Tuesday, October 24, 1961 ...

Proof Of Greenville's Pride In ECC

Greenvilles positive, instantaneous and spontane- adequate stadium befitting an educational institution ous response to the appeal from East Carolina College of its size. They provide sufficient funds to guarantee for funds with which to construct the proposed James the college that it would have its stadium, and the S. Ficklen Stadium has left no^room for question about pledges and money are still flowing to the colleges how Greenville feels toward East Carolina College. Educational Foundation for the project. There is no ^ , , . . A doubt that the quarter million dollar figure for the

The very fact that business firms, organizations gtadium, which to some seemed staggering when it and individuals in Greenville came forward in one announced severaLdays ago, will be forthcoming ^weeks time with pledges of more than $210,000 with fj-om this community for the project, which to construct this new facility at the college.

shows the kind of enthusiastic support there is in . . Accompljshment *hould indicate to the ad-Greenville for East Carolina College. It is a tribute to ministration, the staff and the student body that their the college and to the love which the people of this msmution has the unequivocal support of Greenville, community have for it. It shows conclusively that East snould also indicate to the people throughout North Carolina College is not located in a community which Carolina that Greenville is indeed proud of East Caro-is passive to its needs or desires. College and the service it is now rendering to

state. It further reflects the great confidence M, The feat which has been accomplished in Green- Greenville has in the future of the college as it con-yille in these past few days is likewise a tribute to tinues to make an increasingly important contribution the businesses and to the people of this city, for never building a better North Carolina.

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before has so large an amount of money been secured for a public project in so short a time. In the space of one week business firms,, organizations and individuals of Greenville responded generously to the expressed desire of East Carolina College to have an

And last, but not least, it shows Greenville itself that no undertaking is too great, no task is insurmountable, no challenge too formidable for the community to accept when it sets its heart and mind on accomplishment.

GhoirrnQriship A Fitting Tribute Given

SteDDinastone Peacemak~

By LYNN N1SBET

STEPPING STONE Current speculation about whether Bert Bennett will be a candidate for the . S. Senate next year against Sam J, Ervin. Jr. or for Governor In 1964 in a wide open field, suggests review pi the position of State Democratic Chairman as a stepping stone to high political office. The record for the past 30 years would Indicate that it is a valuable asset. For some years prior to 1932 the post apparently afforded no advantage to its holders for further advancement, except In the status of advisory elder statesmen.

Records In the Democratic state headquarters go back less than 20 years. Prior to the early 1940s no permanent records were kept, each successive chairman having to begin a new campaign de novo, and when he retired he either took with him as personal property or destroyed the records.

During the 1944 campaign then Chairman William Umstead purchased some filing cabinets and when the campaign was over he rented storage spacebut without anybody in charge of the files. It was not until 1950 when .Everett Jordan was chairman that office quarters for the party were obtained in the Sir Walter Hotel. Since then Mrs. W. P (Elizabeth) Johnston has kept the store. for several years on part time basis but lately fulltime. Also just last year Chairman Bennett exercised authority granted in 1932 to employ a full time executive assistant and field man. in the person of Dr. Wallace Hyde.

Information on .which the following report is based was obtained from numerous unofficial sources, mainly newspaper files. It appears that 20 men have served as chalrjpiaA of the State Democratic committee since 1900, and ten of them have moved on to high political office. '

CHAIRMEN - As listed here the chairmen are identified with the biennial campaigns they managed rather than the calendar dates marking their tenure. Pumlfold M. Simmons was named chairman in 1892 and served through 1906, longest tenure of any chairman on record. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1901 and served until 1931, also the longest tenure of any North CaroUan in that office For the next 30 years no chairman moved up to big office.

Simmons was succeeded in 1908 by Hugh G. Chatham of Elkin, who was followed In 1910 by A. H. Eller of Winaton-Sa-lem. succeeded by Charles A. Webb of AahevUle in 1912. Thomas D. Warren of New Bern took over In 1914 and continued until succeeded by John D- Norwood of Salisbury in 1920. John O. Dawson of Kinston became chairman in 1924 and bandied

two campaigns. O. M. Mull of Sh-*lby took the helm in 1928 'the A1 Smith year) and 1930. He was succeeded in 1932 by Wallace Winbome of Marlon. Mull originated the idea of the congressional district rallies In 1930, but It was under Winbornc in 1932 that they were made a definite part of the campaign strategy.

