business nomy of the nation and

that business interests

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Thursday, June 21, 1962

Primary Interest In Neither Side

President Kennedy's efforts to dispell the im* have in mind both their own welfare and the wel-pression his administration is anti-business, has fare of the nation.

brought about several significant events since the One further and significant step in the series head-on clash between the administration and big is that President KeKnnedy since his head-on clash steel companies a couple of months ago. with big steel has likewise assailed some labor

Since that time the President has conferred with top business officials, presumably both to seek inflation

their ideas on boosting the nations economy and c

to assure them that his administration is not , To some it appears thaUhe President has been

against business. He has asserted openly that business since his clash with steel,

usiness is doing its part to help improye the eco- J*"/ sequence of eyents has been interpreted as an

effort on the part of the administration to rebuild business c^qnfidence in the administration.

Perhaps a more realistic interpretation is that the President failed in advance to recognize the repercussion that would come in the wake of his clash with big steel companies. He suddenly found his administration wearing the anti-business tag that was not intended by him. In an effort to re* move the tag, he deemed it necessary to jump on big labor just as he had on big business.

Behind his sharp criticisms of both big business and big labor in recent months, however, there seems to lie the determination that his administration will call the shots so far as the general attitude toward inflation is concerned. It would not be surprising to us in the future to see similar Presidential outbursts directed at both business and labor if segments of either groups take steps which the President feels may tend to lead to another inflationary spiral.

It leads us to the conclusion that the President is not interested in being partial either to big business or to big labor, but rather his primary interest i.s to see that inflation is hetd at a minimum during his term in office.

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By EDMUND AVDOCK Asst. Vice Prejv. & Manager, AgHculUire Division Wachovia Bank Si Trust Company TRIPS North Carolinians are traveling people.

They have made trips up id down the United States looking for new industry.

They have toured Europe seeking new rtftirkets for North Carolina products and visitors for the Tarheel Variety Vaca-tionland.

And, for the pEist seven years, they have Inspected successful farm practices and improved farm marketing methods in selected areas of the nation to find ideas that could be put to work here and opportunities for increasing agribusiness income and improving the economy of the Carolinas.

The result: more effective marketing practices and livestock leeding programs, new vegetable crops, higher production standards, and modem agribusiness practices cooidinating pi'oductlon, processing and marketing have gained rapid popularity.

THE ANNUAL AGRIBUSINESS caravans are sponsoied by Wachovia Bank and Trust Company in cooperation with North Carolina State College and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Sinci^ the first caravan visited Maryland and Virginia in some 8R0 caiiavan participants farmers, hankers and business leaders have studied agribusiness progress in Mississippi, Texas. Louisiana. California. Canada. New York. Maine. Iowa. Delaware. New Jersey and Pcnn-syhania as well as in neighboring southeastern states. Now.

caravanens are touring Oregon and Washington.

The caravan participants miss little: , at each stop throughout tlie week, they seek Ideas that nould help cut costs and increase income if applied to their own operations or adapted to their marketing setups. They take pictures and copious notes to show and to tell those who stayed behind.

Bankers and business leaders find out about credit practices and experiences. and they observe standards for successful operations.

All tend to agree that better marketing and increased processing is the key to substantial immediate gains in farm Income.

THESE GAINS ARE IMPERATIVE in the Cai'olinas if gams are to be made in per capita Income, North Carlina, for instance. has more farm families than any other state in the nation. Farms are small. Row crops, particularly tobacco, cotton. peanuts provide a major part of the farm income. And marketing and processing facilities are in great need for many farm products.

AGRICULTURAL LEADERS realize North Carolina processes only about 60 per cent of its processed food needs. Food processing to meet these needs would provide for the state s farmers a greater share of what the con.sumer pays for food, while providing steady markets and stable prices for produce and paying good w ages and offering new employment opportunities.

E-pecially do they* ,<=ee great opportunities in livestock. Some

packing plnts In North Carolina are running at only 70 per cent capacity. To bring area processing plants up to 100 per cent meat production would bring about an added Income of $40,-106.000, Increased production to meet the total state meat consumption would mean a total tdcled Income to the stte of $222,415.600.

NORTH CAROLINA la the Southea.sts No. 1 manufacturing state, and Its industry Is Important and a substantial part of its economy. The state also ranks first in the Southeast in farm production with cash farm sales in excess of $1.2 billion a year. In any state, this Ls big business.

