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iVedneiday, September 30, 1989

Wednesday, September 80, 1959

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Room For Still More Scholarships

Many different things go into building a major In every case, these scholarships represent an in-educational institution and not the least of them is the vestment in a higher education for a young person, provision for scholarships that can be made available and there are few investments which can return a bet-to deserving young men and women. ter dividend than that of educating the youth of a

It W'as only a few years ago th^t East Carolina community, a state or a broad area.

College, recognizing its deficiency in the number of The program of scholarships at East Carolina Col-scholarships it could make available each year, ap- iege has made great strides in recent years because of pealed to its alumni and other supporters to provide efforts of college officials and because of the refunds that could be used for such purposes. sponse to their appeals by supporters of ECC and of

. . .. ^ j - higher education. In spite of this progress, however.

This week it was announced that $100 sc o a - need for scholarship funds available for students ships have been awarded to 15a students at ECC from Carolina College has not nearly been met.

the litt County IoundationScholarslnps for East Caro- ^\|any more thousands of dollars annually could be lina College and the Last Carolina^ College Resources profitably by the college and by prospective stu-

bcholarships. The scholarships to tnese loS students through scholarships. Compared with other in-

are in addition to scholarships at ECC w^hich are made gtitutions of its sie and smaller, ECC has extremely available annually by individuals, firms and organi- funds available to provide scholarships. In

zations. many instances this handicaps the college in attract-

While these scholarships of $100 each may seem talented students in various fields who are attract-smair by gome standards, the 155 awarded for this g( to other institutions simply because they need fin-school year from the two funds represented $15,500 aiicial assistance to complete their education and other provided in scholarships to these students. In some schools can better provide that assistance, cases the $100 scholarship may mean the difference ^hose interested in the progress of East Carolina between a young man or woman being able to attend college have every reason to be proud of the strides college and not being ab e to atten . which have been made in providing scholarships at

T TT T I , the college, but they should also realize that steps

^ 7\ ^ which already have been taken should represent only

r 1 C /"A r if a beginning. Much more is needed.

DoTheChoosina

Keep The Losses Down

1 Still Want Peace, But AFTER WAR.X

?arents

By LYNN NISBET

BATTLE The 1936 guberna-torlal primary was in many re-spects a decisive battle between factions in the Democratic party. Clyde Hoey had been a recognised candidate for a decade or more. A.H. (Sandy) Graham, Lieutenant Governor and former Speaker of the House of Representatives. had announced his candidacy the previous year. A contest was shaping up between them, when Ralph McDonald, who had captured popular imagi-nation with his fight against the sales tax in the 1935 Legislature, threw a monkey wrench into the machinery. The ensuing primary campaign was as bitter and hard fought as any in history.

Graham was eliminated in the first round. So was John A. McRae, who barely scored as an also ran. Hoey led with 193.-972 votes, followed by McDonald with 189.504. In the run-off Hoey won by a margin of 52,000. There were charges then, as there had been in 1920, that vote-counting rather than vote-casting provided the lead. In neither Instances could there be any doubt about the second primary winner. Only question had to do with which of the two high men would be required to call the run-off.

FREE FOR ALL The 1940 campaign was a veritable free-fcn-'a!! with aeven candidates entering the primaryJ.M. Broughton, Tom Cooper, Paul Grady, Lee Gravely, Wilkins Horton, Alien Maxwell and Arthur Simmons. Cooper, Grady and Simmons were never rated real contenders. The other four set up fully staffed headquarters and waged vigorous campaigns. Maxwell had been running since 1932, Horton and Broughton for at least two years. Gravely was a relative new comer entrant. All of them were In good standing with the potent leaders of the dominant faction, and each had reason to expect support of the Shelby dynasty.

In the showdown that support was divided and first primary voting gave Broughton 147.386: Horton 105,916, and Maxwell 102,095. The combined vote of the other four was 104,999. Horton decided not to call fw run-off and Broughton was conceded the nomination with 31^ percent of the total primary vote.

