rAGE roivTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N.

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Thursday, May 12, 1960

The Hod Way

An Important Day In Pitt History

Tomorrow Dr. Leo W. Jenkins will be inaugurated President of East Carolina College.

It is a momentous occasion for the college, for Pitt County, for North Carolina, and for Dr. Jenkins.

In the past decade East Carolina has emerged from the position of a relatively small college to one of the leading institutions of higher education in North Carolina and indeed over a broad region of the United States.

The demands being made upon East Carolina College, both from the standpoint of enrollment and from the standpoint of academic achievement are increasing with each passing year. With its growth, its responsibility to higher education in North Carolina and in the South is likewise expanding far beyond its former scope.

The primary responsibility for seeing that East Carolina College adequately meets the demands being made upon it now rests upon the shoulders >of the man who will be inaugurated president tomorrow. We are grateful indeed, that such a proven leader in higher education as Dr. Jenkins is available to guide East Carolina through the important period which lies before it.

No stranger to East Carolina or to higher education in North Carolina, Dr. Jenkins has shown his devotion to the college and to higher education in the dozen years he has been an important part of the administration at East Carolina. Those years have pointed up sharply his capacity for leadership, his ability as an administrator and his resolute determination to expend all the energy he has to provide better opportunities for higher education for all the young people in the area served by East Carolina College.

His unselfish devotion to the task of building a

'Planning Fresh 'Platform View

By LYNN NISBET

PLATPOKM The main difference between the platform to be presented to, and almost certain to be adopted by. the Democratic State convention next Thursday and similar documents f other years will be what its architects call a positive approach. Past emphasis has been too much on pointing with pride and viewing with alarm, rather than presenting a bold program for action.

Complete text of the platform is not available. In fact, it will not be prepared until early next week. Enough has been learned to indicate that it will have the usual commendation of the incumbent State administration and the long record of Democratic control of State government.

Since it derives from the combined thinking of twelve good men, with varying political tenets within the framework of Democratic party philosophy, it is apt to be more respresentative of total opinion than previous often was not generally known. The platform commlUee itself had small opportunity to study the text before it was presented to the convention.

The 1960 platform is being written and will be considered by the convention before the next Governor will have been nominated, and in an atmosphere of uncertainty about who he will be. For that reason it is expected to have less endorsement of particular personal ideas of the candidates, more of the general tenor of traditional governmental attitudes. At the same time,advance informaUhn is it will speak rather boldly on some points.

SORE SPOTS It is clear on two matters which have been regarded as sore spotsrace relations and legislative apportionment. The race relations plank has been revised to reaffirm North Carolina belief in separation of races, but to delete Implied protest of the right of the courts to interpret the constitution. The new version is regarded as an Indirect slap at the campaign promises of Candidate Beverly Lake and a boost for Candidate Malcolm Seawell. It will not affect the positions of Candidates Larkins and Sanford.

For the first time since 1940 the platform commits the Democratic party and its overwhelming majority in the General Assembly to compliance with the constitutional mandate for rcap-portionment of legislative representation.

REDISTRICTING Equitable

apportionment of legislative re-

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better college of East Carolina and of molding young people into better citizens by seeing that higher education meets their needs, has served as an inspiration to those who have worked closely with him. It has drawn the admiration of those who recognize the increasingly important role higher education plays in our modern society.

With the responsibilities which lie before him, Dr. Jenkins will need the support of this community and friends of East Carolina College throughout the state.

' His inauguration is an important event in the history of the college and indeed in the history of this county whose destiny has been so closely tied with that of the college for the past half century.

Last Chance For The Voter*5 To Register

Saturday is the last chance citizens have to register in order to be eligible to vote in the May 28 Democratic primary.

When the registration books close at sundown Saturday, those who are not properly registered will not be permitted to vote in the forthcoming election.

A number of people throughout the county have registered in their respective precincts onthe two previous Saturdays that the registration books have been open. Without a doubt, however, there remain in Pitt many people that should be registered to vote, whose names are not on the polling books.

Some of these may have moved from one precinct to another since the last election, others may have moved here from elsewhere, and some have come of voting age since the last election.

We urge the people of Pitt County who have not registered to be sure to register Saturday at the polling place in the precinct in which they live. Those who are not sure whether t^ey are properly registered should check to make sure they are registered.

