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PMlE FOURTHi DAILY REFLECTOiL GREENVILLE, N. C

Thtartiiay, Aufiut 4, 1960

Thursday, August 4, 1960

The Eagle Does Not Cackle

Better Off Using Local Markets

Georgia's blue-tagging of out-of-state tobacco on ita markets has in effect been settled on a temporary basis for the remainder of this year. Certainly before another marketing season opens in Georgia, the legal-liy of the practice should be finally determined

A federal court restraining order issued Monday of this week stopped the Georgia practice under which out-of-state tobacco was tagged with a special blue card Since then, for all practical purposes, there has been no discrimination between the Georgia leaf and the leaf from the Carolinas offered on Georgias warehouse floors. Certainly the broad discrepancy in prices which prevailed the first couple of days of the selling season have apparently disappeared.

With the hearing on the restraining order slated for August 10, only one day before the opening of the Border Belt, Georgias blue-tag law will be ineffective for the remainder of this selling season. Most of the Carolinas tobacco which moves into Georgia auction markets does so early in the season before the opening of the Border Belt. When that belt opens its auction fcason, the flow of Carolina's tobacco to Georgia is virtually shut off. Farmers who want to sell their crop early can do so closer home without traveling all the way to Georgia.

The net effect of the blue-tag law, coupled with the reaction of companies which all but passed up all the Carolinas' tobacco on Georgia markets, ha.s been to stir up commotion in the tobacco industry and to sharply decrease the volume of tobacco being sold on the Border and Eastern Belts when those markets open later this month.

Sianificance In

Excess Revenues

By LYNN NISBET

STATE REVENUE The

Slat 0 North Carolina collected nearly five and a quarter million dollars more in taxes from its citizens in July of 1960 than in July of last year. Pour million of that increase was due to the new withholding plan for collection of income taxes, leaving an actual increase of about a millfoii dollars in the general fund account The significant fact is not the higher receipts, but the excess of collections above estimates made by the General Assembly as basis for appropriations. More money had been anticipated and appropriated, so the five million increase is not a fair comparison.

It appears that the estimates of revenue were too low. and despite record-breaking appropriations there is Ukely to be a substantial surplus at the end of the current fiscal year next June 30. The dlsp<iiion of that surplus wUl be cause tor major controversy in the next General Assembly, School teachers are contending that the 5 per cent contingency bonus for the 1959-60 and years should be ear

ned forward as a pan of the *'A budget as a base salary. Since it was provided that no deductions for retirement should be taken from that extra contingent pay, the budget folks insist it was clearly a bonus, not g base salary raise.

Lhiring his primary campaigns Oovbior-nominaie Terry Sanford argued that increased yield from existhig tax schedules would enable the State to spend many millions more for public schools without new taxes- The collection records to date seem to Justify that view U the General Assembly wants to use the additional money for such purpose. That is where the battle is apt to be waged.

PERMANENT Some members of the Advisory Budget Commission are convinced that any surplus moneys should be dedicated to non-recurring pcrmanen{^, improvement or debt reduction items rather than for current operating expenses of State gov-erniaenl. It is recalled that one of the first acts of the 1945 General Assembly was earmark enough of the war lime accumulated surplus to pay off the general fund Stste debt. Conditions were not conducive to building that year, but in 1947 most of the remaining surplus was allocated for permanent capital improvements.

Informal and unofficial estimates of the probable surplus next July range from fifty million to more than a hundred million dollars. On its recent tour of State insiituiioas the Advisory

Budget Commission entertained requests for more than a hundred million dollars for improvements and expansion of institutional facilities. These needs can be met only by use of the surplus or issuance of bonds by vote of the people. In either event, chances are that not more than thirty to forty millions will be approved by the budget folks, approximately one-third of the total requests. What the General Assembly and the voters will do about making money available Is problematic. The record of bond voting in recent years Indicates that the people are willing to take a chance on continuing prosperity. The traditionally consen'ative Advisory Budget Commission doubts the people will vote necessary bonds if the accumulated surplus Is plowed into current operation expenses.

