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im OILT REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, H,

y\Friday, July 7, 1961

Friday, July 7, 1961

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High Employment Holds A Promise

Although the number of unemployed people across the nation still causes considerable concern in many quarters the fact that totel employment in the country reached a record high last month should inject new optimism into the nation's economic outlook.

During the month of June, according to the Labor Department, employment in the United States increased by 1.9 million from the previous month. During the same period the number of unemployed people increased by more than 800,000.

This means, of course, that 5.6 million Americans are seeking jobs, but it likewise means that another 68.7 million people are gainfully employed . . the highest number in the history of the country.

The figures for the month of June were influenced by the number of young people finishing school and entering the labor market for the first time. They were also influenced by the increased activity in building trades, construction, agriculture and pther phases of the economy that always take an upward turn in the late spring and early summer.

In spite of the increase in unemployment, it is more significant that the economic upturn since the first of the year has pushed employment to a new record high. It is also significant that in spite of the higher unemployment figure the economy was able to absorb almost two million new workers during the one-month period.

The figures reflect a strengthening of business

Woman Holding Man-Sized Job

By AURORA DOLLEY

CONCLUSION Its not solely a mans world of that you could be certain, after a visit with the Commissioner of Public Welfare, Dr. Ellen Winston.

Dr. Winston, who holds down a Job which should be labeled man^ize by any criteria, is a I>erson who can do (and usually does) several things at once without managing to slight any detail and emerging as unruffled as, well. . .as Dr. Winston I

A native North Carolinian whose clipped phrases are doubtless a combined result of her busy schedule and exposure to Chicago during graduate school days, she doesnt seem to afford herself even the luxury of a few idle moments of pleasant reflection.

Yes. shes quite pleased with the generosity of the previous legislature, which appropriated a total of nearly 23 1-3 million dollars to the Department of Public Welfare for the biennium, and she is grateful for a number of bills concerning the Departonent which were given a nod of approval by the lawmakers.

But Dr. Ellen*, as she is known around Ciq?itol Square, impresses a visitor as being an Individual who is busily planning for the immediate and not-so-Immediate future, rather than one to sit calmly admiring the past.

The immediate future? It is well underway, with assistance from the '61 legislature, which has provided more tools for the work of the Department, in addition to the increased budget.

Dr. Winston, who has for eighteen years headed the Department of PubUc Welfare, and Mrs. Elizabeth H. Hughey. Stote Librarian, hold the top posts in the State which might be termed manned by women, in addition to the five ffcminlne members of the General Assembly, Dr. Rachel Davis, Mrs. Grace Rodenbough, Mrs. J. M. Phelps. Mrs. W. N. Cook, and Mrs. Tressie P. Pletcher.

BUDGETING Part of the budget increase, which is over four mUlioo dollars more than the allotment for the previous two-year period, will go to a state loan fund to assist those currently employed in public welfare work to do graduate work in their field.

So far, reports show, there li an Increase In the number of applicants for these scholarship loans. Particularly pleasing to Dr. Winston is the high quality

of present applicants, and this should result In even better trained welfare workers in the future.

The legislature did not forget abo.ut the food tax when it decided upon the budget for the Welfare Department. In order to provide additional money to recipients of welfare checks, there is provision for up to $187,000 for the first year and $189,000 for the second year. This should provide enough to compensate for the increased cost of living from the food tax.

Several bills passed by the recent General Assembly and pertaining to the Welfare Department bring North Carolina into conformity with Federal regulations, permitting the State to take advantage of matching Federal funds, thus stretching Tar Heel dollars more.

DOUBLE CHECK There are approximately 100,000 checks per month written by the Welfare Department, and to improve the check writing process, the Legislature has appropriated $40,000 for research into the problem and to cover costs of conversion to a new method of check-writing.

Incredible as it may seem, the Welfare Department has seen instances of a fathers deserting his children in order to render, them eligible to receive assistance from the Welfare Department-

A father who had been unable to find work and who had exhausted his unemployment compensation could not, formerly, see his children receive aid, but a new law brings North Carolina into conformity with federal laws, and now these dependent children may be helped without, the unimaginable necessity for the fathers desertion.

Another bill deals with so-called permanently neglected children, and now if the Welfare Department knows where the parent is, but cannot get the parent to assume responsi-biUty for the child, the Departa ment may. after a reasonable p^od of Ume, take the matter before a court of adoption and free the child for adoption.

