Wtdnesday, August SO 1961

I Tried TGet It AB for Ye, Son-

A Sound Growth Into. A Small City

A good many of GreSnville" citizens have lived here all their lives and many others have spent a majority o their years in this same community. To Utese citizensperhaps more so than to those who

have become a part of the community in the past decade or so^the growth of the city is a? little short of phenomenal.

It wasnt too, many years that it seems no trouble to walk anywhere in town, from one end of town to the other, without covering a lang distance. It wasnt too long ago either that a good many people' felt that they knew almost all of their fellow citizens by their first names, where they worked, how many youngsters they had and so forth.

Having grown into a small city, such is not the case any more. The city limits stretch almost six miles nortii to soitth sad slightly more than two miles east to west. Included in the area is considerable territory that a relatively few years ago was farm land. Today these areas are residential sections.

In the past 20 years the population of Greenville has almost doubledfrom 12,000-plus in 1940 to more than 22,000 in 1960 according to the official census figures. In area, however, the size of Greenville probably has increased even more.

All thia means, of course, that Greenville is no longer a little community that an drift along in a leepy atmosphere. It is by no means a large city, com-

Concerned Over

pared with others in North Carolina, but neither can it be realistically considered a village. And when one considers the fact that in each succeeding census for the past four decads the city has shown^ growth of approximately one-third in population each decade, there is every indication that Greenvilles growth is not something which -has come about all at Once. It is sound growth that, on the basis of past experience, may be expected to continue at a steady pace in the future.

Such growth, of course, is important to a community which is seeking progress for itself and its people. It is also important that along with this growth that the city keep pace with itself in terms of municipal improvements, meeting the needs of its new citizensas well as those of ita long-time residents. It is important that the citys organizations of all kinds adjust themselves to the new conditions they find in a community which has increased in population more than 85 per cent in the past decade, and almost doubled in size in the past two decades.

Above all, perhaps, it ^ important that the city and its people look to the future and adequately plan to cope with the oew problems which inevitably will arise as the city continues to grow both in area and

in population.

How well a community meets its changing condi-tions and copes with its new problems often determines whether it continues to progress and attract ne\v people, or becomes a community that is less attractive to prospective citizens than others around it.

Crisis

Fresh Reason For Gar

By LYNN 'NISBET

MONROE The situation at Monroe has occasioned more concern and worry among State iolka around captol aquare than any incident In North Carolina in a long time. Opinion hereabouts is that the near riot was deliberately provcrtced and with less justliication than similar outbreaks In other states. Apparently a very few men, and weight of evidence places major responsibility on Negroes, were determined to create an -^hcident."

What worries high level State officials as much as the inci

dent itself was the way Mayor Fred WUson or Monroe by-pass-d an local and State Agencies with a telegram to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, head of the United States Department of Justice. Besides as.surmg worldwide publicity for what Is ossentially a local incident, the ^\topllcaons are that the mayor pd not have confidence in abill-jty of his own municipal authorl-. / Ites, even when supported by the county and the State, to enforce the law. V

One effect of invoking national aid will be to bring in a lot of muck-writers from all over, who will be delighted to find new areashaying lust about worn out Jackson, Mississippi. Another unfortunate effect may be to embarrass relations between Governor Sanford and President Keimedy, who have worked together so cwdlally in many actlvief for the development of North Carolina.

This may not prove really erlous, because of the practice of the Department of Justice and other Federal agencies to keep Southern Governors In-fcmned of coursea followed in all the states. If Attorney General Kennedy takes action on the Monroe telegram, he will advise not only Governor Sanford, but the Oovemora'of all Southf-m States.

POTEAT REPEAT PubUcl-given th^ fact that Brooks Peters would have to divest himself of stock in utilities subject to regulation by the State befwe taking his seat on the Utilities Copimission, recalls a previous and similar Instancewith dif* ferent endings.

When the Legislature of 1933 abolished the old Corporation Commission and substituted as the regulatcM-y agency a Utilities Commissioner, It provided for two associate* oommlssioncrs who would be subject to call by the commissioner but would not be full time officials. Dr. W.L. Poteat, president of Wake Forest College, was named by Governor Ehrlnghaus as one of the associate commissioners. <

He accepted and came to Raleigh to be sworn in. He was reminded just before thati^ oath taking that he would have to seU his utilities stocks. On

that. Dr. "BUly bucked. He

said his CaroUna Power and

Light and Carolina Telephone stock represented his old age security and was worth more to him than the Job on the utilities comission.