By DON SCHLIENZ

presentation involves only applied mathematics in allotting seats in the State House of Representatives. For representation in the State Senate and in the United States House of Representatives the much more bothersome problem of rearranging districts is involved.

Opinion prevails that North Carolina will lose a seat in the Congress on basis of the 1960 census. That will require complete revamping of congressional district lines. Preliminary census figures already show that a number of counties have lost population since 1950, further increasing the Inequitable representation at Raleigh and Washington.

The Democratic platform faces up to this issue, and there seems no chance for the 1961 General Assembly to sidestep it. There is j growing sentiment that it might be well for the next Legislature, which must rcdlstrict for Congress, to go all the way In State senatorial and solicitorial districts.

JUDICUL-SOLICrrORIAL There has been no redistricting for Congress or the General Assembly since 1941. That has occasioned comment that no changes have been made in 20 years in political districts.

The 1955 Legislature increased the number of judicial districts from 21 to 30 and provided for two resident judges in each of two districts. Then the 1959 session split two solicitorial districts. Increasing the total from 21 to 23. For many years prior to 1955 the judicial and solicitorial district lines were the same. The breaks made in 1955 and 1959 relieved court congestion in some areas, but did not go far enough to afford needed relief all over the state.

The matter of appropriate judicial and solicitorial districts is entangled with the whole question of court reformwhich was a major issue in 1959 and looms as an even bigger one in 1961.

ISSUE There is a not very remote possibility that redistricting may become the most controversial issue in the next Legislature. occupying more time and energy of members than any of the matters being paramounted in primary campaigns of the several candidates for Governor-such as more money for schools, amendments to the highway laws, tax levies, and even race relations.

That possibility makes appropriate the question being asked with more frequency every day: Why does anybody want to be Governor now?

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6C6ption Still From Now OnCan 0u6ss ?art Of Game

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department lied about the American spy-plane which Premier Nikita Khrushchev says was shot down over the Soviet Union. But maybe he was lying when he said it was shot down at all.

He said the plane was hit by Soviet rocket at 63,000 feet but that the American pilot, Francis G. Powers, parachuted to safety. That brings up question No. 1:

How could the pilot have escaped at all if a rocket hit his plane?

Khrushchev said the plane carried various equipment for aerial spying, such as cameras, instruments for spotting radar networks, and other special engineering devices.

He said the Soviets now have the planes equipment. He said they have something else, too: The film used by Powers to photograph Soviet territory, such as airfields. The Soviets, Khrushchev said, developed this film.

And he produced photographs to prove it. He also produced photographs of what he said was the wreckage of the spy-plane on the ground. But that planeor, rather, the wreckage had been almost destroyed by fire.

So that produces question No. 2: If^ that was truly the spy-plane, how could the Soviets have pulled out of that burning wreckage not only the films but the special equipment Khrushchev said the plane had?

In this country the American designer of the plane, C. L. Johnson, spent many hours looking at copies of the photograph which Khrushchev said showed the spy-plane wreckage.

Then Johnson said: He was convinced it was not the spy-plane at all but some other plane. To back up his statement he went Into detail about parts of the plane still visible after the fire and said they were not

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parts of the plane he designed.

And Tuesday in Congress Rep. Clarence Ca^on (D-Mo.) said the spy-plane had not been shot down but was forced down by some unforeseen and un-iological defect.

Just how Cannon knew what he was talking about isnt clear, either. But he is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee which approves money for such activities as spying.

One thing stands out here: By Khrushchevs own admission the plane had penetrated more than 1,200 miles into Soviet territory before it went down. That doesnt make Soviet defenses look good.

Khrushchev boasts of Soviet might. It would have been embarrassing for him to admit an American plane got 1,200 miles into the Soviet Union and was discovered only after it came down by itself because of a mechanical defect.

Cannon went further in a way which makes the quality of Soviet defense against aerial penetration look pretty said from a military view.

He said spy flights over the Soviet Union had been made since 1946 and some had gone as much as 1,300 miles inside the Soviet Union.

In the past 10 year* a number of . S. planes have been shot down by Soviet aircraft. Most of the incidents, however, happened in the Par East, on the fringes of Japan, Siberia, and Korea.

