Tud*y. June 12, 1962

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It wasnt too many years a'go that the list of items which carded the Made in North Carolina label was pitifully limited. There were many items for which *the raw materials came from the Tar Heel state, but the finished products were made elsewhere and shipped back to this state for sale.

Fortunately the situation has changed. As North Carolina this week observ'es a special celebration in recognition of items manufactured in this state, the list is long indeed, and of particular sTgnificnce is the manner in which it has grown even in the last decade.

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Manv products manufactured from raw ma terials which come from our forests are made far from North Carolina and shipped back to Tar Heelia as finished items bidding for the consumer dollar.

Made in. North Carolina Week* should ser\e to show not only the great achievements of the state in manufacturing progress, but likew'ise it ThoiOT impress upon Tar Heels the vast opportu-

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But even as the state takes stock of the varietv of item* it manufactures, it is evident that North Carolina still produces much of the rat\- material that has to be shipped to other states for processing and manufacture.

Particularly is this true in connection with the vigorous agriculture of the state. North Carolina has only scratched the surface in an effort to establish its own food processing industry in keeping with the calibre of agricultural production it can achieve. For the most part the food products from farms of the state still carry the processed elsewhere label by the time they reach the counters of grocery stores and supermarkets.

The vast store of food products which comes from the staters coastal waters are transported for the most part to other states where they are processed and shipped back to North Carolina for

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'fhe. major questions in the minds of citizens following congressional investigation into the Billie 1- -Es4ex ease is4 W hat did $100 bnv tn Wa^h ing*-ton?

Although the hearings are just beginning, it seems evident even now that the Texas fertilizer and cotton tycoon spread a number of $100 money orders around Washington. Some of them, according to testimony before the investigating committee, found their way into political party coffers. The route of others is yet to be determined. Also to be determined is the scope of favors passed out by Estes and the number of officials and employes of the federal government who nfight have been recipients of these favors.

Coupled with the money orders, there have come to light so far long distance telephone calls, charge accounts for clothes and other items.

Where will it all lead?

Certainly the entire scope of thqi matter should be fully exposed to public view regardless of the party affiliation or position of those involved. Any attempt on the part of any official to cover up or minimize any part of the dealings between Estes and federal employes or officials will be in direct

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FOODIt la the thinking of various experts that an effective way for a business to win the publics heartand touch Its pocketbookIs through the stomach. In the field of food processing.

This Is a field which Is being emphasized by North Carolina's Industrial development plannere and they think it's a sure thing.

All of toe Clements for success are readily available-food Items, staples, delicacies, markets, transpoitatlon, ideas and know-how. North Carolina has made prt*ress in this direction In tlie past fern years, more than many realize, and the industry planners figure there is still room for fuither tremendous growth.

IMPETUS Governor Terry Sanford listed some of the advantages the other day. in a -speech in Asheville, he said North Dwolina could become the breadbask^fjaf the nation.

He cited the state's geo-graphwr location, the nearness of the nation s great population centers and the agricultural resources. labor supply and knowhow

Actually, there is no accurate gauge of how weli North Carolina's food-procefletsf industry fare* on .a carparaPve basis except is Lbe iDdustry s own growth

Food processlrsg does, ai pres ^t. sund tiurd hs otOput value In buhiStriaJ categories in the state, exceeded only by textiles and tobacco.

This means it has exceeded furniture, if the figures obtained from official and semJ-offlcial sources are correct.

COMPARISON - The indu.s-trial development experts believe that North Carolinas atancUhg am<mg the s^tes in food processing should climb a couple of notches higher the next time a manufacturing and Industrial census Is taken.

According to one yardstick, value added by manufacturing of food and kindred products, the state climbed one notch in

the j)eriod between 1954 and 1958.

Li 1954. North Carolina ranked 25th in the nation with S155, 557.000 annually derived from food proces.sing. By 1958, the dol ' lar value climbed to $235.207.000 and the state ranked 24th among the then 48 .states.

EMPLOYES - Another yardstick is the number of employes engaged in food processing.

In 1954, there were 24.993 so employed in North Carolina and this was 24th in the nation. By 1958, the total had climbed by approximately 5.000to 29,943 and Nonh Crolna ranked 20th.

