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THE DAILY REFLECTOE, GREENVILLE, N. r.

Wednesday, August 5, 195

Wednesday, August 5, 1959^

Another Kind-Of Foreign Trade

Program Provides Better Opportunities

The merger of two more of Pitt Countys small Negro schools approved Monday by the Board of Edu-^cation is part of a continuing trend in public schools. It is part of a continuing effort on the part of school officials to afford children better educational opportunities.

a broader background of study and more intensive training in specific subjects than used to be the case.

In Pitt, as in many other counties, there has been steady progress made in the consolidation of small schools over a period of years. The number of schools in Pitt has gradually decreased with consolidation. The last of the one-teacher schoolslong a standard in public education in North Carolinadisappeared in

Pitt County several years ago. As the years pass the three-teacher an four-teacher schools also are being merged to create larger units.

If the school is too small, it,cannot provide the< youngsters with a sufficient number of qualified teachers for all the specialized fields. Therefore the student in the tiny school sometimes misses the educational opportunity offered a student in a larger school. Experience has shown that through consolidation of the smaller schools more students are afforded better educational opportunities and they complete their public school training better equipped to cope with the problems which are before them.

There have been, to be sure, some misgivings from time to time about the consolidation of schools.

Each community is naturally proud of its school. In many small communities the school is the focal point of many activities in addition to the formal education process of the youth of the community. In most cases, every community is reluctant to give up its school as part of the consolidation program.

Yet, in recent years more people have come to realize that from the standpoint of youngsters education, consolidation is the answer to many problems. The demands being made upon public schools of today go far beyond those of a few years ago. Students need

Pitt has moved slowly, but steadily with its program of consolidation. The program has caused no great uprooting of community life throughout the county. Yet, it has provided better educational advantages than possibly could have been hoped for if the countys system were still made up of tiny schools scattered along every rural road.

The Board of Education is to be commended for following a sound, reasonable course in providing Pitt County youth with better educational opportunities through limited school consolidation.^

State Growth Can Be A Two-Edged Sword

T echnical Schoo. Natural For N. C.

State Treasurer Edwin Gill foresees a rosy financial future for North Carolina during the next two years, and his optimistic outlook for more state revenues from a growing economy is most encouraging.

By LYNN NISBEt

TECHNICIANS North Carolina was in particularly fortunate position to take Immediate advantage of the technical training phase of the National Defense Education Act- Like ah the other titles in the Act this one is designed to enrich and strengthen the vocational education programs in the several states, not to replace State and local financing. First requirement Is that the parUcip^g State must establish area^ocational schools, under control of State agency.

Under authorization of a 1957 legislative act. North Carolina already had established a number of Industrial Educational Centers which fit right into the new Federal aid program. Seven of these centers will have the added courses during the 1959-60 school year * Asheville, Burlington. Charlotte, Durham , Gastonia, Wilmington and Winston-Salem. Other centers, already in operation or soon to be established, may qualify later-

The hew program deals entirely with the training of technicians in seven areaselectronics, drafting, tool design, tool and die, chemical, electrical, and instrument technicians. There is important distinction among these classes, although the average layman might think of electronics and electrical technicians as the same. The instrument technician is relatively new. He is the fellow who maintains the instruments which test the accuracy and efficiency of productive machines.

J. Warren Smith, director of vocational education In the State Department of Public Instruction and chief administrator of the wh(^ program, says there is possibility that equipment in the instrument technician class may be mobile. This will eliminate duplicate Investment at the centers and also will permit in-plant service to industries.

ENROLLMENT Standards for ^rollment for these courses are somewhat higher than for other parts of the Industrial Education Center work. Most of the pupils will be at least high school graduates, or adults with work experience who desire advanced technical training. Applicants will be carefully screened to make sure that efforts will not be wasted.

