Siturday, December 1, 1962

Santa Couldnt Have Been Nicer

Yankee Warmonger!

Christmas

Greenville.

came almost a month early for community such as ours, it represents a major eco*

rf -*1, rru ^ , nomic lift. To the County as a whole it is an addi-

It came uith Thursday evenings announcement tion of great importance.

Objectively speaking, Union Carbide's investment here affect^ the welfare of a larger area than city and county boundaries. All of Eastern Carolina shares in the tangible and intangible benefits.

There is signifance in the corporation's decision in that during their years of Greenville experience they may be presumed to have found this a good community in which to operate. If they have found it so, then it follows other industrial interests will take this into account when considering* expansion sites.

It is fitting to add, too, that if Union Carbide has found this to be a good place for its plant, Greenville has likewise a personalized appreciation of that business organization.

The Greenville plant has won national recognition for its safety record; w^hich bespeaks gooi management, and a good operation. But more than that, the personnel who have been assigned here over the years display an active interest in civic affairs 'beyond the call of duty. This last Ls a bonus

of a million dollar-plus new facility for Union Carbide Corporation to be constructed here.

Santa couldnt have been nicer.

Any community, large or small, would feel the impact of another million dollars w^orth of building and equipment and all it signifies. But to a small

Troubles Before llection Boorc.

By WIL1.IAM A. SHIKES

BARN The weather in May is mild even in tte mountains and last Spring voters in one Madison C(ninty precinct cast their ballots in a cow'shed an open cow'shed.

And even that crude poUing place, apparently, was better -than Eual Gosnells bam.

There was a heap of ti-ouble, the State Board of Elections beard this week, about Gosnells bam which, along with the livestock and hurley tobacco, was to house the polling place for Little Laurel township In the Nov. 6 general elec-ti(Rl.

* S<Mnebody threatened to dyna- mite the bam, and th^s got so

bad that Gosnell quit as precinct registrar three days before the electiai for reaswis of bealth.

R was. according to Madison

* County elections chairman Roy Freeman, all the fault of the Republicans. Freeman claimed that some Republicans threatened to dynamite Gosnells bom, threatened Gosnells life.

, and then filed complaints and protests because the polling I place was moved to Mrs. L. H. Cutshalls basement.

PROTESTS There wera ; aeveral things the shed, the bam, a Ixx^, a list of names and a steep, rutted roadthat brought the troubled Madison election (tfftcials back before the state board, where they have made frequent, almost regular aiH>earances in the past.

The Republicans even protested because the Guntertown pre-cfaict polling place wasnt located again in the cowshed, like it was in the primaries last Spring, Freeman said.

The cowshed, he said, was Just like right out in the c^Jen, under a tree, unheated and not . a proper place for an election In November. He contended that the Guntertown polling place never had been officially approved In the cowshed anyway, and that the official location was the old Thomas* house. This house, however, was tom down several years ago and for elec-tiwis since 1956 the polling place was a recreaticm center.

Freeman didnt know exactly why the cowshed was used last May, except the weather was nice and no one objected to voting outdoors.

ROAD There was the matter (rf the road to the recreation crater, a steep, rutted mountain road which the Republicans claimed discouraged a lot of voters.

Wen, said Freeman, the recreation crater is a good place to hold an election. He craced-cd that the road Isnt the best. Init in my estimation It was U right for anyone to travel. He said he went up the road In a pickup truck in high gear.

GosneUs bam was something else, be said. He admitted that It was Just three days before the election that he decided it wouldnt be a decent, healthy place.

When GosneU reported receiving threats. Freeman said, he wrat out to see him and insisted that the election be held as scheduled In the. bam. Gos-nefl flatly refused, sasdng he had a heart condition and ccHuldnt stand any excitement.

POST, Freeman looked around then and found Mrs. Cut-ahalls basement which he said was both comfortable and av- ailable. To make sure no- one hssed a chance to ydte, he

tacked up a notice and posted Gosnell's son, Bobby, at the bam on election day to give directons.

