PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Monday, April 18, 1960

Monday, April 18, 1960

We Have A Kind Of State Lottery

Six Weeks To Consider Candidates

With the filing period for candidates for the May Democratic primary having closed, voters of Pitt Pitt County, like others throughout the state, now have six weeks in which to study the candidates before election day.

We urge the people of this county to study carefully the full slate of candidates for the various county, state and federal offices who will be subject to the Maj^ 28 primary. Since nomination in a Democratic primary in most sections of North Carolina is tantamount to election, it is important that the voters take care in electing the partys nominees in the May voting.

The right to vote is one of the cherished fundamentals of a democratic government. For the individual citizen, this right also carries with it the obligation to vote for the be.st qualified man for each of the offices. and to select the candidate who will best meet the needs of the people, the county, the state and the nation in the time in which he will serve in. office.

In Pitt this year there will be only two county-wide races for public office. One will be for" Pitt Countys seat in the State Senate for which Robert Lee Humber of Greenville is seeking re-election and is opposed by Robert D. Wheeler of Grifton.

The other race is for the District III seat on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners now held by

Politicos Heac,

Woodrow W. Woofen of Falkland. Wooten announced sometime ago he would not seek re-election and two candidates, Stancill Dilda and Bruce Strickland are running for the office.

In the race for representative for the 14-county First Congressional District, Congressman Herbert C. Bonner of Washington is seeking re-election to his eleventh consecutive term in office. Also running for the post is Walter B. Jones who has represented Pitt County in the North Carolina House of Representatives for the past three sessions.

For the office of governor of North Carolina four candidates are seeking the nomination: Terry Sanford, Malcolm Sea well, John Larkins and I. Beverly Lake. The race for lieutenant governor includes C. V. Henkle of Statesville, Cloyd Philpdtt of Lexington and David McConell of Charlotte.

The outcome of the primary will also determine whether Sen. B. Everette Jordan retains the seat in the Senate he now holds, or whether it will be filled by Speaker of the House Addison Hewlett of Wilmington.

Each of the officeslocal, state and national is important. It is the responsibility of each voter to carefully evaluate the candidates for each position before he goes to the polls in May. We trust the people of Pitt will give careful consideration to the positions and to the candidates between now and the primary.

Two Political Ghosts

Into Busy Hours Just Might show Up

By LYNN NISBET

SHORT ROWS - The primary campaign is getting in the short rows. From the time this is read until the polls open on May 28 there remain only 34 working days in which candidates may corral votes. Since they will be working nights and Sundays, that can run into the equivalent of more than 800 hoursand there will not be many idle periods.

The books closed more than a month ago for filing notice of candidacy for State and district oMices. And the truth is that alter this month of certainty as te participants, and with Just a few short weeks remaining, the situation is not much clearer than it was when the campaigning officially began. The politically-minded who have been disappointed at lack of interest are hoping that since the county and local lists, including candidacies for the General Assembly, have closed business may pick up. Local candidates will be free to take sides among the majors. And, what is more important, the situation Li clearer as to where the big fellows can spend money to best advantage.

Old hands at the game find it difficult to evaluate the situation In the governors race. The others are fairly simple. Senator Everett Jordan is accorded almost certain nomination for re-election. Addison Hewlett has developed strength which is surprising to mwiy observers, but few politicians expect the other candidates. Gregory and McIntosh. to poll enough votes to iTliike a run-off necessary. There Is definite probability of a second primary between C V. Henkel and Cloyd Philpott for Lieutenant governor, with David McConnell running third. Prediction as to which of the two will be high man depends upon the affiliation of the fellow making the guess.

ENIGMA Beveraly Lake poses the big question mark in the governors contest, as he has since he was first mentioned as a likely candidate. Apparently he has less money and a less coherent organization than any of the others. He is depending largely upon a spontaneous turn out of independent silent voters. That type of support is impossible to pinpoint or evaluate. It is the kind of thing that causes practical politicans to pull their hair and bite tieir finger naiLs.

Lake is playing a skillful game. He is in the advantageous position of being the only candidate who wa.s drafted. After tentatively withdrawing for lack of money, he left the door cracked and a group of volunteers raised enough money to justify his reentering at their insistence. The backbone of his open support consists of hundreds of relatively young lawyers whom he taught at Wake Forest, who are working with evangelistic fervor, fn his speeches he is soft pedaling the segregation question. recognized a.s the main issue in his program, leaving

that to his followers. His real strength Ls the hidden force of that unorganized silent vote.

