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Ttnirtd^y, September 8, 18(

Thursday, September 8; 1960

China Farm Belt

More Sick, Confused Men On Job?

It is difficult indeed to reconcile the statements of the Pentagon and the FBI concerning the two members of the National Security Agency who turned up in Moscow this week leveling charges against the United States.

It is not difficult, however, under the circumstances, to find oneself in agreement with President Eisenhowers assertion that the governments security machinery needs a check-up. The security machinery might well need a complete overhaul.

The Pentagon has said one of the two defectors to communism was mentally sick and both were obviously confused. It has also said that the FBI files on the two contained no derogatory information.

One big question is whether the fact that one of the defectors was mentally sick and both confused bcci^me obvious to the Pentagon before the pair made their jump behind the Iron Curtain or after hearing the statements made by the min Moscow.

If the Pentagon w'as aware of fact that one of the men was mentally sick and both were confused, certainly it should have taken immediate and positive .steps to remove them from sensitive positions in the governments National Security Agency. To allow per-

.ake Holds Key To Many Votes

By LV.NN NISBET

KEY MANInformation gathered from numerous personal Interview! on a recent trip through the wet and from couts asked to report on other section* indicates that Beverly Lake holds the key to a lot of votes in the November election. Whether or not he will turn the key to open the door has not been determined.

Dr. Lake has slated many times he expects to support the entire Democratic ticket, including a vote for Terry Sanford for Govennorthe man who beat him in two primaries. He requested that friends desist from any organized movement for a write-in effort in his behalf, Yet, from some areas in the Piedmont of which Iredell county is the center, and in the middle northeast, embracing Halifax. Northampton and adjacent counties, reports are that

a stronger, more emphatic public deliverance by Lake will do more to help the Democratic

ticket than any other one thing.

Somewhat paradoxically, the disaffection in these areas is more marked among primary supporters of other candidates than among original Lake people. The Lake folks reason that they tried and lost, and they are going along with the primary winners. Many original Sanford voters stiJl feel resentment at his early endorsement of Kennedy for President although that resentment is much less apparent than it was a few weeks after the national convention. Several party leaders have told your reporter that apaUietic acceptance of the ticket could be turned into enthusiasm for it in many instances if Beverly Lake would spark the rally. They say he has a rare opportunity in this situation to consolidate his position as a recognized leader.

CO-ORDINATION - The need for closer coordination of activities among State agencies and departments bobs up at un-eapected places. At the budget hearings this week 'Admiral' Leon Williams, director of ports, was ouUing plans for expansion at Morehcad City. I am glad you are able to expand, despite the bridge, quipped Governor Hodges. (Reference was to the long time feud between local people and the highway commission over location of the Newport River

bridge between Beaufort and Morehead-i

Thea Warren Weldon, chairman of the Kerr Reservoir

commission, was asking for capital funds to build a restaurant. which would be leased to private operators on a rental of 3 per cent of the gross take. It developed that the restaurant operated at Mount Mitchell

State Park pays 7 per centand Weldon confessed he didnt even know there was a restaurant at Mount Mitchell. Another instance," quipped the Governor; of one State agency attempting to make plans and programs without coordinating with comparable agencies.

POLICYAnother interesting sidelight on budgeting policy developed at that first public hearing on B budgets. William P. Saunders, director of Conservation and Development, was ouUing his requests for expanding services, and giving them priority ratings. He WAS asked if it was found impossible (and it certainly will bet to grant all the items, would he like to have part of all or all of some. Saunders replied that he and his staff and board had gone over the matters thoroughly and they wanted enough to do a good job in some fields, rather than botch up the works with inadequate allocations widely distributed. One of the troubles has been that agencies would ask for $l,(X)0 for some purpose and the budget group would approve $400. Saunders insistence upon enough to do one job, and let tlie others wait if must be, rather than botching up all of em, seemed to please the budgeteers-

NOT SIMPLE-ActuaUy, the problem is not quite as simple as that. Sometimes part of a loaf is better than none, sometimes part of a rope is not bet-ber than none. It was explained this way by a State official sometime ago; "If a man is hungry and needs six biscuits for breakfast, he can get along and do part of his job on two biscuits. But if he is down in a hole and needs 20 feet of rope to get him out. a ten-foot rope ain't worth ad---.

