PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOW, UHe.anyit.Lfc, 11. C

Thursday, November 10, 1960

An Investment In The Future Of Pitt

Final Rundown Of Election Returns

The proposed industrial training school for Pitt Countj^ is a facility sorely needed by the county and one which could contribute immeasurably to the economic progress of the county and its people.

Proposed under the auspices of the Pitt County Development Commission, the school now has received the endorsement of the County Board of Education which has asked the County Commissioners to call for a county-wide bond issue to finance construction of the school.

Ultimately the question of building the proposed industrial training school for Pitt County will be decided by the voters . . . provided the County Commissioners sanction the proposal to call for a bond issue on the project.

Ultimately, the people of the county are the one who will benefit from the presence of such a school in our midst.

Under the state-wide program for industrial training schools, each local government unit is responsible for furnishing the necessary building and grounds for the school. When it does, the state provides the neces-vsary machinery, equipment and instructors to operate the school in keeping with the needs of the county or community.

Goldsboro and Wilson in this area already have erected and are operating such industrial training .schools under the state program. The State Board of Education recently approved plans for the erection of such a school at Kinston. These other localities have undertaken these programs in order to accomplish a two-fold objective:

1. To provide people in their immediate area a school in which they can obtain specialized training

Occasionally A !?^ublic Nuisance

Br LYNN NI8BET

NUISANCE The safety record of North Carolina school bus-ea is highly gratifying. Majority of the drivers are students, many of them high school girls. There are numerous instances, however, when the safety record is due to the care of other motorists rather than to the skill or cooperation of the bus drivers. Sometimes it seems that the student drivers, conscious of the protection afforded them by the law requiring every other vehicle to stop when the bus stops, delight in making a nuisance of themselves. A case in point:

Your reporter was a passenger in a car that got behind a school bus the other afternoon on a road from Sedgefleld out to the US 29 & 70, to be integrated as a section of 1-85. The bus stopped five times in a distance of lesa than half a mile. At one point two kids got off. Some 40(MW0 feet another stop discharged a dozen or more youngsters. And so it went. For most of the short distance Involved the top sign on the aide of the bus was not withdrawn. At least two places there was ample opportunity for the bus to pull off the road and let moving traffic paaa. The danger In such tantalizing tactics is that after a few unnecessary stops the other .motorlatt de* fVelop a feeling of impatient r* frustrationand are tempted to take chances in passing. The law protects the school bus; but a little more consideration on part of the bus drivers would afford grater protection for all con-cmcd.

SPEED Nearly aU the four-lane highwaya now have permitted speed of 60 miles per hour. A lot of two-lane mileage has the same legal speed. For most part 55 miles is standard maximum for passenger cars, 45 miles for trucks. There are numerous zones for which the highway commission has adopted ordinances limited speed to 40 miles and maximum allowed within incorporated municipalities is 35 miles, reduced to 10 miles in some heavily congested business areas.

It is common knowledge, easily obtained on almost any motor trip, that all speed limits are violated more often than observed. Despite frequent complaints of motorists that they were discriminated against when ptilled for excessive speed, only a tiny fraction of all violators are apprehended.

There is developing sentiment, which may be expressed In bills offered in the next Oeneral

Assembly, to increase maximum speed on controUed-access four-lane roads to 65 miles an hour. Argument for Increased speed is that everybody drives that fast, anyhow," Argument against it is there would be as much inclination to go faster as there is now. and that would get into the danger range. Traffic officers generally favor retaining the 60 mUe maximum as absolute top speed, and tighter enforcement of lower limits.

There is question whether excessive speed per se causes many accidents. There can be no doubt that high speed contributes to the severity of acR-dents, resulting in heavier property damage, serious personal injury and fatalities.

INDUSTRY Ooverior Hodges has designated the period of November 28-Deccmber 3 as "Industry Appreciation Week" in North Carolina, and has called upon every community in the state to join in .its observance. A number of communltlM have staged industry appreciation programs in the past, but this is the first venture in a statewide common week observance.

The idea is to welcome newcomers into the economic life of the community, without neglecting appreciation for the established firms which have supported the economy through the years. One point whould be emphasized more than it has been in prior programs. That is recognition of the little businesses which employ from three to twenty people. Emphasis has been on the big plants.

