rOUKTHE Dailt kEFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C

Wediwday, Jun^ Z2,

Wednesday, June 22, 1960

At Our Throat

Some Good News For Taxpayers

Preliminary reports on budget considerations by the Pitt County Commissioners and the Greenville City Council indicate that each of the local government units will hold the current tax rates for the fiscal year which begins Julyl.

These reports represent good news to taxpayers and indeed reflect credit on the governing boards whose job it has been to prepare the budgets for the coming fiscal year.

In the case of the countys budget, tentative figures indicate the total expenditures this year will be some $6,200 above those of the 1959-60 fiscal year. Considering the total budget in excess of $1.6 million, the increase is small indeed.

Among the factors which made possible the holding of the county-wide tax rate at $1.23 were the increased revenues from existing tax levies, the paring of departmental budget requests to keep them within the anticipated revenue from the current levies, and the slicing of one-cent off the special industrial development levy adopted by the county two years ago.

In the case of the citys budget, which has not yet been announced in detail, the same factors applied in respect to revenues and appropriations. Another factor which apparently has entered the Greenville budget-tax rate picture is the capital improvements bond issue which is to be submitted to the voters later this year. Apparently most of the capital improvements during the coming fiscal year will be in-

! Drawn-Out Case ?or The Courts

Br LYNN NISBET SLKCnON-^TlM question of lefH vaUdlty of a special eleo-oa t5 fill a vacancy in the Coesrtw from the 12th district of North Carolina almost certainly wUl bo in the courts for a kHif tanc after the controversial data of June 25 has passed.

One interestinc feature is that this incident may afford the first opportunity for the Attorney General of tlus United States to intervene in a North Carolina election under iwovis-ions of the new civil rights ^lavu. And the race question is not remotely involved.

The generally agreed upon facts to date are about these: David M. Hall, representative from the 12th dist^t in the Congress, died last February. Constitutional 'and statutory provisions required the Governor of North Carolina to order a special electiwi to fill the vacancy, but no time limit was set out, either for the election call or the period intervening between the order and the date set. Govemw Hodges ordered a special primary for the short term to be held on the same day as the statutory regular primary for the full term, on May 28.

In that primary Heinz Reliman won the Republican nomination for both terms and Roy A. Taylor, who lacked a few votes of a clear majority, was ceded the Democratic nomination when runner-up Thad Bry-aon declined to ask for a second chance.

- On June 7. the same day the IBtate Board of Elections certified primary results, the Governor issued a proclamation calling the special election to be held on June 25. the date of the second primary for Governor and other officers, and only 18 days away.

RoUmap immediately protested and asked the State Board of Elections to leave his name off the special election ballot. Attorney General Wade Brutcm 'advised the board Uiat the ballots would have to be printed on basis of primary results.

COURTSRoDman then went Into Wake County Superior Court, pleaded another statute allowing any candidate to withdraw ft) days before the election. and obtained an order signed by Judge Hamilton Hob-good requiring the State Board to leave RoUmans name off the special election ballot. The State did not sppeal that decision. Ballots were printed and have been distributed to counties In the district without the name of any Republican candidate. but with space for write-in names.

Rollman continued his protest about the illegality of the

special election, beciuse of the time elment. and he has been joined by William E. Cobb, Republican state chairman, and the whole Republican organiza-ti(m. They came into Wake County Superior Court again cm June 15. They offered purely partisan objroUoos to mixing up a general election with what is essentially a Democratic nominating primary.

More fundamental objecticms were raised based on the time element precluding additional registration and the use of absentee ballotslegal in the special general election, but outlawed as to primary. No absentee ballots have been provided. Since the only office involved is membership in the Congress, intervention of the Federal courts would be more justified than if the voting rights of citizens were questioned only on State and local levels.

PRECEDENT The fact-conceded by almost everybody except the Republican candidatethat the special election is little more than a perfunctory formality, does not prevent this situation from becoming precedent-making. There is possibility that resulting court action might become as important as such things as the U.S., Supreme Court decree about one sick chicken in Brooklyn knocking out the NRA program of early New Ded days.

FIRST CLASS At a news conference held by Rollman at Raleigh this week, he said the calling of a congressional election within 18 days was a 'first class blunder, in view of other requirements for registration, absentee voUng, withdrawal of candidates, etc.

