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^V Have Stake In State Bond Issue

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All of North Carolina has a major stake In the forthcoming stat bond issue for capital improvements, but this is particularly true of Pitt County where its largest industryEast Carolina College-

wili be directly affected by, the outcome of the bond referendum. * . -

Included in the bond issue for improvements to State Educational Institutions is $3.4 million dollars for East Carolina College. In addition to this mount in the bond issue, however, the college has another ,$1.2 million in potential capital improvements dependent upon the outcome of next Tuesdays referendum. This latter amount would be in the form of federal loans that will be forthcoming if the state bond issue . is approved.

Thus East Carolina College has at stake in the bond referendum $4.6 million dollars which it needs for capital improvements to take care of increasing demands being made upon the institution. The improvements will include a new classroom building, an addition to Wright Building and the Library, a dormitory for 400 women and another dormitory for 520 men, the purchase of additional land and a small amount of outdoor athletic facilities.

for securing a permanent site for the Lower Coastal PlaiA Tobacco Research Station which at present is located on a rented 20-acre site near Greenville Agricultural research, particularly with respect to tobacco production, has been of tremendous importance to Pitt because this county grows mor tobacco than any other county in North Carolina.,It is important to Pitt that the tobacco research program be afforded better facilities, adequate land and other necessary resources* with which to continue to enable farmers to better produce this primary crop.

Along with citizens throughout the state, Pitt Countians stand to benefit from better institutions of higher learning, better state hospitals for mentally ill, needed buildings arid facilities which will stimulate economic activities, further development of the states natural resources and agricultural research.

But Pitt is in a unique position in that it has in its mid.st East Carolina College which wdll benefit greatly from the bond issue, and further that agricultural research cannot help but benefit this county which still has agriculture as the mainstay of its

Another item in the bond issue which will have a direct bearing upon one of the mainstays of the economy of Pitt County is the $100,000 designated

economy.

We urge the people of this county to remember the state-wide bqnd referendum which will be held next Tuesday, and further we urge them to go to the polls on that day and vote in favor of the bond issues.

Trappings Of A Teal Campaign

U. s. Should Decide Soon On Nuclear Tests

By LYNN NISBET

Y. D. C.The race between .Dud Graham of Charlotte and Ray Lackey of Stony Point lor Btate YDC president haa all the trapplnga of a real political campaign. It Involve* the age-cld conflict between the big county (Mecklenburg) and the lltW one (Alexander), the urban agalnat rural Influence. There alo la the rivalry between the legal profession and the lay clt-izcrry. Graham la a lawyer. Lackey a bualneaa man, preaent-ly admlniatrator of the Alexander County hoapltal. Neither can clainj crown prince* statu* wltii the State administratlon. or charge the other with being *ub-aervlent to it. Juat about as many Insider* are for one as for the other. Both candidate* are working diligently to get county votea committed before convening of the State convention at Durham the laat of next weex. Lackey haa assumedd one title not often aaaociated with young folk*. Although he was on-b' 30 years old when he came tc the Legislature In 1955 he waa so proud of hia son with the same name that he listed himself in the North Carolina Manual as William Ray Lackey, Sr.

NAMES Hector MacLean, rnator from Robe*on county, is son of Angus Wilton McLean, who waa Governor of North Carolina from 1923 to *1929, after scrvingv,. as assistant aecre-tarj 0 the treasury in Woodrow Wil&on'a cabinet, and In other Important bualneaa m political office*. Not a great many people not ce the changed spelling of the name, since Mac and Me a* the prefix are pronounced just alike. Young Mector has a reason satisfactory to himself for the change.

Somewhat more noticeable change was made in the name of a prominent attorney and present highway-commisaloner in Greensboro. J. G. W. MacClam-roch delved into the history of his family and discovered some surplus letters. The capital C did not belong there and the final "h was confusing. So three

or four years ago, without.fanfare the name became James G.

MacLamrocwhich is the way It is listed on the State official roster.

An amateur genealogist who bad been checking into some family histories where the same name was spelled differently several times came up with an Lnierestlng explanation. In the long ago times when these family names were being established very few people, even among the nobility, could write. When they learned to write they took great pride in the ability to write their names two or three differ

ent ways- In some of the ancient documents there will be diverse spellings of the same name. They thought It an evidence of Intelligence.

