Prtday, April U, 1964

Welcoming A New Industry In Pitt

Announcinj' that Empire Brushes, Incorporated will establish a plant of a wholly-owned subsidiis company in Greenville is another bright feather in the growing industrial cap of Pitt County.

Empire is one of the worlds leading conipa-nies in tlTe manufacture of brushes. The presence of one of its plants in Greenville will add to the diversity of the industrial community in Pitt County as well as to Uie prestige names attached to local manufacturing concerns,

A glance at the list of industrial firms in Pitt County immediately brings to ones attention the names of some of the leading manufacturing companies in the nation in their respective fields.

Union Carbide is recognized as one of the leading ii^dustrial firms of the nation, Fieldcrest Mills, and Collins and Aikman Company are among the leading textile firms of the nation. Formica, a division of American Cyanimid, represents another of the major industrial firms of the country with its plant in Pitt County. Grady and White boat company, since its establishment here several years ago, has moved rapidly into the ranks of the leading boat manufacturers of the nation. Prep-Shirt is a recognized name in the production of boys sport and dress ^irts.

To these and other prestige names, Pitt County now adds the name of Empire Brushes, Incorporated to its industrial community.

Some Sort Of [Debate Slatec.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

DEBATE There hsus been questions since early February about whether there would be full-scale public debates between the major candidates for governor during the Spring political campaign. There still Is.

For a time it appeared highly unlikely. Now, however, with the campaign steaming into its last six weeks public debating of a sort may come to pass.

At least the candidates have agreed to try.

Ground rules and other details including notice of s u b-Jects to be debated must be worked out and agreed upon. This could be complicated.

In addition, television time and schedules must be arranged and this pn^ahly mtane it will be May before the cameru. Then with time running out and <mly one program o( an hour's duration being planned, it may be assumed that whatever exposure tel-evU^ dibal4 will be

of limited extent.

PRSasuIlE The planning hu oome this far because of public pressure to see the candidates In action.

It la recofnlsed that televl-8l(Hi debating hu come to have aq Important role in political campaigns and that it hu a subatantial voter impact. But on the basis of what la now being arranged, it ia quution-able whether the average voter will be able to su and hear enough to make up hla mind in the privacy of hla living room.

PLUNGE The three major candldatM for the Democratlo nomination May SO already have taken the first plunge toward atatewide tcleviakxi de-baUng, but may still have qualmi.

There have been two face-to-faee meeitngs on the same platform. in which the oandidatea talked, answered quest iona submitted in writing by the audience ud shook hands afterward.

In aach ease there have been some rough apota. sne ton-gut tangUng and blurted ana-wera.

A veneer of polite repartee hu worn thin at times, and the ipeephes leas than uplifting in parts. Some of the phraau have been repetitious, and some speeches overly long and boring.

On the other hand, some questions submitted obviously were intended to embarrass.

In some respects, the meetings held so far In Raleigh and

G<ddaboro may have been more difficult than formal debate. But these were very limited in 8C(^ especially In respect to aixe of the audience.

ISSUES ^ Shape of the major issues Involved In the campaign hu been emerging from the face-to-f%ce meetings and from the oaadldates' replies to audience questions.

Among those given emphasis: the states anti-communist speaker ban, civil rights bill, the state's financial status, taxing and spending policies a 9300 million road bond issue, programs against poverty, state employe salary Incieases, lobbying and educaUooal improvement,

FIRST Also at issue Is the question of who called first for television debates.

If the debate now being planned materlallaes, it will be In response to a chsllenge by candidate L. Richardson Pre-

ier issued early this week. Dr. Beverly Lake. In acoepUng, said that he had stated his wUlingneu lut January to debate Judge Preyer on any station. at any mutually accept able time, Candldite Dan K. Moore took the position that he also hu been willing to partid' clpate if auch debate can be arranged.

JORDAN State Ben. John R. Jordan Jr wading Into the thick of the campaign for lieutenant governor, hu renewed his call for increuing depen-(toncy exemptions for state income taxpayers from $300 to KMO.

Jordan introduced such a bill in the 1963 General Auembly He also sponsored legislation In 1963 to grant rtate employes a 10 per oent salary increase.

Now, saya Jordan, the estmate of-an $00 million surplus for the biennium forecut by State Treuurer Edwin Gill means we can make an equitable revision oi our individual ineome tax schedule while at the same time moving ahead with our school program and providing a well deserved salary Inereau for all state employes."

