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THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

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Wedntfidar/ ebniiry 15, 19W"

Wadnatday,. February 15, 1961

Another Tiger Hunt

Advantages In An Industrial School

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Pitt County"* need for an industrial training school and the potential benefits which might be rea-liaed from such a school are indicated in the sun ey by Jen. Robert Lee Humber that has been filed along w'ith theformal application for the facility. .

The survey showed that 156 firms in Pih County utilize ikilled workers in 161 different It also showed that 497 positions for skilled workers are waiting to be filled with firms in this county and further that 1,184 new positions or replacements in skilled jobs will be needed by firms of the county during the next 12 months. *

That there is a genuine desire for a technical school in the county is reflected by the fact the survey points out that some 1.300 Pitt Countians indicated they are ready to enroll in such a school for technical tfaining.

Although the filing of the formal application for the technical school is another step toward its realization, it is by no means a guarantee that Pitt County will be selected as a site for one of these state-county. facilities. There are three such schools that remain to be allotted from the authorization made by the 1959 General Assembly'. For these three, schools there are 42 application* from various citie* and counties in addition to the one from Pitt.

The proposal for. such a school has gained wide support throughout Pitt County from various groups and organizations. It behooves these organizations and the county as a whole now to continue their support for the technical training school by urging the state board to give favorable consideratibh to Pitts apnli-

D

Planning

When Issue Hot

By LYNN MSBET

COORDINATE Govmor Banford toid newsmen ihai he inids to convey ha ideas on the budsei and other matters to the Getxeral AssemWy in a number of shon special message* timed for delivery when the legislative committees are holding public hearings on those specific Items. Some erf these messages will be delivered in person. others will be transmiued tc written form

The Governor says he thinks' both his proposals and the ev-Idopce jrr^ted at the public ' ommittee hearin^^ will h' more effectivs if considered together and while the issue is hot.' Governor Sanford has proven in several political campaigns that ht has uncanny sense of timing lor-*emphasis on cenam phases r his program.

EliPLOYMENT=TbF Govern-r was disposed to question the sccurscy of appraisal that put the Payette vilie area in the distressed bracket so far as unemployment is concerned. He wasnt sure about conditions at Asheville, also listed in the dS^sa group, but said if Fayetterflle is In distress the definition is wrong. He thinks there are many factors other than listing of job seekers with the employment servnce that should be considered before labeling any area in distress.

In response to a question about his attitude toward some proposed Kennedy labor legislation. Governor Sanford waj tm-phatic on one point. He will resist with all the force of his administration any effort to federalize the N.C. Elmployment Security Commission. For some years a few states with less efficient administration and which have dissipated their capital reserves in the employment security fund have looked with envious eyes to the million on deposit by North Carolina and efficiently managed. -

CREDIT BALANCE-rThe employment security fund is derived from tickle vded on employers, collected at state level and deposited with the Federal treasury for the payment of unemployment benefits. The State Is allotted out of this fund a certain amount for administering the agency. The program actually costs the general taxpayers of North Carolina nothing.

The schedule for unemployment benefit payments set up by the North Carolina General Assembly and efficient management of the agency through the years has resulted in consistent reductions In amounts assessed against employers, and at the same time has built up a siae-

IN6RANCECurrtnt emphasis on the autotnobUi drivers' compulsory liability Insurance law tends to focus Interest on deflnlttone 'Of major Hypes of Insurance. These are accident-health. Are. life and liability, each with many subdivisions. Insurance policies are available to protect the Insured from loss on account of accident or sickness, or fire, or damage done to somebody elses property. All these are protections "against'' some adveralty. Then why shouldnt there be Insurance In event of death? Maybe It wouldn't sound as good in polite conversation, but It seems that a more appropriate deeerlpilon of "life" insurance would be to designate It. as protection in event of <'death.

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Obviously such a school in Pitt County would offer many advantages to the county. Already it has be<^ shown there is a need for skilled workers in firms already in this county. It has also been shown in the survey there are- citizens in the county who desire the opportunity to learn skills that could be offered by such a school. In this field alone Pitt could benefit two-fold by being able to provide locally skilled workers to fill positions that are open,^and likewise by providing young- people with- the opportunity to learn >to be skilled workers.

There is also the further advantage that the presence of such a school here would place the county in a much better po.sition to attract new industries* looking for plant locations. The county has a large pool of workers from which an industry might ttract a_ labor force, but it has few skilled workers in this labor pool. If.the county had a technical schcol, workers could be trained in speciaf skills to suit the needs of an industry that wanted to locate here.*

This factor might welLbe a deciding point for an ihdustp^ that otherwise likes what Pitt County has to offer it.

