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Shouldnt Stand In Way Of Bids

Will Take Years to Wash Off

The Department of Administration should immediately heed the request of the Board of Conservation 'and Development to ,clear the way for taking bids on leasing bottoms of Pamlico and . Pungo Rivers for phosphate mining.

Efforts to develop a phosphate mining industry in our neighboring Beaufort County were blocked several years ago in the high echelons of state government when officials refused to sanction leasing the river bottoms for mining operations. Since that time several large companies have continued their interest -trT phosphate deposits in Beaufort County. It should be evident now as it was several years ago, that the companies will not put out the capital outlay for extensive phosphate mining operations in the area unless they can secure leases to mine the river bottoms as well as the privately owned high ground.

Proposals for the phosphate mining operations several years ago indicated the. operations w ould pump severalmillion dollars annually into the economy of Beaufort County^ in terms of many new jobs and other expenditures in connection with the operations. There is every reason to believe that .state approval for leasing the river bottoms for mining operations will open the way for an important new industrial operation in this section of Eastern North Carolina.

Information from geologists point to the fact

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of Government, was embaiTM-ed when the State Auditor discovered discrepancies in his cash account. There was never iny sugge^lon that Coats had taken for ms ovm use money which did not belong to him. What he had done was to collect fees and other charges and put the money in an account out of which he paid certain obligations of the Institute. That saved time and bookkeeping but it did not fit into the overall plan for handling State accounts.

State auditors are * alert to catch these infractions and deviations because in some past instances the ease with which rules could be bypassed resulted in actual criminal activities. The requirement for strict conformity to regulations not only assures protection for the public but often protects the official or employee from temptation to venture beyond the pale.

By LYNN NISBET

CONFORMITY - Ralph Sut-t<m, vice president and business manager, and Harley Shelton, engineer, have been forced to resign their positions at Western Carolina College at CuUow-liiee for violation of rules and regulations for the handling of State property. Apparently they did not steal anything or benefit themselves by wronging the college, although it Is conceded that the manner in which they handled some transactions lent itself to wrongful personal profit. It was a matter of officials on the Inside buying for their own use college property, which the institution no longer needed, without publicity and without going through channels established for disposition of such property. There is no evidence that they did not pay market price for the material.

This incident further illustrates the necessity for strict regulations and close adherence to them in dealing with public property. In a multi-million 'dollar business -like the State of North Carolina with some 60,000 employees handling various phases of it, individual judgment cannot be toleratedeven though in many instances it might save money for the State. TTiere was an instance a few years ago of a minor clerk being severely tepiimanded for violating regulations because he had bought a dozen lead pencils which suited his particular needs and put the item on his expense account, instead of obtaining the pencils through the division of purchase and contract which had executed a blanket order for all the pencils needed by the State.

IRREX3ULAR There are many people who doqbt that Dr. Le<m R. Meadows did anything criminal as president of East Cftreiina Teacfiirs coneif some 20 years ago, although he., was conricted and imprisoned for misuse of State property.-'^in 1047 46. The newly formed

that the Beaufort County area may contain one of the most extensive untapped sources of phosphate along the east coast. If this important natural resource can be develope,d through successful mining operations, there can be no question that industries such as fertilizer producerswhich use great quantities of the material *)Vill be intere.^ted in locating in the area. Opening the way for the mining operations could also be opening the way for an unprecedented economic growth for the area. ,

When stat> officials several years ago blocked efforts toward developing this potential economic growth in Beaufort County, we felt they made a grave mistake; one that was detrimental to the area involved and detrimental to the state as a whole. We feel they will be making another grave mistake if for the second time they stand in the way of the ^eve lopment of this potential in our neighboring county.

Shocking Charges Are Due A Proper Inquiry

Former General *Edwin A. Walkers assertion that he was a scapegoat of an unwritten policy of collaboration and collusion with the international communist conspiracy falls just short of outright charges that the Kennedy administration of deliberately betraying the nation into the hands of communism. 1

Certainly the charges made by the former general are among the most serious ever made against an administration or high officials.of the' nation.

While he is within his right to. spak his convictions before a Senate investigating committee, neither Gen. Walker nor the public should take lightlythe charges he has made. Members of the Senate should not allow the charges to go without notice.