The Welfare Department is continuing to license child care centers, even though a much publicized bUl which the Department considers clarifying failed to pass.

And. finally, county welfare superintendents are no longer Just that; their new, legislative-approved title is director of public welfare.

and industrial activity across the country. They likewise bespeaka greater confidence on the part of the people in the economic conditions of the nation. And as these new employment figures generate greater confidence in the economy, it may be expected that the number of gainfully employed people will continue to increase.

Th number of unemployed is still large enough to be a matter of genuine concern; but the fact that the nation now has a record number of people employed dispells some of the gloom that the unemployment figure might otherwise create.

Tangible Evidence Of An Enriched Program

At least one tangible evidence of the enrichment program for public schoolsa larger number of faculty memberswill be evident to the people of Greenville and Pitt County even before their, public schoj?]?. open for the new term in September.

Under provisions of the new program for public schools. Pitt County's administrative unit will receive an allotment of 21 new educational employes for next fall and the Greenville City Schools will be granted a dozen additional faculty positions.

The addition to these 33 faculty members to the two school units should go a long way toward improy-ing the quality of instruction that will be made available to students. In all probability it will mean that the number of teaching principals in the schools will be reduced considerably if noteliminated entirely. It will mean that teacher loads will be reduced in some of the more crowded grades, and that teachers should be able to give more attention to individual students.

The additional faculty members should likewise mean improved curriculums for some schools, and probably more intensified study in some fields for others.

Obviously the schools of Greenville and Pitt County could not have expected to increase their faculties by some 33 new members had it not been for the new school enrichment program adopted by the state this year. It should also be obvious that the addition of this number of new faculty members to the local schools will provide better educational opportunities for the youngsters of Greenville and Pitt County during the coming school year.

There are many intangibles which will go into the school enrichment program being undertaken by North Carolina, but at least the increase in faculty members for the coming school year is one tangible evidence of what the people are getting for the additional tax dollars they are putting into public education.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The first half of 1961 was a king of aspirin for a headache that wont go away. We are now fresh out aspirins.

Up till June 30 President Kennedys administration hadcomparatively a delightful time with both Congress and the Russians.

In Congress, where he lacks enough support to sail his programs through as he asks, he used two simple but adroit methods to get what he wanted:

1. For the most part he offered very moderate programs which, by their nature, avoided violent opposition: difference with members of Congress on various points but not on total programs.

2. He used pressure, persuasion and concessions by himself and members of his White House staff to win over such opposition as he had. This has been a very smooth operation. Kennedys own 15 years in Congress made him expert on this.

The result was a big batch of legislation which if that had been all that was Involved would have given him a very successful first year In office. But it wasnt all.

Congress cleaned up most of the programs before June 30. But the three biggest and most controversial were left over until after the Fourth of July holiday.

These were federal aid to education, the foreign aid program and medical care bill looks Just about dead for 1961, isnt likely to get action until 1962.

TTie big stumble in his foreign aid program is his request to Congress to give him authority to promise this aid on a five-year basis. He wants recipient naUons to be able to plan long-range instead of on the present year-to-year basis.

Congress is hesitant about signing the check for that far ahead. Therell be rough-and-tumble on this one.

The same goes for the federal aid to education bill, principally because of the fight over this question: Should the aid also go to church and private schools.

At this moment it isnt at all clear what the outcome will be. But from now'until Labor Day, at least. Congress should, be making more noise than it did all year and Kennedys trouble with Ccmgreaa probably will be Intense.

In the foreign field Kennedy stumbled badly on Cuba by approving a sad-aack invasion by Cuban rebels which withered on the beaches. And he got a nasty setback in Laos where, despite his early atem talk, the Communists have calmly gobbled up more of it.

But to most Americans Cuba probably looks like small stuff wlle tiny Laos, lost in Southeast Asia, seems far away and not vital. If this had been all that was involved in foreign dealings. it could probably have been swept undef the rug.

But it wasn't. From the very moment he took office Kennedy knew before the year was out he was going to have trouble with Russia over West Berlin. Premier Khrushchev had warned of it last year.

But for most of Kennedys early months in office Khrushchev was rather gracious, as if allowing the new President to move Into his new house before pulling the roof down around his ears.

