Tutdaj, April 24, 1962

Effectiveness Rests With Many

Each Negotiation Brings Us Closer Together

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The six-county CoasUl Plain Planning and their development potential. Traditionally they Development Commission has completed its first have been closely tied together and the progress step of organization with the election of its top or lack of itin any one of the counties has an officers, but now it faces the equally important task effect upon all of the others.^ By joining fprces to of making the organization an effective instrument cope with common problems, the progress of each for development at the grass roots level in com- of the counties can be accelerated through the munities throughout the six-county area. efforts of such a Commission that has support at

Although the Commission has elected most gr^s roots level in each county. -

capable persons for it^; officers with Sen. Robert Previous efforts to effect such an area develop-

Lee Humber of Greenville as chairman, Sherwood ^T^^nt organization died primarily because there was L. Roberson of*'Robersonville as vdce chairman and understanding of what the Commission was

Mrs. McDonald Gautier, Jr. of Washington as secre- tfyiiig to ^ and lack of support for the Commis-tary, the effectiveness of the organization in the fions work at the county and commdnity level. It long run will depend upon the cooperation and sup- is the responsibility of each county in this new port it receives from individual communities alignment to see that this new organization is not throughout the six-county area. similarly handicapped.

The Commissions table of organization calls The Coastal Plain Planning and Development for eight major committees to deal directly with Commission is off to a good start so far as its initial area problems in various fields ranging from agri- organization is concerned. But its effectiveness will culture and industry to finance and educational and determined not by the contribution of a relatively

cultural development. The calibre of people who people. What it will be able to accomplish will

make up these committees and the support they determined by the effort put forth by the great receive from throughout the area will have an im- number of capable people in each of the six counties portant bearing on what the commission as a whole recognize the importance of the area approach will be able to accomplish. fls well as the local approach to total development

The six counties of Pitt, Nash, Wilson, Edge- and potential,

combe, Martin, and Beaufort have many 'common

problems when they look at the overall picture of 0Q ^^llTpOrt

Policy

econd Primary May Now Be Clarified

Cost Considerec.

By LYNN NISBET SECOND PRIMARY - With the lists for new entries closed and the nhminating primary approaching there is talk about afpeements among candidates to avoid a second primary by ceding the nomination to the candidate receiving the highest number of votes on May 26, whether or not that be a majority of the total. Aimiments in support of this idea are that elimination of a run-off will save the State a lot of money and perhaps contribut to party harmony which will be sorely needed in November.

Arguments against the plan are mainly that it denies the people full opportunity to make a choice among candidates, and tends to regard the desired office as the personal property of the candidates to trade as they please. There is real question whether a candidate for. whom maybe 49 percent of the voters wanted has a legal or moral right to arbitrarily cast all those votes for his opponent by retiring from the race

There are some who think the run-off shoul.^ be automatic and mandatory. Under present law the second high man must make formal request for runoff within a specified time, or the nomination automatically goes to the high man. And what a great many people do not understand is that If the number two man calls for a run-off the top man has a right to step down and let him have the office. In that event he is assuming the right to trade off the voting privileges of all who supported him.

There have been numerous instances where the second man won out in the run-off; several Instances where the high man got the nomination with less than a majority of all the votes, and a few cases where the second man was allowed to take over because the top fellow did not want to go through another primary.

it will tend to protect the rest of the Island by affording passage for water between the ocean and the sound- What the final decision will be is not known, but is common knowl-' edge that once the army engineers make up their minds ..to do something they are pretty hard to change.

In spite of recent action of the Civil Aeronautics Board, the idea of an area airport for Eastern Carolina prot another boost from the Bureau of Economic Regulation, a federal body w^hich reports directly to the President.

'p It is of significance that this particular body asked the CAB to award air service in this section of North Carolina only on condition that it conduct an investigation to determine whether or not alb air ser\dce in the section should be rendered from By ALVIN TAYLOR one central facility to ser\e a 50-mile radius. If the report is heeded by the CAB~and there is every reason to believe it will beat least there should