(I wish my old-time kinfolks had stuck with the family name spelling of NISBET. instead of getting smart and writing It Nes-bU. Nesbitt, Ncsbltte. Nisbeth, oj something else Just to prove topv could do it.)

EAST-WEST Schedules recently Inaugurated by Piedmont Airlines make It possible for people to get across North Carolina between east and west in ore day This approaches realization of an age-old dream. A passenger now can board a plan at Elizabeth City spend several hours in Asheville and get home before bedtime. The Ashe-viPf passenger has equal facili-ticf fox the other way trip, and m'c*-state folks can make either end of the journey by round tilp between breakfast and dinnerwith several hours working time.

One of the biggest handicaps to development of North Carolina has been lack of east-west traiiSportatlon for freight and

passengers, not only within the state but between our porta and the middle west- Railroads, then highway* and later airlines afforded excellent north-south service, but none east-west. The much vaunted highway program, supposedly based on years of long-range planning, affords no decent cross-state route. The central points around Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem have good outlets into the Ohio and Mississippi valleysbut its mighty hard to get from the coast to Greensboro.

Piedmont Airlines have pioneered in opening new service to heretofore Isolated areas witness the new airport at Pine-hurstand the example may be followed by highway builders for the handling of heavy freight shipments.

Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah port* have good rail and interstate highway connections to the west. Our ports at Moro-head City and Wilmington up to now have been treated worse tnan redheaded stepchildren in tha^ respect.

Highway Commissioner Jim MacLamroc of Greensboro has been working a long time for modern four-lane highways from the ports at Morehead City and Wilmington to mid-state where they would connect with already established highways into the Great Lakes. Ohio end Mississippi valley areas. Neither Federal nor State highway officials have responded to his efforts, but he la still trying and now he is on the inside where he has a voice In policymaking.

Pressure is mounting on the United States not to resume nuclear tests in the atmosphere although officials already have indicated that the United States will reserve the right to decide for itself whether such tests are necessary to its defense.

In the very near future the United States may find itself in the awkward position of deciding whether to miake additional nuclear tests in the face of stiff world opposition, or pass up test programs which scientists feel are essential .to' continued development in this field.

The Soviet Union, in all probability, is nearing the end of the series of tests which it began on September 1. It should not be surprising .if the Soviets, at the conclusion of these tests, do not make a big fuss about joining those who are calling for a voluntary moratorium on further nuclear tests. Indeed, it will be surprising if the Soviet Union does not take this position.

After all, it will have completed its series of tests and will have no further testing to do, at least for the time being. If they can make propaganda hay out of such a move, they will surely try.

It may well be that these developments come just at the time that the United States decides it should make nuclear tests in the atm.osphere. In that event it might be the United States which is denounced for nuclear testing, rather than the Soviet Union as has been the case in the past two months.

The United States should not wait until the last minute to decide what it would do if faced with such a situation. The decision should be made now, and the position of this country made plain to all the nations of the world.

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By GEORGE E. S0K0L8KT Copyright. 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

By DON SCHLIENZ

Notes On A Big

vening

Trick-or-Treat Night (why call it Hallowe'en any more?) has come and gone. Nothing like it to look forward to for another year.

Tuesday night made me realize what a flock of very young people live in our neighborhood. The street was crawling with kids. You could hear their chatter a block away . . . they were having a ball.

Costumes and masks add to excitement of the occasion, but not so much as to cause celebrants to forget their manners. All the weird-looking visitors who knocked at our door remembered to say thank you**.

Except one.

She giggled.

I dont think she was a day over three.

the family pooch. He had *a I oisy greeting for everybody. But always his tail w^as wagging . . . and when that

appendage really wags, he wags all the way up to his ears.

(Im always cautious around a barking dog that doesnt wag his Ull. That dog takes his Larking seriously)

But Cotton was Just living it

rections at once. It Isnt a good Eight for driving In town.

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If he makes as much racket for an unwelcomer intruder, I would be surprised.

fhe most excited' observer was

Greatest obvious concern of the evening was that a dark-clad youngster would be seen too late by a motorist.

The cars in residential districts nioved more slowly than usual; and my one necessary after-dark excursion was marked by efforts to see in four di-

Wednesdays Reflector reported five false alarms during tht right . . . and, surprisingly enough, one of those In our neighborhood.

With our recent rash of serious fires, that kind of prank is neither timely nor "funny.

