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Thunday. May 31, 1962

Nothing Done About Controversy

Although controversy has subsided over the practice range for the planes stationed at this im-matter of a bombing range to be used by Air Foice portant military base, planes at Seymour Johnson base at G idsboro, it appears nothing has been done toward securing a

But Its No Gift

Unemployment

insurance Hero

By TED DAVTS \ Commissloa Emptoyment Security Guest Columnist

Provided he meets certain requirements of the State's Employment Security Law, a worker who earns |550 in covered employment in North Carolina Is eligible to claim a minimum of $12 a week in unemplojTnent benefits payment if he loses his job. Maximum jobless benefit payment in our state Is $35 and qualifying wage to re-ceh'e the top payment Is $3.-600, He can claim unemployment payments for 26 weeks.

Unemployment Insurance maintains the purchasing power, though at a lower level, of the unemployed worker on-til he can become re-employed, which decreases the impact of hla unemplojTTjent upon the community. In addlUon. it helps to prevent the scattering of an employers Umined labor force, the sacrifice of labor skills, and the lowering of labor standards during short periods of suspended operations^

Enacted in 1936 during a special session of the Oeneral As-embly, the state employment Security Law esUbllshed an Insurance system, and the state legislature defined its basic purpose: Economic insecurity due to unemployment Is a serious menace to the health, mortis. and welfare of the people of the state. Involuntary unem-plo>ment is therefore a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the legislature to prevent Its spread and to lighten Its burden which now so often falls with crushing force upon the unemployed worker and his family."

Unemployment insurance is exactly what the name Implies an insurance system. A person who loses his job. if he worked for a covered employer. should not be reluctant to file a claim for benefit payments any more than he should hesitate to claim pajment under an automobile policy if the wife smashes a fender on the family buggy.

But what causes unemployment?

It's neither unpredictable nor are its causes intangible. In Carolina, unemployment climbs and descends with the seasons. In February. 1961, insured unemployment reached a record high 68-000 workers.

A gradually worsening national economy which resulted in high unemployment at the end of 1960 carried over into the new year and it was not until months had passed that a turn for the better was evident. During the first months of 1961. unfavorable ec onomic factors plus severe weather caused this all-time Tar Heel high.

The U. S. Labor Department, with the same consistency that the National Safety Council predicts highway fatalities on a fourth of July weekend, can point to minimum unemployment that will always exist even under optimum conditions. The Federal administration believes about one-and-a-half or two per cent of the nations labor force will always be out of Work there will always be a group between jobs or unemployable.

Although^ usually associated with busi^Ss recession, unem-ploMnent/ can exist with prosperity and an expanding econo my as a result of changes in the labor demand in certain areas, plants closing for modernization or retooling, changes in styles, etc. Such unemployment is usually of short duration and the number of workers involved relatively small. "

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Just how much the matter concerns the Air Force is at this moment a moot question. The Air Force has been trying foir many months to secure a practice range in Eastern North Carolina for use by the base, but official Air Force sources in Washington have been quoted as saying they have no plans to move part of the units stationed at Sey?* mour Johnson if a practic^ range is not securcvi.

Not withstanding our inability to determine iust ivhere the Air Force stands on the matter of a practice range and possibly moving some units from Seymour Johnson, it is our feeling that the people of Ea.stern Carolina should be more concerned than is so far indicated about the Air Force's finding a suitable practice range in this area. So lohg as planes from some of the units at Seymour Johnson have to travel to other parts of the country to use practice ranges, there is the possibility that the Air Force may suddenly decide to base these planes closer to their practice ranges. If a range were available for them in this section, the possibility of units being moved from Goldsboro in the future would be considerably reduced.

Most of the controversy has centered around ence several weeks of unemploy- a proposed practice ran^e near Lake Mattamuskeet

"'toLco proc.toe plants ""'ring ground for

waterfowl. If this site is unacceptable to people of

this part of the state, some effort should be made to find a suitable site.

Seymour Johnson Air Force base represents a major industry for Goldsboro and Eastern North Carolina. It represents a payroll of millions of dollars a year to this section, not to mention the capital investment made by the government. If an ordinary industry the size of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base were looking for an auxiliary location in this part of the state, it is a good bet that state officias

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three" industries textiles, furniture, and tobacco have certain unemplo.vmcnt patterns controlled by market whims. During the pre-fumlture market in our state, joblessness from that industry alwa>s rises. Some portions of the textile industry. our state's largest employing unit, counts abnormal rates of unemployment during apparel change-over from winter to summer gannents.

