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( Thurtday, O^ober 6, 1961

Tbre Are No Commies Under My Bed!

^ Has the National Labor Relations Board in Its ruling concerning a South Carolina company, asserted it has the authority to^tell a company it must either choose between operating a plant where the NLRB designates or not operate at ail?

This serious question arises out of the board ruling that a South CarolimM^pmpany must either reopen Its plant in Philadelphia or turn the jobs in its South Carolina plant ovef to its former employes in Philadelphia.

- It is a question which will cause concern among manufacturing companies throughout the country, and one which certainly is of grave concern to the SOuih-eim states which are seeking to enhance their economic development through attracting new * industries.

The NLRB termed the companys move to South Carolina last year an unfair device to wrest bargaining concessions from the labor union with which the company was involved in Philadelphia. In addition to ordering the company to choose between the stated alternatives, the board also said the company must pay its former employes for lost wages since the plant moved in January 1960, and that it also must pay the moving expenses to South Carolina for all Philaaelphia workers who wanted to take jo^^ in the South^Caro-lina plant.

There have been many instances in the past in which companies-have been accused of moving into Southern states because of labor troubles in other parts of the nation. In some cases the charge may have been founded, and in others they likely are not founded. If this ruling of the NLRB is allowed to stand, however, it will cast a serious shadow over every.industry move in the future in which a plant is closed in one location and a similar plant rebpened in another sec

tion. In some respects the ruling appears to assert that the NLRB has authority to tell a company where it can and cannot have plants. The ruling itself could be used as a severe weapon that could be brought to bear upon the sections of the country which hre attracting industries from other sections.

Although North Carolina is not directly concerned in the specific case. North Carolina is greatly involved in seeking to attract new industries. It is putting considerable time and effortjinto trying to sell companies on advantages North Carolina offers.

North Carolina may be greatly affected by the bearing this new NLRB ruling has upon the decision of the companies to set up plants in new locations.

Increasingly Important

Role For Committee

It is becoming evident that the Overall Planning Committee which was created by the Pitt County

Commissioners some months ago will play an increasingly important role in the development of county

Attraction For

ihe lounsts

By LYNN NI8BET ' ATTRACTION - The Battleship USS North Carolina la expected to become a major attraction which will bring hundreds of people every day Just to look at this leviathan of defenae and deftruction. row retired to peaceful status a.s a memorial a museum and a playground.

Why will the -old battlewagon lure viaitors? What conatltutea an "attraction for travelera?

Millions of worda have been spoken and written about the diversity and multitude of travel attractions in North Carolina. Too 'few of us. even thoae primarily concerned with promoting travel, have attempted to define an attraction or Its algnl-ilcance.

The urge to travel la Inatlnc-tive in human breaat. It flnda Its first expression In the deaire of the baby to craw] from hla mothera knee to explore the room. The'same motivation later takea the explorer Into the unknown places of the earth. Men and women are going to travel, to go places and aee things.

Some of this travel la aim lesa rambling without purpoae other than movement. Moat travel, however, has an objective point, a predetCrmined dcatlnatlon, a goal to be attained. .^Thia goal may be vague or very apecific,-but It is a "travel attraction."

AUractiona may be divided into two general claaaea. FLrat is the new, the different, the lure of the unknown. Second, end almost aa Impelling. Is the deaire to revisit familiar placeslike re-readlng a book, burning an almost forgotten tune, renewing contact with friendly neighbors.

Both classes of attracUona can be subdivided Into Innumerable aegmentanatural acenery, quiet retreats, historic altea, educational, entertainment and recreational facilities, both natural and man-made, and combinations ef all these.

UNIQUE APPEAL - The battleship is almost unique in that it can qualify for both major classificationa and moat of the subdivisions. Therg is nothing else quite like It anywhere. It has the appeal of blgneas and difference and novelty as contrasted with its surroundings, and with the rest of the state. That constitutes an attraction for visitors-

It has also the sentimental appal of its history. Conceived less than a quarter century ago,

launched In 1040. and moving Ju.st a few months later Into full-grown magnificent action In major naval battles of World War II. the ship was old at IS years of age. and was retired from active participation In affairs before It was 20. It was saved from .ignomlnlua burial in a watery Potters- field out In the Atlantic ocean by contribution.s . of North Carolinians who recognised Its value as a symbol of -courage and sacrificeand progress.

No more battleships are being built. The trend is toward - nuclear-powered underwater and upper-air craft with more con-' centrated strength. So It la that the museum planned to be established in the North Carolina will have inestimable educational value In telling the story of progress In concept of msr chines for national defense.