By all means the Sena^, now that it has heard the shocking charges by the former high^ military officer, has the responsibility of giving the public the benefit of its opinion of the charges, based on investigation.

If Gen. Walkers charges have any foundation, the United States would be in dire circumstances.

If-as we suspectthe charges are unfounded, and certainly it is the responsibility of the Senate investigating group to tell the people of the country so.

It is one thing to disagree with the policies of officials, high or low. It is quite another to charge them with actions which closely border on treason.

By DON SCHLIENZ

3it Of Greenvilles Past

WILDLIFEWhat looked one time like it might develop into an exhibition of wildlife In action toned down Sunday night and Monday when proposals to replace Clyde Patton as director of Wildlife Resources were sidetracked.

It seems that some members of the Wildlife Resources Commission tended to resent the fact that Director Patton went ahead to do his Job in personnel matters without consulting the commissioners. This was another instance where the statewide concept and the district autonomy idea clash'. That same problem bobs up every once in a while in the highway commission, the board of education and other agencies which have territorial limits on appointments.

Fortunately all parties In the wildlife group got together and

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The old house next door to The Daily Reflector building is being dismantled, and the finding of some hand-hewn timbers in the structure has recalled a bit of Greenvilles past,

I wouldnt have guessed, for instance, that the building now being torn down, and the building still in use next door to it, were once a part of the old Macon Hotel. And the frame building that once stood on the present site of the newspaper plant and torn down shortly before the prop-

"^erty was purchased by the newspaper, was the third segment of whai had been once Greenvilles leading hotel.

As told to me, the Macon was built on Cotanche Street before the turn of the century and operated by the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Skinner. It closed sometime around the mid 19-teens, when the Proctor Hotel was in process of being built.

That section of the Macon Hotel where the Reflector now stands was devoted to the hotels lobby, dining room and

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kitchen. The two still-standing structures comprised the bedroom section.

The hotel was a two-story affair with maybe sixteen rooms, and had a two-decker porch fronting the street.

When the late Dr. L. C. Skinner, son of the operators, acquired the property, he cut up the hotel and made three houses of it sometime prior to 1920.

These odd bits of old Greenville lore are probably tucked away in the minds and scrapbooks of a number of our people. But it takes something like the turning up of hand-hewn timbers in dismantling of an old structure that stirs memories and the familiar words I remember when . . .

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON APHow to snatch the United Nations out of a financial jam has been going through the congressional wringer for months. Its still wet.

President Kennedy thought he had a compromise worked out with Senate Republicans. It turned out this was with just some Republicans. Others had second thoughts.

The United Nations charges Its members regular dues but ^ adds special assessments when it runs into extra expense as it

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TPSsmaainr recalls a siory current at the time Dr. Clyde

atton came to Raleigh back peace.

Middle East to keep peace or into the Congo to /restore

It Is of common knowledge that the late Dr. B. B. Dougherty built a great instituffon out of a struggling little mountain chool at Boone by resorting to all kinds of short-cut money-saving practices without too much regard for established rules of procedure. 'Someone said the other day that if budget con^ trols had been as tight in the 1930s and 40s as they are now. Dr. Dougherty would have lound himself in very serious trouble.

About two years ago Albert Coates, director of the Institute

C. Wildlife Resources Commission, divorced by the 1947 Legislature from the Department of Conservation and Development. was building up a staff. Advertisements had "gone out over the country for a director, a public relations man and other top level positions. Patton eame down from Virginia to interview the N. C, commission about the public relations job. The commissioners were so impressed they offered him the top job as executive director. He accepted, and has been on that job ever since.

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countries > Rus.sia, the Arab states. France. Belgium," Portugal refused to pay the assessments because, for different reasons, these p4"-ticular U. N. operations ran counter to their interests. , This put the United Nations in a hole. At the end of 1%1 its deficit was $114 million. By next June it was expected to be $170 million. To get out it decided to sell $200 million in bonds, repayable in 25 years at 2 per cent intere.st.

President Kennedy thought the United States should buy half these bonds, or $100 million y orth. He said so last January 'Opposotlon started at once, not only from* Republican.s but from some Democrats, too.

There was anger at the thought that in a world organization of 104 members the United States should feel it ought to buy half the $200-mil-lion bond issue.

There was so much anger at the nations some of them American allies, like Prance, Belgium, Portugal who refused to pay their assessment that Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield referred to them as deadbeats.