Co-incidentally, I was reading the other day an editorial in. a Boston newspaper about the citys false alarm problem. 'Theyve got a real one. During the past year Boston has averaged one false alarm for every fire turned In. It runs Into

money.

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By JAMES .MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-At tWs moment the West cant tell whether it gained or lost by what happened at the Russian Communist partys 22nd congress In Moscow.

But Khrushchev, now that the congress is over, can devote himself more wholeheartedly to restoring mankind to its usual jumpy condition.

The world was relatively quiet these past two weeks except for Russias 50-megaton explosion, riots in Paris, a nerve-war in Berlin, trouble In the Congo while Khrushchev busied himself at home with the congress.

Now hes free again to concentrate on causing Allied dissension, jittering the world over the possibility of nuclear war, giving propaganda Interviews and disclosing how to cook an enemy with a missile.

To nobody's surprise, least of all his. the congress was a great scccess for him.

He got himself re-elected party head, rid himself of a few people he no longer wanted in high places, won hearty approval for his 20-year economic plan, led a demolition squad that blew up the remnants of Stalin worship and attacked the absent Albanian Communists.

Unexpectedly or maybe It was not unexpected at allPremier Chou En-lal of Red China, which supports Albania and consider* Itself very Stalinist, walked out.

Khrushchev, of / course, got full support from the Russian congress delegates, a* he knew he would, for his denuDciation of Albanu. He may have done this deliberately.

It served to show the Red Chinese, who have become a t>aln

In the neck to him because of their diagreement with his policies and in time may become Russias greatest rival and enemy, that whatever he did, he did with full Russian support.

Still, those two weeks of Khrushchevs preoccupation with the congress gave the Western allies a little more time to try to reconcile their differences about making concessions to Khrushchev on Berlin, or not making them.

So far as is known they reconciled nothing. And they are not likely to have so much quietude against for a long time since now KhrusJichev again can give them his full attention and throw some more logs on their fire.

In realityand only time will show itrthe West, like Khrushchev, may have gained a lot from the congress. Possibly it gained nothing, lost much. For the time being it cant tell which.

This much Is clear;

Khrushchev emerged from the congress stronger than ever. He got full endorsement for his policies, His Albanian critics were denounced. His own critics at home among the old Bolsheviks were shoved aside. .

Thissymbolized by the partys full break with Stalinism leaves him freer than he has ever been to pursue what policies he thinks right, even when they appear the opposite of what the onetime infallible Stalin might have done.

- One of those opposite policies is his effort to represent himself as much more reasonable than the hard-nosed Stalin, as ar man who believes In peaceful coexistence.

His very reasonableness is (Continued on Page 6)

(Henderson Dispatch)

Reports are that official Washington and a segment of the national business community in general are concerned about the slow advance being shown by the boom that was predicted for the second half of 1961. A number of explanations are offered.

Studies reportedly show that buyers have the money but are hesitant to spend it. An inclination to save against whatever the future may hold, the weight of individual debt, con-cen about the international situation and trends of the stock market are some of the reasons given for the lag in buying on the part of consumers.

We believe there Is at least one other reason likewise, namely. the heavy burden of taxes ano little indication that there will be any relief at that point in the foreseeable future. The pattern of government meddling in the rights and freedom of the citizen, and a feeling that government Is going entirely too far In coddling the non-produc-tivc element may also be a factor in the attitude of the public

The coming Christmas season Is awaited in the hope that it may stimulate heavier spending on the part of the public generally. Great store is placed In that possibility. Undoubtedly buying for the holiday season will be reflected generally in volume of sales.

How much of government statistics on rising over-all increases in sales totals is based upon

turnover in so-called big busi-Ecs* is not indicated in available evaluation of the current situation but it Is probably considerable. Small businesses, however, complain that they are yet to experience a sizable share of the pick-up about which so much is heard.

There is stoething else, too, that should not be overlooked. That is the Squeeze on profits. Between the cost of operations and the, painful tax dig there is less and less left for stockholders. That discourages investment in new enterprise and hence tends to stagnate growth. It will continue to do so if

these exactions upon management continue. The situation is playing into the hands of the

socialists and welfare-staters. a status which they hope will accelerate to conform to their own brand of idealism.

The attitude of government toward private enterprise is one of the primary factors in stagnating development. Washington Is very anxious to create the

image of a favorable attitude toward business, but at the

same time gives ear to those who would have government launch out Into new areas of competition with* the individual attempting to eke out a profit from his own operations.

