PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFlict6R, GREENVILLE, N. C

Friday, March 10, 1961

Friday. Mirch 10, 1961-

Would Do Well To Consider Future

The (questions of school district lines in Pitt sidering division of the Athur School District between County, the bonded indebtedness of the various dis- the Wintei^ille and Farmville districts since there is trict, and possible future consolidation of schools are no longer a school in operation in the Arthur District.

closelj interrelated. Since these matters already have come to the

Each has a direct bearing on the other. _ fore and require attention of the Board of Education, Since the question of altering a few of the district might be considerable benefit in the Board's

lines in the,county already has arisen, this appears an considering now future possibilities that may develop, appropriate time for the Pitt Board of Education to matter of further consolidation, particularly

delve into these questions from the standpoint of Ipng- qjj school level, is certain to become a'matter

range planning for future development of the school fncrejising importance for the county in the years system of the county. ahead. Throughout the "state the move has been toward

Already there is an overlapping of the Greenville high schools wth larger enrollment than many of corporate limits into the Winterville school district those in Pitt in order to provide a broader curriculum which appears to require the attention of school offi- for students. A number of high schools, because of cials. The Board of Education is in the process of con- their small size, find it impossible to offer certain desirable courses because of their limited number of students who desire certain courses.

The creation of larger high schools through reasonable consolidation offers at least one opportunity to provide better educational advantages to many students who now are enrolled in some of the smaller high schools.

Any program of consolidation of existing high schools in the county would of necessity have to be a long range program that would require considerable study and planning. It would involve not only the question of consolidation itself, but likewise district lines, bonded indebtedness of individual school districts and other complex problems as well.

Since the Board of Education has to take up the ' matter of some district lines now, it would appear advantageous for the county if the board would at the same time project some of the possible alterations over 7v the county as a whgle in connection with a long-range

program for further development of the county's school system.

How To Control The Termites

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By LYNN NISBET 1964 Tradition decrees that the next Governor of North Carolina ahall come from the western part of the &tate. But tradition does not fix the exact line where the west begins. Long establish-, ed custom also has been for the politicians to begin grooming prospective candidates for Governor and other high offices three to eight years before the time they will enter the nomination primaries.

ticket and Beverly Lake, mentioned only for a couple of years in advance, got into a second primary with Terry Sanford, who had been running for at least a decade.

The advantage of early grooming is obvious. People generally do not want to vote for candidates they have never heard about. The disadvantages also are obvious. The early birds sometimes run into positive alignments and commitments

custom, since North Carolina for many years has been a one-party (Democratic) state, the candidates for Governor must reiM-esent either the conservative or the liberal viewpoint of the party. When the chips were down. North Carolina voters generally have chosen middle-road-ers. with slight favor for hberals. In 1936 when choice was among extreme liberal Ralph McDonald, extreme conservative Sandy Graham and middle-road Clyde Hoey. the TotCTS chose Hoey. In 1948 with extreme liberal'Mayue Albright and very conservative Charles Johnson and middle roader. leading to the liberal view. Kerr Scott the voters chose Scott. In 1960 when the showdown came

rassing, but which they cannot shake.

Looks now like the 1964 field is as wide open as ever a race has been so far in advance. And that reminds of the wisecrack by a political observer the other day. Recalling the criticism of Kennedy because of his Catholic faith last fall, and the trouble he is having now with his own ^churchmen about Federal aid to Parochial schools, this politician said be reckoned the Democrats would have to get an ardent Protestant candidate for President in 1964 in order to assure the Catholics of equal rights.

Little Chance Pitt Is To Retain Two Seats

By DON SCHLIENZ

One of the distinguished per-

Pitt County would not be facing up to reality if

it did not recognize the fact that there remains only ____ _____o^ *-*-

a remote possibility at this moment that it will retain sonages of the newspaper world

two House seats after this session of the legislature, topped in GreenvUle last week.

That was Hal Boyle.