State board chaimian Bill Joslin asked Freeman whether Gosnell had preferred any charges about the threats. Freeman said he heard that if the bam was blown up Mr. Gosnell had told some people he would hold them responsible for it.

Board member Bruce Haw'-kins of Brj'son City, a Republican, told Freeman he was concerned that in a county cited for progress in community improvement elections in at least two precincts were to be held in bams.

Freeman said he has been elections chairman less than a year and "were trying to improve things but also avoid undue expense to the taxpayers.

BOXES For example, he said, about 18. new ballot boxes were constmcted in the wood working shop at a Marshall high school by boys. He conceded that they were inexperienced and that he failed to provide specifications or an old box for a model, and the tops had holes of various sizes. He denied, however, a Republican claim that the holes were big enough to admit a stack of balled the size of a good-sized book.

The County Republican chairman. Clyde M. Roberts, even produced a book measuring eight by five inches which Freeman examined carefully before an-sw^ering.

Freeman also denied categorically other GOP allegations that more ballots were counted than voters in certain precincts, and that there were absentee ballot irregularities.

LIST The county elections chairman, a Democrat, testified that only four Republican election judges were chosen from a list, of 23 names submitted by Roberts because the county boards two Democrats felt there were some Republicans more qualified to be judges than those on the list.

Freemans attorney. A. E. Leake, a red haired lawyer with a mountain twang, contended that choosing election judges is within the statutory discretion of the county boards and that the legislature has refused repeatedly to make it mandatory that judges be selected from a list submitted by their party.

PONDER The center of attention for the Madison County protest hearing at the State Capitol was neither Freeman or Leake, but Madisons stormy Democratic leader, Zeno Ponder, a natty figure with bow tie and mustache.

And Republican protests about Madison County elections are no novelty for Ponder. He is the man who won a libel verdict last year from then State Republican chairman William E. Cobb and who recently was acquitted of criminal charges filed by Roberts. Roberts claimed that Ponder Brandished a pistol and frightened him away from the Marshall polling place Nov. 6.

Ponder, In turn, has accused Roberts of interfering with conduct of the electira and this case is pending.

Since all of this turmoil occurred in November and hardly a complaint was heard a^ut the cowshed in May, the State Board drew one fairly clear con-clusiwi politics in Madison Is more partisan than factional.

unlooked for and unexpected appreciated.

and doubl)

Might Of The U.S.

Quickly Mobilized

Now, weeks after the fev^er-pitch tensions over Cuba eased, the American people are being told of the massive steps that were in the making.

Five crack Army divisions were ticketed for the role of invasion, literally thousands of aircraft and hundreds of ships were positioned for immedi-ate action.

Even the giant bombers* of SAC and an estimat- By HAL BOYLE ed 144 ICBMs were put on a basis of alert for other eventualities. Cuba was the real target.

Over 213,000 fighting men were involved in the invasion order that was never given.

The extent of the preparations was a well-kepi .secret though enough of the big stick was showing to convince principal characters of the Carrib-bean drama that Uncle Sam meant business.

Now, weeks after the time of crisis, Americans are getting some idea of how swiftly the mobilization of arms was achieved and the tremendous power it represented.

Though this power was not thrown into actual decisions of adventure:

combat,^ it served its purpose. a skunk.^onm is

was a reassuring dis- The grass needs no cutting play of how this country is capable of reacting in underfoot, it gives

time of peril. ^ dry testimony of any tread

The reaction was fast, powerful and deadly.

Landmarks Of Majesty

NEW YORK AP) - The change of any season has its landmarks of majesty:-They affect all things. Here are some ways you can tell when winters here:

Frost crafines the window, and little girls and boys decorate in its meadow their fin-

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - At 65 Harold Oliver weighs 120 pounds, about as much as he ever weighed. Hes not tall. He looks like a neat businessman who always keeps his desk clean.