JUDGE Attorneys for the ' defendants in the now famous highway signs cases, in which S3 men and three corporations have been indicted, took a sly dig at the administration the other day. The defendants have been clamoring for trial of the cases since the first indictments were entered nearly three months ago. Judge Raymond Mallard regularly assigned to this district for the first sLx months of 1962, also has urged the solicitor to get along with the trials. Judge Mallards tenure here ends on June 30. Suggestion has been made for a special term just to try these cases, and for .ipecial terms often appointed special judges are as.signed. Governor S'^' and administration associates has taken an unusual interest in these cases. So there was a bit of humor in the request by defense attome.vs that when and if the cases are tried the court be presided over by an elected Judge, not one serving by appointment of the Governor.

be a clarification of the position of the GAB. Last year the CAB, along with the Federal Aviati9n Agenc.v, issued a joint policy statement saying where feasible air service should be awarded to area facili^ tie.s rather than to individual community air facilities. In its recent decision on the Piedmont case, however, the CAB denied service to an area facility proposed in a joint petition by Wilson and Greenville and awarded sendee %^three other individual airports. , ' '

The decision, in our opinion, was not in keeping with the earlier, joint policy statement ,of the two major federal agencies which deal with .sendee and airport facilities.

Perhaps as a result of the inten-ention of the BER the matter of joint air facility service versus individual city air sendee will be clarified by the CAB. Certainly a clarification is needed and it should be forthcoming, not only for Eastern North Carolina but for other areas which may be seeking to develop the quality of commercial air ^service available to them. .

The significance of the .intervention Bureau of Economic Regulation into the .should not be minimized. _____________

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S-Sgt. Leo Smith, the Marine recruiter, was in the office yesterday.

Being a Korea veteran the sergeant knows what it is to be shot at. But a short while after he returned home the marine recruiter found things werent so safe on the home front.

Sgt. Srriith began recruiting duties in the Raleigh office and soon, he was given a handful of coupons sent in by girls interested In Women Marines.

The sergeant dutifully started out calling at the homes to see how interested the girls were in a military career.

Things went along pretty weir until he stopped at one particular house. There, he was<met by. the girls father an irate father at that.

Git off my property, the father roared and grabbed for the shot gun. The man cut

loose with a blast of the gun in the direction of the government-owned pick-up truck Sgt. Smith was driving.

The sergeant, who had ducked when he saw the gun', junap-ed in the truck and took off, as the bearer of the gun had suggested. Later he found the blast had put holes in the side of his truck.

He. reported the incident to his sui^riors and prepared to forget it. But few days later the father showed up and asked to speak to Sgt. Smith. Did you leave your gun in the car? the marine asked warily.

The man replied that he did and that he wanted to apologize.

My daughter has gotten married, he announced proudly.

That suited the sergeant.

Modern methods have caught

up with even the tinie honored custom of Easter egg rolling. It seems to do this properly a large quantities of wooden eggs are required. This has been used in New York for years and 1962 was not to be expected to be any different.

Alas, when the sponsors of the egg roll went to the manufacturers, they found they had stopped making the wooden ones.

During the year they had switched to plastics and other light materials. These, It was found, just didnt work for egg rolling. They just slid over the grass, .

So a frantic search was instituted for wooden eggs. Eventtially a New York shop was, found with a last remaining cache. The eggs were purchased-and'the New York egg rolling contest went off Saturday on schedule.

MADE IN N. C.-The Department of Conse^atlon and Development is sponsoring a statewide observance of Made in North Carolina products during the week of June 10 to 16. If- the Idea is followed through in detail, many people may be surprised at how nearly self-contained North Carolina can be. Very few things used by North Carolinians for food, clothing or shelter cannr produced in the state or a fairly adequate substitute for them.

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INLETSThe inlet cut across Hatteraa Island by the storm on March 7 divided the people as well as the island. Controversy now rages about whether to leave the inlet open and bridge it, or pull enough sand back in to close It. The army engineers began planning immediately after the storm to close the new inlet, and they had support of a number of outer banks residents. The hlgh-iray commission built a temporary bridge across the inlet to keep traffic moving on the road, and now it appears a majority of the islanders want the inlet to remain open. They contend

An Illustration of what can be done along this line is found in the story a Made in Union County dinner staged at Monroe some years ago. The chairs and tables in the dining room were made in Monroe; the tablecloths had been woven from Union county cotton in local mills; all the meat was grown in the county, and the bread was baked in a local bakery from wheat and com grown and ground in the county. About half the crockery ware was Union county made. About all that came from outside was the silverware and such little stuff as salt and pepper. Jai'i.iinrnnr- iim...! .iMnr

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By JA-MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The awesome explosions expected soon in the Pacific from American nuclear tests wHl be fiery monument to mans scientific genius and his political adolescence.

