PAGE FOURnU DAILY REFLECTOR, GRIENVILLB, N. C.

Saturcfajr, June 24, 1961

Saturday, June 24, 1961

Highway Safety Bills Fared Poorly

It Was a False Rumor, Doktor

If the 1961 legislature failed the people of4he state through lack of sufficient action'in any specific field, it is probably in the category of highway safety where the list of rejected proposals are far more

legislation calling for scientific testa to determine tha alcoholic content of persona charged with drunk driv-ing. .

All-in-all, the highway safety legislation propos-

impressive than the list of recommendations actually, ed to the 1961 General Assembly faired poorly so far written into law. as getting new laws on the books is concerned. The

During the eleventh hour of the session, the situation naturally poses the question of whether the General Assembly wrote into law a bill setting forth legislators in their apparent apathy toward new minimum speed limits on primary and interstate high- highway safety' programs were merely reflecting ways of the state. While this new regulation should the greater apathy of the people of the state as a remove a part of the hazard of traffic traveling at whole toward the highway safety problem that North widely varying rates of speed, it cannot be considered Carolina faces.

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a major piece of highway safety legislation. The legislature also passed a measure that increased the highway patrol force by 15 men to a total of 622. But this action in itself was a far-cry from the 100 additional patrolmen which had b^n requested by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

The statistics of highway accidents, injuries, fatalities and property damage that confront the people of the state month by month and year' by year appear to call for considerably more effort by the state of North Carolina to bring down the toll taken by highway accidents in the state. Yet, there is not

The legislature likewise tuimed thumbs down on sufficient sentiment among the people of the state or

a proposal which would have in^ituted a new mechanical inspection program forfflotor vehicles, and

Wheels Always Turn Smoothly

By LYNN NISBET

PATTERNLegislative activity for Ahe final week of Uje 1961 Legislature f<rilowed closely the pattern set many years ago. Billa were introduced as emergency measures, when in fact the Introducer had planned ail alcMOg to try for the pointsbut waa afraid his bill would not pass careful scrutiny of a committee. There was the chance the calendar committee might kill it without any con-aideration but an f^ost equal chance that it mi^ be given a green light withi^t analysis.

There was the usual confusion around the legislative halls and lobbies. Pwrhaps a more accurate description would be appearance of confusion. An old time reporter, who has seen many legislatures come and go. is every time newly amazed at the (H'derly efficiency of legislative machinery working behind the sc>es. While there is tur-m<Hl on the floor and members are engaging in horseplay, the wheels are turning smoothly in the offices and the clerks are getting their jobs done.

The adjoummwit resolution called for the 1961 Assembly to close shop at 12 no(m. Thursday. June 22. The Journals of the House and Senate will show that deadline was met. Actually, however, the gavels of the presiding officers of House and Senate who faced each other through open doors across the captol fell at 12:21 p.m. The delay was occasioned by one or two very late introductions of bills that had to be enrolled, and by insistence of some members to deliver long farewell orations.

Besides the surface confusion, the back office efficiency, and the stopping of the clock, the 1961 Legislature fitted into the tradlticmal pattern with respect to political activity in closing days.

POLITICS - AcUvity of prospective candidates for Speaker of the 1963 House was perhaps no more pronounced than usual on comparable occasions. Clifton Blue of Moore and Thomas Woodard of Wilson were mingling with the members letting it be known they are very much interested in the Speakership. Herbert Hardy of Greene, first to announce his aspirations for that post, was less active. Shelton Wicker of Lee wasnt saying anything, but sevwid of his friends were warning colleagues not to be too quick In making commitments cause Wicker will be in the running.

The active interest manifested In prospective candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor next time has been unusual for the first legislature of an administration. Usually not much Is said about these races until the mid-term legislature. Lieutenant Governors Max Gardner in 1919, Dick Fountain

in 1931, and Sandy Graham In 1935 virtually announced their candidacies for Governor during the closing hours of the senate session over which they were presiding. In ch of these cases the election was slated for the following year.

Same thing was true to years ago when a last week flurry of support for Speaker Addison Hewlett for Governor put him first in that race, from which he later switched to the U. S. Senate. The built up for Speaker Joe Hunt this year is comparable to that for Hewlett last time with the big difference that the electic is now three years away instead of one.

