PAGE FOURfHB DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE,'N. C C

Friday, Fefcruary 10, 1961

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A Good Choice In Referendum Data

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In designating the special referendum on urban ballots in favor of urban renewal and public housing, wnewal and public housing to coincide with the gen- the study and planning in connection with these pro-eral city election on May 2, the Greenville City Coun- grams locally will be continued. If, on the other, hand, cil has accomplished at* two-fold purpose. the' majority indicates a negative vote, the planning

First, that date affords the citizens of Greenville for such projectsnow in the preliminary stages time to feret out and evaluate carefully information will be abandoned entirely.

relating to the issues and to make up theiraminda in- The decision rendered by the voters of Greenville dividuallv how they will vote in the referendum. on May ' t the referendum will be important to the Second, by setting the special referendum at the city not only in the immediate future, but likewise will same time as the city-wide election for officials, the directly influence the long-range progress and devel-Council has assured the greatest j)ossible participa- opment of Greenville. In terms Of long-range effect tion bv local voters in tjie special referendum. Cer- upon the city's progress and development, it will be tainly it is important to the city as a whole that when oe of the most important referendums ever held in an important issue such as the one which now con- Greenville, fronts Greenville is decided by a vote of the people, the vote should retlect the opinion of as many of the townspeople as possible. The greater the numbey of voters who help decide the issue, the more representative the results will be of the feeling of the citizens as - a whole* ....

Although the referendum on urban renewal and poriant quStions with the bSt ef

and its citizens as a whole in mind*, we are confident the majority will render a decision which will enable Greenville to make the most of its potential for progress and development.

It's Great Entoiainmeiit

With this in mind, we urge citizens of Greenville to give careful thought and consideration to the matter in the weeks between now and May 2. We urge them to evaluate carefully relevant information regarding the questions involved.

If the citizens of Greenville approach these im-

public housing w'ill be in the form of a straw-vote and not legally binding on future decisions of the citys governing board, it is only reasonable to" expect that the Council will follow the course indicated by the referendum.

If a majority of the people of Greenville cast their

More Advising 3y Budget Group

Timely

Major

Reminder Of Spy Networks

By LYNN NISBET

BUDGETT RecommendatioM by the Advisory Budget Com-miselon for changes in the areas ti administrative policy are almost as significant as suggested approiMlations. Apparently the budget group did more advis-ing" on. these matters than it has done' in the past.

One of the major proposals Is that the costs of maintaining the paroles and probations systems be transferred from the highway fund to the general fond. ' ........................

Another Important step is rce-ommendatlon that most of the State hospitals and schools get out of the farming business by the rad of this year.

Other suggestions dealt with college management, the setting up a central reserve fund to"^ take care of excessive enrollment, putting self-sustaining enterprises on accost-only basis, with possible division of accounting into academic and eervice related funds.

PAROLES Transfer of paroles and probation costs from the highway to the general fund is regarded a first step toward eventual separation of all nonhighway activities from highway money. There was logical rea-^o"-foi^ 4he^ pardeaacttrttte-being charged to highway funds when the prison was a part of that system. There has ben no excuse for the diversion since, and there was never any for the

When the institutiona went into farming many years ago there was need for an assured and constant supply of foodstuffs. That need has been eliminated

Just in case a good many people may have forgotten there are still major spy networks in operation seeking top secrets among Western governments,^1;he exposure of a Soviet spy group in Britain should jar us back to reality.

A few sensational incidents which over the years led to the discovery of elaborate espionage organiza-

___________________ lions in Britain, Canada, the United States and other

br**m^ern**lresportaoii"and Western nations sensed for a while to keep the free Py DQN SCHLIINZ

preservative processes. It Is now world On its toes. Somehow in recent years, however, ^

eood many people /eem to have lost sight of the fact that espionage has become as important in the period of uneasy peace in which we now live as it w^as during the war years.

It is well remembered that secrets stolen from the West made it possible for the Soviets to move into the field of atomic and nuclear weapons. Other stolen

conventiona* weapons, s.vstems and equipment that m?* one

were either perfected or in ti^ piocess of develop- aspect of touring name- bands

At the hospitals and some of the training schools farming was considered of high therapeutic value. Advent of machinery made handwork too expensive* and also afforded other means of employment for patients and

ITvAn irtth priKAn^ra

the situation on the farm is much like that on the highways. The machinery has displaced the man as the worker.

