Tuesday June 21 IWO

Tuesday June 21, 1960

To The Last Scalp

rSoviet Satellite 90 Miles Distant

The grim reality of a Soviet satellite nation being molded just 90 "miles from the U.S. mainland is beginning to be recognized by the American people as the Cuban government of Fidel Castro moves more firmly into the Soviet orbit.

It was only a few months ago that the question of communist inroads into the Castro government was hotly debated topic with no firm conclusions drawn. Even Castro denied in those months that he leaned toward communism.

Today, it is generally accepted that the Castro government is dominated by communists in key places, and that the group now in control of Cuba intends to make the island country the base of stepped-up communist operations in the Western Hemisphere.

The trade agreement already signed between Cuba and the Soviet Union appears only a prelude to perhaps an eventual military pact between them. Already some of the key people in Castros regime are studying Soviet techniques in Russia, and well-trained Soviets are in Cuba under the old title of technical advisors. Now there is talk of an exchange of visits between Castro and Soviet Premier Khrushchev which could culminate the growing bonds between the two countries, the smaller of which now almost unmistakably is in the hands of communists.

The pospect of Soviet bases in Cuba is one which the United States will find difficult to resolve. Will the Monroe Doctrine be followed if such an attempt is made, or will the United States back down from its

Thinning Ranks Of ExDeriencec.

By LYNN NISBET SENIORITY The drop out ef so many oldtimers in the General Aasemhly, either because of voluntary retirement or because their constituents decided to make a change, has accorded high seniority rating to some relatively inexperienced men. That is particularly true of lawyer members.

Claude Currie of Durham will be the only lawyer in the Senate with m(n^ than four terms to his credit. He came to the Senate ; from Montgomery county in ' 1927, from Durham in 1945, 47,

*49. 53. 55, 57 and *59, a total of eight regular sessions and three extras.

His first service is antedated by that of two othersLindsay Warren of Beaufort and Luther Hamilton of Carteret. Warren was in the Senate in 1917 and '19. the House in 19^, and came back to the Senate in 1959. Mean-while he had put in 15 years in the Congress and nearly 15 more as chief of the General Accounting Office in Washington. Luther Hamilton was in the Senate in 1921, 1957 and 59. and served in the House in 1931 and ; 33. Prom 1937 to 1951 he was a

superior court judge.

Henry Grady Shelton of Edgecombe, a farmer, holds the record for continuous tenure, having been in every regular and special session since 1949. Clarence Stone of Rockingham, a merchant, will be doing his ; second stint in the Senate after . seven regular and two special

* sessions in the House of Representativesfrom 1939 through 1947.

Lundsford Crew of Halifax will be back for his fifth consecutive term, and Joe Eagles of Wilson will be in his fifth session, having been rotated out in 1953 and 1959. Crew' is engaged in active practice of law. Claude Joe Eagles, althogh licensed lawyers, are primarily business men.

REPRESENTATIVES John W. Umstead of Orange is the old man of the House, with longest service record of any prospective member of the 1961 General assemblyand at 72 is perhaps the oldest in years. He was in the Senate in 1931 and 1939, and has represented Orange county in the past ten sessions1941 through 1959. He is an insurance executive.

John Kerr, Jr., of Warren began his legislative career earlier than any other House member, coming from Edgecombe county in 1929. He has been in evry session since 1939 except in 1951 and 53a total of nine terms in the House with more than four terms is Brantley Wwnble of Wake, who came in 1933 and every session since 1951, a total of six.

Non-lawyer House veterans in

clude Wayland Spruill of Bertie, who will be doing his tenth time on that side, plus one trip to the Senate; James B. Vogler of Mecklenburg for his ninth House term; J.P. Wallace oi Montgomery for his seventh time in the House, plus one in the Senate, and Roger Kiser of Scotland for a seventh consecutive term in the House. (The Spruill. Wallace and Vogler service was not continuous.)

ASSURED On face of tre record it might appear pre-suptuous to sa that these men will be in the next General Assefbl, when the will not be officially elected until November. However, everone of them has been ntxninated in the Democratic primary, several certified without opposition, and' their election is assured. In the few instances where Republican opponents win appear on the ballot the result is not in doubt.

CASUALTIES Whe the foregoing list indicates there will be experienced men in the next Legislature, the fact is that the casualty rate among veterans and proven competent leadership was very high this year. Either because they did not seek re-election or because the lost out in the primary a considerable number of the important committee chairman from last session will be absent in 1961.

