Wednesday, March 30, 1960

Opportunity To Stress Area Value

The meeting Thursday in Goldsboro of represen- or another have not mounted any significant effort to-tatives front some o5 Eastern Carolina Counties to dis- ward economic development. In must cases of this sort, cuss industrial development possibilities and problems it is due to the fact tnat the county or community is will emphasize again the need for area-wide coopera- too small or too poor to provide adequate funds with tion as this section of the state seeks to enhance its eco- which to carry out a satisfactory program. The fact nomic position. that a community or county does not have an active

In the increasingly competitive proposition of at- group seeking industrial development may not be in-tracting new industries, areas such as Eastern North dicative of the lack of desire on the part of the people' Carolina must be promoted as a whole as well as by for further development.

individual communities if greatest possible results are If some program of area cooperation toward into be realized. dustrial development could result from the Goldsboro

The fact that an unusually large rep^Bsentation meeting, it could be of tremendous benefit particular-from the 35 counties is expected for the meetli^ indi- ly to the smaller counties of the area. If a greater de-cates a growing interest in this section of the sba^e in fierce of cooperation in the promotion of the area as a industrial development. It reflects the effort on whole could be initiated at the meeting, it would be of part of an increasing number of communities and importance to all of Eastern North Carolina.

We do not propose that the counties and the communities not continue to compete against each other for industrial prospects interested in locating in the area. Such competition is good, and without it Eastern Carolina would not have attracted the industries it has. At the same time there appears a place in the overall development effort of the area for a phase of operations directed at calling attention to Eastern North Carolina as a whole.

In the long run, industry locating in any part of Eastern North Carolina directly or indirectly benefits e.very community and every county in the area. Anything that tends to boost the economy of one county tends to boost the economy of the area as a whole.

The time has come, we believe, to vigorously present Eastern North Caiolina as a large area with a wealth of natural advantages, sufficient labor resources and its many other attributes that make it ideal for industrial locations. To some extent this is being done through the effort of individual counties and communities. The presentation might be imnroved. however, through a greater cooperative effort of all the communities and counties of the area.

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counties to boost their economy through developing local industries as well as attracting those from other areas.

While these factors are true, there remain in this broad agricultural region of Eastern Carolina a number of communities and counties which for one reason

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By ALMON BARBOUR.

Information Officer

N. C. Department of Labor

UNDERRATEDNorth Carolinas near-bottom ranking in various national comparisons of per capita Income, factory wages. and other indices of welfare and services ace hrough to public attention so often that equally Important facts of long-term social change are sometimes times underrated or overlooked entirely.

Given the well-known facts of Tar Heel geography, climate, resources, industrial structure, population and birth rate it has been astutely pointed out that we have to run fast In order to stand still

That we should give ourselves due credit for having run with a full bead of steam during the past decade is evident from recent statistics setting forth various phases of our growth. In total pupulation, for example, we gained 453.537 people between the 1950 Census and July 1. 1959, according to estimates from the State Board of Healths Bureau of Vital Statistics. In factory employment, to cite another item of growth, we moved up from 12th place among the states In 1947 to llth place in 1958, according to the . S. Department of Commerce, with only ten very highly industrialized or very large states ahead of us in this category.

EMPLOYMENT - With our continuing high birth rate and nearly half a million more mouths to be fed than we had nine yeara ago. our predicament might evoke Malthusian spectres of famine were it not for the substantial advances of industry and employment oppor-tunltist which have gone side by aidsi^ with this population

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While dur total population has increased by a little more than one-tenth since the 1950 Census, total non-farm employment In the State has expanded by a third. In 1949 we had 852.200 people employed in all types of nonagrlcultural Jobs. In 1959, according to recent estimates figured on a new benchmark basis by the Labor Department's Division of Statistics. North Carolina boasted a non-farm labor force of 1,132.900. The ten-year gain amounted to 280,700 more workers employed, OT a 33 per cent increase in available Jobs.

It should be noted that this net employment increase is equal to 62 per cent of our total population increase of 453.-537 during roughly the same period. The population gain, of course, consists entirely of persons now no more than 10 years of age. whUe all of the Job gains are for people of working age.

So when viewed in the context of employment opportunity, our running has actually done a bit more than make us stand sUU during--the past ten years. The States'' general economic

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age of 28,000 new Jobs each year aince 1949. National recessions have caused temporary setbacks, as happened in 1957-58. but the long-term trend has continued on the upgrade.