It might be worth noting in passing that none of the Presidents of the Senate or Speakers of the House who aspired to the Governorship directly from those positions ever made the giMc. The accolades of legislative colleagues makes good music to the ears of the officers, but in the realm 'of practical politics the value is open to serious question.

CANDIDATES While Speaker Hunt is sort of coy about admitting his interest in the governorship. Lieutenant Governor Cloyd Philpott has been regarded as a candidate for several years. Legislators, and some reporters covering the General Assembly, are so ccmi-pletely immersed in activities around Capitol Square they are apt to forget that there are many other good prospects fw high State offices other than those connected with the Legislature. It must be remembered that Basil Whitener, Incumbent congressman from the 11th district. and Woodrow Jones, former congre.ssman and State Department chairman, have long had their eyes on the big chair in the southwest comer of the State capitol and residence at 200 Blount Street.

Meanwhile a new crop of candidates and voters is growing up and new political alignments are being made. And, of more significance perhaps than some folks realize, there will be a trial run next year on some of the political and personal issues growing out of actions of the recent General Assembly.

The 1964 race for Governor, with implied control of State politics for years, will be largely influenced by results of the congressional elections in the newly formed districts, the race for U. S. Senator <to re-elect or replace Sen. Sam Ervin), and the complexion of the 1963 General Assembly.

Many of the commitments made behind the scenes, many of the extremely nice things said about currently prominent leaders. and other factors which will control voting in 1964 may be subject to change with or without notice in view of devclop-ments n;gxt year._

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the legislature to mount a major safety program sufficient to cope with the increased hazard brought about by the increasing number of vehicles on the highways and the increasing number of miles these vehicles travel each year.

Some progfress toward greater highway safety in North Carolina will be made as a result of legislation passed by the 1961 General Assembly; but the progress, we fear, will not be sufffcient to reflect a greatly improved highway safety record for North Carolina when the 1963 General Assembly looks back over the 1961-63 biennium.

Should Lose No Time In Building Facility

There are many problems to be' worked out by the Pitt County Board of Education before it can clear the preliminary hurdles for construction of the new industrial training, center that was approved by By ALVIN TAYLOR the voters of the county last week. Even so, every effort should be made by the board to commence this project as soon as possible in order that the people of the county will begin to receive the benefits which the industrial training program offers.

The first of the major decisions to be made is the selection of a site for the facility, and already But if you fa to out^esT Uie the board has been offered 10 sites which it might phone company on it lower su-purchase for the school. Then, of course, there is the tlon-to-station chargez, you lose, matter of the detailed plans for the center w^hich must RuaseU Cowen and myself this be completed and bids received on the project before fr*a^ tS^H?ridi^ construction begins.

It will take time for the Board of Education to complete these preliminaries, and it is encouraging that the board already has begun the*- investigation of site possibilities. We trust the Board of Education will continue with all deliberate speed to work out the details for the new industrial training center for the county and put the facility into operation as soon as possible.

The facility will be an important asset to the economic development of the county and its people, and the sooner it begins operations, the sooner the county can begin to see the fruits of this new enterprise.

Guess RightOr Lose

the plans progressed, we heard about a three-day cruise to Nassau. so we threw that in as a part of the trip.

Of course, planning this on such short notice meant that we would have to phone the cruise ship office in Miami for reservations.

Well, we figured, if we called during the day the rates would be higher. So we would wait until after six oclock direct dial at station-to-station evening rates. If the office was closed there

would be no answer. This ought to have worked, so we assumed.

After six oclock one day we dug out the number of the steamship company added the proper prefixes and dialed away. The various clicks did their work and an operator asked the number.

Then a female voice answered at the other end.

Id like to make ship reservations for next Monday, I told her.

Sorry, she repUed. This is the answering service. YouD have to'caU back in the morning for reswrvations.

I gulped and hung up. Then I called the operator to explain the situation. Was it a recording?

jOtin American ReDort Worse

Other Editors Saying Future Is In Farming

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - When Adlai Stevenson returned in 1960 from a tour of Latin America where Communists are active and discontent and poverty are as broad as the continenthe was pretty somber.

Now he has returned from a second tour, feeling conditions are worse. He made the first trip as a private citizen, the second as President Kennedys personal representative. In between the two trips there were two major events.