Harriss of Rowan and Blue of Moore who headed the big money committees in the House last time will be back next year, but Copeland of Hertford and Kirkraan of Guilford who held those posts in the Senate did not run, Buchanan of Jackson and Etheridge of Dare, co-chairmen of the Important committee of conservation and development in the House, were defeated in the primary and Henkel of Iredell, who headed the Senate committee, did not seek re-election.

Turner of Guilford and Valentine of Nash, House Judiciary chairmen, dropped out, as did Medford of Haywood who headed Senate J-2, Dill of Edgecombe and Yow of New Hanover, House and Senate counties, cities and towns chairmen, did not run again.

Others who had come to be recognized as dependable leaders in previous Sessions and who fell by the wayside this time include Ed Yarborough of PrankUn, Carl Venters of Onslow and Carroll Holmes of Perquimans. George UzzeU of Rowan did not run, and Cloyd Philpott of Davidson won the nomination for Lieutenant Governor.

The presiding officers next time will not lack for good committee material, but it will be to greater degree than In many ye8u*s new bloodbecause a lot of the old standbys will not be around to carry the load.

long policy of preventing outside interference in Pan-American affairs?

Serious as the prospect of Soviet military bases in this hemisphere might be, the greater problem of Soviet infiltration and eventual domination of other Latin American governments must be given attention by this country as well as others of the hemisphere.

As a Soviet base of operations in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba occupies a strategic position both from the standpoint of military as well as political operations by the communists. Operations from Cuba, subsidized by Soviet funds, would have easy access into all of the countries of Central and South America, be they of a political or military nature.

So long as the United States continues to subsidize the Cuban economy though its purchase of large quantities of sugar above the wold market price it is likewise sharing in financing the pro-Soviet g<)v-ernment that has now taken shape in Cuba. While there may be reluctance in Washington to take economic steps against the Castro government, it would indeed be folly for the United States to continue indefinitely financing communist gains in Latin America.

The situation in Cuba requires careful and continuing evaluation by our top officials. If the present pattern in Cuba continues as it has so far developed, the day is not far off whei the United States will find a communist island fortressmilitarily and politically on its doorsteps.

The potential threat such as a situation poses to inter-American security increases with each passing month.

Little Waiting Left For Tobacco Harvest

It will be a few weeks yet before tobacco harvest- gy. ALVIN TAYLOR ing becomes general in Pitt County,' but the fact that ^ some of the new crop is being housed is always good news to the people of this tobacco-producing county.

When the first of the new crop is harvested, it signals the beginning of the peak of activity on farms throughout the county. It means that the selling season, which culminates a year's work for many thousands who earn their living raising tobacco, is not far away.

In spite of the late start because of the severe weather in March, the tobacco crop in this county has come along rapidly and the outlook at the moment is encouraging. Good growing conditions in the past few weeks have brought out the crop and uniform stands of tobacco are prevalent throughout the county. Although it is too early to guess about the yield of the crop this year, all signs now point to a considerably higher yield per acre than was the case in 1959.

The harvest season has just begun, but in the weeks ahead, Pitt County will hum with activity as its principal money crop moves from field to barn, and then to market.

SympathY Los

Castro

No Re-Runs Permittee,

Caluma tlm rolls tround once and sometiinea twice a week i(* each of us who fill this apace from day-to-day.

So. yesterday Don Schlienz. who handles the makeup of the editorial page informed me that my time had come again.

Column writing like everything else has its low points and yesterday was one of mine. I sat down at. my battered old typewriter (comptroller, please note) and studied the nothing

ness of a blank sheet of paper.

After passing the major portion of the afternoon doing this. I suddenly brightened.

I have it, I exclaimed, waking the entire nawsroom.

Leta h<H>e its not contag-eous, someone mumbled.

No, no, I said excitedly. "The answer to column problems. IU simply go through the files and pick out my better columns. Then Ill run them through the summer.

Just like television,* I said smugly. Ill call it the Best of Taylor*.**

Schlienz stared c<ddly, The Best of Taylor hasnt been written yet he slwt back.

WeU. back to the old typewriter.

Other Editors Saying.. New Industry To South

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower will return home to a sympathetic nation after the Far Eastern disasters which overtook him. But it is a sympathy bound to get lost in an uproar.

The uproar is the coining presidential campaign in which one of the issues will be Eisenhower himself on the question of his leadership or the lack of it.