He has learned how to shatter a continent, transplant a kidney, remove a cancer, orbit the earth, and now he is aiming for the moon. But he still hasnt learned how to get along with himself.

The American nuclear blasts, like the Russian blasts last year, will occur because the United States and Russia don't agree on an effective test ban treaty. For the same rea.son. the Russians say they will then have some more tests.

This can - go on indefinitely, with both sides .building even more frightening power, since there is no reason to think thev can reach an agreement any time soon than they have in the past.

If Red China, gets nuclear power and starts testing, and the French do some more testing, the world ought'to IbdK Hkr the Fourth of July every few months or every few weeks.

This may seem to historians of the future if not in 1,000 years, then perhaps in 10.0^1*' years foolproof evidence of the retarded condition of contemporary' man.

The more awful the weapons of East and West become the less anxious they seem to test them on each other since tlt-for-tat could leave them both dead by the millions.

Perhaps right there is the happlert thought of all in what

some fear is steady progress to disster unless the testing stops and there are arms controls that in time East and West will scare each other into such sweet reasonableness that problems which now look Insurmountable will appear pathetically simple

But East-West failure to agree on no testing is only another chapter in the history of the worlds general inability to get along since the last war which was the greatest testimonial to mans preference for brawn over brains.

Some examples come readily to mind: the Korean war, the Israeli-Arab war, the Congo war, the Indochina war, the Viet Nam war. the Laotian war, the Indian attack on Goa. the Hungarian revolution, the Algerian war. the Latin-Ameri-can - revolutions, the Berlin blockade, the Russian mLs.sile threats, the Cuban revolution and the Cuban invasion.

But w hile East and West disagree they also keep busy with disagreements within themselves; the Rus.sians cant agree with the Red Chinese, the Albanians and the Yugoslavs (the laftrcnT agree"with the Chi-ne.se and Albanians) on the proper road to communism; French President Charles de Gaulle often disagrees with his allies; the West Germans cant stand their East Cferman Communist cou.sins; the left and right in Latin America see nothing reasonable in reason; and if things look moderately quiet now among the new African nations thats probably a temporary Illusion.

All this offers an encouraging field for bright young men ev-

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TO THE EDITOR:

On the night of March 29, 1962. a meeting relating to Neighborhood Conservation Was held in the Greenrille C l t y Court Room, During the question and answer period I asked Mr. Cochran, Executive Director of the Redevelopment Commission the question, How much money had the Redevelopment Commission spent In Greenville to date? Mr. Cochrans answer was to this affect, My office is always open.

Here is what Mr. Alvin Taylor. Daily Reflector City Editor, writes in the September 8. 1961 i.ssue of the Daily Reflector, Cochran explairied 'that records of the Redevelopment Commission office are open to McGowan and the Public, a point which has been made many times. On September 11, 1961 I received and have a letter from the then Chairman of Greenville Redevelopment Commission. The Chairman wrote, You are welcome to personally inspect the Public Records of this Commission at any time between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday of each week. The records maintained by this Commission are periodically audited and Mr. John C. Proctor is retained by this Commission to do the book-^^keeping work foiV-thfeCiommls.-.x, Sion. We wish to assure you that we are perfectly willing to permit you or any other interested citizen to examine and check these records at any tim during the hours herein above specified.

Upon the receipt of this letter, I went to the office of Mr. Cochran, Executive Director of

the Redevelopment Commission: THE DOOR WAS OPEN, but only to inspect the minutes. I was shown and read the minutes but not the records of the Redevelopment Commission. I w as nut shown any books or records that would require the service of Mr, John Proctor or any other auditor. Upon my last request in March 1962 for permission to inspect the Financial records of the Redevelopment Commission L was told that permission would be granted provided I submitted a written request asking permission to inspect the Financial records.

The April 13. 1962 Daily Reflector headlines Cochran Reports' Project Outlays Under this heading is written The Commission adopted as a part of its minutes a sheet as

of March 31, Mr. Taylor v September 8. i'jbl, records of Redevelopment Office are open. September 11, 1961, the then Chairman of the Redevelopment Commission writes You are welcome to personally inspect the Public records of the Commission. . . .The records maintained by the Commission are periodically audited.

