PAGE POim.HE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

1 hur day, Novmbr 3, 1960

Thursday. November 3, 1960

Tin So Popular At Election Time-

Largest Single Project In County

The largest single construction project ever undertaken in Pitt County moved a step closer to reality Tuesday when bids for building the mammoth Voice of America installation were taken in Washington.

Although it will be several weeks before the contract for the project is let, and two months or more before work is begun, the low bid of $12.17 million on the project*gives some indication of its size. In addition to the actual con.struction there will be literally millions of dollars worth of powerful radio transmitters and other equipment that will go to make up the completed facility. They will be constructed elsewhere, but they will have to be brought to the local sites and in-.talled.

Never before has there been a comparable single ccnstruction project in Pitt County. It will be two years in the building and during the peak construction period of at least a year more than 900 people will be involved in the project on the local level.

Certainly such a project will have its impact upon the economy of Pitt County while construction is going on. Many job opportunities will open up for local people, and in addition to those many people will be brought in from other .aijeas to work on the project.

According to the tentative schedule for estimated manpower needs for the project, it will be only two months before the influx of new people into this area

Most Costly Of

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By LYNN NISBET

EXPENSIVEThe 1960 general election campaign in North Carolina has been the most costly, in history, according to preliminary reports filled with the Secretary of State. These reports due ten days before the election show that up to October 28 the Democratic state committee had collected $119,087.17 and had spent $97,726.72.

The Republican state committee had collected only $25.815, bu. had spent $35.124. The committee is not quite broke, however. It had a carry-over balance of $9,855 from last year. The spending by the regular .Republican- organization repre-, f ents only a fraction of total spent in behalf of Republican state and national candidates. A statewide group known as "Volunteers for Nixon and L(.dge reported receipts of $23,110 and expenditures of $20,-45b.

Two statewide groups of "Citizens for Gavin" report receipts of $54,938 and expenditures of $.=3,553. That adds up to aggregate spending by these four g-oups backing Republican candidates of $109,134, or $11,408 more than the Oeniocrais spent. Total for both parties amounts to $206,960. Estimates are that the final reports made 20 days after the election will boost the total spending to at least a quarter million dollars.

When all the reports filed wit! the 100 county clerks of court by regular party and hybrid organizations are added up --and chances are they never wilt be plus individual unreported spending, a conservative estimate of the cost of the campaign will be half a million. There is no direct relation between amounts spent and actual buying of votes, but in the past the party or the candidate which spent the most won the election

COOKS What this country, enc especially North Carolina, needs is a lot more restaurants owned by the cooks. That is what one widely traveled man observed the other day, while discussing the problem of getting pood food away from home. He had no complaint about the cleanliness of most public eating places he patronized, or about the basic quality of menu items. His main complaint was against standardization, the sarneness in preparatioii and seasoning of staple foodsor rather the lack of seasoning. Most restaurant owners stay in the front office and give personal attention to greeting customers. Seeing Uiat tables are properly set and decorated, and similar activities while a hired man in the kitchen is left to prepare the food. Result is the food lacks that delicate touch and tastethat makes some eating places famous. The reputation of a restaurant, says the traveler quoted, is based on the excellence of the food, not the

fancy fittings in the dining room.

In that same spirit it Is noted that the influence and power of the press has declined since fewer papers are owned by the editors. James Gordon Bennett, Charles A. Dana, Joseph Pulitzer Henry Watterson, Howell Cobb, Joseph P. Caldwell, Josephus Daniels and other editorial-writing publishers made the press the most powerful in-iiuence in America during the last half of the nineteenth and the first quarter of the twentieth centuries. They hired business managers, but they controlled their newspapers. Majority of the big newspapers now are owned by publishers who hire ed^ors to do the writing.

Newspapers would be more influential if the editors owned them, and restaurants would be better if they were owned by the cooks.

PROGRESS REPORT One of the most interesting and effective pieces of mail to come to this desk in a long time was the "Progress Report of the Concrete Products Company of A.ihevilJe. Its effectiveness is in t.he striking contrast betw'een the illustrations and the text. For example;

There is a picture of an old dilapidated residence representing the home office. The text reads; A paragon of modem architectural imagineering. our newly constructed, completely all - conditioned, executive headquarters resides majestically amidst elegant and lush outdoor gardensa symbol of our corporations dedication to civic leadership."

