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Friday, November 17, 1961

Surprising Persistence Over Range

No'Matter How They Serve It

Determined Tar Heel opposition to Air Force plans for a 30,000 acre bombing range in Hyde County should cause the military to carefully reconsider its plans for using this particular area for bombing practice.

It is surprising to us that the Air Force has persisted in plans to acquire the acreage for a practice range in view of the opposition that previously has been expressed to the idea. If this were the first round of the battle, the position'of the Air Force would be a little more understanding. But % year ago when the military announced its intention to lease a bombing range in Hyde County serious opposition was registered.

Opposition has come not only from sparsely-populated Hyde, but from top state officials as well as legislators and civic "groups. Gov. Sanford has registered the states^ opposition to the plan; the legislature earlier this year passed a resolution condemning the idea of a bombing range in the area; the State Wildlife Resources adopted a resolution pointing out the range would be harmful to the Mattamuskeet Wild Fowl Refuge in Hyde County. In addition to these indications of objection to the proposed bombing ranp similar sentiments were carried to a meeting with Pentagon officials by Rep. Herbert C. Bonner of this congressional district shortly after the inauguration of President Kennedy.

It is difficult to imagine that this particular area in Hyde County is the only one the Air Force can find that would be suitable for its use. There must be many areas of similar size in this area of the county that might be used, and areas which citizens of this

Special Session ; Remains Remote

By LYNN NISBET

SPECUL SESSION The probability of a special session of the General Assembly is very remote. Governor Sanford said soon after the bond election that a special session might be necessary to take care of immediate urgent needs at colleges and hospitals, either by means of another and smaller bond proposal or direct tax levy. He Indicated at his news conference this week much less interest in a special session. Many legislative leaders are known to be very luke-warm toward the Idea, and some are vigorously opposed to a special session except as an absolute last resort.

Several members of the Council of State have expre.ssed opposition to a special legislative session. There is some doubt whether the Governor can convene an extra session without concurrence of the Council of State, although majority of legal opinion holds that he can. The constitution provides that "the Governor shall have power on extraordinary occasions, by and with the advice of the Council of State, to convene the General Assembly in extra session by his proclamation. .

The requirement for consent of the Council is missing, although In other constitutional and statutory items the phrase "advice and consent" is very prominent.

SURVEY Governor Sanford said he had asked the heads of the institutions to survey their needs in the light of emergency and urgency. Admittedly .some of the items Included in the bonds submitted last week did not fall in the urgency clas.s, although all were needed and desirable. When reports of this survey are compiled and evaluated, the Governor and his counselors will decide whether a special session is needed.

REJVENUE There was intimation in the Governors comment that he might favor an extension of the "revenue bond" idea for some of the construction projects. He said he had always believed that the revenue bond approach was a .sound method of financing ports development- The p<jrts bonds were Included in the State faith and credit list voted upon becaiuse of a prospective lower interest rate.

Basically, there Is no difference between the idea of revenue bonds for ports or other income-producing operations and the borrowing of money from

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the Federal government to build dormitories at the colleges. Toll bridges and ferries have the same Justificationthat revenue derived from services rendered will pay for the profits.

EXTENSION This idea might possibly be expanded and extended into numerous applications. Governor Sanford said he was not familiar enough with the plan to discuss it. but he had heard that in some states <he thought Pennsylvania I even mental hospitals are financed by private money on the revenue bond idea. The plan is for a group of business men to organize a corporation to build and equip a hosptial, which then would be leased to the State for operation.

That concept is strange to North Carolina. It might be well worth studying, as a method of obtaining immediately needed facilities without capital outlay on part of the State.

The plan Is common practice in many bu.sine.ss organization.s. One corporation will own the building, another will operate the business conducted in it under a lease agreement.

RABBITS There are a lot of rabbits in North Carolina, but they are not voting citizens and Governor Sanford does not think it is any special obligation of his office to protect them against the age-old practice of men a.ssaulting them with sticks and stones.

Almost a national Issue is being made of the fact that protests are coming to the Governor and to other North Carolina officials against the annual "rabbit bopping program of the American Legion past in North Iredell county. Mast of the folks who are voicing concern over the brutality of the occasion. jiLst dont know anything about North Carolina rabbits and mighty little about North Carolina folk.s

There are few men of more than r>0 year.s in North Carolina who do not remember rabbit hunts w'ith sticks, sllng-.shots and bows and arrows when they were boys. The men folks used guns-and there still hasn't been a rabbit vote on whether it Ls more pleasant to b( put to death by a $200 multiple action 12-guage .shot gun or to be bopped over the head with a stick. Fact is, if memory .serves an old man right, it wasnt nec-e.ssary to hit the rabbit with the shot or a stick. If .vou Just came close it would scare him to death.

