Friday. April 26, 1963

Expansion Worthy Of Attention

Signs Of The Times

It should be evident to most North Carolinians that the states industrial growth in recent years has not come solely from the fact that North Carolina has been able to attract new plants from other states.

In a large measure the additional manufactur-ing plant construction, the additional payrolls and the additional jobs have been brought about by the expansion of plants and operations already located in North Carolina.

A look at the report of the Department of Conservation and Development for almost any quarter in recent years will show that plant expansions have far outnumbered new plants landed during that particular quarter. While efforts toward attracting new industries for the state have been important in the economic growth, efforts to gain expansion within North Carolina of operations already here have been a major factor in the growth.

The situation points up the fact that North Carolina has an excellent climate for industrial growth. It emphasizes that most manufacturing concerns which locate a plant in the state usually are Inclined, because of their experience here, to ex-

Politics Emerge 'h Name Issue

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

REALIZE - PoUUcal Implications of the North Carolina State College name-change controversy suddenly became very clear in the General Assembly at about 2:05 p.m. on April 23.

Those implications are wrapped up in public feeling about what the name of the Raleigh Branch of the University of North Carolina shall be.

But until that moment on a warm, sunny April afternoon the possible impact of sharp public reaction may have been ignored, overlooked or perhaps merely misjudged.

The awakening to political implications involved came on the 67-48 House roll call vote to approve the previously . rejected name North Carolina State University <of the University of North Carolina.) This coup, achieved by farm county Democrats and a bloc of House Republicans, dealt a setback of serious proportions to advocates of the so-called one University concept.

ISSUEA few minutes earlier. it appeared that Senate bill 72 was destined to be enacted on the very day landmark legislation of far-reaching significance. in effect the first major and perhaps most important legislation of the 1963 session.

The only possible snag was the name - change controversy, on the first page of the big omnibus bill entitled an act to promote and encourage education beyond the high school in North Carolina in essence to carry out the recommendations of the Carlyle study commission.

This bill had sailed through the Senate a few days earlier, but a similar amendment by Sen. Leroy Simmons on the name - changing feature was disposed of easily.

In the Hou.se, However, the matter blossomed as a full-blo^Ti poltica issue. Seventeen of the 19 House Republicans voted for the amendment, with only Herman West of Cherokee and Hardy Carroll of Guilford against.

VOTE House higher education chairman Gordon Green-wook of Buncombe made the presentation for the meausre. His committee had approved an Identical House bill, and a fight about the proposed name. North Carolina State, the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, had been won in committee.

Freshman Rep. George Wood of Camden County, allied with veteran Rep. Sam Whitehurst of Craven in arguing for North Cai'olina State University, sent up the amendment, and he, Whitehurst and several others poke for it. The roll came then, and was verified.

The whole measure had hit a snag perhaps a serious one, and OTily the hand of parliamentarian George Uzzell of Rowan

staved off a thrust by Whitehurst to put a legislative clincher on the vote approving the amendment. Uzzell contended that the so-called clincher might prevent the House from being able later to compromise with the Senate versltm.

MARGIN Whitehurst with drew his clincher motion, but said speaking as a member for 10 years I say to you (who voted for the amendment) stand firm, friends, stand firm.

Two courses W'ere left open on the name - change snag. First reconsideration of the Wood Amendment if perhaps 10 votes might be changed. Four House members were absent, 50 conceivably it could be done with seven changed votes and that of House Speaker Blue.

Secondly, the dispute would have to take its chances in a House-Senate conference.

PRIOR Before the critical roll call on the Wood - Whitehurst amendment, Whitehurst claimed opponents of the North Carolina State, the University of North Carolina at Raleigh name had at least 55 votes.

This would not have been enough in the 120-member House, and with Speaker Blue very much in favor of the bill as written.

It was apparent then that the GOP bloc, 17 votes, was decisive.

Whitehurst, of course, w^elcom-ed the support of the Republicans but interpreted the GOP purpose as political. It is a bui-ning issue, he said. They want to be on the popular side. They know the people are in favor of North Carolina State University and thats why they voted the way they did. They want it to be an issue, and they want to capitalize on it,

Whitehurst told the House that it was not the purpose of those who want North Carolina State University as the name to wreck the Higher Education bUl. In all other respects and details of the mea.sure, he said, his group is in agreement. Wood, one of the more eloquent legislators of this session, said the same thing in addressing the House.

