Wtmft July 17, 1962

Fire Departments In Busy Season

Curiosity prompted a casual count of rural Pitt fires teer departments is even better than the fiffures

repoited in Mondays and Tuesdays papers. We would indicate.

may have missed some, but in a three-and-one-half a j ^

dy period, volunteer fire departments responded ^

to at least thirteen calls relatively new, and the spirit of enthusiasm and

X . . * , dedication is understandably high among the volun-

The great majority were to tobacco barn fires, teers who are providing rural Pitt with a needed which at this ^ason of the year is wholly nder" and vital service.

etandable. But the value of the fire departments thoI* , a - j au

work was repeatedly proven. ur * pnde in the work they arc doing and the

w X , X . _ , public 8 appreciation of their value should grow

True, at least six barns were lost to flames; but with the passage of time and repeated occasions of

nearly as many were aaved, as w^aa a trailer. And responding to desperate calls lor help. ~

lepeatedly, accounts of the fire noted adjoining or

nearby structures were presented. In at least one in- TWT^ll |f J| ^

stance, a woodsfire was extinguished. VV 611 /\u6ClCl V^I

What makes the combined narrative still more remarkable is that it is in the nature of tobacco barn fires to be often well advanced before being seen and an alarm can be given.

With this handicap, the record of Pitts volun-

Isnt That Wonderful?

!Mew tviaence Of New Growth

By WILLIAM A. ffilRES GROWTH New evidence of continued rapid growth in North Carolinas garment and apparel Industry is contained tn a new statistical report by the state Labor department.

The reports shows apparel Is maJdnc the most significant galas in employment of any reported category in nm-agricul-tural industry. And most of the states ain>arel industry is relatively new.

Employment tn this Industry Increased by 300 workers in Ainll and has now reached 99300. There will be furUier increases In the next few months, too. because of recent announce-xnmts expanslcms by a number of plants.

The nployment increase for the 19 months period ending in May was 2,400, or an average of 200 a month.

The api^rel Industry Is located lax^Iy in the state's smaller towns and cities, with a larit percoitage ol women amone the wortc force. Wage scales are relatively low. but the repmts shows average weekly eaniings are up. too from $4430 a year ago to $50.56 in May.

OTHER Good growth also was reported for the metals and mining industries in the past 12 months.

All of these categmles. however, employ far fewer workers than does the i^^parel industry. So the percentages of growth, while exceeding apparel in some cases, do not reflect nearly so substantial an increase.

Primary and fabricated metal industries Increased by about 8uu workers and mining, including Don-metallic mining by about 500 in the 12 mraths period. These were increases of from six to more than nine per cent.

There were employment declines in most of ie wholesale and retail trades, with <xie ezc^itlon. Tlw exceiHion was in retail food stores where employment was up by 3.4 per cent, totaling a gahi of BOO worlrers during the 12 mcmths.

have preferences, some of which may be affected by the new statehouse.

Eure is filing each request for seat assignment in order in which the requests are received, and by order of preference. Most of the requests list several choices. It's on a first come, first serve basis for the available seats, and those legislators who had no opp<ltion got in first. The recent flood of requests followed .the runoff primaries. and there are some hopefuls asking before they know the results of the general elections in which they have opposition.

Every seat In the legislative chambers in the new statehouse will be an aisle seat, which has made the job of assigning a bit easier.

But Eure still is stumped on occasion such as when one legislator insisted that he have a seat at the back, close to the exit. Consultihg his charts and blueprints of the statehouse plans. Eure was able to inform the man that the exists will be at the sides instead of at the back.'

Orwells Fantasy Book

We had the mixed-up feelinif this must be 1984 (a la George Orwell) in reading the American editors experiences in visiting Russia.

Big Brother* brandishing his super-weakons and mouthing pious words of peaceful aspirations;

The allegations of Western military spirit and intentions, and his own eagerness to relieve international tensions;

A denial the Soviet Union had broken the atomic test moratorium ... so it must have been the Americans, because there are only tw'o governments engaged in large-scale testing.

Logic-in-reverse calls for Yes .becoming No

. . . and sure enough, even that pre-requisite wai met in the final official (Russian) transcript of the proceedings.

Orwells closed society was fiction; but the Russian regime has made it all come true.

The Americans found virtually no Soviet citizens who had heard of the Telstar; only a few who By HENRY HOWARD had heard of the Soviet nuclear test series last fall . . . and, almost no one who knew the United States dropped the first two atdtnic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki while at war with Japan.

