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PACE FOURtHE DAILY REFLECTOR, qREENVaJJ. M. C. ,

Friday! May 19i 1961

Friday, May 19, 1961

Teiuis Ranger

Paving The Way For Remedial Step

EnabliKg legislation which would permit Pitt changea in a number of achool district lines in tha next

County in th? future to dissolve,- separate ^^now a problem is presented by the fact that

school districts or special bond units " '<1 P\ j^e corporate limite of the city of Greenville spill ovelr way for Pitt County to alter its existing ..cho ^ winterville school district. This mbans, of course,

alignment as future condiuons that some adjustment must be made between the

going back to the legislaturt for approval eac Greenville and Winterville school district boundaries,

a change of this sort is necessa >. With indications of further school consolidations

The special legislation approved by the Board of school level throughout the county

Education and* the County Commisioners and sub- immediately ahead, other districts may be

mitted to the legislature this week by Sen. Robert Lee necessity of shifting boundaries.

Humber provides a logical approach to resolving some enabling act which would put authority for

of the problems the county can e.xpect to face'in the changes in the hands of local officials writhout

future. the necessity of special legislative action on each in-

At present the county is faced with the task of dividual case, would be an important asset to th dissolving the Arthur School district in which there county school system in the years to come. It would is no longer a school operating. It must distribute the iake the problems easier to solve without having to territory of the Arthur district between the Winter- ^o Raleigh, and it would mean that the problenas ville and Farmville school districts in which the Arthur ^ould be solved as they arise without having to wait district youngsters are now attending school. Under much as two years for the legislature to meet

- the present laws, it is necessary for the county to have enabling legislation now pending in Raleigh

legislative approval to carry out such a step. pertaining to Pitt County's school districts represents

If the countv could anticipate needing no further a wise step for the county, and the bill should be en-changes in schoordistrict lines for many years, there acted into law.

would not be a problem. The fact is. however, that the county probably will be faced with the necessity of

New

interest m Convening Date

Powerful Lever That May Insure Agreement

Bv LYNN NISBET CONVENING DATE - The hassle DOW getn underway ecking to force adjournment of the General Assembly on or before June 17 has revived interest in the time of convening. For about. 100 years prior to 1957 the Cwistitution required the General Assembly to convene on Wedneiay after the ftr^ Monday in January following the electifMi. That meat sometime between January 3 and January 9. An amendment ratified in 1956 changed the convening date to Wednesday after the first Monday in February unless a different day shall'be provided

1959

As the legislature moves down to the wire of heated disagreement over how to rearrange the present 12 congressional districts of the state into 11 dis-~ tricts there is a powerful lever w'hich probably will

how the ballots could be pre- force the General Assembly to come to some sort of l5'C'ut K agreement on the boundaries for 11 congressional dis-tricts.

Should the legislature fail In this session to redis-

biii. This is an adaptation of the "single shot voting idea, which is new to North Carolina.

Numerous instances can be cited of county commissioners

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trict the state for 11 congressional seats, the &\tern&^ PATRICIA MOORE

tive will be the election of 11 congressmen

for the state. Though there is heated

k'reas. although they are voted each of the proposed redistrtcting

upon throughout the bailiwich. already have been offered in the

In scnatonal evident that there is even greater opposition that the

two r^denw require- state elect 11 congressmen at large next year. Last fall a survey of person-

a?"'1Z^P0rter ca because of this factor, the lawmakers i" Ra'eigh

kam the only instance in which find themselves in a position of having to work out o the state public schools

candidates for nomination at gome sort of plan for redistricting the state to provide yielded comparable figur^ on

ed opposition to | 1 T TV 7 1

legislature, TComparatively r area Well

rtai t^e mattcrTenteii around the question of whether two arisen in the current session. sociste Juscm of the Supreme Democrats will face each other in campaigns Pitt County fared

The later convening date was court. That law was sponsored yg j. qj. whether the districts will be arranged so Re-

publican Representatives Charles Jonas will face urSf S?re tad

" the 1921 election. Complete con- oppositio from one of the Democratic incumbents. schrol buii^p oper^^

..nsotinn cannnt hA had hut i j, douM shift. In contrast, wiison

mmow The election of 11 congressmen at large from h,d five buddings in double shift

of a similar bill to that offered North Carolina is not a satisfactory solution to the

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opcrati<, with 250 attending the In overcowded classrooms,

first shift and 240 attending the Mecklenburg, one of the largest

second shift. Mecklenburg Coun- units, had 1,980 excess students

ty had four buildings in double in overcrowded classroonw.

shift operation, with 288 students Nearby Wilson had 167, while

the first shift and 285 the second. Wilson County Usted none.

