PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, W. C.

5aturd7> April 30, 196(

Saturday,^pril 30, 1960

Candidates Adopt Jones Measure

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There new that regardless of who

la elected the next governor of North Carolina, he will push for change in the states highway organization to bring the Commission back into closer touch with the people of the state.

It is singular, we believe, that the major gubernatorial candidates appear in apeement that the present seven-man Highway Commission is not adequately meeting the needs of the state, particularly as these needs apply to secondary roads and to the various individual areas of the state. It appears the unaninious feeling of the gubernatorial candidates that the Highway Commission needs closer contact than it now has with the people of the state and the best way to achieve this is through a system in which a larger number of commissioners will be chosen from designated districts or areas throughout the state.,

sion as he wanted it during the remainder of his term in office.

In the intervening period it has become more evident that the majority of the people of the state prefer a Highway Commission organized along the lines which Rep. Jones proposed more than a year ago. It is also evident that the gubernatorial candidates, looking to the future, recognize the wisdom of reorganizing and enlarging the Highway Commission.

Through such an enlargement and reorganization of the State Highway Commission North Carolina could still continue its highway program on a statewide development basis, and at the same time give a greater amount of attention to secondary roads and to the needs of the various geographic areas throughout the state.

It is also safe to assume that the position taken by the gubernatorial candidates reflects the feeling of most of the people throughout North Carolina concerning the highway commission organization. Otherwise, there would be a sharper difference than exists between the various reorganization plans offered by the candidates.

Major Achievement In Pitt Work For Blind

The highway commission reorganization plans proposed by the gubernatorial candidates correspond closely to the proposal offered in the 1959 General Assembly by Rep. Waiter Jones of" Pitt County. Although there was strong sentiment in the last legislature for the reorganization proposal introduced by Rep. Jones, Gov. Hodges succeeded in blocking the reorganization in order to leave the Highway Commis-

Only 20 Years Of Records Kep

By LYNN NISBET RECORDSM.L. Daniela has announced that he will retire as chairman of the Democratic executive committee in Dare county this year. That is news, because he has been chairman continuously as long as anybody In Dare can remember. Some of his friends want to give him a sort of appreciation party in recognition of his service. They would like to be able to say that he has had the longest tenure of any county chairman in the state. They are finding it extremely difficult to substantiate that claim, because there are no permanent records anywhere going back more than 20 years.

When the late William B. Um-stead became State Democratic chairman in 1944 he set up permanent files. Prior to that time each chairman started cold and built an OTganizaUon for one campaignwhich was completely lost when a new chairman came in. Umstead bought 'some filing cases and when the 1944 campaign was over he stored the records in a sort of warehouse room, but without adequate index or attendant. It was several years later, if memory serves it was either 194S or 1950, that a room was obtained in the Sir Walter Hotel and permanent headquarters for the party established. It was not until 1952, under chairmanship of Everett Jordan, that any pretense was made of keei^g the headquarters office open and taffed. Since 1952 Mrs. W.P. (Elizabeth) Johnston has been in charge of the office and records ' are fairly complete and readily accessible.

MANUAL . There is official record Of party committee personnel, platforms, plans of organization, etc., for both Democratic and Republican parties ^ In the North Carolina Manual of " 1941 and subsequent editions. The 1913 Legislature transferred the Manual from the legislative refereiK^e librarian to the Secretary of State. Thad Eure was just beginning his second term and he greatly enlarged the biennial Manual to include listing of numerous State boards and commissions, county officials,

; jmd data pertaining to the political party organizations. Even this recOTd is jwt complete, because the Manual is issued only every two years and there are some short interim tenures of party officials which are not shown. These gaps which occurred in the Democratic organization since 1948 can be filled by records In the headquarters office.

There are serious omissions to records o party affiliation of

members of the General Assembly prior to some 30 years ago. Journals of the House and Senate do not list party affiliations. When information is desired about whether Joe Doaks of Podunk county, who was a member In 1901, was a Democrat or a Republican the only way to find out is to go back and check election returns of the several countries. Since the middle teens such Information has been included In the Manual.