He declined the appointment and kept the stock. He could

have reinvested the money in other stocks, as Peters is doing after selling his utilities holdings, Many people at the time thought Dr. Poteats attitude stemmed from resentment at the implication he migh^ be Influenced In decisions by prospective dividends.

Reference to the one-man utilities commission reminds that Stanley Winborne probably holds the record for being sworn in to the same Job more often in a shorter time than any other official.

CHAMPION SWEARER - He was appointed to the Corporation Commission by Governor Gardner in February 1930; elect-td for the unexplred term In" November of that year; reelected for regular terra in 1932. Before that term expired the Corporation Commission was abolished and Winborne was appointed Utilities Commissioner in 1933, elected for a 4-year term In November 1934. Soin less than five years Stanley Winborne was sworn in for essentially the same Job five times. By election and appointment he continued on the Job until he retired In August 1958.

REUNION Members of the two Highway Commissions which served under chairmanship of Sandy Graham (1945-49 and 19.53-57) staged a reunion at Blowing Rock this past weekend. No publicity was sought r the event, and no effort made to keep it out of the news. The fellows Just wanted to get together and talk over old times. These men are reaching the age where they are not so much concerned about the future, so reports are that current and prospective personal policios got slight attention.There was discussion of trends in government.

Some of the former highwaymen could not attend thia re* union, due to Illness or absence from the state. An interesting fact noted is that of the 10 men appointed by Governor Cherry in 1945 only one has died (John Goode of Asheville) and of the 14 named by Governor Umstead In 1953 only two have died (Helde Trask of Wilmington and James A. Hardison of Wadesboro.)

Safety Starts Today

The opening of schools in Greenville today means that for the next nine months several thousand local youngsters will be going back and forth from their homes to schools daily, creating new traffic hazards for motorists who travel in the vicinity of the citys schools.

Most of the youngsters, fortunately, have been cautioned by their parents to be careful crossing streets and playing in streets on their way to and from schools each day. It is to be expected, however, that occasionally some of the youngsters, in their hurry to get to* school or get home, will forget the warnings they hqve been given and will dash into the street without first looking carefully.

It^ is the responsibility of the motorists of Greenville to exercise extreme caution when driving in the vicinity of the citys schools, to observe the speed laws and the caution signs which denote school zones. It must be expected also that automotive traffic around the schools when school has not been in session. This increased number of automobiles in the school areas, plus the high concentration of young pedistrians, demands greater caution by local drivers if accidents are to be avoided.

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By PATRICIA MOORE

Back From Florida Trip

Were back.

Its the most catastrophic thing we can say, after an absence from this particular type-

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writer for severalVweeks, first to the womens

for a trip to the Womens Desk, and then a little further down the road to Florida.

Really, we can always recommend Florida for the weak and the weary. Its central Florida We sing about, more than the hinestone beaches where crowds -flock together.^

This year we took in the lovely Bok Tower where we observed a black swan hiss at a little boy. That was about the most exciting thing that happened on that excursion (except that it was lovely apd we

had fun.)

And we went to the famous Busch Gardens in Tampa, where there are all sorts of colcwful birds as well as other things. If youve heard of it, you know already about the other things. And if you havent. Its worth a trip; but you wdll never want a parrot of your own.

Of course, the real reason we went was to go home.

excitement. However, we apparently missed this this jrear and returned unscathed.

We can definitely recommend North Carolinas smooth well run highways. Get a little further down the road and youll agree.

One of the most stimulating places to go around this part of Florida is Ybor City (pronounced e-bow) which is a sort of Latin American settlement featuring exotic foods and during the current Cuban uproar it occasionally features some more active

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Other Editors Saying. -Crackdown In Tar Heelia

We know some other people who were also on vacation, returning with all sorts of goodies to tell.

one friend down Grifton way returned with some additions to her vocabulary. It goes like this: spratalated. Pronounced spra-ta-la-ted. Get it? WeU, we did-n^. The word is to be pronounced hard and fast so that it takes you like an atom bomb.

We were told it means surprised. We were.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Believe it or not the Soviets while the hydrogen bomb hangs over American-Russian relations like an undertakers signhave been less reckless since they developed their bomb than they were without it.