SANFORD An hour and a half after the House vote on Wood's amendment. Gov. Terry Sanford said he hoped that the action would not have a serious effect upon the enactment of this very Important legislation.

Sanford would not comment further, but it was evident that administration efforts would be made to assess the situation. Several of these aids conceded that changing 10 votes overnight was a nigh impossible task.

STAGE At this stage of the 1960 North Carolina political campaigns a year before the primaries three of the four (Continued on page 5)

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pand their operations in North Carolina rather than moving into other areas.

It speaks well for North Carolina w^n a concern decides to locate its first plant in wis state. It is even a greater compliment to the state when a concern which already has one or more operations here decides to expand its operations in North Carolina.

North Carolina and its communities must continue to give attention to attracting new plants from other areas; but more attention, it seems to us, might profitably be devoted to cultivating further expansion of operations already located in North Carolina.

Crackdown On Junket Extravagance Needed

If Congress follows the lead of the House Administration Committeeand it should in this case there will be a genuine crackdown on members of Congress who have squandered millions of tax dollars over the years on unnecessary and extravagant junkets abroad.

The committee has given approval to a measure which would require junketing congressmen to file for public inspection their expense statements, including their use of foreign funds. It would limit congressmen traveling abroad to the same expense allowances that now apply to members of other branches of government on official business trips. The measure would also prohibit lame duck members of Congress, those who would not return to the next session either by reason of retirement or defeat at the pollsfrom traveling abroad at public expense.

These provisions contrast sharply with the present loose practices which have been followed by members of congress in accounting for public funds spent by them in overseas travel.

Even though the restrictions may seem severe to congressmen who have previously enjoyed overseas junkets at taxpayers expense, the new provisions are neither harsh nor unrealistic. They represent sound business practices that should meet with approval in both the House and the Senate.

Now that the measure has received approval by the House Administration Committee, it should be sped on its way and acted upon by the House and Senate before the height of another junket season is reached later this y^ar.

Last Chance For The Unregistered Voter

When registration books for the city of Greenville close tomorrow afternoon at 6:30, those citizen? who are not registered will be ineligible to vote in the city election May 7.

A large number of new voters already have registered. There are many others, certainly, who have planned to register, but have not yet gotten arouiul to it. Tomorrow is their last opportunity to do so.

The books will be open at the city hall and the main fire station from 9 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. Qualifications for registering for the city election, in addition to the normal qualifications, include being a resident of North Carolina for at least one year and a resident of Greenville for at least 30 days.

We urge those who have not registered for the forthcoming city election to make a special effort to do so tomorrow.

'Mot One Of His Sunnier Days

By JOHN ABNEY

A Wasteful Afternoon

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP >-President Kennedy has some sunny times, when things are looking up, but Wednesdays news conference wasn't one of them Things W'ere looking rather down in most of his answers to the main questions asked him about foreign affairs. It was only on domestic problems that he showed any optimism.

But three very important events since Kennedy's last meeting w'ith newsmen April 3 didnt come up at Wednesdays session:

The steel industry raised prices, W'ith Kennedys consent; the atomic submarine Thresher sank with 129 men aboard: and the reported inclusion of three Central Intelligence Agents in UiLs weeks swap of Cuban and U.S. prisoners; four CXibans for 27 Americans.

No one at the news conference asked the President anything about the steel price increase and the mysteiT of the sunken Thresher wasnt mentioned at ail.

He was asked only indirectly about the prisoner swap, and In this way:

Now that the Americans have been released, what will American policy be toward letting CXiban exiles In this counti*y re

sume their hit-and-run raids on Cuba?

Kennedy brushed it off. He said discussions wouldn't be useful, but at another point said unleashing the exiles cannot do the job.

He could have been asked to explain in some detail about the arrangements for the piisoner swap and if anything more than just the exchange lay behind It.

The President was dim on hopes for a nuclear test ban agreement with Russia, indicated no interest in a summit meeting with Premier Khrushchev or; in a meeting with French President Chai'les de Gaulle at this time.

He was vague on hopes for getting rid of Castro or finding peace in Laos.

In a limited way he was optimistic about what Congress will do to his programs: he thinks money spent on space is worthwhile: and he thinks the economy is growing stronger.

Nuclear test banhe wasnt very sanguine about getting Khrushchev to agree to one this spring. He said we feel time Is running out.