BUDGETING Counties, cities and townsas well as the State of North Carolinaare wrestling with budgets. There is more urgency for local governments, which operate on annual budgets, and must have them prepared by July 1. The State operates on a biennitd basis, and budgets now in preparation must go to the 1961 General Assembly for enactment effective July of next year.

In some respects other than the shortness of time and the problem of county and municipal budget-making is more bothersome than at State level. For one thing, tax revenue sources are more limitedwith ad-valorem property taxes bearing the heavy burden. There has been an upsurge of property revaluation programs this year, which complicates the process of determining equitable tax rates.

The impact of revaluation will not be as noticeable this year as it will next. That tends to make revaluation an Issue in the current campaign for coun^ commissioners and other responsible officers. It will almost certainly be an issue in municipal campaigns next spring. (County commissioners are elected in even year general ,elections; most municipalities have elections in off numbered years, generally in April or May.)

Cities and towns must accept the valuations fixed by county commissioners, except in the very few instances where special legislative acts authorize independent municipal valuation. Another factor which bothers municipalities, and which will be more bothersome next year, is the flood of corporate limit extensions. Residents of the newly annexed territory will find themselves this year or next for the first time paying property taxes both to the county and to the city or town.

Some students of gevornment finance find in this situation a glimmer of hope that as more people are taken into the corporate limits and subjected to two taxes, there may be aroused sentiment to eliminate one of the taxing authorities by further combining of services.

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It is a significant achievement for Pitt County when in the span of one year 109 people in the county can be removed from the blind category because of the work being done with the blind in the county.

The achievement means that 109 people in Pitt have been at least partially if not entirely freed froin their handicap of loss of sight. It is an accomplishment which cannot be minimized and one which attests to the effectiveness of the work being carried on in this county in behalf of blind persons. ^

Certainly the work needs to be continued, for in spite of the fact that 109 persons have been removed from the category of blindness in the past year, there are many others in Pitt who remain without eyesight. For some of these recovery of their sight is possible if tiie work that has been going on locally for years is continued in an aggressive manner. For those, who will not be able to recover their sight, the work in behalf of the blind is likewise important because it affords them facilities and opportunities to take their places along with the other members of our society.

The work with the visually handicapped in Pitt County, spearheaded by the Pitt County Association for the Blind, the Greenville Lions Club and other organizations, has paid the county huge dividends over the years. The fact that 109 persons regained their eyesight during the past year is only one of the accom-plishments.Through the work more than 150 pairs of. glasses were furnished needy-persons, 90 persons received needed eye surgery and treatment, some 2,000 children of the county received eye examinations. Braille reading material and talking records were furnished visually handicapped persons, handicraft materials were provided and sales of handicraft articles were sponsored.

Work which is being done with the visually handicapped deserves the continued support of the people of Pitt County.

By DON SCHLIENZ

?inest SDiina To Date

Youll agree that each spring surpasses its predecessor in beauty, and this one is no exception.

It seems that never before have the flowering trees on the college campus so beautifully bloomed; ne%er before have the new-budding leaves so lavishly endowed their trees with a cloudlike aura of pale green, to be swifly iwp-planted with thicker foliage as leaves unfold.

And lawns?

The summer grass is growing so rapidly one can almost see it lengthening in the afternoon sun. Its pure illusion, of course.

but after mowing our yard. . , and then surveying results, . . theres that feeling the grass that had been first trimmed is sprouting 80 fast it should be cut again.

That branch of the famy ln, Japan, these past couple years, write glowingly of the gardens, parks and blocmis of Ntopvn in Springtime,

Fully aware that this brightest of seasons was again about to extend its glow to our Far Eastern neighbors, and their next letter would be a paean to beauty in the Orient. , ,I beat them to the punch with a letter of my

own on Tar Heelias spring. That should take the wind out of their sails.

(I fight dirty, too.)

A youhg lady who got a sneak preview of the Greenville Art Center prior to its formal opening. returned to say Ooooohh, its magnificent!.

And from what she had to say, it was very evident tic Art Society had done itself proud. Youll want to sec it, sfie went on; and her excitement was contagious. I do want to see It. Im sure it is all she said.

Nixon May Run other Editors .Saying.,,

Three Dimensional.

As An Individua..

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon will try to run as an individualselling himselfif he gets the Republican partys presidential nomination.

