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FACE rouilTHE' DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Wednesday, March 2Z, 1961

Wdnesdty, Mar)i 22, 1961

Good Place For A Cutoff

Five Years Of Industrial Growth

If there is any doubt about the^economic impact some 40,000 new manufacturing jobs, it meris that of industrial development' on North Carolina, one the average employment for*the plants was between need only to look at the five-year period from 1955 to ^5 and 50 people.

1960 that has been under study by the Bureau of Re-^ There are ^ good many communities, intent upon search and Statistics of the Employment Security boosting their local econpmy' through industrial de

commission.

When the study is completed an

velopment, who concentrate their efforts on landing (Its "Tull infor- big plants. They think in terms of plants employing

shows that during the'"five-year period new manufac- community to overlook the advantages that are gained turing plante located in North Carolina provided, by also seeking and obtaining small manufacturing 40,000 new jobs for people of the state. It also shows plants.

that during the period 850 new manufacturing plants There are moVf small manufacturing plants than were located in the state. they are large ons, and it stands to reason that

Although 120 of these new plants failed to make chances of getting small plants are better than chances the grade and were closed by 1959, the net gain in of landing a large one. It is also obvious that a com-North Carolina was rtill some 730 plants. munity with, for example, 10 plants employing 100

It is also significant, we believe, to relate the people each,'is likely to have greater diversity in its number of plants to the number of jobs created in the industrial economy than a community with one plant state by these new plants. If the 850 plants created that employs 1,000 people. It is also likely that the

total growth potential of the 10 smaller plants would

Another Way O:: Achieving Goa'.

By LYNN NISBET

BUCK-PASSmo There are ktfi of ways to kill a cat. Governor Hodses insisted throughout his tehuie that the local units ef government, counties and nunicipslities. should assume a large share of the cost of public schools snd weltere programs. Local officials protested that

this would mean incretse in ad valorem tax levies, since local governments must depend largely uptm that source for opera-Ing revenue. It was pointed also that counties already contribute very substantially to school programs over and above the State levels.

Governor Sanford has not

suggested in the same language as Governor Hodges did that

local governments should pay

more of the bill. But his suggestion that counties and municipal* ities be required to pay the regular sales tax on purchases at same schedule private citizens pay, is another way of achieving the same purpose.

EsUmates of the yield to the tate from local government sales tsxes vary widely, ranging from some two million to more than five million dollars. The City of Charlotte has estimated it will cost that one municipality around $130,000 a year. The local governments have few sources of revenue other than ad valorem taxes, and the proposed State program would further Invade some of them.

Many people, perhaps a majority of them, agree with Gov^-ernors Hodges ihd SanTortf that local governments might well pay a larger pa'rt of the total school and welfare load. 'But whether by direct appropriation' as suggested by Hodges, or by Indirection ss proposed by Sanford. the local money must come chiefly from taxes ( property. The sales tax approach permits the State to continue its boast that no advalorem tax is levied lor State purposes.

tlve authority in one man or a very small group was criticized on grounds that it tended to take government further twty from the people. The Sanford program of bigger boards and diffused authority is criticised mi grounds thst he is seeing more places to which he can appoint political friends. Neither criticism is entirely Justifiable.

The difference lies In contrasting basic viewpoints. Hodges thinks government should be operated on sound business principles. Sanford believes that cold business iMtic-tices should sometimes be sacrificed In the interest of popular understanding and appreciation of the services government is supposed to render to the people. This is an age-old conflict of Ideology, and the strength of North Carolina lies in the fact that neither philosophy has completely prevailed for any long period throughout the history of the state.

be many times that of the single plant which already has a very large employment.

There is also the fact that many small communities find it impossible to provide sufficient facilities for a large plant, whereas the same* communities would be able to furnish what is needed for several small manufacturing plants.