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or another state would not object to th^ Air ^orce using. .Why, then, has the Air Force persisted ^in sy-ing it wants to use this particular areas?

Some consideration shoujd be given North Carolinas interest in the matter as well as the interest of citizens of Hyde County who would be most immediately involved. Some consideration should be given to the considerable investment the state and federal governments have put over the years into making the Mattamuskeet area the large.st wintering grounds for Canada Geese on the Atlantic fly way. Some consideration should be given the economic impact such a range might have on the lives of the people of Hyde who depend heavily on hunting and fishing attractions for their livelihood.

Certainly the state cannot fail to overlook the fact that the natural attributes of the area bring thousand.^ of tourists each year to North Carolina from other .states.

The Daily Reflector reiterrtes its support of the position North Carolina has taken on the proposed bombing range in Hyde County.

Perhaps Cuba Misses Accustomed Spotlight

After weeks of relative silence Fidel Castro has i.ssued a biLstering verbal attack on the United States and the Venezuelan government in a move which sug-ge.sts the dictator wants to whip up more sympathy somewhere in the world for his dictatorship.

It may very well be that the broadcast by Castro Thursday night was another attempt to strengthen his hand in Cuba.

For the past couple of months the worlds spotlight has shifted from Cuba to other trouble spots and Ca.stro has had little world-wide publicity of the scope he enjoyed several months earlier. It is not likely that he is feeling the pinch of coldne.ss with which other governments of the Americas are treating him, and he is trying to gain attention in other parts of the world.

There is also the po.ssibility that his assertions of another impending attack by the United States on Cuba is designed to .stimulate his followers at home and also strengthening his hand in demanding and receiving more aid from his fellow communists in other parts of the world. It is also po.ssible that his mo.st recent statement signals another broad communist attemptplanned in Moscowto shift attention again to Cul)a while the matters of Berlin, Laos and other hot spots are allowed to cool for awhile.

Whatever his purpose in this latest verbal blast, its our guc.ss that the (iuban dictator will find it more difficult to gain attention by crying wolf now than wa.s the case earlier in his regime.

Rayburn Didn Use 'Gimmicks

Same OLb BMONEY!

By PATRICIA MOORE

Cat-Chasing Incident

This short story is entitled "Nimble as a Cat" and it is from the "Tales from the Trunk seriesones that might have stayed in the trunk.

It is about our sports editor, who may be a big man, but who obviously is every bit as nimble.

Its like this. Every day George lias to lock the family cat in the kitchen before he leaves his happy home. You know, man, you cant leave a cool cat hanging around the pad.

Yesterday, however, friend

cool cat decided the ritual was to be altered. You know, changed a bit. The cat made up her mind (it had to be a female, of course that she was not treading the confines of the (ookery for awhile. George made up her mind she was.

Around and around she went, stopping nowhere. Around and around George went.

It was over and under furniture. walls, floors, (ceiling anyone?) and all over the place. George could go over, but not under the furniture. You may

Other Editors Saying... Big Business Is Vital

Bv JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP Sam Rayburn, who was a politician and not a philasopher once told a group of women; It doe.snt make any difference how much .Kpn.se youve got if you dont have judgment

It could have been put another way. To be a good man in public life Is not enough for the good of the country. A man also ha.s to be effective, a word with many face.s.

When a country get.s in its government th(xse two qiialitie.s combined in one individual, its lucky. This country wa.s lucky in having Sam Hayburn. who died Thursday in Congress since htl.'l and a.s Hou.se speaker twice a.s lung a.s anyone else.

By good 1.S meant here a mans concern and effort and his u.se of lower for the general welfare and not just for his own individual benefit or self-glorification.

Under the.se terms Rayburn was a good man. He was dedicated to the general welfare although he himself stated his view in much more parochial and pragmatic terms when he told some newcomers to Con-

grc.s.s;

"Keep in mind that you have two corustltuencies; The people who sent you h*rc and the colleagues with whom you miust serve

In Congre.ss there are. and have been, .some tremrndou.sly good men and women who achieved far le.ss than might be expected of them beiHUse they were ineffective for rca.sons like these:

They were too emotional in a place where emotion ls amazingly unpersuasive; or too far ahead nr tiehind the mood of their col-leagup.s; or t(Ki nuid to compro-niLse where, as unplea.sant as it may seem to some, little can tie done without it.

h'or a man to lie (dfective in the Hou.si and there effective-ne.s.s means getting a majority of the other 4.K) memher.s to go along with him he lus to be a compound of many thing.s And Rayburn, as .speaker, wa.s a compound:

He had to be a realist in ap-prausing hi.s'- chances on getting

the members to do what he wanted; he had to be fair, .so that he wa.s trusted he had to be considerate, to make a minimum of enemies: he had to use his tremendous power decently and not arrogantly or arbitrarily.

