Tuesday, October Id, 1961

For Civilian Defense

Day Proved This A College Town

If there were any doubts about Greenvilles being a college town they should have been dispelled Saturday with the gigantic homecoming celebration at East Carolina College and the influx of people the occasion brought to Greenville. ^

The hom^^ming parade through Greenvilles business districtSaturday morning -was impressive, but it was only a part of the overall picture. The standing-room-only crowd which jammed College Stadium Saturday afternoon for the hoipecoming football game testified to the throng of people attracted to Greenville by .the event at the college.

While these and other planned events testified to the presence of something big going on in the city Saturday, their total impact probably would not compare with the impact made throughout the city by the greatly increased amount of traffic on Greenvilles streets Saturday. Before game-time Saturday morning and after the football game a Saturday afternoon,

Greenvilles streets wer literally jammed with autos, T*r.l

not only in the vicinity of the college, but throughout TT C |M||c4>

the business district and in the outlying sections of the U-O. 1^1 UDI VV ULWXX

city.

And if one took time to notice the license plates on the vehicles it was apparent that they represented not only this immediate area, but other areas of North Carolina and parts of Virginia.' Homecoming at East

Carolina College brought mny people to Greenville,, as well as to the'college. The eyent indicated the growing importance of the college to its alumni and increasing impact special events at the college have upon this community as a whole. ^

The 1961 homecoming event at East Carolina suggested^ new level of maturity for the support of the institution by its alumni and friends from all parts of* North. Carolina; and reflected a strength of support froni other sections of the'state that has not before been equalled.

The celebr||tion and its impact upon this community is another indication not only of the growing recognition of the importance of East Carolina to the state as a whole, but its importance to this community as well.

Reaching Point Where

! factors Making ?or A Candidate

Bj LYNN MSBET

QUALIFICATIONS A group of politically-minded got to talking the other night about the qualifications of a candidate for Governor as distinguished from his capacity to make a good execuUvc. What they were looking for was a pattern, if any there is. to which current and . Immediately prospective candl-daciea might be fitted. They did not discover any very clearly denned list of qualifications for a successful candidate. Remember we are not talking about the qualifications of a Governor, but only of the factors that tend to make a man an acceptable can-lUdate for that ofce.

Of the ten latest Governors McLean through Sanfordfour had no prior State legislative experience. They were A. W. McLean (1925-29). W. Kerr Scott (1949-53), William B Um-atead (1953-54) and Luther Hodges (1954-61). Two Governors within this period had prior service in the Congress. Clyde R. Hoey (1937-41) served one term In the House of Representatives and did- not seek re-election; Umstead served six years In the National House and two In the . S. Senate.

Governor Max Gardner (1929-S3I, J. C. B. Ehringhaus (1933-37), Clyde Hoey (1937-41), J. M. Broughton (1941-45), Gregg Cherry (1945-49), and Terry Sanford (1961), each had served one or. more terms in the State Legislature.

Gardner had been president pro tern of the Senate and then Lieutenant Governor, and Cherry had been Speaker of the House these posts being essentially . statewide offices.

PUBLIC EYE Although McLean, Scott, Umstead and Hodges had never served in the Legislature they had been for some years before their election as Governor very much in the public eye. During the Wilson administration, around World War 1 time. McLean held several high brass positions with the Federal governmentincluding assistant secretary of the treasury. Scott had been Master of. the State Grange and a high level officer in the Federal farm loan set up. as well as elected Commissioner of Agriculture for 12 years. Besides his service in both branches of the Congress. Unwtead had- been Democratic state chairman during trying times for the party. Hodges had uever held state elective office qntil he ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1952 and started on the way up to the top, but he had served in State as a highway commissioner, and worked with the post-war rehabilitation program in Germany ,_and in other capacities with Washington agen

cies.

NO PATTERN Of these ten latest Governors all were' lawyers, except Scott and Hodges, but It was common knowledge that McLean devoted more attention to business administration than to the practice of law, and Gardner and Broughton had extensive business interests.

Ages of the Governors when they assumed office range from 60 down to 44. Counting years only without regard to the months which might make difference, and using the date of Hodges inauguration after his own election as Governor, the ages listed in the State Manual are: McLean 55; Gardner 47; Ehrlnghaus 51; Hoey 60; Broughton 53; Cherry 54; Scott 53; Umstead 58, and Sanford 44.

Conclusion is Inescapable that there Is no strict pattern, but precedent 'indicates the next Governor will have had some statewide experience in politics and will be in the age range of 44 to 60 years.

