Wermday, August 4, 196S

Wiser To Appreciate The Benefits

How Ciite! Someone Just Threw Another ^ Snowball At Me"

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Perhaps ifs time to tell the Gestapo in Wash- Over at Fountain a federally-financed proaram Inglon to Ukc their filthy lucre and throw it into of vocational skills is being conducted. Under the the l^tomac. , jv Manpower Defense Training Act, Pitt citizens are

' .This pungent suggestion from an editorial in being taught plumbing, sheet metal work, electrical an hastcrn North rarolma newspaper pretty well wiring and carpentry. And graduates of these courses sums up the usual reaction of persons in many com- will ply their trades right here in the county.

A third example is Proj

munities to federal aid.

The automatic horrified respoiu^e is a lazy and defensive one: it*s much easier to think either that everything's fine back home or, if there should be problems, weil take care of them in due time.

Overlooked is the simple fact that government-financed programs sometimes do excellent work. Several Pitt programs come quickly to mind.

The Basic Education course at Pitt Technical Institute is teaching the three R's to adults whose education stopped in grades one through eight.

Reports Vague 3ut Believable

. . ject Head Start. Green

ville a project is one of 96 being conducted, throughout the nation this summer. Under funds from the Economic Opportunity Act, pre-school children are being assisted in the sometimes wrenching transfer from home to school.

Teaching adults to read and write, giving a man a trade, helping children enter the world of schoolthe fruits of these efforts can be seen and felt in Pitt County.

No one would wish a 1984, Big Brother is Watching You government on our community; but as yet the signs of a forming super-govemment are less fact than fear.

And it would be wise and gracious, perhaps, to spend more time appreciating the solid benefits of government aid than in castigating the weary spectre of encroaching big government.

_ By WnXlAM A. .WIRES INDUSTRY Rstber vague reports have clrdiated for many weeks now that an-

aouncemente of majm* new In-tlustrtaJ develoiHiient in the tate mJaht be espeeted fairly eaily In the Moore Administration.

The rumore were believable for several reaamia. Plrsi. industrial devtiopment in terms ef new aiid expanded pian*-* and payroll has eomt to be a yajndstidc of euecaM for each political admlnlatratioo in Raleigh.

It hia beoQRia a year-end ritual for tl tovenior of North Caroliaa to announce fat and bnprtBslve gains in hi-dustrlal devalopment during the year. 8e<^dly, Oov. Dan X. Moore pledged continued emphasis on sound industrial growth and as a fonmr large eorpmatkxi official he has friends among captalna of industry.

There were reporta tiat Oov-traor Moore had hla finger on

a couple of Ml new Industries adn

go get his administration off to a flying start In this direction.

INDICATIONS It is now Augimt though and anticipated announcemaiit of something really spectacular at the outset is omdtie. Nothing came C the repmts during Moore s first six months in office.

When pressed, high admin Istratlon officials would say only that the reports were probably true but that it would be premature to disclose any details.

Now, however, there are the best indications yet that something along thia line

couTd hSt dJacIdae tails. When ready, he said, it should be announced by the proper crfiicials.

C&D Observers were guessing that more light on the repOTted "encrmdua to-dustrlal complexes might be shed when Moores newly-ap-pointed board (rf Conaervatloii and Development takes o^iea and holds Its initial meeting In Raletgh this we^.

Industrial developer J. W. fWillie) York of Raldgh has been named chairman of the new C&D board and will appoint the boards various com* mlttees. Including the /ery important Commerce and In* dustry committee.

Some sources thtMigbt it possible that the awal^d industrial announcements might be made at this C&D meeting.

DRIVE - A drive for Industrial expansion re<Mrds has been pursued by each administration since that of Oov. Lrither H. Hodges wdio made raising the state's per eaidta income his number one eco-n(mic goal.

Oov. Terry Sanfmtl felt that education was the basic key to attracting Industry requiring skilled workers an| paying higher wages. Both Hodges and Saniord emphasized research.

The states industrial gains an4 growth over the past 10 years were tremendous, too with all sectlcms of the state, including the rural East, getting a share. The Bast, for example, has seen such things as a DuPont daoum plant located near Kinston, growth ol a chwnloala complex in the Wilmington area and the birth

We Trust Roadblocks

Will Be Soon Ended

The 49 per cent occupancy of Kearney Park houfnr facilities is a dismaying figure to all who have visited the project; but one can understand, too, how this might be.