When asked by reportera why he was still so interested, since he already had gotten his name off the ballot, Rollman pointed out a sort of second-claaa status of political parties. Since neither the Democratic nor Republican party organizations in North Carolina are corporate entities, they cannot sue or be sued. Court action must be instigated, prosecuted and defended by individuals.

So it is that Heinz Rollman or Bill Cobb must institute the court actions as individuals, not as the Republican party. Defendants in the actions, however. are not the Individual Democrats, but the officers who In their official capacity conatl-tue the State of North Carolina.

There have been instances when individual Democrats had to assume the responsibility for court action in election cases. That raises the interesting question, although not pertinent to the Instant case, of whether political parties should be required to attain corporate entity as a condition for offering candidates in elections.

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duded in this bond proposal rather than in the regular operational budget for the year. Even so, the current portion of the citys tax rate that is earmarked for debt service apparently will be sufficient to retire the proposed bond issue in future years if the issue is approved by the voters. ^

Considering the fact that more services are being required each year from local governments, plus the fact that the cost of government operations are otherwise also increasing, it is a significant achievement that the tax rates have been held to their current level.

The rates for both Greenville and Pitt County compare favorably with those of comparable cities and counties throughout North Carolina. At the same time, the services received by the rqsidents of the -city and the county likewise compare favorably with those received by other cities and counties, many of which have tax structures considerably higher than those of Greenville and Pitt County.

The budgets of Pitt County and Greenville are subject to alteration between now and the time they are finally adopted, but any revisions now probably would be minor, and would hardly alter the projected tax rates.

So far as local taxes are concerned, the people of Greenville and Pitt County have been spared a rate increase that has become far too common from budget to budget at other levels of government.

No Logical Reason For House To Avoid Issue

Members of the House of Representatives should follow-the example of the Senate by giving approval to legislation which would publicize at least once each year the over-seas expenses of members of Congress on official government business.

As an amendment tacked on to an appropriations bill, the Senate gave its approval by a vote of more than two to one. The House, which recently has been hit by publicity concerning questionable expenditures of taxpayers funds by members on domestic and overseas business, apparently may be more reluctant than the Senate to approve the measure.

There seems no logical reason why the keeping of adequate public records on expenditures should not apply to all members of Congress just as it applies to other branches and agencies of the government. The money being spent, after all, belongs to the citizens of the nation. A member of Congress should no more be granted immunity from public scrutiny if he throws away tax money than any other official or employe of the federal government.

Detailed records on congressional expenditures should be a matter Of public record, and the House should follow the example of the Senate by voting for the pleasure that has been proposed to guarantee that such records are kept public.

The money belongs to the people, not to members of Congress, and the people have every right to know what their elected representatives do with the tax funds at their disposal.

By DON SCHLIENZ

D

in me raDer--

According to Tuesday'* Reflector we learn (1) Ingemar Johansson lost the heavyweight title back to Floyd Patterson (aspredicted); and (2) Huckleberry Hound won an Emmy as the most outstanding childrens TV program.

About No. 1 ,

Reflector Sports Editor Johnny Hudson wasnt kidding when he said he wrote a column picking Floyd; then lost his chance at fame because there was no room for it in Mondays paper. As a matter of fact, there was little room for anything on that particular day.

Another point: a consider

able number of sports writers in eastern North Carolina picked Patterson to upset the odds and fool the experts(such as a writer for Sports Illustrated)--

whose eyes for the tangible qualities of a champion were dazzled by the Intangibles of glamor Introduced by tl Swede.

Actually, if boxing has not deterionUed so far that it cannot be helped, ray notion is that the business acumen and showmanship of Ingo may be a turning point. That defeat of a year ago. the protracted effort to work (Hit details of a re-match, the conduct of the interim champion. . .all made an impression on Patterson. It could make him one of the aU*time ring grcaU. Although Floyd is young, he has a wealth of experience In the ring and outside to guide him.

Now for LitUe Huck:

He and his friends . . . Yogi. Booboo, old Mr. Jinks and Dixie and Pixie. . .were worth an Em-

Other Editors Saying..

6Ction 1 im6 Appalling, But--So What?

Of Examination

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-For the first time in eight years the nation will undertake a searching, self-examination to see where it is going. This self-examination will become plain in the presidential campaign.