On September 11, 1961, I re-received a personal invitation to inspect the records but was told in March 1962 to submit a Written request. I would like to know

Commission means by the expression The door is open to inspect the records. Inspect Financial records or minutes? To date I have not yet seen any records that would require auditing by Mr. John Proctor or any other certified public accountant. Who has?

Sidney H. Skinner

Your columnist is the kind of baseball fan who comes to life at World Series time. Maybe that is why Im a fan of .sorts of the New York Mets manager Casey Stengel. I remember him when he was kingas manager of the New York Yankees. There Stengels teams had a way of whining the pennant every year. And after they had won the pennant, they more often than not went on to win the World Series.

Now, .leading the new team in New York old Casey finds himseli with nine losses and no wins. Of course we know that Stengel has been with losing teams before his fabulous Yankee stint. But that doesnt, soften the humiliation of setting a new record for losses at the start of a season.

Your columnist is one fan who hopes that after Casey finally hangs up his uniform for good he will be remembered solely for his Yankee days.

Opinions '.'.n Brief

"rhe American consumer is not an idiot. He and she know valuesand, once cheated, ^they dont go back for more. The vast majority of manufacturers and retailers know that and nct-.ncQrdlngly...'rhe.^ifew.......

who dont arent long for the business world. Industrial News Review.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1961, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

I have often wondered hgw * music critic can possibly enjoj his Job. Night after night, ha goes to concerts and to th opera and he must say much the same thing because after all Beethovens Fifth is still Beethovens Fifth no matter who stands on the podium and wields a stick. And the same i."* true about the opera. So little appears that is strictly new that the critic does not often have a Schoenberg or a Scriabin to slaughter.

So he might devote himself to poisoning the tea of a conductor. It might be lots of fun, saying that Stokowski is a poseur or that Bemsteim dances better than he conducts.' I once heard a critic hiss Munch and there might have been a good fight until it was discovered that he was a musicologist ' and then all was forgiven, for after all it is quite possible for musicologists to hate music, just as distillers do not drink whl.sk-ey and a salami manufacturer prefers cheese.

The subject of Bernstein intrigues me. I saw him conduct when he,, wa?, figuratively in his knee-pants, learning how to wield a stick from Koussevltzky and living much in the shadow of Aaron Copland. I have w'atch-ed him grow In stature and in personality over the years. Up in Tanglewood, I often missed the music altogether while I watched his antics as a conductor.

In recent years, I have watched Leonid Bernstein on television more than in the concert hall and I have reached the conclusion that as a musical propagandist, as one who can * bring out in others a love for music, he is unequalled. Hg is a master teacher. He will one day. I hope, lead an orchestra of brilliant children as an offer of hope to those Who seek an opportunity to perform.

The other nfeht, 1 witnessed a musical spectacle that made me want to be another Otto Kahn, vliich means that I wojjd-.then be able to pick up the bill for something truly great. Bernstein each year gives three very young men a chance to be hi.s assistants, as a Supreme Court Justice appoints clerks who afterwards become distinguished lawyers.

Bernsteins three assistants were permitted to conduct and the soloists, piano, bass-fiddle, flute, clarinet, xylophone and glockenspiel were young people from age 13 upward and truly remarkable, they all were. Gary Karr played the double-bass as though that monstrosity were intended to sing. Svhat an ' opportunity for young people I What a chance to i^ove themselves and they did prove themselves worthy of Be'festeins understanding that genius has nothing to do with age, place, or race.

Perhaps the music critics vlll find a flaw in all this. They wlll say that the Philharmonic could be used for more useful purposes. What could they be? What could a leader do that is more purposeful than to bring new life into his particular field of endeavor? Leonard Bernstein announced that ona of his young people, John Can-arina.'Will conduct the Jacksonville Orchestra next year. It was like Koussevitizky looking down on a third generation of his handiwork.

I walked into the home of friends, unostentatious people who live quietly, without fuss. Against a wall stood four paintings, of some quality. It was the mother of the household who had found an artistic ex-pres.sion just as her son plays the piano. Their life Is full because time is not being wasted in futilities. Another friend says that he can laugh at the world because he has found himself in gardening, in beautifying the environs of his home.