Thats how acquaintances say his thinking goes. It is not a position he has taken publicly. And it might indicate he is not going to depend too much on the record of the Eisenhower administration to win for him.

He wouldnt be the first who tried it that way. Nelson A. _ Rockefelle won the governor-' ship of Nv York in 1958. He didnt tie himself in too tightly to the Eisenhower administration.

Nixon has plenty of critics. But none has ever called him a political chump. So possibly he hasnt confided all his thinking to acquaintances or is only telling them what he is willing to have them say he thinks, or wants them to say.

But this what they say he has in mind:

By his own calculations he cannot win on the Republican vote alone because there are not enough Republicans. He figures about 40 per cent of the voters are pretty solidly Republioan, about 45 per cent pretty solidly Democratic.

So he has to dip into that remaining 15 per centwhich would Include independents and Democrats and Republicans who sometimes switchfor his margin of victory, providing he can keep the regular Republicans with him.

He hopes to keep Republican support by campaigning as a conservativea stand he thinks will also appeal to Democrats if there is still prosperity at election time next November.

Nixon thinks Thomas E, Dewey, former New York governor, ruined himself in the 1948 presidential campaign by taking the Republican vote so much for granted that he didnt even bother talking to them.

But the vice president attaches a lot of importance to the condition of the economy next November. If there is a downturn by then, he doesnt think the Republicans have a chance.

Hes banking on continued pros, perity and the idea that if the voters feel theyre doing pretty well they wont have much interest in democratic promises that cost a lot of money.

Nixon believes the Democrats will be so liberal in their platform promiseswith various kinds of programs that by presenting himself as a conservative he can win in this way:

Hell figure out liowr much the Democratic promises will costif they won and tried to make good on themand tell the voters what the total Democratic bill cost them.

To put it another way; He will agree with the goals of the Democratic extremists but have his own much more moderate and less expensive programs.

There isnt much else Nixon can do but follow the middle of the road. The Democrats will pretty much stake out their position on the liberal side.

On foreign, policy Nixon expects to sound like a statesman. What that means is anybodys guess. One guess is that in foreign affairs hell follow President Elsenhowers .be pleasant but stiff arm the* Communists line.

The vice president expects to do well on Domestic issues, provided the country remains prosperous. For instance, he thinks he can offer something to attract farmers-

He believes thp Eisenhower ad-mliiistration made a mistake telling farmers how well off they are. Only this week the President came out against any Increase in government-backed price supports for farm products.

The No. I issue, Nixon thinks, will be nation security.

Nixon, pretty fast on his feet, (Continued on page six)

(Greensboro Daily News)

The State Chirriculum Study Committee, busily engaged in preparing its report to the State Board of Education May 5, has tackled one of the major problems of the public school system; How best to use students time.

After all thre is a definite limit. The schools operate five days a week, within an hourly pattern, nine months in the year. The time when children and young people are in school should be put to best possible usage.

The state study committee, meeting at Wake Forest College last week, recognized that non-instructional and extracurricular activities have their place. They give balance to the school problem; they lift student and school morale; they develop qualities of leadershto: and

they stimulate education by doing.

The committee properly believes, however, that they should reinforce and extend valid educational objectives; that they should be held within reasonable bounds; and that they should not be allowed to interfere with or supersede classroom work and the more clearly delineated educational responsibilities. Athletics, bands and extracurricular activities have their place, but that place must be carefully watched and wisely worked into the school in the school budget.

Time is one of the three ed-recognitlon of ability and mer-study. The second involves physical facilities and their usage.

With millions of dollars invested in school plants and a peak enrollment still to be superimposed on present congestion, thorough study must be given to fullest usage of facilities. Should school buildings be allowed to stand idle as much as they are? Before spending huge amounts to build more school houses, are we utilizing present plants as fully and effectively as we might? Should school schedules be re-examined and perhaps altered? These are but a few of the questions which the state study commission is weighing. I

Finally there is school personnel. How many teachers do we need? How well are our teachers doing the job entrusted to them? And just what is that job anyway when teachers are overloaded with paper work and have much of their energy drained off by duties other than teaching? What can we do to stimulate their efforts through recobnition of ability and merit? Teachers and time merge in the school budbet.

