FACE FOUR

THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Thursday, September 15, 1960

No, NoWe Just Wanna Register Him-

Saturday's Honor And A Challenge

Citizens of Greenville and Pitt County have an honor, an opportunity and a challenge coming their way Saturday when Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, begins his North Carolina tour here.

When Sen. Kennedy sets foot on Pitt County soil at the Pitt-Grcenville airport Saturday morning, it will mark the first time in this century that a presidential candidate for President has personally, brought his campaign into Eastern North Carolina. It will mark the first time even that a presidential candidate has ever come into Pitt County to seek votes for the nations highest office.

Democrat or Republican, the people of Eastern North Carolina should feel honored that Sen. Kennedy has chosen to come into this section of the state to campaign for votes, and citizens of Pitt County should be particularly proud that he has chosen this county and thi.s city for one of his North Carolina stops.

The success of Sen. Kennedys visit to Eastern North Carolina and to Greenville, will be judged to a great extent upon the number of people who turn out to welcome him and hear his address at College Stadium on the East Carolina campus. In terms of ag-gre.ssiveness, progressiveness and the ability to get things doneand not altogether in political terms Greenville will be judged by others on the ba.si.s of how' many people gather here to see and hear the first presidential candidate to come into this area in decades.

The size of the crowd that welcomes Sen. Kennedy to Greenville will be compared with those who as-

You Could Col. It A Valedictory

By LYNN NISBET

VALEDICTORY - The audience wa5 mall and captive, but Governor Hodgea spoke as earnestly and eloquently from his table side seat as if he had stood facing a great audience.

The scene was the board room in the agriculture building where the Advisory Budget Commission is sitting. The au-idence consisted of the budget comnussron, some two dozen State officials and employees, half a dozen reportersand Terry Sanford, Democratic nominee for Governor. Every person in the room except Sanford and the newsmen recognized the Governor as their chief. The members of the budget commission arc independent and successful business men, but in their budget-making capacity they must report to the Governor as director of the budget. The immediate topic was the caipitai improvements and B budget sections of the State Prison Departments requests for appropriations.

The total capital improvements program will require $3.-.sgLOOO. Because of available funds, transfers and anticipated receipts from sale of property. direct appropriation asked is 1840,000. The operating budget, A and B phases combined, aggregates $31,991.688 an increase of more than six million above the current biennium.

Practically all of this money Is designed to develop Prison Enterprises to the point where receipts wl make the prison more nearly self-supporting, and for the rehabilitation program of education and training prisoners to become self-supporting and taxpaying citizens after their release.

In discussing these matters Governor Hodges delivered to that small captive audience what could, be termed his valedictory address.

CORRELATED He regards this Ion# range prison program of vital importance, inextricably <g>rrelated with other phases of State growth which is dependent upon capacity of the State to meet the challenge for maintaining mental and physical health of her people, to educate and train them for the responsibilities of citizenship.

He said that during his nearly six years as Governor he has devoted more energy and more working hours to the prison program than to any other matter, except possibly the school Integration program and his campaign for industrial promotion. Another phase, which he regards as closely akin to the prison program, is transition in mental hospitals from custodial care to curative treatment.

Money allotted for the cduca-

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tion of normal people in the public schools and colleges is well spent, be said. Whatever has been spent in promoting Industrial payrolls to replace the

loss in farm income and raise the standard of living has paid handsome dividends.

He thinks that the challenge for mending broken live.s, to restore the mentally ill to competence and to rehabilitate into useful productive citizenship the men and w'omen, particularly the young ones, who

have been entangled in the

coils of the law and sent to prison, is perhaps greater.

The overall prison program, w'hich includes activities of the parole board and the probation

commission and by implication also the correctional

schools: and the menial hospitals program of treatment and rehabilitation will cost a lot of money. Governor Hodges is not at all afraid of putting up whatever they will cost, because he thinks the dividends in cash, and the greater dividends in happy living will more than compensate for all expenditures.

RELATIVE The Governor fully concurred in the statement by Prison Director George Randall that custody must always remain the first consideration in prison operations, but if we fail in our rehabilitation efforts, these offenders will on release continue to be .social cripples posing a constant threat to public safety and a continual drain on the States resources. . . .The program we present is designed to achieve measurable economies that standing alone justify the expenditure; but much more important than the dollars to be saved are the people to be rescued from wrecked lives and returned to .society reaoy and able to shoulder the responsibilities of citizenship in a free country.