When Kennedy suggested this-country buy $100 million of U. N. bonds, to be paid off in 25 years at 2 per cent, he got hit with a variety of proposals from senators who wanted to give more restrained help.

Sen. (Seorge Aiken,_Vermont Republican and no enemy of the United Nations, has been the

most persistent for more restraint. Hes - been consistently seconded by Sen. Bourke Hick-enlooper, R-Iow'a.

Aiken and Hickenlooper thought up this one: Let the United bstates'^buy the $100 million in bonds for three years at about 3 per cent instead of Kennedys w*illingness to buy $100 million for 25 years at 2 per cent,

V. Ail this went around and around for weeks. Finally, a compromise was worked out with Aiken and other Republicans. This week Mansfield and his opposite number. Republican Senate Leader Everett i^e^d ^nate_a plan. The President wouldnave the choice of bujing bonds, or lending the United Nations money up to $25 million as a .starter, plus another $75 million If other countries bought at least $75 million worth. They have already pledged themselves for $.5)b million worth.

The President could set the interest rate at 2 per cent, if he wished, and make the deal for 25 years. But this wasn't spelled out in the Mansfield Dirk-sen proposal to the Senate.

But Tuesday Republican sen-_^ ators had a conference and some" of them didnt seem to like 4he compromise plan agreed to by Dirksen and Aiken. Hickenlooper. for instance, hemmed and hawed and said he wasnt in on the compromise. So its still batting around.

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This is the time of year when non-sp>orts writers must wrestle with feelings of envy of those gentry who annually hie themselves to spring training camps.Birmingham News.

(Richmond News Leader)

A new office Is in the works to knit up the ravelled sleave of the nations scientific programs. President Kennedy has sent to Congress a reorganization plan that would create an Office of Science and Technology in the White House, intended to upgrade the unwieldy Presidents Science Advisory Committee. The plan will become effective unless vetoed by Congress.

The burgeoning of governmental scientific research activities was completely unexpected. In 1956, for example, the Federal government spent --$4- - .hilltaiL Uri ,^^af,ch, arid development: now expenailui'es run to $9 billion annually and will probably go up to $12 billion in 1963.

'The Science Advisory Committee was set up in 1957 to give the President advice and direction on civilian science programs, yet it has no overseer powers over the programs which are distributed throughout :iO or 40 Federal agencies. A study- presented to the 86th Congress revealed appalling du-^plication and misdirection in these agencies, for want of some head man to define aims and coordinate programs.

The problem of the layman and the President and Congressmen are laymenis that in many scientific decisions, the basic propositions have to be taken on faith from the scientists. In the recent'controversy about the RS-70 reconnaissance bomber (formerly called the B-70), both sides had to base their policy decisions on the new scientific word. Secretary McNamaras decision resulted from an elaborate scheme of computer - programmed predictions. His arguments could be attacked only by analysis of the assumptions and logic of the computer program, a job

for a team of highly-trained programming experts.

In this situation both the President and Congress have been at a loss. The Presidents advisors serv'e only as part-time help, since the best men are engaged in their own studies. At the same time, with these best men pre-empted by the President. Congress loses access to necessary information. Scientific advisors are not appointed by statute, and they cannot be called upon to testify on their recommendations to the President.

For this reason, tliere has been strong a pressure in Congress to create a cabinet-rank . of . .Science Technology, despite the fearm scientists that the accompanying bureaucracy would hamper creative scientific thought. Only last month. Senator John McClellan urged passage of a bill having this aim.

The Kennedy proposal pulls most of these'^.threads together. Despite the hanky-panky surrounding the last reorgaiji-zation plan, proposing a Department of Urban Affairs, the procedure followed by. the President Is the normal wa^ to create such an office: Since the Reorganization Act of 1949, sixty-six plans have been submitted to Congress. The President would have a full-time officer and a full-time deputy to pull varying points of view together; Congress would have the right to subpoena them to get pertlneftt- information and data. The office w*ould direct over-all planning, but little eLse; hopefully. it would avoid the abuses of bureaucracy. An office of Science and Technology would demand a first-rate man at its headsomeone of the caliber of Lewis Strauss. If such a director can be ^ound, the plan might save money. Its worth a try.