1. The Kennedy administration of which Stevenson is a part as ambassador to the United Nations approved the disas-Mpus Invasion against Cuba. This added more poison to anti-bnited States feeling in Latin American,

2. President Kennedy asked Congress for, and got, a $500 million Latin-American aid program. The money is to go to countries with social programs of their own. like land for the landless, homes for the home-les.s, education for mUlion.s,

Upon his return in 1960 he said: Latin America is in revolution. . . .The whole continent IS on the verge of a great economic development and they are going to build a new society under our methods of free enter-prl.se. if possible, and if not, under socialism.

Thursday, Stevenson, stopping off at Puerto Rico on his way home, said: Economic want and social unrest have, if anything. Increased. . .There is a growing sense of urgency in Latin America.

Steven.son reports today to Kennedy. But it is unlikely the

President wiD, as a result, propose any apect^ular solutions or at least any fast ones.

It is right here that communism has a starting-out advantage over a country like the United States in trying to win over millions of poverty-stricken, landless, impoverished and IDiter-ate people.

Communism can promise a change overnight. The Western societies can promise change too, but so far have found no way to promise or effect sudden transformations.

'The best they have been able to offer is steiwly improvement. This is what Kennedy offered in his March 14 message to Congress, outlining a long-range Latin-American program.

Stevenson iDustrated the problem to a Democratic raUy in this country during the presidential campaign last year when he said: We must face the fact that the world is in revolution. For a thousand mlDion people the big issue Is not protecting the American way of life from communism,

What does political freedom mean to an illiterate peasant squatting In a hut with five hungry children? For them and their leaders the big issues are peace, pride and rapid economic development.

For the United States the great contest In Latin America is against the Communist clock: can it help bring about change fast enough to make the quick promises of communiwn less attractive?

And the great problem is bridging the enormous gap between the very rich and the very poor.

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(Hertford Coonty Herald)

Without discounting any of the efforts that have been made, are being made and the considerable amount of money and talk that is spent in striving for new industry for this area to bring about a better balance of emplojonent between agriculture and industry, the fact remains that agriculture is and wiU remain the basic industry of this section.

BoU and climate combine to make the earth our greatest resource. Our greatest opportunity for improving our economic position Ues in making the best of this resource, greater and more lasting than any deposits of minerals or oils or precious stones. The foUowing from the Oxford PubUc Ledger tells the remainder of the story;

George B. Watson is a young man with a lot business acumen. For several years he has been a successful breeder and producer of certified seed. During a field day gathering at the Watson Seed Farm this week, at Rocky Mount, he made a statement that should prompt both thought and action.

If were going to improve the Eastern North Carolina economy in the next 10 years, it has got to be done through agriculture. Watson said.

And he is 100 per cent right. Eastern Carolina has the soil resources, the ralnfaU, the temperature and capital to get the Job done weU, but too many arc contenting themselves with mediocrity; failing^ do the best Job of which they^re capable in their agricultural efforts.

Watson has his own Ideas as

to how the situation can be improved. If every farmer in North Carolina would do as weU this year as the states better farmers did last year, farm income of Nortii Carolina would go up by $200 mrnion in a single season, he contended.

How is this to be accomplished? By inspired leadership of a boldness that reflects through the maze of disappc^tments and dejections that bring less than total effort at doing a good Job in agriculture. It must be accomplished by the development of new ideas and concepts and the application of ideas and concepts that have been tried.

There must be a periodic reexamination of old methods and an exploration of the new; an eager willingness to utilize knowledge gained from research.

Eastern North Carolinas economy cannot be improved by stumbling aimlessly along. It must come from bold determination to advance with the times, to make changes, and to do better in the science of plants ing, cultivating. harvesting, marketing and aD the rest. Obsolete equipment must be replaced and new efficiency acquired in use of labor and aU the other resources that go into agricultural . production and marketing.

Agriculture in Eastern North Carolina cannot become a sideline. It must be the main business of the region and It must be handled in best business fashion, and with a determination to get above the level of mediocrity in whatever may be ones undertaking.

No doubt every reader wUl have discovered now that your columnist is on vacation by the time this is published.

There is to be a motor trU> to Miannd where weU catch the ship to Nassau. The Bahama Star appears to be quite a vessel, according to the brochures at any rate. It has four decks and four saloons among other facilities.

The entire cruise including two days In Nassau requires three days.