The Federal allocation to North Carolina for the coming year is $281.000 to be matched dollar-for-doUar by the State. Unlike other phases of the total act, where matching is by local units or institutions, the State Puts up all the matching money for the technician training. These funds may be used for supervision, techer salaries, purchasing equipment and materials, and other necessary expenses incident to this particular operation. None of the money can be

used for other work of the schools. The equipment will be ultra-modem and new. Unlike some of the older types of vocational training there is no surplus or used equipment available for these courses.

The State has obtained at nominal cost millions of dollars worth of machines and equipment from Federal surpluses for ordinary shopcraft training. The technician training program is so new everywhere there is no used materialand if there were, It probably would be obsolete before it could be installed.

While the Federal and State governments put up all the money for the special technician training, local communities provide buildings for basic facilities. In several places buildings were available that could be adapted for center needs at small cost. In a number of instances bond issues have been voted to provide entirely new plants.

STATISTICS Title X of the National Defense Education Act deals with improving methods of collecting, analyzing and interpreting statistical data. It is a sort of wrap up of the entire program in order to determine effectiveness of its various parts.

Briefly summarized the ten titles of the Act are: IGeneral provisions; IILoans to college students; IIIEnriclunent of instruction in science, mathematics and languages in all public school grades; IVFellowships for teachers; V Guidance, counseling and testing in secondary schools; VILanguage development (primarily in colleges); vn Communications media; VIIITechnicians for defense; IXScience information (administered chiefly by the National Science Foundation); X Improvement of a statistical services.

Admittedly there is woeful lack of accurate and adequate information on educational activities. particularly in follow-through as to the real value of certain types of instruction. Besides being incomplete the information often is obsolte by the time the data can be compiled, and therefore of little real worth. Dr. Charles Carroll. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, thinks this may be one of the most valuable phases of the total programand one of the least costly. The Federal government will match State funds up to a maximum of $50,000 a year to improve this service. Here again the activity must be enhancement and improvement in statistical services, over and above any now being rendered. No Federal or State matching dollar can be used to substitute for financial support now being given to statistical functions.

Gill declared in an address this week that the next governor and next legislature of the state should not be faced with the problem of levying new taxes to off-set the $27.5 million windfall the state will receive from its withholding tax collections. The states economic growth in the current bitnnium, he said, should make up for the windfall.

.xpose Knees

Again?

y HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Will American women bow to foreign dictate and expose their kneecaps?

The House of Dior in Paris says they will.

A few years ago U.S. women humbly and gladly wore longer skirts in compliance with the Dior "new look edict. But the new House of Dior decree for knee-length dresses is bound to be challenged.

Not by the men. By the women.

American men. by and large, are always in favor of^ shorter skirts60 long as their own wives dont wear them. They welcome the prospect of the breeze-swept feminine knee, just so the knee doesnt belong in their household.

Women dont mind following any clothing style, no matter how ridiculous, so long as it Is the clothing that looks ridiculous.

A prime example: the brief lived "sack look. It made a woman look like she was ambling along in a tent. But it was the package that looked ridiculous not the contents it veiled.

.,^3^McXturht byndic*te. In*.

Such words from the State Treasurer are reassuring. Although they conflict with opinions of other state officialsand some members of the 1959 legislatureGills opinions are not to be discounted when

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Overhead Wires GoUnder

When a fashion makes th* woman herself look ridiculous, however. It is bound to run into real trouble. And that is the problem the House of Dio seems to be boldly running up against.

it comes to the states fiscal matters.

It is entirely possible that the states economic growth between now and 1961 will be sufficient to produce an additional $27.5 million in revenues from the current tax structure in the next biennium. We share in the hope that it will.

On the other hand, it would be a mistake for the people of North Carolina to dismiss from their minds the idea that appreciable state tax increases may be needed two years from now. If the states economy grows sufficiently in the next two years to net an additional $27.5 millions in revenues, certainly the needs of the state and the demands on state government will grow appreciably also.

With the normal growth from one biennium to another, it is expected that more funds will be required to operate the state government. If an unusual rate of growth is experienced in the states economy in the next two years, we may also expect the demands upon th 1961 General Assembly to be unusually large also.