NO CONTEST The 1944 primary hardly rated the designation of a real contest. Clyde Hoey was running for the Senate, so the "Shelby crowd" accepted Gregg Cherry as a candidate for Governor. He was challenged by Ralph McDonald, who had been defeated by Hoey in 1936. Also in that race and getting the full omplement of 2,069 votes was OUa Ray Boyd. Cherry was nominated in the smallest primary vote since woman suffrage. One reason for the small total, only 321,757, was that so many men were in military service and did not vote in the primary-

PSET Then came another history-making primary, the up

set of 1948. Charles M. Johnson had been a potential candidate for years, and as late as January of 1948 he and his friends thought, pricked that balloon by surprise he was a shoo-in. Kerr Scott entry in February. Also there were four others on the ticket Mayne Albright, Oscar'Barker, Olla Ray Boyd and William Stanley. Their combined vote was less than 100,000. John led the first round 170,141 to 161,293 Tor Scott. In the run-off Scott won the nomination 217,620 to 182,684. The 1948 election did more to upset the belief that Governors are picked in advance than any other event in recent years although there are other instances supporting the negation of the theory.

KNOCK-OUT It had been apparent for a long time that William Umstead would seek the governorship. The time came in 1952. Just when it looked like he might move in with as little trouble as Gardner did in 1928, or Cherry in 1944, Judge Hubert Olive entered with full backing of Governor Scott.

Again factional lines were crossed, because Olive and Umstead belong to the same school of political philosophy. Umstead won by 294,170 to 26.5,-675. with a third candidate Dunaway getting 4,660 votes.

The 1956 primary was purely perfunctory. Governor Hodges was seeking a full elective term in his own right, after serving 18 months as chief executive following the death of Governor Umstead In. November of 1954, He received 401,082 votes against a total for the other three entrantsEarle, Sawyer and Stoke-Icyof 65,572.

UP TO NOW That brings us up to now and the desire of many voters to have somebody tell them who to bet on and vote for Governor In 1960. A review of political history will prove that nobody can give such assurance. Except fot the 1956 primary when Luther Hodges got 86 percent of the total vote, and 1940 when J M, Broughton got less than 32 percent, successful candidates have won by margins ranging from less than 51 to 60 percent.

The highly gratifying aspect of this record Is that the rank and file of North Carolina voters ohoose their public officials. Even in the balmiest days of the Simmons machine and the Gardner influence no little clique had the power to hand-pick governors or senators. There hasnt been a primary in which a switch of about five percent of the voters could not have produced a different result.

Who will be on the ballot next year for Governor is at this time uncertain. The certain lesson to be learned from history is that each voter must pick what wagon he wants to ride. There is no boss, Individual or factional clique, with authority to assign a seat on the vehicle which can be guaranteed to get to the end of the road first.

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Residents of coastal North Carolina, battered eight times by hurricanes in the past five years, can sympathize with people of the Charleston area and the South Carolina coast who took the brunt of Gracies

stiff punch yesterday. tjr'T.JT TTrM-Z

Along the South Carolina coast there was cxten- ^ sive property damage and some loss of life as the hurri- f cane with 140 mile winds swept into historic Charles; ton. Farther up the coast along the beaches of North Carolina, damage was relatively slight, resulting mostly from the backwash of the big blow.

For what its worth, perhaps there is some consolation in the fact that the coastai areas of both the

The Annual Class Trio

grim age.

You'd think they were going to Mecca: but that isn't the case. Its the annual class trip to New

New

If the weather didnt deter them. . .and it would take a lot of bad weather to do it at this late date. . .a party of fifteen Carolinas were prepared about as well as they could students left Grimesiand High be for the tremendous force which Gracie unleashed. morning on an annual pii-In the years since 1949 the coastal areas of the two states have gained a healthy .vespect for the gigantic storm.s which bear charming feminine names. Residents of the area have leanied through bitter experi- York City,

enees what to do when a hurricane is on its way. Civil Defense teams have come to know what to expect and ^seniors. Wh^SiTou*

how to cope with the iinexpectevi. And by no means New Orleans, or Key 'west, or

least, weather information on the movement of such Havana? \

storms has become much more complete and much more reliable affording coastal residents ample warning to prepare for the storms.

There is nothing the people of the hurricane- counts ravaged areas can do to prevent the .storms that batter trips are nothing new* to

them but at lea.^e (bey have learned a yieat deal about and'^rlntal approv^sS

how to cope with the situation when it is upon them, seems* to be so automatic that I thus keeping losses to a minimum. now my high school class

mates and I missed out on a

We always go to New York, says Elizabeth with a heavy accent on the alw'ays.

So that was that. Tradition

good thing when we had our chance.

Well, what are you going to see and do in New York?, was the next obvious quesion.

Mount Vernon and the Washington Monument, began Jacqueline.

My eyebrows rose to the bait. But theyre in Washington!

I know, says Jackie, we stop there too.

And in New York, were going to take a tour of the city.