It already has been made an issue by the l^nt-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. John P. Kennedy. The Massachusetts senator attacked the Eisenhower administratiim last week and called for new leadership, as some other Democrats also have done.

The humiliations Inflicted on Eisenhower were personal and national.

In Tokyo rioting mobs forced cancellation of his trip to Japan; Sunday in American-occupied Okinawa the rioting of anti-American mobs caused the President to return to the airport by back streets.

The Presidential campaign will be even more turbulent if between now and election day next November the Russians and Chinese Communists create new crises or new ways to embarrass the United States-Until cancer pushed Secretary of State John Poster Dulles out of the picture early in 1959 and then killed him, Eisenhower for years had been accused of lacking leadership. With Dulles gone, this changed,

Eisenhower then began to assert him.self in foreign affairs more actively or at least more openly.

This was recognized and commented upon. Some of the decisions he made after Dulles

death were to go to the summit; to invite Premier NUdta Khrushchev here; and to make several good-will tours of his ownhis 11-nation joinmey to Europe, Africa and Asia; his Latin-Ameiican trip; and finally the ill-starred journey to the Par East.

If everything had gone as Eisenhower apparently assumed it wouldbringing more peace in the world after a series of triumphal journeys to the far corners of the earthhis leadership would hardly have been a campaign issue.

Perhaps if Dulles had lived none of the disasters would have happened.

He might have been shrewd enough to have understood the angry mood in Tokyo and Okinawa and have kept them off the Presidents itinerary, particularly after the episode of the U2 spy plane, the summit collapse, and Khrushchevs humiliating cancellation of Elsenhowers trip to Russia.

But perhaps the administrations mishandling of the spy plane incident would never have happened, either, If Dulles had been alive.

Dulles might have been so much on top of his Job that he would have prevented the planes flight so soon before the summit conference.

The Democrats are not likely to let Eisenhowers Asian experience die out of public consciousness. They wouldnt be able to, even if they wanted to. if there is more chaos in Japan and particularly if this country loses Japan both as an ally and a military base.

At this writing no one is rash enough to predict positively what will happen in Japan.

(The Carolina Israelite)

In all the Southern States, among the state legislatures, the governors mansion, and the chambers of commerce there is a swelling movement to bring jdown new Industry from the North. The movement has gained tempo with each new success. Each state now has set aside ample funds to encourage this project. Repre^ntatives, Public relations 'experts, political leaders ^islt New York. Chicago. San Diego, and even Frankfort, Germany (to entice Volkswagen to set up a distributing center on the Carolina seacoast).

'These mass importations of northern industry to the South started shortly after the end of World War n. The first of the immigrees were the garment industries from New York trying to escape from David Dubinsky and the Intemationai Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sewing shops are now set up all over the Carolinas. Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Escape is perhaps too harsh and castigating a verb. These shops were not only escaping unionization, but let us be fair they were also attracted to the South because it is the inevitable Industrial empire of our country. It has abundant raw materials and a huge untapped source of labor.

New Industry from the North is not a total success story. While it is an operations bootstrap it has some alloy of pain. Take a case history: a factory in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is induced Southward by promises of tax remittances. rent-free property, cheap labor, and friendly environment. The factory pulls up stakes. 'The total re.sul)t is not merely employment f<^ Southerners but also unemployment for 400 Pennsylvanians who are unceremoniously dumped on the State Unemployment and Relief rolls. What Is the nations gain?. This is no conquest.

Multiply this one process by hundreds and you will have an

accurate Idea of what happens in transferring new industry from North to South.

This sort of criticism cannot stop the inevitable, nor is it intended to. But this sort of criticism ought to help open this problem to serious public discussion. Open discussion of this priMjlem will even accelerate this industrialization of the South.

The Governor's tr^ to Chicago and abroad, the roving bands of Southern Chamber of Commerce deputies, the enticing allurement seem to me only an attempt at finding an easy way out.

More difficult perhaps, but l^ore valuable to the nation as a whole, would be a Southern project to develop lurnie industries. This is the waste, to let the resources of the South lie dormant chasing the resources of the North. Nortii Carolina, for instance, is one of the richest states in raw materials. Yet Tar Heels send clay up to New York for a few dollars a ton and it comes back in the form of cups and saucers for which Tar Heels pay many thousands .of dollars a ton. North Carolina is a natural for a vast home-established pottery industry. In additi(Ni, ten or twelve counties benefit when new Industry relocates: the other ninety counties are left on their own and they are very, very poor and no attempt is made to rescue them.