Many Russians, say the editors, believe the U.S. was just testing the bombs on two peaceful cities.

Impossible?

, Wed say so too. But there were thirteen veteran newsmen in Moscow who found otherwise.

9-Year-Olds - Re SDonse

PARTNERS Governor Sanford wants it clearly understood that he wants private and church-related colleges to function as full partners in responsibility for higher education in North Carolina.

The governor plans a luncheon meeting later this month with officials of the private and church-relafted colleges to give them further assurances, and to get if possible a meeting of minds about the role of the states proposals for a system of two-year community colleges.

It is the intention of his administration. Sanford said, to do everything we can to strengthen the private, church-related colleges. He said there have been further Indications of CiKiceni that the community colleges might force the private schools it of business.

nhmshed Jobs ?or Celebrezze

SAVINGS Duke Power Co. has told the State Utilities Com-missicHi ttuit it belteves it can, effect substantial savings by re- flnanrtng 50 million dollars in Its preeent SH per cent Series bonds.

The utility asked for authority to issue $50 million in new flret and refunding mortgage bonds, elective Aug. 1. and to use the proceeds to pay off the present bonds and refund them at a lower rate of Interest.

SEATS Secretary of State Thad Eure Is busy making seat assignments for legislators who wm come to R^eigh for the 1963 session starting next February.

The requests for seat assignment are pouring In. literally. The lawmakers most of them

LICENSES The sUdes new licensing law requiring that license sales agents keep separate accounts for state and private funds means, in general, separate bank accounts.

There have been a number of complaints about this requirement and loss of a number of agents in some counties and districts. The Wildlife Resources Commlssiai took note of the situatii. and read the law and the regulations set up to safeguard against the mingUng of state and personal funds.

There are some exceptions to separate bank accounts, ncces-sar>% executive director Clyde Patton explained. For example, there are no banks on Halteras Island and no banks on Ocra-coke.

In that case, a commissioner wondered, does an agent keep the funds under separate mattresses.

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By JA.MES MARLOW WASHINGTON <AP) Anthony J. Celebre2ze, Qeveland's five-time mayor and President Kennedy's choice for secretary of welfare, sounds cautious, like his Cabinet predecessor, Abraham A. Ribicoff.

But Celebrezze faces a lot of unfinished business that falls Into three main fields: federal aid to education, medical care for the aged, and running the huge Department of Health. Education and Welfare with its 70,000 employes.

This 51-year-old lawyer, a strong advocate of civil rights but with a conservative record as mayor, is considered a liberal in Cleveland. He is also an excellent politician, as his five mayoral victories show.

Kennedy associates said a key factor In picking Celebrezze was his reputation a sa good administrator.,

C^brczze must have b e e n guided by his caution or his political sense Saturday when, shortly after Kennedy picked him as a member of the Cabinet, reporters asked him his views on the medical care program.

He didn't answer. He said he expected to discuss this with Kennedy and Ribicoff in Washington. This won't make any enemies for him In the Senate, which is expected to confirm him quickly.

Ribicoff, a 32-year-old lawyer who quite the cabinet last Thursday and was then nominated by CcHinectlcut Democrats to run for the Senate, was asked his \1ews on medical care after Kennedy appointed him secretary in 1961 but before the Senate acted on his nomination.

Ribicoff, who has called himself a middle - of - the road-er. didn't make any enemies for himself, either.

He was quoted by the Washington sur as saying, It's a very interesting thing that a careful, thoughtful analysis of the varying positions on the health-care question indicates that some of these groups are not as far as they think they are.

That must have been news to groups like the American Medical Association, the AFL-CIO and even the Kennedy administration, which were miles apart on the kind of medical care plan Kennedy had in mind.

Ribicoff was a compromiser he has been quoted as saying he has a weakness for the integrity of compromise

and was willing to compromise on Kennedy's medical care and federal aid to education programs.

Just how much of a compromiser Celebrezze is remains to be shown. But Ribicoff oould hardly claim distinction for any fighting he may have done for Kennedys medical care plan.

The medical care bill before the Senate is a greatly watered-down version of what Kennedy asked for. Even if it passes the Senate, its doubtful the more cwiservatlvc House will approve.

If it doesnt, Celebrezze will have It on his hands In 1963 or 1964. For Kennedy, who is expected to run again in 1964, can hardly afford to let It die unaided. It was his baby to begin with.

Kennedys plan of federal aid to education with none of it going to Roman CathoUc schools is idready gathering dust.