Almost certainly there will be protests from several of the In-stutlons, especially the mental hospitals, and the recommendations may not be effectuated this year. Evidence is growing ' that institutional farming is outmoded.

Seldom Considered Item

Elsewhere you may have read the Guy Lombardo band will be playing for the local Moose next

of the State supported colleges Involve basic policy as well as purely budgeting matters. All of the Institutions of higher education. except the three units of the Consolidated University and North Carolina College aT Dtir-ham, have been earning profit on theif business enterprises cafeterias, laundries, etc. The excess of revenue over expenses . , has been transferred to other

probation comndsslon, since that p, activity. The commls-

Is entirely a judicial faction. suggests that these services

Motor Vehicles Department should be on self-sustaining

ment by the West.

Now this latest spy story in Britain indicates that data on Britains nuclear submarine, based on U.S. design, was included in stolea information.

Although there are^at times signs that the cold war between East and West may be thawing slightly, the United States and its allies must keep up an effec-tive guard against such espionage activities. Until a practical method is found for guaranteeing peace and freedom to "all men who desire it, we must maintain the scientific, technical and military secrets which so far have prevented the communists from attempting overrun the rest of .the world through outright miliary aggression.

that at once obvious and yet aeldom considered by people not Involved in booking*.

The Lombardo band ia an example.

In their advance kit sent to dance ponaora ia a sketch of how the bandstand is to be laid out with particular emphasis on its dimenaions. Bloom saya they're very atrict about meeting the specifications. I remember seeing in the Lombardo arrangement' precise points where microphonea were to be placed.

One can appreciate the desirability of uniformity on the bandstand as a matter of practicality and convenience.

If local hospitality Is a factor in inducing the return of name bands, then the Lombardo brothers may be presumed to be looking" forward to playing Greenville again. The warmth of their reception was evidenced by more than applause; there was an intangible something in the air.

A reporter on the television scene duly reports Yogi Bear, a cartoon character playing second iiddle^to Huckleberry Hound, ia getting'a show of hla own.

He didnt say when all this was scheduled to takh place, but' '^

and the Utilities Commission have sufficient relation to highways to partially justify spending highway funds. So do prisons, to the extent only of men needed for road work.

FARMING Budgpt commissions for many years have been concerned about the inefficiency of farming operations at many of the institutions and there has been gradual curtailment. The current recommendation is that all farming operations be discontinued as of January .1, 1962, at Dorothea Dix Hospital at Raleigh and John W. Umstead Hospital at Butner; Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone and Elizabeth City State Teachers College: the School for the Deaf at Morganton and the School for the Blind and Deef at Raleigh. Operations at Dobbs Farm at Kitton and Samarcand at Eagle Springs will be reduced to truck production only.

No changes are presently proposed at Broughton Hospital at Morganton, Cherry Hospital at Goldsboro and Caswell School at Kinston. Other institutions are still being studied.

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basis only, ana inai no prom -m i

should bit, made. The adjustment 11 ) I (

can be made either by reducing X

Snafu in delations

Other Editors "Saying Hunger "Amid Plenty

charges to students or increasing service such as quality of food served.

It has been the custom, too, for institutions to estimate anticipated enrollment and base requests for appropriations on, that estimate. If the estimate is too low, the institution has more money than it needs; if, too high, there is less money than required. The propased plan is put a percentage of the requested appropriation into a common reserve fund, to be administered by the Department of Administration, and where enrollment exceeds estimates the extra funds would be drawn from that reserve.

Increase in tuition at all colleges is recommended, and the additional money to be divided as follows; 50 per cent for scholarships for needy students, limited to amount of tuition; 40 per cent for supplementing academic salaries, and 10 per cent for library books.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The MacNamara band blew a aour note.

The Kennedy administration 1 now in its first real public relations snafu because of an old Washington custom a background news conferencewhich backfired. This one dealt with the "missile gap

It was called by Defense* Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the former Ford Company president who, being new and not yet sophisticated in Washington pol-iUcs, stuck his neck out by saying he doesnt think there Is a missile gap.

President Kennedy tried to back away In a hurry from what McNamara said.

There are three kinds of news conferences here;

1. The wide open kind where the speaker can be quoted and identified.

2. The off-the-record type in which nothing thats said can be reported.

3. The background where the speaker cant be identified or directly quoted and reporters must state on their own what he said.