Wlnborne served through 1938, was appointed to the Supreme Court the next year (now is Chief Justice) becoming the first state chairman since Simmons to get a high office. He was succeeded In 1938 by Gregg Cherry of Gaston, who six years later became Governor. Emery B. Denny of Gastonia was named chairman in 1940, was appointed tf the Supreme Coiu-t the next year and succeeded by Monroe Redden of Hendersonville, who went to Congress in 1946 and served until voluntary retirement six years later.

William B. mstead Uof Durham became chairman in 1944, handled the campaign that year and in 1948, resigned after his appointment to the U. S. Senate and was succeeded for a brief Interim term by W. P. Horton of Plttsboro. After his defeat for election to the Senate, Um-stead was elected Governor in 1952. Horton was appointed to the superior court bench.

Capus M. Waynlck of High Point was chairman in 1948, resigned a few months later to go to Nicaragua and later Columbia a.' ambassador, and Everett Jordan of Saxapahaw was named chairman, Jordan handled the campaign of 1950 and 1952. after which he switched to the post of National Committeeman and John D. Larkins, Jr.. of Trentr on became chairman, serving through the 1954 and 1956 election campaigns.

Jordan waa appointed and then elected to the U.S. Senate,, and Larkins was recently sworn in ar Junior Judge of the Eastern N. C. District Federal court.

Woodrow Jones of Ruthcrford-ton, who already had an excellent record as State legislator and member of the Congress, became chairman in 1958 and served until replaced by incumbent Bert Bennett of Wii\-ston-Salem Ust summer. Jones is currently being boosted as a candidate for Governor In 1964, and Bennett's name figures In nearly all speculation about that race and also the senatorial race In 1962

GOVERNORS - The story has dealt only with state chair-mea. not with the Governors or other political forces behind them. The fact is, while some chalrn>en have later defected or deflected he was when named a sort of personal representative of the Governor, And whatever happened to past or incumbent chairmen cannot be separated from prestige of the chief executive.

Awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1961 tp the late Dag Hammarskjold is another fitting tribute to the man who gave life and force to the United Nations from 1953 until his death September 18.

There are few men in this generation whose effons toward establishing a stable and lasting peace were more effective than those of Hammarskjold as he held the post of secretpry-general of the United Nations. His efforts were kot always successful, and at times he was the target of abuse from members By ALVIN TAYLOR within the organization he represented. Even so, his relentless efforts to bring order out of chaos, to restore stability to countries that threatened to drag the world into global conflict made a genuine contribution to preserving peace during a period when it was threatened on every hand.

Dag Hammar.<?kjold was a peacemaker. He was the appeaser, he was not the timid compromiser. He status was a little different from was a forceful and determined leader for peace who*e the hundreds of other coeds at work will stand as an example to others who will follow in the turbulent field of international relations.

Rare Example Of Loyalty

Ruth Bostlan was a pretty coed at East Carolina Teachers College back in 1947. But her

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By JAME.S MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Premier Khrushchev is doing pretty well for himself, probably better than he expected. It hasnt co.st him much.

He resumed nuclear testing without getting any severe reaction from the neutrals.

He made an issue of West Berlin and seems to have the Allies floundering for a way to deal with him.

He showed the myth In Western talk of reunifying Germany by walling in East Berlin. He used the wall as a symbol of his possession.

In aU this, with his trumpeU ings and threats, he has shown a more persistent leadership than anyone in the West.

He has done the pitching, the West the catching.

Prom the beginning there was a fear in the West that Khrushchev might push his luck too far and create a situation which left no out but war.

Still, he was so clever in his tactics of pressuring the West that he gave an appearance of steadiness.

The most frightening thing is

ot so much what he has done as what he said, Russia would explode a 50-mefaton bomb. American military people have said neither such an explosion nor such a bomb is needed.

Why then do it? There .seems only one answer. Its a terror tactic to show the West and the rest of the world Russian strength.

But there is danger from the fallout of such an explosion. Therefore, this move indicates a certain instability in Khrushchev.

A man who has to make a grand gesture, particularly at the expense of other people, can be considered neither truly sure of himself nor stable.

West Berlin, a Western ouU po.st with We.stem troops 110 mile.s inside Communist East Germany, was an old problem anyway, even though a sore one.

The Russians were certain to do something about It some day. Khinshchev started to do something about it in 1958 and then dropped it.

He waited for the new administration of President Kennedy before stirring up the Berlin issue aRaln.

Months have passed now since he announced he wanted to make

Berlin a "free city without the presence of Allied troops and that the Allies henceforth would have to deal with the East German Communists to get to and from Berlin,

After all this time the Western Allies are still not agreed on how to deal withr Khrushchev on this (me.

