Tue<fay JNi 80, 1981PACE FOUR

Tuesday, June 30, 1059

Umpiring And Calling Signab, Too?

Board. Confident, Public Should Be

Expression by leaders of the State Board of Higher Education that action by the 1959 General Assembly will not prevent the board from carrying out its purpose should be encouraging to North Carolinians.

Retiring chairman D. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville told the Board of Higher Education Friday, If we do not do our job, it will not be for lack of power."

in the brief period since it was formed, in-the years ahead it will be in a position to make an increasingly constructive contribution to higher education in the state as demands upon all the states colleges and universities increase.

If members of the board feel they have sufficient authority to do the job which is required of them, there should remain no doubt of it in the minds of the people of the state.

Following the controversy between the Higher Education board and trustees of the Greater University

].iit year, there appeared for a while the possibility TT J

(ht'thc fiiiht between the,e two bdie, might be HawQiians Unclerscore

carried to the General Assembly to the detriment of higher education in the state. Before the legislature met representatives of the two groups met and worked out a compromise w'hich was to establish more clearly the lines of authority between trustees of state-owned colleges and the Board of Higher Education.

WHV NOT? I'M

A THINKING

BURSAUCI^T! you Jt)$T CO AHeAD AN

Desire For Statehood

As a result, legislation was enacted which clianged the Education Boards authority to "approve" appropriations for institutions to the authority to "recommend. While .some ouarters expressed the opinion this change might cripple the Bard of Higher Educa* tion, it is encouraging to know that its former chairman and its new chairman both feel the Board still has ample authority to carry out its duties.

The 17 to 1 margin by which Hawaiians approved admission of Hawaii as the 50th state shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone.

Old Graveyards

Raise Problems

By I.VNN NI.SRET

CIRAVES OraveyardA. parli-fjtlarly abandoned graves, are becoming a real problem as progreas" takes over In North Carolina. Reverence for burying placea exlata among aavage trlbea and U deeply Imbedded In the written laws of moat civilized countriea.

The cuatom of family burying plota on the farm haa given the highway commlaalon conaider-able trouble In relocating roatla. They are reluctant to dlaturb the ancient bones, but aometlmea It appears to be neceaaary.

Downtown churches In old clt* lea where the community haa developed around them have an even more aerioua problem. Present law prohlblta the removal or iranafer of bodies until notice lias been given to surviving relatives but the statute falls to specify the kind of notice or the relatives to be notified.

The First riesbylerlan ch\irch at Morganlon has outgrown Ita lacillLles, desires to sell the property and build larger elspwhere. Ttie afljarrnt graveyard was filled half a century ago and no 11 w graves have been dug there In nuiie than 40 years, Tha rcla-Itves of the pcojile whose bodies are binrled are scattered throughout tlie world.

itep. Joe Hyrd of Burke inlro-duced a hllj, whlcli he laler made applicable only to his county, providing for removal of gravc.s or whole cemeteries upon notice liy publication In local and stale circulation newspapers, rather than personal notice to rda-tivcs, when no burlnls have oc-urred within the past 40 yenr.s, Byrd made It clear llial Ills tillls does not change the ulhorlty of government to move ttie graves, but only affords a reasonable procedure of notice

GENERAL - Members of the committee which approved the bill agreed that It Is good law and perhaps should be statew ide But because of the short time for discussion and In deference to the common attitude toward tampering with graves, requested It be limited to one county. Opinion was expressed that it will later be extended.

The cemetery business has gone commercial and h'W new graves are found In rhurch,var.rls nr small private grounds around cliles and towns The country churchyard ts still popular.

One cannot drive along the highways, of North PartihnH without notrclng the contra,si In the attention given fo old graves. Many of the family plois are well kept and have attracUve marker stones. Olhers are clul-tered with weeds and In ambles. Another impressive Hem is the imprnvement within llie past

decade of country, church buildings and grounds, Including the graveyards. The once common flight of an unpalnted clapboaed building, surrounded by bare eroded grounds Is now rare. Grass and ahrubbery are the rule.