Figures obtained from sources other than those cited for 1954 and 1958 indicate a current estimated emplovment of 36,000 Tar Heels in food processing Industries, and an annual value derived of $4.37,000,000.

POTENTIAL - Some of the potential for food production in North Carolina is indicated by further studie.s.

For example, approximatclv 50 per cent of the states fann income is derived from only 10 per cent of the harvested crop lauid.

Sixteen per cent of North Carolina's potential crop land stands idle each year.

Of course, by far the greater proportion of the state's farm income comes from a nonfood crop, tobaccowith the state producing two-thirds of the national flue-cured crop.

But there Is a trend toward crop diversification. There are more commercial vegetables be ing grown. The state ranks near the top in commercial broiler production. Pork production is Increasing. Beef cattle are, becoming a bigger thing on many Tar Heel farms. '

The state ranks second in production of peanuts and sweet potatoes, 10th in soybeans and com and 12th In swine.

PLANTSSome of the food processing plants and ii'idustries showing growth and with new facilities in the state process-dairy products, seafood, meat products, poultry, pickles, refrigerated foods and snack foods.

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For the most part the favors Este,s pas.sed out chdor columnl*" hve ittS dto'-TO those connected with the-government appear to cussed through the years the be .small, but whether Estes' favors were large formal wedding. Be-

or small is immaterial. What is important is that

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portant is what they sought in return for the Texas through such a thing.

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payers of fhe nation. Equally, important is the de- p?essWe bSuty of a formal wed-

terioration which may have resulted in the moral ding, Sherrill took the lovely

fiber of government officials and personnel.

At lea.st in connection with the Estes case, $100

.eems to have gone a long way.

mer Greenville bachelor came through with flying colors. There was not a single flub to mar the ceremony as It progressed in Red Oak Christian Church.

As your columnist passed through the reception line later Sherrill wore that big relieved grin that only a just-married man can have.

Well, Alvin, It wasnt so bad, he commented.

Another GreenvlUe bachelor

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By. JA.MES .MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP> - Two men from BostonWilliam Stanley Braithwaitc and Edward J O'Brienare now both dead. A lot of people still alive owe them a great debt.

It is a debt which hardly e\ cr gets acknowledged by more than a reference in a footnote in literary history. Neither wa.s a creative artist. They published anthologies of other peo-, pie's writings.

This is an attempt, if only for one day and in a personal w-ay, to do better than a footnote for Braithwaite who died over the weekend at 83 and O'Brien, who died in 1941 at 51.

Every year from 1913 to 1929 Braithwaite, a Negro largely .-ielf-cducated. published a fat book called Anthology of Magazine Verse Every year from ,1915 to 194f) O'Brien published what he called the best short stories of the year,

T\^o things made these books-remarkable; the time and the attitude of the two men.

The time, from about 1912 to about 1929 wa.s the most exciting literary period in 20th century America. It was a time of literary revolution, protest, experimentation, new form, new views.

This writer grew up on the West Side of New York where Irish. Geman and Italian immigrants had settled, raised sons and daughters as first-^ generation Americans, and, many of them, still remained to see their grandchildren growing up.

This was not an intellectual environment. These people never had much time for schooling. They had to go to work young and they worked long hours. You would not sit around a living room in that neighborhood and hear about the new breath of life whistling through American literature.

But you could learn about It if you went to the neighborhood librai-y. I didn't hear it from the librarian. They seemed too busy marking cards to read much. And I did not find new authons spread out on the shelves.

(Washington Daily News) As more and more boys and girls apply for college admissions, standards seem to go /lilgher and higher.

But I .as lucky^I found thy' seems quite reasonable to antholoRies of O Biien anff assume that the best way col-Braithwaite. ^leges can discourage boys and

O'Brien always seenieu to include in his anthologies a certain percentage of the usual, old - fashioned formula short story from the popular and conservative magazines. I .sometimes felt he thought he had to do it to get his books into the libraries at all.