POLITICS The historic record further Indicates that the "good candidate for Governor will be a Democrat, neither very-far to right or left of center in his individual philosophy. The people have demonstrated many times that they do not want, either a reactionary, or even a standpatter, any more than they want a rabid liberal. When choice was offered the mlddle-roader was taken. The trend for some years has been toward liberalism.

Geography will have some bearing, but not as much as many people think. If the east-west rotation is observed the next Governor will come from the west. For that ^reason residence west of Greensboro could be an asset in the campaign for the nomination. Of the ten latest Governors only one, Eh-ringhaus of Pasquotank, came from the east of Raleigh, while three. Gardner and Hoey of Cleveland and Cherry of Gaston came from west of Charlotte, (Before you get excited and challenge that statement, look at the map. Fayetteville and Lumberton are west of a north-south line drawn through Raleigh.)

Economic geography is far more significant than physical geography, and as the east becomes more industrialized and travel moves closer to manufacturing as a major factor in industrj, place of residence loses a p p e a 1and economic tenets gain.

Remember, all this has been about the qualifications of candidates for Governor, and many of the specifications have noth-Ihg to do with the ability or willingness of the man who is elected to serve the whole state.

Between now and the time Congress reconvenes in January there may appear a significant change in the administration attitude toward federal spending overseas because of dollar difficulty this country is facing.

The tremendous drain on American dollars through military and economic aid to foreign countries in the past 16 years is beginning to catch up with the United States. The gold reserves of the country were depleted at a rapid rate during the second half of 1960 and although improvement in the situation appeared in the early part of this year, there has continued to be a deficit in dollar balances of the United States overseas.

In a nutshell, the United States is reaching the point where a sudden move by other nations to convert their dollars into gold could present b serious crisis to this country.

It appears that the spending policies of the United States ;in the future-particularly with reference to overseas spendingwill be governed to a great extent by the position of the dollar and the gold reserves of this country. The policies of the administration toward military and economic aid to other countries may be limited by the situation faced by the dollar in the world market.

In recent months there have been attempts by the administration to have other Western nations assume a larger share of economic aid to weak and underdeveloped nations. There is every reason to expect that the United States will continue to urge its allies to accept a larger share of the total burden. There is also reason to expect that the administration will not find itself in a position to recommend to Congress all that it would like in the way of foreign aid and military spending overseas during the coming year.

Although the situation now is not critical, it is serious and it .cjpuld become critical. The administration and the ongress must see to it that the United States maintains a strong economic position in the world, for if we unduly weaken our economic position, we would be in just as grave a danger internationally as we would if we unduly weaken our military position.

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By PATRICIA MOORE

Yellow Jacket Menace

We ere writing about'e rather unhappy subject, at least for us: yellow jackets.

Our earliest memory of yellow jackets was some 12 or 13 years ago when we were playing football, about this time of the year, and someone threw the football into a bush. Gallantly, we ran to catch it, backed into the thriving bush and succeeded in catching the ball. We also backed into a nest of yellow jackets and caught about seven stingers in the back. (Yes, this was us in our days of better physical fitness.)'

80 it was fitting that our memory be refreshed the other day as we stood watching the E.C.C. homecoming parade, minding our o(^ti business. There was a prick, a brush of the arm, and we saw the little beast fly away, apparently unscathed. He was successful in his attack on our unprotected arm.

However, with the aid of wet tobacco and alcohol (the rubbing kind) we were able to snuff enough of the sting to look pre

sentable^ the rest of the day without undue strain. *

Yet, we remembered the event enough not to Want to go through It again.

Yesterday, as we stood trying to feed a city parking meter with pennies, a yellow jacket jealously guarded the feeding place for the coin. We watched him, and he watched us.

Finally, in a gesture of brav-Ity, we struck with on of our several notebooks, holding the other as a shield. He flew from the coin machinearound and around us, at us, over us and again perched on the meter. Then he lighted in the tree above -=- we didnt take our eyes off him.

We-cautiously approached the meter again and , tried to get the money in; it stuck, then dropped. The yellow jacket was back at his post glaring at us.

You can understand our dilemma. We wanted to give the city the pennies; we didnt want a parking ticket, but the situation resolved Itself to our getting stung or not getting

stung, so we decided our mem-,ory had been refreshed sufficiently as far as yellow Jackets are concerned.

So we ran.

Of Anger. Fear 9*^^ Editors saying .

___________________________________Travel Is Big Business

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By RICHARD OREGAN

BERLIN (AP)Berlins street of hate and fear seems to seethe with frustrated anger.

