begin' under the most peaceful conditions possible He killed the idea of defying Soviet objections by flying military airplanes at high altitudes into West Berlin.

Such a flight, no matter how high, would have to be across the territory of the Soviet satellite, Communist East German. And the Soviet Union contends, although the Western powers deny it. that an agreement limits such flivhts to 10,000 feet.

It seems a pretty good bet both Eisenhower and Khrushchev will continue to avoid anything which looks like threat or anger before the summit meeting. There are a couple of good reasons for that;

1. It's possible, although perhaps unlikely, that something good can come out of the Paris meeting.

2. It would be bad propaganda for the United States or the Soviet Unionsince the whole world is hoping for some solutions at the summit-to throw a broken bottle through the Window

(The Henderson Dispatch)

Americans generally admire the spirit of self-sacrifice in which President Elsenhower gives of his strength in the cause of world peace. Some eighteen thousand miles to three continents in December and fourteen thousand miles or more the past two weeks to South America are enough to wear down the strength of even a robust physique. The President Indeed possesses such endurance in marked degree for a man his age. But three serious illnesses in the past several years cannot but have sapped the reserves of this career soldler-states-man.

Newsmen of fewer years than he were fatigued by the pace at which the President moved in the long jumps from one country to another in South America, and welcomed the periods *of rest which interspersed the schedule. They marveled at the Elsenhower speed and the cheery smile that accompanied his every appearance in the capitals and big cities.

Question is as to just how much Ike can stand. And he Is only a little more than half through the program he has cut out for himself. He goes to Paris in May for the summit meeting, which in itself will be filled with tensions and nerve-racking challenges. A few weeks later he is to travel to Russia ior a visit to return the Khrushchev call here last sum-mer.^

Nor is that all. He wants to go to the Par East later In the year. That will round out a tour to nearly every important part of the world where telling

blows for peace might be delivered.

The President is in his last

year in the White House. Only ten months remain. But they will be crowded days and weeks, what with these remaining official trips. Congress <xi his

hands, and a presidential election campaign in progress the latter half of the year.

Eisenhower stepped up his

own chores of duty by taking over direction of foreign policy following the death of Secretary. Dulles last spring. He has seemed to thrive on these increased responsibilities. But they are inevitably sapping his strength.

. It can be speculated as to whether he is justified in this almost superhuman effort these latter days in the hope of making an effective contribution to the peace of mankind. He has

been represented as being anxious to do everything in his power, even at the expense of normal health, to push major war as far away as possible, if not indeed to eliminate it -entirely.

Americana will hope and pray . that he may have the endurance to last through these pressing ordeals. If he Is successful In attaining his objectives, he will earn the gratitude* of not only the people of this country but those In every part of the world. For that he would always be remembered. It would make him one of the greatest of presidents. He Is striving to that end, credit or no credit. If he could achieve world peace, or even largely so. the honor and glory of it would take care of itself. The big question mark now is whether he can stand up under the strain the rest of the way.

Quot e ..

This is an age of horror that may well be worth sticking

around to see if only for the

day when the moving sidewalks go beserk and chew up all

the pedestrians, the customers are wrapped In cellophane and sent home by electronic deli

very, the nightmare dream of a coast-to-coast traffic jam with every road olid with cars becomes a reality, and mankind finally and for all time strangles Itself to extinction with machinery . ... on credit, of course. -- Territorial Enterprise, Virginia City, Nevada.

Rising

And from the How-edltors-get lumps department we cite yesterdays shocker on being shown the preceding day's front page.

A headline read;

SEN. NEUBERGER DIES IN OREGON

The story It capped was about the senators having suffered a cerebral henimorhage and was in grave condiUon. Nothiof about his djring.

A later story on the wire reported the Senators death and it was for this the headline was written.

Somehow the operation was crosssd up when headline and story came together.

Add two more gray haira.

Television producers have an understandable problem in staging purely musical programs; but the bit of nostalgia in The Swingln* Singin Years earlier this week really clicked.

It was an hour-long show that brought back the music and performers of fllteen-to-twcnty years ago, and for those of us who look back with warmth on the musical entertainment of that period it was a treat.

There for all to see and hear again were Woody Herman, Freddy Martin, Ella Mae Morse. Eddy Howard, Louis Jordan. Charley Barnet. Vaughn Monroe and Stan Kenton. Even Bing Crosby was heard. . .and Duke Ellington and Kay Kyser.

Many of these were presented in settings appropriate to the entertainer and the limes: for Instance. Vaughn Monroe was portrayed as playing and singing in a tobacco warehouse In North Carolina.

My enthusiasm for the recent past In the' musical entertainment field may largely be attributed to disappointment with what passes for the current pop crop.

Or, are yesterdays always better?

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Oefense

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

COPYRIGHT. IMO, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. INC,

The official paper of Caetro, "Revolucin. on January 2$, I960, praised Herbert Matthews. Latto American expert of "The New York Times. as a^great North Amerlcao. 1 rise to Herbert Matthews defense. He did not, after all, tell Fidel Castro to behsve like a beasti

Revolucin said:

What Is impressive about Matthews recent act In our defense Is the special circumstance under which It occurred. He certainly did not face tfe bias* ed opinion of a group of foreigners. unable perhaps to understand us and who. in the long run, have no reason to love us other thsn for the satisfaction of their Immediate needs. He confronted with the undeniable truth a deserter who first saw the light of the sun on these Cuban shores and went abroad to turn against us by so many inches of space in the Miami Herald and to brazenly discredit us on the television screen, betraying his country in s shameful alliance with vindictive criminals and unscrupulous businessmen.*

Further, Revolucin said;

While Matthews has had a warm place in our hearts tor some time and while on more than one occasion we have feared that those who monopolize everything in his country, from newspapers to steel, from buying peoples dignity to the right to dispose, every now and then, of millions of lives with which to wage wars to uphold their sovereignty. would embitter him against us and we would lose him, it is with this last gesture of his that our gratitude has grown to grea tproportlons.