But when he left The Associated Press Friday he carried a lot of American history into the future with him.

There were the trips, or days at the White House, with all the presidents from Coolidge to Eisenhower; poker with Roosevelt; the draft humbers in both world w*ars; the political conventions; trips with Skullcap Charley Bryan.

Washington was a different city when he went to work for The AP here in 1913. The street cars didnt run after midnight. At three in the morning when he had to roller-skate home through the quiet neighborhood, cops told him to cut out the clattering.

Even in the AP office news was sent around the world by telegraphers punching a Mor.se key. He did a lot of things in The AP office. He was a copy toy. he worked in the library, ne learned to type and took, dictation on the phone from reporters. .

It was in that job. that he typ>?d out the first number picked in the draft in World War I. Years later, when he was a reporter phoning to a dicta-'' tion boy of another generation, he phoned in the first number-picked in the draft of World War II.

In between the two w-ars Oliver and the w'orld grew up. He was part of the death* vigil on President Wilson. He made one trip with Coolidge. What sticks in his mind is that Coolidge had a big breakfast of steak and pancakes. He made a trip with Harding to cover a polo match when he didn't know anything about polo or much about Harding, either.

There was the night in 1924 when the car of Charles W. Bryan, govenior of Nebraska and Democratic vice presidential candidate, collided on a campaign trip with a car containing two young couples. Bryan went to their homes, got their parents up. and lectured them for letting their daughters stav out so late.

Oliver slept in the sajne rail-rotl car with Bryan who used to sleep in a black skullcap. Everybody called him Skullcap Charley but Bryan didnt know it.

In 1928, Oliver traveled the country with A1 Smith in his campaign for the presidency. It was rugged. Smith always had prepared speeche.s but threw them -away They interfeired with what he wanted to say. Twelve newsmen went down sick. Oliver was laid up four days with nervous exhaustion.

One of his worst days was in 1937 when Roosevelt suddenly hit newsmen with 12,000 words of text on a plan to reorganize the Supreme Court. They, had to start phoning In the story without knowing how many new justices Roosevelt had in mind.

By the time Oliver started to cover Roosevelt in 1936, going everywhere with him for two years, and playing poker with the President, too, he had headed the APs congressional staffs for seven years. Then in 1938 he had to have a kidney removed. After that he made fewer trips, stayed mostly at the White House not only under Roosevelt, but under Truman and Eisenhower, too.

His most memorable days in all these years w-as April 12, 1945 when Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, Ga. Oliver was there. In 1960, on a weekend covering the White House, he got a heart attack. Life for him slowed down after that. His doctor w'ouldn't let him get involved in excitement any more.

That was why his friends with whom he had worked so many years in The AP office couldnt give him a party when he retired after 49 years service < longer than anyone now employed by the w^orldwide organization).

The arranged to gather around his desk at 3:30 p.m., give him a present, and wish a long and happy life. He and his wife. Myrtle, whom he marrred 37 years ago, have a home in Washington. But the doctor wont even let him rake up leaves. Nevertheless, he's looking forward to being home.

Opinions

in passing.

The big family question becomes, Is the pond frozen over enough to skate on? The children say, Yes. The parents say, Well, if it stays below freezing one more day then, well, maybe.

The advantages of using snow thes aie widely presented in ads.

The old lady who has so much gossip about her neighbors hesitates to chance icy streets to inform her grocer.

The grocer decides the best way t(j get rid of his leftover prime sirloin Is to make a bar

gain in hamburger.

There are three# viewpoints about the weather: Winters are getting colder, winters are getting warmer, and the atomic bomb is responsible for the difference, gooid or bad.

Weather becomes increasingly the major topic of conversation, any man's authority is confirmed by the memory of what his grandfather had to say on the subject.