. Perhaps nowhere on earth do two worldsEast and West face each other with such precarious uncertainty, such heated emotion and human tragedy as on Bernauerstrasse.

On the Communist side of the street, green-helmeted Communist police finger their automat- ^ ic rifles. They watch anxiously , from the windows and ledges of apartment houses.

In the West, a silent crowd of free men also watches and waits.

Nobody really knows why they are waiting. Another Esust Berlin family to try to jump into Western fire nets and escape from communism? Another exchange of shots between East and West police?

"Something violent could happen here any moment. a worried West Berlin policeman says as he and scores of others try to keep the crowds moving.

"They are angry with everybody, They are furious with the Communist police. .They are angry with the Western powers for doing nothing. They are frustrated with their own helplessness.

Bernauerstrasse Is a mile long and 40 yards wide. As you enter it on a brisk, sunny October morning, it look.s at first like any other street in Berlin. Six-story, stone-faced apartment houses built for middle class and work-Ing famllie.s are on both sides.

Street car No. 2 rumbles down the center and the autumn leaves are toa.sed under Its wheels bv soft breezes.

But slowly Bernauerstrasse becomes the chilling dead end of the Western world.

"Papa, papaa small boys shrill voice points to the sidewalk on the EAST.

The pavement Is empty, up and down as far as you can see In either direction. Nobody walks there. No cars are park->ed., There is only a small vase of red carnation.4,

"Thats where an East Berliner died you are told. "He

was on a roof over there. The Communist police shot at him. The West Berlin police shot back. He jumped for a net and missed.

The sidewalk In the West Is crowded* with people workingmen coming home for their midday meal, an old woman in a wheel-^hair, tough leather-jacketed teen-agers. Most eyes are filled with hostility.

A young woman with a baby, anxiety expressed in her features, peers intently toward the East and raises her hand hesitantly.

Then she waves toward the East, perhaps to a mother, or aunt. As she waves, her eyes go to a Communist policeman across the street.

"Look, look at it and remember. a sullen West Berliner says to an American, He points across the street. "It is as hideous as the Nazi concentration camps. It is one giant prison.

The six-story apartment buildings on the East have the appearance of penitentiary walls. AU non-trusted Communists have been' evacuated and the windows of vacant apartments have been bricked up.

A Communist poUceman stands half-conoealcd behind a window. Another hides at a comer. One appears from nowhere. Two more watch a worker fill up a fifth-floor window. Another helmet can barely be seen on a roof.

Armed men are virtually the only sign of humanityexcept for an old woman, sitting at her high window, staring at the West, a bird-cage beside her.

The streets Intersecting Bem-auerstrasse are blocked by 12-foot walls of concrete blocks. All you can see over them are the green helmets of Communist police and. the barrels of their rifles. They stand on raised platforms on the other side.

Suddenly there is a distant flutter of something white. The face of the woman with the baby on the Western sidewalk breaks into happiness, She waves furiously and then .stops as the flutter in the E^t dusap-pears. ,

(Henderson Dispatch)

Travelers spent approximately m08 million In North CaroUna last year, a figure pegged at four and a half per cent above 1959, according to a survey conducted by the Travel Council of North Carolina.

The report revealed that dollar volume has mushroomed by 167 per cent in the period of twelve years since 1948.

That means the travel industry has become the third largest industry in the Tarheel state and has become a vital factor in the states economy. The figures should not be forgotten in future planning, both by individuals and communities.

Expenditures by travelers from outside the state were estimated at $245 million and by Tarheels traveling In their own state at $163 million.

Total sales receipts of businesses at the service of travelers were figured at $810 million, with the largest portion going to service stations, $552 mil-licai. Eating places earned $181 million of the total and lodging places $58 million.

The report was presented early this week at the meeting of the Travel CouhcU in Winston-Salem, President Lynn Nisbet, of Raleigh, observed that the Increase has resulted from new attractions and highways in the Variety Vacationland and because more people are travel

ing everywhere.

And so travel Is big business. One has only to drive on the highways a few miles to be convinced that people are on the move.' They are visiting the beaches, the mountains, sites of historical interest and just plain sightseeing and joyriding. Undoubtedly, too, growth In industrialization throughout North Carolina is no smaU factor in the travel business, since expanding commerce (iemands increasing travel on the job-^ What does that mean to home town folks? We enjoy joining in the parade for our own vacations and business activities, but much more than that, Henderson and the Vance county area might and must be alert to opportunities for attracting a fair share of that $406 million into local channels.