Thats why the budget folks have to consider all phases of all requests and determine whether it is a case of an inadequate meal, but enough for limited service; or a case of a two-short rope, which would be completely wasted.

sons of that sort to remain in sensitive positions is to invite the divulging of secret information to the Soviet Union. ^ .

There is also the question of other employes in very sensitive government positions who may also be mentally sick or obviously confused. Does the Pentagon or the FBI have information now that indicates other such persons being employed by the Security Agency or in other sensitive positions? Has any step been taken to safeguard the security information these people handle?

The situation calls for a careful and detailed evaluation of security machinery throughout,the government designed to avoid leaks of'secret information to potential enemies. The sooner such steps are taken, the more secure our vital information will be. And the sooner the defects in the current system are found and remedied, the better security the government will have in the future.

Prompt Strengthening Of UN Forces Needed

In spite of United Nation efforts the situation in the Congo has degenerated from one of confusion and unrest to chaos and civil strife.

The present United Nations forces in the explosive Congo may well find themselves unable to cope with the situation confronting them unless they are afforded reinforcements in terms of men and equipment and broader authority to deal with the circumstances in the Congo.

At the outset it was the purpose of the United Nations troops in the Congo to maintain order, replace Belgium troops and assist in the orderly establishment of the Congo republic. In the place of the conflict between the natives and the Belgium forces in the Congo, the UN troops now face what may well be a general civil war as competing forces vie for control of the huge African territory.

Premier Lumumba has alternately supported and condemned United Nations efforts to maintain order in the Congo. The latest series of events, however, suggests that Lumumba is seeking to force UN troops out of the Congo in order that he might take over full controlprobably with So.viet supportand set up a Congo government with close ties to the communist bloc.

The situation in the Congo has now become a threat not only to the people in that large territory, but to all of .Africa and the world as a whole. The brush-fire war that is brewing in the Congo could quickly spread to other parts of Africa and engulf a large part of the world if it is not stopped.

It is important that the UN forces in the Congo be given the facilities and the authority to stamp out the conflict that is now brewing and stabilize the situation there before it erupts into general warfare. There is more at stake than just the Congo. There is the entire continent of Africa and perhaps the entire world.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Inspiration ror ioday

Let's dream awhile.

The first part of our dream has a practical start. Im thinking of the urban renewal project for Greenvilles river front. It has taken its first few shaky steps with the formation of a Re-Deyelopment Commission, headed by M.E. Cavendish, as chairman and the granting of federal funds for planning the project.

Now the commission is looking for a qualified man to serve as a full-time executive director during the planning and eventually, the actual work on the project.

If it is approved, the Federal government will put up $2 for every $1 the city puts in the project. Under urban renewal the entire area would be carefully planned. Substandardlng housing

would be removed and the land would be re-sold to private enterprise for re-development either as business or residential area, area.

All this Greenville has to look forward to if plans go along as they are now headed,

The big question is what wUl be done with the area under consideration, which is bounded on the west by the ACL railroad, the east by Skinners ravine and the south by Second and sometimes Third St.

Well, many folks think now that the area should be reserved for business development and there is talk of perhaps including a riverside park with boat launching facilities.

But heres another suggestion for use of a portion of the pro-

Once Again On Other Ecditors Saying

The Spark Of Decency

deceiving Enc.

PORTS Leon WUliams. director of North Carolina ports, gave the Advisory Budget Commission a balanced report on acUviUes at Morehead City and Wilmington. These two port cities have been engaged in a running feud for priority consideration. If plans are carried out the Morehead City harbor w'ill be the deepest on the Atlantic coast south of Norfolk. It wl accommodate bigger ships than Wilmington. Also, he said that because of peculiar characteristics of the ground, it costs about twice as much to build at Wilmington as at Morehead. Williams balanced these observations with a recommendation for providing adequate berths for passenger cruise ships at Wilmington. That is something P.M. (Pete) Camak, manager of the Greater Wilmington chamber of commerce. has been fighting for through the years. He has spent a lot of time and energy promoting cruises originating at his port as a contribution to the commerce and travel Industry of North Carolina almost as important as the freight cargo moving in and out of the Wilmington docks.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Once again Russia has forced this country to do what it did in the U2 spy case: admit the whole *t(7 only aiter the Soviets exposed it to the rest of the world.

This time it involves two young mathematicians William H. BAartin and Bernon F. Mitchellwho defected to Russia from their Jobs In the highly secret National Security Agency.