In the state, a total of 1,436 chil- Another section of this survey dren were attending the double reported Pitt County as needing

shift operations. 40 total additional instruction

Pitt County listed 240 students rooms, while Greenville needed

decided on*. -

defermwit of income tax paying time from March 15 to April 15. Since the dates were changed, however, the withholding plan has been adopted for collecting State income taxes, and April 15 has little significance. Experience also has proven that the later convening date docs not contribute to speeding up woric with result that the essions run weU into summer.

One argument fw the later date was that it would get away from the inclement January

in overcrowded classrooms. Greenville had none. One of the more astHinding figures in this bracket came from Rutherford, which had 1,125 excess students

by Harris sent in from GuUford problem which the legislature how faces. Neither will /TNiU Uz-lUrNrO Qnxnnrr

postponing the question of congressional redistricting V^tn! EjQIIOIS Ovayiliy

not enaciea. uooa ^ legislature provide a

It was

say they can see no constitutional objection to the specif satisfactory solution to the question

designation, but it might be dlffi- , . , .,.x xi.

cult to administer. The legislature has the responsibility m the cur

CONSTITUTION - Faure to ^ session to redistrict the state for 11 congressional

.Living With Danger

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iiSS Ty Mnl - seats in the place of the 12 seats in the House of Repre-

- . spicuous, but it is by no means "sentatives North Carolina now has. It would be inex- muiiabci wuux ^vu. ___________

weathw, the only place where the Legis- cusable if the legislature fails to carry out that re- ^ chdren who came within its nels on the English

^ ^rtavfS^b sponsibilitrand creates a situation where the state hypnotic stare. Yet. for aU the lasme plas onl;

(Richmond News-Leader) When televisiOB first entered the hMue, it was feared that the one-eyed monster would devour

j majiy siclt !??nces_this year as ever.

There i considerable sentiment for moving the convening back two or three weeks, fixing at aomewhere between January 13 and 25. That would bring clofier together the beginning of

the executive administration every four years and convening of the Legislature. ' SELECTTVE A bill introduced by Rep. Buck Harris of Wake would require future candidates for the House of Representatives in Wake county primaries to designate the seat for which they were running. The county now has four seats occupied by Reps. Eh^mtley Womble. W. C. Harris. Jr.. and Archie McMillan. There were IX candidates in the primary for these three seats. Womble and Harris were renominated, and McMillan replaced Philip Whitley. All six candidates ran for all three seats without designation.

If the law proposed by Harris had been in effect, it is presumed that each of the three would have announced for re-election to his own seat and votes cast for him for any other place would have been voided. Just

orArtide^n . .wiJlJhayfi \o elect 11 congressmen at large next year.

number of things which the Gen- ...

eral Assembly cannot do. Specif-IcaUy, acts relating to the changing names of cities, towns and townships; and "relating to the pay of lurors. Yet approximately half the counties in the state have special acts fixing the pay of jurors, a number introduced at this session. Also a number of municipalities have had their corporate names changed, latest instance being changing the Town of Graham to the City of Graham. One sentence in the section reads: Any local, private or special act or resolution passed In violation of the provisions of this section shall be void.

ohnson-Nixon rours Needless?

PLUS Every morning at five o'clock and every night at midnight R. H. Mason comes on the air to announce that he is speaking as president of WPTF radio company, located at Raleigh. the capital city of Variety Vacationland. This is a good booster for the recreation and travel industry in North Carolina, which many years ago adopted the slogan and has made It a national catchiArord.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) ~ Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is now doing for President Kennedy what former Vice President Richard M. Nixon used to do for Ihesident Eiscnhower.^

He's traveling abroad,, meeting with the heads of foreign governments, giving them the word from Kennedy, and then coming home to report to the President.

These goodwill mLssions may have some psychological benefit in boosting the ego and self-confidence of people in smaller countries by showing the United States is sufficiently concerned about them to send the No. 2 man over.

But any practical effect from eiiher the Johnson or Nixon journeyswith one notable exception in Nixons caseis hard to see.

The mkstreatmcnt heaped on Nixon in South America shock-

United States, no matter what happens, will not send UB. Forces directly into Laos.