There is another full-page picture of a broken down Chick Sales facility labeled "Our Rest Rooms. The next reads: "Years pgr our progressive labor relations department recognized that employee productivity if greatly enhanced if comfortable, well equipped, modern rest rooms are provided. The rest room shown is for our research and development staff whose slow, methodical habits have been carefully provided for in this especially designed and constructed unit."

The last page shows a weed-infested cemetery with broken h^'adstones at the graves, illustrating "Our Employee Retirement Plan." The text reads: "Two generations of our retired employees can attest to the beneficience of our retirement plan. Established over fifty years ago by our benignant founder to assure, each member 0 his corporate family retirement with dignity and security. our retirement fund functions today to bring permanent peace and security to all those whc have served us well."

The contrast between the pictures depicting conditions that maintained hall a century ago and the text indicating current practices is graphic illustration of progress.

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begins and the hiring of a large number of local people foi construction jobs begins. Between January and July a force of 450 common laborers are slated to be recruited for the project in addition to some 200 skilled workmen. In addition to the.se people, the contractors supervisory staff in the area between January and July is expected to build to 50 people while an additional 50-plus people will be brought in by the VGA for work in connection with construction on the pro-ject.

In the case of the local labor situation, these new jobs open to people already living in Pitt should go a long way toward eliminating the employment lag that usually is felt in the county during the early months of the year. The fact that several hundred people from other areas will be moving into Pitt to work on the project will likewise boost the economic outlook, for they will require housing, food, recreation and all the other things a person needs ^wherever he is living anif working.

As the huge project moves a step closer to the day when construction on it will be underway at a steady pace, Pitt County should likewise move ahead in its preparation to provide needed facilities for the people who will be coming into the area in connection with the project.

A Big To-Do About An Imagindry Attack

Current Cuban leadership is woefully ignorant about facts of life in the United States. The same observation might apply to a lot of countries, but the islands proximity- lends credence to the belief Cubans should know better.

All this talk about an American invasion is about as remote from reality as Alice In Wonderland.

That anyone in Cuba should believe it is extraordinary; that anyone in the United Nations could accept it at only 50 per cent of face value, is similarly amazing.

P^or many years Cuba was one of the favored nations in our economic relations . . . and still would be, had not that countrys present regime made an effort to create an artificiai antipathy. We venture to guess the embargo action would never have taken place had it not been for seizure of American businesses and property, and the flagrant efforts to sow discord.

The only conclusion within reason is that Fidel Castro and his friends need a whipping boy and a new martial spirit to distract popular attention from more pressing problems at home.

The world learned about the big lie technique from Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin; not everybody, it seems, learned to recognize that technique in action.

Any schoolboy could advise prime minister Castro it Would take far more drastic action than anything he has dreamed up to date, for this country to take him seriously enough to dispatch a military force against Cuba.

Any schoolboy could tell Castro that if events ever went that far, he had reached the end of his rope.

And, the mood of the people in this country is not that of military adventure. Popular protests here at home would drown out all the cries of dismay in Cuba and other nations.

Fact is. nobody Ave know wants to pay the cost of rebuilding another war-shattered country. Not even it we have to put up with a loudmouth next door for another couple of years.

- ITS AsUfAOST WSaUVTING HOW THEV R6H -TO SHAkKE ^ MAN'$ HAND!

McN*ugtt Sj-ncite, Inc. j

Sy HENRY H0\ARD

nanaicaps Jror Candidate N ixon

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon-confronted with polks indicating victory for Sen. John F. Kennedy -says he is still optimistic. But from the start he has been nandicapped.

1. He has been handcuffed by the conflicts within his own party.

2. His very position put him on the defensive.

3. There are more Democrats than Republicans.

4. The recent tide has been Democratic.

Nixon commented earlier this year on a newspaper editors appraisal of his dilemma with his own Republicans.

"You put your finger on a real problem when you indicated I must be liberal enough to rid myself of the undeserved charge that I represent the Old Guard, yet conservative enough to present a contrast to the Democratic nominee." Nixon said.

He cant sound too conservative without chancing the loss cf the liberal Republicans who could swing to Kennedy.