But in between lie sandwiched the new writing, by men like Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway, and experimental writing, some of which wasnt good. These he reprinted from magazines I had never heard of although they were great forces in the new Uteraturethe Little Review, the Dial, the Double-Dealer. Midland. Broom.

That branch library did not carry them. But once I learned of them from O'Briens book, I could go to New York's main library, find them, and sit there and read them on Sunday nights. And there I would discover even more writers than O'Brien put into his books.

The same thing with Braithwaite. He was a tradltionali.st in poetry himself, but, like O'Brien, along with the sun.set and flowers stuff, he carried the work of the imaginisUs like Hilda Doolittle in England who were championed by Ezra Pound, which was long before he got into trouble: the work of Amy Lowell. Edgar Lee Mast-eivv Carl Sandburg, and the work of Robert Forst who for long had been ignored, in his own country,

Braithwaite, too, carried the names of poetry magazines I had never heard of but which I could also find in the main library.

All this would not mean much If it were just the experience of one young man in the early 1920's. I never thought about It much at the time. I guess. I was just happy to have found these books and get help from them.

Later, as I grew older, I realized my experience must have been shared by many thousands

girls from applying for admission is to raise standards for admission so high that at the outset a large percentage of them will be eliminated.

Newspapers from time to time, this newspaper included, have expressed certain fears that the time might well come when standards will be so high for college admission that the average Ijo^ and ghl will have little or no chance to get admitted.

We still see that trend continuing and nothing has happened to alleviate Our fears in this regard.

We wonder what Is going to happen to the avei age boy and average giii. Are they going to be denied the opportunity of attending College? Are we about to witness the .spectacle where only A" students in high school can be admitted to college?

Educators say have no fear there will always be a place for the average bd.ys and girls. But we are now prone to ask this question; where Is that place?

The very backbone of American greatness has been found in its average people. The "A students not only Include the real smart boys and gU'ls. but also the bookworms. When col- ^ leges look at grades only, they do not take into consideration the personality, leadership, and potential greatness of the boy and the girl.

Educators could be digging their own graves tn this matter. One day the people will arise and say now look here, this thing has gone far enough we are going to take over and gflve the average people a better chance.

This Is particularly trup, we think, of state supported instltu

tions where the taxpayers help pay the bill. We must never forget that the average man pays his share of taxes, , and the average man has boys and girls who might also be average students w'ho want college educations. Are they to be denied?

What we are really sayliEt la that this thing of looking first and foremost at grades in high school is wholesome to a point but dangerous beyond % certain point. In Russia, for Instance. America thinks that there the communists educate the best and forget the rest. Is that about to happen In America also?

The average man one day is going to rise up and tell the educators your job is to educatenot to determine wh6 shall be educated.

As we view the matter today we are not meeting the challenge four square. The challenge. as we see it, is not merely educating the top students. The real challenge, we believe. Is to provide suitable and practical education.^ for all who desire to enter college and who have the ambition, desire, and enough financial means to get the job done.

If we forget the below A students and concentrate today In America only on those who make the top grades, we have forsaken the very heart and soul of what made America great.

Our real greatness was not accorhplished by A .students. People came to these shores because they were persecuted, because they wanted a new life, because they were adventurous, and because they wante^ to establish a new home, insofar as we know, none came because of academic superiority.

The educators today ought to take a second look at what is happening. If they fail to take tht second look, then one day they are going to realize What a horrible mistake they have madewhen the average American who are in the vast majoritytake over and call the playa.

who has yet to take the big step got a little practice Friday evening.

Marvin Edens, a member of the Jaycees. was manning a booth in front of Brodys collecting .signatures op the area airport petition.

So(m a lady came along carrying a babe in arms. Marvin dutifully asked her to sign the petition. The pretty young mother smiled and shifted the baby to one arm. Still she could not handle the pencil which Marvin proffered her.

Here let me help you, the Jaycee offered.

Thank you, said the young lady and handed the chUd to him. The youngster took to Marvin like a god-father. He cooed and grabbed at his face.' The mother meanwhile signed the petltlwi. 'The she took her child back and was wi her*way.

SorfT^ytees Just go beyond the call of duty.

One parting shot at th^ bachelors.