Pitt County needs the proposed technical training school, and we trust the combined efforts of the county as whole will be~directed toward bringing such a school here.

able reserve deposit to credit of the State of North Carolina. At close of busioeaa on June 30. I960, that balance etood at $170,-805,603 65. (The tnstttence of auditor* that the fixial penny m an eleven figure balance be listed impresses laymen with their ..horoughness.l

Information from sources believed to be reliable is that North Carolina 'is perhaps m best position among ail the Slates, but more than half of them have a credit balance on deposit in Washington. The same 4aiannation - soureea say -Michigan 15 in worst situation having completely used up all reserves. Pennsylvania and two or three New England States also are wistfully looking to North Carolinas multi-million dollar reserve to bail them out of trou-bieii. Ihcy can et through an ail-oul federaiizauon SlanV'wliieii would Ignore state lines as to source and distribution of -the fund and put it all into a common pot.

CONCISE Reporters are dis-covenng that Governor Terry Sanford is even more concise and terse in answ ers to "questions than waa candidate Sanford. It was amusing in some instances. a bit disturbing in others. how completely he kept control over the trend of his latest news conference by emphatic No" and Yes answers withr* outstny elaboration. Many public officials and business men c&uifl-resist emptaon tp justify their position by a bit of explanation as to how or why they reached the conclusion* stated. That opens up the way for a lot of questions by reporters. sometimes to the embarrassment of the official. Sanford says "yes'* or no"and leave* the reporters looking for another lead.

N.C. Federal Tax Bite Is Bigger Than States

Dollars

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

CopyrigBC I96r,~Kiar FeMure*-, Syndicate, Inc.

The United SUtea had held the naval base at Guantanamo since 1903. Its '^water supply comes from a river five miles distant. Why the United States, in all these years, did nothing abo^t making sure that the base's water supply was within the'control of the Navy is not explainable except as an oversight in a situation that is favorable. Now the situation is unfavorable with Fidel Castro who has associated himself with Soviet Russia in charge of Cuba.

Castro has seized the company which supplies Guantanamo with water, carrying it in a pipeline. This supply cgji be cut off at any time. The Navy has apparently prepared for that by bringing water to Guantanamo by tankers.

Big spending plans that Gov. Sanford has tentatively outlined for North Carolina during the coming biennium have given an uneasy feeling to many Tar Heels, particularly in view of the increased tax revenue* that will be necessary to off-set the proposed spending program.

' The budget as presented to the legislature came to^enrly $ 1.5 billion for the two fiscal years. By the time Sanford adds to this amount what is hecessaty to bring the public school program up to what he will recommend, the total will be even higher.

While the two-year budget the General Assembly will adopt this se.^^sion will also certainly set a new record for North Carolina, the total burden it will impose ^n-^Xan-HeeLtax payers will be far leM than the portion of the federal tax burden they already are carrying.

A repent report of the Internal Revenue office in Greensboro said that federal tax collections in North Carolina for the first seven months of this fiscal year amounted to $1.2 billion. With five more months to go in the fiscal yearand particularly with most income tax payments yet to comethe federal take in North Carolina in this fiscal year alone will be several tim.es greater than what Gov. Sanford proposes for the state to spend in each of the next ^wo years.

Although the federal tax collections in North Carolina will, continue to increase as the economic level of the state is impraveci,:ithLs_fact should not prove a stumt)ling block to North Carolinas j^roviding^thiDUj^^ its own resources what is needed on the state government level.

The people of North Carolina already are paying far more in federal taxes than they are in state taxes for support of our own programs here at home. The programs carried out by the federal government do not hinge on revenues collected in North Carolina; but state programs are directly limited by revenues which are collected by North Carolina from Tar Heels.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

7ales Told Out Of School

Kathryn Johnson teaches the sixth grade at Elmhurst School. Only a year out of college, h is a young teacher to say the .least.

But age is a matter of perspective Stod to the sixth graders their lovely young teacher can look mighty old by 12-year-old standards.

Thus one day recently one of Kathryns sJudMits called her,

"Mrs.' Johnson.'"" "0 ^

"Its Miss Johnson. she cor

rected. "I'm not married.''

The little tyke behind the one who had made the error eave a swift kick under iflie d^^

"Shes not married. he whispered hoarsely. Shes an old maid.

Let me teU you. young fellow. Youve got a lot to learn.

Llrs. Johnson was discussing dates, where they are raised. etc. In answer to a question she

tdt'" the smdentsT thAt you *at

dates.