For af least a decade it has been a Russian hope somehow to split the Western Allies whose solidarity was an absolute block to Soviet ambitions in Europe.

For Khrushchev, raising the Berlin issuesince the populations of the United States. Prance, Britain and West Germany have varying attitudes toward war over Berlinwas a good way to test AUied solidarity.

It has worked out nicely for him 50 far, with nothing for him to do but sit back and watch.

The United States and Britain want to move toward negotiations.- Negotiations will mean some compromise. But Prance wants no compromise, think its too soon for negotiations.

West Germany apparently is not yet sure how far it wants to go in meeting the Russian demands. or In wanting the United States to.

Khrushchev himself was probably surprised at how little bad reaction he got from the neutrals when he decided to resume his nuclear tests, even though he did it in a cunning way that throws doubt on any future agreements with him.

He and the United States had an agreementperhaps an understanding is the better word not to test. Then suddenly Russia tested. Because it has now had a whole series of tests one conclusion is obvious.

These tests needed plenty of preparations. So Khrushchev, while carefully planning them, gave no indication of it until he was ready to begin.

As for East Germany: The Western powers have collaborated with the West Germans in keeping alive the mjth that East and West Germany could be reunified in the reasonable future.

But when Khrushchev said the West must now deal with the East Germans and when he built the Berlin wall which the Allies did not dare attempt to pull downthe myth wa^ exploded.

the then small college-

Ruth was a veteran. She had been a student at ECTC before, in 1942-43. Then in the midst of World War U she Joined the WAVES, the womens arm of the U S. Navy which was organized during the war.

Victory was* won in 1945 and Ruth returned .to college. Here she was an active physical education majo.'described as a beautiful dancer by those who knew herand a business education minor.

She did well in her studies. College authorities say she was an excellent student. Winding up her Junior year in 1949, the future appeared bright for the 24-year-old Ruth.

Then it all ended. Ruth was swimming in the Pamlico River rear Washington. She dove in, but the w*ater was too shallow and her spinal column was in-Jured.

For 11 years now Ruth has

lain In McGuire Veterans Hospital in Richmond, Va. The unfortunate accident completely paralyzed her.

'But Ruth hasnt given up. About a year ago some one perfected aluminum and leather braces for her arms and hands. By practice, she learned to hold a glass of water and to write with a pencil.

Now, local college authorities report, the indomitable Ruth, is bent on completing her college degree. She is taking correspondence courses from the University of Tennessee. She is taking courses in business administration and also studying anato-^ my and physiology, making superior grades.

With the new found use of her hands, she Is able to tint slides for the histology research division of the Medical College of Virginia, even though she is bedridden.

Thats been pretty much Ruth Bostians life since she was forced by the injury to leave ECTC in 1949.

Whats happened back here since Ruth left is a well known

Other Editors Saying Highway Saturation Helps

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Gov. Sanford said recently he was more than just concerned about the continuing rate of fatalities on North Carolinas highways, Fom now on the governor hopes to take more action and use less words about a problem that is becoming increasingly serious, Multiple-death crackups reccnly have served to spur responsible officials Jo seek remedial action.

One thing being done has helped tremendously. For the past couple 4)f weekends Highway Patrol forces have saturated

highways in Edgecombe County in an effort to reduce accidents. This move has proved very effective. The local Patrol Station is also urging parents to become safety-conscious by trying to deep their children away from roads. Pedestrian fatalities constitute a large percentage of the overall total for the state each year.

What the patrol in the area does is to turn out in force on Friday nights to protect the

traveling public from irresponsible drivers. Besides patroling the roads the officers use electric speed checks and radar, as well as check driver licenses at specified points. All this serves to remind the public of the dangers of irresponsible driving. Some 20 arrests were reported the first weekend the saturation drive was In effect.

The effort will probably continue indefinitely until flagrant

violations are reduced. It would be fine if the saturation scheme could be used in all areas, but since it requires a greater amount of personnel than usual In a smaller area, it would be impossible. Normally, the par trolmcn are scattered over a large area, so their forces are rather thin at best.

Oov. Sanford will appoint a special committee for the purpose of increasing safety. It will coordinate the work of highway engineers and law enforcement officers. More attention will be paid to road building, with safety fea^es in mind. Monthly check /of the committee activities will be made by Sanford and will call for immediate recommendations when two accidents occur at the same spot. That is what happened last week on one stretch of U.S. 70 near Greensboro when two accidents claimed the lives of eight people.