Tar Heel communities which look back over the past five years with the feeling they have not secured the number of new manufacturing jobs they should have might well evaluate the ,emphasis they have placed on seeking large plants compared with the attention given to obtaining small plants. ^

With Growth Comes Added Responsibility

Quarrel

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1961, King Feature* \ Syndicate, Inc. _

Griftons proposed |235,000 bond issue for rebuilding and expanding its water and sewer system represents a bold and ambitious undertaking for that Pitt County town; but it is an undertaking which the town can hardly reject if its pace of progress is to continue. .

By DON SCHLIENZ

Commended To Readers

A three-article aeries on head-

+1___. j j X 1 1 , , aches and jwoblema involved in

During the past decade, Grifton took a back seat financing American public

understandable light.

Im not saying it will change anybodys thinking about school

to no other municipality in North Carolina in popula- schools started in yesterdays ^ taxes and bond issues, but theres tion growth as it saw its number of residents grow .......

Thursday.

If you have the time to look the stories over, I commend them to you.

from 510 in 1950 to more than 1,800 last year. Along because^e s^bj^r^is^ toeiy

BIGGER BOARDS Another eootrast is found in the attitudes of GovemM-s Hodges and Sanford with respect to the appropriate sizes of boards and commissions. Hodges favored small boards and concentrated authority in a central agency. He cut the Highway Commiaal<m from 15 to seven, and -sought to reduce the Utilities Commission from five to three. One exception was increasing the C&D Board from 15 to 18.

Governor Sanford has proposed Increasing Uie C&D group to 28. His highway organization bill is not in at time this is written, but it is expected he will increase the commission from seven to at least 14probably more and restore to the commissioners some of the powers which the Hodges plan vested In a director of highways.

VIEWPOINTS The Hodges plan of concentrating administra-

REPUBLICANS - The Republican party gives evidence of more attention to Eastern North Carolina in efforts tO' stimlilata interest in the 1%2 election. State Chairman W. E. Cobb scheduled an appearance in Goldsboro the night after Governor Sanford made his big education speech there. He has arranged conferences with party leaders in a number of eastern counties. It has been the announced goal of Chairman Cobb since he took over that position about three years ago to have ^11 siatejr of candidafs in every primary and general election in every county in North Carolina.

The South Carolina state chairman is working toward the same goal, but with less success. He confessed the other day that his party had everything It needed except capable candidates. That is a problem in a number of North Carolina counties, but as chances for election or at least for a respectable voteincreases, more capable persons may be induced to enter the primaries.

Thousands of voters who agree more nearly with the Republican than with the Democratic policies have been reluctant to register as Republicans, because they had no voice in electing local and State officers. So they have voted in Democratic primaries., where nomination is tantamount to election, but have not hesitated to cross over and vote for the Republican dandi-dates for President >nd^ice President. ^

The second in the series is in todays paper; and barring teletype troubles this afternoon I expect the third will appear

with the population growth the town has moved for- and the Associated Press writer ward as rapidly as possible to provide facilities to Presents the problem in an

care for its increased number of citizens. In every way -n i

the town has taken on a positive and progressive air iltHor r r* itorC! as evidenced by the gigantic strides that have been O

Now the time has come when the municipality HpIT)^ FOf LntlTI AtTlPnPn

faces the pressing need for extending its water lines, ^

providing fire hydrants to areas which have been (Henderson Dispatch) countless humps in the road will

without them, and building a new sewage disposal At long last the United States have to be smoothed out before

plant adequate* to handle its population. These are government waking up to normal relations ai:e restored.

C^omments heard to date on that practice - parallel - parking facility on the Moose parking lot have all been favorable. . it fills a seldom - realized need.

You might not realize that need unless you were prepping for a driver license test and didnt want to bang up fenders or tangle with traffic while smoothing out your parking touch. Sure, theres a parking test site at the Highway Partol building; but chances are that when you have time to use that

fHirifra wViiV ro T ' V'T~ fact that it missed the boat Latin America definitely one, other people had the same amounts to a brokerage fe<

tmngs w men are essential it Lrnfton is to catch up in by channelling practically all of should share If United States Wea. Or. maybe someone Is the Federal govmiment.