WAGESBetter than a third of these new jobs are in Tar Heel manufacturing industries, where employment has grown from 887.100 In 1949 to 494,100 In 1959 an average of 10,700 new factory Jobs each year for the past ten years and a total net gain of 107.000 factory Jobs during the 1949-59 decade.

By comparison with national-average factory wage levels, the pay here in most instances is relatively low; but when compared with either our low per capita Income or with the limited income possibilities available to a farm population which greatly exceeds our farm employment potential, factory wages averaging around $60 a week look good. A factory worker earning $60 a week actually receives more than twice the States most recent per capita income figure of $1,384. It is an undeniable fact that more people employed in industryy even at wages which are no more than more people employed in industry, even at wages which are no more than two-thirds as high as the national average, will help to lift our per capita income and our whole level of living.

BASICIt is for the foregoing reasons that continuing further industrialisation, together with more mechanized and diversified farming, is basic to any realistic hopes and plans for the States social and economic future. As long as we have a high birth rate, more and more industrial enteirrlses of almost any stable and reliable kind to be had are esaential to provide employment and livelihood for an ever^xpanding population and to keep our per capita income from plummeting to an even lower position than 46th among the 50 states. In this respect. as in others such as our constant need for expanded educational facilities, we do indeed have to run fast in order to stand still.

It is also for these reasons that promotion of new industry has become an indispensable function of State government and one of first-rank importance to the future of the State. Our need is so great and so continuing that the most any administration can possibly do is still hardly enough, when measured against the magnitude, of the need.

DIRECTORYPublication by the Labor Department this spring of the 1960 edition of the North CaroUna Directory of Manufacturing Firms points up the States industrial growth of recent years. The new book, which is expected to be available for distribution to purchasers sometime in April, contains some 5,400 individual plant listings about 800 more than were listed in the 1956 edition. It was developed by the Labor Department in cooperation (Continued on Page 7)

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Challenged To Take Up

Cudgels Against Hoffa The Evidence Of Spring

Well. Spring has sprung.

JALOPY. . .It was Saturday that we were Out on the Pitt County highways, and what was that looming in the distance. . . wobbling back and forth, swerving from one side of the lane to

the other. None other than one of those ageless Jalopies, name unknown. Except that there was some writing with a botUe of liquid unpourlng between letters on the back of the vehicle.

All of S sudden, horror on

horrors, the door of the Jalopy opened and out Into the air stepped one teenage boy. We were scared, no doubt about it. Especially since the one stepping out was' oa the driver's side. Meanwhile, the companion was looking back, evidently to see if the antics were observed. We can assure you that they were. We slowed down and kept a good distance behind to avoid the we were sure

Will the courts and executive agencies of the federal government take up the challenge of the Senate Rackets Committee to see to it that James R. Hoffa is dealt with forcefully for his alleged racketeering in the huge Teamsters Union?

The committee which has spent three years investigating Hoffa and the Teamsters declared that rn t m

Hoffa should be ousted and that the courts and the C j| ^pr SnVinrf

executive branches of the federal government should X-jv^iLWiO iliy ...

take steps against him. It also declared that members p) tn t t i calamity that

of the Teamsters Union should also ultimately reject jQC.fClIlQ UOCtOr iiUITl D6I develop. , , . ., the leadership Hoffa has offered. _T....... .

During these years in which these charges have been building up, however, Hoffa has held control of one of the largest labor unions of the nation. He has escaped punishment by the federal government for racketeering and corruptness charges repeated leveled at him by the Senate's committee.

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It will be a sad commentary indeed on the condi- society. This has come as the tion of things in this country if a man so corrupt as aitermath of the big battle in Hoffa is alledged to be escapes punishment and con- ^ director

tinues to retain control of a large and powerful organization like the Teamsters.

(Hertford County Herald) The Slate Reorganization Commission should move slowly in working out a new command system for the State Museum of Art.

By gubernatorial fiat, the commission is supposed to find

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - There are Just two coy ones left; Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, the only obvious would-be presidential aspirants who havent, yet publicly proclaimed their ambitions.

Stevsnson, two-time loser In the presidential race, isnt campaigning for the nomination. He is playing the reluctant dragon again, as he did In 1952, when the convention tapped him over his protests.

Johnson, the tall Texan who is captain of the Senate Democrats, says he doesnt expect to be nominated and hasnt uked a single person to vote for him. Its his friends who are busy.