Your reporter was amazed tn learn sometime ago that there are more than 75 hosiery manufacturers" in Hickory. There are several multi-million dollar plants which have nationwide reputation. But there are a great many more little plants, one or two or three knitting machine* in garages and home basements, producing goods to specifications of the big firms and distributed under the big trade names.

A fumlttffc factory. In common concept, is a great big plant engaged in assembly-line production of beds and chairs and tables which are shipped In truck and car load volume. Furniture making Is big business. It is also little business. because there is hardly a town of 500 people that does not have one or more shops making and repairing furniture. Industry appreciation programa will fall of their major purpose unless they recognize the contribution of these little fellows.

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in a variety of skilled and semi-skilled jobs; and

2. Provide their localities with a facility in which people can be trained to assume skilled or specialized jobs in industries which may locate in the area.

Such a school in Pitt wmuld make available to local peopleparticularly young people-technical training which is not now available.' These young people would be equipped to accept more highly skilled jobs than otherwise would be the case. At the same time, the presence of such a school here would make, Pitt County much more attractive to many industrial prospects because the county would be able to assure a prospective industry of trained workers in almost any type of job necessary to the industry.

Erection of such a school would greatly enhance the economic future of Pitt County both from the standpoint of many of its young people as individuals, and from the standpoint of the overall industrial development of the county.

It represents an investment in the future which could pay for itself many times over in trms of better economic advantages for the county and its people.

Dramatic Ending To A Dramatic Campaign

The drama of Tuesday's electionthe razor-thin margin of the popular vote and the late-count shifting of key electorial voteshave left many citizens across the nation still shaking their heads because of the narrow margin which spelled victory or defeat for their favorite candidate.

Although President-elect Kennedy was considered the favorite when voters we.nt to the polls Tuesday, although early predictions after the count started Tuesday night said he would win, it was mid-day Wednesday on the East Coast before the election officially was in the bag" for the Democrats.

For some 12 hours, from mid-night Tuesday until Wednesday noon, the Democratic nominee was within a few votes of having enough electorial ballots to as* .sure his election. As the hours passed, Vice President Nixon's votes ate away at what earlier appeared to be a Kennedy landslide. By late morning yesterday most people were getting a good ca^e of the jitters awaiting the outcome from three states, any one of which could have given Kennedy victory . . . the combination of which might have enabled Nixon to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

It will be a long time before the American people witness again a more dramatic ending to such a dramatic national political campaign.

IliitrAitAy November 10| I86u

1- nend

8y ALVIN TAYLOB

Waited For The Verdict

iXpiainmg me Nixon Defeat

Tuesdays election was a real thriller in the ti"ue American tradition.

Despite the fact that the electorial college vote appeared early to be going to Kennedy, the popular vote just wouldn't break fully in his favor.

Thus here in the newspaper office, there was still nothing final on the election as late as noon yesterday.

Kennedy had 261 sure electorial votes at that time only eight short of Victory. But those eight just wouldnt come over.

Finally at 12:30 Minnesota swung to the Kennedy camp. The election was over. It was all decided, but still with a pop' ular vote lead of only eight-tenths of one percent. Minnesotas 11 votes In the

Kennedy column settled the Issues for News Editor Don Schllenz who had been holding back on his front page headliiies until the matter was definitely decided.

He trotted out the big type which declared Kennedy and Sanford bad won.

Now the problem is: Are voters more tolerant in i960 or were those who maintained the prohibition issue defeated Smith right?

Tuesdays election is most often compared with the election of 1928 when another Roman Catholic and Democrat w^as running for president,

A1 Smith was soundly defeated that year by Ihe Republican candidate Herbert Hoover. The dispute has gone on for years as to whether Smith was defeated because of his Catholic religion or because of the prohibition issue which was a highlight of the campaign.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-A hatful Of explanations are mixed up in

Sen. John F. Kennedys victory over Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Tuesdays presidential election.

They range from the personal and political to television and tactics.

1. The close vote showed what had been apparent throughout the campaign. There was no overwhelming enthusiasm for either man. The choice was between two men rather than between two parties.

But that the voters could and did choose sharply between parties was demonstrated by the results in the congressional races.

For the 13th timfe in the' 15 elections since 1932 for House and Senate the Democrats were given control of Congress.

2. The congressional results indicate that if Kennedy had been a Republican he might have been whipped. For this reason: He probably benefited from voters who saw little to choose between him and Nixon but cast a straight Democratic ballot.