Also discontinued is the old custom of the menfolks of the congregation fixing a day after laying by time In late summer to meet and clean up the grave yard. The cleaning up la done now mostly by hired hands, in many Instances a regularly employed Janitor.

The graveyard cleaning was a big occasion when your reporter was a small boy. It was looked forward to for days In advance and the kids had a great time while the men cut weeds and rebuilt mounds. Not always but sometimes the women came along and apread a picnic dinner,

IMCNIfS Just mention of the word picnic brtngs a cluster of nostalgic memories. Any relHllonfihlp between the country picnics of half a century ago and the modern version Is purely Incidental Many oklsters concur In I he wisecrack made by the Iflfe Cameron Morrison when he said Miss Jinny had ruined the picnics" Reference was to Mrs. Jane McKlmmon, long lime Kiate home detnnnslratlon dlrCtor, who with her asslstaiils In moflt of the counties moder* nlzcil and standardized farm cooking procedure. Aided and abetted by the development of refrigeration of food products and xlcnslon of the beneflta (? of commercial bakery and cannery goods to remote rural commutil-Uc.s. the ruination of what Cum cornplaltu'd has been completd. The situation Is further aggra-vulcd by laws which make 11 11-li'gttl to put on the picnic table any fresh meats or vegetables or fruits which have not been In-specled and approved by a government man.

In.sicad of planning days in advance for the picnic, determining which family would kill a lamb and which a pig, who would bake the cakes and cook I lie |)les Gt was understood every family would bring fried chicken and home cooked breadi, the moilern picnic Is organized along pincttcal lines. This practicality calb for sending one person to hiiv a specified number of hof-dogR or so many pounds of bar-liecuc from a professional caterer; Hsslgnlng .somebody else to g'" by the hakiiy and buy tlie liread, cskc.s and pies required, and another to gel so many packages of Icc cream from a nation wide chain producer. Then the hasl.s" with quite obvious sur-iTptltiou.snea.s gel logelher and spilt up the cost.

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Even though Hawaii wan not approved for statehood by Congress until after Alaska became the 49th state, the people of Hawaii have been seeking statehood for a number of decades. Time and again they found the avenue to statehood a deadend street, but each time they renewed the efforts.

Under the direction of Chairman Ram,sey, the Board of Higher Education has made a constructive contribution to higher education in North Carolina

It shouldnt have come as a surprise, therefore, that Hawaiians approved statehood by such an overwhelming margin. Theyve worked long and hard for statehood. They have proved themselves worthy of .statehood status. Certainly they would not miss the opportunity to indicate personally their desire for statehood when the matter was put to a vote.

While it probably will still be another month or two before Hawaii officially becomes a state, the re-mainbig formalitie.slike tho.se which have taken

place since (Congress approved Hawaiis statehood remain only a formality. ,

it should be encouraging to the citizens of the other 49 state.s, however, to note how overwhelmingly the citizens of the 501 h state voted in favor of becoming a full member of the Union,

Committee Has Rolitical Value

By DON SCHLIENZ,

You Cant Be Too Carefu

Todays mmage could be flummed up in one word: Survive.

needle.*!,sly dying.

Now about thi.s Glorious Fourth detail:

clo.*iely was attributed in 65 wrecks.

It.s timely.

By .lAME.S MARl.OW

WASHINGTON (API Tbe Prcflidentfl Cabinet committee on price fltablllty for economic growth may serve an economic purpose. It also lia a very iiae-iul political value for the Republican party.

Thl* group, appointed by Prea-Ident Elflenhower IhaI Jan. 31. produced a report Sunday after rnonthfl of meditation. It cati-tlonrd ag.ilnt the dangers of Inflation and made *ome recom-mendaUonji for fighting It.

What It proposed waa W'hat El-acnhower hlmaelf already had proposed to Congrcjwi earlier in the year,

This wflfl hardly unuAiial, The Pre.sldentfl committee, made up of tils own hand-picked, right-liand men. would hardly have made recnmniendallona contrary to hlfl own.

