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rHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Saturdayf Dcem|br t7, 1960

8akirdy, December 17, 1960

Et Tu, Brute?

Farsighted In Their Joint Project

A unique undertaking by leaders of Rocky Mount in the interest of boosting the economy of that community should cmmend itself to people of other communities throughout Eastern North Carolina,

The Rocky Mount project to which we refer is the effort now in progress to raise approximately 1150,000 that will enable the city to attract an industry which will employ some 200 Negroes. The money is being acquired through the sale of stock to local citizens in Rocky Mount.

White and Negro leaders in Rocky Mount have endorsed the undertaking and more than 100 volunteers have participated in developing the effort since it was proposed sevetal months ago.

If an industry which employs 200 Negroes could be acquired by any community in Eastern North Carolina, it would have a significant impact upon the economy of that community. A large per centage of Negroes in Rocky Mount and most other cities of this area depend heavily on seasonal employment for their livelihood. Were it not for tobacco processing and allied activities, construction work and farm activities, even the seasonal employment opportunities would be con-giderably less than they now are. By acquiring an in-

; Detail Work Is Assigned Staff

By LYNN NISBET

STAFF Governor - elect Terry Sanf<MtJ picked three young men to form tbe hard' core of his administrative staff, each of whom has proven capac-fty in the eld to wfaicti tH wUl be ass^ed. Hugh Cannon as assistant to ttie Governor; T<Hn Lambeth as a^ninistrative assistant, and Graham Jones as press secretary and public relations, win make a good team wtth Governor Sanford es captain and coach. In annouac-tng the apoiiitments and the changed titles accorded the positioQS. Sanford made two things clear. He eaqoects to oe the chief executive in fact as wQ as in name, but he also expects to ddegate m<Nre detail w<u*k to ibordinates, who will have responsibill^ for making-some deeisioiis in their own right.

The title of **Assistant to the Oovomor is new. and connotes somewhat more prestige than that of administrative assistant, held laider the Hodges' regime by Paul Jc^mstim and Robert Giles. The tttle of administrative assistant is continued, but will be more nearly the position of private secretary in current and past administrations. Recogni-tkm by title of a press secretary, who also will deal with many public relations proUems, brin^ to the front the presently untried position held by wmiam Johnson combined with many duties heretofne perf<mned by the private secretary.

R&ALISTIC This is a real-iaUc KvrocMih to solution ol the problnn of rellevhig the Governor of the mass di^a which technically he must handle, but wtaieb haa been handled in the pant by anbordinates without suggestive authority. The term administrative assistant tanpUes only aid in office management. The term "assistant to the Governor" carries much gr^Uer prestige.

The term private secretary eonnotes a confidential relation-ahip, but in many cases is understood to mean somebody who handles personal einrespondence and maintains a filing system. Although recognized by statute as a place of great importance, the very term jaivate secretary" negates the idea of public cff!^. Switching the title of* admiistrative assistant to that positioo gives it standing as a vital part of the official operation.

LEGISLATION Legislation win be necessary to effectuate the changes proposed. Presently the imly staff member mentioned In the law books is the private scCTetary to tiie Governor. IQs duties are defined as largely clerical, and his salary

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is set at not to exceed $5,000 a year. Under general statutory iOithOTity and budgetary provisions the past four or five Governors have assigned additional duties to the private secretary and increased cinnpensation. Under the same general authority Governor Hodges added tiie administrative as^stant and the the research - speech - writing secretary.

Many pe<^le have thcHight that these positions should be given specific statutory status, without extrae limitation upon their duties which should be subject to the Governor's assignment. This reporter has insisted for years that there should be & legally constituted assistant to the Governor, who could by Ids own auth<Hity and in his own name, perform many of the detailed functions now required to be done in the name of the Governor.

RETROACTIVE Because of the peculiar circumstances of the new Governor taking office a month before the General Assembly convenes, tiie legislation implementii^ his inroposals 'Will have to be retroactive. No seri<MU problems are involved. There isn't the slightest doubt that the Legislature, will go along with Governor Sanford's ideas to bring operations of the chief executive office up to re qulrements of efficiency as demanded by modern conditions. At the same time, it is recognized that it would be nKsre ap-pn^nriate to have the actions made positively legal before rather tiian after they are taken.