Nobody expects the State Curriculum Study Commission to come up with all the answers, But its report should provide Information which we have not had in North Carolina and serve as a guide during a transitional period when the schools are probably attracting greater interest and undergoing closer scrutiny than ever before.

The public is aroused over education; and educational leaders In particular will miss a wonderful opportunity if they fail to capitalize upon this arousal.

Opinions In Brief

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A mild, quiet sort of man was waiting by the news desk when I answered a summons from the composing room yesterday.

He introduced himself. Bob Gregory, a seldom heard-of candidate for the Democratic nomination for the UB. Senate.

Gregory dropped by to say hello. I! you remember, hes the man who on announcing his candidacy planned to finance his campaign on a basis of one-dollar contributions from each supporter.

Second-thoughts prevailed, and he returned the money. All of it, he says.

The gesture, on first, second and even third glance, appears thoughtful enough. But it just doesnt Jibe with my concept of a candidate who is out to win.

Campaigns are costly. Ask the man whos in one.

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*Tf you think the magazines in a doctors reception room are old, you should see the dates on a lot of his unpaid bllls.-^Mat-toon (111.) Joumal-Oazctte.

If God made the country; man the city, and the devil the small town, who is to blame for the suburbs? Memphis Press-Scimitar.

Why spend millions to photograph the craters of the moon, when springtime reveals bigger ones right in our own streets. .Asheville Citizen,

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY COPYRIGHT. I960. KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

It has been announced that Representative Chester Bowles heids the formidable committee that will write the Democratic Platform. Who will perform this task for the Republicans has not yet been stated. This is probably the roost useless task to which a man can devote himself. Party platforms serve no particular purpose because the parties abandon them immediately after the election.

Both party platforms will have much to say about our international relations. Chester Bowles has made himself expert on the affairs of Asia w^ith particular emphasis on India where he was the American Ambassador. His views on China may be summarized in this paragraph:

**. . .Communist China constitutes an Ixtremely live danger not only because of its Ideology but also because of the inadequacy of its resource base in comparison to its ixtoula-tlon. Indeed. I suggest that Communist China constitutes almost a classic type of potential aggreasm*, similar to Nazi Germany of the 1930s and Japan to the period betwin the two wars." . *

The Republicans cannot do other than to praise the record of the Eisenhower policies which while opportunistic and often confUcttog, may be summarized to the phrase, 'He kept us out of war President Eisenhower embariced on his career by twinging the Korean War to an end without any solution of the Korean problem which continues to be a problem up to this moment. This was undoubtedly sn index to Eisenhowers thinking, namely, that war must be averted at any cost save the invasion of American territory. How much such a policy has cost to money and potentials will not be calculable for many years; its benefits are also not clear except that war has been averted. This has added much to President Eisenhower's personal popularity but has it strengthened the United States?

Both parties will have to deal with the question of the dollar. Both will try to duck the issue. Neither will be willing to admit that something must be done about the dollar very quickly or every man, woman and child to this country will be to difficulties. Franz Pick, who is probably our leading authority on money, starts hi^ study, The tfnlted State Dollar. with the paragraph:

During the past twenty years, the Dollars SMirdiasing power has dropped from 100 cents to only 47 cents. This de-has^nent. partially the result of waging World War n. has become a serious menace not only to the existence of Americas monetary unit, but also to all other free currencies of the globe.

In 1960. the shrinking dollar cannot be ignored. Its shrinipge is too sharp and affects too much. Politicians are persons under constant psyclwloglcal tension. They know that one bad slip can be fatal. One ineptitude can ruin a mans career, On the other hand, no candidate writes a platform and not one of tiiem is bound by what it says.

Back in 1952, J. H. Gipson, a book publisher of Caldwell. Idaho, wrote out a platform in very vew words. This was for Uie Republican Party whose long and tedious platform of that year certainly was unrelated to anything whkh has happened since. This was Gipsons platformthe whole of it.

The Republican Party realizes the obligation of each generation of Americans to hand down to the next a constitutional and solvent republic, in which the area of personal freedom has been extended and not reduced.