The BatUeshlp US8 North Carolina will attract many kinds of visitors. There will be the curious, old and young, interested mainly In the novelty of the display. There will be thousands of adults, attracted by the nostalgic appeal of old friends. (Like Tweetale and the other old steam railroad engines: steam farm tractors and threshing machines; hand-crad-les for harvesting grj^ln, et cetera ad infinitum.)

There will bo also the serious-minded students of history and science who will be "working"

In the museum while the others are having a good time.

OKTTINO READY - All of

that adds up to conclusion that ttleshlp North Carolina

the Batt will be a major travel attraction. Travel promotion agencies in North Carolina have endorsed and are fully supporting the plan of the Battleship Commission for administering the project. Details of administrative procedure are not Important at this time.

Immediate concern should be to get the battleship permanently berthed and ready for visitors. The original goal of $250,-000 to tow the vessel from New Jersey to Wilmington was met and the ship la now at home. But there are other expenses essential to getting It ready for public visits. Oovemor Sanford at his latest news conference appealed to all counties which had not met their first quota to send in the amounts needed to complete the Job-

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Another example of this cropped up this week when the Board of Commissioners decided to refer to the committee the matter of acquiring additional land for Pitt Memorial Hospital. The County Commissioners have been-^^ Wing the matter of additional land for the hosi ^or. more than a month now, at least on an inform. isis. The purchase of additional land had been ivjommended by a committee by the Hospital Board of Trustees.

By having referred the question of land acquisition to the Overall Planning Committee for further study, ihe County Commissioners apparently will place considerable weight on the .subsequent recommendation concerning the matter which comes from the committee. ^ ^

As a planning body, this special group appointed by the Commissioners could be of. considerab to the commissioners in making long-range plans for the county government. It is'encouraging, we think, that the Commissioners have seen fit to ask for a recommendation from the planning group not only on general matters of long-range planning, but likewise on specific matters such as the land acquisition matter now before them.

' County governments throughout North Carolina in recent years have come to rccognij^ as have most municipal governmentsthat long-range planning in all phases of local government activity is essential to orderly development in the feriod of growth in which local governments find themselves.

Now that Pitt has an Overall Planning Committee, it is encouraging to note that the Commissioners are referring matters to the committee for study and recommendation. -

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By ALVIN TAYLOB

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Fwo Little Girls Waitina

Somewhere In North Carolina drens Home Society of North

there are two unwanted little . Carolina identifies them.

Rirls living in a foster home. They are sistersone of 'ele-

Betty Lou and Mary Ann are mentary chool age, the other

the names by which the chil- too young for school.

Other' Editors Saying ..

!!VIilton Or Pavlov?

(Greensboro Daily News)

Findma Cash In

nvestment Func.

The U. S. I. A. and the administration, reportedly, are dismayed that the .Soviet Unions sudden resumption of' nuclear testing neither angrcd the world overmuch nor moved it to "prai.se" the U. S. for not break-the test ban.

By SA.M DAWSON

NEW YORK (AP) - Corporations have been tapping the In-ve.stment fund market at a fast pace this year. Bank loans

creased flow of depreciation allowances.

havent picked up. but the new lAr

security mrket has been busy.

Governments have been borrowing heavily, too. The federal government has needed new cash to meet growing bills. State and local governments have been i.ssuing tax exempt securities at a great rate.

Only consumer borrowing for big ticket Items or for housing has been trudging along far more sedately than the business recovery might suggest.

Part of the rush of corporations and government agencies to float new issues of bonds and stocks has been due to the relatively low level of Interest rates. t

This has been an administration objective. But it also has been due. to a fairly flush supply of investment funds, thanks to Increased savings plus the slack demand from consumers and from business for bank loans-

And part of the rush to float securities since March, when the recession was floored for the count, has been due to the expectation that the business recovery will step up total demand for borrowing to the point that Interest rates must' rise, whether the money managers approve or not.

Most of the corporate borrowing has been in recent months, but Federal Reeerve Board figures for the first half of 1961 put the total of new issues at $ 5 bilUon. This was significantly more than In 1960 when business was pulling in its horns.

Also business last year was able to a large degree to live off Its own fat. That is. off funds it engendered lU'elf. The Fiist National City Bank of New York notes that in i960 corporations garnered some |68 billion In cash.