One suggestion is that in lieu of contingent promises of higher salaries, the accumulated and anticipated surplus funda be devoted to buildings on contingent basUt borderline needs for facilities be authoriied "if the money is available.

PARTY Recipients of invitations to the big Democratic luncheon at the State fairgrounds next Tuesday hope they will not have to down a receiving line to shake hands with all the honor guests. The invitations read:

Paul H. Thompson. Democratic national committeeman: Terry Sanford, Democratic nominee for Governor; H. Cloyd Phllpott, Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor; Senator B. Everett Jordan, Democratic nominee for . S. Senate, request the pleasure of your company at a buffet luncheon on August 9, at 12:30 pjn., SUte Pair Arena, Raleigh, North Carolina, in honor of Governor Luther H. Hodges. Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.. Woodrow W. Jones; Democratic members of the U. S. Congre.ss from North Carolina; Democratic nominees for thp Council of State; Democratic Executive Committee members; Delegates to the I960 Democratic National Convention; Chairmen and Vice-chairmen of County Executive Committees; Democratic nominees for the General Assembly, and husbands and wives.

That adds up to four hosts and a thousand or more honor guests. This luncheon, which will come right after the formal meeting of the SUte Democratic executive committee, will serve as a kick-off for the fall general election campaign. It 1* a new idea, one of the innovations which may be expected under the leaderahip of Governor-nora-inate Sanford._

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It is also likely that regardless of the final outcome of the court test of the Georgia blue-tag law, less tobacco from the Carolinas wjll flow to Georgia markets in future years. Many farmers who in years past have .sold some of theeir crop in Georgia have become disgruntled over their treatment on the Georgia markets this year and have decided to sell their tobacco at home in the future.

In the long run, in our opinion, tobacco growers of the Carolinas will be better off to keep theif tobacco at home to sell on the markets here and let the Georgia markets handle only Georgia tobacco. ^

Improvement In Rural Fire Protection Seen

Perhaps more than at any other season of the year, the value of many community fire departments in Pitt County is recognized in saving of literally thousands of dollars worth of buildings and tobacco that otherwi.se would be lost to fires.

The tobacco curing season is the period in which fires in the rural areas of Pitt County are more num-erou.s than at any other time. To be sure, these community fire departments have small success in saving tobacco barns that are ablaze when they are called. Without the response of these fire departments, however, the number of other farm buildings annually lost to fire would increase astoundingly.

In most cases tobacco barns are located near other barns and other farm buildings. Many times the building that is afire is beyond saving by the time a volunteer fire company arrives. Evm so, these firemen are able to prevent the fire from spreading to other buildings and thus prevent the losses from becoming great-er.

Although the rural areas of Pitt County still lack the calibre of fire protection many people would like to see, there has been a vast improvement in recent years with the establishment of a number of community fire departments. There are few rural areas of the county today that cannot be reached in a relatively short time by one fire department or another. The promptness with which these volunteer departments respond to calls has been an important factor in keeping fire losses to a minimum in rural areas of the county.

Already this year many tobacco barns have burn-have burned to the ground in this county, and a con-.iiderable amount of tobacco has been lost in these fire.s. Even so, the total loss in tobacco and farm build-iiig.s.is considerably less than what it would have been had not community fire departments been ready and willing to answer calls throughout the rural areas.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

o IrnDQCt From Report

What has th urprising report on Crest toothpaste by the Council on Dental Therapeutics of the American Dental Association done locally?

Nothing, as yet, two druggists reported.

Each of the pharmacists said they could detect no particular change in the sales pattern of the great number of tooth paste brands.

In an unprecedented action the

Council recognized the usefulness of Crest toothpaste as a caries preventive agent.