3. Something in Nlxona makeup hurt him. In an almost mystical way some voters said they were picking Kennedy because I dont like Nixon" although when asked why they couldnt say.

4. Nixon undoubtedly got some benefit from being associated with President Elsenhower and his administration but it also handicapped him.

Because he had been part of It he couldnt be critical of it, even if he had wanted to. He defended the administration, and couldnt go much beyond its performance and programs in offering ideas of his own.

He was handcuffed in another way too. While Kennedy could offer unhindered and apparently popular liberal programs an(T> promises, Nixon had to worry about pleasing both the liberal and conservative wings of his party.

This left him in the middle.

5. This middle positionwhich meant restraint in promisesal

lowed Kennedy to appear more farseeing. more earnest about the future, more on the move. Kennedy Jibed at him for his middle ground role.

6. TV played an enormous part in the campaign since it gave the voters a chance to see the tw'O candidates side by side, to examine their minds at work, and to form close-up impressions of both

7. Nixon pulled A political boner In appearing with Kennedy on TV and debating him. Nixon, because of his seven years with the Eisenhower administration, was known in every home,

Kennedy, outside his own Massachusetts. was a comparative unknown. But in the very first debate be not only landed side by side with Nixon in 70 million homes but, many thought, had much the better of it.

He became known across the land overnight.

8. Kennedy with his more liberal programs of medical care for the aged, federal help with teachers' pay, a higher minimum wage was able to appeal to groups whom the more re.5trained Nixon couldnt reach.

9. The business slump was perhaps a factor. Last April, long before the campaign, Nixon let it be known that if there was an economic downturn by election day he didnt think the Republicans could win. It did turn down.

10. Nixon, long billed as a great debater, turned out to be more of an arguer. It worked to his disadvantage. In his incessant attempts to tear Kennedy down he helped build him up,

11. Kennedy, by preserving an even tone and temper, presented an image of himself as a man both serious and reliable. Nixon, self consciously, played up to the listeners.

In his efforts to sound homey he frequently reduced his statements to the teen-age level, an effort which Nixon seemed to forget might offend many intelligent people. But, as he said, he didn't think most people paid attention to details.

Other Editors Saying ,.. Chickens Come To'Roost

(Henderson Dispatch)

One of the immediate and moat serious problems with which the new President must grapple is that of conserving the United States gold supply. The steady ouflow of the nations reserves has become a cause for growing concern on the part of oiilcials, yet nothing has been done to remedy the threatening situation.

Whether as contributing to the loss of this precious metal as the basis for the nations money .supply or not, it reflects the increasing strain upon government solvency. And what contributes to that? Two things. One is the lavish outlay of money in gifts abroad. The other is the fallacious squandering of funds on all sorts of welfare programs here at home.

In other words, the dollar is being loaded down with a burden which is simply too great for it to carry. However rich and powerful the United States may be. there is definitely a limit beyond which it dare not go in Its finances and commitments. Our spending is too free, too generous and far too widespread for safety and solvency. The Federal Treasury cannot afford

fnything and everything the tarry-eyed theorists would pile upon it.

For years there have been and today still are and more of them thwe who have warned against disaster in the lavish outlays voted by Congress both at home and abroad. But the procession has moved along not

only not at a slower but an accelerated pace. Now, today, the chickens are coming home to roost. The government is feeling the pinch in convincing and threatening manner. It will be- cdtne worse unless there is a sobering attitude about fantastic schemes of the dreamers, and with catastrophe at the dead end of the road.

The average man does not understand the situation with re-, spect to the gold supply arid its vital role In the economy not only of this country but of others tied so closely to our own interests. But he could ultimately feel the effects of it to his own hurt and discomfort.

The government must mova in quickly without hesitancy and with a firm hand to control the situation. If a veritable run on the United States gold supply were to develop and what is already happening is close to that it could bring a prohibitive crackdown on the part of the government. Everywhere In the world that would be Interpreted as a weakening of the nations financial status. The inevitable result of Such a development, as we read it. would be something bordering upon an International panic.

Americans now are beginning to recognize some of the evil effects of the reckless financial policies that have been followed in recent years, and will see more of them, or less, in proportion to the momentum with which this program la continued or slackened.

"Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain suii^ort than all other poaaes-sions.Diogenes.

Ware.

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Hoover took the election of 1928. But in the newspaper a counts of the election the next day a nama which is now known to every Amtrican began popping up In news articles.