The bank economists say that 122 billion of this went for taxes on income and profits, and tl4 blllioti for dividrnd.s. But the companies* retained $9 of

their net income, and also had available 923 btlliob from an in-

Thla total of $32 billion avaU-able for operations, or new plant and equipment, helped corporations get along without borrowing ao much from banka or from the long-term investment market.

This development has given new urgency in Washington to the problem of "psychological war-far"the' buslpess of pef^uad-ing the world To your cause though the government shrinks for reasons best known to itself from calling It that. President Kennedy has named an Informal group of his closest cabinet and White House strategists to advise him on "psywar,*

and many a.sumptions are un-

duhii

This availability of cash for corporate use continued marked through the first half of tl^e year. Bankers this is a major reason that bank loans to business havent picked up along with the rise in industrial outr put.

Investors have been partial to bond rather than stock is.sues, because bond yields have been rising, while stock prices have gone up faster than dividend payments, making for lower yields on stocks in general-

At the same time theyve been Lssuing long term bonds, corporations have been putting more of their idle cash to work in the short term security markets where interest rates have been relatively high.

Opinions

In Briel '

Tn harsher days, the rapist would have been long since hanged, and society thereby brutalised. Now we claim to have the skills to remske him; but the skills are clum.^y and Imperfect, when they mls.s,*the system sends him out to brutalise society anew. The Philadelphia BulleUn.

der review, including Mr. Mur-rows declaration that the Information Agencys purpose, by way of propagainda. is to tell the truth about ourselves and tel} it whole.

One of the sad things about today's mortal struggle In the world, taking the short view. Is that we are coming to see how hideously error may mangle truth. Brave John Milton, writ-tlng innocently in the 17th Century, could assert that If the winds of doctrine were left to contest in the field error would almost certainly be conquered-Thomas Jefferson, a century later, concurred, though In a slightly different context; and supposedly the free societies of the world still concur. However, we are gradually coming to see that George Orwell and Pavlov must be given their due as prophets: It Is possible so to twist and dLstort the standards of what we used to call "truth." it is possible so to batter the human mind and nervous system, that truth may very well become what the police say It is.

This Ls a realization that increasingly haunts the policymakers of Washington, who must contend not only with consciences that revolt at the thought of deliberate distortion of Information. but also with the Madison Avenue delusion that political information may be peddled in much the same way as soaps and cerealsand that the same

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immediate effect may be.-expected from a propaganda offensive as from a new spread of' fuUcolor ads. Thus the expectation that the "neutrals' would suddenly recoil from Moscow because It slapped them in the face Is predicated on the super market theory of truth: That the brightest package always sells.

But the neutrals refuse to behave like super-marlvt shoppers and President Kennedy and his "psywar" people are suddenly smack up against the choice: To brave it out with the Miltonic view that If we tell the truth about ourselves and our purposes In the world that truth will ultimately prove stou-ter than the Soviets cynical lies or to begin to give ground too Pavlov, who showed what could be done with dogsand human beingsby cynical manipulation.

Will the werld belong to Pavlov or to Milton? That seems to be the question; and If It is we surely have little choice. Once the free society begins to deal In the slogans, slanders, half truths, distortions and ter-roistlc Inconsistencies of the totalitarian. once it adopts the view that truth is to be shaped to need/like a piece of put^y. It may well match the day-to-' day tactics of the enemy. But in the process it may have debased its own values and i>re-tense beyond repair and put Itself permanently out of touch with the rules of evidence.

Sometimes, admittedly, it seems rather hopeless. It seemed that way the other day, when Indias Incredible V. K. Khri-shna-Menon maintained at a press conference, against all reason, that American underground tests are a greater menace to human life than Russian atmospheric tests. What can one do about such perversity? On our premises., there is only on thing, and that is to counter lies with the evidence and the truth In the hope that some of it will go on seeping through. By accepting the cynical tools that might win a few brief battles of propaganda, the U. S/ would risk losing the war of values that lies at the fundament of the cold' war.

Their parents tried for a time to keep the family together, the society reports, but eventually decided they should be offered DT-^ adoption.

8o now ths little girls wait. They each have a new dress which, it has been decided, they Will wear when they first meet their new parents. ^

For little girls this means a lot. They can fondle their dresses and dream of the day when they will wear them. This is'the day someone will come for them and give them the love they crave.

Just two little girls. Whether anyone ever comes or not, they will grow to adulthood with or without parents. But if new parents dont come they wall grow up without icnowlng the fond embrace of a loving father or mother.

Couples who woxxld like to talk W'ith the Childrens Home about the possibility of adopting the two little sisters are invited to write Childrens Home Society representative in Oreenville at 104 W. Longmeadow Road, or the office In Greensboro, P.O. Box 6587.