Stevenson has been going around South America saying such things as I have taken a permanent vacation from politics and I do not intend to seek the nomination but at the same time not foreclosing on the main chance if it comes.

Asked in Brasil a week ago if he would accept a draft, he ducked with this one: I will have to cross that bridge when I come to it. He has pretty good reason to be modest about his ambitions this year.

In 1960 he is pretty much in the background and stands an excellent chance of being passed over by the convention, which may figure that if he couldnt make it in two tries, why risk another?

Vice President Richard M. Nixon, of course, doesnt have to announce his hopes for the Republican nomination since nobody else is in sight for it.

Among the Democratic sena

tors who are now openly seeking their partys bid. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota made it official last Dec. 30. followed quickly by John P. Kennedy of Massachusetts on Jan. 2.

Because they were in early, they had to start early looking for support. This meant up-and-down treks through state after state, endless speeches, and the exhausting torment of entering state primaries.

It wasnt until March 24 that Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri finally got around to saying publicly hed like the Democratic nomination, too, and is working to get it.

But hell operate on a much more restrained basis than Kennedy and Humphrey. He said he wont go into state primaries. As of now Symingtons best hope seems to be getting the nomination through a compromise if the convention deadlocks on other candidates. <

Johnson has a good excuse for not getting out and campaigning for the nomination. As Senate leader, he has to stick to his job for more reasons than one.

He has a responsibility to be there. And if he hopes to get the nomination it will depend to a large degree on the kind of legislative record the 'Senate turns in this year under this leadership.

Johnson is a middle-of-the-roader who gets a lot done in Congress.

He can afford to wait, so long as he has friends working for him. He is such a careful operator he is unlikely to make any move until he has his ten-pins lined up for what he hopes will be a strike.

for the musQum.

Most of the press has been critical of Dr. Robert Lee Humber for in effect, forcing the firing of acting director James BjTnes The governor, who was one of those outvoted in the Society, says this that the Art Society is not fit 10 run the museum ai^ he wants the art facility tuilftd over to some sort of more formal command organization.

But let us back up. The action of the society was formally correct. It acted within its powers in the matter of Mr. Bjrrnes. Mr, Humber is head of the Society. He did not want Byrnes. He gathered the votes and was able to get rid of Byrnes, This was all done within the rules and regulations of the Society.

Certainly the governor understands how this works. He knows that an executive must have people he believes fit working under him.

Further, the governor knows that an executive must receive the backing of his underlings, or he cannot do his Job. Mr. Humber was acting correctly in his executive capacity. The question of whether Byrnes is. in actual fact, fit or not Is not the point. The matter was brought to a head and it either had to be Byrnes or Humber who would have to do. Quite properly, within the framework of the museums command system. it was the underling who went, not Mr. Humber.

This brings the question back to whether Mr. Humber or some new outfit is fit to run the museum.

We will stick with Dr. Humber. He has been a guiding and

moving force in getting this unique facility for North Carolina. He still spends most of his time with it. Further, he knows as much, if not more, than anydne In the State about art matters. Certainly no one else in the state has the standing and the experience which he brings to the task.

Replacement of him by some new governmental commission is not warranted at this stage of the museums history. It is to be hoped that, sometime in the future, a dedicated and able band of people will be raised up^ to equal Mr. Humber In his ability and his zeal.

But that group is not around yet. The governor doesnt have it. Neither does State Treasurer Edwin OiU, who first challenge Humbers leadership.

Until good new leadership is raised up, the museums fortunes are best left to the hands of Dr. Humber. The museum is a long way from being accepted and loved by the gentlemen of the General Assembly or by the political leadership of the state. Charles Craven was speaking more truth than poetry when he wrote the other day that some legislator might try to sell off museum pictures to balance the state budget. That is. of course, an exaggeration. But it is not exaggeration to say that without Dr. Humber the museum would be pushed into the backwaters of concern by the political leadership. This Is natural There is no great public pressure brought to bear anywhere in the governmental system in behalf of the museum. Dr. Humber and a hand full of others do this pushing.

To cut these people off from their concern would be a waste of leadership and a waste of ability.

It is strange that there has not been a public outcry about the actions of the governor in this regard.

