PVidy, May 25. 1962

A Welcome Addition To Our Area

We Wouldnt Need An Arms Race

Location of a new industry that is expected to eventually employ some ^0 people in Greenville is an important step in furthering the economic development of this community and the county.

The announcement yesterday of the location of a new plant of Prepshirt, Inc., manufacturers of boys dress and sport shirts, was the culmination of months of effort and close cooperation between the Pitt County Development Commission, Greenville's

!?^ioneer In The ;!^ural Service

By J. L/HORNE. Publisher Rocky Mount Telettram and member first N. C. Rural Electrification Authority Guest Writer That 95 out of ever 100 rural residents of North Carolina hav'e access to central energy electric scr\lce. while only four out of the same hundred had that privilege 30 years ago. isn't mere happen-so.

It Is explained In part by a Jovial governor who delighted In tossing challenges at public spirited citizens, and in this in-atance he gave North Carolina a two-year lead on the 48 states that existed In 1932. This governor from the Albemarle, the first in more than a century, was faced with the collapse of tax pa>*ments on land and. early in his administration, nearly a third of the lOO counties were on default with principal and Interest on their bonds, while pavTnent to the coffers of the slate was evsn worse.

But whatever misgivings J. C. B. Ehiinghaus micht hac had wTien he entered upon the job he kept to himself as he called-Dr. Clarence Poe to give him his thoughts on a couple of dozen Tar Heels who m.ght help with a prchiem that would mean a great deal to the rural life of the stae. Of course, the editor of the Progressive Farmer. Dr. Poe, cdmnlird and a group was called to Raleieh fo hear the executive recite the fact that only four of e\erv i<) citizens in the state's nn-al areas had access to central rner-gy dependable electric sen ice With a captivating .rmile of a master salesman who believed in the product he was selling. Governor Ehringhaus* then caP-ed attention to the fact fhat ' there was twi''' as much eec-tric energy b' mannactured as was being .-rold. and that until use of hydro-electric current, generated as the waters of the states rivers coursed from the mountains to the sea. was sold it would be impossible to reduce rates. High rates, of course, were a deterrent to Industrial growth.

Still smiling, he told the group it should constitute a chaUenge. That he had no funds to pay for their travel to Raleigh and back home and that any who would be deprived, of a noonday meal could go by with him*to the Mansion and share an humble farm dinner that would be provided by hi': household. Nobody went, but he gave everybody in his meeting the germ of an idea for, as he expressed it, now I want you to scratch it and lets get it to epread.

Blucher Ehringhaus did just that and when Franklin D. Roosevelt came Into power as president and the ERA was making jobs for people, Governor Ehringhaus was wise to inject a project of a so-termed surv'cy ,of the rural areas that might be interested in electilc lights. Men went on bicycles or afoot, but 7,000 miles were ex plored. The white collar worker carrying a clipboard measured his stride and then counted his steps from one house to the next. It was the same list of questions everywhere: Would you be interested in electric lights? Ho^' many are there in your family? How many rooms in the house? Would^you like a water system, electric refrigerator etc.?

The proposal took Jike wildfire and with it came the question of how it might be done.

Transformers certainly had to be provided for less than $100 apiece, and line construction costs reduced.

It was the fact that 50.000 homes thus had been pinpointed in Carolina that gave the electric manufacturers an incentive and the one K. W. transformer at $18 was the answer. So cheap was its construction. as you might view It detached. that it forthwith earned the entitlement of "tin cjim In reality, it was just that, for the iron crock had been replaced with weather-treated sheet metal. Construction then was of two metallic copper wires strung from pole to pole, and a ground was something abhorred by any generating engineer and a flue-tuating switchboard needle sent/*^ the maintenance crew in ^ search of what was termed a leak.

The imaginary' enemy was employed when It was found necessary to cheapen construction if there w as to be any con-.rirnction. The ''energised." nr in linemen s parlance, the hot wire" Was carefully insulated, and abov'e it mounted a line that provided for protection arsin.st lightning or anything from, above Fewer pole.s were ' rrquired and the- spans betw een poles were lengthened with le.ss wiring and this construction was at less than .50 cents in the dollar rompared to the cc^t of metallic eonstniction.

.^11 this was goiitg on in Moith rirolina when Franklin Roo:rvelt railed Blucher Ehr-in-^hpus to Washington to know about Ins niral electrification efforii. and history bears out the fact tha^ when the P:'esi-drnt a.'iked Congre.s.s for more billions for rehf't be included amone his objectives Rural Electrification.