It raises a question. Since this government could have taken the sting out of Russian propaganda by revealing the truth before the Russians had a chance to, why didnt it do

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It failed in the same way when U2 pilot Francis Gary Power and his plane were brought down over Russia last May. When Premier Nikita Khrushchev disclosed the downing. he said the plane had been spying.

Not knowing whether Khrushchev was guessing or could prove what he said, the State Department denied Powers was on a spy mission. As it turned out, Khrushchev had been merely baiting the trap for such a denial by withholding all he knew.

Then he announced Powers had been captured alive and admitted the spying. The State^ Department then admitted the' spying, too.

Last Aug. 1 the Defense Department announced it was searching for Martin and Mitchell who were overdue, after vacation, in their jobs at NSA, which is involved in very secret communications and codes.

The department said the two men, both bachelors and long-time friends who had served in the Navy together in the

mid-1950s, had flown to Mexico City June 24. They were traced to Cuba.

On Aug. 5 the Defense Department said "it must be assumed that there is a likelihood that the two missing employes have gone behind the Iron Curtain,

What the Pentagon didnt disclose until Tuesday and then only when forced into it by Mitchell and Martin was this:

Early in August government invesUgators had found in a safe deposit box, where Martin and Mitchell had left it, a letter saying they had defected to Russia.

Tuesday in Moscow the Russians. with a great propaganda whoopdedoo, put the two Americans on exhibition at a news conference before Soviet and foreign newsmen.

The two code clerks, admitting they fled to Russia and expect to become Russian citizens, said the United States spies on its own allies. As an example, they mentioned Turkey. The Defense Department referred to their false statements," but did not say which were false.

The pair read from what they said was a copy of a statement they had left in a safe deposit box, in Mitchells name, in a Maryland bank in June.

On the envelope of the original statement, they said, they wrote a request that the contents be made public so that the American people would get an explanation of why We decided to ask the Soviet Union to grant us political asylum."

Mitchell and Martin charged that the U.S. government took that statement and kept it secret because the "Eisenhower-Nixon administration does not wish certain aspects of its pol-(Continued on page six)

(Washington Daily News)

Courts are places where people go who are charged with infractions of the rules. Some cases offer defendants who a^e victims of what might be termed accidental infractions. Others go there who are charged with crimes which certainly cannot be termed accidental.

A recent case in Recorders court in Washington challenges every spark of decency which a peace loving people ought to have. When 15-year-old girls become the victims of a conniving adult, then we are witnessing delinquency at its worst.

Fifteen-year-old children hardly have a sense of values which can compare with adults. They do not always stop to think of consequences. Their parents will try to instill a sense of values in them, but parental caution and parental advice to a 15-year-old boy or girl often times is looked upon as but the alarming carrybacks to former years.

Times do change, and yet sin remains sin. Progress does give us many new gradgets, but values ought to remain fairly constant. Decency and self-respect are qualities which are eternal.

It is easy sometimes to see why there is so much juvenile delinquency today.' The trouble is that far too many people try to ignore it. Attend a session of court where juvenile offenders are present, look upon them and the circumstances which bring them into court, and one will begin to understand that delinquency might sometimes be a

natural tendency rather than an inadvertent act. It is a sad commentary on decent behavior which faces us so often.

We dont blame parents for being upset. We can blame parents for not being more alert to certain possibilities. So many people try to blame schools for what happens when in reality in most cases schools have nothing to do with what is taking place.

Only when a public becomes aroused to what is happening will improvements come. When the public acts to stamp out Uie forces of moral destruction and hold high the spark of decency wiU improvement come.

It is not the punishment of a 15-year-old child which will do the job. It is the realization among old timers who see the problem and search for the answer diligently which will bring the desired results.

So long as so many are indifferent to what is taking place, then all the courts In the world cannot improve, the juvenile delinquency picture.

Actuay juvenile delinquency often comes when no law is broken. And in that case courts are helpless to do anything about it. The law of the home in such cases is far more powerful than the law of the land.

So long as parents take an attitude of resignation and 9ay My child was led Into this thing, and then do nothing more to correct it, we are not going to improve. Positive steps are needed.

We need to exalt every spark of decency within us.

perty. Lets think of reserving several acres for eventual construction of a municipal auditorium.

Well, why not? Greenville is fast becoming i convention city for Eastern North Carolina. There are two church meetings scheduled here within the next few weeks and by now everyone knows that Democratic leaders have chosen Greenville for Sen. John Kennedys only stop in eastern Carolina.