BIG BUSINESS North Carolina State government Is big business, and principal direction of that business must be in the Govcm<ffs office. But there is not perfect analogy between the operation of government and that a billion dollar private business corpcnration. The main purpose of private business is to make money; the main purpose of government is to render service. Business enterprise deals with Inanimate dollars; government is concerned with human beings. Business profits are represented by di'vidend che<^. government profits are rein'eseitied by less tangible, but more important, iHT>gress in education, health, and hairiness for the citizenry.

Throughout his several campaigns and since his election, GovenKH^ Sanford has shown recognition of his distinction. It is further manifested in his proposals to revamp the executive office to expedite personal service and at the same time make it more businesslike in performance of its duties to the people.

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dustry which would employ s large number of Negroes on a year-round basis, a community of this area would be providing at least a partial solution to one of its economic problems.

While most communities of this section of the state have put forth efforts to create new jobs ^pr its people by attracting new industries, the effort now being made ih Rocky Mount is unipue in that it is seeking a plant to use primarily Negro employment. It Is also unique in that a strong bi-racial effort is being made in conjunction with the effort to acquire surh an industry.

The progress which Rocky Mount makes in this current undertaking will be watched with interest by other cities in Eastern North Carolina. If the effort is successfuland Rocky Mount leaders appear confident it will beit may set a pattern which other cities in this area can follow in seeking a better balanced economy and greater job opportunities for all their citizens.

Air Safety Progress Must Match Growth

The tragic air disaster over New York yesterday served to point up again in horrible terms the fact that some basic deficiencies remain to be corrected in spite of the tremendous strides made in commercial aviation.

Mid-air collisionseven in bad weatherwould seem remote possibilities with all the modem equipment and traffic control methods that are employed in commercial aviation today. Yet such a collision caused the disaster.

Concentrated air traffic over heavily populated areas raises again a problem that has been pointed out many times without a satisfactory solution being found for it

The air age in this country has reached the stage of maturity in which safeguards should prevent accidents such as that which occurred yesterday over New York. Great strides of progress in air safety have been made it is true, but it is apparent that much more needs to be done and done quickly in this field.

We are confident that airline qfficials and federal agencies will carefully investigate and seek to evaluate the mechanical or human failures which were contributing factors in one of the worst air disasters in the history of this country. We are also confident that some effort will be made to prevent future accidents of similar nature. Even so, it is evident that with constantly expanding use of air transportation throughout the nation a major break-through for safer air travel is imperative.

Traditional rate of progress in better air safety does not seem to be sufficient for the rapidly increasing use of this mode of transportation. There must be more effort in this direction and better safety devices and methods to reduce the toll in lives and property in air disasters.

By DON SCHUENZ

A Pre-Christmas Niaht

The World That Kennedy Inherits

An evening errand awoke mo to realization that Pitt Countians were enjoihng a tj^picaUy" per-ttect pre-C3irlstmas night.

Oh you could teD it was the Yule season, all right.

There were lights in windows, fronts of houses imaginatively adorned with l^hts, Santa Clauses. nativity scenes and even reindeer all gloriously Jumbled up.

Floodlights, red lights, green lights and yellow lights. . .and so much blue!

Once, the ObristmaZ colors were red, green and white. Now its a rainbow affair.

Here and there a Christmas tree, glittering brisht, could be seen through windows.

To top it off. he night was black and cold with siars shining cold and brilliant from on high.

I half-expected to encounter lantcm-bearing caroleers making their rounds; thats how

much Christmas there was in the air.

Still, it felt good to be back inside where there was soft light and warmth. Tingling <M)ld and* Christmas "go together"; but make my cold weather in small portions, please.

I was more than mildly interested when word was out that a program of Instructton in stringed instruments would be made avallabte to school young-sta^.

, Being an old violin man. the natural impulse was to sagely nod and tell someone that ts about time".

My teatiCT told me the violin was the most difficult of all to master. He may have been salving my feelings a$ the time; but my own sense of mastery" was slight, and came late in the game. It isn't for someone with a built-in lazy bone.

When I l(xA back the liter-

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) In his Inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1953, the new president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, spoke of "tiiis century of trial."

It has been more than a time ol trial. It has been a century of fantastic changes and o challenges without precedent, even in Eisenhowers eight years In the White House.

No (me has more reason for concern about them than President - elect John ^F. Kennedy, since he must face both the changes and the challenges. Just to note a few, in the first 00 years of this century; *

The rise of communism in Asia and Africa, the disappearance of almost all the monarchies, the emergence of dozens of new nations from (colonialism in Asia and Afrk;a, the changing concept of war to missiles with hydrogen warheads that <n be fired across oceans or firom under them.