PREVIEWGovernor Hodges probably will deliver a major farewell address over a statewide radio and teevee hook-up ju.st before he leaves office after the longest tenure of any chief executive elected by the people of North Carolina. The littie captive audience In the budget hearing room Tuesday morning got a summarized preview of what that address most likely will contaln-

There will be wide divergence of opinion as to the relative value of State governmental activities, and the degree of success attained in the several programs. There can be no doubt that Governor Hodges himself places high priority on efforts and achievements of his administration in the areas of happier and fuller living for North Caroliniaas.

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semble to hear him in Charlotte, Asheville, Greensboro and Raleigh . . . without regard to the size of community or the number of people in the immediate area.

A great deal of time and effort by many people have been put forth in Pitt County to make the necessary arrangements for the Kennedy rally here- The effectiveness of the work, however, will be measured by the public response to the visit here Saturday morning.

The fact that Sen. Kennedy has selected Greenville as the site for his Eastern Carolina visit is important indeed to this city and this county. It is equally important that his reception here compare favorably with the reception he receives in other parts of North Carolina he will visit on his tour.

Powell Bill Proves To Ease Financial Squeeze

A number of years ago when the Powell Bill was passed by the North Carolina General Assembly, there were cries from various groups in the state that the bill would wreck the states highway program and syphon off to cities and towns funds that should be used for highways.

The prophets of doom predicted all sorts of terrible inroads into the highway funds by municipal governments and made light of the genuine aid the legislation would be to municipalities of the state.

Since the law has been in effect, however, it has proved satisfactory from the standpoint of the state and there is no question about the benefit it has been to municipalities caught in the squeeze for revenue sources.

Early next month the municipalities of Pitt County will receive some $118,900 in Powell Bill funds as their share of the one-half cent gasoline tax designated for municipal street purposes throughout the state. In all, cities and towns of North Carolina will receive some $7 million this year under the Powell Bill provisions to help with maintaining and building streets within their corporate limits.

The provisions of this legislation has not been harmful to the state highway program in the years it has been in effect, and certainly it has provided many municipalities with the means they otherwise would not have had for street improvements. It has helped the cities and towns cope with their costly street maintenance problem and at the same time it has enabled the municipalities to provide better streets for their own residents and those who come into towns from outside the corporate limits.

The Powell Bill, from a practical standpoint, is one of the most helpful pieces of legislation passed in many years so far as municipal governments of North Carolina are concerned. It is likewise practical from the state-wide standpoint. It has provided a much more equitable distribution of state gasoline tax funds than W'as the case before the law was effective and it has given cities and towns access to a source of revenue which they should have had long before.

Pay Off. If To

Avoid Trouble

ThuradaFt Septamber 18, 1960

Places

To Kill

By DON SCHLIENZ

Henceforth,

orly Cures

Theres a standing gag about doctors not able to cure the common cold, but li you hurry and build it up into a case of pneumonia they stand ready to take it from there.

As jokes go, this is small comfort for the majority of peo

ple who catch what are known as colds, and the relatively few cases of pneumonia you meet in a lifetime.

After two weeks of futilely combatting an uncommon cold, the writer at last recited his symptoms and history to an at-

Other Editors Saying How Far Should We Go?

By JAMES MARLOW

VASHINOTON <AP>As the man said to the storekeeper back in the Capone days: Your got a nice business going, without no trouble, and if your dont want none from now on you better start paying off.

Back in November 1958, when Premier Nikita Khrushchev began to develop a yen for a summit meeting, he started making threats to shut West Berlin off from the West.

The Western statesmen didnt know whether this was just a noisy man talking or a man meaning what he said.

He kept on talking for months, getting meaner about it. until the West began to realize he could make an awful mess if he did shut off Berlin, Then a summit meeting began to look not so bad.

Khrushchev even got something extra an invitation to come over here last September for a visit with President Eisenhower and a trip around. But even with everything going nice he blew up a storm.

This was when he wasnt allowed to visit Disneyland because of the danger in crowds, the delay, and things like that. Khrushchev sulked out loud.

But something Is always getting Khrushchevs goat. Jast before the summit meeting the American 2 spy plane flew over Russia without being asked. Khrushchev got so mad he

called off the summit.

Still, he sounded pretty nice about Berlin. He said hed wait until a new American president took over in 1961 before considering a summit meeting again and meanwhile he was willing to let West Berlin stay quiet.