It cannot be denied that the opportunities are here. The local area has several of the leading highway, rail and bus routes in the nation and certainly one of the major recreation facilities in the State in huge Kerr reservoir. Too, there are a number of historical' sites of considerable interest.

If we are bypassed by the travelers, it may be that weU have only ourselves to blame. As the competition grows stlf-fer. Itll be those who remain on the alert who may expect to reap the benefits.

Dont forget to balance your account with the Pitt County bloodbank. The Red Cross bloodmobile will be in Greenville Friday at St. Pauls Episcopal Church from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. We understand the Pitt County account is a little overdrawn, with more blood used here than has been collected and deposited in the bloodbank. 'The quota for GreenviUe is 125 pints.

Strength.

For To(day

Bv EARL L- DOUGLASS

IT ALL STARTS HERE

The basis of moral character Is self-control. You may have many gifts, you may have a mil-'lion-dollar personality. If, however, you lack self-control you do not have moral character, and you will never have moral character unless or until you develop self-control.

Certain things are required of every ship that sails the seas. In the first place, it must have some form of propulsionsails, engines, or both. Also it must have an anchor to hold it fast at the end of the voyage. It must have a compass. It must have a crew, and it should have a* cargo. Most important of all It must have a rudder.

Now when we move these things over into the realm of moral conduct we see how necessary the rudder and the compass are to furnish us direction. We know that we must have power if we are to move away from the docks and keep on going. We should have a cargo that is. we should be engaged in handling something useful.

A ship gets out of control unless a crew properly equipped can keep it in control. A life easily gels out of control. Just as the mariner has to know where he is going, has to be able to set his direction, has to have power, has to have an anchor, so we have to have all the elements of self-control if we are to get through the voyage of life happily and successfully.

All sound moral character begins with self-conti ol.

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"Observation dyected at the cynical in nature; If you cant say something nice about a person, go ahead and say it anyway.' Somebody is bound to enjoy it.Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont.

Symbo..

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

To build or not to build is the great question of the day. Up to a few months ago. the compulsion was to build a swimming pool. Who could possibly have any status at all unless a tub of green water lay on hla lawn for aU to see? Some-timea, they even put on bathing suits and lay In the sun or If the weather was warm enough, they hopped in and swam about for va few minutes. It was a beautiful sight to beholdbut most of the time the pool just lay there serving neither man nor fish, but giving evidence of status.

But now it is a bomb shelter and they dig it deep and pro-victe 30 days of food and water and the fancier ones have a bat^ -tery room from which can come light and heat with an oil supply to last exactly 30 days. This business has not yet reached boom proportions. Anyone jvho wiU not own a private bomb shelter will have no status at allJust a bum who will be killed by an A or H bomb or a faUout.

Of course, as time and hysteria move their merry way, the bomb shelters will be dug deeper and deeper and perhaps they WiU be connected by underground sidewalks and later by an underground road system so that automobiles will be able to move hither and thither. It will. truly be wonderful to live In underground caves. Only the poor wlU live above ground. They, will see grass and trees and roads and*the sky but they will have no status. And when tha bomb falls, they will be kiUed first and there will be no one to bury them.

But what happens if no bomb falls? We shaU, of course, have another boom. This time. It will - be to convert shelters into playrooms. And there wiU be clever manufacturers who will make special kinds of barbecues for a party down underneath and it ;wiU be fun to- dress like the 'Devil and to roast a pig or a goat on a spit, the Devil acting as chef. Special music wiU be writen for such an occasion and the recording business will boom seUing HeU music and there wiU be special costumes for all sorts of occasions and jokers wiU desire ideas like exchanging wives and having orgies about which books will b written and . sold by the million.

There will be a boom converting shelters Into evidences of leisure and luxury. And whoever WiU not own an underground play-room will be a poor simp who did not make the ' grade. It is like not having money enough to Join a country club or to change the porch furniture every summer.

Television wiU thrive on these booms. Beautiful girls with weU modulated voices and long finger-nails will be used as models for all sorts of devices of luxury and idleness. And the poor dears wiU eat no food that adds to ones figure an ounce of flesh. In fact, already food substitutes are being advertised. so that a girl drlnds her breakfast to keep her hips flat.

And so there will be another boom because the doctors will discover that thinness is bad for the lungs and awful for the feet and that everyone should eat real food, such as meat and butter and bread. Then the researchers will rediscover how grand-mother made pop-overs and how good fried mush was if true maply syrup was used with it.