We hear a great deal of criticism about the eveils of governmental bureaucracy. Certainly the creation of a run-of-the-mill governmental commis-

arms and the leg. We sighed with relief, the Jalopy passed a truck and another car. then a long arm appeared as if to make some kind, on two whMl^ H thats what you could can and

started down a dirt road, still careening back and forth and wobbling all over thg place Wow. The nerve^iTfSah. Is this Spring fever?

THEN YESTERDAY was such a nice warm day we went out for some local sightseeing. The first point of interest was a motor boat presumably taking would-be fishermen down the Tar to a good place to fish.

Then we observed two sea gulls landing on a local pond, which is getting pretty routine around here. Sea gulls have lost their appeal because theyre getting so common* ,

Next was a whole pen full of beagle puppies, with mothers, daddies, brother, sisters, uncles and aunts and maybe some more of them. They were all out beagling for us, heralding the presence of Spring herself.

BUT THE REAL SIGN OP SPRING. . .is -not the convertibles. . .anyone can put a.top down anytime of the year and will; not the boats: not the

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sion to run a facility that needs dedication and imaginative attention would be a step down the bureaucratic road which is not in the best interests of the state or its people.

It is hard enough to find people willing to give themselves to worthwhile objects. It would be silly and dangerous to slap down someone who has been willing to give this time to such a worthwhile thing as the art museum, simply because this person is doing his Job as he sees it and within the framework of the command system which prevails.

The promise of the futurt that Is inherent in the museum should not suffer in a political power maneuver.R.P., Jr.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

COPYRIGHT. 1960, KING features YNDICATE, INC.

The Ford Foundation, which is perpetuating the memory of an outstandingly patriotic American by spending his money on education, cultural acUvlties and such matters, has. on the rteommendatiOD of the Metropolitan Opera, commi&sioned Mare Blitzstein to prepare both a libretto and a score on the Sacco-Vaozetti Case. In fact, the working title of the piece ia Sacco and Vanzettl,

One would imagine that if the F(x*d Foundation and the Metropolitan Opera desired an opera on an historic episode in American life, they might have done something on the conspiracy of Aaron Burr or the life of John Brown or the heroism of Robert E. Lee or doxens of subjects that could touch the heartstrings of an American. Instead they seek to have a Rigoletio in a shoe factory worker and a iish peddler who were found fuUty In a payroll holdup and executed in 1927 after due process of the law. Why not do an opera on the life of A1 Capone or Gyp the Blood or Lefty Louie to say nothing of Jesse James? Perhaps Gamble Benedict would be interesting.

Now. let us see who Is the man selected for this master-work. March Blitzstein has been a member of a number of Communist fronts cited by the Attorney General. There are somo of them:

League of American writers. Schappes Defense Committee. American Council on Soviet Relations. National Council of American - Soviet Friendship. Jefferson School of Social Sd-ence. Peoples Radio Foundation. American Committee (or Protection of Foreign Bom. Joint Anti Fascist Refugee Committee, and the Committee for the Negro in the Arts.

In March 1941, Marc BUts-steln signed a statement urging the President and Congress to defend the rights of the Communist Party; he supported in 1946, the C(Mnmunist May Day Parade.

In 1940 and 1941. BUtzsteln was Identified as closely associated with the Communist Party and that despite the Hltler-Stalln Alliance. He was an outstanding intellectual loyal to the Communist Party and collecUnc funds for it and its fronts. In 1954, Owen Anderson, a selfadmitted Communist Party member, tesHfiei^..tiwt she^ad-known Blitzstein as a CoSttno-nist Party member in New York, from the Fall of 1946 until

^BlitzsteinTSRS^ti^r tho>

House Committee on Un-American ActivUiM on May 8. 19S8. He admitted that be bad' been a member of the Communist Party from approxiinately the Spring of 1938 to late 1949. He admiUod activity in various Communist Party fronts although he denied knowing specifically of their Communist Party connections. Blitzstein said that he dropped out of the Communist Party because be disagreed with many Communist Party policies and particularly with attempts to Interfere with his individual freedom of thought. However, he declined to be communicative concerning specific activities of the treasonable Party of which ha had long been a member.

March Blitzetein has written a number of operas. The Cradle Will Rock, !io For an Answer. Regina based on Lillian Heilmans Little Foxes. and he translated and adapted Brechts libretto of Kurt Weills Three Penny Opera. During World War II. Blitzstein wrote music for propaganda films and his own Airborne Symphony.