This is the world Kennedy Inherits and must cope with.

The changes came In a rush In Elsenhowers prominent ^ears.

As Allied commander in Europe in World War n he could have smashed Nazi Germany In a couple of weeks if he had had an atomic bomb. But he didnt. There wasnt any.

Yet within a few weeks after Germany gave in the United States developed enough atomic bombstwo of themto end the war with Japan. At wars end this country was the richest and, thanks to the bombs, the most powerful.

Most of the rest of the world was br(ce and prostrate. Yet, by the time Eisenhower took office in 1953 Americas complete dominance had started fading.

The Soviet Union by then not only had developed its own atomic bomb, ending Americas

monoply on the newest kind of war. tmt within a few months after Eisenhowers inauguration had the hydrogen bomb. too.

Out ot the ruins of war the Soviet Union leM>ed ahead

amazingly in industry, sci^xce and inlluenoa. Western Europe, thanks to American help came up (Hit of povertir.

And by all ova* Asia and Afrida new nations, determined to have a life of their own, had begun shaking off col(mialjsm. Nothing illustrates this better than one example.

In the United Nations the African section in 1946 bad only three members: Bgyt, Liberia, and Ethiopia, plus the white-governed Uni(Hi of South Africa. Now it holds more seats tiian any other area: 25. fflxteen

African natk>ns have been admitted to the United Nations in the preseiti sessi<m alone.

So the proUems facing Kennedy abroad will be vastly more complex than those c(mtronting Eisenhower when he first took office.

For example, just to pick one: How In these next four years to induce those new African nations with all their separate and divergent problems, to line up with the West instead of witii the Soviet Union.

When Eisenhowra* took office thwe was turmoil laimarily in two places: the war In Korea, which the United States was fighting; the war In In<!ochina which the French were fightiug. Both were wars against communism

Bo.h wars are over now. But the world Is in turmoil, and m more places, even though this country isnt involved m shooting.

There is chaos In the Congo, civil war in Laos, fighting on a Vicious scale between 'he French and Moslems in Algeria.

Right In the American back-(Continued on page six)

Other Editors Saying Ocracoke Ferry Vote

(Goldsb(Mro News-Argus)

The vote of ti State Highway Ckxnmission against con-ttnulng an auto ferry from Oci'a-coke to the Carteret County mainland is' short-sighted. It is a vote against the best int^ests. This includes the best interests of the Land of the Sky, the Piedmont, and Central North Carolina.

For that OcracokeCarteret ferry is no local ferry. It is the scape route, the builder and promoter route for the Halteras National Seashore Park. This newest and strangest and most romantic, historic and picturesque of national recreati(Hi areas cannot serve the nati(Hi and the state, it cannot be the tourist builder it should without that ferry. For without the Ocracoke-Carteret ferry the hundreds of thousands of visitors who annually c<ne to refresh body, mind and soul at strange Halteras Seashore Park must backtrack their routes. What tourist, in this Impatient day, Is willing to retrace his steps along a route over which he passed a few hours or a d&y or so apart?

Highway Commissioner Mason entirely misses the point when he says that Ocracoke has only 600 people and the state provides a ferry for so few. This honorable board member should extend his acquaintance with what the Halteras Seashore and she beach country and the tourist business can do toward progress for our beloved state.

We particularly were itsap-pointed to find Publisher Robert Bunnelle of Asheville listed as

voting "NO" to tiie ferry Of all peate, pugtish* living in the Land ol U Sky should have the mental grasp to see the potential that ferry offers.

False argument also was to be made that a ferry would foe for tourists, not residents. I hat ferry would be for all men, l(x:al mh^ltants, Tar Heels getting better acquainted with the land of thelir beginnings, and visitors from the 9 otha: states and many nations. It is the traffic along a route which should determine the need. The traffic fcwr an Ocracoke-Carteret ferry is there. It will grow with ch year.

We applaud the action of every government board which takes a careful look at the cost and when logic so declares shies away from reckless expenditure. But to hamstring the future of the state in a tremendousily vital area is to do great damage in many directions.

We hope that a great wave of protest will go to the H^hway Commission for its mistake on this ferry. Organizations and individuals should file their protests.

The Commission should reconsider. And If this board Is so stolidly wedded to standpatlsm, the fight must be (Mmtlnued with vigor and determination before the ne?t board.

