9AQI rOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, December 2, 1980

Friday, December 2, 1960

I Know It Looks Bad

The Art Museums Leading Force

It wgs ait important day for North Carolina Wed. newiay when the $2^ million KrcM Foundation gift of art was presented to the State Art Museum. It waa likewise foy Robert Lee Humber of Greenville a day which represented the culmination of 17 years of labor toward establishing in North Carolina an art museum of national reputation destined to become the most noteworthy in the entire South.

Although Sen. Humberts efforts in behalf of the state's art museum over almost two decades have brought criticism from many sides, it ii evident now that hi* labors have established for the state an insti. tiition of cultural importance that will endure the test of time and become increasingly valuable to North Carolina with the passing years.

Many people, public officials and private citizens, have had a part in the establishment of the states art museum. It has been Humber, however, tvho has provided the constant leading force that has been,essential to the achievement.

The Kress Foundation gift that was presented this week is the matching gift that was promised in

3ehind Scenes Of Inauauration

By LINN MSBET

UNOrFICIAL ~ The inauguration of ft new Governor of North CaroUnft w ft quadrennial event of imporunce in North Carolina. Tht event is acconipanied by many social affairs, some of which are 'official in the sense that they are paid for out of tax money collected from the people. In thftt category belongs the reception usually held by the Governor and the first lady at the Mansion Just following the inau^ration ceremonies at the Raleigh municipal udltorium.

One of the major social events Is unofficial, privatelj' managed for profit. That is the inaugural ball, also stage at the Raleigh auditorium. That is a project sponsored by the Junior League of Raleigh and American Legion Post No. 1 in North Carolina. It is the only event to which admission charge is made and names listed on the program for a fee. The sponsoring organizations devote all the profits to very worthy charities. The fact remains that it is unofficial, that neither the State government nor the Democratic party organization has any control over it, or responsibility for the way it is handled.

Plans are being made to conduct the whole series of events In connection with the inauguration of Governor Terry Sanford along hoes established by custom for prior inaugurations. There will be a vital difference, however, In the wusence of the occasion

It will be the first time since' the cooatitution at 1868 was adopted, if not in all history, that a Governor wU be inau-gruated without the General Assembly being in session. It will be the first time since the inaugural ball WM recognized as a high light the attendant social affairs that the ball will be held before the new ^vemor takes office. The ball Jg scheduled for Wednesday night, January 4, and Luther Hodges w still be Governor until Terry Sanford takes the oath office at noon on January 5.

problems This situation presents some unprecedented protocol problems. Always heretofore the honor guests have Included the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House and president protem of the Senate. This time when the ball ,is held the Governor will be Luther Hodges, not Terry Sanford: the Lieutenant Governor will be Luther Barnhardt, not Cloyd Philpott: the Speaker will be Addison Hewlett npt Joe Hunt.

Governor-elect Sanford and his advisers vetoed the idea of special session of the General A.ssembly for the inauguration. Consequently, instead of a joint session of the General Assembly " nmriiii m ~ i-Hi, 11 - a

sitting when he takes the oath of office, there will be in attendance as private citizens as many members of the current, past and next Legislatures as desire to come. The constitution sets out that terms of members of the General Assembly shall commence at the time of their election. It also provides that before taking his seat each member shall take an oath or affirmation that he will support the constitution, etc. Until the newly elected members take such oath of office, the incumbents still constitute the General Assembly. Another protocol problem: Which group will be recognized as members of the General Assembly at the ball and other Inaugural ceremonies? Will it be the members already sworn in and sitting, or will it be those who were elected two months before and expect to be sworn in a month later? Approximately half the membership is the same in both groups. This will be the first time that any que.stion has arisen about which part of the other half should be given top honors.

TWO-PARTY - In spite of. instead of, because of, activities of the Republican party organization. North Carolina has moved into the status of a two-party state Robert L. Gavin, Republican nominee for Governor this year, got more votes than any other Republican candidate in history. He got them without much help from the regular Republican party organization. Richard M. Nixon also got more votes in North Carolina than any othar Republican candidate for Preaident of the United States had ever received. Many of his voters are attributable to activities of maverick organigalions. rather than the regular Republican party.