Certainly there is no lack of applicants (484 of them, according to Col A* E Dubber), but as

Monday nights meeting indicated, there are other factor.H involved.

The Kearney Park housing facility is a truly eye-catching and thrilling addition to a better Greenville. All that it represents in terms of better living, devoted effort and monetary outlay inspiilBs a great deal of gratification among objective beholders.

We trust that roadblocks now preventing full utilization of Kearney Park are overcome at the earliest possible date.

An Odd Year

Ideal Worlc.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1965, King Features Sjndicate, Inc.

We live in a humanitarian country in a humanitarian age. Its <a lot better than living in the days of Ivan the Terrible or even Louis the Fourteenth. But there is such a thing as crying too much for poor, buffeted humanity, and the people with good hearts may end by enslaving us all.

The height of something-or-other In dangerous weepiness was reached the other day by Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz In a speech before tbe annual convention of the Communications Workers of America in Kansas City. It must be quoted in extension to be fully appreciated. Said Mr. Wlrts;

Dont let this country get c(nfortable abcnit a 4.6 per cent unemployment. . .Thera is only one answer as far as employment opportunities are concerned, and that Is that every person in this country who is capble of doing a job is entitled to an opporttmlty to do that job.

JOHN

CHAMBERLAIN

By ALVIN TAYLOR

He Played Odds Nobody Hitched A Ride

he anaounced publicity, y rich-phostuUe mining gnd

probably W Moore Was within the next two or three weeks.

One recent indication was s remark last week by nsw state highwray chairman Joseph M. Hunt Jr.. an administration Insider, to tha effect that two major Industries are preparing to looaUs to rural Eastern North Carolina. He described Uiem as enormous Industrial miplexes.

Another la the fact that the governor has been cwiferring in recent weeks with oiflclals of larst. hut unidentified industrial cop corporations.

LOCATION Hunts le-mark to partleular touched ott keen totemt ami specutotkm. especially atooe mentioned rural Eastern North CaroUna as the proposed looatton.

Occasion for RUnta state-mit was a sp&bkHi to a greup to WaynesvUle while on a highway inspection tour. He wu streestof the importanee of highway tranapertation to todustrial developiiiant and cited a good highway ayetam as a major factor to the soon-to- be aanouaoed todusUlsl txpenaioi} in the Bast.

Hunt, .returning to Raleigh, Assured reportera hia toforma-tlon waa eorreet but aaid he

chemicals complax in Beaufort Ootmty.

In research, the states Research Triangle to the Raleigh-Durham . Chapel Hill area is growing rapidly.'On almost bis final day in office. Sanford juMlanUy announced futura location 0 a $60 million federal anvironmental hMlth center to the Research Triangle.

NOTEBOOK - Presiding at swearing - in remonies for the new State Personnel Council, Governor Moore took note of the state government Itself as a major factor in the statsi economy. The Personnel Ccmncil, he said, will establish salary scales and wage policies for approximately 35,-000 state em^oyee. That is flve times tha numbar of workers to be emjdoyed by the 127 Industrita whioh annovmced new plants or expanskms dur-Ingt be first quarter of 1965

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) -Its been an odd year. But the odds have been with President Johnson, at home and abroad, and hes played them hard.

Johnsons worst problem, Viet Nam, was inherited from President John F. Kennedy.

At home, thanks to the 1964 lection landslide, Job n s o n deals with a Congress where his Democrats far outnumber Republicans,

With Kennedy It was the opposite. The Democrats narrow squeak to the i960 elections gave him a Congress where his partyt majority was far leas. So Johnson could get his programs through far easier than Kennedy could.

But in his best day, no matter the kind of Congress, Kennedy was no match for Johnson to endless energy and manipulation of the men In the

chev calmed doiwn and American Russian relatiOQ# improved. Last October the Rua-elans threw Khrushchev out.

Hla successors are gray compared with him. quieter, and apparently more concerned with pvobleme to Russia and relatloBt with Red China than the reat of the worid, which is a big switch from Khrushchev.

Among tbe more intriguing signs weve seen recently was one reading Beware of Dog. That is not normahy so unusual. except this (me haimen-ad to be poeted <m tbe back window of a pick up truck that we ieH behind.