If the Taylors, hard hit by Castro's seizures in Cuba, cannot continue the ferry this season and the necessary change be wrought soon, then a private corporation to operate the ferry should be set up. Millions of dollars in business are at stake.

ally thousands of hours spent striving with the violin, and how foreign it would feel In my hands today, well it makes me W(m-der.

Ive sometimes wondered how my parents stood up so wdl to the scrapings, squawks and dis-harm<Miy inroduoed over so Icmg-a time. Because strings require a touch acquired only with years of work. And, as 'my teacher was wont to quote "if I miss practice one day. I know it; if I miss practice two days, my family knows it; if I miss practice for a week, everyone knows "

Still there were compensations . . uunall triumphs, being paid for playing (as contrasted with payment for not playing). And the experience left me with an an apineciation and love oi music that is "in my bones", as ttie saying goes.

The strings call for en

durance. patience and dedication. Their reward varies witii the individual.

Opinions In Brief

"Seems like the fewer hours a man has to work during the day or week to be eligible to draw a pay check, the more w(n out he is and the more stories of strikes and labor troubles we read of in the papers. AU of which bears out the time-worn proverb that Idleness breeds mischief.Port Myers (Fla.) News-Prcss.

"You can always draw Queens if you have Jack. Elbertson (Ga.) Star.

Profits under the American system do not only reward the enterprising, init provide the means for more productive activity and better living for all our people. When taxation drains off profits that might be invested to make more jobs, every American etis the result adversely,Chattanooga News-Free Press.

Do all the good jrou can and make as little fuss as possible about it."Charles Dlckena

Help Fight TB

UsR Christmas SroIs

"n Our Morale

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

The argument is that hi peacetime a soldier (x* a civilian employee of the United States, sent overseas, must have bia family with Mm and must have cushy inducements or he will not serve his country. The assumption is that only during a fighting war need a sacrifice be made; that if Americans are stationed in West Ctennany, Af-. rlca, Japan or anywhere else when fighting is actually not taking place, the inducement Miould be that Uiey will live better than they ever lived before. Otherwise, their morale will be low.

If this is a correct statement of the attitude of American personnel in government service, then we are licked worse than we know. Ih tl circumstance of modem war we^ caimot Ihmt our overseas personnel to periods when an enemy is actually attackii us. Soviet Russia is making permanent war against us. The attacks are made in various places and are of (Averse natures, requiring large numbers of experts to handle ti problems that arise from the attacks.

Public Law 86-707 sets forth In great detail all that is to be allowed civilian employees of our government .abroad. Let me cite a Jew items:

"A host allowance to offset the difference between the coat of living at t! post of assignment of the employee in a foreign area and the cost of living tn Washington, Dlstiict of Columbia;

"A transfer allowance for extraordinary, necessary, and reasonable expenses, not otherwise ccximensated for. incurred by an employee Incident to estab-lishkig himself at any post of assignment in a forMgn area or at a post of assignment In the United l^tes between assign-mmt in the United States between assignments to posts in foreign areas; .

"A separate matotenance allowance to assist an eu^iloyee who Is compelled, 1^ reason of dangerous, notabhr unhealtiiful, or excessively adverse ti'vtng conditions at Ms post of assignment in a foreign area or for the convenience of the Oowem-ment, to meet the adtfikional expense of maintMning, elsewhere than at such post, his wife or Ms dependents, or both. . ."

For the (tiitidren, this is done:

"The travel expenses of dependents of ah employee to and from a school In the United States to obtain an American secondary or unctergradtttte college education, not to exceed one trip each way for each dependent f(H* the purpose of obtaining each type of educaticm. . .**

I only cite these items as ex-amptes of what the United >> States does for its employees. 'There Is much nuxw. All of this tnv(dve6 the export of dollars and, as it has worked out, of gc^d, to foreign countries. The greatest item in our balance of payments which goes against us is the cost of maintaining Americans abroad on an American standard of living whether the country csm afford it or not. Cute ting-out the foreign items sold in a PX will not alt^ the situation too much, althoi^ it may help. What will make the differenoe is an analysis of how many per-stms, military and civilian, the United States employs abroad and what they actually do that is (]f value. If this force can be cut by a tltird or a half it w<mld make an enormous difference in our national bookkeeping. We Shan be required to mit our overseas expenditure tmtil we have a aubstantlal dollar. This Is the most severe problem that faces this nation.