SURPLUS - Jordan says his proposal would ease the tax burdens for taxpayers with large families to feed and who must feel the effect of the food tax." He said the fact that the atate hu reglatered budge aur-pluses every year since 1947 point to a "healty flnanc 1 a 1 condition."

Obvloualy though, this Is the time to begin sharing our prosperity with the taxpayer. Jordan says.

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Is Real Weirdy

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Its a weirdy, this presidential election year, one of the weirdest in a long time.

In poUs or preaidenUal pri-marlea:

1. A woman without a chance Malne'a Senator. Margaret CTaae 8 m i th picka.up apeed but ahe's not going any ^aoe.

2. A prlnoe of South e r n. segregationlaU -- Alabamas Gov. George C. Wallace does surprisingly well in the North.

3. The man who talked and tried the hardest -- New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and Arizonas Sen. Barry Goldwater finiahed behind the allent Sam type Henry Cabot Lodge who wun't even there.

And Pennsylvanlaa Gov. William Scrantonwho could rock himself to sleep with the mcmotonous insistence that he has no presidential ambitions while adinitttng he'd accept a "draft" la sliU considered a likely Republican presidential prospect.

Yet. there are probably not 10 Republicans in 100 outside Pennsylvania who have any idea^ what Scranton thinks on any issue or even what kind of governor he has been.

Wallace went Into the Wisconsin primary and captured 25 per cent of the total vote, proving if it needed prov 1 n g, that a lot of Northern whites are Just as much segregationist as Southern whites.

Then in the Illinois primary where his name wasnt ev-en on. the ballot more than 4,500 people wrote It in. giv-^ Ing him more votes than Rock-efeller, Scranton, Michigans Gov. George Romney. and Harold Stassen.

Mrs. Smith campaigned hard In the New Hampshire primary last month and wound up down near the bottom of the lia with only 2,120 votes. In this weeks Illinois primary she said she spent only $85 on two campaign appearances

But w'hen the returns came In she had almost 200 000 votes, (jroldwater got 480.000, Their two names were the on

ly onea on th ballot.

Th UlinoU writo-ln votera werent latiafied with Goldwater or Mra. Smith. They wrote In Lodge, giving him ever 33,000 votes, and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. giving him over 34,000.

But the real weirdy in all (tf it U the popularity of Lodge who beoauee he is U. 8. ambassador to Viet Nam under the Johnson administra-Um hasn't said a word about what he thinks on d(v mesUo issues.

And, because he hasnt held political (rfftce In 14 years r-slnce John F. Kennedy took his Senate seat away from him in 1952 probably few Republicans can remem b e r where he stands or what he thinks on anything.

Yet in the New Hampshire primary, where his name was not even on the ballot and voters decided to write it in. he finiahed first over all other RepubUeans who are. or want to be. considered for their partys nomination.

He came out ahead of Goldwater. Rockefeller and Mrs. Smith. Their names were on the bsUot and they had cam-palgned hard around the state. Nixcm's name was also written in. He finished fourth, behind Lodge, Goldwater and Roekefeller but ahead of Mrs. Smith.

And Just recently in Oregon a poll amofng RepubUeans on their presldentisl preferences' put L(^e far ahead of Nixon, RockefeUer, Ooldw a t e r, and Mrs. Smith.

Nixon says he's not seeking the presidential nomination but, for a man who says he isn't, he Is doing a lot of talking, and has kept on talking alKHit American problems even when he went on an overseas trip.

The continuing popularity of Lodge, who has never said he is s candidate, might be interpreted as a changing attitude in American politics that people Uke poUtioisns who keep their mouths shut.

But that's an Ides that cant be carried too far. otherwise the men who wind up being (Continued On Paga I)

If patting Too PushTwtHGm^ VC

As is the case in almost all major industrial moves, the attraction of Empire Brushes to Greenville involved the time and effort of a number of local people and negotiations which have been going on for more than a year. Even so, a major part of the credit for the location of this new industrial concern in Greenville must go to Dr. C. Sylvester Green of tlie Pitt Gounty Development-Gommiaslon who has worked continuously with Empire officials in ironi^ out details for establishing the local plant.

The initial employment of approximately 75 people by the new industry, plus the expansion possibilities anticipated, will further enhance employment opportunities and economic progress of this area.