What shade of womens hosiery will dominate the style next year? While stylists decide, Tar Heel hosiery wprkers expcrl-

ha\e completed operations and as activity ceased, tobacco un-emploMnent spiraled to a high 21 per cent of its 33,700 covered employees.

Ice. hail, snow, and rain cuts the employment rules of our large construction and lumber and wood industries.

Though it develoM slowing and is not discernible in mass layoffs, technological innovations and automation nevertheless is a realistic oause of un-emplojinent in North Carolina, and estimates cannot be given on how many jobs are eliminated or created by industrial advances.

Group layoffs comprise about 50 per cent of the unemployment w hich occurs, each week in our state., During the week which ended May 18, 1.245 of the 2.678 new claims reglster-cd with local Emplojinent Se- curity Commission offices In-vohed group layoffs.

Insured unemployment this week in North Carolina stands just under 4.3 per cent. With the exception of tobacco, all Tar Heel Industries have obtained or arc headed toward their expected, seasonal peak of employment. Last week, joblessness in the tc.xtile industry was 3.9 per cent of its covered workers; hosiery. 8.7 per ccn construction, 5.8 per cent: tobacco 21 per cent: and furniture. three per cent.

Last week, 33.965 Tar Heel w orkers from all covered industries. were filing continued claims to receive unemployment benefit payments.

The first four months of 1962 have already registered a 30 per cent improvement in employment conditions over the

and local officials of many counties wmnld be lend-ing their help to the industry in finding what it By PATRICIA MRF needed.

Why hasnt the same attitude been taken to-^vard the Air Force?

Even though it may now be a little late in the game, it appears to us the wise course for Eastern Th r t a i Carolinian? to lend their cooperation to the Air tlon both owerluland''much Force in finding a suitable area for a practice range talked about. Also, much writ-If sufficient effort were made, we have no doubt about.

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that one or more alternate locations to the proposed ,odan'''anicteTone thi Site near Lake Mattamuskeet could be found. By leadmg magazines not too long lending their cooperation to the Air Force in this ago which discussed the past, manner, citizens of Eastern Carolina would be doing

1^x1 \ j 1 make the future of the,

both the Air r orce and themselves a great favor, p. t. a. more appealing.

First of all, the article recalled that P. T, A.s in years past spread like wildfire because people, feeling something was lacking in the schools, sought to unite the paVents and the teachers in an organization for the childs welfare and ed- . ucation's progress.

The complaint registered Tuesday before the Into every backwoods went

Pitt County Board of Elections by one of the candi- pioneering spirits to

dates in the recent Uemocratic primary should pro- pSw^rful'orgSaUOT^^ vide food for thought for every citizen, not just They were successful. They members of the Board of Elections. organized P. T. A.s all over

It .stemmed from the fact that persons other SkealtVnd

Board Of Elections Should Mak It Clear

will be here soon North Carolina Is consistently below the national rate of unemployment and unlike some sister states and other industrialized areas, we are fortunate to have new industr>' to at least partially absorb our unemployed. Technology replaces farm workers, too. and each year our agriculture economy produces workers for non-farm jobs. Maybe 30.000 high school and college graduates will enter Qur labor market this summer. and these are persons who must fine employment. Unemployment is hardly impersonal Even though it is statistically predictable and min-ihium" unemployment- will always exist, it still involves economic insecurity to a moderate number of North Carolinas labor force. At the end of 1961, textile workers averaged $70.25 in weekly wages. Furniture workers earned $7B.62 a week ^ and tobacco industry paid $78.-94 a week Joblc.ss benefit pa.\7nents in North Carolina are below these averages and are not high enough to induce voluntary un-emplojTnent, and they hardly match a full-time salary. But they provide income, and at least lessens the burden of temporarily being without a job.

more about the others Interests and goals. Obviously it was a satisfactory arrangement, or appeared to be. The organization continued to grow.

Til today. Now, this article said, programs are being held which are both lacking in interest and direct relationship to the child, who actually is the focal Interest.

Parents go to the P. T. A. because they have to, or else their children will be dreadfully hurt, because everyone's parents go to the P. T. A.

There is an attendance prize which goes to the grade room which has the most parents there.

Its things like this that apparently disturb some of the parents.

One mother >*^rote a letter which was reprinted in the article we were reading. We took especial interest in it.