The State Department lied about the spy-plane when it saidbefore it knew how much inform|.tion Khrushchev had that there never was any *at-temp to deliberately violate Soviet air space.

When Khrushchev produced the goodsmainly his revelation the pilot had been captured and was alive Secretary of State Christian A. Herter admitted this country had been sending spy planes over the Soviet Union for years.

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Those who harp so consistently on federal farm programs might take note of the fact that Capital Airlines has asked for a $12,900,000 Federal Subsidy. Raleigh Times.

A prophet without honor. . .

Well, not much honor. Just what Ive been able to maintain on the side.

Remember some weeks ago when the census business was being lined up? And there was some speculation (more than some, it was rife) about how much Greenville had grown in a decade? Remember, this column did - le speculating too?

With much personal effort and the sacrifice of precious minutes this writer interviewed

(1) two life-long residents, and

(2) two long-term residents. Additionally, the record of Greenvilles growth through past nose-countlngs was explored.

The material was digested and painfully compiled for readers edification.

Not content with that, the writer went so far as to draw up a char of past census figures and by projecting these arrived at a 1960 figure of 22,-000-plus; a figure differing from others proffered.

Well, whn the recent preliminary census report came in, did any of his coworkcrs rush up to the writer and remark in

tones of wonder at his rimming the bulls eye? No. They studiously avoided all mention of the feai.

I suggested to one buddy that it was nice the Census Bureau and I were in such close agreement, and that their accuracy heightened my confidence in their work.

He nodded, then asked how the Giants were doing this season, Ive been sulking ever since.

Just wait til one of them asks me whos going to come out ahead in this months primary. Ill tear up a chart right in their face. . .and let them guess.

Just a year ago I stood bemused in our backyard as it was explained the bits of white fluff descending from a couple trees was a natural phenomenon of cottonwood trees.

It was a novelty kept alive by explaining to guests that the white stuff speckling the yard was not from an old mattress or a careless chicken-plucker.

The fluff stuff didnt fall for long: and with the passage of time it disappeared from the ground. Still, it was frequently

Other E(ditors Saying... Goldsboros Art Group

Motorists had better start protesting now, and keep on protesting if they want to keep from being gouged even more and forced to reduce the use of their cars because of high gasoline taxes. Industrial News Review.

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

Goldsboros Art Group is making real progress. It is affording a cultural outlet and fulfUlment for a number of people interested in art. It has made the foundations <4 become a great new and splendid force in the sections life.

The recent display at the Herman Park House is at mind. About 25 local artists who have been studying, painting and conferring, entered 1(X) pictures. During the three days of the exhibition 400 interested people registered. There is no telling how many came to view the exhibits who did not register. A number of sales by the artists showing works were reported.

The attendance and interest were encouraging. The crowds were larger than a year ago, said Mrs. William A. Dees, Jr., who has pioneered in the art program for Goldsboro and continues as interested and unflagging as at the start.

The Art Group can look forward to a growing membership. Quarters for the Group are being provided at the Community Building Annex, we will call it for want of a better designation. This* is the frame residence across the street from the rear of the Community Building and facing on North William street. The facilities arc secured through the Goldsboro Recreation Council and the Art Group

is receiving sponsorship * and encouragement from the recreation program.

The East Carolina Art Society of Greenville has a history which shows what can be accomplished in Goldsboro in time and with sufficient interest from enough people. The Greenville society at the first of the month opened its new art museum. An old Greenville family sold to the Society a lovely old home for a museum. A collection of 30 old masters were secured on loan from New York galleries and museums for the annual Greenville exhibition. Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville, president of the State Art Society and the man who brought the North Carolina Art Museum into being, used his good offices to secure the loan of the valuable collection of old masters. We know Dr, Humbers interest in art extends far beyond his own city and county and we feel sure that if the ^^occaslon were right he would help Goldsboro get such a display another year,

Greenville, as do a number of cities in North Carolina, stag* ed its open house in connection with its annual Pine Arts Festival. In this art, literature, and music are combined. We are pleased to know that movement for such a Festival in Goldsboro at some future date is being considered.

recalled as a sort of as ft kind ol believe-it-or-not pecullftrity for any and all who would listen.