The reapportionment bill that would take House Regular Reflector readers will seats away from Pitt, Johnston, Buncombe and Cabar- S Boy 5wlf''and rus Counties and give additional seats to Onslow,' on. for almost as long as Ive

So--Hal Boyle Dropped In

TWO-TIMERS - A couple o

coastal legislators were observ- _ _ _ _

between conserv'ative Beverly ed in close conference the other Mecklenburg, Alamance and Cumberland already has "(about' is

Lake and Uberal Terry Sanford day- Your reporter walked up rpndintra in tV. TTah Tli fV,T.ri years). . . .and probably longer

the voters chose Sanford. and facetiously asked who is passea two readings in the House. The third reading than'that. The reason for such

The advance - planning poUtl- trying to two-time who now. was delayed until next Tuesday in order to give Rep. an assumption is that he made

cians already are working on the Weve learned better than that, Frank Wooten of Pitt and Rep. Rov C Coates of ^ tor himself as an As-

1964 campaign. They are weigh- responded one of the men. For Johnston timp tn fliihmif a tipw rpannAt-tAr,*mf TQe, ociated Press correspondent in

Ing the advantages of Woodrow many years we spent so much time to SUOmit a new reapportionment meas- world War II: and I cant

Jones of Rutherford, former con- time and energy trying to two- ure. imagine past Reflector editors

gre&sman and former Democrat- time each other on the coast. , -r xi. fir . x ignoring stories that were to

ic State chairman, and Basil the upstate fellows who stood bven it the Wooten-Coates measure can be sub- earn Boyle a Pulitzer Prize in

Whltener of Gaston, incumbent together made monkeys out of mitted officially by Tuesday, the intervening neriod

congressman of the llth dis- Now were getting together i:xxi x- ^ / . It may be said in passing that

trict, former YDC State pres- and can present a solid front. i fu . tinie lor them to rally sufficient support this writer read some of the Idcnt, as banner carriers for the Actually, the man was brag- for their measure to stave off final House approval wartime correspondents stories, conservative element. Cloyd ging a Uttle bit. There is till of the reapportionment measure that already has been remembered as

PhilpoU of Davidson, incumbi^r a lot of jealousy and conflict of anoroved on two of the reniiireH tbree renHincra close-up glimpses of men meet-

Lieutenant Governor, appears to local Interests resulting in waste PProvea on xwo oi me requirea three readings. j^g their greatest crises. . .as

be the choice of the middle-road group. Who will represent the extreme Lberal element has not been determined. He may evolve out of the current legislative session,

TOO EARLY Many astute

of energy for overaU area de- .. tx u. xv,x xi,.. seen with the eyes of love,

velopment. But there can be no Should pe further pointed out that the present in this Hal was much like

doubt that there 'is more co- measure causes four qounties to lose representation in that fabled contemporary, Ernie

operation among the communi- the House and four to gain. The other 92 counties will another Pulit-

ties along the coast, the com- their nrp?pnf nnH zer Prize-winner (1944). Some of

munities in the mountains, and retain tneir present status, and therefore they might our elders may recall Ernie

the big centers In mid-state, for not be as vitally concerned over reappqrtionment as Pyle marched and hitchhiked

political observers beUeve it Is both regional and overaU state the eight which will be directly affected. Another through the North African and

too early to start movements for or against any candidates In 1964. It is believed that developments in the 1961 and 1963 General Assemblies, and the trend of economic conditionswh^h depends to considerable degree on attitude and actions of the Kennedy national administration, will have controlling influence on the 1964 voting.

There is precedent both for and against the advantage of an early start in the build-up for

development thao there haa^ver factor'is that reapportionmTnVy^ ^0^^'^

There are many problems would not disturb the relative East-West strength in himself to the Pacific where

shared by people in the Nags the House. Two counties in the east would lose seats

and two would gain; two counties in the west would lose seats and two would gain.

others of his beloved OIs were still in action. Ernie died, with some of his favorite people, on the frontlines. But back to Hal Boyle.

The occasion of his visit to eastern North Carolina was a speech before the C-of-C at Washington (N.C.). Inasmuch as The Reflector is a member of the Associated Press family, we rated aninformal visit, too.

Regrettably, no deathless prose marked the occasion.

I remember saying something about Im proud to shake the hand of a man who can write four or five columns a week. And he grinned and volunteered it could be pretty hard, sometimes. Our city editor offered the visitor a re-write Job: but this was rebuffed with a reminder that this was a vacation.

Such scintillating conversation doesnt do justice to Boyle.

A man of medium height, inclined to having a paunch, a receding hairline, a broad grin, mild of voice and manner, he bears the stamp of introspection. There was that about him (or it might have been an impression gained from his writing) that he is sympathetic to

the human race.