She went to the P. T. A. thinking it was a place a parent went to meet teachers, discuss education and possibly ask

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first four months of 1961 and uul> appointed nollholders had participate 1 interesting programs which

our lowest point of joblessness counting of the ballots Saturday night in one of sponsored at the meet-

the precincts. While this practice may not be acCord- talked and learned

ing to the letter of the election laws, it is the rule ^ *rn T n

rather than the exception in most precincts of this T.0T LC itOfS SClViriQ

Particularly when there is a heavy vote or a -r^ ^ j

long ballot to be counted, most poll holders have win TT y -olicited the help of citizen.s who happen to be at

the polling places while the count is being made. (Christian Science Monitor)

During the course of counting ballots at a precinct. With the possible exception of many citizens other than the dulv appointed poll- Eleanor Roosevelt and Dwight hoMers may participate in counting while the poll-nolrier=i suporvi.e and other citizens look on.

We seriou.ily doubt that any person who is not a pollholder helps with the count with the idea of influencing the outcome of an election. He is

merely helping in the presence of others as the poll- swing, is Moscow Dound. And holJer has asked him to do. "Satchmo" Armstrong said

i .l when he was unsuccessfully try-

Afimittedl\ this may be a loose practice with ing to make the same trip two

something as important as an election. At the sami yeans ago: Let all them for-time there is no reason to believe citizens who help ministers have their sum-

p..llhol,lcrs count the ballots on the spur of t-^e

moment are any less accurate or any le<s conscien- them cats just havin a base-tiou.s about the job at hand when the dulv appionted ^tient conference. pollholders. ^ precisely w^hat the

. vernacular Mr. Goodman

It IS, nevertheless, a question on which the wii! be doing with the thousands Board of Elections should s^te its feeling clearh^ of Soviet music enthusia.sts who and conci.-ely. If only duly appointed officials are

4. 1 i j -it sporadic de-Stalinizing thaw to

to have anything to do with counting the ballots, rcacb jazz officially.

the Board; of Elections should'say so. If precirct There is more to these forth-

perlod ha\-p been so successful n.rrseas as Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrongthe jazz amba.^sadors.

Now B. G., the king of

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pollholders are to continue to be permitted to solicit basement conferences

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help from .citizens who happen to be at the pollms; heac|.ddins. Ja is heady

place when the coupt is being made, the Board of with freedom, its u.se of open

Electioii5 should set forth specific rules to be follow- feHing and improvisation speaks

directly to those stifled Soviet arti.sls who; are keeping modern paintings under their beds, locking away ,non-sociali.st-realism manuscripts in desks, and buying whatever contraband Western records and magazines they can to keep abreast of artistic ferment.

Jazz is primarily an ambassador to the young. (In Poland, for instance there are a reported 120 jaz.z combos supported by 300 Communist youth organization branches. Moscow band leader Leonid Utyosov esti-

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK <AP) Whats right with women?

Mfn, who usually feel inferior in the presence of superior beings. spend considerable time knocking women and .saying whats wrong with them.

The u.sual wail is; "Women are illogical, capricious and unreasonable. They are jtoo demanding. They act like the world was ma(ie just for them. They dont have any real brains, and if they did, they wouWnt know' what to do with them.

There is. it must be admitted, .some validity to these criticisms. however tinged they may Jhe with masculine vanity and downright envy.

It is probably true also that most women lack what men call plain ordinary common horse .sense. On the other hand, why do they need horse sense? What is the fate of even the most sensible horse in this world, compared to that of the average woman?

If a man is honest enough to drop his prejudices, he has no trouble piercing the so-called my.stery of women. He has no trouble figuring out why some women outlive men, get*to spend mo.rt of\the fiioney men earn, .and generally are bettrm adjusted to life and iU pioblenib

The answer issimpie'; Women

are bom lucky and believe in luck all their days. M,^n aren'tand. dont.

It is this magic difference that makc.s men doubt tliem.selves and wilt under the buffets of time. Hardship may bend a woman. but they rarely break her. F'or she dwells in sublime great expectations. She knows - her natal gift of good luck will surely change the situation for the better.

Luck is illogical, caprictous, unpredictable and unreasonable. That Is why women are too. And it is their blind belief in their luck that gives them the supreme self-confidence which men mistake for arrogance.

It isnt their intuition that saves them. Its just that unfair advantage of having been borh lucky.

Any man - who has had any experience at all with women can. if he looks back, find many instances to prove theory.

A man Is crazy to look ft a- wife who is merely intelligent, clever, or blatantly beautiful. The thing to do is to look around and marry the one W'ho has the be.st knack of beating the laws of banco.

Then trust to luck - her.s! Maybe some of U will rub off on jou.

mates there are 3,000 amateur jazz bands in the Soviet Union.) As such, it is also accompanied by abberatlons caused in the experimentation process. Rock and roll is probably the mo.st notorious example.