So Khrushchev waited till early June to tell Kennedy he wanted a Berlin settlement within six months.

From now till the end of the year the heat will build up. since something will have to be done.

So the second half of 1961 ought to wind up being a pistol.

(Editors Note: City Editor

Alvin Taylv recently returned from a vacation trip to Nassau. This is the first of three columns about his trip. The other two will be printed Saturday and Monday.)

IX you ever travel on U. S. 1 through St. Augustine Fla. take the time to stop at Lillard Whites Texaco station as you pass through the city.

Russell Gowan, local druggist, and your columnist did last week on a trip to Miami. It was no different from any other service station, of course at least not at first appearance. We just happened to choose it because the gas was running low.

But standing back in the wash pit of the station we spied a white haired lady surprisingly talking to someone through an open door. Russell went back to Investigate and shortly he called me to see what it was all about. The lady had been talking to a caged parrot in a back room of the station.

Undoubtedly there are readers of this column who have come across parrots who could recite

the Charge of the Light Brigade better than Charles Laughton. My experience with these birds, however, has been that they either didnt talk at all or else they were near impossible to understand. But this particular parrot had better diction than most folks I know. At the white haired ladys coaxing, the bird would say very plainly, Want a piece of bread. Birds cant talk. Hello, Huh.

Smart bird, this one, though. He absolutely refused to mess up show with that old cliche, Polly wants a cracker.

The lady, by the way. must be a seasoned traveler on the Florida route. She said she made it a point to stop at this station every trip just to talk to the parrot.

No doubt every reader knows by now that your columnist was on vacation last week. Russell and I drove from Greenville to Miami where, last Monday we boarded the cruise ship Bahama Star for a two day and three night trip to Nassau which is 190 miles east of Miami.

Other Editors Sayings... Unions vs. Everybody

This wasmy first trip in the direction of Florida and I found out first hand that you, indeed, can have aH the orange j^ce you can drink for one dime. This is one of the nations better bargains.

We 'also confirmed that it s a long way from Greenville to Miami (nearly 900 miles) and that summer motel rates in Miami are truly low ($5 for a double with twin beds, TV, phone, air condiUoning, swimming pool, kitchenette, which we didnt use.)

We found Nassau a very English community. Its white population is strictly of English stock and the colored, who number 85 percent of the population, speadc the Kings English. As wwild be expected, the many shops along Bay St. appear as a part of the mother land itself and. of course, practically all businesses aim for the tourist trade.

As one native put it, without the tourists we are nothing. We have no industry. And if industry came there would be litUe place to put it,' for the island is slightly more than 20 miles In length and less than 10 miles wide. But colorful Nassau has enjoyed a tourist boom and there appears little likelihood of this bonanza running out.

Opinions In Brief

(Wilson Times)

John L. McClellan, chairman of the Senate Investigations subcommittee, posed a neat pair of questions on union rights the other day. He got an evasive answer from a union official.

The Senator was lavbing the slowdown and sitdowns which threatened our defense and our position in the space race. The witness was Charles Tebbe, business agent for local 259 of the Pipefitters at Daytona Beach, Fla., whose members work sporadically on missiles at Cape Canaveral.

We are not trying to place the blame. But Just in case you have forgotten, we will tell you again that since 1957 there have been 327 strikes or work stoppages at 23 missile bases, causing a losa of 163.(X)0 man days of labor.

In many cases abnormal 12 hours shifts have forced contractors to pay unneeded overtime. Iron workers at Cape Canaveral are drawing $520 and $611 a week. It is about $100 a week more than the Secretary of Defense draws. An apprentice, a brother-ln law of a union boss at Canaveral collects $673 a week, equal to the salary of the Vice-President of the United States.

Now we come to the plumbers and pipefltters, whose pay has ranged from $402 to $733 a week, electrlciani from $413 to $670 a week. Remember It is the taxpayer who pays the bill. And the time lost in the missile program can never be recaptur

ed.

So this brings us back to the case in point. Mr. Tebbe testified that the brothers usually just walk off the job when a nonunion worker appears on the scene on their own initiative.

He said this was in accord with unions right not to work with non-union people.

How would you feel if the government took the position that hereafter nobody works on this base if he is a union member? Would you feel that was fair? Senator McClellan asked.

No sir, said Mr. Tebbe.