Yet. it is only one example of howj through the years, ecor nomic progi-ess in the Southeast has been closely tied to the progress made in agricul-ture. Even with rapidly increasing industrialization in the region, agriculture still is one of the largest segments of the economy, and many areas are still piimarily asricultural. It is only natural, therefore, that there is a great need for spe- cJallzed s^slstance in agriculture. , ^

Particularly is this true now that agriculture is in the midst of a production and marketing revolution. Southeastern farmers are moving away from almost total dependence on cash crops production. Poultry, livestock and livestock products are growing in Importance, and faiTners are specializing their production within a diversifying farm economv This i.s requiring greater specialization and know how. and it i.s here that the inual agribusiness caravans are meeting a need throughout the state.

THE 1962 NORTH CAROLINA Agribusiness Caravan is seeking further light on agricultural techniques, especially in pro-ce.<;slng and marketing, that can benefit Tar Heel farmers.

During the June 18-24 visit to Oiegon and Washington, the 1962 caravaners will inspect vegetable, fruit and seafood processing operations and see how family-operated farms produce for processing. Marketing techniques for Hood River pears and Washington State apples, cattle feeding operations in the * Yadkima Valley, the famous Carnation Dairy Farms near Seattle and efficient egg and poultry marketing procedures will also come under caravan study.

During a ^islt to Weyerhaeuser logging operations on Washington's W'hite River the group will hear emphasized the important contributions forestry can make to an area's economy.

In addition, the group will see Picturesque Mt. Hood and Mt Rainier and the renowned Columbia River ba.'-in, and the caravan contingent has been designated the official delegation to repre.scnt the state at North Carolina Day. June 23. at the Seattle Worlds Fair.

THUS. NORTH CAROLINIANS are on the move again.

Cross country they go from the Djnamic Southeast to the Great Pacific Northwest seeking to improve opportunities for themselves and their neighbors. seeking to make North Carolina a better place to live and work.

By PATRICIA MOORE

Just about an hours drive

In spite of the findings of a Texas grand jury it is still difficult for us to accept the verdict that an agricultural department official committed suicide by inhaling a near-lethal dose of carbon monoxide, banging himself severely on the head, from Greenville and youll find

and .hooting-himself five times with a bolt-action yourself in the Wstorlc town of

Bath, where Just recently some - equally historic olcj homes have The Texa. grand jury, which renewed the in- btcn restored and opened to the quiry into the my.sterious death of the first official Public.

to look into the dealings of Billie Sol Estes, decid-

j 4.U 1 .L enchanting, with Its- authentic

ed that evidence in the ca.e was inconclusive to Chippendale fumituii and a

substantiate a different decision at this time. Thus Lowestoft china set. Downstairs

the previous conclusion of a justice of peac# that damp kitchen, refresh-

death wavi cninLlp cfili cfonrlc ^ summer

aeain v\a. suiciue .tin stancls. day. with relics of days lacking

In all probability it was much more difficult in the modern conveniences,

to reconstruct evidence surrounding the death now A few blocks on down and

than it was a year ago when Henrv H. Marshall House

was found de'ad at a lonely spot on his ranch. A and^Back Crelk^^^mitying V more thorough initial inquest into the cause of to the PamUco River. Marshalls death on June 3, 1961 might have brought a verdict different from that which was given by the justice of the peace. The intervening 12 months between the fiivst verdict and the more recent careful investigation into the case probably "Pi

removed some of the evidence which might have i IvZx i O

been more conclusive,

The ease points up the necessity of thoroutrli The''"iSblicT damnlcl.

Js Just An Hour Away

It was at Back Creek that the famous Blackbeard built a tunnel underwater from his home on Plum Point to the shore, so the story goes. And, it has been rumored that the entrance to the tunnel on the Bonner House side of the creek was visible for many years and may even be restored.

We have not ceased to be amazed that in the 1700s men could build tunnels under a creek as wide as Back Creek at that point. But then a man like Blackbeard might have been capable of mos^ anything.

Comparatively speaking, the Palmer-Marsh home, built bv Cptain Michael Coutanch in

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and careful inve.tigation into the cause of mysteri- roared Commodore Vandermlt, cus deaths at the time the death occurs . . . not a year after it happens.

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By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY

WASHLNGTON (AP) The Republican high command, banking heavily on the theory that the South is conservative, is making a big effort this year to loosen the traditional Democratic moorings in Dixie.

The 11 states usually classed as Southern will hear more cannonading between major parties in 1962 than at any tiriie in a century'. The states are Alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi. North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.^

A few statistics will iUuslrate the stirrings of the GOP in an area where not so many years ago Republican was considered a naughty word.