Walter A. Hasty, Jr., youthful office manager for the Pitt ASC office, is nursing a cut hand these days.

those big manholes which Greenville Utilities crews are cutting in the streets from time-to-time.

Hastys hand and two fingers are bandaged and he is carrying the arm in a sling.

This one was the newest manhole next to the underground transformer vault on Fifth St. in front of City HaU.

live wires w'ould be attached to the overhead cables at one point. Then wires leading to transformers, the bank building and elsewhere can be attached along the circles to carry the current.

The average feminine kneecap serves a highly functional purpose, but it is not an ornament of nature. Poets have sung the charms of practically all other parts of the feminine anatomy. But who ever wrote an ode to a kneecap?

He said he thought his car motor was frozen and was attempting to turn the engine fan when someone inside the vehicle turned on the starter.

The fan cut his hand badly and severed a tendon in a finger.

Hasty is stiU on the job in the old hospital building however, Heres wishing him a speedy recovery

As you disappear through the manhole in the street you find yourself in a good sized circular room below. In this one, beneath the streets nine conduits led in one side of the circular room.' Ninety degrees around, several more conduits led out in the direction of the new Guaranty Bank building. As the system extended more conduits will lead out the opposite side to carry electrical cable down the street.

A window-like opening had been cut into another side of the underground room. This leads into the transformer vault and cables will pass through this to tie the transformer vault and cables will pass through this to tie the transformers into the system.

Now and then you do hear of a girl with lovely dimpled kneecaps.

They are alsolets face It often on *the knobby side. Go to any beach and see for yourself.

When you get right down to It and pray lets doonly about one in 10 girls has legs she can look at in the mirror herself without a feeling verging from mild depression to total despair.

Took a trip down in one of

Overhead, several cables forming complete circles were at-tatched to the top. I was told the

The fact that the state in the current biennium will spend $27.5 million in non-recurring revenues for its operations is bound to leave i big hole to be filled in balancing the budget for the next biennium. It is entirely possible, as Gill says, that economic growth will fill the hole with enough new revenue in prospect to meet enlarged outlays that will be needed.

North Carolinians in the next two years must exert every possible effort to see that new economic growth will provide sufficient new revenue to meet the states expenses. Otherwise the tax increases that will have to be levied in 1961 will be a staggering blow to all Tar Heels.

Other E(ditors Saying

More and more such installations will be placed under Greenvilles busine.ss streets at ,the years go by as more and more of the overhead electric system is placed underground.

They bow out too much or they bend in too much. They are too thick or too thin. Why should she expose them wUlingly in a losing competition with the few girls whose gams are charming?

Pressure Being Renewec,

(Henderson Dispatch)

Nikita Getting What He Wantec,

In some sections of the press, pressure is being renewed for withdrawal of National Guard soldiers from Henderson is connection with the nearly nine-months-long textile strike. The Greensboro Daily News lists the local situation as one of two which calls for reassessment by Governor Hodges upon his return from a month absence from the Statemuch of the time spent In Soviet Russia.

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By JAMES-MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) How high is up? Or when is a summit conference not a summit conference?

No matter what theyre called and they are not being called summit conferences the coming meetings between President Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev get both men off a hook, for a while, anyway.

Yet, as of now, Khrushchev is away ahead on points in his duel with Eisenhower over Berlin where he precipitated a crisis which he has never let subside. He knows, and Eisenhower knows, he has the United States on a tough spot.

As a result of all he has done, he is getting exactly w'hat he wanted: a personal meeting with Eisenhower.

It seems safe to say that if Khrushchev hadnt caused the Berlin crisis, and refused to budge an inch, Eisenhow'er would not be asking him to Washington in September.

The dictionary describes a * summit as the highest point. Since Elsenhower and Kluush-chev are the top men In their governments, no meeting between Americans and Russians could be any more of a summit than 1 one.

Still Eisenhower doesnt call Khrushchevs visit here and liis later visit with him in Moscow a summitt meeting. He savs they will have informal talks . . .which will afford an opportunity for an exchange of views about problems of mutual interest.