To which Elizabeth added a few details:

The tower of the Empire State Building, a visit to the Statue of Liberty; Chinatown, Wall Street, Harlem, the Battery, New York Harbor, Fifth Avenue, Central Park, a Broadway play. Rockefeller Center. Radio City Music Hall, the Bronx Zoo, maybe a rodeo and tickets to a TV show.

ops Among The other Editors Saying..

ews About Teen-Agers

?oxy Grandpas

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The worlds No, 1 foxy grandpa is Nikita Khrushchev.

He dreamed up a crisis and then, at no cost to him, got one thing after another he wanted. President Eisenhower's news conference Monday added the latest chapter to the Soviet chiefs saga of success.

Take it step by step and see how he did it.

For a long time he talked of the need for relaxing the cold war so he could build up the Soviet Union at home. He said one way to do it would be at a summit conference wdth Pres-dent Eisenhower and the leaders of Britain and France.

Particularly he wanted to talk with Eisenhower. The President wouldnt agree. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was calling the shots on American foreign policy then.

Then suddenly last November Khrushchev out of nowhere created a crisis over West Berlin. Everyth.rg that has happened since can be traced back to that beginning.

He demanded that the Allies get their troops out of West Berlin where they had been stationed since World War II. He wanted Berlin made a free city. He picked a tender spot.

West Berlin has always been in a precarious position, so far as the Wests ability to help it and defend it goes. Its ties are with West Germany but it is 110 miles inside Communist East Germany.

Its supplies from West Germany have to move by train and truck through East Germany,

which means they could be

pinched off any time the Soviets who control the supply routes, wanted to prevent their getting through.

The Allies were given six

monthsor until May 27to get their troops out. The Soviets said if by that time the Allies handt agreed to a reasonable settlement. control of the supply routes would be turned ovgr to the

Ba.st Geripans. ,

They couldbut of course they wouldnt without the Soviet go-aheadshut them off. If the Allies tried to bully their way through, the Soviet Union would then help the East Germans. The re.sult might be war.

Yet Khrushchev blandly announced he wasnt threatening the West. He called for a summit conference to .-ettle things Meanwhile Dulles, dying with cancer, began to fade from the picture.

ELsenhowcr wouldnt go for tlir summit meeting. He hardly could, since the West considered

the six-month deadline a threat. To accede to a summit conference under such terms would look like submitting to blackmail.

Khrushchev kept saying there w'as no threat. He even said the deadUne could be extended well beyond May 27. The West argued before there is a summit meeting, lets have a foreign ministers meeting.

Khrushchev insisted only a summit meeting could settle anything but he let the ministers meet.

Eisenhower said there would have to be some sign of progress at the ministers meeting before he W'ould agree to go to a summit get-together. The foreign ministers got nowhere.

What worried the West w^as this; Once it was plain the ministers were stalled, no one could tell whether Khrushchev might crack down on Berlin. He proposed he and Eisenhower exchange visits.

Eisenhower agreed, even though the ministers had made no progress an'd Khrushchev had made no progress and Khrushchev had made no concessions. So long as Khrushchev was here, of course, there would be no showdown on Berlin. And talks with him might even avoid one.

So Khrushchev had won a round.

So Khrushchev had won a round. He and Elsenhower met. And Monday the President indicated there could now be a summit meeting. Since Eisenhow'er had balked at such an idea unless there was some sign of progress with the U.S.S.R., what had happened? Nothing very tangible and nothing very visible.

Elsenhower informed his news conference that Khrushchev told him he had never made a threat about Berlin. But that is exactly what Khrushchev had been saying for months. So that was hardly new.

Elsenhower said there could be negotiations on Berlin and that he and KhriLshchev agreed they would not be unduly prolonged. But Khrushchev had previously said any deadline on Berlin could bo extended.

So. w'hLle Eusenhower might think Khrushchev had made a (Continued On Page 8)

GIVE

theUNITEDway

(Richmond Times-Dispatch)

A Richmond policeman, who does a topflight job working with juveniles, called the other day to tell us about two public dances for teen-agers held at a local hotel last week end. The policeman, w'ho was present at the affairs, 'said the dress and behavior of the boys and girls was exemplary. He .said some of the youths there previously had been customers of his, so to speak, when they had run afoul of the law, but that their conduct at the dances was excellent.

Some of the young people, he went on, had come to him suggesting that something be put in the newspapers about the good behavior at the dances. He quoted them as saying that if the dances had turned into brawls with fighting among the youths, the news would have been in the papers.