This year the Republicans expect to have HO or more candidates running in tliese states for .^ats In the U. S. House of Representatives. Two years ago they had only 38 candidates.

The 11 states will have a total of 106 seats in the new House.

This is the same as they have in the present House; some of tlie states are losing seats as a result of the I960 census, others are gaining, but the gains and losses exactly balance each other.

Of these 106 seats In the present House, only 7 are held by Republicans. The GOP has high hopes of picking up some more.

Although all the primaries and nominating conventions have not been held yet, the Republicans will have U. S. Senate candidates fighting it out with Democratic foes in Ala-

m Dixie

bama, Arkansas, Florida. North Carolina. South Carolina and perhaps Louisiana.

Of the Southeni. states selecting governors this year they will have candidates in Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas. A, Edward Smith. Georgia's first Republican candidate for governor since Reconstruction day.s, was killed June > in a traffic accident. A party executive committee is meeting in Atlanta to decide whether to call a state convention to pick n-othcr nominee.

Mississippi is the only one of the states where the GOP has no candidate for major office. Party officials say grass roots building for the future is in progress there.

In local politics in many Southern states the GOP is also becoming more vigorous, mounting campaigns for such offices as mayor, city council or state legislatures.

Many reasons are given for the beginnings of a two-party system in the South, including increasing industrialization and the waning of animosities born of tlie Civil War and Reconstruction.

But I. Lee Potter, who has criss-crossed the South on travels designed to strengthen the party, contends the main reason is that many Southerners consider the Democratic party too liberal.

Potter, who as assistant to the Republican national chairman is in charge of Operation Dixie, says: Southemers are basically conservative and many of them don't find conservatism

Continued on page five)

a good many years ago, and the epithet came to symbolize all that was selfish and grasping in the vanished age of the Robber Barons.

We come full circle now, with the International Flight Engineers Associations notice that it w^ill call a strike on Trans World Airlines, effective at 2 oclock tomorrow. Once again, it is the public be damned, but it is organized labor, not organized capital, that this time places its own power ahead of the public interest.

The engineers strike involves none of the familiar issue of an ordinary labor dj^ute; pay rates. hours of work," iringe benefits scarcely figure in the matter. The sole question goes to union representation in the cockpit of jet liners. It is now agreed all around, pursuant to a presidential fact-finding report nearly two years ago, that a three-man crew' is large enough to operate the new planes. This means two fully qualified pilots; and If common sense figured In the solution at all, it would mean a third man who was a combination engineer-pilot. But the airline engineers union will not have it so. In time, it is said, this arrangement might eliminate an engineers union altogether. The Air Line Pilots Association would be able to bargain for all cockpit crews. The engineers union would lose members. To prevent this, a strike has been called that would cripple TWA a* the peak of the European vacation season.

The arrogant leaders of the engineers union should be made to understand, in some fashion. that the traveling public does not care a fig whether the engineers union, as such, survives or perishes. The public interest demands only that these

planes be operated safely and efficiently, at the lowest possible cost. Featherbedding in the cockpit cannot be tolerated; the competitive position of American airlines is poor enough as it is.

What changes a few generations bring! Time was, in the field of public transportation, when labor unions had a real reason for being. John Henry, the steel-driving man, had his grievances. But on todays highly regulated carriers, traditional trade-unionism is an antiquated as the cow-catcher. The airlines mani^ement, caught be-tw'een the tax man on the one hand and the regulatory agencies on the other, is helpless.

The carriers repeatedly have offered to pay for the pilot training of engineers. Generous proposals have been made for severance pay ranging from $10.000 to $25,000 for engineers w'ho do not wish to qualify as pilots. Seniority rights would be fully protected under various contracts that have been presented. Yet the engineers union. greedily concerned solely its own survival as a union, has rejected every overture.

This jurisdictional dispute in one form or another, has been plaguing the countrys major airlines for almost eight years. Temporizing with the competing unions first with the pilots, then with the engineers has proved expensive and ineffective. Mere recommendations from the Presidents commission, filed in October of 1961, have accomplished nothing. Evidently the time has come for Congress to fix cockpit requirements by Federal law. The flying public has been damned long enough by these Pctty tyrants of the wide blue yonder: and speaking for some part of that flying public, we arc ready to do a little damning ourselves.