Neither Gavin nor Nixon got a majwlty of the Tarheel votes, but activities of the off-side unrecognlaed groups were more responsible than the Republican committee for the showing made. The prestige of these unattached independent voters gives significance to suggestion.s and threats made by Republican State Chairman William E. Cobb to the State Board of Elections. Cobbs group did not lend much help to Bob Gavin in his campaign for Governor as the Republican nominee, but Chairman Cobb cited the fine showing he made as reason for ameodtni the election Igws.

Whether or not the election laws are revised, and regardless of what groups are responsible for the situation, the fact is that North Carolina has moved into the category of a two-party ^tate, and cannot be considered as safe for the Democrats in future elections, aaI. I=,iiiiwirrinrr 11~.Tr--

1947 when the state legislature, at the behest of Sen. Humber, set a new precedent in appropriating million t be used for the purchase of art for the state. The promised matching gift from the Kress Foundation is more than double the amount envisioned at the time the legislature took Its unprecedented action.

Sen. Humbers efforts in behalf of the art museum over these difficult years have not been without dis* appointment and hardship, At many hurdles during the course of events that have accompanied his efforts, leaser men would have given up. It is a credit to Dr. Humber, his farsighted vision, his determined leadership and his unselfish devotion to the project at hand that North Carolina now has an art nuseum of national importance.

It is also significant that in securing more than a million and a half dollars worth of art gifts for the museumin addition to the Kress giftthat Dr. Humber has contributed his own time and paid his own expenses without asking or accepting any remuneration from the state even for postage stamps.

Few men indeed have made a more significant contribution to the state in any field than has Sen, Humber in his long labor to establish for North Carolina an art museum. He indeed deserves the gratitude of the people of the state.

Sigh Of Relief Over Williams Appointment

There were many Democratsmost of them on the conservative side^who heaved a sigh of relief yesterday when it waa announced that Kennedy had asked Michigan Governor G. Mennen WjUiams to accept the post of assistant secretary of state for African affairs.

It has been widely predictedand almost as widely fearedthat the liberal six-lime governor of Michigan would get the Kennedy nod for the cabinet post of Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. It is official now that that post will go to Connecticuts Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff, who is viewed by most obseiwers as a bit more on the conservative side so far as domestic issues are concerned than is Williams,

As assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Williams will occupy a post in the Kennedy administration that will increase in importance in the next few years. At the same time it will be a post in which the liberal Michigan governor will have to devote his time and energies to U.S. relations with emerging African nations rather than with domestic issues here at home.

There will be les.s concern now th*at the Kennedy administration, in its w^elfare program, wdll push the nntion to the extreme that Williams pushed his own state and brought it to the verge of bankruptcy.

These two appointments made by President-elect Kennedy yesterday tend to bear out recent post-elec-tion predictions that the Kennedy administration will be more conservative than the campaign indicated. The appointments likewise suggested the experts who have been predicting who would get this high post and that in the administration may have missed the mark. In add Mon to the fact that Williams was generally believed to have had the inside track on the post of Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, it was also generally predicted that Ribicoff would be tapped for the office of Attorney General. Kennedy has not adhered to the predictions in either of these two appointments.

, The next few weeks during which the other high posts in the administration will be filled may bring other surprises in Kennedys choices of key positions.

By PATRICIA MOORE

rban Renewal Dreams

Urban renewal, urban renewal It will soon move us all.

Excitement is running high about this project, urban renewal. Wonderful things art in the offing.

One man, who owns a home near the Tar. says he will have his yacht and boat house in the back, with lawn parties all the time. And there will be a guest house for aU his friends, on the lovely banka of the Tar River.

Another of the buddies has conjectured on the lovely proposed mall near this Daily

Reflector office, offering a place for quiet contemplation and cultural development, such as sidewalk art exhibits, lectures, concerts on the lawn and whatnot. What a place to write a ^column.

Somebody else is concerned about the consequences to a a favorite gas station. Another is concerned about th# future of his house, scheduled to be obliterated from the face of this good old mother earth.

Still others are most excited about a proposed auditorium right out the back door. But

wed better fill in the holes first, lest we stub lovely toes on the way to these great civic functions.

Some, we must confess, are a little disappointed secretly that this office is not up for a disappearing aot; they wanted to see action by fiW7 rt^rters and editors.

Urban renewal, urban rinewal hooray.

Other Editors Saying ,.. Minuteman Of The Future

Troubled Areas

Jror ine J-uture

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Associated Press New* Analyst

Events in Venezuela and Argentina indicate strongly that Latin America will be the most important and mast troublesome area of foreign policy for the Kennedy administration.