But with all the foolish offshoots sped round the world in the name of American culture, the net result is still a definite asset. Jazz, hot or cool, joins American tinkering with machines, pragmatism in government. and experimentalism in the arts to help convey the vir-tUe.s of an openly searching society to people hemmed in by decreed solutions, approved art forms, and one-party rule.

Improvisation in any form is dangerous to dictatorship. Stalin recognized this. But Khrushchev saw in his owm specialt;^. political management, that improvisation was necessary to bvoid stagnation. He tried to keep the resulting ferment from spreading throughout Soviet life. But he couldnt. Now it has reached the point where the experimenters who want to search for new classics, new' forma in the arts are being permitted to Indulge their jazz enthusiasm publicly. I According to persistent rumor B. G. may even join pianist Byron Janis in some concert hall Gershwin.)

It will be no surprise if Mr. Goodman "duplicates the acclaim that he received in Asia, Dave Brubeck met in the Middle East, Milt Jackson finds in Europe, and Louis Armstrong has stirred from the Skagerrak to the Gulf of Guinea. The basement conference is an extremely popular form of diplomacy.

aibout the child. The . mother went. She met the teacher. And she asked about her child. But. alas, she was told by said teacher that this wasnt the time or place to discuss Johnnys work.

Sadly the mother wondered what the P. T. A. was for.

She noted she had learned, as more of her children entered school, to go late to meetings, dash around to speak (only) to the teachers and act pleasant. Then she chatted here and there and left. She gained nothing from the P. T. A. but had done the right thing (according to protocol).

We took exceptional horror to this story, which apparently has some truth to it, whether it Is exemplified here in Greenville or not.

We thought about the pioneering spirit and could immediately think of several schools right here in Greenville without a P. T. A. or any related organization.

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Strength ?or Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS DO SOMETHING

The prophet Joel, who lived about 2,300 years ago, rebuked his generation for many sins and shortcomings. It was customary among orientals in that day to rend their garments when a sense of wrongdoing overcame them and they became conscious of the enormity of their sins.

Joel brushed all this aside. Rend your hearts, he cried, and not your garments and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil. In other words. He is a loving and forgiving God.

We have people amongst ua today who do the equivalent of rending their garments. They wring their hands, they shriek, they W'eep, they carry on all over the place. If they are detected in something evil or if the consequences of an evil act or evil living overtake them, they declare that they are sin-' ners. They denouncie their sin. But in a great majority of cases they let everything end with this demonstration. They go back to their sin again. They lapse into their old weaknesses. They will pull another breast-beating stunt later on and declare that they are too mean for either God or man to have an.rthing to do with them. But there it ends.

Rend your hearts and not your garments. Change your habits and stop talking about the evil of them. Do something. Dont ju.st weep and wail and regret.

Do something.

China

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc. .

Red China Is In the uncertain stage of the Revolution. Whereas Soviet Russia has been under Communist Party control since 1917, Red China has only been under such control since 1949. Soviet Russia has \W)n a number of victories which have convinced the Russian people of the Inevitability of Russian success; Red China has, thus far, encountered principally failures.

Soviet Russia became, as a result of World War n, one of the principal nations on Earth;. Red China has not even been admitted Into the United Nations.

A matters stand today. Red China Is an outlaw, the Cain among nations. Just as the Korean War was a result of Red Chinese machinations, so are the Vietnam .War, the Indo-nesla-Dutch War, the threat to Thailand and the Laotian War products ,fo Red Chinese plans for expansion.

The Chlenlung Line, which runs from the Hi region of Turkestan to the Bay of Bengal, is the linrt of present plans for Red Cmnas expansion. Should Red China succeed, Indian Influence in Asia would be not neutralized but nullified.

Three vital factors appear In this picture:

The population of Red China is on the Increase. Whether it Is 400.000,000 or 600.000,000 or 900.000,000 nobody knows because no adequate, scientific census has ever been taken In China. However, the expansion of the South Chinese population In all directions Is a matter of record. The density of population in Kwangtung , (Canton) Province has been so ' great that Cantonese are to be -found not only in Asiatic countries but everywhere. In Asiatic countries the process of assimilation vlth native peoples has been constant for centuries and therefore Important ,areas of other nations are inhabited by peoples with Chinese _ affiliations.

Furthermore, the culture of Chba is so positively ingrained throughout the East of Asia that whether the peoples are affiliated by race or politics with China they tend to look to Peking with respect.