.a high-

Head area, the Morehead City and Wilmington sectors which up state people cannot fully appreciate. The folks around Boone and residents of the Sap-

jtjoone ana resiaenis or me sap- The Wooten-Coates proposal would be much more "K T HP* rTi 7^

phire county west of AshevUie involved, advocating-increasing House membership NO 1 ITTIP JO

hEvc botli diverse End common rv^ 4-Va i oa 4-^ i ca tt j xi* ^ Ax A Ax^ A LAA

interests. Happy Valley and the present 120 to 150. Under the plan each

Land of the Sky have more In county would be guaranteed one representative and (Greensboro Dally News)

common that * they used to the remaining 50 seats would be allocated to counties Surely its ironicbut nonethe-Don\vrtT'bii^ ta 1^' of population. Tentatively the plan would

to displace several candidates merce at Greensboro and High likewise provide for freezing the present Senatorial speak out against ea^ retire-who had ^en working on the Point arid WiMton-Salerm. Char-^ districts on their current basis. The proposal has merit, ment of experienced workers.

rpowlcfth7,' it ii^r.i^* n^ber of built-in handicaps so The Nation.. Poeta, n.on .a

far as obtaining legislative endorsement is concerned P^an to aUow federal

Other E(ditors Saying

flown way of saying he loves people but shies away from conceding he is one of them. He is a born observer. Our brief encounter left the thought he would find it difficult to say or write an unkind thing about another.

Boyle was coaxed, urged or pushed into continuing as a columnist after World War n. His work will not spark revolutions nor provide readers with a keyhole perspective of the great and would-be famous people. It does serve to remind that all the worlds a stage. I can. tell, as well as if Id been standing at his elbow, when columns are bom with the sweating of blood.....and those

occasions when ttie lamp of inspiration simply would not burn.

Well, I may wash my handshaking hand next month, if my wife lets me put it off that long. Imagine, shaking the hand of a man who writes four or five columns a week! How close can you get to the immortals?

Opinions In' Brief

Age of Discretion: An age yet undetermined because no man has reached it.Elberton (Ga.) Star.

on the make for years. However, he ran ahead of Sandy Graham, another long range planner. In 1948 Charlie Johnson, who had been regarded as certain candidate for at least 12 years with betting odds favoring his nomination lost to Kerr Scott a relative newcomer In the field.

Last year John Larkins, who had long been regarded as a potential trailed a four-way

have in common.

The semWacetloua quip by the coastal legislator that the Easterners are getting together to two-time" the upstaters, serves mainly to emphasize that to greater degree than ever before the general regional areas of North Carolina are working together to promote their local Interests, and the welfare of the whole state.

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And. we.pointed out earlier, time is a factor that 'X

now works against this alternate proposal for reap- regardle&s of age. in soliciting

support from the White House, the N.P.. probably got a surprise. The Presidents reply, penned by Special Assistant Ralph A. Dungan, was slightly less than ecstatic.

True, the plan might lead some employees to retire quickly and open jobs for others during a period of unemployment such as we are now going through. But the presidential assistant added; Against such

Kennedy Image

loned

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP) - On TV screens around the country President Kennedys news confer-* enees look quick and simple. Theyre qiUck. But they are not simple.*

Hes now had six 'meetings the press, enough to show at lea.st this much; He follows a deliberate pattern which he e.s-tablLshed himself; and hLs technique. much more subtle, is still developing. '

This is the pattern; /

From the very beginning Kcn-' nedy, who won election by a squeak, has used hLs news conferences to get across an Im-pre.ssion of himself as a man in motion.,

Example: The series of an-nouncemenUs he makes at the start of each conference.

Wednesday there were eight, ranging from plans for a White House reception to orders he has given to relieve hardship among Indian and Eskimo children. All could have been announced by his press secretary, Pierre Salinger.

By doing this himself Kennedy stays in the public eye as a very busy President. He is, indeed, busy as his various programs and me.ssages testify.

The news conference announcements, even though many are of secondary Importance, add to the total impression. .^Hif^technique:-'

He handles himielf easily,-fluldly, and fluently. Hes relaxed- Hes relaxed because he did his homework, knows what hes talking about, took the

Elsenhowers news conferences were vaguene.ss and generalities. This was particularly true in his early White House days. Kennedy at most times is specific.

Eisenhower, because of his lifetime In the Army, didnt know government details well when he took office, Kennedy has an advantage here: Because of his 14 years in Congress, he knows government pretty much inside out.