"Golly, eat them, one little boy sAld. "My sister goes out with them."

But that is begging the question. We are cither at Guantanamo because we have a right to be there or we should get out. Our right is beyond question because we are there by a treaty. There Is no reason why the United ^atcs should permit any treaty to become a scrap of paper. World War I was fought over that issue, if one can remember that far back and also if one is not confused by all the other reasons why we fought World War I such as to ,make the world safe for democracy which It never became.

Castro is undoubtedly Jockeying far something. By seizing the water company, he forces direct dealing, with him. The Navy must appeal to him for water if we do not want to fight over it. or if we dont want to fight, then there ia a war. It is not impossible that Castro might find war as a solution to his many problems because he undoubtedly assumes that the Untgersal Btate would

And Kathryn's mother, Mrs. Dorothy W. Johnson, is a tourtfr-Xrade ^eaeher' at Third St- School.

Other Editors Saying .

Help The East, Governor

(Goldaboro News-Argns)

This is a quota.tlon from an address which Govemcv Sahford made in Wilson:

"We are witoessiog a transformation. not only in the economy, but in the character of the people. They are losing the timidity and over - cautious restraint that has flowed us down In the past. They are acquiring In Its stead a new spirit of enterprise, a calculated audacity that is sweeping aside old inertia and opening the doors of progress. .

MisDiaces ills

7rust In Reason

By JAMES *^MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg has confidence in the sweet reasonableness of man.

It's the basis for his hope that President Kennedys forthcoming Labor - Management Advisory Council will accomplish something.

There are two argument* against it:

1. Labor and management represent two -separate power forces, each big business in its own right and etch out for all it can get.

2. The hbitory of Tabor-man-agement conferences in this

representatives on the Presidents committee will be under various pressures.

The management people will be anxious for greater productivity and lower costs. Costs In

clude wages. Costs and productivity will also Include automa

tion, Automation Involves replacing men with machines-

The union representatives will be under pressure from their > members to save jobs, automation or not, and to get good wage*.

In short, both sides will be -under, pressure- from their own groups to get the greatest benefits for them.

country h*A not been good, there Goldberg. Jias showh unusual

were'two big ones; in 1919 and 1945. The result* were dismal.

It might be expected that labor and management would reach happy compromises for the good of all. This would be the rule of reason.

But if reason ruled there would be no big strike* and no wars. The rule of reason would have required unions, management and nations to reach happy solutions through conference and compromise without resort to

strength. ......

In the end labor and management will have to work together, and make compromises. If the Communist pressure on this country becomes more Intense, ** it probably wlU. *

The greatest handicap to Goldberg In getttng unlona and man-Agenient to work togetherand for Kennedy in getting Congress to act awiflly to unprove the economyis that the nation still seems to lack a sense of urgency.

Kennedy told Congress in his economic me.>5age Feb 2 that he will i.ssue an executive order creating his I^ibor-iManagement Advisory Com'mlttee.

It is to be composed of seven represeotatives of business, seven of labor, and seven othera, including Goldbarg and Commerce Secretary Luthrt Hodgea, repre.sentlng the 'public.

The cbrhmlitee could be an instrument for controlling pricea and *hd. through them,

inflation. .

But the labor and management

energy. Witness his five - state trip over the weekend to examine conditions in unemployment areas.

He is credited with a fast mind and a lot of balance and ideas. He and Hodges will alternate as chairmen of the committee. :

Both men came up the hard way. Nothing they ever did is likely to be harder than making the Labor - Management Committee work. *'

These are pretty words, Governor Sanford. They fall delightfully on ears poised for praise.

Maybe to some small extent. But not much.

T: it IS encouraging to find the hew Governor ao Int^cated in the greatest undeveloped section* of his great state. It is heartening to find him in the early days , of his administration and even with a Legislature about to descend on him giving attention to this problem.

But Governor, you can-do more fw us of the East if you adopt a' harder and harsher approach.

The new spirit you refer to. Governor Sanford, is so often found only in the newcomers who have migrated to the fertile soil and relaxed Uving of Eastern North Carolina, You find it, for Instance, among the new tribe of young business men large chain banks are sending to head their growing outlets in our section. You find it among the scientists and engineers of the duPbnt dacron plant and fhe duPont research center on synthetic fibers at Kinston, You fiad it in the industrial oenten developing at Smlthfleld-Selma. Wilson can point' to It for the meat processing and grain programs there, Goldsboro has stirred such a new faith with its Committee of 100. But here we fear there ia a slow-down, a lessening of overall interest.

In little segments you can put. your finger on the new spirit Sanford pralsea.