These were all ingredients in being persuasive.

But none of these thing.s would have been enough without one other quality which was perhaps the primary source of his great influence with Democrats and Republicans:

He was a real middle-of-the-roader during a long period of American history when the prevailing attitude of Congress toward the problems of the nation was middle-of-the-road.

And that includes the New Deal days which seemed radical to .some but were really a rescue mission in a time of chaos and didnt last long.

But Rayburn was also many other thing.s at different times: He was cantankerous: kind, gentle; tough. There were times when he angered coaservatives. He was a big factor in getting major New Deal legislation through.

He had more power than any one mall in the House. Yet no one had .such Invisible power. You can .search the record year after year and not find his name on logLslation. But he was a major force behind much or mast of It.

His sjM'i'ches were few. He worked behind the .scenes where he could work he.st in head-to-h( ad talks, and in knocking heads ttigether without public humiliation, since he had .strong friends in both partie.s,

Wh.it it all adds up to Is that he was a good tinman being, without tricks or gimmicks, in-fcn.setv concerned with the well-heiim and progre.ss of his country .iltlioiigh It could hardly be i l.iinuMl he had a perfect score among lilxuaLs or coiLservatives.

In liaiidling M'ople. which was the root of hi." ,)ob and his au-ttioiity in Congrt .ss over 47 X'.u.'-, he had what he hiiiL^elf d<s,i.i)((i ,i.s ihe -sentais: .'Oiise iiiui judemeiit.

(Henderson Dispatch)

Pinks and leftwingers in recent years have gone all out in a campaign to discredit and belittle so-called big business. This they have done despite the fact that these very individuals owe a great deal of their status, even as to freedom, to activities in this country which are carried on upon a large scale.

Neither of the two world wars could have been won but for the huge operations which made mass production possible. The Federal government itself, which in recent years has been openly hastile to bigness, is dependent upon size of private enterprise for much of the revenue which makes possible its sprawling functions, including support of the growing welfare state, which is certainly not given to fostering the hand that feeds it.

Even some of those most critical of this behemoth are no pigmies on their own part. Yet they join gleefully in the tirade against anything, except their own, that by genius, hard work and incentive attains considerable size.

Speaking before sales-market-ing executives of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, C. W. Bohmer, Jr., marketing staff coordinator of one of the major oil compaiiies, urged public recognition that "big business" is sorely needed in the struggle with communism. He deplored the growing implication that big business necessarily must be bad. Without this facet of the American economy. he rightfully said, communism cannot be defeated.

Bohmer declWd that many Industries can exist only if they are big. because expenditures for equipment and the risks of business in their area are so great. He reminded the sales group that "the most important sale" to be made is that

of working for better understanding of our way of life under capitalism, and for a resurgence of patriotism, faith and pride in America.

Where indeed, one may properly ask, is the small business that does not aspire to grow and become larger? Where is the small town or city that is not striving with all its might to attract new Industry, increase its payrolls and to be a larger and more influential entity in its area? This ambition is common under the free private en-^terprise system. It adds up to \ grasping for a larger share of the profit objective, also a stimulant for men who live in a climate of Individual liberty.

But there are those among us who would dare to make over the American way of life, to introduce socialistic theories into the economy and society In general, and to bring practically everything under control of a centralized government in Washington. This Is why so much is heard by way of slurs at business, often whether big or little, and why there is such increasing control over the individual and his activities.

Nothing In this country, is so big as big government. But that doesnt faze the modem day planners. In their book, that is quite all right indeed. They want the whole hog or none, and are bent upon getting it.

No one questions that there have been and are in some business practices abuses whieh are detrimental to the public good. These can be corrected, however, without going to the lengths sought by the welfare staters. Nothing beneficial can be accomplished by burning down the house to be rid of the rats. Big business to some extents is vital in our economic system, and the country will b the loser if unnecessary restraints are Imposed upon it.

We have heard through a popular source that there is a certain key at the local fire station which evokes all sorts of curiosities. The key is small, but is attached to a very long rod.