A veteran campaigner attached to another camp quipped the other day that the thing Im afraid of is the menace I cant see*

SANFORD Terry Sanford, who has been actively running for three years, and had a fairly efficient statewide organization months before he formally announced, is accorded leading position by most observers. There are signs that he is not as far in front, relatively, as he was a few weeks ago. Lake is eating more into his ranks than into other candidates support.

Oldtimers, who play by traditional rules, see both strength and weakness in the diversified segments of the Sanford supporters: They find it difficult to reconcile multi-millionaire conservatives like Charlie Cannon and Edwin Jones sitting around the council table with leaders in the old Kerr Scott group and organized labor. The test is yet to come as to whether that constitutes a cohesive working organization. It has held all right up to now.

LARKINS John Larkins, who also ha been running a long time and first to formally announce, is almost as much as enigma as Lake. It was understood from the outset that Larkins was relying heavily on local Democratic party organizations, with which he had worked closely as state chairman and national committeeman. Some of these local groups have their hands full with home county affairs, and others have lost prestige. Among them is a hard core of loyal Larkins supporters, who have proven process in other elections, and who operate with skill which followers of the of the others cannot match.

SEAWELL Malcolm Sea-well is least well known personally of the gubernatorial candidates. His family has long been prominent in state affairs, and he had made a reputation a.s superior court solicitor and judge. He moved into the statewide field just two years ago when he was appointed attorney general. Although both he and the Governor vigorously protest the label of Hodges man he is regarded as most acceptable of the candidates to the present administration. He is regarded as the champion of government by law rather than by men, and of the necessity for accepting court interpretations of the constitution. For that reason he has been more cautious in making promises about what he would do if elected, insisting rather that it is the function of the legislature to make laws and establish policy, and of the coimts to interpret them, while the executive must administer them within these limits.

Nobody expects Si nomination in the first primary. Who will be in the run-off will depend upon developments during the next six weeks.

...........^==gH3r

The Dsuly Reflector

INCORPORATED

Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Established 1882 DAVID JULIAN WHICHARD, Publisher

Entered at Post Office. Greenvtlle, N C. as second class nuui matter.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Week 30c

(BY MAIL, Payable in Advance)

Three Months ................................................ $ 3.50

Six Months .......;..................... $ 0.50

One Year ........... $11.50

MFMBFR ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusive,y entitled to use for ptiblleatlon all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local newi* published herein All rights of^publication of special dispatches here-are alao reserved

N.ATIO.NAL ADVERTISING REPRFSENTATIVE8

Thomas F Clark Co Inc New york, Chicago, Atlanta Member Audit Bureau of Circulation

All advertising copy must be received at least one day before publication date.

With increasing consistency the names of Nelson Rockefeller and Adlai Stevenson are being injected into speculation on the major party presidential nominations that will be made this summer.

A few months ago both these formidable politicians were considered out of the running for the top nominations of their respective parties. Gov. Rockefeller of New York said he was not a candidate for the nomination, but now the astute political observers say he did not mean he wouldnt accept the honor, and probably would not try to block a backstage maneuver in his behalf.

A few months ago also Adlai Stevenson Was considered out of the Democratic nomination picture because he had twice received the nomination and twice he had been defeated. Most of his time in the past four years has been spent in foreign travel, which has left him little time to be in the new's spotlight in this country.

As convention time draws closer, it appears that Vice President Nixon still must be concerned about an effort to nominate Rockefeller. And while Sens. Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnston and Symington fight it out among themselves for convention support, they continue to be haunted by the shadow of Stevenson. Gradually moving from the background into the whirlwind of political activity, Stevenson may also be picking up considerable second-choice support in case something happens to deadlock the Democratic convention.

Both Stevenson and Rockefeller are at the moment dark horses in the presidential nomination sweepstakes. But neither is nearly as much in the background as w'as the ca,se a few months ago. While they may not consider themselves front-running contenders for nominations, it is evident that a good many other people around the country are coming more and more to that view^point.

National political conventions usually bring surprises as they develop, and it is not entirely unlikely that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Adlai Stevenson will figure in the surprises that come out of the 1960 conventions.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Where The Money Talks

COPYRIGHT, 1960, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

The box office continues to speak volubly in the motion picture business, which is the manufacture of pictures for sale as an amusement. Its objective is large incomes for those who engage in the business and for the companies' that undertake these manufactures and the banks that underwrite them.

Actors, producers directors, writers take refuge in the word. Art, whenever they are caught in delicto. The theory Ls that the word. Art, Is an alibi for licen

tiousness, wickedness, drunkenness, and even Communism. But there is no particular Art Involved in this business, except that rarely such a producer as D. W. Griffith or Cecil B. de Mille rises above the box office and becomes a poet in his own right. Few Hollywood writers have any right to call their synthetic copy, written and rewritten, worked over by many hands, finally kneaded into the dough of productivity by such a master of the business as the late Louis B. Mayer, Art.