He cant be too liberal without perhaps losing the ultra-conservative Republican right wing.

Nixon cant afford to lose either wing. He needs all the Republicans he can get even though, while he cant w'in with tnem alone, he cant win without them.

The reason is there are more registered Democrats than

Republicans. To win hell need almost all of his owm party, plus some Democrats and independents.

No wonder he has generalized so much.

He had figured the percentages so carefully, even before getting the nomination, that as long ago as last April he let this much of his thinking be known, that if there was a downturn in the economy by Novem-beiand there has beenhe didnt think the Republicans had a chance.

No administration seven years In office can hope for a record pleasing to everyone. It can expect criticism, some of it legitimate

Kennedy, in no way connected with the Eisenhower administra-t.on, has been free to criticize ard promise better. Not Nixon.

He has been part and parcel ol the administration and even now is depending on support from President Eisenhower who built him up.

ministration down the line, promising more of the same, but better.

This meant the aggressive Nix-cn has been on the defensive asainst the aggressive Kennedy nuch of the time.

Nixon also has had to buck a Democratic tide which, with few exceptions, has been run-ring Democratic ever since the Roosevelt sweep In 1932.

This was a clear expi*ession (Continued on Page 7)

Public Forum

TO THE EDITOR:

The members of the Clio Book Club, meeting Tue.sday afternoon, signed the folowing resolution which has been mailed to the proper authorities:

TO THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF TTHE CITY COUNCIL or GREENVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA

One of the loveliest and mo-st enjoyable as.seis of our city i.s Its tKiUtJui trets llUi l-i 11 a.Hset which is not ea?y to come by or to p^e.serve. The trees rtiat we have should be carefully protected and encouragement given to the planting of new trfcjs. Hasty and ill considered action in cutting trees often creates a vacuum of uglmess.

Halloween-Made Alibi

Halloween can come at the darnedest times these days.

Though its already come and gone for another year, we heard something last night that might be worth passing along.

Everybody is familiar with the "Fairy" who visits children on one occasion or another. This particular instance involved a universally popular "fairy."

For years this Fairy" has made a habit of visiting the kids .at night following their losing their first "baby teeth." It is customary for the mythical visitor to leave some sort of gift 0** token beneath the childrens pillows at each visit.

As it always (or should al-wa.vs) turns out, the "Fairy" makes her trip the very night following the loss of the tooth. Somehow, children realize this fac^ and eagerly await the morning wakening to reach little

hands under the pillow to "see v^hat the fairy brought.

What happened Monday was a grave injustice to a local v(!ungster. But the incident also revealed the shining ingenuity and opportunist nature of man the youngsters father.

Around lunchtirae Monday, the 6-year-oId boy lost another tooth, hi.'! third, it seems. Had it been the first one he may have overlooked the fact that the "Fairy should pay a visit that night Halloween Night.

But after two previous lost "teeths" and two accompanying "Fairy" visits, he was in no mood to have this particular visit omitted. He was so sure of receiving the "Fairys" gift, he actually had little to say about his expectations to his parents.

Well, Monday was a busy day indeed and mom and dad seemed

Other Editors Saying ... Castro And Other Latins

Just a reminder: Only

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(Rocky Mount Telegram)

While everyone seems to be concerned about the best policy to use in dealing with Cuba, few- people seem to be thinking about the military consequences of military action. The U.S. has taken into consideration the pos-sjbility that Fidel Castro might launch a foolhardy attack on South Florida.

This possibility was posed by Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates. And while the majority might think such a move would be ridiculous and foolish on the part of Castro, we must remember that Castro is not a responsible person. Shocked also were most Americans when little Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, although it must be agreed that my such action by Castro would be for entirely different purpose.

Castro, mast observers believe, would like nothing better than to force the U.S. into some military action in the hopes that the Soviet Union would come to his aid. Too, he would like to manipulate such an incident so as to make the U.S. appear to be the aggressor. Such a feat for Castro would help his campaign of painting us before the other Latin American nations as the traditional Yankee imperialist.

Gates said the U. S. has military contingency plans if something like this happens. So apparently the U.S. government will lean over backward to avoid such a trap, but would not hesitate to use force if necessary.