A good example of Kennedys specific knowledge was in his statements Wednesday on federal aid to education. But his technique began to show a change Wedne.sday. The best example, again, w^s on federal aid to education.

^ While Eisenhower rambled Kennedy usually has been direct and terse. Wednesday he was for the most part direct but less terse. He not only explained his thinking on federal aid at great length, but did It repeatedly.

It looks like a deliberate, planned effort to educate the public, through press and radio, on the problem as he sees'*it: That, while federal aid to public schools is needed, similar aid to parochial schools hits constitutional blocks.

This change in technique-long explanation which took up a lot of time gave newsmen less chance to ask varied questions and cover more ground. TJie' fasuTl, "Tr^ * hews stand-' point, was pretty dull.

That ought to give Kennedy something to chew on. He can defeat his purpose educating

recognized that compulsory retirement at an arbitrary age makes little sense for either workers or employees. A much more sensible approach Is the taper - off. - retirement plan which the Department of Health. Education and Welfare had under study a couple of years back.

As projected by James OBrien, HEW personnel director. employees who reached retirement age could be retained on a gradually decreasing work schedule and pay scale for five years or until reaching the age of 70, when they would retire. At any time during the slowdown period the worker would have the option of retiring.

Keeping employees, whether public or private, beyond some sort of compulsory retirement age not only provides skills and

Latin America has plenty of pocket-sized revolutions. But the danger Is in one of them getting out of pocket. Greensboro (Ga.) Herald-Journal.

The bst way to avoid debt is to spend less than you make. Its that simple. Industrial News Review.

Youth , On The March

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT

Copyright. 1961, Kiag Featoret Syndicate, Inc.'--

I stood before -.nearly 4,000 young people and behSeld a new generation emerging to its own leadership. It was a mass meeting called In New York City by the Young Americans tor Freedom. a youth organization, mainly in colleges and universities, which calls itself conservative and is not fearful of the consequences. Youth, at any rate in this organization, which now claims about 100 affiliated organizations on college campuses, rejects so-called liberalism as the frozen response of the 1930s to conditions then immediate. In the 1960s, these young people reject the New Deal, the Pair Deal, even the New ITon-tler as fogeylsh. They prefer patriotism, national pride, capitalism to the compromises which the Rooseveltian phlllsophers tried to make with the driving force of Marxism.

These 3^ung people reject such compromises because they do not fear Russia; they only fear the prospects of compromise with Russia. Murray KempUm, a liberal writer <mce young, refers to the young Americans for Freedom as children which, of course, they areas most of us are children of our forebears. I recall when I used to refer to Kempton as young but never as a child. Back in those days, articulate youth was divided among thope who were Communists; those who adopted a middle-of-the-road liberalism which they could never define but which gave them a feeling of goodness; those who were om>ortu-nistlc and hopped on the successful band-wagon of success, Democratic or, for that matter, Republican liberalism. And, of course, there was the vast majority who cared very little one way or the other and hoped that thejt. would get fringe benefits as well as a wife before they joined the Army. It was, in some ways, a furious mood, but not more so than is usual among young people.

The Communists were the most active and the best or^ ganized. They knocked off conservatives by smearing them pitilessly: they absorbed liberals by flattery or blackmail, whichever served best. They infiltrated both the Republican and Democratic parties, as they did everything else, including business. 'They were imaginativ* and intellectually impressive. For about 10 years, they had a wonderful time. Then came the RoJ senberg Case and the noise that McCarthy made and the weak-of-heart deserted the Communists.

The liberals were frozen In the postures they had adopted growing no more, spreading out no more, creating no more-taking advantage of what they had accumulated like a miser counting last years gains, but gaining nothing more.

The Young Americans for Freedom represent not a reaction to the dead hand of 1930 liberalism. It is an affirmative statement of an altogeth* new generation and it will live or die not because of what oldsters have to say about it, but because of how Us own generation responds to its enthusiasm and excitement. The^old very rarely are willing to* recognize that they have reared sons and grandsons not to obey them but to take over. Only too often, the older ones look upon the self-expression of youth as an in-' (Continued on Page 5)

Strength For Today

possible short-rim gain, however, .experience of seasoned workers

for an organization. Permitting older people to work at lighter tasks will also keep them healthy, happy and economical-

we need to weigh the long-run economic and social Impact of Inducing workers to retire at earlier ages, even though their longevity is increasing and general health improving. Our free economy and our nation will need the services of experienced workers at their highest skills, during the productive years of their 50s and 60s.

