PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

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Saturday, Saptember 14, 1960

A Positive Step To Better Care

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Trustees of Pitt Memorial Hospital have taken an important, positive step in the interest of better medical care for the people of this county by approving the admission of patients for short-term psychiatric treatment.

In time, this move by the hospital trustees will enable Pitt Memorial to provide an increasingly important medical service to the people of Pitt and surrounding counties. It will enable the hospital to take care of a need which heretofore it has not been permitted to do. It will mean that those in need of such treatment will not be forced to look to other medical centers far away for this type treatment.

Several weeks ago, after a study by Dr. Charles K. Bush, chief inspector for the Central Inspection of the American Psychiatrist Association, the medical staff of the hospital approved a resolution calling for the admission of patients at Pitt Memorial for shortterm psychiatric treatment.

Conclusions from the study made by Dr. Bush pointed clearly to the need for such treatment at Pitt Memorial if it is to provide for the needs of the people it is designedto serve.

By being in a position to provide this type treats ment, Pitt Memorial will be broadening its scope of servce to the people of this and surrounding counties. It will be willing a pressing and growing need and at thm same time it will be taking another positive step toward establishing itself as a major medical center

Wherein GOP !Does Not Aaree

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OOMTRAST Robert Gavin. RefaibUcan candidate for Governor, and WiUiam E. C(^b, Reimblican state chairman, differ widely in tiieir appralaal of what is wrong with North Caro* Itaa govemment. Gavin has aid there are grafters and frtftcrs <m the State payroll, ttat law enforcement officers vMate oaths by discrim-

against people who do not agree with them, and has made other serious diarges of mlsfMsanee and malfeasance D part 9t Mficials.

Cobb told a news oonler-oee here Thursday that he does not think there is sny crookedness In North Carc4ina govemment, but he does think there is a lot of wsste in thne and evergy as well as dollars, by reason of having more employees than required to do the Jobs and extravagant use of automo-bUes.

Governor Hodges was asked at his news conference what his reaction is to these charges. He said he and every other responsible official of the State would be glad to have notice of specific cases which would be thoroughly Investigated. He declined to discuss the gen*allza-tions.

He added that he thought the people of Ncwth Carolina could readily forgive Gavin ch* his igncntmee, as indicated by his advocacy of s M par cent raise in school teacher salaries and thD retreated iron that po-sitioB when he learned what It would cost. The Governor doubts that the pecle will for^ give G^vin for bciiw un-North Cartdlinian, casting aspersions en tbe good name <ji the State and disseminating unwarranted bargee ef erookedness.

COUilKimGovernor Hodg^ ea eidMided a most eordial wel-OKD# to the two new Method-M colleges opedag this month at Fayetteville and Rocky Mount. They will help to take the load off the tax supported State Institutions and afford cpportunity for Christian background eduoation for young men and women.

The State Board of Higher Bdneation, which has supervis-len over all State institutions above hi^ school grade, has kog been aoocemed for devel-epment of church - related and privately endowed colleges to ease the tax load. Non-tax collages have the advantage of being able to control enrollment, whereas the only control the tote can apply is limitation of faefUties.

Board members have expressed particular appreciation ef tbe fine two-year colleges operated by the churches. The heaviest congestion at the

four-year institutions comes in

the first and second years.

DURHAMSo many tributes have been paid Carl Durham, who is retiring as Congressman in the sixth district after eleven terms (22 years) it is difficult to find a new expression. Governor Hodges also did. Carl Durham is almost the perfect example of selfless dedicated public service," he said< Having none of the attributes popularly assigned to politicians. such as glad-handing and oratory, by devotion to duty he has served his state and nation far beyond the requirements of his offlce, the Governor added.

The Orange county Democratic cixnmittee sponsored a rally honoring the retiring congressman Thursday night at Chapel Hill.

A(X;esS Access" has become a very important word in highway circles.*All of the Interstate Highways (capital letters used to distinguish the I-numbered routes frwn the regular highways which traverse state lines) have controlled access. Most of the 4-lane highways on the regular primary State system also have controlled or limited access. This means that travelers can get on or off the road only at designated points, which usually are not less * than one mile apart. This often require* cwi-structioQ of parrallel service roads.

There Is another kind of access" which in some respects k more important. That is a road from the main highway, whether or not of controlled access type, to school houses, churches, recreational centers 43d industrial plants, these roads range in length from a few hundred feet to several miles.