Frank Sinatra went into the

Other Editors Saying... The Tell-Tale Heart

r

1

10

::ul View

By RALPH ROBEY

Eight weeks ago this column discussed the amazing and sudden shift of opinion on the business outlook. The shift w^as from almost unanimous optimism to something close to pessimism for 1960. There now has been another significant change. This time it is back to optimism.

A perfect example of this latest change was provided at a dinner of business men and business economLsts a few days ago. At the dinner there were 26 business men and six economists who expressed their views on the current situation and outlook. Every single one of them was optimistic for the immediate future, and between them they represented pretty well every industry in the nation.

What has caused such an upward trend in their views in a few weeks? Probably the correct answer is a hundred or a thousand things. But the following unquestionably have been important.

. Realization that the sharp stock market decline was not based upon anything definite in the business trendthat the decline was because the market had become too high and must have an adjustment. Along with tliLs goes the belief that we may well have seen the low of the market for this year.

. Conviction that the wave of pessimism of two and three months ago was unwarranted that it was based upon temporary factors and disappointment over the failure of busine.ss to do as well as had been forecast.

. Certainly that tliLs Congress is not going to be as bad as had been fearedthat some un-w'ise biUs may be passed and become law, but none of these will be of a character which will force the business trend down, or throw us into an im-media,te recession.

. Evidence that as the weather is getting better business Ls picking up. This is especially evident In retail sales, but Ls also is true In almost every line, even though wc do not yet have much national data which show it.

. Belief tht a real and ser

ious effort will be made thLs fall to elect conservatives to the Congressconservatives of both parties and that theres a chance of sufficient success to assure that the next Congress will not be predominantly uniop-controlled.

. recognition that it Ls better to have merely good business than a boomthat a 6.1 or 6.2 million automobile year Ls far from a depression level, and the same is true of 1.2 million private housing starts.

. Certainly that the worst of the so-called tight money is overthat while interest rates probably will rise again, they will not exceed the previous highs, and those with good credit rating w'ill be able to get loans without too much trouble.

This swing to optimism does not mean that every business or even every industry is going to have great prosperity this year. Neither does It mean we have solved our underlying problemsinternational deficit, foreign competition, labor monopolies, bad tax system, too much government spending, danger of inflation, bad legislation, and so on.

But the swing to optimism does mean that over-all we should have a good year and that none of these problems should explode in our faces at least during the next several months. Granted, It is no time for complacency, but if we all do our part w'e should have a gradually rising business trend for the remainder of I960.

Opinions In Bnel

If you a.sk the men. they prefer more woman and less ta.'-hion.Miami Herald. ^

The modern-day father is an energetic man who work.s his sons way through college, Bartow County (Ga ) Herald.

(Winaton-Saleh) Journal)

From Scotland comes the tale of a man whose heaj*t is a dead give-away of his feelings. He has. so to speak, a built-in lie detector. This young Edinburgh man, it seems, has a plastic

valve in his heart, installed there by surgeons. It sets up a terrific clicking and clacking noise when he gets excited. When he is in the presence of the one he loves,

his heart ticks out a veritable tattoo of affection. The girl, naturally, is flattered by this clatter for the moment at least.

Now. the young man can play football and dig a garden all right. But he seeks advice on whether his heart Ls sound

enough for marriage. Well, as any husband knows marriage is a strenuous business which requires a good stout heart. And the young man is wise to determine whether his heart is physically up to it.

But what of the psychological aspects? What happens five

years hence when his wife begins to notice an alarming silence when he comes home at night? And what will she say when the familiar clicking sets in again when the girl next door drops in for a visit?

What would happen to domestic tranquility in general if the young Scotsmans condition were universal among husbands? O, the heartbreaks, the heartaches! Truly blessed are husbands silent in heart.

wage rates In the United States? Not accurate at all, say prominent industrial leaders in a new move to make BLS reports conform to the true state of conditions. United States Steel Steel Corp., the largest heavy metals producer, reports wage rate indices do not reflect the actual cost of an hoars work to industry since they ignore the so-called fringes which mean so much in contract negotiations.

Firm statisticians repwt that since 1940 the total cost of an hours work fw a typical company employe rose from 94 cents to a whopping $4. but that the latter figure is 30 per cent more than the government compiled wage rate for the steel industry. The big disparity, says U.S. Steel, results from the governments exclusion of the effects of payments for time off and for employe benefits.

