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THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

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Wednesday, January 11, 1961

.Wednesday, January 11, 1961

But It WUI Grow Again!

Strategy Of A Desperate Dictator

TSere are few. if indeed people tii the United of f;astroVrg!n?. Itro4ght^l0^1>e eaieiilated to make

States who put any stock in the repeated assertions by .some elements in other parts of Latin America look Fidel Castro that the United States plans to attack his to Castro as a leader of international sta'nding who inland country during the month of January . . , pr can provide the military'means for doing whatever

in any other month for that matter.

For the most part, it is our guess that in other areas of the^world^nd even in Cuba-^the]feare also a relatively few people who/are convinced that What Castro has been saying is true.

tftey like.

On the other hand, it is quife possible that Castros assertions of impending attack are an attempt to divert the attention of the people of Cuba from the worsening economic situation which apparently is gripping

1, . __the island country. By feverish preparations' for a

.. t ^ u " nrpnarafion tn an attai^^ make-bclieve attack, Castro may.gain time to recoup

tirade and pushing preparations to repel an attack?

^ ^ i. ^ strength among his own people. He may hope to

One,school of thought a^e^ that after the Ca^ gain time to seek out and destroy elements opposed tro-set deadline for the attack the Cuban dictator will before they grow sufficiently strong to overboast that his preparations forestalled the Unite4.^^j^j.o\v the regime he has established. "

States. He will declare that the Americans to the north

realized that they cpuld not cope) with his defenses, that the cost would be too great, that Cuba had been victorious in the battle that never, quite came off.

Such assertions by Castro would, of course, be intended to impress some people with Jhe military might of Cuba and perhaps to enhance the prestige

~ LYNN NISBET

C D PROGRAMThe stability and continuity o North Carolinas development was illustrated by the atmosphere at the meeting of the Board of Con-aervatioD and Development this week. It was the first meeting of the year. It was the first over which Governor Sanford presided u chairman. It was a new UirecU* and assistant du'ector take over administrative control, and there was a new member of the board replacing one who died since the last meeting. -If revoluntionary spirit was m the air, that was' the time for It to show. It did not show. Activity reports covering .the past fix months made by the retiring director and the several division heads foUowed the pattern of similar reports for years past general advancement, aome disappointments, but enthusiasm and optimism for

the future. Emphasis w'as on the challenge of unfinished

business, programs begun but which will require years to complete. And there was no suggestion that they would not be followed to fulfillment.

CAUTIOUSImproved methods were proposed and new media for promotion and publicity of ihc states resources. These new things will be tried only after careful and thorough

study.

HUh Spot In that phase of

the meeting was Governor Sanfords very brief comment. He said be expects to be a working chairman of the board, attend all meetings and take part in activities. Then he took cognizance of his own previous stato-- ments' and considerable newpa-per comment about probabiity of divorcing the industriar pro motion division from the rest of the department and setting up a sepanUe agency. The proposal Is cortroversiaJ. and the Governors approach obviously pleased the board members.

STUDYHe said he had not made up his owm mind as to

Just how we can do the mo.st

effective job in serving the interests of all the people. He has no recommendation at this time, and will make none until be has given serious thought to the matter and consulted with board members and administrative personnel. He ha.s rto de-aire to make change Just for the

igL^^ke of doing something differ-^^ent. He wants to be sure the

change will make for more effective service.

Further Intimation that he will not ask the upcoming General Assembky to revamp the basic organization was found in his suggestion that he might excr-cise his obligation as chairman, after consulting with the new director, to re-allgn committees and switch emphasis on the di-ver.se activities of the depart-

ganization does not require leg-ment. That type of internal reor-islatioq, and usually it is done at the annual business meetings of the-board in the summer of odd-numbered years.

The switching of emphasis, the abandonment of divisions no longer required and the addition of new activities, is the historic record of the C&D Department. The divisions of Community Planning and Geodetic Surveys have been established within the past three yearsand they are -among the most .eager and enthusiastic of all the activity groups.

Industrial promotion, including travel and tourism; commercial fisheries: forest fire control and reforestation: development of mineral resources and operation of State parks, have bren departmental functions from the beginning. These projects developed need for community planning and stabilization of land boundaries. To meet these needs the new divisions vvei-e added. wj

HABITSIn dictator countries the government control the habits of the people. In democracies the habits of the people control the government. That is why the State responded to the demand for community planning. Also it is why more emphasis Ls being placed on travel and the use of State parks. More than one and iwo-thirds million people visited the North Carolina State parks last year. That fact led Tom Morse, parks director, to support his request for more facilities with the observation that "it took 200 years for North Carolinians to get out of the woods, and now it looks like all of them want to go back to the woodsat the tame time..