The language of this article Is mindful of Pravda and IzvesUa back In the earliest days of the Bolshevik Revolution. It is mindful of the iwaise for John Reed ind Big Bill Haywood. Since those days, the Russian Conununists have forgotten the word. Bolshevik, and they do not heap crumbs of praise upon those aliens who see in them perfections which they know they do not possess. Soon we shall read a "Revolucin article praising Jack Paar u a great philosopher because he "senses the goodness of ths Cuban soul-

The Cuban newspaper says: . .To such factions (in the United States) Is due the 111 will which hits North Americans st every point In the world where one takes their dollars without giving ones heart in exchange.

"Par be It from us to rise up against them. It Is with such deceived people that we shake hands as with all peoples, regardless of how much those who distort reality try to make enemies of us.

"It is. moreover, such people that we greet every day in the form of thousands of white and black. Catholic and Presbyterian tourists who. . . and like Herbert Matthews, do more for the solidarity of all men than all the millions l:\>m all mutual-ald programs and from all inter-American banks.

What the 'Castrites are doing obviously is to irritate the American people and the Congress to such a pitch that we shall, in anger, blow them into the Caribbean. When the time comes, we shall cut off the sugar quou and the sugar subsidy, for obviously it makes no sense to assist such a country. If Castro finds his country enslaved by our generosity, he has the option of not accenting either the enslavement or the generosity.

As for the extraordinary praise for Herbert Matthews of "The New York Times, this is unfortunate for Matthews because it raises a question which Senator Fulbright ought immediately to investigate. Why was Herbert Matthews called io by the State Department to brief Earl E. T. Smith on Cuba when Smith was appointed to be our Ambassador to that country? As things have turned out. was Matthews judgment of the Castro revolution correct from the standpoint of the United States? Does not this official article Rive the impression that MaU thews attitude was and is par-(Continued on page five)

S. In Another Tariff Mess

By ELMER ROES.SNER The United States Is in another one of its recurring tariff messes.

There is a flood of textiles from abroad. They are coming into American markets at less than the cost of producing them here.

W. Ray Bell, president of the Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York, said that the amount of apparel imports had risen from $4.000.000 in 19.>4 to $71.000.000 last year A large part comes from Japan. Other large suppliers are Indie. Hong Kong, Pakistan, Formosa and Spain.

Much of it is made of American cotton. Foreign mills can buy American cotton up to 8 cents a pound cheaper than American mills. Thats because the U.S. pays 8 cents a pound subsidy on cotton sold abroad. PENNY LABOR A foreign mill can buy American cotion. pay for shipping it across the Pacific or the Atlantic or farther, have It woven into cloth, .sewn into car-mcuts. pay for shipping it back

across the ocean, and still undersell American manufacturers.

Inexpensive labor, even more than the subsidized price. Is the reason.

Labor in all those countries Is a tiny fraction of what American labor costs. In most of them, men and women would eagerly work for a day for what the American worker gets an houi. In some areas, a foreign worker would gladly work for two or three days for the American hourly minimum, now $1.

This minimum seems certain to be increased by legislative action this year. The Republican Administration appears willing to recommend a minimum of $1.10 an hour. Democrats running for the Presidencywhich seems to Include all of them favor I $1 2.5 minimum.

MANY GET MORE But In the textile trades, above-nunlmum wages usually prevail. In the tightly organized parts of the North, two and three times the minimum Ls common, and even In unorganized areas In Me South betfrr-than-mlni mum wa'^cs prevail

The textile industry proposes an 8-cent-a-pound levy on all Imported cottons. It Is asking the Tariff Commission for that protection. That 8 cents would only offset the government subsidy, it is argued. The Industry with modern methods, can offset cheap labor and round-trip shipping costs, it says.

At first blush, that seems neat and logical. But the solution may run into trouble.

For instance, Japanese representatives say that Japan might buy less American cotton, seeking it from other sources. Or Japan might switch from cotton to rayon and other, synthetics, which It may buy from other nations, possibly China and Russia.

Or it may simply buy less U.S. raw materials of all kinds.

Other cotton-weaving nations might take similar steps.

Its certain the Communist nations are watching the situation closely and are prepared to step in, either supplying cheaper fibers to these nations or buying their product at a loss If necessary to embarrass the

U.S.

So Is the U.S. State Department watching the situation. It wants to keep these nations economically strong, whether the U.S. must subsidize their importers. subsidize American mills or subsidize the deep blue sky.

As always, there is no easy answer to these tariff problems. The best we can do Is to muddle through.

WHERE DO YOU EAT ON THE HOG?

Many readers (that la, two) have asked an explanation of the cliche recently used here, "eat high on the hog, as a aynonym for being prosperous.

Easy. The higher on the hog, the more choice are the meat cuts. At the bottom are pig's feet and plga knuckles, both cheap. Xhen cornea aow belly or salt pork; resting on that are liver and other organs, often used in sausages sold to poorer classes in the South. A little higher are bacon and hams and, highest of all are the tender^ loins or. If smoked. Canadian bacor