* That . country, already more than* half lost to Communism, probably will be swallowed up by It eventually, even though Laos is the key to other Southeast Asian nations which are either neutral or tied to the United States.

But the next critical area is South Viet Nam. which has received both military and economic aid from tris country. Communist guerillas are tormenting the government there.

These guerilla pushes appear to be only preliminaries, a feeling-out foray before larger pressure is applied. If South Viet Nam goes, then all southeast Asia is truly in danger.

The other countries there, so close to mammoth Red (Thina, can hardly be expected to stand up against Communist pressure if the United States declines to

expressions of alarm, very few ehi^dkea were kept away. from, be that no one meant the out-be that nonone meant the outcries very much. Or it may be that the quieting and control of children, even by an alien monster, is too precious a benefit for any harried housewife to forego. At any rate, the children have been watching, and it is now possible to come to some conclusions about the mediums effect on them.

A highly significant aid to an evaluation of televisions impact on children may be found in an extensive series of tests undertaken by the Nuffield Foundation in England. The results of this vast project have Just been published in a book called Television and the Chlld..^^ Pifty-two pages of summary and conclusion from that book have been reprinted by the Television Information Office of 666 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N.Y.

The first and moat important effect of the books flndlngs Is to destroy any neat generalizations about television. It does not, as many feared, destroy the eyesight. the mind, the interests, or the reading habits of children. On the other hand, it does not open whole new worlds, stimulate interest and raise initiative, as other wishfully predicted. Television has become simply one more of the mass communication

could make extensive comparisons of differences between viewers and non-viewers. Furthermore. there are only two chan-TV set. and only one, so an effective test could be made of Ihe results pf a. of

offerings, as opposed to programs chosen at random.

The usefulness of a test of thir sort can be gauged from the failure in personal .observation show'D by many teachers, parents, and other experts on children. Teachers, for Instance, almost all asserted that television cut down on imagination and alertness in the class room. But when they were asked to rank each child according to these qualities (without knowing which children had television at their disposal), the viewers scored as high a mark as the non-viewers.

Among the things discussed in the report are many of the problems that still trouble parents' consciences: Does the incessant violence of the TV screen affect a childs sense of values or his emotional stability? Are adult programs damaging for the child who watches them? How much should a child watch television? The report gives no simple answers to these question, but it does contain infwrnation that will help parents apply intelligent norms to their own childs needsthe need for enjoyment, the need for discipline and the need fw danger.

The television set is a dangerous instrument, like all things that challenge human response.

11. Scheduled for completion during the 196(k61 school year were nine rooms for the coimty. The city listed aoue.

In the personnel survey for fall of 1960, Pitt had 13,147 students at the end of the first month, Greenville had 5,214 for the same time period. Pitt listed 458 iHVfes^onal persooMl employed at the end of the first month,' including 100 men who comprised 21.83 percent. Just six of the personnel held less than a class A certificate for teaching.

Greenville had 178 teachers, including 35 men which hh-prised 19,66 percent. None of the city school personnel teld less th&n an "A certififcate At tfee time of the survey. .

The survey also showed that no Pitt County personnel received a local salary supplement, whereas all the 178 city personnel did receive a local salary supplement.

All information contained in the fall I960 study was based on conditions existing at the end of the first month of the present school term, as reported by the 173 administrative unit superin-tendents-

The state increased its total school enrollment by 20,013 over the preceding year and added 901 teachers, supervisors and principals. One of the significant changes throughout the tate was the increase of men employed. Incrwuse of non-teaching personnel was also substantial.

By GEOROK K. gOKOLSKT

Ctopyrigbt. 1961. KiM Feturi SyndtoattrTnbf ^ -

I am often told pot to dignify somebody or something flV

Ing him or it pidiUo attention.

The idea-behind this adylce la that nothing exists unlefla it is noted in the press.

I learned difereot in October 1917. Seven and two women who were generally of neutral personalities came to PetrogrM^^ to tadce over Russia. I kiw most of them. I imew where they were hiding. Of an evening one might have gone Jo a ^ Chantant, as they called a xugnt club there, to listen to an actroM ridicule these men and women. Trotsky, In iwrticu^. was ridiculed; Madam KoUantm a wealthy woman turned Red was laughed at tor ber-^bewtty and good clothes.

That was 44 yean W-J : call attending the Oonetituert Assembly which was the hope of the Russian people. liUda sat <Mi the platform for a tort tme.