High officials in the Eisenhower. Truman and Roosevelt administrations s e d\ backgrounders when, for one reason or another, they wanted to give out Information without having it attributed directly to them.

Some backgrounders are flops, producing little news. Some are useful in getting information to the public. Some are an abuse of news by letting a public official hide by anonymity if what he says gets a bad public reaction.

The Kennedy administration has made it plain it Intends to give out information so long as it does not endanger the country through open news sessions and backgrounders.

McNamara' called his backgrounder Monday to Inform newsmen on defense studies being made by his band of new aides. One of them involves missiles, a sore political subject for years.

Newsmen were told nothing McNamara said could be attributed to him, the meeting place in the Pentagon couldnt be mentioned, and there was not even to be any indication the information from McNamara came i from a backgrounder at aU.

For years Democrats expressed worry the Eisenhower administration was letting the Russians get ahead in missile production.

Even President Elsenhowers defense aecretry. Nell H. Mc-. A. jjjuja a jfm.,

said this country would be lag- ' ging behind Russian missile output for three yearn.

And during the I960 presidential campaign, critical of the Eisenhower administration, Kennedy referred to the missile gap.

Then suddenly on Monday McNamara, talking at his backgrounder about missile studies going on. said he doesnt think theres a gap or that the Russians have more missiles than the United States.

This was reported in Tuesday mornings newspapers without, of course, any reference to McNamara as the spokesman. But a politically wiser man than McNamara mighty have realized this:

The Republicans, long'- tormented by Democratic Jibes, would seize on what McNamara said to protest; I told you so. They promptly did and. into the bargain, demanded Kennedy apologize for what he said- in the campaign.

Until the Republicans sounded off Tuesday there was no hint McNamara had made Kennedy feel uncomfortable. But then late Tuesday Kennedys press secretary. Pierre Salinger, called newsmen into his office to tell them;

The news stories, based on McNamaras backgrounder, were inaccurate.

Up to this point McNamara still remained anonymous, but the New York Herald Tribune revealed he was the one . who said he didnt think there'was a missile gap. Everything was out in the open now.

And Wednesday at his own news "conference Kennedy said, after a talk with McNamara, that;

McNamara said no study has been concluded in the Defense Department which would lead to any conclusion at this time as to whether there Is a missile gap or not.

If this was meant to say McNamara and his bandbecause their missile studies are incompleteare not justified In denying a mls.slle gap, then perhaps they arent. '

But, Justified or not, McNa-, mara said it and reporters beard him say it.

(Washington Daily News)

A hungry person does not want to talk about peace or security. He is not Interested in politics. He cares nothing about the United Nations, nor about what dictatorship hits been set up here or there. He is primarily interested in only one thing food for his hungary stomach.

When a-man in some remote place in the world goes to bed at night hungry, and his children are crying out with hunger pains, can. we .conscientiously blame that man for following any lead which he hopes will give food?

In a world of plenty, we must recognize that last night about half the population of the world went to sleep hungry. In America at this very moment we have such huge surpluses of food piling up that we think not-In terms of hunger but in terms of disposal of that food.

Too many people think of foreign aid in terms of dollars. In reality dollars mean only ^ what they will buy to some man who is'hungry.

President Kennedy, we understand, is mapping plans to use some of our surplus food supplies to feed hungry people. And no project of hl2) administration can have the heart and the spirit behind it- that this one can have.

The truth is that there is enough food in the world. The sad truth Is that distribution has worked a tragic trick on so many millions of people. If all the world today could eat one hearty meal, then the prospects for peace in the world probably would be enhanced greatly.

AH we in America have to

do ia to try to put ourselves In the places of hungry people. If our children were hungry, if we as individuals were hungry, what would we do?

The nation which feeds the hungry stomachs first and then talks freedom, democracy, communism, dictatorship, or whatnot is certainly in a more favorable position to find listeners than one which tries to sell Its product of either democracy or communism to hungry stomachs. The hungry stomachs will also be non-attentlve minds.

If in America today we could find some practical method of improving our own distribution, system to the point where we could share food products we cannot possibly use, think what a favorable light such an act would place America!

In America most of us have A distinct choice of foods. - In many parts of the world the choice Is only that of starving or fighting for survival with all means at hand. A hungry man is belligerent: he Is unreasonable: he is difficult; he is in no mood to talk of ansrthing except food.