But by and large. Governor Sanford, we of the East are still what we have always been.

Our business men are too inclined to wail for- business to come to them instead of going out after- business.

Too many of us are too smug, too complacent, too satisfied.

The unequaled riches of soil; forest, waters and labor are shared by too amall a percentage of the people.

The dependence for ^income among the "haves is based on tobacco farming. Let a professional man. or even a business man, accumula.Ce a substance and what does he do? He buys a tobacco farm and becomes a remote-control farmer.

At the second meeting of the newly organized Eastern Carolina Press Association in Green-vUle about 15 years ago. Dr. Clareride Poe waa the speaker. The theme of his address was a challenge to men of competence in our great Eastern region to bestir themselves and move out* of the mere fanning, economy.

When Dr, Poe said that. Eastern North Carolina was just emerging from years of poverty because of low tobacco and cotton prices. The tobacco control law changed that and brought a fair living to the farm population for the first time. Now men of the East have the money, plenty of it. to develop and utilize the industrial potential of their raw material*.

But. except in too rare instances. Governor Sanford, they are too satisfied, too hard to, change, too slow to move.

Put It bluntly. Governor Sanford. we are just plain lazy.

When Ben Douglas was director of the Department of Conservation antf* Development he had a speech he gave down In the East. Its theme wss that we could make a living so easy in this region that we failed to realize on our potential.

Douglas always said that with a smUe that took away the sting and blunted the harsh truth be uttered.

Oovenu: Hodges did mors for

Well so much for school today.^ And we come to an old tobacco bill which George Cox of , WintervilIe_brought to the office rwently. It is a ticket off Jy ner and Heilbrfmers Eastern Warehouse and is dated Sept. 8, 1893.

The ticket listed tobacco sold by Henry Lawhorn. Todays tobacco farmer would be ruined if his crop sold as this load. The ticket lists 33 pounds at 22 cents for 17.26; 67 pounds at 14 cents for $9-38; 54 pounds at 8-4 cents for $4.45; 63 pounds at 1.3 for 81 cents. The total money is $21.90. Warehouse charges came tft fl ,65 and commissions at 24 percent, 54 cents, leaving the farmer $19-71.

The ticket served as an advertising medium on its badk. There are ads for Young and Priddy, dry goods, clothing, shoes, hats and furniture are, Sam M.' Schultz and Co., manufacturers agents for hogs, he ads; J . Marquis, dentist;..

Wyau L. Brown. Insurance agent; JD. Williamson, carriages and buggies; Mrs. M.D. Higgs, millinery; Brown Bros, shoes, sewing machines and dress goods.

There was a unique ad for the Greenville Institute which Z.D. McWhorter, principal, termed a school * f or both -seaet

Rates for the 17 .week term ranged from $6.40 to. $16 50 with board mcluding washing be-

ing $34.

To make sure everybody un-. derstood this "for both sexes thing, McWhqrter quoted the following from a John Duckett: "A school unsafe for boys and girls is not safe for either sex."

Eastern North Carolina when he got mad and lashed out hotly against "feet dragging among men who could do better by their counties and towns.

His rudeness woke us up. It made us mad. But It moved and shook us, for a time at least,

Governor'Sanford, we sincerely appreciate your early demonstration of interest lo the pr<>blefn before us. You imow we have on toward 200,000 people in the East who have only piddling or no jobs.

You will get the lead off our feet, shake our smug complacency if you slap us .in the face about our inertia, our laziness, and our standpatism. It is not timidity or caution, Governor Sanford, that holds us back.

' It IS smug complacency.

come to his assistance, which may or may not be so.

Russias foreign policy strategically is based < the Marxist concept of the Inevitable conversion of the entire world to Marxism. Tactically, Soviet Russia switches its policy hither ad yon to serve Immediate ^ds and to^reach esfipntlal Jpals. Tactically. Soviet Russia pursues no idealistic purpose, accepting whatever means or ends are useful to the ultimate strategy. This basis for Soviet conduct was laid down by Lenin who even retreated to NEPthe New Economic Policy ~ for a short time, giving the Western world a' belief that Communism might be abandoned a false belief designed, to be precisely that.

Cuba is not in the grand strategy of Soviet imperiasm. It is a base with a double, objective. namely, to irritate the United States and to penetrate Latin America by means of Latin American Communists, For many years, Mexico was the seat of Communist activity for the American continents .with Vicente Lombardo Toledano as the head -man. But the Mexican government was, on the whole, antagonistic to Soviet activities and Toledanos influence waned in Latin America as the center of activity shifted from the proletariat to the intellectual. Also in Mexico there were many Trotskyists who ars more obnoxious to the Kremlin than capitalists. Cuba, with Raul Castro and Che Guevara in charge, is a much better base, more effective. and with a government completely allied to the Soviet Universal Stats. In a word, the Cuban situation offered a very effective opportunity for Soviet Russia.