Pitt County Fair may be coming to town next week but Greenvilles most famous thrill ride has already been eliminated..

Once a permanent fixture here, this particular ride was more breathtaking than the tUt-a-whirl, the Perris Wheel or the loop-the-loop.

All you needed to participate was an automobile, preferably one wth weak springs.

Im referring, of coiu*se, to the dips in the pavement of E. Tenth St. There w'as the time back in the days of the 45-mile per hour speed limit when the fiendish drive could crack the unsuspepting passengers cranium on the car top.

Then the Highway Commission or somebody dropped the speed limit to 35 miles hour. Even this wasnt so bad.

With a little practice the driver could still rattle your teeth by hitting the sunken por-tions of the pavement Just,right.

But, alas, some kill Joy has come along with asphalt and filled the dips In. Now E. Tenth St. if Just another 35-mlle per hour ride.

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"It is not too soon for men everywhere to Jerk their heads from the sand and contemplate for ft while the nature of nuclear war.Richmond News Leader. ,

By GEORGE E. SOKOL.SKY Copyright, 1961, King Features , Syndicate. Ihc.

Robert HIU served in India. Cofita Rica. El Salvador and Mexico. In Mexico he was Umt-^ed' States Ambassador.

In 1957, Dr. Milton Eisenhower came to Mexico and was A house guest at the Embassy. Ambassador Hill testified:

"The . S. Embassy in Mexico was very concerned about the Cuban problem and how it would affect our relations with Mexico. We felt that with Dr. Elsenhower coming to Mexico, it woid give us an opportunity to at least give him our point of view regarding the danger of Castro and Communism in Cuba and how It might affect the relations between the Unit-

'ed States and Mexico."

Ambassador Hill had tried to get this information before the State Department and President Eisenhower but had not been very successful. He hoped that he might use Dr. Milton Elsenhowers presence in Mexico for a briefing on the Cuban'situation. AmbaMador H1 found that hia presentation of the sitution about eight months after Castro took power was opposed by William Wieland, chief of the Cuba and Mexico desk of the State Department. During the long briefiiit of Dr. Milton Eisenhower, which took place on an airplane, each time any oL the Embassy people described Castro as a Communist or the Cuban Revolution as a Communist movement, the statement was denied by Wieland. The argument reached such heat that Colonel Glawe said that "Wieland was either a damn fool or a Communist.

Mr. Sourwine, the counsel for the Internal Security Subcommittee. asked;

"Did Mr. Wieland assert to Dr. Eisenhower that Castro was not a CoTnmunist or was not surrounded or influenced by them?"

To this. Ambassador Hill replied:

"In every instance where we tried to present Communist infiltration in the government of Castro' it was met with a rebuff by Mr. Wieland."

Ambassador Hill began sending information to the Secre-' tary of State as early as 1957. Such dispatches continued until 1960. The dispatches were usually addressed to the Secretary of State but according to State Department procedure, they passed over- William Wielands desk. Ambassador Hill referriiig to information that came from the State Department testified: The dispatches were usually addressed to the Secretary of 'State but according to State Department procedure, they passed over William Wielands desk. Ambassador Hill referring to information that came from the State Department testified:

"On occasion. I wrote the Department of State, cited my differences of opinion and said I thought it was unfortunate that these pro-Castro documents were being circulated among the embassies around the world, because this man was evil and w.ould cause embarrassment and trouble^for the United States. Regarding the San Salvador meeting of American ambassadors held in April 1959, more than three months after Castro took power in Cuba, Ambassador Hill says:

"My opinion was that the meeting was designed to set the poli--Jfcy of patiepce and foji^arance ^In dealing with Mr.

"I took issue with Ambassa-^ dor Bonsai, because I felt that, ' despite - his excellent presental-tlon. . . .that patience and fort bearance in dealing with a Com! munist would lead to desaster for the United States."

mil said, ". . .well, I think now we have an opportunity to Judge whether it is a third country position or whether it A Communism. I say it has been Communist from the start, beginning on January 1, 1959, when he came to power. He completely destroyed the militaiy, one of the first moves, destroyed the bureaucracy. His technicians were from Communist China and Moscow. I assume they werent there advocating a third country position: that they were there promoting Communism As one reads Ambassador Hills testimony. It becomes clear . that the State Department and the CTA had ample (Continued on Pago 6)

Giyersification By 2 Big Chains

The

mVMOBIU

is coming

By ELMER ROESSNER

Two big departures in merchandising announced thhs week represent a new kind of diversification.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. IK)l'GLASS LAW A.ND LIBERTY

Is there a conflict between lawr and liberty? >

Many would insist there is. Law, they say, means restraint. When we operate under any law. be it a tralfio reguiauon or one of the great commandments of Ood Himself, we operate under restraint. Law, therefore, means restraint; liberty means doing what we want to do.