The group, headed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon, i.s rompofled of member of hus (-fthinet, plus hla top economic adviser Raymond J. SaiilnlfT, plus one outside economist. W. All*n Wallis.

WallU himself described the report as nt) bonibflhell He la dean of the Biwiness School of the University of Chicago and is the Cabinet committee's executive director.

It is questionable whether any proposals by this group could be considered as objective and non-political as recommendations by a committee of outside economists,

Etaenhower, ever since the lli.'iB election campaign In which the Democrats in Congress won one of their hlggeat victories, has hammered away at the dangers of Inflation and htg spending that would unbalance the budget.

He re.sumed the theme the day after the elections and has pursued It steadily. At the beginning of this Congress the Democrats sounded as If they contemplated much bigger programs than Elsenhower had In mind.

Fllhcr lh*y came aiound to hli thinking nr his antl-lnflatlon crusade made the congressional De-mocrat.s self-conscious. Whatever Ihe reft.son, they have been trimming their programs more or le.ss to meet his ile.sires.

As Elsenhower pointed out In a for*WHn1 to the comnUltee'.s report, which It recommemls is whttl tie has alreaity suggested. Neverthele.sfl, the report serves a purpose

Hv echoing Flbeiihower, It provides .lust that much moie publU'ity fur his Uieuk. it gives him Ihe benrfU ol the Cabuiets

public approval, although he hardly needed that; and it is added pre.ssure on the Democrats to follow Elsenhower.

If inflation gets out of hand, the repreated Republican warnings against It will give them a political Issue In the presidential elections of li60. The Democrats. of course, will have something to ay about Republ-ran antl-lnflatlon practices as opposed to theory.

By that time the voter caught up in the economic argtt-menis of both sides should be completely confused.

Briefly, the presidential committee called for balancing the budget, removing the Interest celling on government bonds, and making price stability an explicit goal of federal economic policy.

The committee 0 closely followed the presidential line that It lifted the quoted praise in the preceding paragraph right out of the Presidents economic report to Congress last January

Like the President, the Cabinet Ls against price controls ax .such, pointing out that In time this would lead to wage controls, too.

Perhaps the most Interesting part of the report is not what it said but what tt promised the committee would look Into In later reports.

For Instance, It will explore proposals to use the federal governments antitrust pow'ers against monopolies In both labor and management, as well as the breaking down of wage bargaining Into smaller units.

The committee mentioned other Ideas It will examine, too, some of which may make campaign Issues In the 1960 elections when, or so It seems now, Nixon will be a sturdy cont,ender.

We view the a-bomb and atomic fall-out with horror; lead of hurricane warning.^ with a measure of apprchenaion; and rautlpusly look In both directions when cros.'lng the street.

Last year 15 persona died of highway accidents over the holidays, Eleven killed outright, four were delayed deaths due to injuries.

But that Isnt enough.

The N, C. Department of Motor Vehicles la laying plans for dealing with the Fourth of July traffic casualtie.s, and the Society of the Plastics Industry Is waging a campaign to w'arn the public to use some discretion In handling pla.atlc bags. On both counts, the ground.a are the same; loo many people are

The NCDMV even provides a breakdown of the violations involved in the 1958 total of 528 accidenta that took place from 6:00 p.m. July 3 through midnight of July 6. Speeding led the rest by a great margin, 115 of the wrecks Involved that one error. Not having the right of way was attributed In 75 accidents. . . . that violation ran third; driving on the wrong side of the toad (78 such violations) placed second; following too

The toll of injured came to 246 for the period. No mention made of how manv broken vertebrae, mangled limbs; or the permanent scars that resulted. Nothing about cashed rib cages and hours of agony. But they were all there. You can count on it.