Leanied discussions and arguments ensue. The observed breadth of a caterpillars belly and the predictions of a rural almanac vie for significance. Each foretells the winter.

There are some ordinaiT manifestations of seasonal change that go on without much attention such as the abatement of the bears curl-, ous paw in hibernating sleep, the seek of silent hideaways by noisy insects, the death of vanished flowers that tempt the bee not now witir hidden honey.

Across the frraen landscape littered by the brown reward of yesterdays spring leaves, the life that will not let go still

lingersthe doe that steps with stilted grace, the rabbit whose nose is a mobUe gei^raphy of his world of smell, and other small lives that make a tumult of their own amid the humus. ,Yes, and you can also tell when winter is here when:

A son doesnt want to borrow a car because hed have to shovel out two feet of snow In the driveway to make an exit.

If you live in an apartment, the heat doesnt come on until 6 a.m.

Yep, and down on the farm It's no trouble at all to tell when winter is there.

The animals stamp In their shelters and push wet muzzles to sniff the cold air outside. They have such grave sweet faces.

And. oh, the great fine smeU of a bam in winter, the drying hay. the wonderful smell of huddled cattle enriching, by their being, the scent of next springs tumult of clover.

But such separate testimonies, wherever he may be, one knows that winter is here.

Other E(ditors Saying... Strength -oundation Of Fairness For Today

In

At no time in our history has a strong educational sy.s-tem been so vital to the nations welfare. Little Falls. <N.Y.) Evening Times.

(Greensboro Daily News) State Democratic Chairman Bert Bennett, making his first post-election speech at Rocky Mount the other night, gave a realistic appraisal of the state of the party or should it be the state of the state ?-^ and the foundations on which its future rests.

As the Democratic hetman put it, after referring specifically to the G.OP. sweep in Guilford, our party can no longer dodge an issue, even though it will be unpopular in some sections or with some groups.

There were words of both challenge and warning which Republicans also will be wise heed. The Guilford victory Chairman Bennett saw as not a fluke, but a reality. ^

This election, he went on, is an indication. tha,t. Republican leaders are detemriined to see that a two-party system is more than a slogan. This will be good for North Carolina. But the Republican leaders also have a responsibility they will no longer become involved in Democratic primaries. How that latter prediction will come out remains to be seen, but there undoubtedly has been a registration shift and as local tickets are offered and victory chances appear brighter that shift will likely increase.

But we particularly liked Chairman Bennetts counsel to his own party: Fair play. . . IS the key to the future of the

Democratic Party in North Carolina. . . .The eyes of all citizens in our state now rest square|y on the Democratic Party. They want to see that all peoples and all geogrephi-cal sections are treated right and fair and in an equitable manner.. . .The leaders of the party must really lead in this direction, ven though it might hurt us temporarily at the polls.

It did hurt, especially in the Piedmont and in Guilford, November 6 as a study of election returns by, counties and precincts bears out. The people of North Carolina are' essentially fair-minded. Sooner or later they wUl rise against dLs-crimination, against unfair gerrymandering, against failure to reapportion in accord with the Constitution and the core tenet of representative government. Election messes in any counties, as for instance^in Madison, jvhich.the Democrats condone or fail to clean up, arouse distrust, condemnation and protest votes throughout the state.

Chairman Bennett is on the right track. Any party which practice.s unfairness will find that ultimately its political sins w'ill catch up with it. The test of responsibility, for Democrats and Republicans alike, lies In fair elections and sound, effective and efficient government. Genuine, enduring progress is the product of these basic ingredients.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE FAITH THAT LIBERATES Psalm 142 is something to be ready by everyone whose sphit is overwhelmed and whose mind Is in distress. The writer of this psalm declares that when he looked upon his right hand and his left hand no man cared for his soul. Then, declares the psalmist, I cried unto thee, O Lord. And his prayer is that he be delivered from persons and situations stronger than him-.self, that his soul be brought out of prison, that righteousness shall compass him about. He ends Tip with the declaration that G(xl has in the Past dealt bountifully with him and the Inference is that He will do so In the future.