He was a mild, calm,

Ing man who looked perhaps like a printer or maybe a grocer. He waved to a gW in the baJeooy-Then the Bolsheviks got bared. They left the hall. The seato they vacated were so few that numerically they nothing. This was a mall band of nobodies who fancied themselves rulers* Then, one oi them, Dybenko, ceane into the hall of the Tauride Palace and gently told the assembled delegat^ that they had better get o^

One man against the nation. So they all got out. They went their various ways.

During the intervening 44 years, this small band became masters <rf a large Prt of tti# world. Lenin has been deifies and most of his associates have been murdered. Trotzky was

assassinated in Mexico and

Angelica Balabanoff is In Palto Alto writing. Perhaps she alone remains of those who atteaW the Zimmcrwald Conference which started this particular historic ball rolling. ^ ^

At that time, who thought that the* Bolsheviks would ever

amount to anytiihig? Everyday,

I went to the Smolny Institute, where they made their headquarters, and never did one see a more motley crew. 'But soon the hair was combed; the beards were ti^med; the clothes were more orderly. These were the new rulera Since then I have never ignore ed a mass movemwit, no matter how small or-how abaird. Most mass movements appear absurd, even ri(ficulous. when Uy start. 'Ihe begbnlngs Hitler must have been very funny to t onlooker; this Charlie Chaplin figure, screamli and yelling and attitiKiinlzlng in beer-halls. Hitler was not so funny when 1 disturbed the entire world- -We laughed at him bat noray of om* sons died on account of him. Perhaps they died because no one wouW take Hitler seriously at the right time, which was when he started.

When I report nail mass movements, some serious, some screwball, in the United States,

I am told not to dignify such absurdities by giving them pub. licity. The surprising fact is they somehow make their own pub-licity. Just as a man trying to jump off a tenth stwr ledge Into a browded street will attract attentiwi.

The little mass movements at this moment in this country are very different from those in the 1930s. Then folks, young and old, were angry because of the shock of the Depreeaion. They had not (Continued on page live)

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the Unitc(i States into pain- Intervene directly in South Viet media, with which anyone who The only

realization that not all Latin Nam in the event the situation grows up in our society must would be by the reducuon or nu-

ec ful

Americans loved u.s and that tht country was going to have to go .some to keep them on j:he side of the United Stato.s.

Nor 1.S it clear why anything Nixon or Johnson may have had to .say to the head of a foreign government couldnt have been .said just as well by the local American amba.ssador who could have delivered a message from Kennedy too.

The policy toward every other country Ls made here in Wa.sh-. Ingtonnot on the scene by a vLsHor. even one as Important -as - Johnson - on information from the American amba.ssador there, his aide, other advisers, and the Central intelligence Agency.

Johnson might have been of more practical value too Kennedy if he had remained In Washington and helped get the administrations programs through Congress, where he is an expert. He is aji amateur in foreign dealings.

Nevertheless, more and more since World War II it has become a kind of stylish habit to .end presidential representa-uves overseas, to single couptries on special mis.slons, or just abroad generally on so-called goodwill trips.

From the very beginning of Johnsons trip the main ques-tk)n has not been what Johnson might say, since hes only the Presidents special messenger, but what Kennedy might say through him.

If Kennedy has really aaid tnjrthlng new, it hasnt been made public. For instance, it seems generally accepted the

there gets critical-

So the question was; will Johnson tell President Ngo Dinh Diem not to worry, that the United States will Jump in with army and air force if theyre needed

A communique was issued af-toi Johnsons visit. It spoke of more American economic and military help but so far it has not been reported this country promised direct intervention.

Thrh were reports that John-..on, when he got to Thailand, promised U S. troops might be .sent there. Thailand Is linked with the United States in a defease treaty and is Laos next door neighbor.

But Wednesday Johnson, while promising more help to Thailand, brushed aside speculation on American tioops being sent there,

Johnson will tell Kennedy what he saw and what he thinks when he gets back.

But this probjably wont add anything to what Kennedy already knows from the American ambassadors in Southeast Asia.

grows up come to grips In an entirely personal way.