This is the story of the effort of the Ford Foundation and the Metrop<^tan Opera to encourage opera in the United States, And this great effort to produce a national opera, an Inspiration for the country is to be about a pair of anarchists, written by one who at a telling period in the history of his country was a Communist which means that he had submitted to the discipline of the Kremlin a government which since 1917 was an enemy of his country.

I am not, in this article crlt-

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Revolutionizing Meat Industry

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

CREEDS AND CHURCHES

What creed do you accept? What church do you belong to? Do you like high ritual or low ritual or no ritual at all?

These are all Important questions. but they are not basic. Personally I subscribe, and I believe honestly, to a number of expressions of Christian faith known as creeds. Some express one aspect of the faith superbly, whereas another creedal form express another aspect of the faith in like superb fashion, I belong to a branch of the church which satisfies me. but I can see its fallings and its inadequacies also, and I see many

things In other branches of the Christian church which I regard with the highest admiraion-But after all Is said and done. I am willing to settle religiously for three words: God Is love. If that is true->and I believe it is then everything else Is so secondary that I can put It into a pigeon-hole and forget about it at least not worry about It. Along with hundreds of millions of other people In the world, I believe that the love of God was shown forth In its fullness when He sent Jesus Christ into the world. And I believe the gospel of Christ and give It my allegiance because it is the message which came .out of that divine act of love. '

By ELMER ROESSNER

Fear of cholesterol and a new crop of housewivesIs revolutionizing the meat business in the United States.

There Is no absolute proof yet, but theres some weighty evidence that saturated fats cause deposits of cholesterol In the human arteries and that those deposits lead to heart attacks. Reports to thla effect in newspapers and magazines, and spread by word of mouth by doctors, has done more to disrupt pe meat industry than the weed-klller scare did to the cranberry trade la.st fall. Meat fats are saturated.

Fear of cholesterol has had these effects:

1. Tljeres a sharp consumer insistence on leaner porkso aharp that growers uid packers are working desperately to produce ne. leaner strains of pigs. Overproductlin of pork, colld-Ing with' consumer resistance, has kept price.s moderate-HIGHER VEAL

2. The fact that veal has very little fat has increased demand.

Thin lean steaks have soared far, about $1 a pound, and are near $2 a pound in some markets. The only cheap veal the boneswhich contain some fat.

3. A somewhat firmer demand for lamb, which is fairly lean, and from which fat readily can be trimmed.

4. A greater demand for broilers, which has almost kept up with the fantastic overproduction of poultry. Broilers are lean and the fat is easily excised.

5. A complete reversal in beef choices50 great that the government is being forced to reconsider revision of standards that in practice go back hundreds of years.

The traditionally choice beef is the marblelzed beef: that is, meat In which veins of fat nin through the red meat like color in marble. Prize beefthe kind that sells at 10 to 20 times ordinary prices at livestock shows Is heavily marblelzed and layered with the whitest fat, TRADITIONAL

The. famous Joints of the English trenchermen were high

ly marblelzed; fat-velncd meat has been the choice of famous restaurants for centuries. Gourmets have agreed that the fat beef is tender and more flavor-some. Steers'^ raised for this trade are carefully brought up. They are parked In feed lots, with little room to exercise and plenty of corn and vitamins to eat.

The highest grades of government-graded beef U.S. Prime and U.S. choicehave been largely Judged by their fat.

However, another group prefers the redder, leaner meat. Thats the young housewives who have never learned that fatter beef is tenderer. We have all seen them in supermarkets, fighting over the redder, tougher cuts.

A cow right off the grassy prairieor a buffalo, for that matterproduces the reddest (and toughest) steaks. And the girls, influenced by husbands' demands for red meat, are buying these rather savage cuts while their mothers arq; buying

the same thing because of the cholesterol scare.

Soon. the packers and the cattlemen will be working to develop new strains of cattle with less fat and redder flesh. Meanwhile, the government wlU wrestle with the question of whether the gourmets and tha experts, or Susie Kilroy, the great young American housewife, shall decide what Is prime beef.

BITS AND TIDBITS OF BUSINESS NEWS

Traffic Safety magazine recalls the days when gasoline was sold at grocery stores in daytime and drugstores at night, and when the throttle was the speeder and the carburetor the mixing valve . . Cornell University specialists predict labels of the future will give flavor quotients, as well as weight and ingredients. . .Because his bass viol couldnt be squeezed into buses, a Los Angeles musician has been Allowed tax deductions for auto costs for getting it to engag* meolA.