Sure enough there was a gruff looktof dog lying to tbe back of tba truck. Dont know jwhe^tr ^ mea, down

dump to keep down(pes.

We were just kidc^ last week, boneet. The Irrigation system has IndMd been to use at the city dump. It has worked very well to combatltog an old problem that of fires which sent a choking smoke over eaM Greenville.

ed at the elaborateness of tbe sets for tbe East Cantina Summer Theatre.

In The Student Prince for Instance, one scene calls for two servants to extinguish the candles along each wall (4 a room.

Johnaon ia having little trouble there. And noisy Red China. although snarling at Russia and the United States with equal hostility, seems b<mt on keeping out of trouble at least until it has more nuclear (Continued On Page )

when the dog Is not riding, or wh^er tbe dog rides all the

tin.

At any rate we didnt see anybody try to hltoh a ride as we fcdlowtd the vehicle out Di(dcinaon Avenue.

Ciapitol.

One of the largest new industrial expansions for the state is the announcement by

JAME&

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

City Manager Harry Hager-ty has pointed out to us that the irrlMticB system we referred to to the city budget waa actually provided for la at year. The city is not growing tobacco. It is used at tha city

And a few howls went up from irate citlaene when iQcnC-em for salaries of $6,239.25 appeared under the mayor clas-filficati(m to the budget.

Hagerty explained that the mayor doee N(DT make such a salary. It was intended as a classification which included the mayor, councilmen, city attorney parttime compen-saticm.

Why if the mayor made that much, everybody would be running.

ALVIN

TAYLOR

So far, so good. Nobody will quarrel with Mr. Wlrtz for his desire to match ability with opportunity. His own Department of Labor might refer Secretary Wlrtos words to the AFL-CIO, which has opposed a government appropriati(m to finance a major etudy of job vacancies to the united States. The ATL-CIO has taken tha incredible position that If tha government wre to make a serious study of job opportunities in America it would ba used by conservatives to argue against federal action to reduce unemployment.

Unfortunately, Sec r e t a r y Wirtz didnt st<to with hia statement about job opportunities. He went on to tell a little story about what happened to him on a plana to Chicago. I was jmpcBssad. he said, vdth the fact that when the stowardess read tbe canned speech. . . .about how glad they are to have you. . . . that she had read that script, for the first time that I had heard in a long time, as though she really meant it and was glad we were on board.

She looked down, so tha

Secretary continued. *and smU-ed a little wistfuQy, and said.

We never cease to be amaz-

MA&LOW

Even in racial disturbances

Burlitmion Industries Inc. of a new IHoinnan Mifls Inc. spin-

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ning and waavtog plant to employ 230 persons at Denton, in Davidson County. Production will begin to the new Denton facility next year.

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Johnson has had lees trouble than Kennedy, But Johnson In his public statements has expressed more c(moero for Negroes than Kennedy or any president in history.

One of the unknowns of Johnsons preridency Is how he wUl do with complicated and critical situations overseas since he Is far less experienced in foreign affa 1 r a than domestic issues.

But abroad there have been no crises or complexities that needed his full attention, except for Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic, which meant he could concentrate on them.

Ordinarily an American president to any given year could expect a hatful of grief with foreign problems. Kenns d y * a biggest individual problem was with Rusalan Premier Nl-Wta Khrushchev. Example: Ihe Chiban mU^ orteis.

But after the treaty banning nuclear tests, in 1963, Khrush-

By JOHN G. DUNCAN Aug. 4. IHi SOUTH CAROLINA TOBACCO MARKET OPENS TODAY Two markets report stiff prioea lor bettar tobacco. he eetimatfs available as to number of pounds.

Other Editors Saying The Hard Luck Ange

They carefully go along juiuf-fing out each candle. The illusion is perfect. But then you realize the candle lights are electric. As each candle is ex-ttogulahed the electric Ught has to be turned off. Thus each one was wired separately.

RALEIGH VZSITSD BY STORM THAT TURNS RivuLirrs Wind reaches velocity of 4 mile* an hour whlla the rainfall to a few minutes totals 1.56 inches.

Edwin Swain, New York, one of the outstanding bariton itogers of the American CCo-cert stage will aK>ear to pro-^ at East Caroitoa Teacher CoUige Thursday of this week.