Other Eiditors Saying .,,

You Pay For Inflation

Opinions n Brief

In niolilng 36,17.1 feet down Into the Pacific, Ru!u^ta ctaim.a ti) liave attained ihe lowest dept In ever. But we tliought liiey had a heady achieved that dl.slliKtlciu ui Hungary,*

New Orlean.s SUte.s and Hem.

(Wilson Times)

You are likely to brush off Inflation and lU corroding effect on yottT Income. But flguiYs tell a story more pointed than words. The President is following a program to keep expenditures within limits, but not too much progress Is being made In that direction. You are approaching a steel strike because tw'o schools of thought prevail The steel workers arc demanding more wages and fringe benefits without an increase in costs. The steel companies say this is Impossible because wages, materials and other administration expenses make this Impossible.

The President has apj^aled for steel to hold the line, so there is an Impasse. The result will most likely be a strike. The settlement of the strike will have a major Influence on you and everyone, for as steel goes so does all other lndu,strlea Steel Is the bellwether.

You have a material stake In the strike. In fact everyone does. This will give you some Idea of wliat inflation has done to your savings, to your bank account and to your general economic condition.

If you were a couple with two children and the breadwin-ijfr WHS earning $2,000 In 1942 you should be making $3,743 today to be even, or an Increase of 87 per cent.

Then take this same couple who we say was earning $3,000 in 1942 he should have an income of $5,613 to be equivalent, still 87 per cent.

This goes on all the way through the Income bracket until you get to the $5,000 wage earned In 1942. Today he should be receiving $9.233 or 85 per cent increase.

We realize that thLs is day dreaming. But if every qne, labor and Industry would freeze prices and wages at present levels, and allow the present booming economy to continue, thus producing more of everything for everybody, all could share in the abundance that is here. It would not take many years to have a veritable garden of Eden.

The public debt could be reduced, your money would buy more, your Insurance would go up in intrinsic worth and you would have more of this world's goods in Investments and in services.

But with the present trend of continually pushing up everything, with the first prospects of prosperity, no one Ls gaining, as the figures show. In fact most of us are having a hard time keeping up w'ith the inflation figures. Few have had an Increase of 87 per cent income since 1942.

You can figure what inflation has cost you.

have beep counted across the fifty-nine death.s by suffocation have ben counted across the country, all laid to polyetheline film, seven of these were reported as suicides.

Hove',

obby Awaits

Theys going to start tallying the 1959 Fourth of July accidents 6:00 p.m. Friday, and carry on through midnight of July 5, Nobody Infers there will be no holiday accident deaths; its as certain to the experts as are taxes to you and me.

My MAL BOTLI

Im chicken. Our car Isnt venturing out on the highway next weekend. So, barring a multitude of other hazards .striking my way (such as lightning?). I Intend to be around on Monday.

The move In the N. C. General A.ssembly to ban u.se of pla.stic bags is symptomatic of what happem when a new scare item comes to the fore. The proposal didnt get beyond first base, but publicity attendant upon deaths caused by plastic bags has the Industry worried.

To set the record straight, the industry is going to considerable effort to remind that each year nearly 15,000 boys and girls under 15 years old die as a result of accidents. Choking, fire, motor vehicles, drowning, poisoning. . . . they all statistically overw'helm plastic bags as chlld-kiUers.

But to avoid unnecessary tragedy, the following suggestions are passed along by the campaign material received by mail: keep them (plastic bags) away from small children; dont use them as makeshift covers in cribs, playpens, baby carriages, for mattresses or upholstery. Once the plastic coverings have served their purpose the user Is advised to knot them or team them up, and throw them away.

NEW YORK <AP)Art yofc looking for a new and enjoyable hobby? Why not taka up hypochond^? ^

The deaire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals." wrote one of the greatest modem physicians, Sir W-Uam Osier.

Dr. Osier said another memora ble thing: No man is really happy or safe without a hobby, and it makes precious little difference what the outside interest may be.-^Anything will do so long as he straddles a hobby and rides It hard.

Hypochondria, the morbid preoccupation with one's own health, is perhaps the most sensible of ail hobbies after the age of 40be cause it is the most natural. After 40 If you dont worry about yourself, nobody will.