The President, a Catholic, offered it in 1961. But it was vigorously attacked by leaders of the Catholic Church, and It got a mixed reception in Congress.

There it lies, dead for this session. No one Is even talking of doing anything about it before Congress quits for 1962. Kennedy could let it stay dead for the next two years, too.

If he does it will be another failure his critics can point to in the 1964 campaign, although Its such a sore issue he may think it politically wiser to forget about, at least until after 1964.

If, however, he tries to push it next year, Celebrezze will have to get involved In that also. Celebrezze is a Catholic but if he has taken a stand on Kennedys federal aid to education program, this writer doesnt know it.

Shortly before he quit the Cabinet, Ribicoff said the welfare department takes in too much territory and should be broken up. That isnt likely any time soon. Meanwhile Cele-brezze will have to make It work.

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'rh word aint has been declared respectable, and we candidates for office must develop something else to show that no one is more ordinary than we are." Salem (Ind.) Democrat.

A childs spontaneous reac-ticMi to hearing an unsuccess story the other day confirmed an unadmitted suspicion of many: sophistication often is the expressway used by people to comfortably skirt the truth.

This particular story by modem status standards was a sad one. Its principle character, a young man of 28. had experienced a wide variety of pleasantries and unpleasantries.

The most promising of five sons in a distinguished if not aristocratic family, he had been afforded top-level- instruction, both pubUc and private. He had been, from his earliest years, among Natures most sparkling human specimens. His extraordinary agility, both mental and physical,, had all but awed those who knew him.

?ublic

To the Editor,

As a ver and citizen of Greenville I want to thank Councilman Ford McGowan. for having the courage to stand up for the home owTiers of Greenville. This is what he promised to do when he announced as a candidate for the City Council. In spite of pressure from the Redevelopment Commission, the Public Housing Authority, and some supporters of the previous city administration, he has stuck by his pledge.

I especially want to endorse his criticisni of the Public Housing Authority for breaking forth with the people of Greenville. The Chty Council and voters were led to believe that any plan of the Housing Authority would be submitted to the City Council for approval. Now we are told by the Housing Authority that their power to seize Private property, Issue bonds, borrow money, and build hous-* Ing units is unlimited. No longer are they required to seek Chty Council approval for their plans.

Is this what the people of Greenville thought they were voting for when they approved Public Housing? No, I don't think so.

I wholeheartedly approve Mr. McGowans stand. We need more public officials like him.

Sincerely yours.

Norman E. Tyndall

To the Editor.

The Public Housing Committee admits it was inexperienced when It was first appointed by Mr. West at the last meeting before he left office. This is the Committees excuse for not telling the people and the Board of Aldermen that it had unrestricted power once it was given a charter.

The chairman, Mr. Howard,

At age 21, the young man had been set squarely at the beginning of the road to what appeared to be inevitable success. Forces working for him included considerable wealth, prestige and influence.

His first assignment, a junior executive position behind a mahogany desk in a richly-paneled office, was sui utter flop. His work approached perfection; his plaguing downfall was simple discontentment and unhappiness.

Through sheer determination to make good, the young man, now 22, plowed through eight more reputable jobs, though each succeeding one was a bit less reputable than the last.

Finally his nerves cracked and this excellent example of contemporary manhood fell

rorum

said In the paper that the Housing Committee didnt really know how much power it had at first. If the folks campaigning for socialized housing did not know a public housing authority has absolute power, then how could the voters of Greenville have Vmown what they were really voting in when they voted for socialized housing?

What I don't understand is why the people promoting pubUc housing or the public housing committee didnt know that they did not have to go back to the CUty Council for approval of their plans? Or if they did know this, why did they keep the voters in the dark before the election and the City Council in the dark after the election?

After all. they have been advised by Mr. Cochran (now drawing $10,(XX) a year of tax money), who is supposed to be an expert and who certainly knew what the law said. Why didn't Mr. Cochran teU how helpless a neighborhood really Is if the Housing Authority decides against it? Didn't the Public Housing Committee even bother to ask Mr. Cochran what its authority was before it went before the new (Tity Council last year? Why is it that the pubUc is just finding out what the Housing Authority can really do and W'hat It doesnt have to do?

It doesn't take much education to see why Mr. McGowan thinks the public has been misled; I hope he sticks to his gups and keeps on trying to find out for us What Is going on. That Is what all the aldermen are supposed to do.

Yours truly.

Joseph D. Squires

505 Watauga Ave.

Greenville, N. C.

apart at the seams.