The soul in prisra! Think of the millions of souls In prison on this earth today! Think of how our sQfuls have been In prison ajt times* hemmed in by doubts, consumed by anxiety, swept by temptations which threaten to overwhelm us with tomado-like powers. And the assurance of the Bible is that He will surround us by a light of righteousness and hope, and that He can always be depended upon to deal bountifully with us.

Religious faith Involves responsibilities, but religion is primarily a broad highway of privilege. It open up the mind and soul to joys which are above any pleasures the world can offer.

Faith brings security. It leads the troubled soul out of priscHi.

News ^s Usee.

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.No yet devised a less

thM tot^ system of oensorahlp. The Bolsheviks establistod a complete news Idackout and then used ftivored foreign correspondents to present their wuse in a better light. This was d(me in the 20s and early 30s by all sorts o devices.

Partial censonfalp and aelf-pollclng work only when a government is not adamantly Inten-tioned to keep its people to ignorance. An American publisher and reporter believes himself to be permanently self-policed by good judgement and honest to-- tentions; nevertheless, dettos for ships and planes have been published, over the years, la magazines, which should not have fallen into the hands of the enemy. After the theft of the atMn bomb, the attitude generally was that the Russians had swiped everythtog anyhow: so why not tell the Americaa pe<g)le?

Managed News is not cen-sorshlp; It is propaganda. The assumption that a government can, in a free society, manage the news is a fallacy arising from arrogance and iimorance. President Kennedy and Assistant Secretary of Defense, Arthur Sylvester, have had some newspaper experience and they ought to know that competent newspapermen will get the story. The Miami Herald has proved what a competent newspaper can do agalnist every effort of government to manage news. My own exposure of William Wieland as identical with a Cuban newspaper writer, Montenegro, preceded a similar Congressional report by several years.

If a government really wants to establish censorship, it must destroy the free press, if it can. Arthur Sylvester has gone farther than . any official has in American history. His mcnitor system requires that whenever . a military officer talks to a newspaperman, he must immediately, in writing, report the conversation to him. This, of course, means that no decent newspaperman will put In jeopardy a military officer who talks to an American citizen who is regarded as suspect because of his profession.

Example:

Captain X reports: I met Heston of New York Times on Pennsylvania Avenue. He said: HeUo. I said, Hello. He said. Hows the wife? I replied: I ' cannot discuss military affairs with you. He said: O.K. Lets talk about the weather. I said: Sorry, the weather is a military secret because If the weather is good, we might invade Cuba on Tuesday. Therefore, I must not discuss such matters with you. Sylvester objects. So, he left me and I noticed that he went into a telephime bo(tth. Did r tell him anything?

Sylvester, who used to work in Newark, New Jersey, must know about the weather. He read this memorandum with care when It reached him along with 3,000 or 4,000 more. In fact, Sylvester must be the champion memorandum reader of all time. He believes In news as a weapon.

So did Hitler. It Is remarkable how much is c(H>ied from Hitler. Use the radio and television to tell nothing but say it beautifully. That Is a wonderful weapon because It keeps the masses both ignorant and enthusiastic. The Russians never worried about the enthusiasm of the^masses; they shot down the opposition on appropriate occasions. But Hitler liked to feel mass suK>ort and Goebbels knew how to manipulate it. TTiat Is using news as a weapon. But such weaponry must not be extended over too long a period without dramatio results. Thus, Hitler had to - make a war to keep up the spirits of the Ignorant. The knowledgeable had long b^ora become pessimists.

' Castro used news as a weapon but he had the unfortunate habit of making himself the center of the news. The Cubami must have nothing to do, for they once listened to Castro for seven hours. No (me can listen attentively for seven hours. It is against his animal nature.