If we fall In Laos he said, I wopld think the prospects for accords on matters which may be geographically closer to (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ETERNAL PROMISE Is there a Golden Age coming? The Bible seems to Indicate that there is. After the indescribably bew'ildering and frustrating experiences of ordinary living the race will someday enter into quietude and spiritual power. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

It would be good for all of us at times to turn to the fortieth chapter of Isaiah and read the marvelous words contained therein. It sets forth a great and divine promise and ends with an sussurance couched In as beautiful language as ever came from the pen of man,

Hast thou not knowTi? Hast

thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth falnteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be wary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that w'ait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up as wings with eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Here are the promises of God given in unmistakable terms. They are given to modem man as well as to ancient. We can put our full confidence in the power and disposition of the God who made us and sustains us.

MEXICO CITY Now we delve into some of the intricate systems of wasting an afternoon and in this case it is taking a teenage child shopping.

Around our pad everybody needs shoes and clothes at the same time. And the Lady from Puebla refuses to make them flour sack underwear like I us'd to have so it comes like Noahs deluge.

Anyhow, everybody chooses up sides and heads for disaster. Joanle is a teenage girl who belongs to me and she has feet like bed slats. Little John is not shoe-conscious yet and still depends on papa s wisdom for sartorial items.

The problem with my teenager is that a few years ago Mexico began making shoes for skinny feet. Before that time It was a simple matter of getting something long enough and stuffing a few sheets of newspaper in the shoes to keep her from standing sideways in them.

These days, she Insists on going from one store to another until she finds something that not only fits but Is fashionable.

When Shoe Day arrives I am tired before we start. Because we drive to the shops along In-.siirgentes Avenue where the bows are wrong, the finish is a shade off. the toes are too pointed or not pointed enough.

Then she thinks of a wonderful place dovTi town. The heels are generally uncomfortable there. And aften^ards she remembers a new shop on Insurgentes we missed. That one never has her size.

She has this curious female habit of asking. Papa, do you like these? just about the time I am getting circles under my eyes.

And when I tell her they ar? gorgeous so lets take them, she .shakes her head and remarks, Honestly, Papa, they are the corniest things I ever saw.

Why do they bother to ask in

Other Editors Saying. Air Facilities Needec.

(Henderson Dispatch)

The need for an airport to .sei-ve Henderson and vicinity is becoming more important year by year as business and industrial firms turn Increasingly to private planes for executive travel. Yet the few local people who have been actively seeking an answer to the problem have been unable to make much real headway.

The improvised landing strip near Bearpond that i.s called the main airport facility here is entirely inadequate; in fact, It was never intended to serve for anything but a few light planes. Pilots of larger, faster planes, including the tw'in-en-gine executive transports that have become so popular throughout the country', understandably dont like to land here. Its too risky.

What Henderson needs Is space for a landing strip up to 3,000 feet long, and sufficient money to grade the land and provide adequate markings and a building or two for storage. Lights w'ould be helpful, but are not altogether necessai-y at the outset. The main idea is to provide a spacious, level place to land that strangers can find without difficulty.

Federal money Is usualy available to assist In airport development, and other cities In North Carolina much smaller than Henderson have cashed in on government aid. But the project has to begin at home. It Is up to local interests to obtain the land and actually get a proposed project under way, then go to Washington for addi

tional funds.

Our neighboring city of Oxford has a similar problem: and, like Henderson, has no answer. Both cities have In-dustnal plants that are either active or potential users of private aircraft, and neither city has sufficient resources of its ow'n to build the type of airport it w'ould like. Since the distance betw'een cities is wily eleven miles, it might prove worthwhile to explore the possibility of a jointly-ou'ned field.

Whether there Is land between here and Oxford that could be obtained for an airport we do not know. It would not have to be exactly half-w'ay, but should be quickly ac-cessable from either city. With two cities, perhaps two counties, and the Federal government putting their efforts together, a facility could be developed that would serve this area for anything less than commercial airliners, and there Is no thought of commercial .service here In the foreseeable future.

An airport near here would be a good selling point bi attracting new industry, and based on Inquiries both this year and in the pastwould be an asset in promoting the Vance county end of Kerr Lake as a resort center. With the need definitely established. It Is hoped that a committee assigned to work on the project will receive the support and cooperation needed to go ahead. Every year that we wait Is giving other communltie.s an advantage In bidding for private air traffic.

the first place?