The personal and national humiliation inflicted on President Eisenhower at the summit, in Japan, on Okinawaplus the anti-Americanism demonstrated in Cuba and other Latin American countries bear testimony to this:

1. In eight years the Communists have increased enormously in power, self-confidence, and influence. *

2. American prestige and influence have suffered damage.

3. One of the cornerstones of the American defense system Japanmay be in jeopardy. If the Communist, neutralist, and anti-American sentiment combines to boil over there, Japan can be lost to the defense system.

In the 1952 presidential campaign the country was unhappy over the Korean War and split down the middle by McCarthy-ism which had made Americans suspicious even of one another. It was a time of deep trouble.

Eisenhower promised peace In Korea. At home he looked like the man who could restore quiet and harmony. He was elected. He did get peace in Korea; he gave the nation a sense of stability, and McCarthyism died.

But he took no new direction In foreign policy. He took over and extended the basic foreign policy established by President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

This can be simply stated as the policy of containment, of building military bases and alliances around the edges of the Communist world. It was a policy established when the United States had a monopoly on the hydrogen bomb and there were no missiles.

In addition, Eisenhower took

over and continued the Truman-Acheson foreign aid program.

But in recent years the United States has suffered one shock after another. Iraq dropped out of the Middle East defense system against Russia; the Arab world, led by Egypts President Nasser, asserted itself after centuries and was no longer docile to the West; anti-American riots developed in Latin America when Vice President Richard M. Nixon visited there. Yet, because these events occurred separately over a period of years they tended to be blurred in American memory, mory.

There was no deep self-examination in the 1956 campaign when Eisenhower was re-elected.

On the surface, the world was calm and America seemed to have good control.

The changes in the Communist world were profound, starting with the death of Stalin in 1953, shortly after Eisenhower became president.

Stalins idea of Communist expansion and influence seemed limited to acts of terror, threats of force, and military action where possible, as in Korea.

His principal successor, Premier Nikita Khrushchev, repudiated both Stalin and his policy. He soft-pedaled force and began Increasing Communist in

fluence with propaganda, economic help, and undeniable evi

dence of the quick progress to be made under communism.

But while Russian foreign policy shifted its tactics in a revolutionary way, American foreign policy has remained

pretty much the same.

This policy in the years ahead must undergo intense reap

praisal, for there is no reason to think anti-Americanism will not grow or that Russian power and influence will not influence.

It is certain American influence is not increasing. How can it be made to? Tliat will be the central foreign policy issue of the presidential campaign.

(Henderson Dispatch)

Senator Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, himself a liberal, held up a small lamp socket and a set of wrenches as he spoke to the worlds greatest deliberative body. The lamp socket be said, cost twenty-five cents in retail stores but the Navy paid $21.10 for it. The wrenches, for which the Navy paid $29, cost him $3 89 in a capital store. Eight small drill bushings were acquired by the Air Force for $9.65 each, but were appraised at twenty-five to fifty cents each.

Thenf^ the scholarly solon shook his head with the exclamation, Appalling waste!

There were other items In the display exhibited to the Senate as Douglas charged the military procurement system with paying six to ten times the value of various sorts of equipment. He* estimated the military squandered from two to three billion dollars a year through present practices and wasteful metliods. This he argued,^ could be saved and applied toward new tanks, planes, guns and missiles if there were a will and necessity to do so.

The senator also castigated the military for letting contracts by negotiation instead of through competitive bids.

Appalling it is indeed? So what? Is the country helpless and at the mercy of military bureaucrats? Does Congress have or does it lack the power to turn thumbs down on such practices? Is Senator Douglas the only man on Capitol Hill who is concerned aMut such wanton waste?

If Congress should trim the defense budget to the extent alleged in this wastefulness, then there would be a squawk that necessary funds are being denied and thus endangering the national security.

One wonders if there is any desire on the part of the procurement service to economize, or if top brass merely hand over to the President what they claim is needed, and the President then passes it on to Congress as a must appropriation.

It is not patriotic, to say the least, for leaders who are responsible for the national security to squander mtmey made available to them, and which is exacted from the pockets of taxpayers to the extend that it is not actually needed.

We still believe that Congress itself could do something about these practices. It must share some of the responsibility, along with high echelons of authority. And when it ignores conditions cited by Senator Douglas it is equally guilty of waste. If gentlemen who do the buying arc not willing or not interested in economies of this character, they should be replaced by men who are. Private business would neither accept nor could it exist on policies pursued by government agencies in their wastefiU tactics.