Governor Hodges this week allocated half a million dollars out of the surplus" highway funds (which is not surplus at all, but merely unbudgeted) for 30-odd such access roads. The list includes at least eleven schools, seven industrial plants, and three military installations. The rest is distributed among hospitals, recreational centers and other public service places.

The reason the State must build these access roads is that counties have no current funds for highway construction or maintenance although a substantial part of the tax levy In many counties goes to debt service on bonds issued for roads and bridges before the State assumed entire responsibility. Question has been raised whether a specific amount should be budgeted for discretionary use of the Governor and the Highway Commission for this purpose, rather than leaving it to th doubtful availability of surplus funds at end of the year.

for this section of ths state.

With its Mental Health Clinic, Pitt County has taken the lead in Eastern Carolina in providing outpatient treatment for literally thousands of people over a 20-county area of the state. With a trained psychiatrist at the head of the clinic, it is certainly fitting that the county, through its hospital, make provisions whereby in-patient treatment in this field is available here to supplement the out-patient treatment already being provided through the Mental Health Clinic.

The Pitt Memorial Hospital was built by the people of Pitt County in order that through it the citizens of this area would have available the best possible medical care. In the years since the hospiUl has been open the calibre of medical care has steadily broadened and improved. By opening the way for admission for psychiatric treatment at the hospital on a limited basis the hospital medical staff and trustees have taken another Important step in fulfilling the purpose for which the medical facility was constructed.

The step indeed reflects credit upon the medical group of this country, the hospital trustees, and the progressive attitude Pitt County has taken in seeking to provide its people the best possible medical care here at home.

Healing Of Economic Scars Will Take Long

When one reflects upon Pitt Countys experience with Hurricane Donna two weeks ago, it is somehow difficult to imagine the terrific toll the storm took in a few brief hours.

To be sure, it was a terrible storm. Certainly it seemed the wind would never stop howling or trees would stop falling. Even long before daylight there was no question that the bumper com crop had been heavily damaged and other crops as well.

The official estimate of damage amounting to more than $3.6 million in Pitt County from Donna, however, gives some idea of how hard Pitt was hit. By comparison with other counties which took a heavier blow from the storm, Pitt losses may be regarded as relatively light. Compared with those counties which were farther from the storms huge center, Pitts estimate of losses is heavy indeed.

A breakdown of the figures indicated the heaviest losses in Pitt were in the rural areas where damage to crops has been estimated at $1.5 million, damage to standing timber at a half million and damage to rural homes and farm buildings at another half million. Damage to public and private property in the municipalities of the county made up the remaining $1.1 million of the total.

It will take time for the county as a whole to overcome the losses caused by the storm. The clean-up operations which have about been completed have removed much of the outward evidence left by Donnas force. The healing of deeper economic scars left by the storm will take considerably longer.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) . The presidential campaign is getting a little warm. It's still far from being hot, even though Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy are racing around with extra-OTdinary vigor.

Bit by bit, but still on a rather lofty plane, the two men have been adding a few trimmings as they go along to the themes they have been hitting IM*etty much from the beginning.

Its the Nixon trimmings which this week added a little fire to their argument.

The Washington Star said he was using a flashing style reminiscent of his hard-hitting campaign of the past," The New York Times said he had quickened his tempo" in a way reminiscent of his previous controversial Nixon campaigns."

The two mens themes have gone like this:

Kennedy While criticizing the Eisenhower administrations handling of foreign affairs, he says both national defense and the America neconomy have to be stepped up to keep peace with Russia.

NixonDefending the handling of foreign policy, Nixon in-i.sts both defense and the economy arc doing fine but promises to improve on both.

That kind of similarity doesnt make for excitement. But Nixon has made the campaign a little rougher by throwing in some extras w'hich are derogatory of Kennedy.

For instance: Last May, w'hen Premier Nikita Khrushchev blew up the summit meeting after Russia had downed tfie American U2 spy plane, Kennedy suggested the summit might have been salvaged if Pre.sident Eisenhower had ex-pre.sed regret over the spy flight.

Nixon from the campaigns beginning has been trying to wrap that statement around Kennedys neck while at the same time trying to get across the idea Kennedy Is too inexperienced for the presidency.

This week he began throwing the word naive at his rival, saying it was naive to thnk Eisenbower could have saved the summit meeting by voicing regret over the 2.