The third factor in this situation, that is universalin the East of Asia, is the general dislike of the White Man, the foreigner who came by sea and who lorded it over the native peoples. If one*-wlH^tudy Chinese history, there has rarely been a decade of peace. 'There were always wars, civil wars, rebellions and revolutions.

Chlenlung (1736-1795) ruled China for 60 years, during most of w'hlch he devoted himself to conquest. It . was during his reign that China expanded to its greatest extent and it is his China which It l^Mao Tze-tungs ambltiofi to restore. His first great conquest was Chinese Turkestan. In 1724, Tibet was annexed to China, but Chlenlung stabilized this situation by a series of events, it wsls because Tibet had become a fief that Chlenlung found it necessary to defeat the Gurkhas of Nepal and to Invade Nepal.

Chlenlung also devoted himself to the aboriginal tribes who had occupied the Yellow an(l Yangtze River valleys before the Chinese (or Sons of Han, as they preferred to call themselves) conquered their territories. These aborigines found homes In South China, Indo-China, the island of Hainan and border areas. Few of these aboriginal tribes ever accepted the rule of the Chinese but lived like a nation within a nation, following their own customs and traditions.

Chlenlung made war on Burma and exacted tribute from that country which acceptecl Chinas suzerainty. Then Chien-lung went into Annam (North Vietnam) which had once been ^ a province of the Ming dynasty.

It was during the reign of Chien-lung that British trade developed in Canton. Other countries entered this trade. American, French. Danish, Prussian. Mexican and other merchants aHo appeared at Canton, American trade with China started In 1784.

I have recited a few of the conquests of Chlenlung to give a broad picture of the expansion of China during his 60 year reign. It is in imitation of this expansion that Red China is now' moving. Interestingly. Mao Tze-tung follows directly in Chlenlungs footsteps. So far as (Continued on page five)

^i^etailing Isnt Likely To Slump

By ELMER KOESSNER

Despite the unsettled condition of the stock market, retailing in June should continue much along present levels.

The Federal Reserve report that dcpartiTvnt store sales from Jan. 1 to May 19 were 6 per cent above a year ago. Figures for June will probably not show af? mruch gain because the June, 1961, figures were substantial.

Persona! income will continue its rise and erriploymenf will continue its gentle expansion, providing funds for continued consumer spending.

Despite the widespread--ownership of stocks, and despite the fact that the novice Investors have been hit heavily in recent market declines, not much eJ-feet on retail business is feared. Those who bought stocks for investment rather than spccu laton are hanging on. 'Those who have been forced to take their lo.sses .are not numerous

enough to affect retail sales measurably.

CAUTION IN INDUSTRY

However, the trouble in the market will have a larger impact on industry. Already several companies have postponed issuing new, stocks and debentures. Moat issues were intended to raise money for plant and equipment expansion, - w' h i c h must now be postponed. This will have a secondary effect on the capital goods market. When money rlslng is postponed, so must be money spending.

Other Industries will turn cautious. waiting to see what will happen. Buying for Inventory will naturally be slowed. However. not much change in industrial prices can be expected in June.

Congress is alert to the scrambled market, and not only because many members have little nest eggs there. Both house.s will tend to act faster on the tax bill, the farm bill and other major mea.sures that will affect the economy.

Some may say the market slide is embarrassing to President Kennedy. Even if it is. it strengthens his hand in dealing with Congress. Congress cannot now afford to hang back on legislation the President calls necessary for recovery.

SEASONAL RISE The rist in many seasonal industries will tend to pep up th economy in June. The fast-growing boating business will get a lift and its seasonal lifts have been getting bigger every year. Vacation reservations w'ill continue their current rise. The vacation air lift to Europe has already begun.

Gains in the backyard swimming pool business will be moderate. This industry, which promised so much a few years ao. is now running into (1) saturation, (2) burdening local regulations, especially in areas where W'atcr is not plentiful, and (3) too much competition. Auto sales show nO sign of slackening. The rush for new cars should Increase W'ith vaca

tions approaching, and the (Je-mand for good used cars should continue strong.

SHORT A SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS BITS Three more American distillers have asked the Treasury for an* even break with foreign distillers. American companies must label spirits storea In reused cooperage If that is the case: foreigners need not. . In the l950s, the number of Negroes increased 28 per cent and whites increased 17.5 per cent. Business Week says In pointing .out opportunities in selling Negroes. Their income alio went up more than whites i . .Two-thirds W bank employees are women and most of them are married, deporta Hilda H. KoUmann, of Blue Island, ni., president of the National Association of Bank Women. . .For the first thne alnce World Wax II. Americans last year spent less on foreign travel than they did in the previous year.; .