North Carolina has a God-giVen opportunity to build an industry in every county beginning with fisheries and canneries on the coast coming through the peach country and the agricultural plain for all sorts of food processing and canning, and into the huge industrial Piedmont where I live.

An Industrial Commission that stays home to build up native and indigenous industries would change the face of North Carolina without causing hardship or unemployment elsewhere.

I visited with Bill Brewer and SberUl Bryant last night to listen in on the Patterson-Jo-hanssoD fight.

By now it is well-known that Patterson floco^ the big Swede in the fifth round to regain his title becoming the first heavy weight champ ever to do so.

It was an exciting fight. Patterson Shooks Johansson in the first round and Johansson staggered Patterson in the second. But it was a glorious fifth fcnr the American.

So it goes in ihs fight game. Today youre the champ. Tomorrow youre a bum.

This morning officially dawned. as the first day of summer. Local folks might not believe it after sweltering through several of the waning days of spring, but its so.

Summer officially began at 4:43 this morning EST.

Actua&y the day started off as one of the cooler ones recently In c<miparison with the 90 degree temperatures of recent days.

But its here. Summer, tiiat is.

Sometime back before school was out we received a poem signed by the teen-agers of J. H. Rose High School.

It went thusly:

Brains

School is but a Job, which you have to learn In order to graduate to a higher firm;

You study so hard that you rack your brain Because you know and realize what it is going to fean.

Now if that were Just set to music youd have rock n' roUd!

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Surely the industrial growth of North Carolina was stimulated by the calm, orderly manner in which the state met its desegregation issue. Certainly Arkansas industrial progress was knocked away, especially in Little Rock, in the last two years of the decade by the public disturbances and the shutdown of Little Rock high schools.The Arkansas Gazette.

Threat

By GEORGE B. 80K0L8KT Copyright, IMO, King FMtwet gyhdlcls. Inc.

Cuba has put itself, under Fidel Castro, in the posdtion of menacing the United fitatea on a much greater scale than ia to be measured by the size and significance of ttie Island. The

realistic peril to the United

States is that when Khrushcbev visits Cut, a mutual security pact will be agreed upon between Cuba and Soviet Russia. That, in effect, puts Soviet Russia on our door^p and would mean that Cuba would become part of tl Soviet Universal State. Under such a

pact, Russia could estaWish

submarine bases, military airfields and rocket pads in Cuba. This may Influence other nations in Latin America.

Of course, under the Monroe Doctrine and the Platt Amendments that would have been impossible. The United States wouM have acted immediately to protect this country from such a disaster. We revoked these ftmdamentals of American policy, Init wt are not left helpless. ,

The Organization of American sutes (0A8) has the authority to move Into Cuba to aave that country from Communism. The Caracas 1954 Declaration, in connection with Article 6 of the Rk) Pact, reads as follows;

. . .the dominatiim or the control of the political Institutions of any American State by the International Communist movement extending to this hemisphere a political sytem of an extra-continental Power would constitute a threat to the sovereignty and politiod independence of the American Sutes, endangering the peace of America, and would call for consulUtion and* appropriate action in accordance with existing treaties." The reaolu-tlon recommended tliat each Government should take measures to force dtedoanre of the identity, activities, and sources of funds of those who were spreading propaganda for International Communism or acting as its agent, and that all Gov-ernmenu should exchange information to strengthen the campaign against Communism. 'The rerolutlon ended with the sUtement that it was **desifn-ed to protect and not to impair the inalienable right of each American ate freely to choose its own form of Government

and economic system and to live tu own social and cultural life.*

In a word, the 0A8 can move to prevent t infiltration of any Latin American country by Communism. It is believed by some Latin American experts that If a free, internationally protected election were held in Cuba today, Castro could not be elected, particulariy if the Cubans who have left that country during the Castro regime, returned to it to vote. Fidel Castros popularity is on the wane and Khrushchev is coming to Cuba to bolster it.

There is another factor in this situation. Russia has long been annoyed that Ue United sutes and Turkey and Iran have mutual security pacU. As a matter of fact, Turkey and Iran are old allies of oura and have withstood Soviet efforU to infiltrate and to conquer them. Soviet Russia managed to Uke Iraq out of this group of nations. but Turkey and Iran have stood firm.