Youf colimlst wiD be down on C deck. Just one deck from the bottOTi on the cruise ship. Above that wiU be B, A and the Promenade Decks, This last includes a thing called the Bahama Suite, which Is the luxury accommodations of the ship.

Unfortunately this when we called.

was taken

Opinions Brief

The individualist is unwilling to commit evil. For he sees clearly that a commission of an evil act by him will inspire another to return that act in kind. His only hope to gain, to profit, arises from his unwiUingness to make himself into a target for retaliation. And rational men always recognize this and discipline themselves against Inspiring such a contingency.. Santa Ana (Calif) Register.

If. a .demonstration, were needed that there Is no faster way to make society stationary than to impose the same norm, the same average standard, or by allowing the most energetic and able people a standard of living only a little above the average, then the experiments in Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries have Indeed provided It.Westview (British Columbia) Powell River News. \

asked. .

No, I said. A lady answered.

Tm sorry, the operator replied YouD be charged with

it.

WeD we figured that piece of inform&tlon cost us $1.25. Then there was another call the next day when we finaDy got the steamship company and made our reservations as we should have done to begin with.

endorse

If You Wish -

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1961, King Features Ssmdicate, Inc.

The mall brings aD aorts of things, including a very well printed luochure about endorsements. The brochure fills a great hole in my sum of knowledge. I have often wondered how a soap, a face powder, a cigarette and even a beer manages to get Itself endorsed by aD sorts of great men and women. For Instance, sometimes I see a man endorsing cigarettes when I know that he only smokes cigars. One day. I shaD see an endorsement of a soap by a Beatnik!

80 tt seems that this is an organized business like everything else in these parts. On Madison Avenue is an agency which finds endorsers. They list aD .sorts of people as endorsersthe Duchess . of Windsor, Eddie XUdcenback-er, Betsy Palmer, Sherman Billingsley, General Douglas Mac-Arthur. It is said In the brotiure that the endorsers are screened as meticulotisly as the FBI but, it is to be hoped, not l(w the same reasons. The agency boasts that It has found 10,000 famous persons to endorse 7,$00 different products.

Nothing is said in the broohure as to bow much an endottm* is paid. One may assume that some distinguished persons endorse a product free of eharpe but that lesser persons are less modest and demand a goodly fee. The brochure aays:

I represented. , .Company that gave a $1,000 watoh each year to the American who distinguished hlmseU most in service to this country. When Mac-Arthur returned from Japan I phoned him, had to hold the telephone for forty-six minutes,' and finaDy an a^^ aggreed to give me five riDnutes. General MacArthur agreed lo accept it. This was the first uid only time that this great American general ever let his name be need In an ad.

NaturaDy, General MacArthur never did it again, for )w is not likely to support any more lost causes.

On one page it ie eaM that celebrities fear the cc^eotor of endorsers more than gossip columnists. Is that good or bad? Gossip colonists are only lo be feared by the guilty and res-taurant*owners who lose customers who prefer to eat their food in peace without a nt)bM*-neck coming up to the table, to make a fifth wheel. Most of their material. however, wnes from those who wish to be better known, for good or evil, then they should be. If it makes them happy, let them have their day in paradise!

But why should one fear a collector of endorse? Of his work, he says:

He has teams of capable and smart young intervleirers who contact celebrities to find out what soaps, toothpaste, automobiles, hair kmic, tiiey actiailly use; their favorite smokes and drinks.

This is indeed a gay occupation, except when Grace KeDy was used to endorse a soap and later announced that soap of any kind never touches my face.

PoUticlans haye to be careful about what they endorse. For . instance. Vice President Gamer used to drink a particular brand of bourbon whiskey. Gamer, I am told, no kmger drinks whiskey having attained the age of four score and ten and he can do without the stuff. However,

I am told that his hwnor Is unimpaired; therefore it is not likely that he wlD eixJorse any product. particularly not one on bow to keep young at 90.

I found this brochure on endorsements particularly Inlerost-' ing because it gave the show away. I often wondered, as many must do, how these arrangements were made, bringing together the maker of a soap and a good-looking girl whose beauty is a gift from heaven. The poDtldan cannot endorse soap, but he can endOTse a cig- ar or a baby carriage. The latter would be particularly popu- | lar for poDticians if they were ' also made in America. 1

The maU brings its quota each day of the serious things in Ufe how men and women earn their DveDhoods, how they think up gimmicks aiul devices and how they arrange to take in those who are unwary or are gentle and beUeve everything that comes their way. The maD (Continued on pace six)

Go-It-Yourself Fad Now Stable

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS Make Friends With The Angel

Someone has defined happiness a.s a striving toward meaningful goals.