It is one of the freaks of history that the Russians when they had no atomic we^ pon at all and the United Stats had a monopoly on itpushed their luck the hardest.

Stalin was either wilder than Premier Khrushchev or decided to Rrab what he couldready to drop it if the adventure got too dangerousin the belief the United States, for humanitarian reasons or fear of world opinion, wouldnt use the bomb.

Since both powers now have the hydrogen bomb, and so could eliminate each other if was began. it makes necessary sense for both to be a little moro careful about beginning a caper that might begin war.

Even so Khrushchev is more subtle and Imaginative than Stalin anyway.

But just because the hydrogen bomb is so broadly fatal its a neat device for cither side to try to bulldoze the otherblackmail is a better wordinto making concessions through fear that not to do so might mean war.

This Is what Khrushchev is being accused of now in sealing off East Berlin and his expressed determination to break the Wests grip on West Berlin.

But the way hes trying to do Itso different from Stalins sudden and brutal attempt to blockade the entire city in 1948is a good measure of the difference between the two men, and the Influential presence of the bomb.

Its not their IntenUons that are different. Its their technique.

In the first I few years after the war. when the United Statea alone had the atomic bomb, Russia under Stalin grabbed and

held the East European countries, todays satellites. It pressured Iran. Turkey and Greece. President Truman didnt force Stalin to disgorge the satellites but he did make him back off Iran. Greece and Turkey.

In 1948. when Russia was nearing completion of its own atomic bpmb but still , didnt have it, Stalin tried his most daring and dangerous grab up to that time: the Berlin boockade. Truman broke that by mid-1949 with the airlift.

Stalin could have tried to smash the airliftby shooting down American planes. But he stopped Just short of that since it could have meant war in which the United States might have felt Justified in using the bomb.

It was a few months later in that year of the broken blockade on Sept. 23, 1949that the Russians had their first atomic explosion. This made the two Dowers more equal but not quite.

The United States already had a big bomb supply and a big bomber fleet. Stalin was Just beginning on his. Still, he was on his way.

Later that year the Red Chinese took over the China mainland. Not long afterwardsby mid 1950the greatest of all postwar Communist adventures began: the Korean War.

Stalin gueased wrong again. Truman put troops into Korea to stop the North Korean invasion. But Korea was remote from Russia. Stslln could safely bet the United States wouldnt use the bomb on the Koreans. < Stalin had nothing to lose.

It was during the Korean War Nov. 1. 1952-that the United Statea exploded Ita first hydrogen device at Bikini. It wasnt until a few months after Stalins death -Aug. 21, 1953-that the Rua-

(Rocky M(mnt Teltgram)

The investigation last si>rlng of basketball game-fixing and point shaving has touched off the biggest crackdown in this state. Such an investigation was inevitable after the unsavory episode of the basketball scandals. It did not require much deduction to figure out that a highly organized organization or groups were busy collecting over a billion dollars annually in illegal betting.

SBI Chief Water Anderson admits the current drive is a product of the probe into the basketball situation in the Big Pour schools of the state. Inquiry has revealed links between North Carolina gamblers and out of the state syndicates. The SBI surveyed Tar Heel gambling in connection with the basketball inquiry and came up with the information that betting in the state totals over a billion dollars a year, more than the state governments budget for two years. This is. needless, to say a fantastic situation.

The resultant decision by law enforcement officers of the state

has led to an overall crackdown on hoodlumism in North Carolina comparable in scale to the drive against Communists. Federal and local officers are working together in the campaign; there could be tax prosecutions growing out of the results of the crime drive.

Brief

Invegard to local gambling tivftiej

Note to those who have lean purses: Living costs more these days, and theres a good reason. Now we have to keep up with the Joneses and the Russians. Greenville (SC.) Piedmont.

UP-TO-THE-MINUTE MEN DEFENDING AMERICA

tians exploded theirs.

Since then his succeaaors have

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been no leas ambitious but much more cautious. Theyve encouraged Communiat guerrilla fight* iContlnued on page live)

activities in various parts of the state, the SBI position was made clear by Anderson. If local officers want help in undercover work, the SBI will provide it, but if they permit such activity in the cities and counties the SBI will move in and take over the drive against the hoodlums.

Here is a breakdown on betting in North Carolina each year: baseball; $360 million;

football, $319 million; racing, $237 million; basketball, $187 million; lotteries, $105 million; fights and other sports, $37 milln.