It is Interesting to note that while she is dlscu.ssing the tenth pair with the exhausted salesman. Master John has accepted the first shoes we tried oo him and stands In the door of the shop yo-yoing.

All of this is (Hily half the problem. The other half is the car.

We are In that time of year when the afternoon tries to make up its mind to rain. The Weather Bureau would like to go ahead but apparently is outranked by the Tourist Department.

Therefore we get a morning haze and afternoon overcast but it is forbidden to really rain until the season officially begins.

So the little black Falcon picks up a coat of dirt and the men at the parking lot say. Well, the way it looks now there Is no doubt about having it fashed. And I look at the sky and say no, it is going to rain.

But it doe.snt. Not until dajrs and days later when the sky is as clear as a busted window and I have told the parking gentlemen to apply a scrub job.

Then the Weather Bureau people shout. Hey, Abney had his car washed. Nuts to the Tourist Department.

This happens when I take my teenager shoe hunting. Suddenly there are 86 large drops of rain (all on MY car) followed by a sw irling cloud of dust.

When everything Is properly caked and dried, we get 129 huge splatters, also on nothing but the Falcon. More dust and the sun comes out to bake us like a brick.

It Is an established fact that it will not rain again until I have the car washed.

At any rale, this teenager carefully gauges everything by the type of language I use. When we are at the point of drill sergeant talk, she picks the most expensive shop In town and selects w'hat she wanted in the flrst place. Knowing I will buy anything to end the torture.

And this friend, is how they wear you down for quick processing on a day when you should of stood In bed.

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One of the key reasons why we in the United States must keep our country strong and continue to set an example to the rest of the world, is the need for demonstrating that the private ownership principle, the free enterprise system, as we practice it is the best system for free peoples. Boon-ville (Ind.) Enquirer.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright. 1963, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

' This Columnist has his doubts that Nelson Rockefeller would make the most effective Republican candidate for President in 1964, if only because his Image, to use that increasingly detestable word, is too similar to the image projected by John F. Kennedy. But if Rockefeller should manage to ciq^ture the White House, It is virtually certain that a new note of healthy realism would be introduced into such things as foreign aid and the Inter-Amerfp can Alliance for Progress.

During World War H Rockefeller served the Roosevelt Administration as Co-ordlnator of Inter-American Affairs. Ho came out of the war cimvlnced that something had to be done to provide investment outlets in Latin America that would prove as attractive to local capital as that ancient triumvirate of

land holdings, buildings or

hoardings. (The quotation is from a Rockefeller report made while he was chairman of

something called the International Devel(Hnent Advisory Board.) The sterilization of

wealth was st<)plng progress all over Latin America.

Working from his war-gained bislghts, Nelson Rockefeller set up an entirely non-government International Basic Ecmi-omy Corporation in 1947, with a total capital of $12.5 million contributed largely by himself and his four brothers. The aim of IBEC was to get local Industries going in Venezuela and other underdeveloped lands, and then, after they had gotten a good start, to sell them either or in part to local enterprisers.

The first ventures of IBEC were amateurish and starr>-eyed. A fishing cwnpany in Venezuela, capitalized for $15 million, failed because It hadnt reckoned with the fact that Venezuelans dont particularly like to eat fish. A farm development company went to pieces when it tried to apply temperate zone methods of weed control to the tropics. Said Nelson Rockefeller, ruminating on ths collapse of the first EBEC enterprises. It was a case of too much too soon, rather than too little and too late.

But all of this was 15 years ago. Taking a secwid running start, the Rockefeller brothers' company began experimenting in a small way with Venezuelan supermarkets. Here the company has Imd a phenomcn- . al success: IBEC now has 18 supermarkets going in Venezuela. with seven more due to open this year. Other supermercados have recently been stait-ed in Argentina, where they have suddenly becwne the rage. The cost of ground beef in a Buenos Aires "Minimax Market. which is the local name for one of IBEC i creations, is half the amount that one has to pay in an old-fashioned Argantine grocery shop.