Emphasizing the importance of minerals, both metal and nonmetalic, Jasper Stuckey, chief of the mineral resources division, reminded that the history of the world is recorded in mineral ages. There was the old stone age, the new stone age, the bronze age. the iron age, etc., and now we are in the petroleum age. There la danger, he said, that we may become a race of people with big livers and no legs because nobody walks anymore'. (Oldtimers will recall a famouswise' - crack of , the late Will Rogers, that man might come to need nothing but one thumbto pu.sh a button or open a pill bottle.)

PRIDEOne cannot attend a meeting of the C & D boaid and note the unselfish way men of big private enterprise devote their ability and energy to the public business of meeting requirements of the hablt.s of the people without a feeling of pride and confidence in the future of North Carolina. Or the belief that progress will continue without revolution.

Since coming to power. Castro has effectively used the United States as a whipping boy fo stir support for his regime, not only in his own country, but elsewhere as well. Having been so successful with such tactics in the pa.st, it wquld be logical for him to make up a bigger lie to deal with the biggest domestic crisis his regime has yet faced. . '

We view Castros present moves*as a^ desperate attempt by a desperate dictatqr to Hold his regime together and fo retain his Fiord nTiTsco'unlfy.^"^ such military preparations as he is making,he may well not be able to withstand the growing threat from within. By pointing an accusing finger at another na-, lion, he may be able to prevent elements opposed to his dictatorship from becoming the cohesive force that will destroy him.

A Quicker Start For Legislative Business -

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Last weeks caucus of Democrats in the Ngrth Carolina House of Representatives should pave the way for a quicker start-up of operations in the General Assembly this year than normally has- been the case.

With the Speaker of the Hdusej Joe Hunt, desig-uated by the Democraticrmembers, committee assignments should be completed by the time the legislature ofiicially convenes early next month. Even though announcement of committee -chairmen and committee-appointments are not made before the session begins, the usual delay in effecting organization should be avoided.

The total effect should result in the legislature getting down to business without passing one, two, or year, more weeks in getting organized before it really gets i visited Franks office the down to considering the business at hand. other day and he gave me a

During the next month also. Gov. Terrv *anford

Ml 1. lY- .Li f I A 1 ii 1 1 X- 0 take them to the Daily Re-

will be putting the final touches cn the legislative pro- fiector office where they were to

gram he will present to the first General Assembly be placed on anybodys desk who under his administration. By the time the legislature them. ^

convenes, Sanfords program should be formulated, .J solemnly promised and stuck the items he will present the legislature outlined at next^^stop^ Bkiet^s

lea.st in general terms, and req^dy for committee con- Drug_ store where i got in a

State

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Your columnist has to apologize to Frank Dail of Tadlock Mutual Insurance Agency.

Frank, you see, has those little desk calendars which so many businesses give out this time of

because I didnt believe any movie could hold my attention for four hors.

IU have to admit I was wrong. I finally decided to attend after this unusually long movie had played at the State Theatre here for more than two wrecks. Curiosity drew me to the theatre just to see what all the fuss was about.

it is sure to rank as one of the great ones in movie history.

So Monday night I plopped down the admission price and settled in an aisle seat. My first surprise was that a good crowd was attending that night even after the movie had been playing here since December 25.

Henry Morgan keeps them howling with comments on the Ive Got a Secret Show, Obviously^ it is his wit rather than his ability to guess secrets that keeps him gainfully employed.

My first recollection of Henry was his appearance on a radio show some years ago. The show came from New York and was in honor of somebody or other.

Many city officials and digna-taries were having their say.

sideration.

This year, of course, is the first time such an approach has been taken to the matter of legislative organization. It has been done with an eye to greater utilization of the first weeks of the legislative session.

Its effectiveness probably will determine whether a similar procedure is followed in years to come.

How effective-the new approach is, however, will ^^'ank. depend to a great extent upon how the leadership in Your columnist postponed see-both the legislature and the administration take ad- Ing the Movie Ben Hur simply vantage of the next few weeks to get preliminaries out of the way.

conversation with a couple of college girls. Well, they caught sight of the calendars in my coat pocket. They said they needed them, and who was I to say no.