This is not to deny that certain patterns were discovered through the elaborate series of tests taken among children, parents, and teachers. England off-

man response, through sedation, to a brute level. Everything connected with the living mind oj man has that mind!s own potentialities for creativity or destruction. One never can rule out danger; but one can learn

ers many advantages for this . how to cope with It, how to live

kind of test, since there are with riskeven with the danger

many chUdren there without of entertaining a one-eyed mon-

telly sets. The investigators

ster in ones home.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THINKING IT OVER

Very often we dislike certaii^ people because we do not understand them. Some people, to be sure, are disliked by their fellows because they arc mean, selfish, lazy, or diahoneet. Others keep getting themselves in wrong with their associates because they are long on criticism and the handing out of precious advice. But if you do dislike some person, you will probably discover that it is because he or she has personal characteristics which to you appear obnoxious. Maybe if you understood this person better you would see that these characteristics arc part of a fine, helpfid, and noble nature. Some of the most kindhearted people in the world are brusque

and even rude in their personal contacts. What you take for hypocritical piety on the part of another may be real, genuine piety, and the qiMOity and quantity of which you do not appreciate.

Most of us have certain good points and certain bad points. The matter of great concern ki whether or not we come out with a plus or minus balance. People who throw their weight around usually do so to hide a fearful sense of Insecurity. Teenagers who profess to know so much are usuaUy cowering under the reallzatioii' that, they know very little.

'Ttt to understand people ba* fore you strike them off your list. Dont be hasty in your Judgments.

Taxpayer Weary Of The Bills?

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Almost all economists, from orthodox to Keynesian, support the Presidents announced intention to revise depreciation rules !i one method for stepping up the economy's growth, lowering costs, and thus improving our position on the world market. National Review.

By ELMER RLESSNER The Kennedy proposals for tightening tax loopholes, now heading to a bitter Congressional debate, will bring out some curious opponents.

Business salesmen and industry lobbyists will massively oppose the suggestion that a limit of $25 a day be imposed on travel away from home. So will they oppose other, still unspecified, limits on business* lunches, dinners and entertainment.

But their protests will be less than those of the expense account industries Those are the bitlnesses that flourish on corporate spending for entertainment and wheedling Already, in the special trade-organa of these industries the ciy has been raised tjiat the government is crushing living businesses and forcing thousands out ' of jobs just when It is necessary to create new employment. And these protests will increase, live as well as In print, as the pro-posaia near epactment.

THOSE WHO ARE HIT Theaters: These are among the least concerned, excepting those housing really big hits. The outstanding Broadway musicals enjoy the support of blg-buslness spenders; stories about scalpers charging $100 a pair for nriusi-cals (and few except expense-account spenders will pay that) make little pedple more eager to see the show But. in general, most threatrical people know that all corporate entertaining cant keep a poor show alive-Night clubs: These will be hard hit by expense llmlUtions. Few club owners will appear, but there will be strong, dramatic protests by entertainers.

Swank restaurants: In recent years, notably In New York. Chi

ery night. Often it takes $20 or more to get a table. A New York newspaper recently described a restaurant where a pleasant meal for four was $150. AT SUCH PRICES,

CAN YOU SLEEP?

HfHela: The hotels newly towering in large cities depend largely on expense - account trade. It is probable that during Congressional hearings on these new tax proposals that someone will offer some rate schedules, menus and wine lists from some of the top Washington hotels to show that, at $25 a day, a business traveler will, il not starve to death, then die of thirst.

Resort!: There are few peo-

cago and Washington, there has ^le. .after taxes, who can afford been a great increase In rtau- "^e

rants catering tq the expense-account crowd. Pew of us ordinary slo^ often pay $40, for a meal and wine for two,' yet there are restaurants charging such prices that art crowded ev-

swanklest resorts about- the "counti^. Therefore. ie <Mra-tors rhust get people Before taxes which Ls what they are doing Lirnmtlons on expense accounts would bankrupt many* SporU: Whilt tt la ikK general

ly knowfi, A rag# Part of the. reserved sections ot ball parka and other sporting vents ar sold out for the season to corporations for entertaining proa-pects (and for executives wben there are no prospecta in town). Periiaps about half of the World Series take comes from oorpora-tlons; in short, it Is Uncle 8am (and you.) who is putting up the money for the players bonus.

Other: Sales of larger yachts, island retreats, fashionable apartments, top-bracket autos, company airplanes, and other luxurious accouterments depend, in varying extent, on deductible corporate spending.

These expense accounts bulk large, and the loss to the Bov-eminent is proiMhly much more than the $250 millioa estinmted b> the Administration.

In tiie end, they mean that you and you-are paying, in extra taxes, for the winiM and dining^ of some companys buslni prospects. ^ v