Connecticut has gained the reputation of having one of the best highway safety records in the nation. It wasnt always so. Abraham Ribicoff, then governor of that state, now secretary of welfare, was so sickened by the carnage on the roads he instituted a stringent crackdown. He stepped on toes and there was political screaming, but he stuck by his guns. More people lost their drivers license In one year in Connecticut than in the previous decade. It paid off. Perhaps that Is what we need.

Our fiscal position is vul-' nerable, and Khrushchev knows it. This is a prime target In the strategy and tactics of the cold war he Is waging against iis. Sen. H. r. Byrd.

success story around North Carolina. The T has been dropped from ECTC. Its now East Carolina College. The student body has grown from less than 2,(X)0 in those days to more than 5,(X)0 this quarter. ECCs campus was 100 acres then. Now it is more than 200 acres with another 70 acres expected to be added.

Huge dormitories have grown up where com grew only a few years ago. And recently a drive ha.s been underway to raise $250,000 for constructing a concrete outdoor stadium on a new section of campus.

Ruth, who has not seen ECC for many years, is nevertheless proud of her alma mater. This we know. For as an alumnus she received one of 14,000 brochures mailed out by the college asking for donations to the stadium fund.

Ruth,* who may never ait In the James 8. Ficklen Memorial Stadium, sent back a pledge for two seats$40.

Pres. Leo W.' Jenkins was the new dean of the college when Ruths accident happened 12 years ago. He summed it up for everybody.

It was the most Inspiring demonstration of loyalty that weve experienced during the campaign, and there have been many such experiences.

Nobody will know which two seats Ruth Bostlan bought when the mass of concrete takes its shape. But they will be there a gilt from a lojral alumna.

Opinions In. Brief

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"The federal government, state government and the leading security exchanges have created an elaborate network of laws and regulations designed to protect investors against the wiles of sharpers. But nothing can take the place of individual careall the care your future deserves. industrial News Review.

Too many young people today would rather do most anything to be chicken or considered a square. How can we make them believe that It takes real courage to be chicken ... the kind of a teenager who can say no to the crowd, refute the dares and become the solid citizen they term squares? Charleston (Tenn.) Record.

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Is TV factor

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

What bothers both the FCC and the T.V. networks is bow to handle children, who after all are not exactly customers but who do exercise an influence on their parents. Children used to read Frank Merriwell when their parents thought that they were fast asleep. This was before anyone discovered Juvenile delinquency. Nowadays, they watcb television when they should be doing tbelr homework.

On the whole, television can bt very harmful to children, as harmful as an opiate because the television shows graphically how to commit murder, how to gouge out an eye, how to break a persons neck, how to rob and steal. The writers of these scripts, I am sure, have no desire to corrupt the morals of youth, but the medium in which they work requires swift, dramatic action.

On the live stage, such a play as Arsenic and Old Lace dealt with the most horrlfyiiig murder but It was mainly talk and turned out to be a comedy, in television, murder is murder and the currently most popular shows, such as Gunsmoke, deal with murder. The hero is not the murderer but the sheriff, and. the latter does as much killing as any murderer. In fact, the reason that he is so good Is that he is a faster killer.

Chairman Newton Minow, of the FCC, would like the T.V. networks to work together to create a Childrens Hour and the time suggested is frcMn five to six dally. Commissioner Minow apparently does not know children. Even the youngest child does not want to be limited to a Childrens Hour. A teen-ager would rather be seen dead than to be called a child and would stay away from T.V. during a period called a Childrens Hour. Furthermore, between five and six is usually the time when children like to be in the open air after a long day at school. Children want to see what adults want to see.

On of the major difficulties tn the T.V. business Is that the networks are held responsible by the public for what, if they told the truth about themselves, they are not at all responsible. The local stations, in T.V. as in radio, show what they choose and determine what Is desirable according to local demands. This does not absolve the networks from the sin of offering rubbish; it explains that there is an intermediary partner In the transaction and that he actually has a final voice as to what is actually to be shown.

But he has some partners on the side. They are called sponsors. Sometimes they are managers of stores or factories; usually they are advertising agencies or public relations counsel. They pretend to know what the public wants. If one of them attempted to dictate policy to a newspaper editor, he would most likely to be thrown out of a window, although many try and many advertising departments hope to assist them. Television has not attained such independence, not yet having a Peter Zenger, and therefore the advertising agencies, etc., exercise an undue influence over the local stations which cannot afford to get in Dutch with those who provide the revenue.