Now our cottonwood is shedding again. The wisps float through the air like a gentle snowfall and their reappearance has occasioned more ccwn-ment. This Ume. less fav(xably.

The trimmed w^ds and grass that comtHise our backyard is liberally freckled wli white and it looks like a plague. I do believe its a bumper year for cottonwood trees.

Thanks to prevailing winds, one of our neighbors is eomplaining. If it were pecans youd be over here picking them up, a pointed tone of voice points out.

In a way, its a sort of a lesson:

Last years novelty can be this year's pain in the neck.

Opinions !'n Brief

Man tries, but he does not always succeed In making himself different. In the Dan Hotel In Israel, or the Claridge in Paris, or Grosvenor In London, or any of the Hiltons in America, there Is one Invariable constant: for every single chair in the barber shop there are five booths in the Beauty Salon. The Carolina Israelite.

"Until the American people realize that neither the federal^ government, nor .anyone else, owes them a living and special privileges for performing a duty, this country Is going to go further and further into socialism. Walterboro (S.J.) Press and Standard.

Under pre.sent law a person must forfeit his social security money if he makes more than $1,200 a year. This is unrealistic. It would be different if social security were some kind of largess from the government. But it isnt. Its something the oldster has coming to him. He contributed to the fund, and so did his employer, while he was working. Its his money.Eugene (Ore.) Register-Quard.

There are over 1,000 taxes on a quart of milkland tax, trac-* tor tax, tax on feed, tax on income, tax on tax on tax. It appears that the politicians have bought our votes with our own money. By the simple device of sticking our heads in the sand, we have made it all possible. London (Ohio) Press.

Spying Is For Pros'

By GEORGE E. SOKOIJSKY

COPYRIGHT, 1960, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. IRC.

Espionage is a constant and normal activity of government. All government engage in it, according to their means and their purposes, it 1 often referred to by such fancy names as intelUgence or information, but it is always the same task. A competent agent does not eet caught. He commits suicide or be melts away, A spy that is caught deserves death from eiflier side. When one engages in such activities, he knows what he is doing. He knows that there are practically no very significant rewards, except the satisiactioii of having served his country. His Job is not to get caught.

The professional agent often works for either side and some* times for both sides. Such a spy is usually called a double agent. Often a doable agent is known to both sides as stu:h and is used to plant false information. He is valuable for leads. Also he Is sometimes watched and tailed in the hope that he will lead to the real mao. his employer.

Soviet Russia lias maintained an open and a s^ret espionage corps in this country* at least, since 1920. The open espionage corps is the Communist Party of the United States. Ever member 4 that party owes si-legisDce to the mother country of socialism. Soviet Russia. Every member of that party literally is a spy upon the United States, but not every member is sufficiently intelligent for espionage which is one of the m(gR skilled professions on Earth, requiring abilities far beyond most men.

Therefore Soviet Russia employs two other agencies in this country. One Is the Communist Underground of skilled and even brUlisnt Americans with special abilities. Such persons as the Rosenbergs were this kind of agent and their organized efforts made it possible for Soviet Russia to spy on the Manhattan Project where the atom-bomb was invented and manufactured. There were many others. Whittaker Chambers, one such person, has written the beat account of the breed. Elizabeth BenUey, who was a courier among them, has also provided valuable information.

To add to these Americana and to instruct and direct them is a corps of Russians. Czechoslovaks. Hungarians and Red Chinese professionals who are engaged in this business. Each of the Warsaw Pact embassies, both in Washington and at the United Nations In New Ymfk, is engaged in the usual espionage activities. The United States does not usually shoot spies when caught. Americans are tried and sent to prison, often for such paltry chuces as perjury as Alger Hiss was or for contempt of Congress, as many <Hhers were. Aliens are deported.

Attention must always be called to the fact that the Communist Party also maintains a United States government - inexile In Mexico City.

The United States engages in espionage the same as any other government. Its principal agency for this work is the CIA. the Central Intelligence Agency, a very secret body. The Army, Navy, Air Force and State Department also gath^ Information as do all similar agencies of all governments. The effectiveness of the CIA caniu>t be Judged because its work must be secret and it is impossible to know bow much of Its evaluation of aub* jects is accepted by the State Department and the President who make policy*

The FBI also performs an important funcation in this regard. It deals with eounter-espionsge .within the United States. Its function is to discover what the spies of all countries are doing in the United lEates. but the FBI is permitted to make arrests only on order of the Attorney General. If it U policy not to arrest a spy, as it was In the Roosevdt Administration concerning the Russian agent, J. Peters, the arrest is npt made.