The Reflector joins with other citizens of the community in welcoming Empire and its subsidiary company as the newest industrial citizens of Pitt County. . ^

Remember, One Third Of The Job Now Done

Pitt Countians have enthusiastically carried out one-third of a job.

One month ago 64,000 persons in the county trooped to 33 feeding centers to swallow a lump of sugar that could wipe out one of mankinds scourges.

This little sugar lump had been treated with a couple drops of Sabin polio vaccine and by swallowing it the recipient was immunizing himself against one of three types of polio.

Equally important, he was eliminating himself as a carrier of the disease which for centuries has struck at communities in epidemics, cripjiling its victims. (

Representatives of the Pitt Medical and Dental Society say that the number who turned out for the first treatment was enough to make that phase of the project a success. Type I polio ahould never be a threat in Pitt County.

But only one-third of the job Is done, for there are two other polio types and those persons who took the first dose have no protection against these other two types.

Gaining protection against Type II Is just as simple as the first dose. All any citizen has to do is show up at one of the feeding stations Sunday. The same procedure will be followed as one month ago.

The recipient will be handed a treated sugar lump. He will swallow it and be protected against another type of crippling polio.

It is to be hoped that even more Pitt Countians will turn out Sunday for this second immunization than those who rame a month ago.

Then we can say the job is two-thirds done.

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By HAL BOYLB

You Are Still Young, If

NEW YORK (AP) How young are you?

Thanks to wlis. antlwrinkte creams, bormon* pills and other devices, the Inroads ct time are eo camouflaaed that It Is fetttef harder to tell anyone'e real age.

It Isnt sltocether a matter di physieal appearance either. The differing generatione seem

to hsve confused their normal aspirations and patterns of conduct.

Older peoplt are trying to be young again, whils lads Just out of college are wonyi n g about Social Security.

Here ia a box score to test yourself. You're probably still on the sunny eide of middle age if

Other Editors Saying. Talk About Lobbyists

(Wllsoa Times)

Now let's talk about lobbylite. Does Judge Preyer want to do away with the Oovemors lobbyist or speoial representatlvef If he does he wlU be breaking a precedent that goes beck through many adminlstratlone.

For whether you call the Gov-emort liaison man a lobbyist or a MMdal representative, he la doing the same thing the other lobbyists are doing; namely, representing the governor before the legislature. He is trying to get the govemor'i legislation across. The posiUon pays up to $9,000 a year.

WilUam Copeland was Governor Sanfords Mwdtl lobbyist when the leglilature met the first session of his term. When the legislature adjourned Governor Sanford appointed Mr. Copeland^ Superior Court Judge.* Judge Edward Clark was Governor Sanford's representative or lobbyist before the last legislature and when he finished his job he went beck on the Superior Court benbh.

We will go back further to Governor Hodges' term. You recall ie had three lobbyists, or special representatives, for he had lUs term and the re-' mainder of Governor Um-steads term. First there wm John Larkins, now a Federal Court Judge and a good one, next Joe Branch wa3 Governor Hodges' liaison man and for the last term Joe Eagles o# Wilson was Governor Hodges special representative, appointed to try to get the governors program enacted into law.

And we can go stilJ further to W. Frank Taylor who was Governor Umsteads special representative. and further still to Governor Kerr Scott, who had J. Elmer Ixmg to look after his Interests before the legislature. And what would a governor do without his lobbyist to look after his special Intereste and programs.

So were these men of value to their government or not? For they were paid to do a Job and a very necessary one. so

all govemort have considered ft to date, including Governor Sanford.

And as to regulations on lobbyists; they have to regiater now. file an expense account and if they receive any com-pensaticm other than their annual aalary. this has to be reported. All lobbyists are regio-tered with the Secretary of State. And the expense ao-oounts, u entertaining are reported for the present law requires it. From what we read Judge Preyer wants the names of those the lobbyists entertain. They are the legislators.

Lobbyists repremnt many and varied intereets. The North Carolina Educational Asioela-tlcm employs a lobbyist on a year around basis, so do labor unions, the League of Municipalities. the County Commissioners Association.

When legislation comes up affecting the bankers, insurance associatltms, the medical profession and others, immediately a lobbyist will register to roprewnt their interests.

And when the newspaper people. memhers of the N. C. Press Association, feel legislation is being considered that affects the peoples right to know we are there and work as hard as we can.

When the tax was put on newspapers that was based on the number of newspapers a carrier handled, we were there to try to get it off. And Governor Sanford and the legislature recognized this was not a Just tax and it was repealed. But It would not have been unless our side has been presented.