It is becoming more widely

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE KNOCK OF OPPORTUNITY

According to the old proverb, opportunity is supposed to knock only once. But for most people, nothing could be more misleading. Opportunity knocks often, in many iorms)Yat many times, if we are only alert enough to recognize It and to do something about it. The fault lies not in the chances we have, but In our failure to take advantage o them.

For the neglect of the oppor-

ly independent longer, and in- ' tunities which so often come our

cidentally lighten societys responsibility for their care.

The White House gave the National Postal Union a proper reply. Aggressive young Mr. Kennedy is wise to recognize the value of experience.

way arises not so much from our failure to recognize them as opportunities as from our failure to act upon them. Opportunities usually come not as a free gift but as a challenge. We are given the chance to become something

or to accomplish something, but the chance Is all that we are given. To get something we must give something. The effort and ability we must provide ourselves, and here is where we fall down.

Opportunity often means tao-rifice if we are to tarke advantage of it. An acquaintance of mine who for years had wanted his own business passed up chance after chance because he was afraid to give up the secure job he held. Finally be took the plunge; he resigned from his job, invested his savings in a project of his own, and was successful. Opportunity hkd knocked often, but to no avail until he answered the knock.

OpportunlUea are many: people who. seize them are lew. Where do you stand?

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1 Fopujatron implosion

By ELMER ROESSNER POPULATION BLASTS BLOWING PEOPLE FROM FARMS TO CITIES

A population implosion Is worrying long-range planners and economists more than a population explosion.

The figure of speech is derived from nuclear weapons. The* first atppilc weapons produced explosions which blew outward: the more advanced types, by implodihg toward the core of the bombs, created much more power.

In previous sharp increases in the worlds population, the effect# ' were usually explosive. Crowded conditions In Europe. In relation to productivity of the time, sent excess populations to new froneysi t& qje Americas, t^ Afsioa, to AtfStralla and to other/far corners of the world, NOW GROWTH IS INWARD More land! was the cry ttiat

lation are not flowing out into uncharted seas: they are flowing back into the heavily populated ports of the world.

In Manhattan, the population remain.! ptatlc because mot residential land is occupied and new office and industrial structures are reducing it by the minute. But the New York met-tropolitan area is swelling with new immigrants from less concentrated areas of the world. There are hundreds of thonsands of immigrants from largely agrarian Puerto Rico; there are tens of thousands more Negroes from smaller cities and rural regions of the South; there are more thousands of fair-skinned young people from rural and small-town America, and there

lions pour not Into the rich valleys and mountains that made the state famous, but into the Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan areas. In the Midwest, farm populations decline, but Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit and other metropples swell.

Around the world, the same phenomenon exists. Tokyo, London, Berlin and the cities of India are swelling. Population is being drawn from small towns as well as agricultural areas.

Rome, which (or years has refused citizenship to migrants from the provinces, is now being forced, to grant Roman citizenship to 300,000 provincials, who will now be entitled to votes, lawful employment and relief. The population may grow larg-

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Two ^hallmark* of President . what ho has to oajr. But today riaing Udeo of pqpu-

are-still a.few.pehple coming in . er than it was in U Haysof thg

from Europe. . Caesaxs. -/ - ,

They pour into Manhattan but, 'Why? There is no.slngle rea-as they attain economic status, son. The changing farm econo-

they spread into other boroughs, my, in which small family farms

IN OTHER STATES make little to no profit while

This Is not peculiar to New

sire to obtain relief and other benefits, which rural oommuni-ties cannot afford, is another. The need for psychological security, with thousands of landsmen clinging together in the shadowy- ghettos of a metr<H>olis rather than being Independent in the unproductive hlUe of a native island, is another.

And there are thooeande of other causes, which compel more and more people to cower together in the slums of the oies of the world rather than face self-dependence on the barren hills of rural placea.**

And perhaps there iepa peyeho-logy, bom of fear of atomic bombs, which makes people want to huddle together. (Recent researches indicate that fishes survive * better in sd^lejkhan ij^ independents.) 1......^-.,

But whatever the causes, the trend Is with us today and for the next ten thousand morrows. Your plans in bcsiness, whether

the public on his viewpointtf.r sent wave after wave of Immlr

u- peculiar to New the massive,, mechanized, gov- in manufacturing or distribution.

lions fasteet-growlng atate, mil- millions, is one cause. The de- trend into 'coMideratioo,