He let it stay quiet until he got another yen. This time he decided to come over for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next Tuesday. Almost at that very moment, he began putting the heat on West Berlin again-The Communists began block- > ading the city, a little bit here, a little there, stepping up the pressure.

Then the United States nixed Khrushchev again. It said when he got to New York he couldn't leave Manhattan Island.

Khrushchev was already on the ship bringing him here, but he got out the word he didnt like it, and his government filed a formal protest. It cramps Khrushchevs style not to move around, and he wanted more room to roam.

The State Department, backed up by the White House, said nothing doing. Its going to be Manhattan Island and no farther for Khrushchev.

In no time at all the Soviet Union warned the West against what it called the misuse of the air corridors to Berlin,

If a blockade is in Khiush-(Continued on page live)

(Washington Daily News)

How far should our national government go in such matters as education, medical care, minimum wages, housing, and many other field?

Should the national government take away the educational responsibilities entirely from the state and local governments and enter into what we might think of as federal educational system? Should the federal government install a complete medical care program whereby every citizen would have access to free medical care?

We must realize at the outset that there are many Americans who believe that the federal government should take over complete control of these two fields along with several others. They would remove practically all state and local responsibility of government and shoulder the federal government with complete responsibility. This group is the ultra-liberal segment which sees the federal government takes over educational responsibility, it normally might follow that this same federal government would exercise complete control over curricula, salaries, and teachers. The state and local communities likely would lose complete Identity with education. Is that what a majority of Americans want?.

On the other hand, if the federal government moves in with a cradle to grave system of medical care, we might as well face the true picture. Medical care would be only a glorified name for socialized medicine. TThere are people who actually cannot afford medical treatment, and they see socialized medicine as their only hope. But do the majority of Americans want assembly line medical care such as probably would take place under a program of

complete socialized medicine?

As time goes on, more and more we must face these problems. And most important of all. we must find answers. To debate issues in congress without resolving them leaves the matter still hanging in midair.

tfbtir federal government Is to become all powerful at the expense of the states, then what have we really gained? We must warn all our people that the more distant becomes control, the more impersonal becomes service.

On a local basis the average citizen has someone to whom he can go for help. If control is to be vested in Washington, D. C., completely, then the source of control has been removed from the reach of average citizens.

We cant just be indifferent to the many problems confronting us today. Somewhere along the line we must face reality. We must realize that issues are before us. and they are going to be disposed of one way or the other.

We realize that some people today in America seem to take the attitude that the government for any cause if money derived from taxes. Some people pay little or no taxes. And

it is usually the case that people who pay little or no taxes are the ones most affected in the matter of government services.

How far should we go? Well, a liberal congress will go as far as the people will let it go. Our probe ms wont solve themselves. People must solve them. And people must speak louder than congress speaks.

And whatever determined fight is made for or against federal controls will be made by people overt'!, this nation.

Speaking further of illustrations: have you noticed that pictures intended to portray the Atlantic Coast most frequently show the shore on the left, and ocean on the right? As though the observer were facing North?

And often the Pacific Coast pictures show the beaches on the (Continued on page five)

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tenUve doctor who forthwith set about disproving there is no cure for a cold.

Two women of the family vow this is the last time I will get away with not going to the doctor in the early stages of my colds. Enough is enough, they say.

They do have grounds for complaint. Grass needs cutting, blown-down trees need removing, a lot of wind-blown trash requires attention, theres a broad vista of long neglected activity to be resumed.

But between the two of them they are determined there will be henceforth early cures . . . that Medicine will solve the Riddle of the Cold is this fairhaired character must play guinea pig for the next thirty years.

Come to think of it, listening to a cold sufferer peat and repeat hi# complaints must be a bore. I rarely associate with such people myself.

If beauty Is in the eyes of the beholder, you could loosely apply the phrase also to art. And, art-wise, my taste is occasionally epitomized by calendars.

There is in the newsroom such a calendar, and the illustration for the month would alone suffice to identify this as September, To so fully capture the spirit of a month unconnected with such traditional holidays as Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, Independence Day etc. speaks well of the artists magic.

The scene is of a gently rolling landscape, a village with familiar New England church spire: the skies are blue with white fluffs for clouds; the green fields, the green foliage is evcr-so-slightly touched with yellow as though to emphasize lateness of the summer. 'The lengthening shadows and slanting rays of the sun add to Septembers hallmarks.