The Council even went so far as to allow Proctor and Gamble, manufacturers of the dentifrice, to use the following statement in their advertisements;

"Crest has been shown to be an effective anticaries dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional

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By JOHN SCALI

WASHINGTON (AF> Doug-last Dillon, a fellow who talks tough to the Soviet Union, but softly to Congress, seems to be the backstage favorite for the Job of secretary of state if Vice President Richard M. Nixon is elected president-

Neither Nixon, the Republican standard bearer, nor Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, have given solid clues on choices for the top cabinet post. But Kennedy has two leading prospects in Chester Bowles and Adlai E. Stevenson, his foreign policy advisors.

Nixon could always turn to some dark horse candidate as his selection. But lately in Republican circles, the name of Dillon, the Stale Departmenfs No- 2 man, has been bobbing up in Informal surveys.

Dillon, a millionaire former investment banker, is mentioned more fi'cquently than former New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey who might be available as Nixon's foreign policy chief, if a^ked.

Dillon a.ssets are readily apparent. He would be far less controversial than Dewey who has voiced some biting criticism of Democrats. For 7V* year* Dillon has worked in the State Department's top echelon handling many of the tough international problems that wUI continue to plague the nation in the 1960s.

A third important reason could be the increasingly close Nixon-DUlon friendship that has developed in the past few months. DlUons aides confirm that the two men have met frequently and sometimes talked twice daily on the phone.

All these talks were objectiv# discussions of foreign policy problems, they say. without any move by Dillon to prove Nixon with campaign ammunition to shoot at the Democrats.

Dillon is known, however, to be delighted with the stress Nixon put on foreign aid and long-term help to underdeveloped countries in hLx speech accepting the Domination for the presidency.

Dillons views perhaps were also visible in Nixons belated pledge to seek to step up the nation's rate of economic growth in order to keep ahead of the Soviet Unions mounting industrial drive.

Por two years, Dillon w-as the lone administraUon voice publicly advocating this, at a time when such suggestions came mainly from the Democrats and New Yorks Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Dillons readiness to champion liberal economic-trade policies. many of them conceived under Democratic administrations. helps explain his popularity with Democrats.

But his main appeal is his low key non-nonsense approach to questions asked him at hearings. He gives congressmen a maximum of information and a minimum of diplomatic double-talk. He backs up his replies with detailed statistics, facts, and figures.

Ooinions

"n Brief

"We are pleased with the re-ix>rt of the American Bible Society that it distributed a record of n.650.917 volume.<i of the Scriptures in thi.s country and abroad last year. The figure exceeded by a substantial margin the average of 15 million for th* six years previously. Nothing but good can come from this record distribution of the Bible."Boonton IN.J.) Timea-Bulletln. o

(Washington Dally News)

We dont know how much impact the present efforts toward a "write-in campaign for Beverly Lake will have In North Carolina,

But we do know that such an effort, regardless of sixe and scope will only serve to hurt the Democratic party. Alter all, a "write-in campaign means only one thing write-in votes by citizens normally considered to be Democrats. The Republicans of North Carolina will vote for their candidate Robert Gavin.

The Democratic candidate, Terry Sanford, will be hurt by whatever number of citiaens choosing to write in the name of Dr. Lake.

People who go to the polls in May and June in the Democratic primaries have a moral obligation to support the Democratic nominees in November. To participate in the preliminaries and then abandon the party in the gsme is bad politics.

Thinking people over North Carolina can readily understand and appreciate what such a write-in campaign could do-Insofar as the national ticket is concerned, North Carolina will find it a tough fight to carry the state for the Democratic nominees at best. It can be carried by the Democrats if the Democrats will only realize the seriousness of the occasion.