In the face of these adverse factors, it is not surprising that we have a creeping boom. Nor need there be dismay if the pace continue* to be slow so long as such policies are Imposed upon the country.

Each Halloween I tell myself that adults might have an impulse to dress in masquerade for one night of the year, and show off their imaginative finery in a costume party.

The idea is partly based on the theory that grown-ups never completely lose childho()ds fascination with dressing up; and that there is present in most R subconscious yen to briefly get away from their accustomed self and play another role; and that a taste of a make-believe world would add an intangible zest to a party.

But a week after Halloween the idea is forgotten. The Jn-splration, it appears, is only seasonal.

Opinions In Brief

The state* and local governments are in far better shape than the federal government. Most are operating under balanced budgets, may have surpluses. and few are bumping against their legal debt limits. This, as we are all unhappily aware, is not the case with the federal government.** Nogalea Ariz.) Herald.

Though we may have to enter into the valley of the shadows we would betray the human race were we to be frightened Into giving away our liberties. Providence (Ky.) Journal - Enterprise).

Im proud to pay taxes In the United States. Only thing is I could be Jiut As proud for haM the money.** Arthur Godfrey

Circular No. 27 of the State Department/Indicate* that a re-rrganization of that Department Is taking place and that unnecessary positions are being abolished, which Is tU to the good if It is done properly and In the interest of efficiency and competence. If Jobs are shifted from State to the CIA without removing personnel, there is no actual economy. As a matter of fact, the CIA requires stimulaneous reorganization with a view to eliminating from It doctrinaire , persnalltles who use government positions to pursue private causes. Whether they are Left or Right Wing, clerks should not be making policy which the top men accept as their own.

The State Department has outgrown its usefulness and has become a very confused organization In which policy 'Is manipulated by Deskmen without regard to national responsibility. Then the top echelons cover up the errors of the lower staff men so that public criticism will not become too noisy and excited. As some put it, the men on the Fifth Floor do not know what those on the Fourth Floor are doing.

No country can afford such confusion and the Cuban fiasco brought State Department and the Cuban fiasco and is not CIA inefficiency to a crisis. The public has not forgotten likely to. It will continue to plague the Kennedy Administra- ^ tion. Covering up to protect those In State and CIA. who are responsible for the Cuban flasco is an administrative and politl- ' cal error. Apparently the current reorganization of the State Department has something to do with the errors made by Deskmen, although opponents of the Administration insist that the reason for the changes is political. They maintain that the purpose Is to make room for new political appointees, which would not be unusual in our government.

If that is correct, it is faulty administration, but a reorganization of the State Department can be very useful at the present time. Another criticism of the State Department is that its budgetary difficulties arise from the costly trips to Africa by Soapy Williams and the various trips by ' Governor Harrtman, Adlal Stevenson, Vice President * Johnson and others who traipse about the Earth.

Some of these trips, such as Vice President Johnsons, have been of great value to this country. Those of Soapy Williams have not been productive of any particular value in Africa. The regional conferences of Chester Bowles have thus far been fruitless. There is a lot of motion in the State Department. bJt motion of Itself Is no evidence of performance. On the other hand, precisely how would the critics of the Department reorganize it so that it can be a more effective agency of government.

The job of the State Department is not to make war. Its task is to get along as well as it can with other nations, friends and foes. Its personnel must be trained to seek peace and agreements, not to stir up trouble and disagreement. Other departments of government may be engaged in espionage as in propaganda, but State must move in a mannerly and friendly fashion. Its men must maintain friendly personal relations with men of other countries, even enemies, and there must always be a readiness to get down end talk.

It is the Presidents functioh to decide on policy and, to instruct States as to what it should do. The President, not Adlai Stevenson, must be responsible for national policy and national conduct. If. however, the President chooses to accept Adlal Stevensons advice, as Woodrow Wilson accepted Colonel Houses advice, that is the Presidents responsibility and it is up to people to determine whether his judgement Is correct or false. In a world, the Piesident may seek and accept advice where he chooses, but the responsibility for what happens is his not his advisers. For Instance, if Adlai Stevenson - was wrong about Cuba, as he undoubtedly was, It Is the President who is responsible for accepting his advice, just as he Continued on Page 6)

'3oom Is Not Meeting Schedule

By ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NATITIE OF TRUE TOLERANCE

Before me as I write is a picture of a European village. Ps streets are so different from ourt. The people and the clothes they wear are like nothing we ever see on our familiar streets. And all this varlstlon between two places only a few thousand miles away, and on the same planet!