Bv that time North Carolina was off anyway, with a legislative appropriation and Governor Ehringhaus had named a romnns.'^ion and opened an office in Ralcinh. In that earlier group with Dr. Poe, who worked without status or compensation tK'cau.se of the challenge from the Governor, were D. S. Nanatta. master of the State Grange: W. Kerr Scott, later Governor and U. S Senator;

Dr. Jane S. McKimmon, State Home Demonstration Agent;'

Josh L. Home, publisher. Rocky Mount Telegram; E. B. Jeffress. of Green.sboro. former chairman of the Slate Highway and Public Works Commiss'on;

S. T. Henry of Spnice Pine, farmer and mem.ber of the Tennessee Valley Authority;

Mrs. Gordon Reid of Ruther-fordton. president Home Demonstration Clubs; Dr. How'ard w. Odum, director of the Institute for Research in Social Science. Chapel Hill; C. A. Sheffield, asst, director of Extension Work at State College; Senator Dudley W. Baeley, farmer of Moyock; J. Edward Tiddy. teacher of agriculture at Red Springs; and Dean T E Browne of tlie School of Education. N . C. Slate,'Who acted as secretary for, the committee.

The group with official status and a State apnropriation known as the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority was composed of Dudley Bagiev. chairman; Kerr Scott-. Josh Horne. Dr. Jane McKimmon. George M. Stevens, Farmers Federation. Asheville, and Dr. Samuel H. Hobbs Jr., chairman of the department of Rural Social Economics at the Uni-ver.^ity of North Carolina.

Committee of 100 and lo,cal busiri^?s firms and in* dividuals in seeking to locate the industry here.

With less effort and less than wholehearted cooperation on the part of the organizations and local firms and citizens who were willing to supply capital for construction of the new industrial building, this new industry might be located somewhere other than Greenville. While many people have had,an active part in locating this new indiLstry in Greenville, we feel that special commendation is deservetf by Dr. Sylvester Green, director of the Development CommiSvSion, and W. W. Speight and B. B. Sugg, Jr. of the Committee of 100, who played key roles bringiifg this project to fruition.

Prepshirt, Inc. is an affiliate of Samsons, Inc. of Kinston which has operated in this section of North Carolina for more than a quarter centuiy. Its successful manufacturing operations in Kinston, Wilson and Washington over a period of years attest to the soundness of the operation and the companys close tie to the communities in which it operates.

As for the Greenville operation, the initial employment of some 200 people will mean an annual payroll of close to half million dollars. As employment of the plant increases to the anticipated 500 persons, the annual payroll will climb above the million dollar mark. Such an increase in the locgtl manufacturing .payroll, plus the creation of that number of new jobs locally will have an important effect upon the local economy.

We join with other citizens of this community in welcoming this company which now will become a new industrial citizen of Greenville and Pitt County. We likewise join with others in expressing ur sincere appreciation to the citizens of this com-unity who have had a hand in locating this new industry in Greenville.

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Manned Spqce Flight VQiietY Enlivens Even

The successful space flight of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenterin spite of the harrowing 35 minutes in which the world awaited information on whether he had survived re-entryputs another feather in the cap of the American space research team and the astronauts whose jobs it is to man the space crafts.

Twice now the United States has put astro-naut.s into orbits around the earth and has brought them back safly. The trail blazed by Col. John Glenn, and followed yesterday by Scott Carpenter has opened the way for farther exploration in manned space flights by the United States. Although Carpenters flight did not have the designation of first for the United States as did Glenns, it nevertheless must be rejrarded as a major space achievement by this country, and by the man who piloted the craft.

In addition to the significance of the flight it-.^elf, there is likewise .significance in the continued policy of the United States to conduct its manned .-pace flights in full view of its citizens and the world in which there is keen competition for lead-er.-hip in the space age, this policy is standing the United States in good stead.

The United States is now beyond the threshhold of manned space flight and new doors have been opened that present new challenges that must be accepted and overcome with continued rapid progress in space-age accomplishments.

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Here we go again . . . another election party Saturday night. ^ .

One dependable facet of election night vote tabulations at. The Reflector is their variety.

Some nights are insipid: some are heady; some drive nervous tensions to the break-inc point.

The pace of preiinct returns varies; the turn-out of voters varies; the candidates v.ary; there are changes in points to be decided.

The frustrations are of huge proportions when all reports are in with exception of per-hap.s one or two; and the hour is late, or the issue is still in doubt.