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It isnt the slrnple cumulative effect of birthdays that adds gray to my hair and new circles under my eyes.

Rather, its the little things that wear editors down. Take Tuesdays boo-boo . . .

A little story, not more than three inches in length, about two local doctors returning from an educational seminar in Charlotte. There was nothing wrong with the first three paragraphs, every word correctly spelled, the spacing was perfect . . . and then . . . It was emphasized that doctors of chiropractic are not recognized by over 500 msvtf-sner'c^

of theu policy holders.

Notice that not?

It should be N-O-W, not N-O-T. But it came out in type as N-O-T. One letter makes a lot of difference in the message.

I have wondered why it is that typographical boo-boos crop up in the most improbable and unwanted" places. That elrant T could have appeared in any one of several hundred other places and passed over without subsequent nightmares and wringing of hands, loss of appetite and high blood pressure. A misspelled word, due to any number of reasons, occasionally appears in" the many thousands of w*ords printed daily in a newspaper. It is not often that entire sentence meanings are changed by such mishaps.

Most of the time, most of the typographical errors are caught before the paper goes to press. The ones that do get into 'print are mourned more by the editors than the reading public.

l^By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Everyday, when I pick up the newspapers, I see, articles and photographs about the private lives of Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher and somebody called Burton. And I am strictly bored. Does that make me a aguare?

According to the publicity and the photographs, the aforementioned Liz and Burton are In a picture called Cleopatra which, tls said, costs $32,090, 000, which is a whale of a lot of m6ney" and which will take some doing to get It back. The also aforesaid Eddie Is not in the picture. 4

Yes, I am told that all around there are eight or nine children Involved in this exhibitionism and that sooner or later they will read the press Items and see the pictures and they will. If they are properly reared,be ashamed or maybe they will become juvenile delinquents out of hatred and spite, or maybe they will go and do likewise when they grow up on the principle that it happened to them, why not to me?

The adults in this business have become a bore. Every time this Liz Taylor gets out of one husband and procures another, the publicity becomes fierce. I recall the woman when she was much younger and prettier. I saw her walking down Park Avenue, holding hands, with someone she was about to rnarry, also young. It looked very romantic.

Then I saw her on the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf with. another husband and she looked more womanly and harder.

I never saw her in the company of the late Mike Todd, w hich I am told was an experience for the onlooker.

Eddie Fisher I only saw once, in the Stork^Club. He was about to marry Debbie Reynolds and her people w*ere with themnice, simple, American people. It all looked so sentimental. Burton, I never saw -face to face and therefore cannot say anything about him.

As I get the story, Fisher has two children by Debbie Reynolds; he has adopted Mike Todds child by ESizabeth Taylor and an Italian chUd; Tay-had two children by her second husband. Wilding, but none by her first husband, Nicky Hilton, son of the hotel keeper. There is no offspring from Fisher but Burton has two children by his current wife.

Since the time of Nell Gwyn, it has been notorious that some ladles of the stage are more interested in their post-theatrical lives than in thespian responsibilities. In our age. this is encouraged because it brings the curious to the theater to see what the person looks like. Often the bark Is w'orse than the bite, manufactured by press agents because It has heretofore been good business to have a bad reputation. Undoubtedly a leading opponent of the vilification of Hollywoods reputation has been Walter Wanger, the producer of Cleopatra. Time after time, he has protested against the breaking up of families by press agents.

It is therefore difficult to believe that Wanger would be to -pttblielzln# 0# the love affairs pi Elizabeth Taylor, now in its fifth edition. However, whoever put up $32,-000,000 to make a picture of the utterly amoral Cleopatra, w*ho w*as married to her brother and then cavorted with the Romans as they came into her country, may have an interest.

Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw wrote footnotes to Cleoptras career and were it not for that, the main would undoubtedly be forgotten by now, when we have Nasser, the Puritan, in control of her country. But the movies will rehabilitate her as the Queen-courtesan, and young ladies wUl thrill at the Identification as they sit in a darkened tern-pie, lustfully holding hands with the latest swain.

Must there be so much sincerity that one who plays a part, must also live the part? The great Sarah Bernhardt or even greater Rachel did feel their parts movingly and Anna Held, back in the days of the Rumanian Yiddish Theater, was a problem to Abraham Gold-faden, her first impressario fo much ^a. problemthat hfe^ foun^t convenient to send her to a cigar-maker countryman

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It is nice to know that the experts think we could afford peace, if it were possible. The Portland Oregonian.