In retrospect, my description of the illustration falls far short of what the artist accomplishedd

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The oldsters, for whom the term senior citizen has been invented, have votes. They are important to the politicians, particularly in states like Florida and California where there are many of them. The youngsters have no votes. They cannot organize pressure groups.

I was therefore more than usually interested in a monograph written by Professor Margaret Mead of Columbia University, prepared for the Golden Anniversary White House Conference on Children and Youth.

It is questionable whether the cWld In our society gets a fair chance. His parents are only too often too busy, too preoccupied to do much for the child; guilty the parent, at perhaps the wrong time, seeks to become a pal of the child, when the strong hand rather than a palsy-walsy attitude is needed. Then many children have to stay at school long beyond their capacity and patience. Of this, Professor Mead writes;

. .The increased insistence upon the attendance of all young people at high school has resulted In a high school population which is extremely heterogeneous in character, including those who are capable of higher education and those who are actively Impatient and incapable of profiting by education at the moment. In this latter group are boys who are chafing to become Independent, and girls whose attention is focused primarily upon mating.

It is. In fact, this latter group who become our maladjusted Juveniles because they live in enforced idleness to satisfy parental pride. Some get by because of athletics but the high school does nothing for them intellectually or vocationally. They are graduated for no good reason and hold a grudge against the world became of their own inadequacies. Professor Mead further writes:

. .The Junior high school has become a forcing ground for inappropriate and socially maladjusted attitudes in both boys and girls, laying the basis for hostility to females on the boys part and, on the girls part, grasping pressure toward marriage combined with contempt for males. Although these deficiencies of the junior high school are widely recognized, the attractiveness of using new junior high schools as a quick solution to the population pressures on the school system makes it probable that the evils of the junior high school will increase rather than decrease during the next decade.

Makeshift education has less value than no schooling whatsoever. Nothing rube off in a school; the stuff that people are taught must be rubbed in and rubbed in hard. The young person, mg^ or female, w'ho spends years of

acute boreddm, must gS^ong.

Some co manage to^Sijd a college that will admit tm ^ There are all sorts of colleges in the United States, ranging ficui the Ivy League group, which are hard to get into, to colleges tha^ are easy to get into and where student can spend four yeai taking easy courses or devotii., himself to the gaieties of a Img vacation. The parent who^as-sumes that all America^colleges are educationaljf institutions Ls doing the childflRr injustice. Some are justYfriaces to spend time and tq come out of with untrained minds and a B.A. degree such as one woul4 get from a top-notch university. Of this. Professor Margaret Mead WTitcs: * '

The image of the successful American has come to include the requirement of some post-high schoc^ > special training. Models for this image ai'e both those young people Who acquire conspicuous and recognized forms of higher education. . . and also those hundreds of thousands who obtain educations which are seen as symbolically the same - a college degree is (Continued on page five)

New Frontiers From Chemistry

Public Forum

To The Editor:^

I have read the stoi'y from THE RALEIGH TIMES which opeared in THE DAILY REFLECTOR (Sept. V wiiich story claims that an oath binding a \oter to support the party nominee is a good thing. Personally, I do not think so. As far as I can remember I have never taken such an oath. But if I had. I .would have to violate my conscience far more to vote for John Kennedy, the Roman Catholics candidate for the U.S. presidency, than I would to violate such an abominable oath a.s that. And I consider the scheming politicians who wrote such a thing into our laws as having been unworthy of citizenship ui our great Nation, Some years ago, in another county, I.withdrew from the race for the Legi.slature when, had I remained in the I ini^lit have* eircied and l wutulrrw iiuiit tliat race f^r the simple rea'^un ttiat mv cwtacience vw!uld allaw me to take the abominable oath th.it a on Id bouiid me t) support the parly noiinip.e If 1

vote against a candidate In the primary because I know him to be a scoundrel and unfit for the office, I will vote against him again in the General Election for the same reason, party or no party. I do not intend to hobble, hogtie, or allow myself to be put in a strait Jacket so I cannot cast my vote in the final or General Election for the best interest of my COUNTRY. That its exactly what that law does for a person who takes that abominable oath. But some people would vote for the very devil should he be placed on the party ticket. It was in this State that I first saw the light of day I grew up m this State and In the South, assimilating at least some very strong Democratic proclivities. But I tell the truth and I he not when I say that North Carolina has pro-(tuoed .some of Uu* fiookede.st l>oliticiaa.s this ide of the lot-iuudeiS pit and it I: tune for us to iiop eltciing that ort of men to make our laws far us, and to hogtie u.** with such la\v} a.-j Ihf out iR'lCIll uud# r qili stioii.