So, Frank Dalis advertising calendars are now somewhere In Garrett Hall. My apologies.

I couldnt help admiring the scenery as the movie opened and as the story unfolded, I had to agree that the acting was excellent. The big surprise was that when intermission came I was completely unaware more than two hours had passed, and I was eager to return to my seat for the last portion.

This biblical story, set in the time of Christ. Is one that everyone should see. In my opinion

When Morgans time came, he went to the mike and said, Maybe this isnt the time or place but with all these city officials present Id like to say theres a hole in the street in front of my house and. . . or words to that effect-

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By JAMFS MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP( For eight years a take-charge man with big eyeglasse.s and more than enough chin did an extraordinary job of making his boss, the President of the United States, look good.

Now Jafnes C. Hagerty, President Eisenhowers pre.ss secretary with a beaut of a temper and so much self-assurance he could hold a surplus sale, is leaving.

When he turned In his resignation, Elsenhower said he had been invaluable. And indeed he was.

Elsenhower admittedly didnt I do much newspaper reading. Hagerty a 51-year-old grandfather and former newspaperman. was to a large extent the Presidents eyes and ears.

He was more than tht. He not only was a buffer between the President and the press to a degree unmatched In this century, he was also Eisenhowers mouthpiece.

But he was no blabbermouth. He never got his devotion to news mixed up wjth his loyalty to Elsenhower. He never, said anything to embarra.ss his boss. He didnt make slips.

Hagerty was a master of two things which a lot of press relations men never learn: He paid attention to details and informed himself on problems he had to ^handle.

Seem simple? Its amazing how many people in Washington dont do either.

In lime Hagerty became Elsenhowers scout, a kind of private emissary, who went ahead of the Pre.sident when he planned a trip abroad and arranged for his safety and con-vmience,

He became such* a strong and

to New Yorks Gov. Thomas E. Dewey when the latter ran for the presidency In 1944 and 1948.

He was a tough, efficient operator, then. Dewey turned him over to Elsenhower when

the general became a candidate. As it turned out. this was one of the best things Dewey did for Eisenhower. J

Now Hagerty goes to the American Broadcasting Company as vice president to build up its news reporting. He succeeds John Daly.

Unlike Daly who did broadcasting himself, Hagerty will stay our of sight, try to build up a staff, and let the.staff do the Valkinft. / *

Not -talking will be a switch for him. 4

To the Editor: In the recent meeting on public housing and urban renewal, I noted that practically all voices spoke in opposition. The world Is so backwards these days that when all vocal opinion Is against a proposition its a pretty good sign that the proposition hiis merit.

Greenville has already helped, through federal taxes, to pay for public housing in Kinston, Rocky Mount, and other more progressive towns and cities all over'America. Greenville money right now Is helping to clear out slums in New York City. Isnt It about time that Kin.'iton, Rocky Mount. New York City, and the rest of America should help to pay for something in Greenville? Shall Greenville help to buy public projects and decent houses all over America yet keep her own slums?

Think of the millions of dollars that urban renewal and public Jhousiiig would tui'n loose in

auditorium? First class new business development!'A new court-hous! Why not a great recreation center where everything po.ssible can be assembled for the pleasure of the people of Greenvillea community house big enough for a while city?

Instead of shacks and shanties where rents are high and conditions lowi modern, new homes in a planned suburban community where rents are still low, but conditions high: where our low-income families can live better even on the same income. Space and pleasantness around for the people, beauty instead of ugliness for the city, praspcrity promoted for everyone.

Think of the spiritual gain. This Is no time for profiteering at the expense of the poor. This Is a time for planning to bring th poor to a condition of equality and brotherhood with more

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

THE MARK OF MIRACLE

What is a miracle?

Some would say that a miracle is an act which results from the operation of natural lawseither natural laws which we have not yet disGovered, or natural laws with which we are at present familiar but operating in unfamiliar combinations. Still others would say that a miracle is the result of a break-tlmough of certain spiritual forces plunging into the stream of human life.

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GreenvUleCand right now wl.cn ^

Wf need it. Millions of dollam -JfXg' Te te hf wt S

Communism by default.