What is the attitude of other

Latin American nations in this case? A delegation of pi eminent Brazilians has told the State Department that Castro has been steadily losing sympathy among those countries. However, any unilateral U.S. action against him could restore his prestige. This is all the more reason why Castro would like to create an "incident.

The Brazilian delegation also made it clear that the only effective resolution to the problem posed by Cubas ties with the Soviet bloc and Communist Ciiina must come through the Organization of American States. These Brazilians claim the new $500 million aid program to bolster Latin American economy is insufficien to meet, the areas needs.

Nothing short of a massive aid program along the lines of the Marshall Plan for Europe will demonstrate to the Latin Americans the advantages of democracy as opposed to communism. Thats W'hat the Latins' say. But one must remember that we cannot forever keep them on Uncle Sams charity list. Eventually they mu.st demonstrate, as West Germany did. that they are willing to help themselves.

As for (jastro, that is a problem for which no one seems to have the correct answer. Both presidential candidates have stated their positions, but since partisan politics are so closely a.'ifoclated with anything they say. It would be perhaps wiser to forego any such proposals until after the election.

to be busier than anybody else. To make a long story short, the kids parents simply forgot about the "Fairy."

By their very nature, "Fairies" are quite hesitant about visiting children when the parents are unaware or unthoughtful of the occasion. So, as the night hours crept away amidst Halloween trlck-or-treat-ers the Fairy" stayed away.

Morning came. The youngster awakened and instantly reached under his pillow. Nothing.

"Daddy." he called, "The fairy didnt leave me anything last night. What was the trouble?" Daddy, probably exercising more quick wit than at anv time he could remember, calmly replied:

"Son. the fairy will come to-alghl. She wig t/said of all the ghosts and goblins last night."

Whew!

more shopping dayi til Christmas.

Opinions

The saving of human labor is the means by which we acquire both leisure and the wealth that allows us to progress in the non-material lines. But even today, anyone who wants to live by the sweat of hjs brow, toiling from morning to night to accomplish the simple requirements for survival, may do so.Lenoir (N.C.) News Topic.

"Someday the country may regret its neglect of the middle level of mechanical training. We >may have a land of scientists dependent on gadgets for daily living, and only a small group of people who can fix them when they break down. Charleston News and Cornier.

"It is to be hoped that the dynamic life of modern times in America can be re-oriented and directed to the importance of the individual as a vital force in our society, our politics and hopes fd'r the future.Luray (Va.) Page News and Courier.

British

end Us A Hand

By GEORGE . SOKOLSKY

Copyright, I960 King Features Syndicate, Xne.

It can liow be said that Orcat Britain is not ungrateful. The British government, despite the left wing of the Labour Par,y, has come to the rescue of the United States. While the United States has been losing part of its gold supply, Great Britain has been improving its gold position, so that It now holds gold reserves acounting to more than ^,000,000,000. Because the United States is short of gold, Great Britain has paid back be-f('e the due date, between March 1959 and September 1960, $785,-000,000 roughly a quarter of its U>tal reserves of gold and convertible currency. Whatever is paid to the United States at this time, helps to restore our gold reserve and to maintain the valus of the dollar.

Also, the British have stepped up foreign lending, particularly to the less-developed countries, thus taking a load off Uie United States. During the current year, the British have contributed about $448,000,900; during 1959-1960, they contributed $364,-000.000.

The British have elso removed nearly all oft he restrictions on Imports which had eurvlved since 1939. Imports from the United States were up more than 60 per cent in the first half of I960.

Britains economic position is stronger than it has been since the end of World War II. Its Industrial production has risen 10 per cent; unemployment amounts to very little. Instalment buying, a new departure for the British, has doubled.

During 1960, Britain's economy showed signs of inflation which the government resisted. The British have had ample experience with inflation and ^iU take no chances with it. Unlike American politicians, the British do not risk the well-being of their own country in the Interest of their own election. To arrest the trend toward tnflalion, they moderately increased taxes; they raised the profits tax from lo per cent to 1214 per cent; tobacco duties were raised 47 cents a poundtwo cents on 20 cigarettes. A number of tax avoidance loopholes were blocked.

credit wm restricted in a number of ways and the bank rate was raised from five per cent on January 21 to six per cent on June 23. Then to assist the United States, this process was reversed by lowering the "'''ill rain I III one-half

per cenTwmober 28. It wl be recalled that it was during that week that the price of gold shot 'uiPix triie idon free gold market to a degree because confidence in the dollar was tottering partly as a result of campaign speeches in the United States which Europeans took seriously. By lowering the bank rate half a point, the British eased the credit market, this having the effect of showing confidence in the dollar and in the state of the economic wcn-ld.