Why the Bureau of Labor Statistics ignores the economic weight of fringe benefits on actual wage costs is something BLS should be made to answer for. Actually, fringe benefits in many latter-day wage contracts exceed hourly pay raises, and for the Bureau of Labor Statistics to ignore these factors presents a cockeyed picture of wage rates. It is almost the same as an income tax return totting up only take-home wages while ignoring such fringes as bonuses and stock dividends.

WAGE RATE SURVEYS DONT TELL IT ALL (Tulsa World)

Just how accurate are surveys of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in reflecting the level of

Quot e ..

Being sound as a dollar these days means youre half dead. Richmond (Ky.) Register,

singing business after a short and unsuccessful spell as a fighter on the New Jersey coast. He had some talent which a press agent worked up into a brilliant publk; response. Adolescents either squealed or sw'ooned at the right moment. However, such responses become contagious and Sinatra became a success. I once heard him sing like a real baritone and it ,was not bad at all. although neither his voice nor his pitch would have made a Metropolitan Opera audition.

Frank Sinatra lived those early years in the peace of a frightened young man. He earn- ed a large fortune. Hewas married to a fine woman. Nancy, whom everyone rcepected and they had a family.

Suddenly. Sinatra became a big shot, a great figure, mentioned In all the peep-hole columns, often most unfavorably but the name was always spelled correctly. He began to chase dames and punch newspapermen for peaching on him. In due course, his family was broken up and he chased Ava Gardner around the world In the piost advanced press agentry. His wife. Nancy Sinatra, never remarried but Frankie the Tycoon and Ava Gardner kissed in pubhc, quarrelled in public, divorced in public and made a spectacle of themselves in public.

Then Frank decided that he would do DO more of his funny singing, that he would become a serious actor and surprisingly. he did remarkably well. At any rate, he appeared in a number of motion pictures and television shows. No longer wed to anyone, Sinatra dated, as they call it, a numter of women, most of whom were duly reported In the peep-hole columns. How would the peep-holers know about it If no one told them?

So Frank Sinatra decided to become a big businessman and set out to make a picture which he would himself own, produce, control and profit by. Did he pick a noble or a jovial theme? Not he. He picked the story of an army deserter In war-time, one who was caught deserting and duly treated as cowards should be. But for Frank Sinatra, this deserter Slo-vik, had some special appeal. So he hired one of the Hollywood Ten, perhaps the most irreconcilable one. to write about a deserter in time of war. It is like the Ford Foundation (Continued 1 page five)

A Look

At 1960

CroDs

By ROGER BABSON

BABSON PARK. Mass . - Outstanding in the early i960 crop outlook is the fact that the governments recent report on w*o-spective plantings shows six increases and ten decreases, with the total for the sixteen crops covered only moderately under a year ago. Here are some highlights of the outlook for the farm situation in general. ^

Farmers Intend to plarit only slightly more acreage to com U.an a year ago, when a record crop of 4,361,000.000 bushels was harvested. A lot of this old-cft>p com is still hanging around. Thus, barring severe dami^c to the I960 crop, there should bo plenty for 1960-1961 needs. Sorghum grain also should be in generous supply, since planting intentions arc down only 0.4 per cent from the 1959 acreage^ which produced a whopping 579.000,000 bushels.

Indicated acrrages for barley and oats are down 3.7 per cent 5.2 per cent respectively, from a year ago. However, this is no cause for alarm, at least in the case of barley. Last year's crop was 32 per cent above acreage, and total stocks recently were well over the ftve-year average. In the case of oats, the 19S9 crop was U)e smallest since 1939. and total stocks are sharply under a year ago and the five-year average. Crop progress of this grain should be watched closely this year, since any extensive damage could result in a tight supply situation.

Intended plantings of all spring wheat are down 4.6 per cent from a year ago. Including acreage planted to winter wheat last fall, total acreage wiU be down less than 1,000,000 acres from that planted for the 1959 crop, which was well under the

1958 outturn, but somewhat above average. Given favorable weather, the 1960 crop, plus the carryover next July I. should provide ample total supplies for 1960-1961. Growers Intend to plant a little more acreage to rice than a year ago. Any production Increase should certainly not glut the market.

There ahould be no dearth of dry beans next season, even though growers plan to cut acreage 1.3 per cent. Last years crop was large and compeUtlm from other protein foods wiU continue keen. Summer and fall potato acreage, which accounts for the bulk of the total crop, may be upped 1 per cent over 1959. Potatoes, however, will retail high-.

The acreage trend in U S. flaxseed has been steadily downward since 1956. The Indicated cut this year is a negligible 0.4 per cent. However, since the

1959 crop was relatively small and remaining stocks recently were only about 50 per cent of the five-year average for the date, supplies for 1960-61 should cause higher prices.