But you want to operate the other way, dont you? asked the Senator. ^

Mr. Tebbe didnt think it was all right to slow down the missile job but didnt comment on the larger quesUq^.

He has made it plain, that by and large he didnt believe anyone has a right to a job unless he sports a union button' and pays dues to union bosses, and that unions have a right to deny all other people employment.

If this happens we will never get ahead with the missiles, for 'the American people cannot afford to pay the demands, the overtime caused by strikes and stoppage!.

Then as to the union demands. It should not be forgotten that non - union workers constitute more than 50 million working Americans. According to Mr. Tebbe. they have no rights and should be deprived oi the privilege of working for a living.

Names in the ..New Orleans area have a r(unantic flavor found nowhsma else and when theyre heard 4n tropical Bahama they are even more exotic.

RusscU and I climbed the hill that runs the length of Nassau, then up the Queens Steps hewn out of rock to the citys water tower located on one of the islands highest spots.

We were resting in the shade of the water tower when two lovely young ladies appeared from the steep steps. They, too. paused In the shade for a rest and we struck up a conversation.

They were'.Rene and Monene from New Orleans. (As I said New Orleans names* are romantic). 'They had flown to Miami on vacation and then to Nassau. The southern beauties, who wore pixie hats, work for Humble (ESSO) Oil Co. at home.

But, alas, paths of strangers cross and then part forever. It seems the girls were traveling with a tour bus. As we talked, the tour group reappeared frwn the water tower and the girls hustled down, the Queens Steps to avoid missing the bus. Sorry, we didnt catch th names.

Jaycees win be Interested in knowing we saw a Jaycee car on the road to Miami. Painted on its side was On to Atlanta. Only trouble is the Jaycee Na-ti<mal Convention, held in Atlanta June 20-23. had been over several days. Well, it mighty easy to become lost on those Georgia highways.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

All the excitement that the Pit-ney-Bowcs Company has made about what should and should not be stamped by their meters, reduces Itself to the amusing when the government uses the meters for political statements, both, the Post Office and the meter'^company reject private controversial statements. Since when, under our Constltu-tl<m, is the Administration superior to the citizens who elected it to office?

I have an envelope with a slogan on it, bearing the wisdom: Only you can hold down Inflar tion.

That Is absolute nonsense. How can a citizen hold down inflation when his government is actively engaged in fomenting inflation?

In fact, the Administration has not advertised its opposition to the Multer Bill, an inflationary masure. This inflationary proposal is supported by a faction of New York bankers ^o have been converted from haro to soft money because of their large holdings of government bonds.

There are two concepts about inflation: 1. Those who believe that the government should keep down expenses, strengthen the dollar, making its purchasing power greater: 2, Those who believe that the solution to our current fiscal difficulties is to substitute fiat money for sound money: to use the prin^ng press more freely, thus keeping labor happy by supplying it with more dollars, which though worthless, give a feeling of having more, of being, in fact, rich.

No matter which contention one believes to be right, the control of money, the velocity of its movement and the value of its purchasing power is within the control of government either through the Federal Reserve System or the Treasury. The individual is helpless against the decisions of these bodies. He cannot make his own money: , he cannot privately determine the value of his money. He is captive of decisions made for him by these agencies.

What then is the meaning of the slogan: "Only you can hold down Inilatiofi? Actually, it can only mean that you. whoever you may be, should postpone buying except necessities. That would be a sound way for, private citizens to hold down inflation.

But what would become of employment in this country If the people entered upon a program of postponed buying? Suppose instead of buying a car every other year, we bought one every seventh year. What would hai^n to the aut(miobile, the steel, the glass, the nylon, the rubber-tlre worker? What would happen to the butcher, the grocer, the baker who supplies these people? In a word, the private citizen cannot hold down inflation except by postponed buying, or perhaps, whoever invented this slogan believes that the worker should voluntarily lower his wages; that the landlord should voluntarily lower his rents, that the farmer shoud sell his produce for whatever, he can get. flooding the world market with his goods.

In a word, what the inventor of this slogan wants us to do is to lift all the controls of the economy of the nation. He favors cancellhig out Roosevelts New Deal and accepting the more capitalistic concepts of Herbert Hoover. If this is the thinking of the United States Treasury; th citizens should be told that the Kennedy Administration has gone that-a-Way. although no one would believe such an announcement in the year 1961.