A .mall measure of per.'ional satisfaction comes to the fore this time around;

For years I've watched one of Saturday.s candidates carefully checking returns from over the county; marking them down in a small notebook for

presumed future reference.

And each time I saw this studious performance Id say to myself some day hes going to get his feet wet.-Theres satisfaction in, being right on even a casual observation.

time a certain field piece was fired cost the government

$200, made me think such statistics could make pacifists out of taxpayers. ,

The ^rmed Forces Day display at the Reserve Center was something more people might have seen and appreciated.

It was a hot day ... no mi.stakc: and there were other things calling for attention, but a brief visit was rewarding.

The Army acquired five potential recruits (two in the "WAO by virtue of the outing whtSh Included five very very young people. Their fascination was alone worth the trip.

The equipment on display was presided over by very fit-looking men who could explain in detail w'hat it was all about.

One revelation, that each

Other Editors Saying.,., "n Search Of Power

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By J.AMES MARLOW WAjHINGTON (AP) - It would be nice to think a bunch

of labor and business leaders, meeting in an auditorium, could work out their problems amicably by the use of intelligence and sweet reasonableness.

That isn't the history of American labor - management relations.

So It was no surprise, when President Kennedy called together 200 labor and manage-

ities instead of specifics.

Perhaps if they had been called in the midst of crisis, like war. when they had no time for the luxury of old-fa.^-hioned labor - management bickering, they would have done better.

The only two labor-manage-meiit conferences in history which really reached important, ba.sic agreements were called in wartime, in World Wars I and II.

The overw'helming lesson of

mem representatives this week ^labor-management relations in

to find answers for keeping the economy sound, that after two days they left without solving anything.

There's no reason to think that ii they meet again they'll do any better.- Nevertheless. Kennedy said he thought there wa.s \alue in this first one and will have others.

It.-. pos.^ible a far smaller meeting might have accompli .?hed more. Kennedys permanent 21-man advisory committee-seven each from laborr management and the public has made progress.

But this committee was confronted with specific problems, like automation and collective bargaining,, and came up with recomm.endations. The 20-man meeting was supposed to discuss everything in the book;

While the very number of them foredoomed them to no agreement so did the fact that they had to deal with general-

American history shows this: The one way for these ancient rivals to keep the government out of interfering with their business long ago, and repeatedly. would have been to reach compromise agreements 'beneficial to both, with both yielding something.

But they didn't. They had to be hit on the head with a government club,

P'or instance, employers through most of American history fought the attempts of their workers to organize Into unions which could bargain for all of them.

It was to the benefit of the employers to keep the employees weak by keeping them divided Finally, the government had to step in and. through the 193,5 Wagner Act. ^orce them to bargain with unions.

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(Christian Science Monitor) By tradition American city mayors usually have been woo-ed in the fall; neglected in the spring. When their vote-organizing power is needed, at least biennially in November national elections, they are sought after by their parties. But when lawmakers sit in judgment on urban needs every spring the mayors usually receive more courtesy than power.

This year would appear to be no exception. The most resounding defeat the big-city-elected Kennedy administration has suffered on Capitol Hill this season Was on its attempt to create an urban affairs Cabinet post And to date no fires have bfen lit under the year'.s other major city legislation, the $.500,000.000 urban mass transit program.

But this year marks a chance. Even if nothing happens in Congress to prove It. a vast, still uncharted change is coming over politics in these urban fief-doms. It is the result of the two Supreme Court decisions earlier this year which gave dLstrict court judges power to upset unfair voting power given rural citizens at the expense of urban ones.

As the American mayors met in Miami Beach last week for their annual asscs.sment of prospects. courts i" Tennessee, Georgia. Michigan. Alabama. Maryland. North Dakota. Oklahoma and Vermont had directed (or wei*e about to direct) reapportlonment of voting power. Court action was also being initiated in New York, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Colora

do and Mississippi; and was under con.sideration In at least nine other states.

Parts of the process will be slow. The power that the mayors hold in national elections will not at once be duplicated in state elections and state legislatures. But both the faults and virtues of city politics seem ' certain to be magnified more each year.

In this process, with all its unknown variables, three things need to be kept in sight;

1. That the increased power of city voters in their state Capitols will probably lead to more home rule, more local initiative. But this wili not automatically be used wl.sely unless citizens pay more attention to Candidates who run on the lower reaches of the ballot

2. That effective government in big city and suburb requires a more effective local tw*o-par-ty system than now exists, with an active opposition proposing alternate programs and challenging corruption and its handmaiden. apathy.