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The quarrel between Pr^ident Kennedy and the Roman Catholic Church is unnecessary and pointless. The idea of having two bills, one covering aid to schools generally and the other making a special provision for private and church-i^lated-schools, is a political gimmick which Is designed to avoid an unfavorable Supreme Court decision on the major bill should It be passed by Congress. The tendency of the Supreme Court to legislate has an ulterior effect upon both the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.

The argument over separation of Church and State is unrelated to the Constitution which has not,one word to say on the sul> Ject. The assumption that financial aid-to parochial schools establishes a church is obviously fallacious, for no established church governs our armed forces which has the largest and most effective chaplain service; also every meeting of Congress is opened by a clergyman who. If he desires, wears the uniform

of his church on the occasion.

The CMistltution is opposed to an established church; that is a government owned church, like the Anglican Church, whose titular head is the Queen of England. Opposition to establishment did not mean and could not mean opposition to religion per se or to the right of parents to send their children to denominational rather than to secular schools. True, taxes are used for public schools, the parents who send their children to denominational or other private schools paying double for the education of their children.

There are many kinds of denominational - connected schools in this countryRoman Catholic, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Jewish, Hasidic, Nation of Islam, etc/ The largest are the Roman CiatboUc schools which in a city like New York include about one third of the school population. according to Charles Silver, presidient of the Board of Education.

In the discussion of Federal aid to education, the term aid is false. The money comes out of taxes which all citizens pay. In fact, the citizens pay more than they receive back because there is a diversion of funds between collection and expenditure that almost amounts to a brokerage fee by

physical facilities with the population growth it has it colossal foreign aid funds to hfl(^ They are also things which will make the town Europe and Asia almost to the

even better than it now fs because tt wilhbe in i pos-

wants

tion to provide better services for its present popula- Congress to appropriate |85o tion and also for others who mav be interested in mak- to be distributed to the

ing their homes in Grifton in the future. Si'

loun oiiicials nave charted a positiv'e course for are available or are sought for

Grifton not only by recognizing that these facilities are foreign aid program, why

needed but by Ukiufr a positive step to provide them dttJ.seTrjrZe?-'

through municipal bonds. The next step is up to the lea and a little less elsewhere

citizens of Grifton as a whole when they go to the ^i*und the globe?

polls May 1 to decide whether or not the town will

It has always been something

issue the bonds necessary to pay for the new facilities natiorS^^are^ ^

ForGrifton, a bond issue of more than a quarter million dollars is indeed a sizeable amount, but on the other hand it represents an investment in the future from which ' Grifton and its people will gain immeasurable benefits.

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Chairman Bert Bennett and Bill Cobb agree on one point. That this practice does not contribute to building a strong party organization. Bennett is trying to get registered Democrats to vot# the party ticket all the way, and Cobb wants folks to believe like Republicans to register and vote that way.

.:or Kennedy

gullible enough to swallow the Communist -line, which leads only to ruthless cruelty and -slavery, while at the same time venting their hate upon the United States, which has no design whatever upon them now or in the future Yet thats the way it Is. Little thinking Is done as to the ultimate goal of the Communists, or is it true that the Ignorant masses in the so-called underdeveloped lands are incapable oL4>eeriiig_iniCLJihP_ future?

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON jAPi - Mum looks like more than just a word in the Kennedy administration. It looks like a system.

It goes this way for the top men around the President; If you have something big to say. let Kennedy say it.

Take G. Mennen Williams, for Instance.

This six - term' governor of Michigan and pow assistant secretary of state for African affairs was never renowned for his quietude.

Even on his just-completed tour of. Africa some American allies felt he talked too much when he simply said: Africa for the Africans.

When he returned Monday he spoke pretty freely to reporters on everything except what they most wanted to know: What did he recommend to Kennedy?

He said hed leavk it up to the President to disclose that. If he wanted to.

Then there was Robert S. McNamara who goofed when he talked and has said practically nothing since.,

Early last February McNa-mai'a. secretary of defense, told reporters he couldnt find a missile gap. For the Democrats this was almost as bad as if he had said he didnt believe in home and mdther. All through the 1960 political year the Democrats worried out loud that Russia was ahead In missiles.