A tobacco bam and its contents belonging to Mr. R. l. Smith sad located near tbe Pitt County fairgrounds was destroyed by fire ahortly afternoon today. This the second such loss Mr. Smith has suffeiv d to the past two weeks.

^ Mrs. T. E, Hooker, and Mrs. J. S. WllUard left yesterday for a visit to Belhaven.

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Somebody has thrown a fast curva at the Pott Offica Department and the curve Is on the Angel Gabriel, where it doesnt seem to belong.

Hard luck aito^ars to dog the Poet Qfftoe Department these day, and not just to the fact that dog-bltes-ma 11-man cost the government a million doHai to 1963, as reported by former Poetmaster General J. Edward Day to his recent book, Mr Apf^t-ed Round. Hard luck even dogged Mr. Day, for somebody diseovered that the reproduction of U. 8. paatafe stamps on tba jacket t! hia b0(^ was gainst the law.

But tbe new Gabriel ruckus slKxUdnt have happened to a dog and didnt. It happened to an angel and shouldnt.

Tba 1S65 Christmas stamp aMmdons the safe holly, mistletoe and Cbristmaa tree designs. It features a floating Angel Ga^el blowing his trumpet. When It was unveiled, it qui^dy ellctad a latter oalltog attention to tha obvious fact that the breast of Gabriel (which means man of God) was that of a woman.

So the Post (Xfice Department sent an inspector up to Newbwryport, Mass., for a closer look at the famous 1840 Gariel weather vane atop the Peoples Methodist Church, which had served as model for the Christmas stamp. S enough, it had that distinctive femtatoc protrusion.

Amimg the items In 40 Years Ago was the news that the new river bridge Is to be lighted.

The lights are still there. The only trouble is a considerable number of them dont bum. Maybe getting them all lit again will be a project for the next 40 years.

When Post Office officials consulted Biblical exp e r t s, they were assured that angels are sexless. The Angel Gabriel himself (or Iwrself, aa tbe case may be) am>ears to the Bible as tbe herald of good tidings, annouoetog the coming of the Messiah. He la also identified as tbe angel who will blow the tnunpet for the Last Judgment and as t angel who revaaled tbe Koran to Mohammed.

ctive Opinions

In Brief

The Increasing divorce rate is making America the land of the free; but the increasing marriage rate is making America the home of the brave. Philadelphia Bulletin.

But he has never before been eked to blow his horn for the Post Office Department.

Perhaps the last word should come from the drama critic who once reviewed a new play atarring Mae West by wrlt-tog: Miss West* new play is a bust and that Is one more than Mist West needs.

What the PcMit Office needs is a new male man for Christmas.

Among other things historians will have to write down as a result of events to Alabama is a new data for the end of the War Between the States.(Charleston (S, C.) News and Courier.

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"Mike Mansfield keeps saying tbe Senate la making steady progress, ihis, as far as we can tell, means it does something, r^ht or wrong, nearly every month.** Memphis Commercial Aitoaal.

'Yes, you know and she hesitated a littlefour months ago I finished three years of training at the Goodman Theatre to C3hcago.*

I looked at her, and she touched the wings on the cap Yes,* she said. I know what you are thinking. I couldnt find the kind of thing I wanted to do so now I am an Airline Stewardess.*

You know, to our statistics she is employed. I am not sure whether she Is or not. . . I am not sure that we are correct in counting a person employed when that person happens to be filling one of the jobs which is available, but when that perscai Is not doing what he or she is capable of doing.

Well, who Is to judge whether every personable air line stewardess with a good voice should go to Hollywood or Broadway? Some quaUfying board In Washington? My friend Eliot Janeway used to say that he was a disappointed John MoGraw. Re wanted to manage. the New York Giants, but he wound up as the proprietor of a financial service. For all Willard Wlrtz knows, the Giants may have lost a great manager simply becuse nobody would listen to Mr. Janeways wtoh. Aubrey Williams, who usad to work for Harry Hopkins in the old WPA days, told of listening to a young man in Montana who said, passionately, that he wanted to be a doctor. Why itoouldnt he be a doctor? so Aubrey Williams asked dramatically to my pre-cnee. I could only say that lots of underprivileged boys have become doctors by worit 1 n g tbelr way through college and (luallfytog for the chance, ((tonttoued On Pag )

To the editor;

Eisenhower said, according to last nights paper, that the people should not question ihe governments Vietnam policy because the government has sources of toformation not en to them. I assume this Is the reasoning that most of our togislators and governors accept. but I question it.