The solution to this problem it not a Childrens Hour, which chihfcwn will abhor, but rather Pay Television. The parents could control what they want shown by throwing a coin into a slot. That does not mean that the kids would not bootleg what they really wanted to see. It would mean that the revenue for rotten shows would be less than can now be obtained from the advertisers. It might safeguard some children from lessons in murder.

Television will never achieve maturity until it finds a way to free Itself from control by advertising agencies. After all, the account man in an advertising agency Is not an expert in child psychology. He Is a person who is supposed to keep the account of the agency so that It can earn as much money as Is possible.

That is true of newspapers and msigazines to a degree, ibut the tradition In newspapers, particularly American newspapers is for the writing staff to regard interference by the business office as excessive Impudence. In fact, when I first started In the business, no reporter would care to be caught drinking a beer with an adver-(Continued <m Page 7)

Govmt Advises Stock Ud Fooc.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ON BEING READY

Wherefor take unto you the

whole armour of God that you

may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done 11 to stand. (Ephesians 0:13).

The whole armour of God not part of it, but the whole of it. Everyone, even so-called unbelievers, admits the turth of at least some Christian beliefs The trouble with most of us is that we tend to accept and pracUce those commandments In^the Christian gospel which appeal to us and to dl-card the rest

That ye may be able to

withstand In the evil day. We

are not to wait until the evil day Is qpon us before we take our stand. If we do, we may find our^lves tmifyingly unprepared. It takes a lot of pre

paration for any nation to prepare itself for war. We are constantly at war against situations, tendencies, and temptations which assail our spiritual Ufe. If our preparation is not contioual. we may not be able to withstand when the evil day Is upon us.

A n d having done all. to stand. Confidence 1 always a great factor in tha achieving of victory. In order to be victorious over tha clrcumatancea of life we have to be able to confront them with a confident and determined apirlt which comes from long preparation and diligence. We do the best we can every day. When the evil day Is upon us, we take our stand knowing that the power of Ood and of all His holy angels Is behind us.

Having done all, we stand.

By ELMER ROESSNER The government has Just handed the food industry more than $( billion worth of added sales.

John E. Cosgrove, assistant director of the Federal-State relations 0 the Office of Emergency Planning, told the National Association of Food Chains, meeting in Chicago, tliat if the nation was under nuclear attack, all food sales would be stopped for at least five days.

The five-day moratorium on wholesale and retail food sales 1,. a national policy. Cosgrove tcld the association. The object, he said, is to give the states anc local communities a breathing spell during which they can prepare to Invoke local rationing systems.

HOW TO PREPARE Under this governmental advice. every family In the United States should have at least a five-day supply of food on hand or. perhaps, a KVday supply in case there is a second attack ^ There average family requires

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somewhere around 30 a week in foodstuffs. There are about 45 million families in the country. Cosgroves warning, therefore, calls for the purchase of $18 billion worth of storable foods, which should spin off several hundred million dollars in profit for food wholesales and retailers.

Cosgrove told the association that rationing would take a different form than that employed in conventional emergencies If we are directly attacked. This will be 80 because traditional gov(u*nmental control centers will likely be out of operation for some time and state and local authorities will have to work out rationing and distribution problems directly with people like food chain executives who have large Inventories on hand.

FOOD DEFICIT AREAS

A release from the association said, After Cosgroves speech a number of the executives attending the meeting met

with him to work out some of the details of getting food into homes In case of attack and finding out In more detail what Is expected of them.

Cosgrove Indicated In his speech that the government is thinking of asking food distributors who operate in food deficit areas, such as New England and the West Coast to build their Inventories higher as a food stockpile.

This statement of government policy offers patriotic food distributors an opportunity to strengthen defense and. at the same time, make a profit on the turnover.

Some distributors already are offering survival packages of foods, complete with canned, radiation-free water. But the Cosgrove warning would seem -to offer broader possibilities. Many suppliers will have an opportunity of offering five- and ten-day supplies of food, consisting of a much winder choice

than the survival parcels. There is $1 billion or more in sales to be made. Especially in New England and the West Coast.

PAY AS YOU STEAL IS U. S. POLICY

More law is being written in Washington.

.The Internal Revenue Service has decided to go along with a Supreme Court decision that embezzled funds are to be included in the gross income of the embezzler in the year In which the funds are embezzled

An author spending four years writing a book may, under existing regulations, charge off his royalties over that period. But another kind of crook, who may have spent even mor time planning his embezzlement, cannot carry back his tax liabilities.

The Supreme jCpurt seems to have given dislifpiejit authors an advantage over crooks.