How can such a situation be combatted? Our present state laws are probably adequate if applied. This is especially true if Congress passes new federal laws and the FBI Is made available for help. Bills now before the legislators in Washington would put the screws on interstate transportation of slot machines and other gambling gadgets.

It is difficult to erase gambling. much as the federal govarn-ment found It was impossible to prevent people from drinking back when it brought an era of prohibition. An example of how diligent the gamblers are is shown in the case where agents found tobacco bams that had been air-conditioned and fitted out as gambling casinos.

But while It is virtually impossible to legislate human morals we can at least do something about reducing the opportunitiesfor Illegal activity, cut down the odds in favor of syndicates and make it difficult for them to operate in North Carolina.

By long, hard travel anybody can get away from Texas; but nobody gets away from Texas jokes.The Farmer-Stockman.

We suggest that the public, when asked for a contribution, inquire into the way the agency sepnds its money. Most people are glad to contribute to a worthy cause. No one wants to hand over money simply to keep mimeograph machines humming.Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier.

Either intentionally or unintentionally Congress is setting the stage for socialization of American railroads. It is doing this by failure to repeal or correct outdated laws of its own making. When the rails face bankruptcy, the friends of socialization will start their drive for government ownership of our transportation system.Industrial News Review.

Strength For Today

J: ancy J: ood industry is

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THEY CAN GIT US INVOLVED

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Appetites grow. Eat more food than you need, and you will soon find that your stomach demands more food than you need. Step us the alcoholic Intake, and you will soon discover that alcohol is a hablt-formlng drug. The most pathetic person In the world are those who have ac-^ quired the narcotics habit. Tbs opium derivatives undermine will power and moral character to such an extent that only an insignificant peroenrtagc ever recover their equilibrium once they have allowed that appall-lng habit to get hold of them.

Appetites are given us for a purpose They arc built-in cravings by which the Creator endeavors to put His original plans of creation into operation

and keep them functioning. Healthy natural appetites are the accompaniment of well-balanced. The appetite for alcohol or the opium derivatives art acquired appetites. Acquired appetites range all the way from disadvaatageoui to devastating.

Natural appetites achieve their beneficial ends when they are dtscipllncd and brought under the control of the will. No natural appetite is wrong in Itself. It becomes wrong when it is wrongly used or when It gets cut of hand.

Moral character largely develops under a regime of appetite discipline. Learn to discipline the appetites and half the battle of life la won. Fall to discipline the appetites. and the whole of life looses Its lusterand in the case of many, plunges down into disaster. n

By ELMER ROESSNER

Supermarkets are revolutioni> sing the fancy food Industry in America. They are. In faqt, removing some of the fancies.

As an old food fancier (thats all 1 ever eat) I have been at' tending the National Fancy Food and Confection Show in New York this tim every year. Ita scheduled for August to catch retailers Just when they are ordering for their Christmas glft-and-nlbble season.

In years past 1 have been fascinated by such fancies as fat-bottom fried ants, roasted grasshoppers, octop^ In their own ink and tried (so help me I) worms. These things never bothered me. Like my granddaughter Mlchaela. I will bite anything Chat doesnt bite me first.

SWITCH TO SWEETS

But this year, the switch Is to sweets. You could find the.

rarities, all right, but you had to look. Cresca, one of the biggest distributors, has its Mexican foods on a ^ttom shelf. Chlpernoi, another%iggie, pushed candy on me where last year it had piled me with pates.

Most of the other exhibitors were featuring candies, cookies, fruitcakes, gift packages and other sweets.

The reason for the swing from proteins and fats to carbohydrates. cxhibltora confided, la the dominant power of the supermarket.

Specialty food stores are few and small; tbope featuring canned boullabaiSM and tripes de Caen are far apart. So fancy food distributora must depend on supermarkets.

But supermarket customers average young and have bland tastes. Truffles in foie gras in-tereet not the wife of a bookkeeper with three children. But

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY.. Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

But nowadays it is necessary to thinic in seconds and minutes.

For instance, a SAC alert might take two minutes; 10 minutes would be regarded as very dangerous. And there are no minutes to lose because up where radar watches, enemy planes and missiles are to be seen and who knows what orders the enemy planes have?

Call ms a war-monger, but I know what I have seen. Our sir force, at any rate, is prepared; it is ready and alert. But are ws ready and alert?