Yes, all organizations who employ lobbrtsts are not working agakist the Interests of the people. They are giving their aide of the case, and it la up to the legislature to make the decision.

Just make a self case of It. Dont you want to be able to have representation before the legislature when your Interests are Involved? The governors do.

Sabin On Sunday

The mortgage on your home has 19)4 years to run.

You still call your wife by the pet nickname of your courtship days instead of aping the children by addressing her as "Mother.

Being broke all the time now doesnt bother ycni so much, because you feel supremely c(m-fident that In another five years at most youll double or triple your inconve.

You like to open letters be-cauae you retain the hope that good news as well as bad news comes by mail.

It is more fun to play baseball St a picnic than to go golfing with your employer.

You can overhear a conversation between two teen-agers and understand at least half of what they are saying.

Confronted by a long flight of stairs, you automatically go up them two at a time and reach the top without feeling you need to lie down until you can breathe easier.

When a stranger dances with your wife at a party, you feel Jealous of him instead of grateful.

If a shoelace breaks, you balance on one foot while you tie it instead of looking around for a fire hydrant to use as a support.

The only glasses you wear are sun glasses, and the fine print in the telephone directory is no problem.

Youd rather get out on the lawn and cut the grass yourself than sit on the front porch and tell your wife how to do It.

It Is unclear In your mind whether Calvin (Joolldge was a minor Jazz band leader in the 190S or subbed in the outfield for the New York Yankees when Babe Ruth was off his feed.

You still have the same number of chins you had 10 years ago.

Sought

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN , Cofright, 1964, King Featuree Syndicate, Ine.

Kingman Brewster, the newly inaugurated praident of Yale University, is tremendously Interested in preserving the American college as a cmnpletely autonomous decentralized unit, with DO inteUeo-tual hoetagee given to the po-Utieal atate. Since he fears the govemmentB hand it probably pleased him no end when one of his Inaugural ceremony speaktfe. Dr. Davidson Nlcol of the Unlventty Col-legs In Sierra Leone. Africa, told sa assembly of two hundred edueators from aU over -the world that tmiversities and oholars should advise goveni-ments and not vice versa.

Alae, the current in the real world seems to be running the wrong way in the matter of adviee. The (mmpUeated history of the "Mohole" project for drilling at a deep part of the ocean Into the earths mantle, thM myaterious regi(m of primordial rock wMch exists below the sedimentary crust.

Is evidence that the opinion of scholars Is sometimes the very last thing that government wants.

An editorial la a recent issue of Fortune magazine offers what is sarcastically called a "Mobole Regrew Report." The Mohole Just isfl't getting dug; and the editorial laments it in detail. What the editorial does not do. and could not possibly touch upon in the space, is to deal with the relationship between the government officials In charge of digging the bole (estimated cost, $100 million) and a committee of the National Academy of Sciences which had been set up to offer counsel on the alms of the project and the methods best calculated to attain those alms.

Briefly, the scientlsU of the National Academy, who are the auton<nnous scholars to whom university presidents like Kingman Brewster look for continued Independent thinking, have apparently been told by their own president. Dr. Fred Seitz, to shut up. The quarrel Is incredibly complicated, but basically it involves two different approaches to getting the Mohole dug. National Academy scientists think it should be done In two or more stages. They advocate a preliminary deep water drilling which would not necessarily seek to go all the way through the earths outer crust to the mantle.

This should be done fr<Mn a small oceanic platform, so the scientists say, in order to learn something about drilling in the (^n ocean before com-nttng immense sums to a big platform and a big drilling rig. Deep water drilling has to be done from a free-floatlnt vessel kept in one epot by electrwilc controls, and not too much Is known about carrying on such a pr(h Ject under gale conditions.

Well, the govern m e n t, through Its Naonal Science Foundation, decided sne tlma ago to "go for broke with the one big flnaJ drilling. It chose the Houattwi, Texas, firm of Brown and Root Inc., to run the show. The National Academy men persisted in their attempts to get the National Science Foundation to listen to the case for a two-atage operation, beginning with the building of the ao-called "experimental - exploratory" ehip. But they got no- where. And when Holll Hed-berg, the Princeton geologlet and oil drilling adviser who was chairman of the National Academy of Sciences gr o u p^ set up to advise on Mohole. tried to publish a statement of hie committee's case, he was forced to resign.