Unfortunately for Arthur Sylvester, he does not havt a captive audience. There is. first of all. the overseas radio and television, now aided by Telstar.

Of course, he can send a rocket (Continued on page six)

Lets start looking a little more in the direction of the young people who are attending school and doing the right thing and a little less at who are falling by the wayside un-le.s.s we can help them get bacK on the right track. Lenoir New.s-Topic.

If the mainspring i.s capital. then it is somewhat illogical to contend that employes should be almo.st the only gainers from ri.sing output while the .suppliers of capital get almost nothing.The Albany (Ga.) Herald,

Use Chrisfmas Seals

Social Security Rate Going Up

Fight TB and Other Respiratory Diseases

By ELMER ROESSNER

Expect year-end bonust's earlier.

Social Secui ity tax rates go up from 38 to 3^ per cent on January 1. Thats one half of one per cent.

Its a strong free-enterprise Inducement to companies to pay boniLse.s by December' 31 this year, instead of waiting until January, a.s many companies have done In the past.

When the bonus will not raise an employee's Income above $4,800 a year, both company and employee will save if the bonus is paid before Jnuai*y 1. Both employer and emplovee will pay taxes on It at the 3V per cent rate instead of at the 3% per cent rate.

And if the employee gets more than that, it will still pay the company to get the benefit in before January 1, The Administration has promised that income taxes will to reduced as of January 1, hence advancing bonus payments will tend to decrease profits taxable at this

year's rates and increase profits taxable at the lower 1963 rates. <Clip this out and drop it in the suggestion box.) OTHER LOOK-AHEADS IN BUSINESS

Here are other business forecasts. based On analyses of de-velophig trends:

Plentiful citrus: Record crops of oranges, grapefniit and tangerines are ripening inFlorida. Prices may be somewliat lower, but co-ops are trying to prevent sharp declines.

Abundant cranbeiries; The cranberry crop is heading to-w'ard a record too, and the government Ls tryhig to divert as many as possible into oUier than usual markets for fres h and processed crantonles.

And lots of canned vegetables; The fall pack of canned vegetable .staple.s was** heavy and there Ls a big cany-over from last season. Record supplies of green bean.s, sweet corn and canned tomato product.s are in warehou.ses. Price.s will tend to be lower and alert

consumers will find great bargains.

MUTUALS TO REVIVE

Mutual fund investments to .rise; The decline in mutual fund values' in May and the critical Wharton School report in September lowered public confidence. Now new investors, who don't expect magic, are buying. Look for a sharp rise in purchases from now on to the next bit of trouble.

Oil sales to rise: The oil companies are enjoying a fine rise in .sales of gas and .oil, and the rise will be sharper when spring weather comes. Reason: the huge increase in the number of, cars on the road.

Tighter radio control: The

Federal Communications Commission, which relaxed regulations greatly to help citizens band radio get going, is about to tighten up. The PCC is making a study and will soon issue tough, new rules to end abuses, limiting conversations, barring promotional talk, and curbing discuaslons of .social, political and religious matters.

WHY WOULD SUPERMARKET DISCOURAGE SHOPPERS?

The Old Promc^r got to tn.Hi;-Ing atout supermarket oq hi visit today and I remarked that I was disappointed about one in my neighborhood. It used to be** clean and neat, there was a wonderful assortment of food and meats and everybcxiy was so polite.

But It suddenly changed <a few weeks ago, I went on, The number of employees was cut In half. Half the check-out stations are closed, even ai rush days. The assortment has shrunk; sometimes there are only three or four pieces of meat on display. Customers are quitting in droves. I cant understand it.

I can. said the Old One. The chain probably has a percentage lease, under which It pays the landlord a per cent of the gross. It wants to break the lease. So it Is cutting down the gross. Soon the landlord wUl be crying to tear up the lease.

Pcrhap.s. Perhaps the chain Is as conniving as the Old Promoter. ru let you know.