It's not at all unusual to find the big area gatherings coming to Greenville.'

Maybe its because East Carolina College is located here with its fine facilities. Any maybe local leaders just outhustle those of other towns. Or it could be because Greenville is centrally located between Raleigh, another

gathering point, and the coast.

Anyway its a fact that Greenville has more than its share of such area gatherings. So why not start thinking about truly superior facilities for handling these various functions now?

Its a great dream.

Opinions "n

Many a man with a good, old-counti7 name has made good in Americalike this fellow, Novacancy, who seems to own most of the motels. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times Union.

As I have repeatedly stated, I shared the view that Congress should have put off most of the controversial bills until January. Subsequent events have sustained that point of view. Sen. Sam Ervin, N. O.

Government at all levels must cease trying to be super-mats for every ImaginaWe public service, and Instead concentrate on essentials,Budget Bureau Director Maurice H. Stans.

Figures can be dangerous if taken too literally. There's the story going around about the statistician who was drowned while wading a river that had an average depth of three feet." Asheville Citizen.

Taxpayers are men and women who do not have to pass civil service examinations to work for the government. Carlsbad Current-Argus.

Splinter

Groups

Persis

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1961 Ktog Features Syndicate, Inc.

Herbert C. Holdridge, Brigadier General, U.S.-Array (Re-tired) is a very busy man. He conducts a mall enterprise entitled Reveille.

There are those who say that one should disregard such pubil-cations, but I disagree- Tbei^ are others who say that one should not give publicity to all the odds and enik of ideas and personalities and movements that appear and disappear, but I disagree. These splinter movements are very significant, particularly when they persist over a long period, develop a following and get themselves financed. In the ' present campaign there are many of them which are particularly violent against John Kennedy.

But General Holdridge is not only opposed to John Kennedy; he is also opposed to Richard Nixon- He conducts a propaganda against both candidates. He says ot them:

**. . Jligged political parties, rigged national committees, rigged primaries, rigged con-venUons, rigged nominations, rig ged campaign strategies the total government of the United States, including the two political party monstrosities, rigged by the International Front of the Wall Street (Big Money Vatican (Jesuit) Axis."

Now to some this may sound like mad talk; to others It represents the Conspiracy with a capital C. Be a columnist and every day you wUl receive mail about the Ckinspiracy. The big conspirator, according to such folks, now is Governor Nelson Rockefeller who has bought both political parties. Holdridge says;"

. . .We do not have two political parties, as we claim, or even one political party as is ascribed to Russia. Our political campaigns become Bhadow-box-ing between rival gangs of puppets carrying out the orders of the riggers. To isolate campaign issues from the poisonous concoctions brewed by these political bed-fellows will be beyond the powers even of the Madison Avunue boys true sons of the Jesuits who are experts in scientific falsification and double-talk.

The 1960 elections are already null and void by reason of criminal fraud and treason against the Constitution, perpetrated by ininternational outlaws operating through internal puppets. . . Now, who are these international outlaws? Well nowadays it is the "Invisible Government. This Invisible body is a union of Wall Street and the Vatican. Years ago, it was all run by Bernard M. Baruch but this year, it is Pope John XXIII. Having called Joseph, John and Robert Kennedy all sorts of names. General Holdridge turns on Nixon:

Slippery Dick! Kennedys counterpart in the Republican Party, holds a record for criminal, ruthless assassinations of political opponents (Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gahagan Douglas). Raised to power primarily by Big Money as Kennedy was by the Vatican. . .

When the dirty fight between these two dirty fighters is over, the election will go to the one preferred by the Invisible Government- Owning both 'boys in the ring, how can they bse?

After a long harangue against every person associated with either party as a leader of any leader of any kind, Holdridge reaches this amazing conclusion:

If it were not for the hatreds distilled by the Vatican against the commies, in support of Big Money, Uie world would be at peace!

What General Holdridge advocates is a national plebiscite without regard to political parties. His alternative:

The ultimate alternative is civil war opening the road to economic, religious and racial hatreds under our competitive economy and inspired by Wall Street and the Vatican, The result a holocaust of blood-letting! An era of corruption, of exploitation, of expropriation, of bankruptcy, of national and international hatreds will blow itself up in an H-bomb war and civil war. God help the man holding the office of President, whoever he (Continued on page six)

Drug Store Shoplifting Is Low

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

DO YOU MEAN BUSINESS?