There was at least one factor generally overlooked throughout the young man's earlier grooming preparing. He was extraordinary enough to be rendered uncapable of fitting into a prefabricated slot in' society.

But the downward plunge turned upward near the absolute bottom. He withdrew from his environment long enough to regain a new hold on living. With feet replanted, the young man gathered his chain of experiences into a personal lump and applied for a 10th job. After about 18 months, hes happy with his work ... as a taxi driver.

This story of unsuccess was related, of course, over and over to the young mans many friends back home. At least 100 of his closer friends, all adults, responded to this effect: What a pitiful shame!

Then one of the little people by chance overheard a repeated version of the young mans story.

Sine? an adult was telling the tale, it was colored throughout with shades of woebegoneness.

But the nine-year-olds response was simply this:

Well, we need taxi drivers,

I guess.

ODinions

This new baseball team based on Cape Canaveral may name Itself the Rockets, and the strikes will be called Strike Three, Strike Two and SUike One . . . youre out. Harrold (S.D.) Journal.

It may be un-American, but we have a feeling that the man who -doesnt even know what the company whose stock he lost money on manufactures, deserves to lose It. Louisville Courier-Journal.

There probably is some misunderstanding in the family when the towels are labeled Hers and Its.Merrimac (Mass.) Independent.

Biscult dough is a primitive adhesive, used extensively and successfully by brides to prevent loss of their wedding rings. Matador (Texas) Tribune.

Students today arc the same as always; one In 12 has a spark of genius while the other 11 have ignition trouble. Nora Springs da.) Advertiser.

Islam

Versus

Poole

By GEORGE E. S0K0I3KY

Copyright, 1962. King Features Syndicate Inc.

I have before me a Complaint filed in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. It is entitled: Alhajjl Talib Ahmad Dawud and Dakota Staton V. laijah Muhammad and Muhtiiunad's Temple of Islam.

The foregoing plaintiffs assert that they are officers and members of the Muslim Brotherhood which is dedicated to the propagation of the Islamic F^ith and the teaching of * the Brotherhood of Man.

In the Complaint, the plaintiffs assert that Elijah Muhammad, in the name of the Islamic Faith and the Muslim Religion teaches In these various Temples and Mosques Racial InequaUty,''*Black Supremacy and the separation of the Negro people from the American community insofar as it is white; he demands renunciation of loyalty to the United States Government; that Negroes be resettled in States as a reparmte nation; that they avoid all association with white persons, and that they bear no arms In the service of the United States .

In a word, according to this Complaint. Elijah Muhammad advocates sedition and aren treason. TMs, of course, is a matter for the courts to decide. What the Complaint indicates is that there Is a difference of opinion among the Moslems in this country. Why Elijah spells It Muslim, I dont know. Also why he uses the name Muhammad for Mohammed. I also do not know.

What Dawud objects to Is that Elijah teaches false doctrines. He says:

. .these doctrines, If passed off as the Muslim religion, are false, misleading, and a deliberate distortion of tl Muslim Faith, directly contrary to the teachings thereof, and designed to mislead the general public Into a mistaken beef about Islam, and to cast great discredit upon one of the principal religions of mankin(l.* The Plaintiffs aver:

The adherents of the Islamic Faith number in the hundreds of ^millions, but there is no responsible group of these that advocates racial superiority, black supremacy or similar doctrines: the principal teaching being the Unity of God and the Brotherhood of Man, The followers of Islam are of every race and ethnic origin.

The defendant is an American Negro, Elijah Poole, who clabns to be the principal prophet of Islam which puts him on a par with Mohammed who founded the Islamic faith and is reputed to have prepared the Koran. His city, Mecca, Is the holy city of his faith, to which Moslems make pilgrimages.

Mohammed was an Arab not a Negro. He lived in the Seventh Century and his religion prevails today among the Arabic nations and in North Africa. There are also important Islamic areas throughout Asia.

Dakota Staton, In her statement, , denies that Elijahs ideas are based on the Koran which she spells Quran.

Elijah Poole, although a Negro, Is pro-segregationlst. on the grounds of black nationalism. In Dawud'8 statement, he says: Islam describes the nature of God the Creator as being unseen: that God canned be seen with the physical eye. . .He Is too subtle to be seen by the eye of man, but He Is aware of everything.

On the other hand, EUJah describes as God one W. D. Fard, whom he met on a street comer In Detroit In 1934, and who appointed him his Meeeen-ger to the black people of North America. If Elijah's pronouncements are true they are on their face antagonistic to the Holy Quran, of which for Muslims, there Is <ly one In existence.