The reward to Great Britain for sound economic policies and for co(H?eration with the United States is that the British pound sterling grows stronger in world markets and remains above par. This naturally attrsu:ts money to London, some of which used to come to New Ycwk. Money flows to where it is safs and fecure and ^an function profitably. There can be little question but that the assumption that Professor Galbraith of Harvard will have an influence on the economic thinking of John P. Kennedy, should he be elected President, has played a part in the debasement of the dollar in European markets during the past fortnight. Professor Galbraiths ideas are not popular among those who know about them. The fact remains that Great Britains gold reservs has increased by 56,000,000 pounds in spite of heavy debt payments abroad and at a time when the American gold reserve is decreasing.

Great Britain is cooperating with the United States in maintaining the dollar. This co(H>era-tion comes at a serious moment.

The day must arrive, sooner or later, when the United States and the British Commcwiwealth find a medium for common economic effort. We cannot afford the unfortunate economic conflicts with Canada or the com-(Continued on page 7)

Heatherbeddina In Manaaement?

We Hjiow that those in authority Wish to preserve for our city the beauty of our trees. Since trees/ are admired and loved by so many people, it would seem wise to have a special committee of representative citizens to act as a planning or zoning gioup In giving advice and making decisions about cutting the trpp.s

We. the members of thcvClio Book recommend that

.<!iich a committee tie created by t.he City Government to study an(^ consider problems relating to uur tree.s and that no de.struc-tion of treen be undertaken without approval of such a committee

Mrs. Dink Jamc.s. Sec.

Mrs. James M. Moye, Pres.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Management, no less than labor, may be guilty of featherbedding.

The American Management Association did not use that nasty word in a recent study, nor did It hint that relatives of top t xecutives have wrangled some cushy jobs. Nevertheless, deductions from the study leave only these alternates: there is a lot of high-level featherbedding, or many management teams dont know whai they arc doing.

For instance, figures show that a single operation In one company costing $36,000 a year may cost more than $1,090,000 in another.

"In two Industry groups, variations of 2<g) and .500' per cent aere discovered in general ad-ministratliyi work," the A M A. stated "One company found it had 700 per cent more employees In personnel work. In proportion to the total work force, than another corporation li the same indu.sti-y "

The study Invlvcd 88 corpor-aCions enipiuying a total of

1,000,000 employees. It was launched to determine numbers and ratios of administrative employees. But the facts led to the discovery of wide variations in the u.se of manpower, some of it of a shocking ngture.

For example, the study showed that the number of employees ..ngaged in manufacturing or processing ranged from 45 per cent to 71.5 per cent. The percentages of those engaged in design, development and research varied from 3.9 to 26.6, and percentages of those in marketing ranged from 3.5 per cent to 24.1 per cent, which general administration ranged from 8.7 to 14 per cent.

Surely, there is considerable rra.'ion for tho.se variations. An alkali company may have little need for a large design staff; a chemical manufacturer might i.eed an extraordinarily large re-seai'ch departni: nt.

RANGE IN < OMMON FUNC-TION.S

However, in gincral administrative functions, common to most indusU'ies, there were also

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wide variations. Here are comparisons of percentages of employees, not frcm company to company, but from group to group in industry;

Personnel Purchasing Office services Operations improvements

Tabulating, computing

Obviously, considerable variation IS needed from company to company, and from group to group. But why one group should need 1 out of every 50 employees engaged in purchasing, while another nerds only one in 200 is a my.stery. unle.ss there is a hit of stacking relative.s.

As Robert F. Steadman, A M.A. vice president who supervises the project, said, "Unquestionably the project will result In many substantial econo-nile.4; In other cases more work-(rs may be added. The greatest benefit will come from participating companies asking them

selves W'hy they have a given number of people doing a specific job. If they are concerned with profits, they have goth a substantive and a compelling reason to ask this question."

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