The United States already may be dangerously late in preparing itself to learn and attack the roots of Latin America's unrest-Communlst supported Castroism, carried the seeds of political disaster in international re-la Uons,

The Argentine uprjsings have been laid to backers of dimosed dictator Juan D. Peron, But It is highly likely that considerable Communist Influence also w'as involved.

In Venezuela, President Romulo Betancourts troubles are not over. The country has the biggest. stronge.st and most free. Wheeling Communist party la the entire hemisphere. In tddi* tion there is rising agitation by agents from Cubas Pldel Gas-tro, supported and used by the Communists and by assorted opportunists.

In either case. *ucce.s for the rebel movemenLs would add up to calamity for U.S policy and would herald even more calamity.

President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina has few illugions

about what be is up against. He has said that Communist agents In Argentina have been infiltrating Peronist ranks and in a number of cases have aucce&eful-ly marie alliances with the Per-onists, The exiled Peron has denied It, but it is Increasingly clear his supporters at home are being lured both by the Cu ban Fldelistas and the Communists.

The Communist hand could be detected in the early 1959 attempt to overthorw Frondixl by means of political strikei, The government then prohibited Communist activity and closed down the partys offices and pub lieations.

Castlos rise in Cuba gave new impetus to anti.yankeeism and new aid to Communlsts'an over the hemisphere. There is no question any more about the activ-itie* of selected Castro agents from ouba throughout Latin America. In cooperation with other conspiratorial groups, including the Communists, they are bent on creating turmoil and producing an atmasphere In which Mascow-oriented demagogues can take over.

One great failure of the United Stales in Cubas case was lack of precise knowledge of what the Cuban revolution was all about, and lack of familiarity with its (Cuntinued on pnge five)

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Since the advent of atomic weapons and missiles much has been said about future war* being fought with pushbuttons. Such talk was premature, as we saw la Korea where the war developed into just another conventional type of conflict with the usual heavy emphasis on ground troops. The big difference was the aerial phase which had changed from prop-driven planes to fast-jets.

However, there may still be hope for the iiction<science ad-iipcates who like to dream of a Buok Rogers type of warfare. This hope rests with the U. S. missile called the Minuteman. This type of missile is still in the future, but within a few weeks tests will begin at Cape Canaveral, and the Minuteman will no longer be eartbbound.

These test* ignal the start of B development program designed to give the U.3. a radical weapons system bordering on the pushbutton concept often mentioned by the more imaginative wrltiers of our day.

There is sound reasoning behind such speculation. Once the Minuteman is perfected, the Air Force plans the fastest missile buildup In history. This buildup which is slated to begin in 1962 will merk the beginning of an era when rockets rather than manned bombers will be the dominant force in the Strategic Air Command.

Ill the event of hostUitie*, this entire force of intercontinental range rockets could be released within minutes to deliver nuclear warheads to any enemy heartland. Traveling over 15,000 miles per hour, tne warheads could be on target 6,000 miles away tri less than 30 minutes. And in case of emergency, two men in a control center miles away could send as many as 50 missiles on their way.

What is the advantage of the Minuteman over the Atlas and Titan intercontinental missiles? Solid fuel is the answer, in spite of the fact that both Atlas and Titan can carry larger hydrogen warheads. SoUd fuel permits storing of Minuteman for months in underground silos." It permits finng the missile from underground and it gives the missile mobility, enabling It to be carried by railway.

Atlas and Titan are tied to one launching pad because of their sensitive liquid fuel which requires extensive ground support equipment and more complex parts in the missile itself. The countdown method for firing them make them more vulnerable targets than Minuteman.

When such a missile complex IS perfected the Minuteman will provide a formidable defensive system for this coimtry. It should Will constitute a greater deterrent than manned boqib-ers for several reasons. For one, it will eliminate the need for costly, highly-trained crews, and it will cut the possibility of#high casualties sure to result in manned bomber raids.

For another, weather will be less of a deterrent factor. The Minuteman should be able to operate under any weather condition. Manned bombers could have difficulty in violent electrical storms. Another reason is the spteri and numbers, The U.S. hopes to ultimately have something like 3,000 Minutfmap missiles ready for operational duty.

And as a deterrent factor, the speed of Minuteman may have no equal, certainly being far speedier than the most modern jet bombers. All of these factors add UQ to a revolution in military thinking and defensive action. Minuteman. at least for a time, could be the ultimate in deterrent weapons.