Normally. North Carolina gives the Democratic state candidates a margin of two to one In the elections now. Republicans in recent years have crept up on the Democratic majorities. If it could be normally expected that more than a million voters go to the polls in November in this state, and that 700,000 of them normally can be expected to vote Democratic

and 350.000 can normally be expected to vote Republican, then the Democratic nominee, like Governor Hodges in 1956, will have a majority of 350,000 votes. But with the present picture in national politics as it is, and with a prospect of a "write-in vote, the fact remains that if Mr. Gavin, the Republican, picks up 100,000 votes which normally will be considered as Democratic, and a "write-in candidate receives more than 100,000 votes, then the state election could be very close.

We are not forgetting that in 1956 Adlai Stevenson only carried North Carolina by 15,000 votes. If the First Congressional district had not given Mr. Stevenson a magniDcent majority. our state would have gone Republican then.

We might not like all that has taken place. We might not like the national Democratic ticket-We might not like some of the moves taken by state Democratic candidates. But the fact remains that we will be either loyal Democrats or disloyal Democrats, Disloyalty does not come alone in voting a Republican ticket in November. It also comes through a more positive approach. Failure to support the Democratic ticket in November places a Democrat in the position of not standing behind his party completely. Make no mistake about it. Republicans might encourage Democrats to use the "write-in" technique. But Republicans will not use it among their own members.

We hope the "write-in talk will remain only talk. Dr. Lake says he is going to support the ticket as he pledged to do when he became a candidate. Supporting a "wrtie-in candidate cannot help the Democrats it can only hurt the party.

care; Crest dentifrice may also be of value as a supplement to public dental health procedures.

One druggist said, while he had seen no particular Increase in the sale of Crest, he expected sales would Increase as "the word

got arpund.

Unlike the rush that develops when It becomes known that a product is to become scarce, most buyers will probably use up their present toothpaste supply before purchasing new tubes and presumably switching to Crest.

"By that time, the druggist predicted, "the other manufacturers will have out their own approved brands.

At any rate it will be interesting to see how the buying public reacts to this latest development in the toothpaste battle.

For decades the public has been bombarded by advertised claims for various tooUtpaites. On the other hand, the public has for years been advised by the nations dentists thst no toothpaste actually prevents tooth decay. The only real preventive has been adequste brushing with any good toothpaste, the dentists have said.

Me? I use baking soda and salt, myself.

Received final correspondence from Pete Heller and Tom Irons, Greenville scouts who sent back information to the Daily Reflector from the Scout Jamboree.

Although the Jamboree is now over. I can report that Pete and Tom along with the other scouts saw the President of the United States on his visit.

Most of the boys finished their National' Jamboree Adventure Awards prior to the end of the event, Pete and Tom reported.

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"According to preas repi)rts the . staged revcdU with the Communists, the Labor Unions and the Socialists in Japan, calculated to withdraw the Invitation to President Elsenhower to visit that country, cost the Communists a considerable cash outlay. Report 1 that they paid the participants $1.65 a day. And *Q Japan that is said to be in the upper class wage group." Oswego (Kansas) Independent,

.odge !iCnows World

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, IMW, King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.

I first met Henry Catxit Lodge perhaps 35 years ago or 80 in Shanghai. China. He was then working as a reporter for the "New York Herald Tribune and was getting an eyeful of the world. I was an editor and columnist in those days and the young reporter came to get acquainted. The years do pass and today, this same young man is a candidate for Vice President.

During the intervening years, Cabot, as his friends call him, has had a brilliant career. During 1952, we disagreed violently. He was for Eisenhower:

I was for Taft. There was much bitterness on both sides, all of which might have been avoided had the businessmen and other amateurs on the Eisenhower side known the rules of the road.

The bitterness survived many years, even after the death of Robert A. Taft because there was vindictiveness on both aides.

There are Taft advocates today who look askance at Henry Cabot Lodge, Thomas E. Dewey and Herbert Brownell and who would ordinarily ilt on their hands

rather than vote for one of

them. That lone delegate from the Lone Star State was such an idealistic cuss.