Assuming that the senator is on solid ground in his charges, what will he and his colleagues do about it. Merely to direct attention to these abuses is no remedy at all.

my apiece. The judges didnt see it that way. There are a lot things the judges didnt see my way; for instance, HudUebrry Hound somehow wound up in the childrens program category.

This, naturgOy. Is nonsense. There havn been a number of Tuesday eveninss* when Fd heap my supper on a plats and join the family watching Hock in the living room. The cartoons are for people trcNCQ age 2 to a hundred and two.

I saw part of the Xmmy awards being distributed, and the number of winning showa and performances I missed during the past year of televiewing was someUiing of a surjnise.

It goes to ghow you cant read and keep up 4th twenty-oos inch screen, too.

Somewhere** within Uie (Ustrict served by our bloodmobUe there is a future lucky recipient of blood or plasxna drawn from Schlienz veins.

Take my word for it; Tuesdays pint was a vintage quality. Too bad the container is indistins-ulshable from any of the other jara, but its contents are high octane.

AH yesterday me and my blood were living it up; making adventure of drudgen pcrform-tnf i^y*8 tabm with love and dispatch; aU bubbling joy and happiness-It was something to be shared; just too good for boarding.

S(Hneday, s(newbere. aome-body

Who is on their last legs Will be given a iHnt of fluid from a very ordinary looking jar. And as soon as it starts chrtulsttng aroand, the patient is to and go home.

Doctors and nurses will stand around disbelieving their eyes; and nobody will know the reason fcM* such a medical miracle.

But if you bear of it. . .and I hear of it. . .

Well know. That missing Schlienz blood is finally circulating again.

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Someone has said that failure to take part in politics has its penalties, the greatest of which is to be ruled by your Inferiors. This should be ample reason for all of us to vow that politics after all, is our business, as is the destiny of this land of our ours. We can have good government if we are vigUant and determined in our effort to at-Uln it. Chester (HI.) Herald-Tribune.

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By GEORGE E. S0K0L8RT Oopyrighl. IMO, Ktog Eeatures Syadkate. Inc.

Soviet agents take the law in their own hands whenever they so desire. Xt is probable that all agents do that. For Instancr. Israeli agents kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from the ArgenUne. The puzzling C^jer case also is In point:

On the evening of November 29, 1859, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department was informed by PoUsb Embassy and State Department officials that it had been reported by Antoni Czajer that sometime during the day while he was out with his two children, his wife was Brutally attacked by three men who had forced their way Into the Czajer apartment in an announced quest for photographs and documents. Zofia Czajer. the assaulted woman, is the wife of Antoni Czajer, Second Secretary ' of the PiHish Embasay in Washington. The police were unable to question .Mrs. Czajer fan-mediately because of her hysterical coodifion and the interference of the Polish Embassy officials who insisted on their right of extraterritoriality.

Because of diplomatic interference. the police were forced to wait 19 days before being permitted by the Polish Embassy to interview Mrs. Czajer although she was full capable of answering qoeeUons. The interview on December 18. 1950. lasted only one hour as Mrs. Czajer became upaei when questioned on crucial p<^nts. The interview and suhsequeot poSica InveaUgation revealed several factors which remain onexplataed. Mrs. Chtajer stated she first beeama aware of the presence of the intruders wbni she was shaken awake by one of them. Yet the apartment door was always kept heavily locked and there was no evidence of forced entry. Police concluded tttt entry had been achieved by invttatton or by a duplicata key. Yet evmi three weeks after the incident, no request had been made to change the door lock. Indicatteg a lack of fear that a duplimite ke was available. The assumption must be that Mrs. C^jer knew who her Intruder was. but no one can understand why the police were called in at all.

Police were required to watt several days before being permitted to process the apartment for fingerprints, and then only fingerprinU of the Czajer family were k>cated. Thia. despite the fact that one of the three alleged intruder was ungloved, as proved by a minute description of a ring be wore.

It alsa seemed odd to police that Mil. Czajer was able to five a detailed description of only one man and had the vaguest re-coUectkm of the remaiidng two. Mrs. Czajer recalled to police how she was able to prevent the three men from taking one article they had located by wresting it from their grasp.

It Is not understandabte how Mrs. Caijcr could describe anything if she was in the semi-conscious condition which her husband described. The assump-Uon is that the

whole maner was of some polti-cal or esplonage slgnificaoee. partcularly as much attention was paid to It in Poland. There the Ministry of Foreign Affairs treated it as an assault on a Polish woman in Washinglsn, but It did not say why it was done.