It could beand this is speculative but quite within the range of possibilitythat Soviet Russia is engaging upon this Cuban gambit with the object of bringing pressure upon the United sutes to relinquish its relationship with Turkey and and Iran. Instead of the United sutes conUining Soviet Russia according to the Truman Doctrine, Soviet Russia is now containing the United States.

This is a further extension of the Stalinist policy whiich Khrushchev has consistently opposed. I^om all that Khrushchev said and did prior to the Paris Summit Fiasco, it is clear tiiat he believed in peaceful co-existence as a successful device for esUblishing Marxism in the Western world. The evidence is that whereas SUlin was successful in Eastern Europe and in China, Khrushchev was making enormous and ominous progress in Western Europe and the United SUtes. He might have succeeded in lulling (Continued on page 5)

Deflation In The Distant Future

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLA.SS THE SPIRITUAL APPROACH TO LIFE

Prom one of the readers of this feature comes the following: "I am for anything that is for the betterment of man on the earth, and I let those that believe that they are going to get more than five feet of dirt on their noses go to it.

Anybody who has any social consciousness whatever is in favoro f everything that is for the betterment of man on the earth. The passion for making the lot of man better is know'n zs humanism. The only quarrel som^ of lus have with humanism is that we are sure that it is a result and not a cause. To go about trying to make the world better without making

men better is futile, and to try to msce men better without regenerating their hearts by the power of religious faith has not met with wide success.

There are some of us who believe that the only answer to life problems is a religious approach to life are interested only people sincerely interested in prayers and preaching are those who believe that prayers and preaching arc factors which help release the latent forces necessary for human betterment.

So w are all in favor of the things that will better the life of men on the earth. Furthermore, many of us believe that life has not come to an end when people get five feet of dirt tramped down on their noses.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Predicted deflation is so far away many of us living will never see it.

In recent weeks, some econo-0 mists and analysists have been forecasting the end of inflation, if not actual deflation.

One basis has been the fact that the long period of shortages is at an end in almost all industries. When there are more goods than money, prices go down, according to classic economic concepts. And a drop in prices Is surely deflationary.

The other basis is that the Federal Reserve has started lowering the Interest rate. Increasing the interest rate is a sure way to check InflaUcKi, therefore, when the Federal Reserve acts to decrease the rate, the Idea gets around that it must know something, and the only thing it could know to prompt this action would be that deflation is pending.

A MINORITY VOICE

Despite the judgment of the many economists w)io have foreseen the end of inflation, and despite the seeming knowingness of the Federal Reserve, anything more than a moderation of present inflation seems unlikely.

Wages will continue to rise. The Congress has ruled that employers and employees must bargain over demands, and to employees and union leaders, that means that unions must demand rriore each time. No one ever bargained by accepting a first offer The Congress has also voted an Increase in government wages

Betvi^een now and the end of 1961, every major labor contract will come up for renewal or adjustment. And in every one. the unions will demand morein fringes if not In hourly rates. And every raise must be translated Into prices one way or another.

Cojisumer credit continues to increase and that, too, is in

flationary. In April, consumers increased outstanding instalment debts by $533,000,000. That means they bought that much more worth of goods than they.paid for, and the money supply or its equivalent was increased by that much in that month.

WHAT OF COMMODITIES

But even if wages, manufacturers prices and credit go up, will commodity price declines counterbalance them?

Probably not. While supplies have increaled, two factors tend to break prices. One is the fact that many commodities prices get government support, which prevents them sinking to supply-and-demand levels. The other Is that many commodity prices are administereda fancy word for price-tamperingthese days.

And even without price-fixing by government or corporations, prices of commodities cannot sink very far because wages are part of so many of them.

For example, an abundance of cotton, even without government

price pegging. Would not lower the price much because teamsters, railroadmen, and all who work with cotton will want more money.

Automation may reduce some manufacturing costs, but wage increases have generally offset savings from automation.

In short, although the end of inflation may be desirable, the best we can hope for Is a moderation. ^

FAIR-TRADERS LOSING STATE OF IOWA

So-called (air trade may be losing another state. An Iowa district court has held the nonsigner clause in the state price-fixing law unconstitutional.

These clauses provide that when a manufacturer and one retailer agree on a retail price, every other retailer, though he did not sign the original agreement, Is bound to charge the same prices.

This, Judge Ray C. Fountain, held unconstitutional. The case will probably be appealed.