"Woraen^ give more time to beauty than education because 00 matter how tupid a man may be, he Isn't blind.North Carolina Education.

"Get the fancie.st mattrew money cgn buy and you still wont be *s relaxed as a dog on a pile of autumn leaves," Kensa.s City 8tar.

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"When girls start calling you sir about gll vouve got left to l(30k forward to is your social security.Wall Street Journal.

We were stymied (dense).

Next week, the "iriehd tried it again: said tha widow of tha unknown soldier had remarried.

But listen, yet. After eight hours of darkness each night, we tU set daylight, don't we?

Ooinions

In Brief

"Some people point to the bee as the pmrsonlficftticm M industry, but you should not forget that he takes the w'hole winter off." Anderson tS.C. Independent.

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Money

Problem

By GEORGE E. S0K0L8KY

Copyright, I960, King Ftaturtt Syndicate, Inc.

Let us look at this gold problem realistloally and analyze the facts no matter how unpleasant:

1. We need, first of all, lo analyst what the various countries owe to ua and on what terms. These agreements are not always public- nor do the available data explain quite what the amounts are, when they are due, in what form they are to ba paid.

If we can get back what i owing to us in gold, we shall undoubtedly find a large addition to our gold stocks.

2. What Is our government doing about "hot money"? Several years ago, I raised the question of "hot money" and a Senate comrnittae began to make an iiH vestigation. But it waa soon called off. The "hot money" runs into hillions.

What is "hot money?

There are several kinds, tha most usual being money deposited abroad for purposes of tax evasion and tax avoidance. Considerable sums, running into billionj of 'dollars., are on deposit in Switzerland, Nassau, Venezuela. Panama, and Hongkong. Furthermore, a study needs to be made of the shift around of dollar* between the United States and Canada involving aueh commodiUe* as newsprint, craft paper, whisky and other liquors. The hidden money is not limited to the illegally posseutffd funds of racketeer* but involves many of the most respectable men in business and bankinff. The probability if that U the United States were able to call In funds hidden away or if our currency, which is now green, were printed red or purple and M days were allowed for the change-over front one colored currency to another, those who have evaded taxes by hiding their money * abroad, would be sore put to it to become honest men. For whoever possessed the green currency, after a certain date, would find It convertible only by the Federal Reserve Bank which would demand a full explanation as to the source of tha funds and why no taxes were paid on them. This would bring the government an enormous return, all from abroad.

"Hot money" classically is money from gambling, from bootlegging, from taking cash under the table in commercial transactions, etc., etc. Whoever owns hot money" faces the problem of legitimatizing it. C/ne may have millions stuck away in 1 Swiss bank but there comes m time when it must be used in legitimate transactions to b useful. This is no easy matter. If one holds such "hot money in the United States, unless it be of a very small amount, It becomes a menace. He cannot get rid of it; he cannot use it; it might be stolen or burned or lost. Therefore, the smart own

er of such money finds a way to get it out of the country.

Switzerland offers an excellgnt haven for such crookedness. A Swiss bank will hold a nameless account to which is given a number and nobody in the bank but it rooat confidential officers wiU know whose account it is. Tbs bank will then undertake to "manage" the money for a fee. Sucli management is not In the owner's name but is in the name of a flwLss bank or a Swiss Iswyer, Thus the money, stolen though it may be, is legitimatized. it owns American aecuritlis or American business houses or American land, or for that matter, similar properties in other countries. The beneficial owners art never disclosed. Swiss laws protecting the anonymity of the owners of this money.

Thus far, the government of the United States has never been able to break through this secrecy. It cannot discover the names of the Americans who are robbing the government of the United States.

Switaeriands non-cooperative-ness in this is not unique. None of the tax haven countries cooperate with the United States. Much can be done. For instance, the withdrawal of green money say in 60 days and the rejeo-Uon of such money without adequate explanation a to its original source and evidence of the ayment of income tax. The wiss banks would be clogged with unusable American dollars.