Actually, the two men can reach understandings on ' their problems* without signing ioi-mal papers. That could be done -teiOer a mcqimi ^

billed as the summit with Britain and Prance sitting in

Whatever Eisenhower works out with Khrushchev will probably be acceptable to the Allies. Hes making it.plain he wont do anything behind their backs. .

The western alliance might

have broken up if Eisenhower had let the Russians shut off Western access to West Berlin, as they had threatened to do, indirectly. So he couldnt afford to back down. Yet, if he called Khrushchevs hand and tried to run a blockade, the shooting might start.

For both men this ugly dilemma may be solved in their talks. If not. at least the talks will have postponed the showdown for some months.

Eisenhower Ls saved from embarrassment in another way, since the meetings with Khrushchev will not bear the title of summit.

He had repeatedly refused tq meet the Soviet leader at the summit unless the foreign ministers at Geneva made some prog-re.ss. Since they havent, he couldnt very well agree to a summit meeting with Khrushchev without appearing to cave in.

This way. since the talks will be Informal, that dilemma is removed.

If tlie West didn't get its troops out of Berlin. Khrushchev tlueatened to let the East German Communists coutrol the road and routes through which the West sends supplies to West Berlin.

If they shut off the routes and the West tried to force Its way through. Moscow promised to go to the help of the East Germans But couldnt the allies send in supplies with an airlift, as President Truman had done in smashing Stalins Berlin blockade in 1948?

Eisenhower at a White House dinner and in news conferonces has made it plain the Wests position is potentially far worse ^4toaix <ievetoed in

jamming of Western radar would make a mas.< aii-lift very difficult. The Reds didnt interfere with the air transport in 1948.

And Western troops, overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Russians. admittedly would be no match for them on the ground.

That paper says the strike, to all practical purposes, no longer exists. Reference is made to the absence of serious violence for weeks and outcome of the conspiracy trial in superior court here. This development, the Daily News says, is bound to have had considerable effect upon any one else who might have been contemplating violence, and the SBI is presumably still keeping a watchful eye on the Henderson commuriity, and that in itself should serve as a deterrent. Every one, here and elsewhere, realizes that the soliders cannot be kept here indefinitely. The problem is as to when the time is ripe for withdrawal. That time may have come. There is considerable feeling here that there would not be a recurrence of violence even with the soldiers gone. Other opinions expressed recently were that a much smaller force than is still here would be equally as effective, if any at all is needed.

The Henderson community has looked anxiously to the day when there would be a permanent subsiding of disorders. No area would be more pleased with the return of that condition than this people. Necessity which brought the soldiers was regretted nowhere as much as here.

It would not be greatly surprising. therefore, if the Guards-men were pulled out. Whoever may have been responsible for the situation that prompted sending of the soldiers, the fact is, we believe, that the vast majority of the good people of the mill communities did not condone violence. They are anxious, along with others, that peaceful relations be restored and maintained in the normal processes of law enforcement.

On all sides there must be recognition of the fact that disorders do not settle disputes. They can best be overcome in an atmosphere of quiet and calmness and confidence. Whatever the future may hold for the , former employes and the city as a whole will be attained through the exercise of good will and cordiality. All of us ought by now to be conscious of that fact.

If the soldiers are ordered home. Henderson will do its best to maintain law and order, and with the cooperation, we are confident, of the textile people as well as the rest of us. There must ultimately be a return \to normal, and this may be as good a time as any to attempt to bring that about.

All she has to do to bolster her in this decision Is to glance in the family album and see how mom or grandma looked in the 1920s. That was a real short-skirted era, toothe dresses were above the knees, or seemed to be. And they wore rolled stockings:

THE BLOODMOBILE is coming

BLOOD DONORS are needed

Ugh! Women never, before or since, looked so outrageously ridiculous.

Can the House of Dior maki them look that way again? W doubt it.

O BE A DONOR

As a lady we have been married to a long time remarked, Sure Id wear one of those short skirts out of the houseif the house caught on lire!