Further, this week Nixon said Kennedy has been obsessed W'ith finding weaknesses in America (pretty much the same thing hes been saying, but stronger), has given the impression this country is "one vast depressed area," and is talking a do-it-with-mirrors" philosophy of economic growth.

At one point he accused Kennedy of belittling America, saying he was making himself a spokesman for national self-disparagement."

But Nixon also seemed to be having second thoughts on some things he said. In referring to Kennedys statement about regret over the U2, the vice president had said: When you are dealing with a dictatiH* yoil must never make concessions without getting something in return b:ecause that is not the road to peace: it is the road to surrender or to war.

But when newsmen asked Nixon later if he meant to say Kennedy was espousing a surrender policy toward Russia, the vice president said: Absolutely not. Mr. Kennedy didnt know what he was espousing."

Early this week Nixon proposed that while Khrushchev is at the United Nations in New York there .should be a moratorium on all talk about the United States being weak. This would have all but gagged Kennedy who keeps harping on the idea that America needs to be made stronger The sena-(Continued on page .six)

Lots of folks with love problems write letters to Ann Landers, Dorothy Dix and all those Advice to Lovelorn columnists.

Lots of folk* do, but not me.

I go to the greatest advisor in these matters I know of anywhere, anytime. That would be none other than Bob Sugg, Jr., vice president and trust officer of State Bank and Trust Co.

Now to look at Bruce you wouldn't think hed have the first thing to offer concerning such problems. He is a CPA, conservative banker and graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

But looks can fool, as an old proverb says, and Ive found out Bruce has- the soundest advice that a counselor to the' love sick batchelor can offer.

"Find yourself a rich, unat-tsudied woman," he told me It doesnt make any difference whether shes a widow, single, divorced, fat, skinny, beautiful ugly, young or old. Just find yourself a rich woman.

Now this is noble advice and certainly one of tbe idealistic

aims of every young bachelor. And I told Bruce so.

But," I protested, While that's a good deal for me, how am I supposed to convince this rich unattached woman it is a good deal for her?

Bruces eyes lit up- He reached behind him (we were in his office) and pulled out a book, gingerly handling it as If tt were Aladdans lamp itself.

Its right here," he exclaimed. Suppose you marry a woman with an income of $32.-000. Her federal income tax 1* $14,000. You marry her, the two of you file a Joint return and her income tax drops to $10.000."

That was impressive but I lowed as how she would need more than the $4,000 savings to support me in the style to which Id like to be accustomed.

Bruce had the answer.

Okay," he said, "how about a woman with an Income of $60.000 a year. She pays $34.-000 federal tax. You mairy her and she pays about $24,000 a year."

That sounded more like it

Other Editors Saying Insurance Problems

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

All does not appear to be well with the North Carolina financial responsibility program which requires motorists to have auto liability insurance. To begin with, it is understood that not all of the insurance firms are keen on the idea at all-

Some of the companies want to take a look at two proposals dealing with the law before

committing themselves.

One proposal would have one company write all auto liability insurance risks in North Carolina. The other would create a security fund for the protection of North Carolina auto liability policyholders and claimants in case a company became insolvent.

Insurance C ommissioner Charles Gold, admitted there are a good many insurance

companies that have been and still are opposed to the law. Some would like to see it

defeated. The reason is that they didnt want all the business. They wanted safe drivers and those not accident prone.

There has been talk that

many people want to see the state take over the liability insurance program. They feel the state would give them better treatment and save from one third to one half on the premium. Richard Wagner of New York, assistant general manag

er of tbe Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, said his firm has been opposed over the years to the enactment of security funds.

We feel it ties up large sums for long periods, he said. Butt at the same time some obligation must be assumed toward the policyholders who are forced by law to buy liability insurance. Thats one reason for the proposed law for security funds.

Some companies lean toward the present system under which assigned rishi are handled. W. J. Ellis, a Davie County businessman. who spoke at the Raleigh hearing held by Commissioner Gold, said he feels the present financial responsibility program is unsatisfactory. "It discriminates against some people." he said.

He proposed that insurance be sold on the motorist and not on the car. He also proposed a merit rating plan for safer driving. This proposal should be considered. At present safe drivers are penalized by higher rates because of many drivers who are accident prone, Such a merit rating, leading to discounts for good records, would encourage safer driving, and that, after all is said and done. Is the major goal behind the entire matter.

and after he told me I could quit working and every thing would come out the same, I could envision Utopia.