In Brazil, the Rockefeller company started out with a grandiose idea that It might make money by organizing a helicopter company for large-scale dusting of crops. But it soon learned that no use could be found in Brazil for helicopters in the off season. A company set up to engage in clearing jungle swamp land might have succeeded, but the progressive inflation of the Brazilian currency made it highly unprofitable to Import the spare parts needed to keep crawler tractors and bulldozers in operation. Taking a second running start in Brazil, however, the Rockefellers found an excellent market for hybrid seed corn from the United States. The Sementes Agroceres, organized to produce the hybrid seed locally, has become a good mcmey-maker. Its management Is now entirely in the hands of Brazilians, and there is (xily wie North American on its IXMu^ of directors.

Another profitable Rockefeller investment in Latin American countries ia a three-way partnership deal between IBEC, the Arbor Acres Farm, Inc., of GIast(bury, Conn., and local farmers. Parent poultry farms set up under Arbor Acres Farm experts in Col(xnbia, Venezuela and Argentina provide fertile eggs or day-old chicks to independent poultry raisers at a profit all around.

Finally, the Rockefellers have financed open-end mutual fund companies to Invest in local se-(Continued on page 6) ,

Musiness Always Interesting

By ELMER ROESSNER Business, if not always profitable, is always interesting as this roundup shows: .

The U. S. Embassy in Vienna reports that Austria is a promising market for American irozen French - fried potatoes . . .Central Foundry Is guaranteeing its cast lion pipe and fitting against defects In manufacture for 100 yeais. . . .The famous Les Halles produce market, a must on every French tourists route, Is to be moved 16 miles south of Paris.

U. S. firms in Libya must correspond, keeping accounts and advertise in Arabic.

Recent Japanese Imports of Chinese soybeans have been infested with a fungus. . . .For ground - breaking ceremonies, Tiffany Is offering a 39 . inch sterling silver shovel at $1,000 . . .Printers in Fairbanks, Alaska, ar demanding a raise from $4.55 to $5.35 an h(Hir for day work, a 35-hour day shift and a 32*11 - hour night shift, three weeks paid vacation, one days sick leave a month. $10,000 paid

life Insurance and pensions. NOT ONLY SWIMMING POOLS

Library, study haUs and auditorium at Alhambra High School, Phoenix, Ariz., have been carpeted. . .Coming is a laminated foil fiber can for quarts of motor oil. . .Farm labor rates on April 1 averaged 3 per cent higher than a year earlier, or 79.9 cents an hour, the Department of Agriculture reports. . . .Refurbishing Palisades (NJ.) Amusement Park this year took 12,000 gallons of paint in 51 colors, 100,000 light bulbs and 25 miles of neon tubing.

A survey by Timex shows that women prefer abstract signs to numerals on watch dials.

Retail sales in March totaled $19,958 mllU(Hi, a gain of $922 million over a year earlier. . . Manhattan shirts are now made in El Salvador under U.S. license. . . .Soya, fhe first, packaged soybean oil, Is now on sale in Turkey, an olive oil producer.

AUSTRIANS TO BABY-SIT

The Austrian exhibit at the

Worlds Fair in New York next year will include a supervised children's playroom where parents may leave children while doing the fair. . .Of 65 leading forecasters polled by Business Week, not one sees any recession this year. . .World cotton production in the 1962-63 year is estimated at 49.6 million bales, a new high.

The U. S. will support tung nut prices to growers at $63.34 a ton this year, unchanged from. 1962.

The Office Executives Assoc-iatloL reports office salaries In New York rose 5 per cent last year and are still going up; the average senior secretary got $110 a week last year. . .The 1962-63 world coffee crop will exceed demand by 5 million bags. . . Poultry is livestock. says Internal Revenue ruling 63-43.

quoting Management Trends,* says: In 1957, there were 1,-

995.000 retailers in the country. Census estimates for 1961 indicate that the total Is now 2,-

023.000 an Increase of more than 13 per cent.

EVEN ARITHMETIC INFLATED THESE DAYS A newsletter published by MUt Grey of Beverly Hills, Calif.,

NO DEDUCTION IS A BAD DEDUCTION

HlUa Rebay, first directo;- of the Guggenheim Art Museum in New York, gave eight of her own abstract paintings to schools and colleges and claimed deductions of $190,000.

When the Interna! Revenue Service demurred, she took the case to the Tax Court, pointing that she had sold another painting for $15,000. The court was not impressed because the buyer was not a coUe<stor, knew nothing about abstract art. and was a business associsde of her lawyer. It cut the deduction to $9,300.

Commented Prentice - Hall: While 19,300 is atill a kxig way from the $190.000 HUla claimed, its still not bad since she painted the deduction herself.