Therefore we must accept the quoted slogan not only as controversial but false. If the Post Office objects to false slogans and the Pitney-Bowes Company seeks to enforce the Post Office censorship of envel(H)e ideologies, a special censor ought to be established to look at the stuff the government puts out. Some of it is quite controversial.

But since when is controversy bad? It would appear that in a free society, argument, debate, controversy is the stuff that safeguards freedom, whereas confcnmlty makes for intellectual paralysia. If the Post Office will censor newspapers and magazines which pass through the mails and the FCC will censor radio and television, it is very easy to end the freedom of men, to fwce them Into slavery to government; This nation was bom in freedom. It developed in freedom. If freedom dies the nation will die. There can be no mistake about that-

it odd how famous women can start a fad which mllllona of American women are wtUlng to follow? Mamie Elsenhower started the fad for bangs; Jackie Kennedy the

Jackie Look; Oreta Gar^ the trench coat and slouch Hat. It is to be hoped that Princess Margaret will not visit soon. Lerlngton Leader.

Nuggets, Worthless And Otherwise

Public Fomm

To the Editor :

I dont think that the people of Pitt County have realized the wonderful visit of the exchange student.

Having two exchange students in my home wss the least expensive way of my visiting their country, France. One here gets a clear picture of the sl^denta countryIts landscape, its political policies, and its customs. But the most important thing Oiat comes In having exchange student 1 the feeling of unity.

Certainly knowing and having exchange students In our homes give us a spirit of co-operstlon and of understanding toward^ them and the problems of their

country. Friendship is the next visitor that comes to the companions. One never knows how kindness may be returned!

The extrs and unusual Thank yous sUll ring In my tart. I think that the American Field Service, the sponsor of thaae exchange students, certainly has my and others Thank you tor sending such fine students .our way. All the local clubs kave done a wonderful J<^ also.

As I watched the Greyhound packed with foretgnera laave. my congested throst was throbbing with a warmth of friendship with these students and the world itself.

Sincerely,

Ralph Mills.

By ELMER ROESSNER Your peripatetic business reporter has come up with these nuggets of Iron pirltes. otherwise known as fools gold:

A New York sales agency wanted ito steal a $40,000-a-ycar executive from a competitor. The agency Invited him over for a chat. When he arrived, the executive who had invited him was in a conference. A receptionist demanded to know what he wanted to see the boss about and he said he was to , discuss employment. She turn him over to an $80-arweek assistant In the personnel de-parUnent who asked him to fill out a form.

He stalked out. When asked if be didnt want the job. he laid. No. That place Is just too highly organized.

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Orleans recently I overheard several business types talking. One said. I hear you are having a book about your company ghosted.*'

Nonsense! replied the dynamic executive. We are wrltr lag it ourselves. We have just turned over several thousand Wor(J$ to a writer who is going to put it in shape for us.

A few minutes later, the same young dynamo turned to one of his own men and said:

Looki If you want to *^da something creative, Just turn it ever to Mario. He'D push It through for you

Chi a Midwestern plane flight, your boy was served a breakfast consisting of two thick iUces of Canadian bacon, a cup of aterUe scrambled eggs. cOffee' and a sweet roll. TP manipulate

these^Was A plastic spoon and a plastic knife. A stewardess confessed ihera was not a fork on th plane.

the price at a chemical company for 72 per cent stuff was $12 a gallon.

A buslnetsman went to the New York office of a national airline and bought $6,000 worth of tickets for a group on a certain flight. After getting the ticket!, he asked that hia group be seated together.

If you. want to get seats together, youd better get to the airport early and pick your reservatiooe from the board. the ticket salesman replied.

Who do the airlines think they are? The railroads?

Shoppbf for some cblordaoe, an InsecUclde, a friend discovered an amazing price range. Prices at hardware stores ranged from $24 to $48 a gallon, with various degrees of dilution:

ARE MEDALS, CROSSES. JEWELRY OR NOT?

The Internal Revenue Service haa come face to face with the question of whether ^religtous articlea are Jewelry, and whether they are so taxable.

'While it carefully avoids mention of any faith, with only a tew exceptions It finds that moat medals, crosses and other symbols of religious faith are tax free under the law.

The full ruling Is too long for reproduction here but copies may be obtaingjd by sending 20 cents to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D.G., and asking for Intemal Revenue BuUetih No. I96l'3.