It is only natural that upon seeing this key, any newcomer to the station asks what it is for. The answer? Its the key for unlocking the elephants trunk. Makes sense, anyway. This must be creative thinking.

We told a story here not too long ago and put the wrong ending to it. Since it is a true story, and the truth always wins, here it is:

There was this big bull who came from nowhere to a certain familys residential farm in the midwest. The consequent ad appeared in the town papers classified section: Foundone large bull who entered premises, tore down fence, wrecked tool shed, destroyed property aijpl Is raising havoc with cattle and property in general. Owner may claim same by noon tomorrow, Other-. wise, the public is cordially invited to a barbecue.

Opinions In Brief

"Automation is mans effort to make work so easy that women can do it all." Wall Street Journal.

be thinking the cat won.

George finally resorted to turning over the couch, the chair, the cedar chest. He got hep, man. and he caught the cat. It didnt take as long as all this sounds. The event lasted a mere 30 minutes. Not even a scratch for George.

Man, Id say George is the cool cat, and not the cat is cool. Got it? Got a cat?

"Most roads dont automatically create new economic development. But some do. North Carolinas exp>erience over the years .since the first bond issues of Governor Morrisons time, back in the twenties, de-montstrates that opening up the state with good all-weather roads made economic development possible in many areas w'here it otherwise might never have flowered." Greensboro Daily News.

jrasing

Stalin

"mage

By.GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Cop3^ht, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The reduction of Molotov to the position of an outcast is one of several indications that Khrushchev is having as much internal trouble as everybody else in these days. We have a tendency, In this country, to believe that Khrushchev is a mighty dictator who is never opposed. External evldenc^Tl clearly points to considerable in- ^ temal troubles in Soviet Russia.

The concept of a monolithic state In which the people are held in tutelage by an oligarchic party is apparently proving to be false. Such a state can only be held together by murder. Stalin killed the deviationlsts, no matter what friendship may have existed between them. He regarded the party as the central point of his existence and he established a blind obedience which recognized no difference of view. Even such historic figures as Trotzky and Tukhachcv-sky had to make way before this concept of a unified, monolithic state.

The Russian Revolution is in its third generation of leadership.' Stalin and most of his associates had played a role in the Revolution and had known Lenin. Stalin, himself, was a Commissar in the Smolny Institute and lived in the tradition of the early days of underground activities and Siberian reprisals.

Khrushchev did not emerge until World War II. He was an assistant to Kaganovich in the Ukraine. It was not until Stalin needed some butchery in the Ukraine that Khrushchev emerged as an efficient operator. But, in office, Khrushchev has taken on bourgeois morality. He does not kill; he exiles. Those whom he reduces are historically greater men than he has been until very recently. Who Is the upstart Khrushchev to compare with Molotov who was a revolutionist under Lenin?

Khrushchevs major difficulty arises from the fact that Stalin built the new Russia. He absorbed more than 15 nations. He hornswoggled the great Roosevelt and forced the greater Churchill to accept his program. He pushed Russian power to the Mediterranean, to the South Paclsic and into Germanic Europe.

What can Khrushchev do to compare with Stalin? He must defeat the United States; move Russian power to the Rhine and unify all the nations that Russia has conquered. Stalin could kill because the Russian people feared that conspiracy would destroy their gains. He cultivated such a fear and established a reign of terror. The Russians were proud of his achievements although they lived in fear of his methods. They gloried in his enormous gains which were larger than those of Peter the Great and Catherine, but they realized the enormous moral cost of his leadership.

Khrushchev has not the will or the power to equal Stalin. He therefore turns in despair to the abuse of Stalin, even removing the ghost from its sarcophagus.

It is the fear of Stalins ghast which upsets Khrushchev even as the King in Hamlet found himself living in terror of his predecessors ghost. As long as the memory of Stalin remains with the Russian people. Khrushchev cannot establish an image of himself. He remaias one of the people, not Ivan the Terrible but a nachalnik who no longer gets drunk and who has an Italian tailor.

Therefore, Khrushchev must remove every symbol of Stalin, including the men who served him. even Lazar Kaganovich who picked Khrushchev out of the mines and gave him a chance at greatness.

Molotov symbolizes the greatness of Stalin in international relations. He served under Maxim Litvinov and he played a part in every growth of the nation under Stalin. He* was an old Bolshevik and as such, possessed a revolutionary seniority equal only to that of the aged Voroshilov who was not permitted to sit on the dais of the great. Blot out the memory of Stalin by removing the associates of Stalin, among them some who helped to make the Revolution!