I see Where a Raleigh man got married over the weekend. The story says he is a past president of the Raleigh Bach-elor.s Club. Doesnt say whether he was immediate past.

(^Ing to the other side of the fence, police received a report that a resident had found first a decapitated black cat, then a raccoon on his porch two separate niomings.

He called police. They investigated and blamed it on a daughters michievious boyfriend.

Nq jokes about Car 54, Where Are You following the police car collision during the Weekend with the fogging machine'in the cloud which the machine emits.

Green vUle police have a Car 54, but this wasn't it. Car SI was Involved.

Opinions

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The ease with which a person can become a justice of the peaceit is almost imiJios-sible to prevent anyone from attaining the officeopens it to those who are not qualified to hold It. The Durham Herald.

One good thing about not having more money than you need on a day to day basis Is that you didnt have to worry too much about the stock market.The Raleigh Times.

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

I rarely go to see motion pictures, limiting myself to the Late Show on television. However, I did go to see Advise and Consent, as much out of curiosity as for enjoyment. I was tremendously Impressed because of the unerring correct-ness of Its presentation of the United States Senate.

I understand that there has been some^ objection to the varieties of personality portrayed. But that is precisely what the Senate Is. No t\^ Senators - are lke. There Is nd'SwatrG ial type and never has been in our history. The men who make the grade* in the different states and finally land on top are of all sorts of backgrounds, of various ancestries. For instance, in the present Senate, Mike Mansfield and Eugene McCarthy are violently different from Frank Lausche and Jacob Javits, just as the states they come from are different. This is not a homogeneous country.

Charles Laughton, in my opinion, carries off the lead. He plays the Southern Senator as , a Southern Senator used to be. . There are not many of that kind left in the Senate, but In a play, years and years ago, called The Gentleman from Mississippi, precisely such a personality was portrayed by Tom Wise.

The Senate Majority Leader, played by Walter Pidgeon, indicated a profound portraiture. Few grasp what a Majority Leader is and what he does. Actually, he Is the most important personality In the Legislative branch of government. When Lyndon Johnson was Majority Leader, he, a Democrat, often saved the Republican Administration 6f Dwight D. Eis-enhower from falling on its face. Walter Pidgeon, I am sure, modelled himself on Lyndon Johnson.

I select these two from a laii:e and notable cast because they make the Senate understandable. I am not at all concerned that the Producer, Otto * Preminger, chose to make one Senator appear to be a homosexual and another a blabbermouth exhibitionist. There was such in the Senate, as there are fools and brilliant scholars, yap-pers and orators. This body is representative of a nation and our nation contains all kinds.

The homosexual cafe In.New York seemed to me to be wasteful and unnecessary. It was dragged in for local color. Such places are to be found in Greenwich 'Village and In the Upper , West Side and on Lexington Avenue. Preminger might have had a more usual incident to explain the Senators fears of exposure for a ^dlsfant pa.st deed. However, he chose this one whlch is plausible as a source for blackmail. It Is for this reason that all such persons should be fired from all government agencies, particularly the State Department where they are always subject to blackmail.

I have not yet read the novel, Advise and Consent. having more pressing engagements With the course of events, but the movie Is excellent and the evening both enjoyable and Informative to one whose life is full of Senators, Representatives and similar ^persons W'hose deeds make as much news as their words.

Our Congressional system is the savior of our form of government. Presidents are always pressed by the requirements of the moment. There are some who have been able to resist such pressures with greater ability than others, but there has been no president, not since the time of George Washington. who did not find the position harassing.

We are not a people who are respectful of authority. Few of us are willing even to assume that anyone who has devoted his entire life to the study of a subject may be expert In it. The modern scientists have developed a jargon which makes it Increasingly difficult for the layman to discuss their subject with intelligence. But in the equally complex field of political science, everyone I*' an Continued on page five)

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Strength For Today

By EARL L IK)tGLASS

Greatest Of Human Figures

Who was the most influential human being that ever lived?

We exclude Christ from this consideration, for although He was a human being, he was also. according to the belief of those of us who call ourselves Christians, the incarnation of God Himself. He was' therefore something no one else has ever been or ever can be.