The weakness in this plan, however, is in the personality of Fidel Castro who is less a revolutionary than a narcissist, leaa a statesman than an actor. He has antagonized most of the people of the United States by his overt antagonism to thU country, by his fraternization with Khrushchev, by his seizure of American property and by his brutal killings. If Castro believes that, by controUlng the water qf . Guantanamo, he can jocky the United States into accepting his regime, he ought to learn quickly andforcibly that he is mistaken.

The American embargo on trade with Cuba applies to the sale of American goods to Cuba. It does not affect the purchase of Cuban goods. In a word, American dollars may still go to Cuba. A PhUadelphia distiller of whiskey recently bought 12,000,000 gallons of molasses from Castro at an average of 10 cents a gallon. Had this molass-(Contibued on page 5)

Opinions In Brief

Marvels

in Petroleum Fuel

"It is tough to be accused ef causing living costs to rise when the opposite Is true. The fact 1, if prlcM it the farm had not held at a relatively low level over the la.st 10 yeara, t^e cost of living would be much higher/ Kansas City (Mo.) Star,

"One of the most fundamental changes to affect our country in this century la tha Jn-crease of 47 per ceijt In average life expectancy. Average life ex- * pectancy at birth roae by over 22 years In this country between 1900 and 1959. but It still falls ^ three-tenths of a year short, of the Biblical *three-score-and- ' ten.Industrial News Review,

By EL.MER ROESSNER SeosAUooal changet in household products are liksly when aclentisu and reseercbes devise the petroleum fuel cell. And they are working on it. The fuel cell is DOW technically poasiblt, although not yet economical and practical.

The fuel cell la a battery-like device which take# in fuel and changea it directly and cootin-uoualy into electricity.

Dr.Robert L. Weeka, of Ksao Research and Englneerinf, one of the comapnlts pk>neering in the fuel-ce<U> field, aald, The fuel tiell ieemt to offer a unique chance to use fuel oil as the source of all energy in the home. One concept of a home poww

package would be to provide the energy to hsat the horns, .cooJ

the home, light the lights, cook the food, dry the clothes, heat the water and do anything els* the American home owner waJitsb

to do automatically and efficient-

ly."

FOR SUNDAY MORNING SLEEP '

Another fuel cell posalblUty: a quiet lawn mower. "To thoee of us who have been startled from our slumber on a Saturday or Sunday morning by a noisy mower in a neighbor's yard, the sdvantages tor this source of power are so obvious as to require no further comment. Dr. Week.s said. "For boating enthusiasts, here is the route to an efficient, quiet and safe method of propul.slon. And for the camper, this Is the way to a simple, compact, and safe source of electricity while still being, able to enjoy the great outdoors. f

"Another new. use thal; is going to require heat energy 1* thermo-electricity Here we may be able to take a simple piece of oil-heating equipment and pro

vide electncity or refrigeration any place we deaire. The Hus-aians have already 'Applied It in a single device for light and pow'er. While this may not aeem destined for the big time, itt a new concept which people have only begun to consider for ultimate applications. Who knowa where it will reach? *

"Anbther pos.slble use is oil-fired soil sterilization. One way of doing this might be a combination plow and burner which would heat the aoll, as it it being plowed, to a point where harmful Inaects end weed seeds new farm use coukf be the use Would be deetroyed. Another new farm use could be the use of oil fogs to reduce loss of .ground by radiation. This, of coufse, is what causes frost, which in turn is a serious problem in many agricultural area*. The theory has been ahown to be sound. ao(f It has been the

subject of some exploratory work in the field.

FOR AL}rYEAR SWIMMING

Another new area only partially tapped la the recreational use of oil, auoh as in the hetthig of swimming pools. There are now 200,000 pools in the United States, representing a current potential oil market of 850;000 barrels Of oil a year. By 1970, an expected 2,000,000 pools will be in use.

Another potential recreational use would be a multifuel camp itove to replace the aomewhht .bazardoua gaaoUne atoves now lo uae.'-Thia would be partlc.ular-ly adaptable to the boating market where gasoline stoves art forbidden by law.

But dont seu yodr utility atoeks and buy oils yet. The fuel cell that will do everything except burp the baby is still in the laboratory, although U will some day emerge.