1744 and later acquired by Col. Robert Palmer and then the brothers Jonathan and Daniel G. Marsh, is the most completely restored of the two houses. One finds the entrance hail and dining area complete with Chippendale tables and chairs, and the lovely old china. Then there are parlors and sitting rooms of the past era, and the Colonels study. Upstairs one finds authentically furnished b e d-rooms and a charming childs room.

It is a little startling to recall that in those days there were no closets: people depended on massive chests and chests of drawers to contain clothes and personal things.

Though the Palmer-Marsh home is more completely furnished, the Bonner Home has the choice location, we think, with a cool breeze blowing off the water and an always-pretty view.

In the restoration process, the historical societies have left the quaint old finger painting on the baseboards of the Bonner house upstairs.

Admission tickets to these relics of North Carolina history have been kept surprisingly low, so that they are within everyones reach. In these days of high prices, thats a practical attitude that should be appreciated by the looking public.

People still go to Bath to look for Blackboards treasure, said to be buried around there. Ever so often, somebody finds a coin or two. But all traces of Blackbeard's home on Plum Point are gone, and the big treasure apparently is, too.

Our guess, prompted by modem television, is that long, long ago somebody found the treasure and has kept quiet about it. Or perhaps it was never left there.

Ooinions

In

Brief

Soviet and Chinese Communists certainly have one invention to their credit. That is a system of government - controlled agriculture that never produces a surplus. There would be more' approval of this feat if so many people were not too weak to applaud."Daily Oklahoman.

'Peopile who live under a government of law must realize that they sacrifice their own right of protection when they remove it from another. The Charlotte Observer.

There Are AI. Sorts

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

It used to be that a doctor was a stem-looking man who wore a goatee and gold rimmed glasses, carried a black bag and delivered babies. He was a family friends and advisor and was one of the most respected men in the community. He was in a manner of speaking, a learned man, although a modem student of biochemistry would regard such a person, if he met (Xie, an ignorant fogey.

Nowadays there are all sorts of doctors and their attitudes toward medical and public problems vary. Let us try to establish a few categories without too many subtitles:

1. The Public Doctor that is those who are employed in various Public Health Services, health departments. Army, Navy, Air Force, and other departments of government. This now constitutes a large number of men and women, physicians, surgeons, administrators, specialists, etc. They are salaried. Usually they do not engage in private practice at all. Their patients are captive in the sense that they usually have no alternatives. Many of them do not actually practice medicine but are charged with important ad-, mlnlstrative duties, as, for instance, managing a Veterans Administration hospital or the Board of Health of a large city.

2. The Industrial Physician. Such a medic is employed by a corporation to look after its staff. He may ive several assistants and nurses, depending upon the size of the enterprise.

' He does not usually have a private practice, although some do. He is usually on salary. Universities and colleges also employ In-staff physicians.

3. The Teaching and Research Physician. This includes a constantly increasing number of doctors who prefer the laboratory and the classroom to daily practice. Most such are narrow-specialists whose field of activity is limitediDr. Jonas Salk, for instance, labors at biochemical problems exclusively. Some teaching and research doctors act as cofiSultants, but eveh such do not extend their private practice so that it interferes with their teaching and research.^

This Is probably the most highly respected element In the jnedical profession today. They are often on a salary basis which means that they do not get rich through big fees. My personal experience with one of he greatest in this category was astonishing: he took only four consultations a week and charged $100 per consultation. This is less than a belly-dancer gets.

4. The Specialist. Because of the complexity of medical and biochemical knowledge, few men can know everything in every phase of this' profession. A good heart man, for in.stance, may be a good internist, but he is likely to know very little about cancer and nothing about dermatology. The Specialist can be a godsend or he may be a faker and he is often the biggest problem in the medical profession. All sorts of protec-tives have been established. He often over-charges. No patient should go to a so-called specialist unless he is recommended by the patients own family doctor or unless the specialist is in a hospital.

I say, a specialist can be a godsend. He usually knows his subject; he has high ethical standards; he depends for his reputation and income upon other doctors who usually can estimate who knows his stuff. I was discussing this question w ith a nurse once, w'ho cut me short regarding a specialist by saying: His patients stay alive.- The fakers in this category . are often not hospital connected. We have excellent hospitals In this country and their rules are usually strict. A physician or surgeon who is not hospital connected may be a whiz but he has to explain w hy no hospital will invite him to practice there. Public and private hospitals must be distinguished from nursing homes, no matter what they call themselves. The clinic, that Is a hospital owned by a doctor, so prevalent In Europe, Is rare here.