The Sermon On The Mount.

Have you ever asked yourselves why Jesus went up into a mountain to preach? He went to a mountaintop to experience Transfiguration, and we can understand this. He prayed In the mountain. But why in the name of all that is apparent and sensible did he betake himself to a mountain when he wanted to make the most significant utterances of his oareer?

Because the Sermon On The Mount is meant only for the type of person who really means business. It is not for weaklings^ It Is not for moral trimmers and com-promLsers, It Is not for lhase who harbor prejudice. It is not for people who think more of themselvT.s than they do of otheru, Jesus knew that if ht

went up on a mountain to preach then those w'ho were really serious about the moral issues of life w'ould follow him to find out what he had to say. The easy livers, the indifferent, the com-proipisers would stay below. Jesus uttered many helpful and dramatic truths in places other than the mountain, but when he had the greatest of all truths to utter he went up into the mountain knowing that those who were really serious about truth would follow him.

Dont be no silly as to .say that you have no use for theology . because the Sermon On The Mount is food enough for you.

It will take all the truth and grace which theology sets forth to enable you to live up to the Sermon On The Mountwhich, by the way. is not easy but very difficult

By ELMER ROESSNER

Shoplifting is only a minor problem for drug stores using self-selection and self-service, William T. Kelley reports in the latest issue of New York Universitys Journal of Retailing. Mr. Kelley is associate professor of marketing in the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.

A survey by the American Di-uggist showed there was 17,-020 drug stores using self-selection in early 1959. This was 33.5 per cent of the total. The rate of increase indicates that almost 40 per cent are now making customers wait on themselves.

Mr. Kelley said studies showed that losses by theft did not ri.se when food, variety hardware and other store.s shifted to .self-service. From evidence gathered by our survey, the same would appear to be true in the .self-.service drug Held as well," he wrote. Of 33 di'ug stores queried, only one .said that pilferage had been higher after the instalation of .self-.service,

Tap *tor(M reportod luori

breakage since customers start-to handle the products, but not more stealing.

WATCHED SHOPPERS STAY HONEST Several reasons were given for this, Mr. Kelley said. One is that personnel are constantly Ip the self-service area on the look-out for pilferage. One store officer said that mirrors, peepholes, light signals help reauce shoplifting. However, floor supervision will do more to reduce shoplifting than anything else we have tried.

Mr. Kelley continued: "Another respondent attributed it to the psychological atmosphere engendered by self-service. The customer knows he or she must pass through the check-out and will be subject to inspectiou at that time. Moreover, since pilfering looks too easy, .ome respondents said, people sense that there nuLst be ainiie observers or secret camera.*! about. Another respondent pointed out that the clerks attention i.s distracted in service stores by wailing on customer*. He aid U vms

Icr to make off with merchandise in his service stores than in the self-service units.

LESS CASH LOOT, TOO

Finally, respondents point out that another source of loss, stealing of money by employees, has been reduced by self-service. Fewer employees handle the money, and it all goes through the recording cash register at the check-out point under the observation of the customer. Shrinkage of cash has been reduced to almost s-ero, reports a respondent.

The evidence that watchful-ne.* will reduce ahopliiUng lu seli-*ervice drug stores as well as in other lines Is especially significant because so many drug Items are small in relation to their price. A bottle of vilni.Mn tablel.s, for example, small enough to be slipped into a pocket, may be worth $3. The tablets themselves, if pouf* ed from the bottle, would not even make a noticeable bulge In the pocket. Evidence along the.sc lines may encourage more druggists to shift to self-service r Ifiiiigtllp

FOR THOSE WHO COMPULSIVELY SAY CHARGE IT:" Mrs. James R. McManus, a Mill Valley, Cahf., hoU*ewifc, has organized a group called Charge Accounts Anonymous. Patterned along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous, members agree that they cannot resist the temptation to use the magic words.

As with AA, when a member feels she is unable to resist the urge to start a new charge account, she phones the CAA and another member is sent to talk to her and give her courage to resist temptation.

PERFUME OILS FOUND TO BE HEALTHY'

If your girl douses herself with perfume, dont complain. Sniff it up, fellow, and live!

A team of Iiong Island University scientists, headed by Dr, Jasper C. Maru'zzella, has found that of lOO perfume oils tested In liquid and vapor form, 75 were found to have effectiveness In killing bacteria and fungi. The oils t.ested are used in the manufacture of virtual-

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