The people do not seem to take kindly to Khrushchevs assertions of importance and so, he falls back on ah old Russian (Continued on Page 6)

Shift From Saving To Spending

Strength For To(day

Bv KARL L. 1)01 (.I,ASS OCIf GUKATI.SI IM KII.

Toynbef the famous liLstor:aii, has shown that niueleeu civili-ZdtioiLs have none over the ue-(ipu e and always becaiuse tliey allowed certain ol Iheir .spii uu.U qualities either to be di.sper.M'd or destroyiKl.

We are existing in a world today flllwl with more danuer than humanity has ever confronted before When we hear the fire siren we wait in anxiety lejit it be lengthened out. thus announcing a bombing raid. We talk About the desiruetion of orif"6uie and the cities hf our presumed assailants a.n if thus calamity were just around th* corner. Perhap" It Is Yet It was the great Lord Macaiiley who once remarked thnt^ every system has within it the seeds of lU own dlsaolulion, Lawrence

( Gould ha.s recently written: "I do not bche\c ' that the grea;est threat to our iuture is KUided mussile.s I dont think our eivih/.ifion will die that way. I think It will die when wp no longer care when the spiritual torces which make us want to be right and noble die in the heart.s of men."

Here LS Toynbec.s theory of history brought down to our present day Rituatic.n Add to all thus the tact that we appear to be in a .season or moral decline and the outlook for the iuture Ls grim. To be sure, churches are croWtfl?d as never before; but crime. embezzlement, personal immorality appear to be making giant and ararnilng advances

Our Worst enemy mav very well be lu. our niids'i.in our hcarli.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The American coasumer will .soon .shiit troni .saving to spending.

One of the cuiioiis phenomena in recent months has been that while coiLsumer income has ben increasing, consumer spending has risen very little Mrs. Kilioy has been paying off in-stalmenls and stashing money away in banks and stocks.

But the turn has come. Retail sales have been rising. Al-mast all lines report Increases in the last few weeks. cnu*istmas shopping has already started and Thanksgiving Day is not yet nere!

Best of all, economic observers are saying that business ".sentiment" Is improving Sentiment. in general, is an opinion, of what business and consumers are going to do. And most surveys and studies Indicate that Mis Kllroythe consumerIs Increasing buying.

.MANY AGREE

A survey by the Bureau of Advertising o^ the Amertcaa

Newspaper Publishers Association shows that of 301 American and Canadian retailers, three-fourths expect to top 1960 Christmas saleswhich were the highest in hlsotry.

Another survey by Audita and Surveys Co. showed that 39 per cent of a national sampling of Home taper*: Theres a lot year to top those in 1960 despite the lag earlier this year, and that 43 per cent said they would do about the same. Only 18 per cent expected to end In a decline.

Here are other praspects in business;

More private branda: Macys is plartnlnt a big drive for its own brands of electric appliances next year and since the word has leaked out. other de-..partment stores Wlll step up promotion of their own brands. BETTER BREAKFASTS .Mere eggs: Eggs prices for 1961 Will be slightly under prices this year because of the increase in laying hens.

Eaaier mertgagea: The Federal Housing Administration will

lower its mnimums on sizes and fixtures in houses qualifying for FHA aids. The plan is to encourage builders to produce more low-oost, satisfactory homes.

Home tapera; Theres a lot of competition to see which electronics firm will be first with a low-cost, home TV taper. When the device is perfected, the home-owner who cant see a TV show at the moment will simply push a taping button. Then, when he wants, he can press another button and see the show he missed, complete with sound and commercials. COMMODITY CHANGES

Higher silver: The rising demand for silver In jewelry, films and coins will eventually force prices up. The government is ..selling off Its stockpile gradually to prevent any sharp rise, but when those stocks are gone, silver will move up.

Contrart slow-down: Whi le

governmrnt spending is the biggest single factor in business today. and while it will tend to sustain business activity through

the coming year, the stimulus will be less than previously expected. The cutback in spending ordered by President Kennedy Is making government agencies more cautious In letting contracts and, in consequence, the coming defense boom may be fairly slow.

OLD PROMOTER SCORES A PR VICTORY

"I licked em!" the Old Promoter said as he rolled in today. "For years I have been telling aU who would listen that convention delegates who posed for photos with highballs in their hands were hurting their industry and becoming sitting ducks for the collectors of internal revenue.

"My advice has gotten .viApeatfh. In this weeks Advertising Age. there are caoidid photos of 52 delegates to the Association of National Advertisers at Hot Springs, Va. Only one has a glass In hand and 9 have coffee cups. Even if they are serving martlnia In cups, it looks better for the taxpayers."