All specialists are registered with special socieities governing their discipline. When in doubt, check!

5. The General Practitioner is (Continued on page five)

Gee-Whiz Bits About Business

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUiiLASS PLE.VTY OF BRIGHT HOURS

A sundial in Spain has this motto engraved upon it; I mark only the bright houi-s."

How much better it would be for you and me if we marked only the bright "hours. We tliik of the times we w'ere slighted, of tiiat day when someone moved in ahead of us and w on a promotion we coveted. We think of the opportunity we missed' but w hich someone else embraced and went on to wealth. We ^suspect that .someone lied about ,^us and got us in wrong with people whose favor we tovet-ed.

If we set our.selves to remembering the dark hours we can be mirerabie indeed. Remember the sundial; I mark only the bright hours. This does not

mean that we should be unrealistic. There are evil people In the world, but most of the people" in the world are well disposed. There are deceivers, betrayers, dishonest persons, and some of them move in quite acceptable circles of society, but most of our associates are so wholesome, helpful and on the square that w'c should rejoice ^in their fellowship.

The Bible says: If there be any virtue or if there be any praise, think on these things. Get into the habit of trying to see the best in the world and its people, not the worst the best in yourself, not those w^eak-nesscs which fill yoq with discouragement an,d disdain.

Mark' the bright hours. And don't foj^get that there are plenty of them.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Here are more gee-whiz items In the business news;

A Buffalo. N. Y., furniture store is giving U.S. Saving "Stamps instead of trading stamps. . .While pay received during pregnancy is not excludable as sick pay. received during childbirth is, Prentice-Hall reports. . .The new Houston stadium, opening in 1964, will have girl ushers.

Almost 400,000 color TV receivers will be sold this year says Ross D. Sirgusa, Admiral chairman.

American Automobile Association estimates it wlli cost $31 a day for two to tour by car, compared with $29 last year. . . One company estimates 7.5 per cent of the total American population is over 64. . .Attempting to improve existing cities is virtually Impossible, said Joseph Timan, Horizon Land president, who~ suggests new' citie.s built from "the ground up. MORE PIGGYBACK!!^

Piggyback transportation will

account for 10 per cent of all railroad car loadings by 1965, estimates Francis H. Boland, ACF vice president. . . .If a skunk gets in your washing machine, fill it with a mixture of 40 per cent formaldehyed solution to each three gallons of w'ater and nin for 15 minutes, rinse and repeat with chlorine bleach Instead of formaldehyde, Whirlpool advised a distraught customer. . .Hogs have increased 3,700,000 in Western Europe since 1%1.

Two million portable barbe*, cttes will be sold this year, a trade source says.

A Lincoln, Neb., woman got rid of an Invading hive of bees by sucking them up in her vacuum cleaner, equipped with a disposable bag. . .A new gadget enables a salesm^ to stamp his own photo on letterheads, company literature, etc. No comment. . .Table olive production this year is heavy.

SEES DANGER AHEAD

Recent rises in home mort

gage delinquencies are storm signals to be closely watched, Norman Strunk, U. S. Savings and Loan League vice president, warned members. . .World production of tea is expected to reach a record of 2,255 million pounds this year, the Foreign Agricultural Service estimates . . .The price of every item Includes 5 per cent to cover the cost of employee speculations. Dale System estimates,

U.S. individual, company and government debts reached $9,37 bilUon, up $53 billion, by the start of 1962, Commerce Department says

The first fresh water 'conversion plant using the G. . new thih-film distillation process is to be but at WrlghtsviUe Beach, N.C.. . .New Instant orange juice crystals w'ill soon make juice available to Eskimos, . .The government is looking for a company interested in manufacutring a golf tee-o f f marker with a cigarette holder and ash tray on one side.

NEW BREAKTHROUGHS IN BREAKTHROUGHS

The power of this column remarkable A few' weeks ago it announced that break-through was being worked to death as a promotional word; companies could not bring out a new kind of peanut butter without resisting the temptation to call it a brericthrough, usually a "major" breakthrough.

Know what happened?

Ehlers called its new nosneeze pepper a major breakthrough; Ultra Dynamics announced a breakthrough In water purifications: FR Corp. said its new color negative fUm is a major breakthrough: Savin Business Machines claimed a breakthrough with a new photocopy machine: UPI called its new stock serv'ice a major breakthrough, and Vista is a new breakthrough In floor cleaning.

Somebody ought to write a song titled.. "June is Breaking Through All Over."