There are valid arguments to support both points of view', t would seem, however, that miracles cannot be adequately explained In terms of physical law. These physical laws deal with the material order,^Mira-cles have about them certain characteristics which bespeak a heavenly origin. The mysterious and unseen hand of God is involved some way in a miracle. His touch, his purpose, his power, has made the difference be

tween this, and

Opinions

'n. Brief

German soldiers crossed the frontier of France as Invited pue.sts, for the first time in 90 years. Three timers before they (aine as invaders. Thi.s time, they were joining Piench soldiers in NATO maneuvers. Their crossing is one of the signs of the present solidarity of Western Europe against the Com-mimlit peril21_ -Beaven.Falls < Pa ) New's-Trttmne.

for the suppliers and con.struc-tion workers of this vicinity Millions to lubricate the business machine of the area just at a fime when It ha.s begun to .squeak. There isnt a business in Greenville that wouldnT qcI th^ beneficial effect of all thiS^'Tfroney let loose around the town.

Workers who are now unemployed would have, for a .while, at least, good jobs, and would be buying from local businesses the things they want and need.

Think of the physical improvement to the city. Instead of an unsightly sluma beautiful public plaza along the river front! Recreation areas! A miuiicipal

evwit.

some ordinary

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Urban renewal and public housing will create problems of readjustment for a small minority of the people, and where hardship results, the planning of the project should not neglect help for these cases. But these projects are in the Interest of the city a.s a whole and will contribute to the creation of a better Greenville.

. Again, we are 'paying for everybody elses public improvements; if we dont get our own share, we aren't doing ourselves Justice.

Vernon Ward

Let us get out of our minds the mistaken notion that the day of miracles Is passed. If miracles ceased to exist at a certain time, the probabilities are that they never happened. If they ever happened and religious faith encourages us to believe that they did then they are still happening.

Look into your own life. Inquire of your believing friends, and you will soon come to the conclusion that many things have happened in your life and theirs which bear upon them the true mark of miracle.

^ By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyr^ht, 1961. King, Fetrtures Syndicate, inc.

,In charge of our Cuban affairs in the State Department was until recently William A. Wie-land who has been identified as the Arthur William Montenegro for whom I have been Ipoking In the record. This was not announced by the State Department which has full responslbil-^ ity In the matter, but the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee ^^Tias been studying the question of Wielands conduct and purposes.

There are three men who have

the .name Montenegro and this proouces some confusion Therefore, it Is necessary to say that the Arthur William Montenegro' who is being discussed Is William Wleland and that he comes

iMLJfflth namfifi gulk properly;

the Wieland name being his at birth, the Montenegro name coming later when his mother married a second husband by that name, ^

So we need not get too excited about the use of two names, but we are Justified in wondering why this man was entrusted with our Cuban affairs and If the Senate Committee does the job thoroughly, we may find out how men are recruited into the State Department and how they are promoted. We may discover what are the qualifications for being a deskman who can by the flick of a ball-point pen get the United States into the mess which is now our Cuban situation.

The same thing happened with regard to Communist China In the years 1945. 1946 and 1947 when Alger Hess and Owen Lai-timore and the Institute of Pacific Relations were manufacturing American policy which lost us a continent and gained for us our most- pernicious enemy. It might have been otherwise had the policy of our government not been influenced so positively by men whose interest was to support Soviet Russia rather than the United States, although they were American citizens, it took a long time for Americans to overcome the false propaganda let loose in this country that these Communisls were only agrarian reformers.

Dean Rusk, who Is to be Secretary of state In the Kennedy Administration, speaking on May 18, 1951, said;

It Is not my purpose. In these few moments this evening. to go into specific elements of our own national policy in the present situation. But we can tell our friends in China that the United States will not acquiesce In the degradation which is being forced upon them. We do not recognize the authori- ^ ties in Peiping for what they pretend to be. The Peiping, regime may be a colonial Russian governmenta Slavic Man-chukuo on a larger scale. It is not the Government of China.

It does not pass the first test.

It is not Chinese,

It is not entitled to speak for China in the community of nations- It is entitled only to the fruits of its own conduct the fruits of aggression upon which It is now willfully, openly an(l senselessly embarked *'

This Is true but it took too many years to be said officially and when it was said the mischief had already been done. Similarly, in the Cuban situation, we have come to realize that we have taken more than we can bear, but why did we need to take It at all? Was it because William Wieland was calling the turns? Was it because Roy Rubottom was diffident? Was it because the Fifth Floor of the State Department, where the great men sit, never knows what goes on in that sprawling building until it is too late to do anything but make ready for war or appeasement?