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS POWER OF LOVE

There was a great catastrophe in a section of our country a few years ago and a frail young mother picked up her husky three year old qhild and carried that child thirteen miles. We do not know today how she did it. Neither do doctors nor police officers nor social workers. She just did it. She did it because she was a motherbecause she was filled with love and concern. She could not have carried a weight such as this for thirteen miles even if the weight had been gold or precious stones. But it was a childher child. She did not carry the child; love carried the child.

The Bible tells us that God

is love. The very essence of th# life God has given us is love also. When we have love we havt everything; when w'e lack lov# we are so poverty stricken as to be shorn of everything excepting life itself. Love is everything. We all agree with this sentimentbut we agree with it as a sentiment. For how many is it a principle of life? Oh yes. if It were your child or mine In th same danger we could do as . well as the mother did who walked thirteen mUes. But why do we have to wait for a great calamity? Why do we have to have truth knocked into our heads? Why can we not learn and learn through loveb "God is love. The universe la lovesacrificing, self-forgetting love.

May Make A Profit On Givil War

By EL.MER ROESSNER

Heres a sUange and tragic fact:

The United States government may make a profit on the War Between the States. It may collect more in taxes arising from the lOOth anniversary of the war than it spent to fight the battles-

The Civil war started with the shelhng of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and ended with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Va., on April 9, 1865.

The Federal budget for the fiscal years of 1861-65, largely for the fighting of the war, was $2.135,140.

The celebration of the anniver-sasr aiready being fliaacwd^ It will Involve an enormous number of enterprises, some civic and paid for by taxes or contributions, others proprietary nd designed to turn a profitable buck.

motions are being planned. One Civil War film The Horse Soldiers) has already sparkled the screens, and a pre-Civil War movie (The Jayhawkers) will appear later this year.

MOVIES, HOT-DOGS Countless and centennial pro-

Shooting scripts are being written for scores of other movies with Civil War thenie.s. America will have four solid years of movie premieres in cities and towns where the original event took place exactly 100 years ago to the day.

Television will keep pace. Television shows, also keyed to battlefields and dates, are already in the writing.

Almost all the big battles will be re-enacted, right on the spot. Civic groups, with state and -Federai -id. aee'4 aow pioaotog more reenactments, each designed to attract thousands of tourists, filling local motels, hotels and room rental places, and pro-, viding a market for countless souvenirs, meals, candy bars and hot dogs.

MORE PROFITS

Manufacture of gim-crackery will soar. The same novelties, with different labels, will be sold in the North and in the South. Confederate flags w'ill break out again, to the profit of flag manufacturers.

Old songs will be revived and score.s of new ones will be written. The Swanee River will be swung in sweet Jazz, hot jazz and super-jazz. Records will be stamped out by the thousands; somebody will surely write a torch number: I Wish We

Were Tenting Tonight in the Old Penthouse

The names of Grant, Lee, Beaureguard and all the other heroes will be taken, not in vain but for the promotipn of cigars, candies, building sites, swim

Some 8.000 books on the Civil War have been, published since Appomattox, ancT publishers expect the total to double in the next five years. H. Allen Smith, who wrote on the Rebel Yell, will probably be sent on a tour the Deep South to yell at

every crossroad and eourthous in the region.

There will be toys. Recipes. Reproductions of Confederate money. Speeches by Congressmen.

More speeches by Congressmen. Interviews with people who. remember when. Civil War fashions.

War Between the States drinks. Reproductions of old newspapers, old stamps, old posters about slave auctions. ^

In fact, if youre in business, it may pay you to determine right away how you can tie into this sentimental splurge.

Most of this wallow in history and emotion will be done with profits in mind. And thc^ governments share, at up to 52 per cent of corporate profits and even larger sJhures, of p^sojoaJ,, ^ . IsTOittsrttvay"-be easily one hundred times the money cost of the original war. Even a take of a thousand times as much$2.1 billionis not beyond possibilities.

Perhaps we should be careful in all these re-enactmenU and reproductions. This time the SouUi might win-. I

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