W.TC. Bug3

By ELMER ROESSNER

Any entrepreneur bewailing the scarcity of venture-worthy new frontiers may well heed the wonderful world of chemistry. The chemical scientists are finding new frontiers all the time.

This reporter was bedazzled by all the challenging ideas ranging from new industrial materials to new medicines reported at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society going on in New York City this week. More than 6,000 .scientists and engineers, Including seven Nobel prize-winners, are on hand for the five - day confab at which advances in chemistry and related fields are being reported In 1,761 scientific papers. Weve managed so far to peruse all but 61 of them to select potential business ideas, for your information.

Among the discoveries and advances of particular interest to businessmen are these:

PLASTICS: New plasties that outwear steel yet stretch like rubber were reported by C.F. Blaich, Jr., of the Carwiii (o., Nurili Haven. Ionn, Theyre made from a class of chenilrab known as pclyurethanfs, aiiJ aie expected to find use in heavy-duty applications .uich as liif\> tor lift irutk.v, .skid.s tor j?t pUiits and gears. These

tough new plastics can be stretched double their length. When the force Is released, they snap back.

EXHAUST CONTROLS: The

new California car-exhaust law represents a 250-naillion dollar opportunity to scientists and marketers in that state alone. If other states follow Californias lead in requiring afterburners, the potential chemical market will be ten times that much, reported Dr. L, W. Faith, managing director of the Air Pollution Foundation. San Marino, Calif. Afterburners are units that burn excess hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide thrown off by engine.s. One of the two leading afterburners u.ses a chemical agent to increase burning efficiency. Ite chief competitor is a direct flame afterburner that lasts longer but is made from more expensive materials. Which will win out is not yet known.

FERTILIZER: Plastic-caated fertilizer for lush farm crops, lawns and gardens was suggested by Dr. Kirk Lawton, a Michigan State llnivei'sity soil sci-eiuist. Coaling coliventlonal ,ier-tili ers with plastics slows down the rate at which they release their nuirientj to the soil, thus metering ttie food to the plants loiiirrr and more eiculy.

FLAMEPROOF RUBBkJl: A

new type of rubber is not only flame-proof but extinguishes flame, according to Dr. J.C. Montermoso of the U.S. Quartermaster Research A Engineering Command, Natick, Mass. erne potential use of the new nitroso rubber is coating soldiers uniforms. Another is for rubber parts of tanks and other vehicles.

ANTI-FUNGUS: A compound said to show promise for combating fungus diseases such as athletes foot, ringworm, other skin infection.s, w'as described by Dr. Nathaniel Grier of Mctalsalts Corp.. Hawthorne, N.Y. The chemical, called 8-Quinolinyl benzoate, shows greater activity and less toxicity than currently used anti-fungus drugs.

SMOKESTACK CONTROL; Bacteria that sat sulfur may reduce offensive smells from industrial and power plant smokestacks, reported three researchers from the U.S. Bureau of Minas offices ih Pittsburgh. Tbc bacteria oxidise thesulfur in coal as part of their regular metabolic proces.tes. More power to them.

T111K.S: Quieter, imoother-

rldlng auto tires may result from research on talcum powder, according to M.F. Warner of S.'erra Talc Co., Pasadena, t'.ilii. Talc ground liy newly developed ultrafina tecbniquaa

becomes an effective reinforcing agent for one type of synthetic rubber, and also enhances the rubber-reinforcing qdalities of carbon black.

FORMOLITE: A Russian may have discovered formolite but it took an American to find a use for it. Formolite is a yellow powdered resin that has been unused since 1903 when a Russian chemist discovered it. Its made from formaldehyde and an aromatic compound. Now Dr. J.E. Goodrich of the California Research Corp., Richmond, Calif., has added a dispersing agent to formolite resins. The result Is resins ivjth very small particle size and, consequently, large surface area. The new resins have many potential uses as thickeners in lubricating ' grease, lacquws, paints, varnishes, inks, putty and adhesives. With a wetting agent added, they are useful In crams, emulsions and latex pintB.

JET FUEL; Frigid fuels may be used to propel jet planes as they go faster and higher, Chemical Society meeting was told by Roliert Hibbard of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminlatratlonss Lgwis Research Center In Cleveland. Liquid methane and propane now are being evaluated as fuels fur ilic next geiRialiou of air-crait.