The star performer, as far as planting intentions go, is the versatile aoybean, with an Increase of 6.4 per cent; this would be the second highest acreage on record. Soybean growers evidently have faith in their product, despite cuts in the price-support levcL Even though a record crop could be produced on this acreage, it probably need not prove burdensome. The longer-term trend of total consumption still appears to be upward.

The number of cattle and calves on farms hits a record high of 101,520.000 head-up 13 per cent from the 1949-1958 average. Consumers should buy beef for less during 1960, although no runaway liquidation is likely this year. Outstanding in the hog situation is an indicated 11 per cent cut in the 1960 wring pig crop compared with a year earlier. This could mean higher pork prices.

I realize, of course, that acreages actually planted may turn out to be larger or smaller than Indicated in this report: but

1960 could be a fairly good year for .S. farmers. On thing readers may count on is lower gasoline prices, tax excluded. This is owing to a surplus of oil and the increased demand for small compact foreign and domestic cars which can operate 35 miles to th gallon.

Keep An Eye On The Legislation

Wheji a diplomat .vjiy.s ye.s he moaU perhaps; when he says peihap.s he means no; and wheii .sf .say.s no he is no diplomat. Carimbad Curient-Aiaus.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Business executives should keep close watch on Congressional developments. Legislation from now' on to adjournment will strongly be influenced by political considerations which, in turn, generally influence business operations.

Peering through the current political-economic fog:

Social Security extension: While there is strong opposition to granting medical and hospitalization payments to oldsters, there is strong likelihood these will be written into law. First, passage of such extension will endear those who vote for it to .''Ome 16.000,000 persons at or near Social Security age; their wives and those who support them now*. Second, the cosUs of such payments will be largely borne by those who will eventually benefit.

situation will be another big factor in the election. At present, the Democrats are making capital of farmer.s unhappiness. But a new' Administration proposal Ls expected, and it will be designed to put the Democrats on the XDOt. If thev iunnort it. thev will

be supporting a Republican measure: if they oppase it. they may lose farm votes. Thats the Ad-minLstration plan, anyhow. MORE LABOR LEGISLATION

Benefits for unions: It is becoming increasingly necessary both both parties to give organized labor .something big and beautiful. Benefits voted so far thLse se.s.sion have been small. Labor leaders are in a position now of being unable to go back to members and say, Look what we and^ Congress have done for you! Congress can be counted on to remedy this situation before adjournment.

Trouble in Honk Konk: American and British governments are growing more aware that Hong Kong is a trouble spot in many w-ays. Communist refugees pouring in are creating a growing problem: there is lack of room, jobs, food and aid. shipping surplus people to Taiwan might wonseii the situation: trying to sustain them in Hong Kong may be ju.st as bad. There is .some su.spicion -tliat the Red Chinese are allowing dkssi-dents to cro.ss the border un-

nmlott*>rl tn inmpaiP Ih ora\/U.V

of the problem.

THREAT OF CHEAPER GOODS

Meanwhile, the rise of desperate cheap labor in Hong Kong Ls creating an import problem here, Hong Kong enterprisers are able to export refugee-made labor at cheaper and cheaper prices. If the United States blocks imports. It will torpedo the Hong Kong economy; if IL allows them in, it will torpedo American jobs. Arentt you glad you arent running for President?

More French candies: The

French government is launching a drive to sell more sweets in America. Youll hear more about Candie.s from France as high-priced publicists start talking about the regional candies that are produced no place else.

Beefier beef: Private industry is excited about U.S. Agriculture Department discoveries of essences of meat flavors in beef and pork. If the.se flavor elements can be handled commercially, cutler beef can be made to taste like prime beef; sows like young pigs.

It Ls a .step toward making every American a kingi A tough bit of &hin meat from an old

cow, treated with tenderizer, monosodium glutamate and the new extracts can make it taste like the eye of a T-bone steak. Even hamburger from buffalo imported from Australia can be made to taste like steaks from steers fattened on Iowa grass lots.

OLD PROMOTER SEES REVIVAL OF FLASKS

Im in the fla^k business,*' the Old Promoter announced when h reeled in today. Th Federal Aviation Agency has

ruled that nobody can have a drink on a plane unless he has the stewardess approval and

lets her serve him the drink.

Of course, no he-man will

stand for such nonsense, and

drinking fliersor flying drinkerswill go back to the hip-fitting flask of prohibition days. Im setting up production line.s and all I need is a few thousand more to make the biggest killing in this cockeyed business. Well have Old Promoter flasks on sale in. every novelty shop and bar from here to Nome."

We told the old one we would sit this one out with our seal-),