And 80 the cycle of life turns even as the Earth and all the stars turn In their rhj-thmic way and we shall be back where we started, eating an Ice cream sundae covered up with marshmallows and chopped walnuts and adding 500 calories with each dish, as boy looks into the lovely eyes of girl and thinks of the babies to come who wUl live in an uncontaminated world.

I have been in tfshelter deep in a mountain and down very far, but then that was built so that if war ever come, we could . go on fighting no matter what the Russians blew up. It looked like a comfortable place and must have cost lots of millions to build and furnish. But there was no live cow and so steaks hanging in the ice-box and nothing on hand but .synthetic rations that taste like chocolate bars. Somebody said that was is hell and we sure are preparing for a life in hell. '

A Role For The Male Secretary

Opinions In Brief

' You rant stop trouble from romlng, but you doyt have to give it a chair to sit on.Dawson County (Oa.) New.

Try praising yaur wifeeven if it doea frighten her at first. The Bluejacket, Memphis. Tenn.

"To those who know Luther Hodges it eminently in

character for him to suggest, In no uncertain terms, that many areas designated as de

pressed should pull out of the federal aid program and conduct their own economic deve-flopment projects.-^Greensboro Daily Newq.

"'The attitude of the Department of Agriculture under Mr. Freeman, reflected In Its strengthening of support prloe.s, has been a factor in the high retjurn which tobacco farmers are currently receiving.Tha Bmith-field Herald.

By ELMER ROE.SSNER What ever happened to the male secretary?

Around the turn of the century ever office had its bright young men who could take short-hand, type, file, write ujj a phone order, do the Bosss Christmas shopping or run down to the local bookie and place a bet for him on the fifth race at Belmont,

He might, if the boss trusted him or If he were a relative, even do a little bookkeeping.

If he was really good, he usually worked into the ^ales staff or fiscal section and there was always the promise of maybe a management job or-at the high-e.stmarrying the bo.s daughter. He generally had a deeper Interest in the bu.slness than his female counterpart today; didnt require 15-minute breaks morning and afternoon, and hardly ever broke into tears, when bawled out.

.IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE.S When that great day of marriage came, he didnt quit and teU the boss to drop dead, but usually became more aggressive,

more dependable, more productive and, in general, a more valuable employee.

And a baby in the family didnt mean a long or permanent absence from the Job. It meant still harder work and longer hours for that new pair of shoe.s.

Yet. today, the male secretary is almost as extinct as the crackar barrel, the horse-(Mtr and Omiir cigarettes. In his place sits a lovely young thing fresh out of Katy Gibbs, or a young matron who is off at the crack of 5 p.m, to cook her husbands dinner, or a graying lady who spends her spare moments in the office knitting sweaters for her grandchildren.

This is not to ,say that women secretaries arent valuable or that American business (and the Government too, for that matter) wouldnt fall flat on its face if a good portion of them quit \i the same time. But Isnt there a real place for the male secretary, particularly a;t the executive level?

Top executives nowadays usually work their way up through the management section <mt

through sales. What better place to start promising young men than right in the bosss office where they can know everything (well, almost everything) the boss does and thinks? .NEW TITLE NEEDED

A new title would have to be invented because an ambitious young man would shudder at being called a secretary *as much as he would if he were called a nurse (yet there are male nurses. A title like Admlnistary, Executorlan, Quartermaster or just plain Corner might do.

He would need the usual secretarial training to get the job but should be given promise of increasing authority and responsibility in management. He w'ouldnl have to be promised the bosss daughter in marriage but the possibility - of a branch managership or the head of a department would substitute.

The company would have the advantage of a long-trm, executive-type secrtary and upcoming young men trained in managements attitudes, outlook and methods. Besides, tbera

would be less turnover in secretarial help. The male secretaries would likely have longer employment records than women and the female secretanc.s would be less likely to drift with an unmarried Admlnistary m the shop.

(This column, of course, Is being bootlegged past my female secretary.)

SHORT AND SIGNIFICANT BITS AND BUSINESS Buslne.ss librarians might note the conclusion of the American Library Association; when a book Ls worn out. it la foollsii U> donate it to other organizations; better tear off and bum the covers and sell the pages as waste paper. . French brandies, other than Cognac and Armagnao, shipped into the United States must now be accompanied by cerUficates -f Identification and analysis, unuer a new Internal Revenue Service rule. . .The September estimate Indicates that the seasons coffee crop will be the second largest in history. portonding#* sUU lower prices.