The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee ought to examine this situation to discover not an individual whose judgment was bad or / whose conduct was vicious, but a i^ttern of operations which makes it possible for Incompetent and Indecent persons to become associated with the State Department and to rise to positions where they can commit the United States to a policy. The Cuban situation ought to be studied from the standpoint that it is an altogether unnecessary advantage for Soviet Russia which might have been averted had the control of American policy been where it should be under our Constitution, in the hands of the President of the United States, not of a deskman in the State Department.

This country wouldnt be In such a mess today if the In-nians had adopted more stringent immigration laws. Easley (S. C.) Progrcvss.

Good, Bad Side To Large Crops

established figure in the group around Elsenhower that he was almost certainly an advisor on policy.

Hagerty was unchallenged within the * administration as emperor of his special domain from the time he took charge of the news about Eisenhower's heart attack in 195.").

His forihrlghtnes.s in keeping the country Informed at that critical tim was widely admired. He seemed a lot les.s forthright when Eisenhower had his Ileitis operation.

Hagertys attention to detail ,goes away back beyond the time-he went to work In the White House- He was press secretary

It Is sometimes difficult for Americans to understand the powei: that a man such as Fidei Castro can wield over lllit-rrate and unthinking people. Yet vve must^ not forget that more than once In our own his-* tory, and not so very long ago, con.siderable numbers of Americans ftave ear to demagogues. r-Clarft.sdale (Mis.s,i Register.

Today In the United States there are more than 13,000 con>-inisslons, departments and companies representing cities, countries. states and areas, engaged In fierce competition to woo In-.dustry to their areas,'*--Port Hmon (Mich.) Tlmes-Herald.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The world's bellies are fuller today than ever before. World crop production in the 1!)60-61 l|ason, which, began Idst summer In the Northewv-Hcniifiphere and is now approaching harvest in, the Southern Hemisphere, is the largest ever.

The Foreign Agriculture Service estimates that current crops are 3 per cent above a year ago and 1 per cent above the previous high bounty year of 1958-59.

Good, because it means that more children, women and men Will have enough to eat.

Bad, because it means that births will also Increarse, leading to overpopulation and hunger in future yesCTs of poor crops.

Good, because siu'plitg foodstuffs mean more international trade.

Bad, because dictators never launch wars unless warehouses

arc fiirbd with supplies. On the other hand, people seldom revolt when they have plenty to eat and wear.

FASTER THAN BIRTHS

The^Uotal volunja of current crops, according to the FAS estimate, is 23 per cent above the 1952*54 average. And the worlds population is 15 per cent above that of the same period.

Thats significant. It means that food production has been Increasing faster than the population has. It means that the starvation of the worlds population Is still far off - if It will ever come.

New world records were set In the production.of corn, barley, sugar, tobacco, castor beans and tea. New records, but by smaller margins, were set in production pf rice, cotton and cottonseed, rapseed. sisal and henequcn.

Good, but not record breaking.

were worid crops of w'heat, potatoes, flaxseed, soybeans and most fruits.

COFFEEHOW LARGE?

The FAS reported that Coffee was Ihe only major crop with a sharp production decline from 1959, but even then the 1960-61 crop was the second largest on record." The Secretariat of the International Coffee Agreement has since reported that coffee stocks are building ap-and are now approximately 40,000,000 bags. Even if world consumption increases with the population. coffee consumption will not kppp pacp with production, the Secretariat said. - '

World production of vegetable oils and oilseeds set a record -in 1960, the FAS reported. The greatest Increases were In North America, where w'eather conditions havebeen favorable. Drought cut crop production in Europe, Russia aud mainland

China, goverirma&t experts found. Other areas of Asia, notably Japan, the Philippines and Turkey enjoyed increased production.

ANSV^ERS TO QUESTfONS -ASKED BY READERS

Q: In business news I see P&L and .^ RfeD. What do they mean?

A; P&L is short for profit

and loss and usually refers to a companys statement shawlng how much profit was made against its losses. A company with a $100.000 P&L has made that much money in the period reported. >

R&D stands for re.search and development, a companys work in researching and developing nw products, systems, etc. An R&D report tells how much capital and earnings a company is putting In to the development of iuiurt prcdecU.

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