Just as every finger-print is dlfierent from every other finger-print in the world, so every irdlvidutl M dNferent from every other individual in the world. These people In a faraway village are so different from us because they were born into; and grew up among soenes and customs vastly different from ours.

The word toleration* has

something of a nasty ring to it. It conveys the Idea of enduring. With reference to the millions of our fellow men living In distant parts of the world, we should maintain not an at-tituoe of painful endurance, but a friendly, cordial spirit of neighborliness and good will. We would be precisely like them if we had been born over there, anr* they would have been precisely like us if they had been borr over here. Geography has msde the (lliference.

S(> let us be not tolerant to people ot other nations, cultures, beiels. and races, bul iisigli-borly. Let us not endure them; let us appreciate the really ftne p**ople they are and stretch out the hand in brotherly welcome.

We need to do a little more thlnktng on this matter of lol-ciatiOn and delve down deeper Into its real meaning.

The business boom Is not proceeding according to schedule. In the cycle of ups and downs since the end of World War n, the economy should be soaring - and perhaps it will be airborne in a few weeks. But so far the increase in output and employment have been so moderate that many observers are uttering cautious statements.

One of the reasons may be some of the mor,e Important strikes now and in the recent months.

Economic studies In the past indicate that the economy quickly amortizes the effects of strikes. The loss of sales is usually made up quickly more qu*ckly than the loss of worker Income. In fact.

But It may be that the effecU ul strikes have not been completely evaluated, or that losses are MYing VUeeper effect on the econooy.

HALF. BILLION LOSS . The recent auto strike* may offer a clue. The Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., estimates that the production of about 150,-000 cars wu lost during Sep

tember as a consequence of strikes, and the loss for October will also be found substantial. Other observers have made slm-Uai estimates.

The lack of 150,000 cars meant a loM of around $450 million in retail sales. But the losses did not stop there.

The men on strike lost pay, less of course, strike benefits. Their grocers, milkmen and tavern owners lost sales. Many Instalment creditors took rain checks.

But it didnt end there. Auto salesmen and their mechanics lost income. Advertising media lost revenue. Shippers, Including railroad lines and.truck lines, losi freight; their employees lost Income. Steel companies loel orders; steel workers lost employment.

It still didnt end: suppliers of tires and parts lost ordsrs; their employees lost work. Wholesalers who supply the grocers who sell to auto workers,-steel workers, and auto salesmen and all the rest also lost, and so did their employee*.

WHERES THE END? ,

There are no definitive, final

ctatistics. But it seems evident that the wages lost by striking auto workers was only a fraction of the total labor loss, anc that the seles lost by the auto companies was but a small part of the total sales lost in the economy.

The strike may have cost the industry almost half a billion dollars in lost sales, but it cost the economy a billion or more in sales, and as much again in lost. wages, salaries and* com-m'sslops.

That may be the reason for the slowdown In our expected recovery. The recovery, you know, I* from what some Dem-ocrat-mii\.ded economists call tbo Eisenhower recession. In the spring of 1960, business began to slow down, and the decline continued for about a year, during which time President Kennedy was elected by a narrow margin of popular votes.

This so-called Elsenhower re-eessloir was preceded by the long 1959 steel strike. The recession was never satisfactorily explained; government spend-icR was being kept up; there were no public fears; It waa generally assumed that the ef

fect# of the strike would be quickly overcome by an upsurge in spending.

But the upsurge didnt come, end the upsurge after the auto strikes, still not completely cleared up, may not come either. *

It may be time to Inaugurate new and deeper studies of the effects of strikes on the economy. We may be able to afford tne luxury of strikes less than we think.

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Rowman & Littlefield. New York publishers, are promoting th* Family Cook Book by Alicia Peterson and Ella Elvin SL magically priced 'at $5 95.

NEW MEXICO LAW WOULD HAVE STARVED BABIES*

New Mexico recently enacted a law making it illegal for re-taJera to limit the quanUty of any item a shopper might want to buy. During the New York milk strike, such a law would' have created difficulties when ^ i^aiers limited sales so babies and the ai(Ui could have milk.