Although military information must often be kept secret, there are many unclassified facts to work on. IVir Instance, tccordxng to the New York Timet, the Saigon government is giving the death penalty for spreadtog reports destrucUve to tbe morale of the war. Such a letter as this would be a capital offense. We expect that sort of law from Communists thats why we want to c(itato them but we have a right to expe<^ something better of the gov* cmment we support. Another fact open for all to see is the

resounding failure of the South Vietnam-UJI. war (^ration. When billions of dollars and milUona of men have not been able to gat anywbtre against an enemy poor to material resources, U ciUsen noay weU doubt the efflclancy of the tactics used.

Mararthon Vacation Therapy

I believe demoortcy is the American way of Itfa. I beUeve it Is ttil rsR^bUtty of a dereaerstio psepla and its lag-telators to batanee the advice of the mlBtgry gga^ the ad-vitse of ttmt in otbtr fields (available, thougli si moat drowned out by war reporta and justtflcatl^). I believe there ara battar ways to halp the people of South Vietnam than by supporting a corrupt, dictatorial i^venunent by military means. Lets Mop murmuring helplessly, . . .Oom-munisra. . no retreat. . and start thinking!

EdiUM Webbsr

By JOHN ABNEY

Mexico CityVaoatton time again and it Is Indeed a sad occasion. Mexico observes va-cationa at intervals throughout the year.

There are Easter week vacations. Office wcrkers and school boya eeatter. A ten day vacation in May which nobody can aeoeuat for.

Comaa September and everyone la nut for two weeks. Scheola close from the end of Novetober imtil Frbruary. And the foverajiMftt leeks up from December 16 until Jon-uary socnethtog. I forgot the exact date.

Never attempt a business transaction during these periods. When they say vacation time here, they MEAN it.

The local population goes to seashore. And coastal residents flee to the mountains for a rest. This is good for the transportation industry and |pks.

Everybody borrowa on the next annual bonus to sindle off aomewherc.

Hotels and b<rdlng houses do an overflow business. Restaurants to resort towns are cleanded out. After three day, proprietors have nothing to do but esit around and count nooney.

I do not know bow all thie got started but it works out somehow.

Apparently the nine days of Posadas (CTiristmas parties) followed by Ne# Year calebrattoaa make a oemhlete wreck out erf everyone. It takes aeveral months to recover from this.

And by the time people (um walk without the aid of a crutch Easter and Spring vacatlone avalanch in. They become wrecks all over again.

Summer and the rainy e-son are soothing. The pcgaila-tioB regains Ita vgor and

somebody says, All out for Pall vacations. They come back financially murdered but manage to recxiver to time for Christmas.

Even short vacations like Labor day and Independence Day take a great deal of irian-ning.

Somehow, they work it so the occasion hits on Saturday or Monday. This calls for a bridge. A Uttle extra time to span the weekend.

On Wednesday they gre getting ready. Thursday morntoga the bosses fail to appear. And 92 per cent of the employees are missing comes Friday.

R is tbe vacatK, a sad but duty-bound clerk tell you. Mondfur is tbe holiday and everyone is gone.

Tuesday, a few show up at the offtoe but it it 8-5 most of the country is In bed recovering and they will shotguo yao if you ID much u rap tt

the door.

Tourists lo(rfc puzzled at such tunes and ask what is going on.

Personally. I consider the whole system a marathon type of therapy. Anybody can dppe ^ around an office. But nobody can afX(t! to give tha shakes to a vacation.

Therefore, it is necessary to play hard and this means a slow recovery. Gattiag over a rest is not for ohUdrap. kids.

And following vaeattoBs. tho boss generally has to taka an urgent trip somewhere. (Homo to bed la a sMe M.> Thia gives his t<to aides the opportunity to catch up on worit also at home, natch.

Thus we faeo vacation timo fcarieasly throughout the year. The rigof of retting do not cause us to flinch. Extreme cipage js needed but this wt bawi to abundaaot.