Even Kennedy in the campaign talked of the missile gap. Kennedy lost no time telling reporters there really couldn't be any conclusions on missiles yet because McNamara hadn't finished studying them.

Later, in a letter to Republican Senate Leader Everette M. Dtrksen. McNamara denied that he had said the United States was either behind or ahead of Russia In the missile race. ^ One member of the Kennedy cabinetArthur Goldberg, secretary of labor has probably made more public statemenU than all the other members put together.

But It might be noted any opinions he expressed, mostly about unemployment and de-<Continued (m pi^e five)

Since the United States long Since muffed the ball by not offering its friendship and generosity to Latin America. It is not too Important as to who was responsible for such miscues in foreign policy. The hard, cold facts must be faced that in the aggregate there Is more animosity toward our nation in the southern countries than there has been in years, perhaps more than* ever. The big question mark Is whether we are arriving too late on the scene with our friendship and succor.

Only this week there was the report that the Communists are Integrating Mexico, adjacent to the United States by land. Already a beachhead has beeil es-ublished In Cuba, and that was done while Washington snoozed away in indifference or ignorance, or both. If ever the Reds are ousted from Cuba it will be only by bloodshed, and even then

billions are to continue being dumped into the laps of foreign governments and peoples in an ^ffort to buy friends. None too much icrcueas ha-!-achlev-ed. however, in this barter scheme in other parts of the world. Friends have bewi held sometimes only so long as gratuities continued.

Our money has revived devastated regions of Europe and the Far East only to erect an economy which is challenging American prestige and trade In world markets. This country is largely left holding the bag In maintaining the United Nations. Jungle tribesmen in the Congo and elsewhere in dark Africa are ready to accept such handouts as are offered, yet continue to lean toward Communism.

The task of convincing Latin America that the United States has no sinister designs upon that region will be a difficult one But if we must channel hundreds of millions of dollars into that ~hamisphera,--lt;a divert it from funds already authorized for foreign aid. and hesitate to add to the burdens of the American people.

Admittedly something must be done and done quickly if the Latins are to be saved from Red Ideologies. But such overtures as are made should 'be with greater certainty than has characterized these doles up to now. Lets be as sure as possible, that we are not merely buying fair weather friends. They must be convinced of genuine sincerity on our part.

With Cuba already Communist and with the Reds working with all the fervor and energy of a colony, of ants to take over Mexico, the danger to the United States is no longer a matter of guesswork. A strong, reasonable and helpful policy must be enunciated and then carried, through.

being teslgd there.

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MerriD Bynum, who inspired the practice parking facility, is understandably pleased by gen-eioOs cooperation received in making it possible. And. of course, the Moose lodge board of officers is happy to have another facet of public service -added to their record.

So if you have a youngster in the family who is dreaming of a drivers license. . . .this may be of help. Parallel parking is tricky for the initiate, and doubly so under the eyes of an examiner.

I can testify as to that. I still wonder (and it happened years ago what the examiner was thinking when he told me to turn right and I went left; w'hen he told me to turn left, I went right.

More recently there was an occasion when the writer was transporting a law enforcement officer to attend a meeting. A traffic light flashed stop just before I passed Beneath It. Under the circumstances I was very much aware of what had happened and self - .conscious on approaching the next traffic light. It too flashed stop Just as I passed the point of no-return.

Something close to mental shock set in.

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The free enterprise system, upon which the economic foundation of this country was built has provided the American people with the highest standard of living ever known to any society and continued functioning of this system is dependent upon active participation by the citizens throughout the land. Sheldon, (Iowa) Mall.

enouglj 4%x money were left for local communities, they would have sufficient funds to take care of their own schools and would use those funds in accordance with IC&1 public opinion.