But it goes on. A woman with an income of $100,(X)0 annually is now pajdng $67,000 in federal taxes. By taking on a no-good bum like me she could drop her her taxes to $53,000. This, of course leaves $14,000 for supporting me, which ought to do the job.

The two of os decided the moral of the thing was that tax laws encourage the rich and poor to marry and to stay married.

Incidentally. if two people with Incomes of $100,000 each married, nothing happens. their inc(Mne tax just doubles.

So, Bruce decided the tax laws, encourage these two people to live in sin.

Oh yes. one other think, in case other bachelors want in on a good thing. A new North Carolina law came in July 1. If this rich girl should die, herfather and mother were dead and there were no children, all of the estate would go to the until then poor husband. Even if she should leave it all to charity in a will, tbe law says the husband can claim half the estate.

But lets dont dwell on that. Its too morbid and too, the widower would have the lem of finding a poor girl to share his wealth and everything starts over again.

Well, anybody can see Ann Landers doesn't hold a candle to Bruce Sugg, Jr. In this advice to lovelorn business. Hes given me, and all bachelors a fine selling point with wealthy unattached women.

Im prepared to discuss any sensible offer.

GIVE

THE UNITED WAY

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. By GEORGE K. 80K(NLBKT

Copyright, IMO. King FeMiiree S|radioato, lae.

R is a loog dmance llrom the time when tbe United Statce was God's own country" to the current period of indignity and hinniliatiofi. The intervening era included the Depression which shook the e(mfidaice Of a nation with whom self-reliance was almost a religion, and World War n which was propagandlstically used to negate a century and a haU of American nationaliun to softoi up a people to accept the Rooeeveltiaa concept of internationalism.

It was during this paiod that our educational concepts were revised. Geography disappeared as a separate subject, presumably on the hypothesis that as we are now One World, the less we know about tt, the better. Adults attended lecture courses in Increasing numbers until television lessened the lecture industrys hold on audiences. The lecture industry included men and women who were scholars or active students or participants in particular fields. It also Included men and women who knew what they read in the daily press and who were invited to the State Department or to the U.S.I.A. for occasional briefing. Generally they Icnew less than nothing about their subjects but were experienced speakers and were skilled. at answering questions gUbly and cleverly.

I once met a lady who was quits wildly anti-Communist but few obviously the wrong reasons. Whereas it might be said that a person is right and proper whose righteousness and propriety are not reasoned at all but are the products of breeding, it is Impossible to be right and pr<^r for the wrong reasons without sooner or later getting caught up by the course of events. I knew such a woman once and she studied Russian to cimibat Communism which I thought was nonsense because the kind of C(nmunists she wanted to fight did not speak Russian: their mother tongue was English. They were not Russians but Americans. They were not con--cerned with events in Russia but were planning a revolution to the United States. *

Anyhow, she studied Russian and then went over to Russia to see how awful the Communists were. She is ratho* good looking and nobody was awful to her. So to due course, te read Marx and Engels and Lanin and otiiers, and while she has rematoed a capitalist because heredity made her that way. she showed marked leanings toward the Red Fatherland and she always gave as her explanation, "Aren't they simply wonderful?" meaning the Russians. She briievu that they will soon give up thMr errors and come up with the Ideas of approximately Maiic Hanna.

I know another woman who goes to cme of ttiose Thursday momtog clubs, organizations that have been made possible by the vacuum cleaner and other Uck-and-spit devices ttiat make housekeeping easy. At her house, they have only two meals to iNrepare a day breakfast and dtoner and often they go out to dinner. The children are grown. The husband lunches at his elub and so does madam car at some restaurant with other women.

At 11 a.m., once a we^, she goes to the Thursday morning club to hear Mrs. Whatshemame expound on current events. I once met the expounder. She is a very bright woman who every summer goes somewhow. She has had State D^artmoit and Pentagon briefings and knows an Important man or two. She is naturally an internationalist because that is the style the moment and when eome of her remarks are chaUanged. she might fall back on the ad hominem argum^t as to whether the challenger knows more than Mr. Herter, which is not difficult. At any rate, the qnee-tUmer Is thus sUwoced.