It was Franklin D. Roosevelt, govrnor-elect of New York, who in four years was to be elected president.

A Nov. 9 Associated Press dispatch said that Roosevelt had left for Warm Springs, Qa-, to resume tieatment for his crippled legs. He was to be inaugurated Jan. 1, the story stated.

On Nov. 11 the Associated Press reported that Roosevelt was contemplating a survey of the Democratic situation throughout the nation. However this survey had absolutely nothing to do with my own election or any future election," he said.

There had been shouts of Roosevelt for president in 1932" when he arrived at Warm Springs, the story said.

I want definitely to step on any talk of that kind with both feet," he declared. That expression is colloquial but it is very clear."

As every one knows now, Ro(^evelt was elected in 1932, and again in 1936, 1940 and 1944. He was to lead the naUon through depreaslon and war.

Opinions !h Brief

If fire strikes your home, first get everyone out of the house. Then call the fire department If the fire has gained headway, the first two or three minutes after you discover it may be the most important minutes of your life."Menomonee I^lls (Wise.) News.

The average husband worries about what the government spends and what his wife spends. The difference is that hes not afraid to criticize the government" International Falls (Minn.) Journal.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, i960, King Features , Syndicate, Inc.

To millions, young and old, he was the Major in Wagon Train. a kindly, gentle, strong-minded fellow with a glorious mile. To me. there was no make - believe about him, no make-up. no actors costume. 'To me, he was just my brother-in-arms, a very close and dear friend whom I loved as no other. His name was Ward Bond.

The night before he died he telephoned to me from Dallas, Texas, to discuss the ideas in a speech 1 would make in favor of Richard'Nixon. I never heard whether he delivered that speech. But that matters little now.

Ward Bond studied to be an engineer and would have done well at that as at anything he tried. But the Depression came and he and Duke Wayne drove trucks. It was John Ford who took them off the trucks and made actors of them. The Duke became a great star; Ward a supporting, character player in 50 many pictures that he lost tract of them until TV claimed him and made him the beloved Major.

Ward Bonds principal interest In life was the United States.

I have met patriotic Americans, some real, some pseudo, some for' profit. But never have I known a person as consumed by a love of country as Ward Bond. He fought Communism in Hollywood not so much because h hated Communism as that he recognized the danger to his country. Yes, he was fanatical; he was intense; he was emotional but it was about his United States. could not ever understand that other men felt differently about such matters.

Ward spent vast sums battling against Communism'. It wa.3 his own money and he could do with it as he chose. For a while, it went hard with him.

idios would not engage him >ecause he quarrelled with actors and wrlterss and producers who were Reds and ^hey called him a Fascist.

Suqh constancy to a cause sometimes leads to errors of judgment, but there was no malice in Ward Bonds nature although there was much of what might be called guff. When a fellow turned from Communism and established himself as an anti-Communist by some overt act. Ward took him to his heart, battled for him, helped * *the rough poto.

I once bad a dog called Brownie and that dog loved Ward who would arrive at odd hours, always bellowing in his enormous voice. Brownie welcomed Ward when he came to New York. One night, 1 returned home at a laughty hour when my household should have been silent. As I opened the door, Brownie gave (me urgent bark, a warning that there was trouble. I Hurried to my wifes room and there were two weeping ladles, my wife and Brownie. Ward had had a heart attack. This was many years ago. When he recovered from that one, he sent Brownie a beautiful blanket as a mark of their friendship. And when Brownie died, we buried her in that blanket and she lies under a stone marking her grave, on the side (rf a hill in the Berkshires.

Ward liked to be liked. When we would walk along the street and a taxi driver would shout, Ward." he would be thrilled by the recognition. If we went to a railway station or an airport and the porters knew him and not me, he was overjoyed. But he never liked society and stuffed shirts and he overcame shyness or antagonism by bellowing, using unsuitable language, yelling at those who he thought were trying to be superior. But he enjoyed with infinite patience litte people and took from them all the pushing and shoving that came with being a celebrity.

This was an authentic American eharaclep. He admired senator Joe McCarthy; he believed that Senator Robert Taft should have been elected President of the UnitedStates He never could understand how anyone could prefer Alger Hiss to Joe McCarthy or Adlai Stevenson to Barry Ooldwater. In-

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That Big Effort For Security

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SURE HE CAN

Three little boys were boasting about their father. One boy said, My dad is a lawyer and everytime he tries a case he gets a thousand dollars, The second boy said: My dad's a doctor and everytime he performs an operation he gets two thousand dollars.