Furthermore, three formulae are possible lor the distribution of aid. One is that aid go to state governments to be expended according to their judgement without Federal supervision; another is the expansion of Federal supervision until all forms of local control over education disappear and a vast Federal system of education takes its place. A third possibility is the current mixed system in which local direction of schools is ostensible, but many controls are set up. such as State Beards of Regents, State universities, College Entrance Boards, supervision through .state aid to schools, supervision through Federal aid to schools until their individuality disappears and every school, up to college grades, becomes identic. There are proponents and defenders of each of these systems which, grow in authority from year to' year, so that local control of education weakens.

The church-related school is old in American history. In fact, at the beginning all schools were church related and the teachers were clergymen. Until this century, this was a religious country, the atheist being regarded as an enemy of .society. Although the public schools were secular, daily assemblies were opened with thf reading of the Bible, the singing of a hymn and such holidays as Christmas and Thanksgiving were celebrated by children of all faiths and nobody suffered the consequences.

The Injection of materialistic ideas ini'education, the rejec-tion,of air forms-of religion as antagonistic to sectarian differences. the tendency of the Court

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS Definiteneaa It Importaat Prepare yourself for somttbing definite in life. Make youmlf skillful In a particular technique.

The world la full cf people who can do almost anything, wthich means that they can do nothing particularly weU. Until the end of time auch people will continue performing the uninteresting and time-serving tasks of life. The exclUng episodes, the discoveries, the forging ahead into new fields, (he tlirill of achievement and helpfulness will be reserved for tho.se who know how to some particular Uiing and do it well.

Professions have their advantage. If a man is a physician. .QT a lawyer, or an engineer, or a clergyman be operates in a

field in which he is a specialist. These, of course, are not the only professions. A certified public accountant is one of the most professional of men. Sometimes men take up one particular aspect of work and make a career of it. This has tdvan-tages and disadvantages. The harness maker who lived over into the automobile age was a sad figure, There may be spe-cialLste today who may be outmoded (weiuy.five years from now. But on .the wliole, being able to do some special thing, operating with authority in a definite area, is one of the greatest sources of happiness and financial security.

Learn to do something dehnite aitd to well and put

into it the whole of your interest, Intelligence, and energy.

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Its also a book for college freshmen starting financial courses. Also, it appears, it Is a

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It's am. for experienced ia-

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STATES INCREASE SHARE OF CITIZENS' EARNINGS Gov. Nelson Rockefeller ha* notified the taxpayers of New York that they can not-expect another 10 per cent forgivepes* 'next year, and other states working on tax increase*.^ Commerce Clearing House ro-

port* that, since January 1, new taxes have been proposed in Nebraska. New Jersey and Texas; increases in existing taxes are asked in Alaska. Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Mis-soui'i and Oklahoma, and Washington may make its 4 per cent sales tax permanent.

A personal income tax went into effect in West Virginia on January 1, and since then personal income taxes have been considered in Connecticut, Maine and Nebraska, while California, Missouri and Oklahoma are planning to increase collections. ^

Oi* taxes have been proposed in Alaska, Massachusetts. Missouri, Vermont and Wa.shington. while a 2-cents-gallon hike will be effective, in Pennsylvania April 1.

Cigarette taxes have gone up this yeai* in New Jersey and will go vp in Idaho on July 1. Buo^ are being considered in Connecticut, LUnols^ Maine.

. Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahomj^ and Oregon. "

RETAILING

If you run a store, the chances are l to lOO that next month you will be interviewed by an Audits and Surveys researcher. The company is -to conduct its eighth national sample cenr lus of 32,000 retail and service outlets.

The census will determine how ' widely brand products are distributed, the demand for various -products, and the increase Or decrease of various kinds of products. It Will also determine the number of various kinds of ouUets in the nation, and how widely any specific brand is distributed.

GOVERNMENTAL SUS TO MEASt'AB

JAPAN FORGING AHEAD IN Sl'EEL PRODUCTION While the United States ateel industry is .operating well below capacity, the Japanese industry is iDcreeslng it* potential. The Fuji Bank report* that Japan's big six steel companies plan to double their, capacity In the next five years .' Japan is already fifth among tee world's ateel producer*.

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