There is little point in taking up hypochondria in youth. During that period of life all one generally suffers from is the more unin- teresting complaints such as sprained ankles, broken limbs, busted hearts.

The golden age of suffering comes later.

It is only after 40 that a new world, of disease opens to one. Is is then that one first becomes aware he is vulnerable to a wilderness of fascinating ailments ranging from abarognosisloss of ability to estimate welghU-to zoster, an active nerve inflammation.

It is then you find out you can get anything, and anythingbug or viruscan get you. And, unlike the fly-bynight disorders ,of your childhood and youth, these latterday afflictions often are chronic, such as gout.

You do not have to worry about them disappearing after a simple treatment or two. You can enjoy them for a long time. They will generally last as long as you do.

Now is the best time to take up hypochondria as a hobby because science has classified scores of ailments that previous generations lived through without ever knowing they had. And what is the point of being sick if you cant even brag to the neighbors about what a rare malady youve acquired.

Now Is also the best time to become a hypochondriac because there are available hundreds even thousands-of medicines and wonder drugs that didnt even exist a quarter of a century ago.

Medicine used to come in two colorswhite and dark brown. It used to have only two tastes sour and bitter.

Today medicines are the middle-aged mans candy. They come in a thousand shapes, sizes, tastes, and rainbow colors Every bottle and tablet holds a separate flavor thrill. You can take a two-tone, three-way acting capsule todayand it wont rattle your timbers until tomorrow. You get a delayed Joy; you dont have to enjoy it all at once.

A fisherman can enjoy his sport only In season. So can the baseball fan. But hypochondria is a real year-round hobby. If the hypochondriac awakes with a sudden dull sense of health, he can always race to the medical dictionary and discover some heartening new symptoms of something fearful.

Hypochondria isnt merely for the rich. It is a hobby that fits any purse. On hi* days off the hypochondriac can always hang around pharmacies getting free smells of drugs he cant yet afford to buy.

Your true hypochondriac Is as avid in search of an unusual malady as a philatelist is in pursuit of a rare stapip. There is the story of one veteran hypochondriac who, on learning his own physician had been stricken with an undiagnosed ailment, phoned the sick medic reproachfully.

I heau* you come down with something Ive never had. Doc. You been holding out on me?"

Quote.

Which, when you get down to It, is very reasonable.

Have you noticed that It takes ten times as much equipment for a backyard cookout as It did for our grandfathers to conquer the wilderne.sa?" . T a-mar (Mo.) Democrat.

Strike Threat Booms Business

*D<i<rt foiRPt llini you are a part ot ttuca i>pople wtio can be fiHtU'd .Mime uf ll) dtue i.iNtonia Gazette,

By LT.MIIR ROKMSNER

Strength For Today

By KARL L. BOl'GI.A.SS HOOK. OF LI) K The Bibh* ha.s been ilescrvbed ft.s a lH)ok which Hve.s in every land and In every e.

The dlff(>renee lielween the Bllile and other btMik.s Ls that Hie Bible has Ufe In It. Other Iwoks reflect hie; the Bible imparls Ule. And it ImparU life because for some straiiRe reason which Is hidden in the ni.vsterles of God. this book has the living God on Its pages and In It* word.**. Life comes from this book s.H from no other hook. Shako pcttiT, MlUon. the great novelists and pla.vwHBlita Ihr.sr make itieir eonlrlliuUoti lo the cm lelo moul of life, and an alnuKlant eonlrlbullon tt Ls, But the BUile uocfl further lhan any of lhr.se Ihr Bllile actually conft'r.s life There ia a auperuatural charact

er to the Bible-whlch other books do no passpM. All the geiilius of men may combine to give them 1111.% lite, but life comes only by tlie hand and through the will of God,

So Indeed the Bible lives In every land and in every age. It la marvelous to observe how Ha busptratlou In no way dlm-liithri U the original I* translated Into a strange tongue. Furthermore, there Ls a likeness of .style which run* lluough all the books of the Bible, You wUFiiot ftud tilts .sDlc in any other book. It Ls definitely the Bible style

Whal a mystertons hook - mv-strilous beenuse tt contains life, which Ls the mast tuy.sienoiis tiling in the uivlvi'r.se And It contains life to such an extent that when we read the Book, life comes Into us.