3. That mayors, gaining new power, should devote more of their time to constructive administration, less to political ladder climbing. The job of mayor should be more often an end, not a means a respected height in American politics attractive in itself to higher caliber men.

The great reapportlonment shift has barely begun. But civic leaders ought to vStart preparing to live up to it. Some day soon mayors may be as important in the spring as in the fall. .

Yesterdays orbital flight by M. Scott Carpenter evoked the conclusion we the public are becoming Increasingly matter-of-fact about the high drama of man-in-space.

When John felenn rocketed up and away there was a vast and Intense Interest attendant upon the flight from launch to recovery.

Yesterdays flight had two high points: the lift-off and during the critical hours of re-entry and recovery.

Most of those to whom Ive talked about it felt little compulsion to follow the minute^ by-minute course of flight a.s had been the case with Col. Glenn.

They had been through it. They knew, or felt they knew, the critical periods and could concentrate on the work at hand during the orbital hours.

Remarked one observer: After the uneventful take-off it w'as like watching Dr. Kildare: you had a feeling everything was going to be all right.

Which sum.s It up" very well.

My point is that on the whole we are gaining a lot of confidence on the space front. Launching of an unmanned satellite, for instance, is pretty humdrum news any more.

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To the Editor-On behalf of the Pitt County Mental Health Association. I would like to express our deep appreciation to you and yourr staff for your excellent coverage of our activities during Mental Health Week. We w'ant to particularly commend Mrs. Patricia Moore for her interesting articles. Her insight, candid observations and interest in our Mental Health program have given her an unusually fine background of knowledge in the field of Mental Health. Her enthusiastic and factual arricle.s on Mental Health are proof of this knowledge.

We are also grateful to you for your year-a round coverage of our efforts to promote Mental Health among our citi-zehs, and we trust that w^e will continue to merit your support.

Thank you. ,,

Sincerely,

Mrs. M. p. Bailey, Executive Secretary Pitt County Mental Health Association

On The i^roblen:

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

I hfive received a very large fan mall criticizing my views on medicare. The letters come mostly from older folks who have accustomed themselves to taking what they call social security from the government. They actually believe that the government gives them this dole. They do not feel, generally. that they have paid for what they get.

From this large mall, wMch Is an adequate sample, I have reached these conclusions:

1. That the family Vstem In the United States Is losing, or possibly has lost, the concept that children have the responsibility of looking after their aged parents. The letters all indicate that the children cannot affonl to be burdened with looking after their own families and also taking care of their aging parents. In fact, few parents complain of this change in attitude, even religious folks w'ho accept the Ten Commandments as a way of life.

There is a strong desire for Independence on both sides children are so bossy and aged parents interfere so much.

I have not received one letter which mentioned the moral responsibility of children to look after their parents,,

2. It must be true that In many cities, doctors and pharmacists are out-pricing themselves and folks do not like going to free clinics where they must take their turn and wait forever. Doctors, they complain, hate to make house calls. In large cities,' doctors cannot find parking spaces.

Of course, doctors have to feed their families, run an office, buy publications, attend meetings, etc.. etc. However, the patient simply does not have the money to pay for the service and hates to take a mans time without pay.

The problems m old age are very complicated. Most of the Illnesses of old age_are expensive. Cardiac illnesses require constant attention and expensive medication. Cancer can run into years of hospitalization. X-rays and other medication. Arthritic, rheumatic, neuritlc Illnesses run on and are not cured, but attention to them is costly. And so it goes with diabetes, arteriosclerosis and all sorts of illnesses of old age.

From my correspondence, it is clear that older persons simply have no means to carry the load and there are insufficient public institutions to care for them without compensation. It Is a tough problem.

American physicians fear socialized medicine, in any fpmi. because they fear that it will ultimately degrade their profession, put an end to investigation and research. They fear that the physician be reduced to thej)osition of a civil servant.

On the other hand, the , physicians have spoiled their owti case by not adequately policing their profession. The theory that they charge according to the means of the patient that is. from nothing for those who cannot afford to pay, to enormous amounts for those who can pay, does not always Work out because the middle income group, particularly the aged, hate to accept charity and cannot afford much more.

The virtue of capitalism is that is produces a classless society; that it abolishes poverty not by the fiat of an elite but as a human right and obligation. By scientific research, superior medical care and by sanitation, we have extended the life expectancy of every individual.

Unfortunately, the life Insurance companies, using tables of life expectancy which are *not brought up to date, require companies which grant pensions and other fringe benefits to' retire employees tn their prime, on reduced pay. The result is that we are developing a population of effective, experienced. physically and mentally competent persons who cannot afford a prostatectomy which is not unusual for persons above 50.