Such puzzling cases often lead to the conclusion that acme inner aRualion is involved, fite intruderii often looking for documents because they suspect a double-cross, double espionage, or counter espionage. Sometimes. particularly in the ease of a woman, an attack is made on a bIaM>er-mouth to frigMen her. Of course, not only women are blabber-mouiha or are in-dJhsoreet. SomeUmcs. men do very foolish things.

For instance, there is the case of a United States citizen on official business in an Iroo Curtain country who was c<mi* promised by a combiiiation of Communist-provided maid service and an infra-red esmera which takes pictures in the dark. When Communist officials attempted to blackmail him into espionage, be refused to cooperate and told his superiors what had happened. It was necessary to transfer him to another post.

Tlie Infra-red camera is used constantly in this work. It takes (Continued oo Page 14)

Boycotts Will Cost U. S.. More

Opinions In Brief

One thing dictators cant stand is a free press. Cuba has provided the world with another tragic example of that truism. One by one the newspapers which were in any way critical of the Castro government have been silenced. Industrial New.'i R-vlew.

spend one billion dollars a year on apple pies. Fort William (Ont.) Timcs-Journal.

Our system of higher education needs to put its best brains to work to whip the cost problem if were to prevent a great

wa.ste of some of our l)Ost talent. The Atlanta Journal.

We have growm so accustomed to the presentation of fantastic totals of dollars spent on gambling and liquor that It is (niely refreshing to rrad that.the people of the United States

"Man has made up 32,600,000 laws. No wonder he has to have a lawyer to keep him out of trouble. Greensboro (Ga.) Herald-Joumal.

By ELMER ROESSNER

One of the many painful things about the cancellation of President Eisenhowers visit to Japan is that it will cut Japanese exports to the United States. This will tend to cut the earnings of Japanese workers and to reduce an already low standard of living.

Before the Eisenhower visit was proposed, a strong resentment had been building up against Japanese goods in this country.

Imports of Japanese cameras, optical goods, sewing ina-clunes, electronic components, textiles, apparel and other goods had aroused both American manufacturers and American labor. Both were indignant at. what w'a.s considered an export of jolis from the United States.

Boycotts broke out in many Southern textile towns. Stores, usually it) mill town.s, posted sixn.s reading, No Japanese goods sold here.

TRUST LAWS WEIGHED

Jacob P. Potofsky, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, had threatened boycotts of companies handling foreign - made goods, with meaningful glances toward Japan.

While the threat has yet to be a violation of the Sherman ment has taken it seriously enough to look into the possibility that such a boycott would bea aviolation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

In other industries confronted with competition from Japanese imports, similar threats of boycotts have been discussed.

After violence broke out in Japan, the possibilities of American counteractions increa.sed. The industry and union proposals for a boycott, once considered self - serving schemes, suddenly took on red. white and blue hues.

L.awrence Giwdman, president of the Community Discount Department Stores chain,

a large retailer of Japanese products, was quoted as saying that he would support a boycott of Japanese goods if It would help the American cause. SPONTANEOUS BOYCOTTS

Merchants in TaiH>ahannock. Va., agreed to stop buying Jap-< anese goods until the Japanese demonstrations ceased. And in other cities retailers are becoming more cautious about stocking made-in-Japan goods. And no one knows how many consumers are not buying Japanese products because they resent the attitude of some Japanese toward Mr. Eisenhower ancl the United States.

Boycotts of Japanese goods will cut into the Japanese economy severely. They could force Japan to recotLsider trading with China and expanding trade with Russia - which can lead to the tolling of the bell for democracy in Japan.

Almo.st no Ameri(snn llke-t what has happened in Japan in

the last week. But widespread boycotts of Japanese goods will cost us tnore in money than they wjQl cost the Japanese because Japan buys more from us than we buy from Japan. And they can be even more costly to usin life am well as moneyif they push Japan toward the Moscow-Peijidsig axis.

LET YOUR CHILD WORK;

IT WONT COST YOU!

No matter how miMh your son or daughter makes this summer, you can still claim an exemption for him if you fiun-ish more than hall of his support and if he wont reach 19 this year or was a student for part of each of five months this year.

And if you want to double your tax beneills. hire the kid yourself. You can deduct wag* es paid (provided they are reasonable). you can still take the dependency deduction, and he gets his own exemption.