The .steel .slUialioii has provided a bonanza lor foreign coun-tile.s. In many ways It will prove more beneficial than a years economic and military aid.

The dispute between the Steelworker* and the steel companies has long been foaming. Ferhap* that was a cotvsequence of tactic* on both sides. To get Into the best position, the companies Indicated they werlt ready for a strike. The union, for similar reawms, lot R be known that It wasn't afraid either In fact. It engineered a few wildcat itnkes to *how mettle

All this alerted both domestic and foreign steel Interests

At home, manufacturers needing sled and intermediate drains have been building up slock-pile.s

That ha* accomued for the hlfth level of fllcrl prtiduction In iTccnt monUus ami was Mime soil of a factor m the recovery in letTut months and was .some sort of a factor in the recovery of business this year. That's an item (or paradox-coHectora; busi

ness w as boomed by a threat of a strike which would be an economic depressant.

FOREIGN N.ATIONS GET .SET

Abroad, mast foreign nation* got into posiUun to clean up on an American ati'tke.

Starting .several monllis ago. many increa.sed their shlpnienis of special steels to the United States, both to user* and ware-housera.

Moflt of this steel was of pre-mumi grade. Even ordinary grade.s were priced above the American level. Foreign labor' may be much cheaper than American steel hearties, but shipping costs miust be added on.

However, .some steel was of fered below American prices, but a* the strike deadline approached. pnces stiffened.

Mean, foreign nation* .stepped up putxh**e.s of crap steel here and In Britain, which ha.s bet'ome a .source of .scrap Pur chase? by Japan were espi'cially heavy

NEED .STFKL

There were xcveral reason* for this. Some nation*, needing steel, thought U bat ti* buitd un atio-

plle* of acrap in event a strike curtailed supplies of virgin steel

Some nation* calculated that scrap, plus a mixture of new steel, could be sold back to the United Stale* at high price* In event of a str ike. And some figured that If a .shutdown cut the Ametaoan demand for scrap (mast scrap Ls mixed with new steel, there would be g(XKl buy* on the U.S. market.

There were good buy* earlier this year, but a month ago price* started up Steel producers, In their rush lo fill orders re.sulUng from fears of a strike, needed more scrap for their their mixes.

The Importance of scrap in steel production Ls shown by these iigure.s; In December, the aver-see steel melt was 44.3 per cent scrap and S5 7 per cent ore. The ratio rose to 46 .1 per cent scrap in February and may have gone higher .**tnce Rl .'ill FOR SCRAP

Since April, atxiut .59 ship* have been charterevl u> move .scrap to foreign counirie.s, mostly to Japan. Japan also bought the famed lie de Franfe and ts con-

At the moment, there may be 30 ships on the high sea* taking scrap from America to foreign mlUs. At the same time, there may be almost that many ship* carrying steel from Europe and Asia to the United States, with many routed through the new St. Lawrence Seaway, by which they can deliver steel to the industrial complexes along the Great Lakes.

STRANGE AND CURIOUf BITS OF BUSINESS

Ultrasonic waves, often ased in cleaning, are now being ased to check the quality of bottled beer. . .The Bureau of Adver-Using says. Crhatty newapaper ads send matMnlty talee soaring." But thats not the only factor. . .A tour of Alaska. Japan. Thailand. India and Europe is being offered four executives and their wives by a California agency. . Some merchants are pnttmt phony model numbers on appliances to thwart people who price certain model* and then buy them for lea* at dL%-count houses. . . An Oakland. Calif, reisller say* Chopping, not baseball, is Um gnattai JUSFjflBtt ABHftk