What undoubtedly Is Intended here is to say that only one God is in existence. Further, he says:

Elijah declares all White men to be devils, and clidms that all black men who embrace him as the Messenger will be saved at the time of the destruction of the United States, while the devils will be destroyed. (Continued from page 19)

doctors Affectino Those Goins

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS PROGRESS OR REGRESSION?

It is always hard to face unpleasant truth. We of the free nations pride ourselves on living amid the most comfortable conditions ever experienced by human beings.

We must admit, however, that the picture is not entirely one of light. The crime problem in the United States is so alarming that it needs continually to be brought to out attention. J. Edgar Hoover assures us that a vicious crime of violence a murder, forceful rape, or as-sautt to kUl is conmiitted every three minutes. There is a robbery every six minutes, a burglary every thirty-nine 'seconds, and thlrty-aeven cars are stolen every hour. By far the

most shocking aspect of this mounting crime problem is the role played by youth. Among youth, there are some of the most brutally incorrigible criminals in the nation. , .Almost two thirds of the auto theft arrests each year involve persons less than eighteen years old.

Are we losing the race? Sometimes it appears so. We need to be thoroughly alarmed and on our guard, but we do not need to be discouraged. The free ni-tiems of the world have throughout history confronted great problems and solved them. We will .solve the crime problems If we address ourselves to It quickly enough and unite our resources In the stniggle.

Wc should within the next fifty years experience the greatest advancement humanity has ever known. R's up to us.

By ELMER ROESSNER Everyone agrees the revised depreciation i-ates on new plants and equipment wlll mean considerable tax savings for companies. eventual higher earnings and a general stimulation of the economy.

Even labor, which could complain it is a tax cut for one group only, should admit that It will mean more jobs, fuller employment and probably some higher wages.

What Mht known is how extensive these gains will be. The Kennedy Administration calls the move a $1.5 billion tax cut but admits It doesnt know bow accurate that estimate is.

There are many uakHow-n factors, Including:

11 How much hss business held up in new plant and equipment investn>ent waiting to .see how big the reductions were going to be? Will there be a trickle or flood of new commUtments?

2) How' quickly can orders be placed, filled and billed, giving those companies selling the equipment and materiala for

modernization higher taxable earnings? Some of th(ise profits might not show up in tax returns for years. But sellers with equipment and stock on hand could find their sales go-

5) In line with the thought above, how far wlD companies go In dipping into wcarings to pay for increased modernization? The more earnings they use. the less dividends stock

ing way up this year. The Trea- ' holders will get for the time be-

sury then would be getting more revenues and its anticipated $1.5 billion loss this year, partially made up.

31 Psychologically, how will the public and fringe industries, not directly affected by the depreciation cuts, react? Economic factors have been fairly promising the first half of the year. But in the last week or two some of them have shown weakness, probably because of the stock market decline. Will buyers confidence be restored, purchases increased and. therefore, company earnings rise?

4) How able a^e companies to really Incroase investments In plant and equipment? It's all very wtll to give them incentives to .sfH'nd more for Improvements but if they dont have much rtioic to spend, then they Just don't have it.

ing. and the less spending power theyll have.

6) And, if they do limit dividend paj-ments to take advantage of the cuts, ho\v will this affect stock market prices, the psychology of the stockholders and of the general public?

7) Speaking of psychology, how effective will the Governments simplification of tax write-offs and three-year moratorium on challenges be in stimulating spending? Heretofore, business wts often reluctant to modernize because It was difficult to assess under which r^te particular items w'ould fall for wi'itf-off pui-po-ses. TJiey now have broad categories in wlilch to lump their write-off, claims and the 'Government proml.res It wont challenge tliem for three years.

8 To what extent will business be able to get the Govern

ment to reduce write-off periods even further In special cases > It has been pointed out that many businesses have already extracted concessions from the Government and the new rates wont benefit them. But there's nothing in the rules that says business cant go back at thf Government again for special reductions although they would probably find the going tougher after the general reduction.

All of the variables interact and the net results wont be known fully for a long time probably years. But there Is no doubt that they will stimulate business and the economy.

Then, theres the second proposal to permit companlei to deduct part of the cost of new equipment directly from tax bUla. The Administration also labels this measure a 41*5 hil-lloif concession to bid9nesa.

How this measure might affect business and the economy is also problematical, though tlH're Is a general agrfcmrnt that it would b very beneficial.