But of what we might call straight human beings: w]io was the most influential that ever lived? Why Moses,*, of course. He Is the founder of one religion (Judaism), and an honored figure In two other religions (Christianity and Mohammed-ani.-:m>. Moses was. under God; the author of the Ten Commandments. Law of every variety goes back to him. from traffic V regulations fo intematinal

law. Whenever a contract is drawn up today, Moses sits at the table. When the United Nations meets, the presence of Moa-es hovers over the assembly. Kings, prime ministers, presidents, and legislative bodies exist and operate because this man Moses lived about 3.5(K) year.s ago. The Influence of all the world'd leaders combined is hardly worthy of notice com-ipared with the influence of this man, long since dead, who has left upon humanity an indelible mark.

They found him in an ark of bulrushes in the river. They lifted him out. He had the best education the world could give anyone at tht time. Then he took the world in his hands and moulded' it. No one save Christ Himself, has ever Influenced the human race as he did.

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By EIJVIER ROESSNER

Perhaps all auto dealers are becoming as good as the anonymous, but magnificent, salesman who could peddle refrigerators to Eskimos, sand to Egyptians and pineapple to Hawal-lans.

Or. perhaps the investor, who.se sporadic dealings are playing hob with the stock market. jpst doesnt read past the stock tables, v

Because, somehow, the gears arent meshing.

Americans seem to be putting on their dark glasses to take a dim view of the Nations economy, the business outlook and everything in general. Then, as soon aa.'the market closes, they whip off their dark glasses, slip on their rosy*!5nes and go out and buy a car.

For the fact is that car sales are going along i full throttle. During May. which was difficult month for stocks, domestic car pitrchase.s totaled an estimated 656,837 units. This wa.s the best month since way back the road in September. 1955. It was also the third consecutive month th^ year in ' , .

which sales topped the 600.000 mark.

During the last nine selling days qf May^ sales averaged approximately 28,000 vehicles a day. This was ju.st when the market was going down sharply and everyone should have been home refiguring their budgets and not doWn at the showroom kicking tires and slamming doors.

Not only are people buying more cars but they seem to be spending more for extras on thos^ new cars.

Auto production in May was even better than salesindicating high sales again in June. May. output hummed along at 673.187 cars. A year agb the months output was only 542,-305.

Pessimistic Investors might well look back and see if th well look back and see if there was eyer a year that had both booming car sales and a reces-

ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS GETTING MORE AMBITIOUS

A new data processing technique to enable more accurate and reliable business decisions

has been developed by Radio Corporation of America.

Programming the computer Is based on a written expression of relationships derived from a companys accounting and financial system and from its policies. For example, by using such factors as estirnates of market potentials ranging from optimistic to pessimistic, probable effects of plant operating costs and Impact on marketing expenses and distribution, a whole range of alternatives in introducing, a new product could be produced. .

Another system, billed colorfully as a People Machine is designed to predict in detail the extent, depth and quality of coverage that a particular advertising campaign might achieve. The system has been developed by Simulmatics Corp. Basically, a model of the U. S. population and its total media habits has been programmfd, * ^ advertising 'campaign is

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then run through the computer and It reports On exposure by age lev'els. economic levels, educational levels, overlapping of various mediums, relative ex

posure and efficiency of the campaign.

Does anyone have the feeling theyre only an electronic Impulse?,

THREE NEW URBAN REGIONS FORECAST

In 20 years there will be three new huge urban regions to rival the Atlantic Seaboard, according to Dr, Jerome L. Pickard. research director for the Urban Land Institute.

If the prediction Is correct, it means business should begin considering these areas, the markets they will become and the problems they will create.

The Atlantic Seaboard, according: to Dr. Pickard, wiU have 51 million InhabitanU by 1^. This area is generally considered to be between Portland, Me., and Washington, D. C. Its predicted three rivals, two decades hence, are pictured as the Great Lakes area from Oreea Bay, Wls to Rochester. N. Y with a 1980 population of 37 million; California from the Mexican border to San Francisco with 27 million people, and Florida up both coasU from Miami to Tampa-and to St. Petera-byrg with 10 million