Realizing that the happiness and well-being of this and future generations depend u^n the liberty, freedom, dignity, responsibility, and opportunity of the individual, we urge and . demand that all public officials elected on our ticket support all legislative measures which wUl accomplish these objec-(Conttnued on page sixi

Compact Idea May See Spreac.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ETERNAL FOUNDATIONS

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Many are the like remarkable testimonies to him, his enemies being judges, ^tiauss, the father of modern destructive criticism, said Jesus Is the highest model of religion, and no perfect piety , is possible without his presence in the heart. Fichte the philosopher said. Till the end of time, all the sensible will bow before Jesus of Nazareth. Familiar are the words of Rousseau. If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died Uke a God. John Stuart Mill confessed that the ethics of Jesus are unequaled and that Christianity has^ not made a bad choice In pitching on this man as its representav

and that perhaps we could adopt no better rule than just to do what w'e believe he would have us do. Herbert Spencer affirms that his teachings are the ultimate ethics.

Such testimonies as these coming from sceptics, agnostics, and enemies of Christianity, confirm the judgment of Pilate and are almost equivalent to saying \ ith the Roman soldier at the cross, Truly this was the Son of God. '

If heathern men and unbelievers offer such testimony, what shall we say who believe in Jesus? We also say, Behold, we having examined him. find no fault in him, but only wLsdom and blessing and honor and power and glory, forever and ever. Amen.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Theres a possibility that the compact idea will spread from the auto to other industries.

Detroits great talent in devising compact cars was forced upon it. It was genius by necessity.

The auto industry started out with compact cars shorn of as-sessories. Almost all the original cars were small and the first monsters grew In height more than In length. Bigness began between the World Wars, and" even in those days protests arose.

Demands for smaller cars grew after World War II. Some predicted that the auto industry would soon have to bring out smaller cars to solve parking problems, highway congestion and rising costs. Only their timing was wTong.

But many people wanted smaller cars without the tinsel and bric-a-brac and, with a notable assist from Americans w'ho Insist on having something different. they constituted a market for foreign imports. CHALLENGE MET

For a while, Detroit pretended nothing was happening. But when the smaller auto makers began to flourish with smaller cars, and registration of those and small imports approached-10 per cent of car sales, rockets wint up, bands played Yankee Doodle and the 1960 compacts were born with more fanfare than the new^ British prince.

And, perhaps to their own surprise, the auto companies are doing well. Its a balmy spring and sales and shares are

and the plastic liner cost more than the peat moss. And the jars of many products look more costly than contents.

AND IN DRUGS?

up.

The lesson may. not escape other manufacturers. If the auto industry can meet foreign competition and increase sales with cars scaled to function and shorn of fancy work, why may not other industries? Why not major appliances engineered for functionalism? Who needs revolving shelves in a stove? Queen Anne cabinet work on a refrigerator? Timers and thermometers on a TV set?

Why stop there? Theres a bag of peat moss in my backyard and Ill wager the bag, the multicolor printing on it.

Haig Bahian, editor of Economic Affairs. published by New York University, raises the same question in the drug field. He compares the millions of dollars spent by drug manufacturers to sell products that ,in most cases the consumer could do without to the millions spent by auto manufacturers to induce psychological abso-lescense with new chrome trim, fins and lines that the consumer has finally said he can do without.

ladled from th can not too many years ago. Crackers in packages are cleaner and purer than the ones once sold frcxn barrels. The electric razor and the modem safety blade is a joy for many whose fathers used the old straight edge.

But theres still a lot to be learned from Detroits somewhat daring and graceful capitulation to the consumers..

MANY WANT TO SEE ALASKAAT A PRICE

He added; Allocations of resources) for packaging and marketing have gone up at the same time that unit production costs of mass-produced items have come down. Question: How important and meaningful are such distribution techniques?

Many, of course, are meaningful. Pasteurized milk in

tight containers is better and sells better thiJi the raw milk

Inquiries about Alaskan tours in the first three months of this year ran 10 per cent higher than in the same period in 1959, the American Automobile Association reports. It also notes growing price - consciousness among tourists.

OFF-BROWN COLORS POPULAR IN UPHOLSTERY

Beige, tan and cocoa colors continue to be the most popular In upholstery fabrics, Joan Fabrics reports. These tones plus brown itself accounted for more than half the sales in the first quarter of tht year.