Such a position is wholly and tragically mistaken. Law and liberty are complementary terma. There can be no helpful law which does not ivolve liberty and emerge into a wiser Use of liberty. Traffic regulations arc not made to annoy us but to protect us. Laws against (^ime are designed to keep the general pub- -

lie from being imposed upon and# enslaved by the actions of a criminal minority. Good parents require their children to do certain thlnga. They do thia, first because they want,their homes to be peaceable, and second, because they want their children and their behaviour to fit into the requirements of a law abiding seelsty.

. Remember that If you accept law or any binding regulation In the right spirit It will Increase for you the possibility really to to be fret. When law is made an end instead of a means It becomes selfish and repressive.

Law and liberty work together. The one balances the other. The one fulfills ihe other. They are both necessary to the living of a full and significant life.

These departures were the announcement of the F. W. Woolworth Co., that It was planning its first department store in Columbus, Ohio, and the merger of Montgomery Ward with Interstate Department Stores#which operates 63 stores, 31 o them discount houses.

The ventures are actually more extensive thsn first appears. The Woolworth stores, to open next spring, will b the first of a chain. The chain can be expected to grow pretty fast-, too. Woolworths open secret of success Is 'volume buying and In the department store field, volume buying will require 10 or So stores.

The Monty Ward program .does not end with the Interstate deal, either. It Is planning 12 ad-dltlozuil full - line department stores next year and may be preparing other outlets.

THE NEW DIVERSIFICATION

There has been considerable diversification In the past fif

teen years, but most of it has been t spreading out into different kinds of products. Manufacturers of industrial goods have frequently branched outer merged in consumer products. Other manufacturers have gone into retailing operations; retailers have gone into manufacturing.

The purpose of this diversification was to have operations in different fields. Then if government buying slowed dow'n, a corporation could be carried by sales in the consumer field; if consumer sales lagged, a diversified corporation could step up activities in industrial area.

But the Woolworth and Monty Ward deals are entirely In the consumer field. Nonetheless, they are diversifications.

There have been almost tidal shifts in consumer buying in re-

Income Improvement seems to have had another effect. The

poppa - and - momma grocery stores have not done very well

cent years. Shoppers have swung from downtown stores to subur

ban centers>and some have swung back again. People have shifted from old-line stores to discount houses and often,, as income rose* from discount stores to swank service and credit stores.

FOLLOWINQ THl DOLLAR

with supermarket competition, but the luxury food stores have been doing better than ever.

As the* economy fluctuates, there will be other changes in .shoppmg patterns. And knowledge of this' Is behind the new diversification.

MerchsiKlising organizations want to be wherever people buy. If people's wants can be filled in either a variety store or a department store, Woolworth will be there. If they want service and credit. Monty Ward can serve them at an Interstate store: If they want discount prices, Monty Ward can catch them at an interstate discount shop.

This follow-the-dollar diversification Is not new. Woolworth long ago forsook five-and-dime operations for constantly higher price brackets; department stores everywhere hgve established branches In the suburbs; drug glares have added appliances; supermarkets have added drugs (where state laws permit); one mail-order chain is setting up order-taking offices in gu suuons; many department

stores. Secretly of openly, maintain discount houses,'

But the Woolworth and Monty Ward moves are addin? new impetus to the trend aqd you can expect many other merchandisers to broaden the range of their outlets.

NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO READ FOR PROFIT

Among new books of possible value to businessmen are::

"Pension Trends and the Self-Employed." by Richard M. Cor-,bett: 156 pages, Ruthers University Press. $4 50. An explanation of the Keogh bUl, which may some day be passed, which would permit the self-employed to minimize taxes in financing their own pension plans.

"The Marketing Job," edited ^by Elizabeth Martmg; 448 pages, American Management Assn., 99. Porty-aeven marketing expert* contribute to a aympoelum on the respocsibiliUea o the vice president In charge of marketing and Is staff.

"The Art and 8kiU of Getting Along with People" by Sylvan ua M, Duvall; 240 pages, Prentice-Hall, $4.95. Some fresh thought* on this subject, for others as well as buslnesmen. -

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