But this can be said of Henry Cabot Lodge: since 1953 he has served his country

valiantly, constantly and courageously. Day after day. in the United Nations he had to take insult, abuse, humiliation, umbrage. The Russians ridiculed him. They denounced his coun-ti7.

But Lodge fought on ceaselessly. One watched his anguish as he fought for freedom and for the good name of his country. Every day, he was on the firing line, debating, arguing, making r his point, winning battles whkh affected the course of human history. Perhaps Cabot Lodge would make a preferable Secre- ^ tary of State. But what Is usually forgotten about a Vice President is that he might at a moment's notice become President of the United States by constitutional process. Surely, Andrew Johnson, look at it as you please, was not a worthy successor to Abraham Lincoln. When we nominate a man for Vice President, do we always recognize this possibility?

There will be Taft Republicans and Joe McCarthy Republicans who will hold it against Cabot Lodge that he was antagonistic to both. There are Middle Western Republicans who still believe that regional considerations are important In these days of stress. They will object to a New Englander.

But if they think clearly, they will set aside their sectarian and regional attitudes and in both parties. The times are too serious. This can be said; four competent men are running for the highest offices. During the next four or eight years the fate of this country will be settled not by war but by Ingenuity, sncerity morality, character.

I know all four. I have spoken well of the four of them. But as a citizen, you and I will have to make a choice, not as to the lesser of unworthy men but the superior of worthy men and the superiority must be measured in terms of ideas, in capacity for leadership, in essential patriotism which includes* a large measure of humility. During the next three months, our people will be able to take a close measure of these men.

By his acceptance speech Henry Cabot Lodge made it clear that he would not be a gavel-poundtng Vice President.

He held a seat in President Elsenhowers Cabinet; it is to be assumed that he will be in Nixons Cabinet and in the National Security Council and the new organ which Nixon hopes to set up to concentiaie 111 our forces for the war of attrition which Soviet Russia la waging against this country.

Cabot Lodge is pitted against no small man In Lyndon Johnson.

And that is what makes this campaign so interesting. The two candidates lor Vice President are men of accomplishment, knowledge and character. These are not fellows who are likely to come up with the wise-crack (Contmutd ou page fi)

"Its commonly said and believed that defense costs are almost solely responsible for the present burden of taxation and the size of the federal budgets. But the fact remains that in the 1055-61 period, defen.se co.sts rt>e only 12 per cent, while non-defen.se item.s rose 43 i>er cent.* Industrial News Review,

Drain On U. S. Gold Continuing

Strength For Today

By EARL I,. DOUGLASS HARD ROAD FOR NEW TRUTH

New truth always has a hard time geltmg accepted.

Several centuries before the minustry of Jesus began, 8o-crate.s had tried to gets'certam new truths into the minds of his contemporaries in Athens He was put to death, and he accept the judgment of the court gladly because he knw that new truth is always advanced at, great cost.

The suffering of Jesus and HLs immediate dt'-iiplr.s ate known to ivciy CtuukUan Uriiot i 'l uei e v,tt au mmieiuc aulicimg daring iUtf alxiecUkh auj seviinikeiuh

ceuiunes over the m,*tier of le-ligums tliffci enc<tleorv! Wa,-.!!-' mgton and hts colleagues piTSsed new pttllUral truth upon a geuentiou winch found it

hard to believe that common men could govern them.selves. Pa.steur was threatened with a miii-der indictment if his antl-rabies Injection failed to work. The Wright brothers were classed with Darius Green and His Flying Machine. Even a.! recently as fifty years ago Dr. Albert Einstein, because of his theory of relativity, was ltr|eiy looked upon ts a crackpot.

Perhaps if new truth did net have to fight for the possession of our minds, it would never possess them. But the nuup man Im'uI.s down truth the more duea It appear to rvse up in ms-iiuiw: ^iieueih and splendor. Peuplg are carlauiiy right in holding to old truth until new truth demoaslrate.'^ ll.s value. But new truth has always had a hard lime-and in the nature of llungs probably always wiU.