These ladies of the-^eoaraes read the reviews of books and can quote gobs but not volumes. A deflnition is not only impolitic but impohte. It is not necessary to define terms be-causs everybody vnderstands them, including Messrs. Lumumba and Castro. Patriotism is unrefined. Why should we not be kind to the weak and backward nations so that they might eome up to us and be equal to us! It is selfish and narrow to object to foreign goods comtiig into our (Continued on' page sto)

More Look-Aheads For Business

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOl GLAS.S INDIRECT DISIIONESTV

At the climax of a novel I read recently, the hero is saved from punishment when a friend lies to conceal his guilt from the authorities. The hero is present when the falsehood is uttered but does not contradict it. Apparently both the heroine, who is also present, and the reader are supposed to feel that since someone else told the lie. it is quite all right for the hero to profit by it.

This fictional Incident Is just one of many which seem to show widespread indifference to moral standards A man wa.s heard to boast that while .he always reported all his income, he usually made some mpitakcs* in figuring out his return that

saved him several hundred dollars of taxes. As long as he reported the income, he said, it v as up to the tax people to make sure that he paid what he should. And he saw nothing dishonest in this practice.

Someone in the novel mi?ht have told the hero that to consent knowingly, even though silently, to a faLehood Involving oneself is a form of lying. Probably soipf rr should have told the tax ch'^ier bluntlj- that the taxc^ he evade*- dv his mi.s-tako.s are money *'e qiite litcrallv stealimi from his fellow Citi?4'IUi.

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Indirect dishonesty i.s still dls* hone.'ity still just as hr nitul to othei.-. .still just as cuiTupling to ourselves.

By ELMER ROESSNER Here are more look-aheads in business, baised on analyses of developing trends and. in some Instances, advance information: An industrial prnduction upsurge: As new auto models

swing into fill! production between now and the Christmas holida.vs, the figures will indicate a rise in industrial production. But the rise will not be general, and it will be dangerous to mpiiead the figures.

New hot-stuck area: Because it's natural wealth is largely uncharted and people imagine the 49th sta- studded '> h minerals pnd .3ced w'ith. o, the promoters pe moviii' to \laska, 01 selling Alaskan stares from w'armed locations. Por every bona tide investment offer there will be a dozen sharp promotions, Note: Alaska comes under the Federal Securities and Exchange rcgulatlon.s; but slickcis there know how to get around them just as dc slickers

in New York or Montreal. Scrutinize every stock, share and unit offer involving Alaskan wealth. Check with long-established ^brokers, banks, Better Business Bureaus. This one paragraph may save your savings. AIJTO.MATIC CLEANERS Coin-operated dry cleaners are eoiniiig. Whirlpool is testing 50 coin-iii-slot diy cleaning units in 20 cities in New York, Texas. California. Michigan, Illinois. Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska. Arizona and Canada. First reports indicates public acceptance. Up to eight pounds of garments cam be loaded in a machine and. for S1..50 in coins, the machine dry cleans them. If acceptance continue.^ on pre.s. ent scales, these machines will appear In your neighborhood eventually.

Foam rubber competition: Manufacturers of eurethane foam, a plastic, have poLsed a drive to gain a fat segment of the foam rubber market. Biggest advantage: eurethane (oaju

is light. One manufacturer will advertise that his plastic mattress. Next, a stepped-up drive for urethane foam sales to upholstered furniture manufacturers.

Crude oil surplus: The demand for crude oil wiU dip more than reasonably this fall. Industrial use is declining, and current stock are high.

QUIET TIRES

Smoother autoing: A new synthetic rubber, reinforced with ultrafine talc, makes smoother, quieter tires* It has been tested in laboratories and may be in tires of 1962 autos.

'!o~e aluminum demand: AIu-. minum production capacity has long been far above demand. Now a new method of producing Ingots is being developed. This is likely to lead to prices so low that ^ demand will be stimulated.

Kharp rise in consumer rrrdll: Recent shiv vers in the economy are causing many consumers to buy installment

itMUs While their credit to good; they arc aleo eatuttog merchants to push goods ot Oh to-stallment sales. Result: A torge increase in consumer oredlt outstanding lor the rematoing months of 1960.

PROMOTER SEES mNIYl-CANCE IN ORDER FOR PIN-SPOTTER8

International relaUoos must be worse than I thought,' the Old Promoter remarked during his weekly vtolt. I see the govemment has ordsred 1,000 automatic pin-poUers for the 160 bowling centers at Ruro-pean bases.

This will completely automate Army bowling to Europe. Something must be up, dont you think? Would the brass automate its alleys if it thought the Russians were going to iaU back? Of course not."

I dont quite follow the eld gent, but if the Army is suddenly automating Its Europetn bowHng alleys, something to to the wind.