What are we to do? President Kennedy favors health Insurance attached to the Social Security payroll tax. Many dislike the Social Security feature of this proposal. Others dislike the entire proposition. But no one has come up with a serious, constructive counter-pro-

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Meat Supply Exploding Too

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By E.ARL L. DOUGLASS LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Why is there such a universal fear of death? Should we fear that circumstance which ha.s come to ever:' person that ever lived on this planet^ If they have gone through it. why cannot we? Is there anything so very terrible about death after ali^

Of course, we think of the judgement But the judgement will probably be a great surprise to us for although we will bej-ebiiked for things for which at present w'C do not rebuke ourselves, we shall also be praised for virtues we do not now snspect we have. There is mystei'y about w'here we go from here. But why should that npstcry alarm us? Certainly we go .somewhere. God did not create us to exist a few.jeai&

and when our lives are half completed to destroy us and wipe us out of existence. No sane human being would adopt such a policy, and God is the perfection of all wisdom.

Why cannot we tru.ri His love? He has never failed u.s while we lived on tliis planet-cah we not trust Him to the end, whatever that end may be? Plain? Yes. we do not un-d^rstand that. Sorrow? God Himself will Interpret that to us fin some later date or in some future sphere.

We know* that God Himself entered the stream of human history in the form of Hks Son ' and experienced death. He tasted death for all of us. We can drain, the cup with Him. and when' we do we will find tlia'. the cup is not on^; oi bitter-

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God is love'

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By ELMER ROESSNER

The population explosion is not confined to people. The worlds cattle and buffalo population thisyear is estimated at l,o;j5 million head give or take a few dogies 20 million more than in 1961.

The buffalo in that statement are Australian and Asian water buffalo, not the American buffalo, which is really a bison. The meat of the buffalo is indistinguishable from that of cattle: in fact, there are auspi-ciom that some of the beef .hipped to the United States from Australia Is actually buffalo carcss. In hamburger, you couldnt tell the difference.

The rise in the cattle population is directly the result of the rise in human populations and the rise in income around the world.

.MORE MONEY,

MORE .STEAK.S

The .human Is a funny being. .As his buying power rises, he r '*' want more bread, more splru.s or more sweets but most of all he wants more meat, pre

ferably red.

And as bujring power rises, so does the supply of red meat barring, of course, droughts and other calamities. As farmers and growlers see spending increase, they breed more meat animals. and so the meat population rises almost automatically -with the consuming population.

Consumption of beef rises"' with the rise of buying power with such preci.sion that it is possible to estimate the prosperity of nations- from their meat producing and meat eating.

The world Increase in cattle during 1961 was about 2 per cent. The Increase in North America was about 3 per cent, which corresponds roughly to the ri^ in living standards. But in Ru.ssia, the increase was about 8 per cent. SIGNIFICANCE OBSCURE

This does not necessarily mean that living conditions improved that much behind the Iron Curtain last year. But it may indicate that the government is spending more on civil comforts and less on arma

ments.

The cattle numbers increased by the same 3 per cent in Eastern Europe and Oceania during the year, 2 per cent in South America and Western Europe, and about 1 per cent In Asia.

The rises In cattle do not appear to have upset the lead of North Americans as the meat-eatinges^ people. India, the U. S., Russia, Brazil and China each have 60 million or more head of cattle now, and the Indians worship, not eat, cattle. In some African countries cattle are neither worshipped nor eaten; they are held as status symbols.

World cattle numbers were 14 per cent above the 1951-55 average at the start of this year. The biggest increase, 44 per cent, was in Russia. South America increased 20 per cent and Western Europe 16 per cent; North America. 14 per cent.

However, these percentages increases do not mean that Rus-> sians are eating more steaks than Americans. The tbtal in

crease in the world tn the last nine years was only about as much as the United States and Canada eat each year.

SAYS SOME PACKAGES. CHEAT CONSUMERS

A package designer has lashed out at much packaging de-Signing. Gerald Stahl, New York industrial designer, told a New York radio audience that unless mwiufacturers police themselves, the government will regulate packaging.

While most packages are honest, he said, dimensions of width, height and depth can be so constructed as to give the illusion of more contents than the package contains.

He added, We need uniform marking of weight, a specific place for it to appear on each package, and in type big enough to be read at a glance. We need a better definition for each industry of just how much slack or dead air in a package is needed to protect the product and not cheat the buyer.