By EL.MER ROESSNER

Neither of the Presidential candidates have come up with a workable suggestion to check the outflow of gold from the United States. However, neither has Congress, the Treasury nor the Federal Reserve.

Meanw'hile, the drain con-tinuc.s.

The last Federal Reserve report. for the week ended July 27. the U.S. had $l9.164.uoo.ooo in

gold.

That was 160,000.000 les.s than a week ago and $445,000,000 less tlrin a year ago.

The U. 8, gold stock reached it.s peak in 1949; the Treasury held $24,437.0U.(K)0 at the end of that year. The ytar-tnd flgurea for lucceedibf yeura. la million*:

1950

1951 19.52 195.3 Iilf.4

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19,u

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1953

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123.106

22.69.5 2.3,187 23.032 23.713 ?1.6'0 21 *H9 22,731 20.5.34

The ov(M-all df'cline l.s all the

11. (Mr rrmaikaldr brt.vu.r rilll-

1112 thoie teu yeais we produced

more than $650,000,000 worth of gold.

HOW DO WE LOSE IT?

The supply of gold increases or decreases because foreign state banks may exchange Americans dollars for gold. If the United States imports $1 bUlior more than it exports, foreign busuiess firms accumulate that much in dollars or dollar credits. These are usually deposited In the central banking system, which can thereupon claim $1 billion in our gold.

In practice, the gold is seldom shipped abioad. It is .^inlply earmarked in the name of the foreign owners.

In the same way, when American citizens sell goods abroad, the proceeds, tftv deposit in the Federal Reserve System, can be oellectd in gold. But the geld is kept by the Federal Reserve because American citizens, unlike the rill/.erus of most other riMintrie.s, cannut own old com, except as collectors

But foreigners and their governments ore gaining more crt* dita than Americans are. We are importi" ! more goods than we f'Mv i our iravcler.s aie

,r ( Hvrtoad tliiin for-i iH'ie. Our balance

of trade is expected to show a deficit of $2.5 billion this year. OUR GOLD IS MORTGAGED

While $19 billion seems like a lot of gold about half the woilds total there are claims on It.

The law requires that 112 billion of the gold be held as backing for Federal Reserve notes I paper money) and other Federal Reserve obligations. This leaves only $7 billion.

Meanwhile, foreign holdings of convertible credits exceed $15 billion. Thus, they could demand more thau twice as much gold as is available for foreign claims.

There ts no danger at present that our foreign u'editors will stage a run on our Federal Reserve fiystem. For On reason, th dollar IS still a fatrly stable currency, even though Inflated; dollars still buy American Roods. For another. If there ever is a run, the U, ,S. willpromptly embarlw) guUl, prevent mg ua ti aaifrr.

How'ever, it U obvious that the United States cannot go on losing a half billion dollars worth ot gold a year, which has been the average diaiu siivce Jaimary 1. 1959. At that rate, after U

years there would be only the necessary reserve to back up the currency.

We could check the drain by raising tariffs to keep out soma imports^ we could limit the amount of money travelers may take with them. Both measures would injure the economies of friendly nations.

Or we could step up efforts to sell American products abroad and put on a real campaign to attract foreign travelers in place of the somewhat fizzUng effort being made now. Or perhaps one of the candidates has a better*^ plan,

NEW RE(;ULATIONS COMING FOR FROZEN DESSERTS

New Fidsral ragulaUoiut prescribing the onteiits of ice criams. frozn cu$tard, Frfnch ice cream. Frenelt custardl iba cream, ice milk, fruit shirbets and water ice are to becwne ellective October *35 niile.as Imlt-ed by court action.

The regulallorn allow the us# of ariiiiclal vaoiila, but ara otharwlse much the same aa present regulations. Copies may he obtained from the Food & Drug AdmiuhiUaUou, Wa^luug-toa D.O. <