For instance, what has been the actual propagandistio value of some of'our agencies In many foreign (tountries? HAS anyone ever made an evaluattou of them and of the work they do and- what they have actually ao-c(Hnplished in ea(tii oouotry? Perhai a new Prealdent will have a new look at aD thla. If having enormous personnel at each ^bassy, labor eiqxsrts and cultimal experts and profMgWQp dlsts brings us nottains but neutralism or enmity, why irat save the cost?

It ought to be a top undiM^ taking of the new Administra-tioo to make a study of the work that 18 being dons overseas. Vice President Nixon announoed during the campaign that he would put all Cold War profaots in a new office under Banry Cabot Lodge. It was a ipood (Continued on page six)

?redictina Record Yule Sales

Strenath For Today.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE NEED TO LOOK UP

John Donne was a famous religious and literary figure who lived su the same time as Wil* nam Shakespeare. Donne had been a dissolute yinmg mao who tinally "got religion and became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral. He was one ol the great religious leaders of his time Also he wrote outstandng poetry

One of his poems is entitled, Goc, And Catchc A Palling Starre." We are Intrigued and perhaps amused by this ancient .filing. The poem itsell is not religious or even idealistic in theme. But the evpresslon is intriguing. We are told to go and catch a falling star.

Tbert are lew people who

even look up into the heavens. There arc fewer still who think in terms of the vastness which the starry heavens disclose. We loek down to the earth We oisserve life around about us and go along day by day affably conversing with our fellows- But too seldom do our eyes turn upward. Too seldom do we think' of ourselves and our problems in terms of k>fU-nessin terms of the stars.

Let us Uve our lives not In a comer but in the vastness of a God-created universe Let us think of ourselves as cMldren of that God who made both us and the starry heavens. We are part of that grandeur. Let us live up to our, destiny Let us strive to "Goe, and catche a falltng starre."

By ELMER ROESSNER

This is to predict that retail sales tMs' Christmas shopping eason will top totals of 1939 and set a new high mark.

The mEU*gln wUl be small. But it will be again, despite the present calk about recession, de-piession or which party do you lielong to?

There is no statistical table showing Christmas season sales from year to year. The nearest thing to it is the Department of Commerce series on total retail sales by months While most Christmas sales take place place between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve the sales in December prove an approximate total for the traditional sales Dcriod.

Total sales In December. 1959, were $21.454.000.000. That was a new high.

REACH $22 BILLION

There are two reasons for be

ing sure that mark wlU he bettered this year.

One is that prices are somewhat higher. If consumers buy no more than the same number of toys, salad bowls and mink coats as last year, the seasons total Is cerUin to be Mgher because a little bit more has been added to the price of each of those, and to millions of other items.

But there is an even more salient reason. That is that despite the recession, dip. slump, de* p*csslonor. whatever is the proper name tor the screwy situation we are passing through now income keeps Incrwusing. As has been said here before, this 0 the most utterly mad decline in American economics because almost every type of Income keeps on going up.

Total personal Income has been running at a rate of $2 billion a year higher than In 1959. And in all the confusin

persisting m tiie world of economics. one relation^p continues. That is that spending has an Inexorable relation to Income. So. since income is rising, so will Christmas spending go up. SALES HOLDING UP This phenomenon hss been exddent all year: While some economists have beey crying halloo about the fox of recession, and while employment has been weakening, income and ccmsum-er spending have been rising.. Nutty, but true Department store sales have run 1 per cent above a year ago ir. the first II months of the year according to Federal Reserve figures. This tabulation roughly parallels total retail sales.

December sales got off to a .'Uow start because of the mild weather in most parts of the country. Then they were set back by thts weeks storms trom Texas to Maine. Nevertheless,

reports $ram major eenten to-dicate that buying Is strong despite the vagaries of the wear ther, and most retailers questioned have expressed faith that sales will reach a new peak.

BMides, there are more shopping days this eeasop than there were a year agq, fhen the last record was

AIRFIELD STEAKS

MAY BE MORE PROFBrimUB

You may lk>On be eatty i%ig-ed beef and lamb.

New Stealand has been li2Ung a considerable amount of meat to the United States. Because of the ocean-freight time, this meat had to be frozen. Now New 2tea-land is planning to send meat to Hawaii and North America by air. Because chilled meats command higher prices than frosen meat, meat by air may be more profitable. First flying carcasses are expected early next year.