Of course, the exchange value of the green dollars would tem-porarily fall. The only ones to ccostiaued on page five)

3ell Has Power In Tax Struggle

Strength For Today

IJv KAK. L. IMHliiLA.S -WELC OME, STHANGEK

One couple in our community arc famous lor their k|ndnes.s lo newcomers. When a new family moves in, these people begin a series of hospitable acts by which the stranger* are helped to settle, be entertained, introduced to other folks, and generally made to feel at home. The (ewer connections the newcomer* have, the more vigorous are the efforts In tbeir behalf And the.se attentions continue until the new people have had a real chance to become established HdW <tid tlichc kind people come to start iheir wvlcijiiiing liioceduie * Vrai# ago when they fuat moved he/e. no one pa;d ti\ alientiuu tu them. Foi their

fu t Aix iiHiutlis, iiiih] IIm-.v mkiI

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lonely. They resolved that what was now their own community should never again be unfriendly to strangers.

Over the years, their hospitality has had two interesting resulta. One is. of course, that they have more friends than anyone in town. Moat of the families whom they welcomed have never forgotttn their kindness.

The other re.cult is that the attltu^ of our community toward newccnners has changed greatly. Other famille* have followed the examfilc of hospitality; and now wh n people move in, thev find tliui a ftisndiv town. From a

Culd-liearted 'oimiuiniiv we

have become a warm hearted 'ij* ami nil b itie 'ifuil of Ivo

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By EL.MER ROESkNER Tht Ball System is again charging that it is being victimized in taxes, In an article in the autumn issue of "Bell Tela-phone Magazine," Walter W. Kidd, A.T.. it T. general tax accountant, charges that the Bell ysttm is taxed unfairly.

The levy in 1959, he wrote, was equal to $7.66 a shore of A. T. Ji T, stock compared to dividends of $3.30 a share.

In the same house organ last spring Bell set forth that Its tax burden was inoreaslng and that its 19.59 paymants to Federal and other governmenU were $1,90.369.000.

If Bell continues with Uiis cam paiin. it may get somewhere.

A. T. fe T, U one of the big three American corporations in sales, being tnpped only by Ml and a rd oi Now Jersey and General Matron, and number one in employeei. more than 700. (hH> It 1.1 first in number of

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Furthermore, its stock is a favorite of widows and orphans, investment trusts, charities and other organization* that elicit public sympathy.

With meratMjr* and aympalh-izor* of these organization*, with those 700,0(K) employees and 1.700,000 stockholder*, Bell might wield tremendous political In-fluence-as much political Influence as the economic influence It'now employs.

So far Bellperhaps fortunately for the country-has never attempted to UM broad political pre.ssure. If there was an Bell group for or against Kennedy, it escaped notice.

But if Bellor perhaps an in-dependant group of stockhcWers with no direction from the system-ever brought this politico-economip preawure to Is'ar, it might have fai-reachlni results. Haw many Congre-fJimen would con-ient to more unfairness on a company .so many of his con* .iltiif'iit.s owtH'd or worked for? Ur state ksisUturs'? Cuuucil-

men?

SPECIFICATIONS OF UNFAIRNESS

Thk would be especially Important In view of the foot thftt the Bell charges of discrimination are pretty well documented,

Mr. Kidd points out that the 19SU taxes were equivalent to ftU wages paid by the Bell System in six and a half months of that year; that it was more than wai paid to Weskrn Electric for all equipment in that year: and that it exceeded by six times the $230,000,000 borrowed on bonds that year.

Bell pays 23 cent* in tftxe* out of each dollar of,, revenue, b* added, which comparts to 20 cents for Du Pent, abeut i| per cent each for GeneraJ Motor* and Southern Pacific and less than 6 per cent by Westinghouse and Continental Can-

And Bell may have another ally besides employees, stockholders and tha*ie Interested in welfare fundi: the public. The Federal goverameut, states aad

citiea impose excise and sale* taxes on phone calls.

Thus, ft phona user pays $1.09 for each ! of phone service he gets, Mr. Kidd calculates, and of the remainder, 23 cent* goes for other taxes,

If recent trends continue, by I960 tax coUectora will be taking 50 cents of the phone dollar. Long before that the Instrument will probably become known iji the "taxapbone." GOVERNMENT ELLING 4 PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS The Government is stepping up its competition with private-industry publisher* o books on photography. New dirtct-mail circulars offer Basic Photo^ pHotofraphy, 117 patas at $2;

Tbotofraphera Mat# S," a $81.* page Navy manual, for $3; "Photographers Mate 2." a 696-page advanced manual at $2.25, and "Handbook for Photo Lab Processing." a 574-page manual for airmen, $4.75, all from tha Biiperlntcndeivt' of Documents, Washingtou Si. A. G.

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