ComDetition - Forced Settlement

In this record-breaking era, its Ironic that we also seem to set a new record each time an airliner cra.shes.Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat.

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neighbor as ourselves, we want

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NATURE OF REWARD both the neighbor and everybody

Many people believe that along the street to know this,

there is something unworthy to appreciate it, and above all

about award. Whatever we do. to appreciate us.

they say. we must do without an:, anticipatibn of reward. We must do a thing simply because it is right to do. Whether it helps us or hurts us is not a matter of any consequence.

This Is high and exalted philosophy Indeed. It is true in large measure, but very difficult to live up to. All of us havq, to some extent, a longing for reward. If we do well, we want to appreciate the tact and givfe us at least modest praise If we perform sOme useful service, we want to be paid for it at the highest rate the traffic will bear. If we love our

Now there seems to be a lot of unworthiness in^ all this. As a matter of fact, there is not. There may be a little of child-ishnes.s in it, but *we are all 'half grown youngstens. The desire for reward is perfectly legitimate if It Ls not put first In life or if it does not occupy too broad a .section of our horizon.

,jJesus^ spoke* of reward frequently- Great is your reward in heaven, he declared to his disciple.s on one occa.sion We all long for at lea.st a littte .bit "of reward and we should get It.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The steel wage settlement has been hailed as a triumph of labor willingness to avoid a strike, of President Kennedys diplomacy and-or the steel companies statesmanship.

' Bunk.

I]ie. moderate setUement' ^as

reached because n!nUaHoF"ad management know that foreigr competition has American producers on therun and that new price. increases resulting from Jiighe. wages would mean abandonment of our alre^y shrunken share of. the world marketdropped from about 17 per cent to less than 10 per cent, according to the current Lssue of Steelways, the official pufflication of the American Iron and Steel Institute. . SLOW GROWTH

-This drop occurred while the iiUema,tiQpal steel tfade was rising from 16 million tons"'to 42 million tons a year

The magazine points out that in the same period, the Japanese increased their production

by 357 per cent; West Germany by 143 per cent. Czechoslovakia by 127 per cent and Brazil by 176 per cent.

In that same period, the United States increased its output 3 per cent, from 96.8 million tons to 99.2 million tons. During the'decade, U. S.'^capacity iacreased, which suggests that the steel companies were expecting a lot of new business they cUd * not get.

Steelways offered two major reasons for the U. S. loss of the expanding market. They are the soaring costs of domestic producers and, the enormous, growth of foreign steel produc-* - tlon since the war.

JAPAN RISES TO 4TH PLACE ^

War-damaged mills in- other countries have been replaced with more and larger n^ern facilities. This process is continuing, Japan, for example, be^" came the worlds fourth larg^" steel producer in 1961. putting out 31 million ingot tons. Not

satisfield, it has launched a 'Program designed to bring pr6-duction to 53 million tons a year by 1970, which w'ould put it in third place, topped only by U. S. and Russia.

Because Japan cannot possibly consume the projected increase, the magazine points out that the nation must compete more ^g?lsslVely Tore^""1fef-' kets.

Curiously, the U. S. Is now buying 23.2 per cent of Japans iron and steel exports.

COST DIFFERENTIAL ^

ALREADY ENORMOUS

Amrican labor costs are from three to seven times' as great as those of foreign competitors. Steelways said.

These facts must have been on the table when David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers' of America', and R. Conrad Cooper, chief steel company negotiator, agreed on the new contract.. .' ,

President Kennedy telephon-. ed McDonald, This ih indeed

industrial statesmanship of highest order.

He might have added, And, Dave, it looks as if you are saving some of your men their jobs.

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The missionaries of one rell--gtoufr sect frequcB^-c-trirr-y-records and photographs with them and play them for prospects.

Bert Tenzer may have gone them one-better. As head of Bert Tenzer Productions, New York, he produces records that are given to prospects to induce them to buy all kinds of products. His records are 12-Inch LPs In covers that resemble expensive albums.

A musical instrument company Ls distributing 100,000 records through retail- stores for customers to take home and .play, pother record is used by a laniF and building company. The records employ drama -music as well as sales convino* ers,. \ ;