Note that the emphasis here Ls upon the striving not upon the achievement. The happiness we get out of life is the happiness which comes from living life up to the hilt every day. The most pathetic people In all the world are those who say, When I get a little more past me and have my house paid for and the children educated. I am going to give some attention to being happy, Friend, if striving to pay off the mortgage on the house and getting the youngsters through school did not produce happiness, then don't think that a-trip to the Mediterranean or a beautiful winter place

in the South will make you happy.

mppiness is standing right next to you, it is nudging you in the ribs and trying to attract your attention. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy Is by living life to its full.

The utterly hopeless people In the world are the ones'who turn to narcotics in their search for happiness. Only a little less mistaken and miserable are the ones who turn to alcohol. Wake up friend. An angel stands beside you with his arm affectionately placed about your shoulder. His name is Happiness. Make friends with him. The worst mistake you can make is to believe that \he is waiting for you in the next decade, in a higher position. or In another part of the world.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Some of the hysteria is gone out of the do-it-yourself market.

In the decade after World War II. dolng-it-yourself became the national mania. Hobby shops, tool rental shops, wood and aluminum shops opened on the thoroughfares. Manufacturers vied with one another with power tool production. Do-it-yourself courses and do-it-yourself dubs popped up in cities and suburbs. There were even firms that would finish jobs after do-it-yourselfers had chickened out.

The the boom faded. Many of the businesses that had depended on a fad to carry them on forever quietly klgned over assets to creditors. My- neighborhood hardware store discontinued its enormous rack of aluminum extrusions, from which you could make almost anything at only slightly higher cost than you could buy it at Monkey Ward's. JUST SETTLED DOWN

But- doing it yourseD Is not dead. It has just settled down into a business and a way of

life that gets along without all of the excitement, fanfare and hysteria that forced some perfectly good book-type males into pretending they were masculine masters of skills and tools. And oh. and alas for those severed finger Joints!

DIY sales are now substantial though not quite so spectacular.

A survey by the Census Bureau shows that in 1960, owners of one- to four-family homes spent $9,.5 billion for repairs and upkeep. of which almost $3 billion went for materials which the owners used in doing for themselves.

That means about $6.5 bilDon of the home repair and improvement work was done by con tractors. But if the value of the labor of do-it-yourselfers is added to the $3 bUlion in materials, then the DIY work about equalled the contract work. In other words, about half the total home repair and Improvement work last year was done by owners. MORE TO COME

That $3 blDion includes only materials for home repairs, it

does not include materials for photography, boat buUding, sports car rebuDding, basket weaving, oil and watercolor painting, gardening and thousands of other I-did-it! projects. The Census figure seems to substantiate private estimates that total DIY spending is around $9 billion to $10 biUion a year.

And that market is growing. Unemployment totals are high,. 5.000,000 at the mid-April taDy. And experts say that whUe there will be Improvement (but not this month when graduates are being turned loose), a heavy total will be with us for years to come.

Now of all the do-lt-yourseD-ers, the unemployed are the do-inge.st. It's been an old American

tradition that the unemployed do more things for themselves than other people. In the first place, they are often men of skills: many of them want to keep these skills supple by using them when out of work.

Furthermore, in those industries where lay-*0ffs are common. workers aie accustomed to

use thoM periods for labor to their own advantage. How many a wife has been told, Bure Iil paint the dining room for you. ID do it the next time Tm laid off.

So with s<ne of tbe fai^-ticks shaken out (rf the DlY-market. and fewer euppUers offering happiness in stringing Indian wampum beads and similar projects, there are prospects of steady sales for years ahead. And the probability of continuing unemployment suggests a steady growth in the market.

And what do you make or eeD that could be promoted better in this field.

U. S. FAMILIES INCREASE ' BY 1-20TH OF A PERSON

The average size of the American family in 1950 was 9.00 and 3.65 percent in 1960. scOMXting to the Census ^Bureau. Thats an average increase of about one foot.

It may be assumed that the typical family consists of a lather. mother, one nice child and a second child who is 95 per cent nast^.