Every day I receive letters calling me a war-monger because I Insist upon warning our people of a danger which so hangs over our heads that American planes fly In the air in 24 hours duty. They would not be up there guarding us if it were not essential. It does not matter what politicians and diplomats say; airmen and aircraft are in readiness with no minutes to lose or to spare.

It Is a rainy day and the airmen sit about as they must do all the time. The Klaxon blows and out they come in seconds and the big planes are ready to go up into the air immediately.

Is this peace or war? Is this readiness or' -drills? The politicians will not say and they have the last word, but no one engaged in this preparedness has aiv doubt what his Job

is. Any mJbute, he might get the word.

Every day I get letters telling me that it is better to be a Red than dead. Is life so worthwhile that one could sell himself into slavery Just to be alive? Perhaps for some, life is very valuaWe and they would rather be Red than dead. What a wonderful slogan the Communists have devised.* What an appeal such a slogan has to the animalisUe instinct of self-pres-Mwation.

But has not eivUization brought us to a higher level? Do we not ask what is worthwhile and what is a noble ideal? Perhaps It is so awful to be dead Uiat one would rather be a Red but those who ride the B-52s want to live, too. Only they want to live in frredom.

There I saw them stand in the rain In front of their aircraft, loving their ship as men love a home, telling me how they have worked together over the years. In war and in what is euphemistically called peace.

'Paijental supervision includes knowledge of where your child is, with whom he is associating and the use of disciplinary measures when they are needed. We can talk and write about Juvenile delinquency ad infinitum. but it will all be wasted if American parents refuse to n>easure up to the task and the responsibility which the very fact of parenthoow assigns to them.Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.

Their hours are 24 a day and seven days a week and even when they go to bed they must be ready momentarily to answer the call of the Klaxon. And among them there are really no generis and no privates for up in the air men are in teams and each man must make the team an untffoakable unit. For one weak link can tn*ing them all downand forever.

I am not* saying where I was or what I sawI only say that I came away with a sense of greater security because the real safety In this war is communications and in that field we excel. We can touch a button and all the world becomes alive in reply. And as one sees and beaj^, he wonders at those 'Who still believe that the defense of Berlin is unnecessary and that we can ignore the imminence of war.

The baseball season is here, and grandmothers are dying right and left.-North Conway (N.H.) Reporter.

What we have, they probably have and what we know, they probably know. So it will be matter of time, of no seconds to lose, of no minutes to throw away. The watchman at the gate may be an electric device but it is also a man, a man with a mind and soul, a man who could find remunerative outlets for his talents but who chooses to servs In this dangerous occupation that his people may be alive and free.

she is interested in imported boxes of cookies and bags of candy even if they cost a littls more than domestic kinds.

Some day a fancy-fancy food business, specializing in pickled walrus snouts, chopped camel liver and ruffled micawber slic-B. may arise. But meanwhile, the fancy food industry is finding it n^re profitable to be a little less fancy.

ons, and w^e known in Oakland. Calif., ^as pigeop fanciers. There were dog fanciers, poujp try fanciers and the like; my father was known as a Plymouth Rock fancier. He didnt fancy rocks and he nevw saw Plymouth, Mass., but he was a fanatic fancier of that breed chicken.

BRIEF NOTE FROM WORD FANCIER

This fan of fancy foods observes that Websters New Collegiate Dictionary says that the word fan probably derives from fanatic.

BUT SUBSCRIBERS. THEN FORGET THEM

Now it is true that baseball fans are often fanatic, but when I was a lad. a person with a hobby was called a fancier. The Moore brothers next door raised fantastic irarietles of pige-

It is difficult lor the human mind to think politically and historically in terms of minutes and seconds. We are accustomed to think in terms of decades and centuries. When the present war started in 1914, nobody could have believed that it would last ' until 1961. But it has done Just that and all the world is changed. Perhaps we arc in another Hdhdred Years War and somehow we must adjust our minds to that and go about our business expecting short Intervals ctf shooting death.

A survey of 11 magazine* shows they pay An average of 14 to obtain each new subscriber and then forget about it. Th* survey, by the OallagtiaLJIreport, found that 75 per cenT'of'CiJii-sumer magazines never acknow-ledgs a new subscriptloii and thal the lag between subscribing and receiving the first c<H>y average* 34 days. Consequently, the sr-vey found, lees than 50 per cent of the new subscribers renew.

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