The third boy was a ministsr's son, and not to be outdone he piped up with this startling announcement: My day ls a minister. Every Sunday he preaches a sermon and tfle^r his sermon they take up a colleetlcai, and they always get so much money that it takes six men to carry It down the aisle."

The world will continue to keep its balance and its sanity so long a.'( "my dad can lick your dad," or my molherss a

better cook than'your mother." The educational value of rough and tumble childhood experiences cannot be over-estimated. No human being is to be so much pitied as the only child of a privileged family who never has anybody to tell him off. or rough him up a bit, or make him take his medicine. Within the fsmiiy itself it is wonderful to see older sisters slapping down kid brothers and being repaid by Information freely handed out by the kid brothers about the meanness and highhandedness of the gills in this family.

People often remark about the wonder of a colony of ants. But there is nothing for sn ant to do but follow a prescribed instinct and pattern. We are free beings. We educate one another and nowhere so effectively as in the home.

My dad can lick your dad."

By ELMER ROESSNER Are we on an insurance binge?

V Lewis Bassie, director Of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research of the University of Illinots, raises some questions in the Illinois Business Review that have long been bothering your reporter^ Insuring is the thing to do today, he declares. Since the war, insurance has expanded, including hospital, medical ex-expense, accident disability, fire, comprehensive, collision, property damage, personal lit-bUlty, malpractice, childrena education. credit and theft.

Dr, Bassie might have added instalment payment, libel and strike insurance. Your reporter carries insurance protecting him claims arising from ..a milk-mans fall over a child's trlcy-*cle although he has no milk-mgn, his children are grown and there L'.n't a tricycle on the property.

THE DRIVE FOR SECURITY

Dr, Bassie declares, Among the mast common fallacies In the mind of the policyholder is the

notion that ht does not have to pay if a loss occurs. . .What seems to be overlooked Is that payments do cover the losses and more. too. Costs of administration, including TV and other advertising, personnel costs, and office expenses, have risen Ir percentages as well amount...

The atUtude of getting something for nothing*. . .leads to a loss of public responsibility. The public has generally become careless about damage and repair costs. . .Where responsibility is lacking, there is no control over waste and chiseling. An open season has been declared for profiteers, tricksters. cheats and just plain crooks."

Dr. Bassie might have stressed anotlier point: Before insurance W|s so common or compulsory, autoiita bumping fenders would bf inclined to say, * We art both wrong. Lets get the dents fixed hiuI forget about It. But today tin yd say, "Let's sue each other and let the insurance companies pay the bls."

AVARICE SPREADS

Cupidity begets cupidity. Both standards of repair need and the lees charged are often adjusted upward when the work Is covered by Insurance. The body-ahop operator may be cynical about his customers* desire to *get something back for what he paid in,* but is not necessarily averse to a ride on the gravy train himself.*

Dr. Bsssle put some stress on the fact that many jurors, assuming most liabilities are covered by Insurance, are generous with awards, They assume that some mysterious they," instead of the defendants, pay the judgments, unaware that they are also among tht "they** who pay.

He did not reach a discussion of liability compensation," similar to workmen's compensation. Years ago, workmena compensation suits clogged the courts. Workmen won little and paid much in legal fees. Then states devised compensation laws which mete out justice and often frinses--to Injured (workers.

Borne legal authorities have

suggested a similar systwn for auto and other liability cases.

"It will never be accepted," a successful lawyer told me. Good, blf-city lawyers arent much interested in small liabU-ity cases. But county seat lawyers survive <m auto and other liability aoUoD*. A UabUlty compensation plan would impoverish hundreds o lawyers and throw out of work thousands of claim investigators, subpoena server*, auto repairmen and tow car operator*.

Nasty letters may be sent to the writer in care of this paper.

SHORT AND SIGNIFICANT NOTES ON BUSINESS The big soft drink company is testing a plastic throw-away bottle for its libation, . .A new line of electric stoves has patterned glass on over windows so the splatter inside wont show when the oven lights are off. . . Of 300,000 registered brand names in the nation, only 1,800 linger in customers minds, says A.A. Steiger, president of one of the largest companies producing point-of-sale sighs.