We in America have the best weapon of all with which to talk. We have- an abundance, even a surplus, of so many food products. When President Kennedy talks in terms of feeding the hungry, it is not merely political but it Is also humanitarian.

One of the greatest challenges today facing this shaky world Is that of finding ways and means to distribute our surplus foods In such a manner that hunger pains can be erased-

if the setting of Jellystone National Park reaches local viewers, odds are it will be aired at an hour disrupting the supper table.

Tuesday evenlngis are kind of frantic at our house. We kids have to eat early or run the risk of missing out on Huck, Mr. Jinx, and Yogi. Mrs. S. has been known to prepare our plates so we could eat in the living room while watching the big show of the week; but it proved so distracting (more watching than eating) that there are edicts against such things except when the day has be miserable enough to warrant a little extiR sunahlne at 6:00 p.m.

Stardom is fitting for good-natured Yogi; but theres this business of over-exposure to haunt his ca#p and bia: wri^< At present he and his comrades-in-comedy ahare perba'ps eight minutes each of air time in a half-hour show . . . Just enough to make' admirers wish for more.

Ive always said the present Tuesday evening format was too good for-the very young they miss the' nuances. Its more suited to eyes and ears attuned by time.

Opinions In Brief

- Over $42 billion is In the various fund* of AFL-CIO unions. Some of it about $2 billionis in strike funds, general funds and the like. And ,140 billion is in welfare funds an amount about double the reserve fund of the national eoclal security system. No-> gales (Ariz.) Herald.

The retailer is the buffer from which rising costs must bounce off to the consumer be has long absorbed a percentage of cost increases. He is the first one blamed for high prices, a condition over which he has no control. Industrial News Review.

The

BLOOMMWIU

is coming

CAU YOUR RED

CROSS

nx me Blame

By GEOEGE B. ORDLSST CopyrlSht. ISSl, iBtof Ftatarea -SjfaJicMe, laf.

Undoubtedly of equals Import^ ' ance to the questions raised by our seeping'gold and our inter-naonal relaUons, U the question of unemployment. The responsibility for this condition is manifold and the blame will never be fixed altogether, but the-cold fact is that unemployment la Intolerable, that the social problems that arise from it are costly to any nation but are multiplied in ours because of our high standard of living, and that ii leaves future generations mor-ally antajonlstic to the Amert-cah way dT Bemptoymeiit is not only an economic diseases ft is a'moral and social disease.,

TlM Kennedy Administration has inherited about 5.000.000 unemployed with the prospect of more to come. It has inherited this condition from the Elsenhower Administration which ignored the rise of unemployment as a temporary, seasonal situation which would, in time, erase Itself. That was the attitude of of the CooUdge Administration which pitched its unemployment problems into Herbert Hoovers lap. '

Two clear factors and many not so clear factors appear in this problem. The two clear factors art:

1. Because of Inflatira and the high cost of labor and xaxes the United States has outpriced itp self in world markets and cannot even take competition in certain commodities in the American maricet. a condition which we have never faced before in our economic history;

2. The removal of swne American industries to European, Asiatic and Caribbean markets has meant an export of jobs, which cumulatively produced the large unemployment ftgures. Certain American industries have almost disappeared in this struggle .. against ^Icap. subsidized goods. The American cefahtio Industry is almost gone; knitwear is going. clothing, both for men and women, is imprallled; even typewriter parts are made abroad and brought back to this country which la their market. The electrical equipment Industry, which has been basic in the United States, is fighting against contracts which go to our allies.

Again, as before World War n. Japan is our principal problem, with West Germany and It aly coming up as sharp competitors tar first place as Americas chief economic competlt(M*8.

Slgnicantiy, it is our allies, and important ones, whi<^ raise, the issue of economic instability , amd it Is aisd jdgmfloant that these countrieshare benefited by our aid munificently.