The power of the president of the National Academy of Sciences to keep a member of an Academy committee from testifying before Congress or carrying a fight faito the open would seem to be considerable. Thus, If the Academy's president becomes committed for one reason or another to the governments side erf things on a given subject, ha can do much to keep his own committee chairmen from advising the government. The (Continued on Page 5)

Trading Stomp Defections Seen

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGI.ASSI

backgroim) of crime

A great authority on crime said reoenUy in my hearing. "In almost every criminal I have ever come In contact with I have noted a decidedly un-ehristian -fseter In- his-hack

ground or environment. Sometimes this has been divorce, at other times drunkenness in the home, in stiD other jjMes the influence of evil companions. While'I have found a few . conspicuous examples to t h e contrary. I can say that in almost every case of criminality I have ever dealt with, the parents and the home In which they raised the child have been almost completely lacking in a spirit of vital religion.

Then this criminologist went on to challenge the group of

Christian ministers to whom he was talking to preach with passion the message which It is their privilege to proclaim.. This, he said, is the only thing that will ever save the world. It is the (mly thing that mtil elesif \ip -those -aoujeoaa^ot-Infection which Wight mens souls and twist them until they are transformed Into enemies of society. He concluded by declaring that religion has the only answer to the crime proWem.

What do we have relglon for if not to make it work? Nothing is so Important as our faith. It stands between ourselves and destruction.

"Train up a child In the way he should go: and when he is old. he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 26:6).

By ELMER R0E88NER This Is all about -trading stamps.

There are indl(}atons tlM the $1 blllion-a-year trading stamp industry has reached a leveling-off period. It has few new ret^ fields in which to expand and the number of new outlets It signs up is largely offset by abandonment of stamp plans by others.

One of the biggest blows to the stamp business was the do-fcti(Ki of the W. T. Grant Co. rhain- In March. 1963, It decided to (irop stamps. A f e w days ago It reported that Its net profite for the year ended January-31, 1964. were 22 per cent higher than for hte previous year, while salea had Increased only 1.8 per cent.

The relationship between the rise In profits and the dropping of stamps was not discussed by the company, but it is believed to have been a major factor, however, operating economies also appear to have played a part.

OTHER DEFECTIONS

REPORTED

The Inaiders Newsletter recorte, "The trading stamp YuslneM seems to be taking a UeUni. Cities across the ooun-try report a decline in the number of stores offering trading stamps. Notable examples: Loa Angles, Washington, Detroit. Buffalo (Where the only holdouU are A. k P. stores, the last to start offering stamps) and parts of Texas (where Humble Oil Co. topped subaidizing the stampa its statiwis offered, leading many of them to drop the gtnunlck this year)^

Because of the leveling off in stamps, most of the issuing companies have turned to the fiicentlve field to incre^ sales. Claime have been made that trading stamps have more power In geUlng salespec^e to sell harder than mere money. Wives especially, it is said, encourage husbands more to win stamps than to win mcmey pilaes.

At present, awne stamp companies are urging the use of

stamps as Incentives in other than sales fields, such as premiums for work days without accidents. as premiums or savings on materials, and aa premiums for better production.

BILL FOR CASH REFUNDS Unless he takes action on it before this Is printed. Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York has on his desk a bill requiring stamp companiea to allow savers to redeem t h I r stamps for cash.

Nineteen other statea already have such laws. Similar legislation is being considered in Britain. A study by the nonprofit Institute of Economic Affairs there recommended that Parliament not require specl- flc cash rebates for stamps, but that if It did. the cash value be determined by competition between stamp c(xnpanies. The study also reoomip*<l-ed that trading stamp companies. which have already set aside a high proportion of their Income against possible

default, should also be bonded and be required to publiah financial statements so (xxisum-ers and retailers can know their stability and progress. BACK AT THE RANCH*

Meanwhile the Federal Trade Commission is pursuing its Investigation of trading stamp practices. It is not in? vestigating the use of stamps, which Is basically legal, but various practices, bearing oa whether there is any price-fixing, whether the granting of vmluatve franchise is a rea traint of trade, and whether the word "free" is being used (Jeceptively. It has been suggested that, since the publ i o pays for the stamps. It should have the cholo# of lower food prices Instead.

The franchising point could have far reaching effects. If the PTC decides that exclusive franchises are in restraint of trade, then very store \n the block could demand PlaJd trading stamps at the earn# price A 8i P pays for them.