Such people are not driven by the futility of their own existence. You do not know what life is, says the young Woman who suddenly discovered that

attract- to-" herself *

Despite the growth of the national debt, it must be remembered that the economy is growing even faster than the debt is.Pasadena (Calif.) Star-News.

strange men with .strange habits. Live!, she almost shrieks and it sounds so funny, becau.se there are so many ways to live. I was thinking of the twins who played in Bernsteins concert, beautiful Ruth and Naomi Segal. They will never have to rush from one madhouse to an-(Continued on page five)

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS SIG.MFICANCE OF THE , INSIGNIFICANT

G(k1 commissioned Moses, to the greatest task ever laid upon a single humatn being in history. How can I assume such responsibilities? cried Moses in despair. And the Lords answer Was what the Lords answer usually is to any of our questions, namely another question. What hast thou in thy hand? asked God. And Mo.ses replied A rod.

With that rod Mo.ses went forth to a work so mighty that It todches your life and mine every hour of every day we live.

T rod in the. hand of, Mo.se.s the shepherd became a divine, instrument by which this man led forth'a captive people and changed the course of history..

He did his work as a shepherd well. He was faithful to his shepherds rod. But God had something greater in store for him. God had a higher use for that plain piece of wood. It would lay open the sea, it would bring water out of the rock, it would point an enslaved people -to freedom and glory.

The lesson is so plain and simple that we are indeed worthy of rebuke if we do not see it. Do faithfully what you are now entrusted to do, and God will give you greater and more significant la.sks In the years ahead. Mose.s ccwild not have known the significance his life would have for humanity as he led his .sheep from one tiny grazing plot to another. But God wa.s watching the man. He had higher work for the shepherd who, used his rod well.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The economic bible of the United States is Economic Indicators. prepared monthly for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors.

It omits the most important single economic statistic. It does not report the number of babies born in the previous month.

The Bureau of the Census, however, reports constantly on> the total population. .- >

Population, It says. Is Increasing at a rate of around 7,000 a day. Think of that: 291 potential new customers every hour!

MORE BUSINFISS ODDITIE.S,

And here are more interc.st-ing and po.s.sibIy .significant business developments:

Salada-Shirriff - Horsey, Inc., has changed its name to Salada Foods Inc.. becau.se, a.s Pre.si-dent Grant Hor.sey announced deadpan, the company wa.s ruo-nlng out of hyphens. . .Americans'own 28imillion dogs, ac

cording to a survey by the John Oster Co., which makes dog clippers. . .If cigarettes cause cancer, the U. S. government has done the Thais a lethal trick. U. S. Department of Agriculture assistance brought about a 9.3 percent increase in cigarette sales last year and may increase smoking 10 per cent more this year. So says the Foreign Agriculture Service.

Australia is trying to sell rtiore wool to Red China.

Of 83 million Americans wearing glasses, 33 million are overdue for a check-up the Better Vision Institute finds, . . If you see a gold box car whizzing by, it may be becau.se you are intoxicated. But if you arent,, don't worry. Pullman-Standard has made such a car 40 celebrate its 100th anniversary. . A Michigan insurance company is offering double indemnity to policy holders killed or injured while weailug safety belts.

MORE DOWN-UNDER MEAT

Between March 5 and 19, four ships left Australia with almost 10 million tons of beef, mutton and lamb for the United States . . .The bill in Congress allowing manufacturers to set retail prices would serve the greedy, not the needy. says Ross J. Wilhelm, Michigan University economist. . . The automatic computer will have more impact on the Americansociety than the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th century, says Dr. Robert T. Gregory, Texas University mathematician.

, France, short of horse meat, is trying to buy horses in U. S.

While unemployment' benefits rose more than 25 percent la.st year, unemployment insurance taxes rose only 5 percent. Commerce Clearing House reports, , .A dwarf-zinnia 12 inches tall with double, red blooms les.s than 2 inches in diameter is being introduce this year, . . Japan is negotmting for, the

import of 100,000 metric tons of soybeans from Red China.

0.\E OF THE THINGS KENNEDY DIDNT ME.MION Steel industry profits dropped 14 percent last year; the return on sales was the lowest since the 1952 strike year. Total profits were about $700 million, compared with more than $1 biUion In the 1955-57 period.

SUPERSTORES MAY DOMINATE AMERICAN RETAILING

The streaT of low margin, high volume superstores may have deep influence on American retailing, according to the current Duns Review The superstores are actually the old general store, inflated to meet the demands of an Inflatihg population, the magazine says.

Department stores, it says, are being forced to imitate discounters. while they are forcejJ to copy department stqre*. -

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