Khrushchev makes a great fuss over the American airman caught as a spy in the Ural^. Our State Deartment, in <mi of the stupidest and unnecessary releases, admitted his s-ionage. To retaliate, the FBI should be Instructed to pick up (Continued on Page 7)

THE UNITED WAY

Money saved for a rainy day buys a much smaller umbrella than it used to. Holyoke, (Colo.) Enterprise.

The Doakes-Heroes Of Economy

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NOT EXTERNAL EVILS BUT INTERNAL Newspapers and magazines today carry an "Cndless number of articles on the hazardous possibilities of atomic energy. Sometimes it seems as if war were only a few weeks away. There are some people who do not hesitate to declare that civilization and perhaps the world it-.self Is in imminent danger of de-struclion as the result of this great scientific discovery.

But there are some who believeand not without reason that the greatest danger threatening our country is not an external but an internal danger. There are influences at work

among our people which bid fair to be more destructive than the atomic bomb. One of these is the influence of prwsure groups which twists the beneficent machinery of democracy out of shape. Another is the spiritual ignorance of vast multitudes of people in no way connected with any church. Another is the growth of drinking and intemperance in modern social life. There are social injiLstice.a today which may well have a more lest rue live Inriuence on our national life than anything Russia can ever do to us. \Ve stand united against Russia but against the.s' internal affairs we are divided because of our .selfishness, our greed, and our appetites.

By ELMER ROESSNER Once again Mr. and Mrs. Joe Doakes are the heroes of the American economy.

Big business has been playing cozy. Advance orders have been trimmed. Inventory expansion has been slowed.

The* stock market has been cautious. Instead of the zip that might be expected in the first of the Swell Sixties, many is-sues have limped along. Moves toward more liquidity have been reported by management of several large funds-Housing has been falling short of expectations.

Unmindful of .'ill this, the Doake.s and their neighbors have been buying as if every thing will be all right. And as long as they do, things will b? all right, barring any external cata.strophy.

THE SENSITIVE INDEX Although many economista

have not recognized it, and it must always be adjusted for seasonal influences, new car sales are one ofthe most significant indicators of consumer attitudes. And new car sales began to rise In March and went on lustily through April. May sales are going ahead, partly because of seasonal Influences.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago says that the nations consumers have Injected a fresh note of optimism into the economy.

Helped by good shopping weather and the late Easter, consumer.s in April began to stop up expenditures more in line with earlier expectations after a disappointing first quarter for retail sales. it reports.

It noted that auto sales In the fir.st twenty dys of April were 14 per cent above the corresponding 1K')9 riay.s,

Coiuumer demands for all

types of goods will be an important factor in the business outlook for the weeks ahead, the Chi Fed said. Despite cutbacks in total industrial production and in steel and the rise in unemployment in March, mild optimism has prevailed on basis of consumer buying intentions.

WEATHER BLAMED FOR EARLY LAG The First National Bank of New Yorks May letter said: The marked rise in retail sales in late March and early April lends plausibility to the feeling that bad weather was primarily resiKuisible for the disappointing biLSiness earlier. Pienttce-Halla information said: U.S. economy passed a critical April test with a score of good. Especially important: Mr. and Mrs. Average Consumer came bacT to market with their dollars in a big, free-

spending Indications. apart from a possibly too-cautious attitude toward inventories.

In short, it looks as if Joe and Mary Doakes have done it again. They have outguessed business, they have outguessed the economists and because they are putting their dollars and their creditwhere their faith is, good Umes will continue.

SWINDLES DIVE IN FOR EASY POOL MONEY

Slickers have moved into the fast - growing home swimming pool business, Cascade Pools warns. Operators lure ciwtom* era with cheap prices for pools they nfvcr Intend to sell, or Sell pools without necessary equipment, it says.

Check with local Better Bus-Ine. BureaU.S or the National Swimming Pool Institute, Harvard, 1U.| Cascade advisaa*