The United States. poUtically, cannot afford to antagonize Japan, especially in view of tiM very strong Red Chinese anti-American propaganda among Japanese jrouth. The-Japanese need the American market. if they are to live at all because they have lost their national market which is mainland (Hiina. The Japanese cannot raise their own food because only 20 per cent of th^ land is arable. Their historic ambition had been to occupy and hold China. From 1894 until 1945, their naticmal effort had been to take Manchuria aaul Mongolia and make them part of Japan. In this they failed as they failed is the substitute plan of building . an empire in the South Seas. Actually, these countries have been divided between Soviet Russia and Red China,

Without markets, Japan can die and become a string of islands in the Pacific. On the other hand, the United States has developed Into m profitable market for Japanese goods of all kinds. Thus the Japanese have become increasingly dependent upon the United States, but as such things go, no one planned or Integrated American-Japanese trade. Japan is producing goods which cost American workers their Jobs and that raises many serious internal Amerioui political problems. For instance, the American men and womens clothing industries, which have been hi-temationalist and socialist in their leadership are n|r definitely frightened by the import of finished products from Japan. Italy and Hongkong. Amerioan hats, caps, millinery industries are beginning-to suffer. Unrao-ployment in these industries would be socially severe as they exist In big cities.

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The average taxpayer may feel no surprise at all when informed that, as a news service pwt it so neatly, a record number of taxpayers paid record federal Income taxes this year on record 1959 earnings. The individual .taxpayer, recalling hl.s own ^painful disbursements . ' inay 1)6 Inclufldtt to say, Tt figures. Clarks-dale (Miss.) Press Register

By ELMER ROESSNER

The day Is no further off than Jan. 1, 1969. when most of us will pay a full tithe for the support of the aged and care of the sick.

On that date, If not before, those making no more than $4,800 a year will pay a full tenth of their earning potentia) for Social Security.

The. Social Security rate is now 6 per cent of each workers salary up to>$4,800 a year. On the books. 3 per cent comes out of the workers pay, 8 per cent out of the boss post.

But get one thing straight; It all comes out of the Workers earning power.

When Social^ Security was set up in the Roosevelt Administration, it was decided to allocate the payments equally between employer and qmployee. It would have been almple to assess the

he was paying half the cost would make him conscious of the Social Security program, would give him a stronger feeling of participationand possibly feel more grateful to the Democrats who were working for the Welfare state.

However,- the full amount of Social Security comes out of the workers earnings.

If a worker is paid $100 a week, $3 of that (up to $4.800 a year goes for Social Security. His employer pays $3 more. But an employer will not pay that . salary unless he Is ghrc the worker earns $103 a week. Thats what he IS costing the employer. Without Social Security the employer would be equally willing to pay $103 a week.

. There are other way* of proving the same point and evqn the most rabid welfafe-staters. conr ' ceded that the employee must earn both employees and em-

On Jan. 1, 1963, the rate automatically goes up to 3^ per cent for each. On Jan. 1, 1966, it goes up to 4 l)er cent for each. And on Jan. 1, 19(, it rises to AVi per cent each, or a total of 9 per cent.

Meanwhile, President Kennedy has asked Congress to increase the rate by ^ to 1 per cent to provide five additional benefits: art Increase in the minimum. reduction of ellgibili^ of men from 65 to 62; reducing the coverage requirements; increasing widows benefits, and broadening disability benefits.

This added levy would make the current total 6V^ per cent of the first $4,800 and bring the 1963-65 total to per cent; the 1066-68 total to 8*3 per cent, and the total after Jan. 1. 1969 to 9Mi per. cent.

Not quite the traditional 10 per cent tithe, eh? No, but meanwhile there are biUs in Congress to add medical eoverage to 80-

and employee, bringing tlit total to a neat 10 per cent by Jan. 1, 1969.

In reality, a full tithe maj be effective before that date. There are many other propoaals for increasing benefits adding medical and other cares to the Social Security program. If Congress breaks out in new welfare rashes, those in the lower income brackets may be pej^ more than a tithe.

employee for Social purity. -

That idea was considered but Ployers share of Social Security I clal Sefcurity benefits. Various

abanOoned in favor of making m payments. proposals would require different

employer and >mptoye' Xoancing,. but thctsq^io .I15 sput-

POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS . At present, each pays 3 per light would require no less than Making the employee feel that cent, for a total of 6 per cent. V of 1 per cent on 'employer

GOOD WINTER

FOR HOSIERY SELLERS

Sellers of nylon hoaiery hawe been doing pretty good this season. The eold weather ta meat parts of the United States has increased the use of fuel oil. and sulphur compounds In the sox^ are believed to cause Ixdes and runs in nylons.

The compounds that ruin atoek-inga also are held responsible for smog eondltioos.

W. F. Williamson, president f the National Association of Hoaiery Manufacturers, said, Nylons may offer practical warnings to official health gtifiltaiii' as cimariee do for miners.*