First off. well say that were happy to hear the good report from the dance, but we are not surprised. The great majority of teen-agers are law-abiding youngsters, and violence when they get together is the exception rather than the rule. Secondly, this is a good opportunity to point out a fact that many young people and their older friends overlook. Contrary to what sometimes appears to be popular misconception, there is far more favorable news about

teen-agers in this newspaper and doubtless in other papers than there is unfavorable new's.

We made an inch by inch check of this paper during a single week earlier this year, after this question had been raised. We found that there were 17.808 inches devoted to news of all kinds. Of this total, 903 inches was devoted ho news favorable to juveniles and 315 inches to news that was unfavorable. In percentages, 5 per cent of our total news space was given to good news about juveniles and 1:7 per cent to bad news.

Human nature being what it is, people remember startling, shocking events reported in the press and tend to forget the less exciting pleasant reports. Just the other day, for example, we devoted more than a quarter of a full page to a story and pictures about a 16-year-oId Chesterfield county girl who conducted a vacation Bible school in the basement of her home. Many people read that story with interest, we hope, but we wonder how many of them recall that and similar stories when someone remarks that the papers never print anything but bad news about teen-agers?

ut dont take our word for it, teen-agers. Keep your own new's space tally and see if you dont find a surprising amount of type devoted to the fine achievements of todays young folks.

When are they going to leave the Big City?

On Monday, October 5.

They expect to roll into Grimesiand that same day not later than 10:15 p.m.

All this .sounds pretty much like the itinerary of any number of sightseers from eastern North Carolina schools. For the sake of availability and simplicity I suppose some standardized format is necessary.

Neerfless to say, the kids are under close adult supervision. The Grimesiand crowd, for instance, has almost as many parents and teachers going along as there are students.

As previously indicated parents and teachers seem anxious for their charges to get a firsthand look at the world outside. It helps break the bonds of provincialism at an age when I thought the rest of the world w as in orbit around my ow'n little part of the country.

Strength For To(day

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

In Garson Kanin's amusing comedy Bom Yesterday, a coarse, self-made millionaire decides to have his Ignorant and uncultured girl friend given a little polish so that she will not disgrace him In public. Of course, as the audience expects, the transformation in her mind and personality raises her right out of his hands and causes the dow'nfall of the underhanded schemes of the millionaire and his dishonest associates.

Transforming people, awakening them to the truth and their relationship to it. is always dangerous. When the new truth diiwns, the old half-truths are shown to be falsehoods. When the loftier goal is revealed, the old satisfactions become entirely unsatisfactory. The vision of a better way of life blasts the viewer right out of the old, predictable way so familiarand acceptable to those around him.

Transforming people Is a dangerous business. Yet that is exactly what the Christian gospel is doing all the time all over the w'orld. Mon and women are being hoisted right out of their old, blind, sinful lives with what is sometimes a terrible jerk on the,.|ope. People who think of re-lisilon as a meek, mk-and-water experience simply do not understand what Is happening.

The impact of the gospel of Jesus Christ on human lives is a tremendous forcestill, in the age of atomic power, the greatest force of all.

ny

Tinci Out

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Every minors parent has a major problem.

Parenthood Is sb sudden at least from the fathers viewpoint.

One moment life is just a wild, wild shared sniff of the rosebuii or lilac bush, a whisper together in summer under a tawny moon. So it is to him.

Thenbingo!. A husband is a father. There is posterity. This is what comes from marriage.

It is bad enough when the nurse calls you to a hospital window and points at a bundle of blob and says, You belong to it!

The blob grows olderin publicand squirms. It is yours and you cannot ask for a new deal.

You try to be blase about it. It he lints you like a bright shadow. You know you have to ieed it, but every time you feed It, it gets even bigger.

By the time you get used to calling it by its first nme, it quits* crawling and starts lolly-gagging around the place on its own two feet as if it owned th# place.

Then it goes to nursery school, and when you ask it what yourt getting for your money it sucks its thumb, which it did before it went to nursery school.

Next it goes to kindergarten and is the class of the crowd. If you just say Hello to it, well it starts declaiming:

The little toy dog Is covered with dust.

But sturdy and staunch it stands.

Until now ityour offspring is only going by memory. Then you send it to the first grade. That is the big mistake.

A child starts, going to first grade at midnight before the opening day. It dreams night-mares. At dawn it is like a tiger. You cannot hold it back.

The second day and every day after that it is like a pretzel. It has to be bent into its pants, its sweater and each shoe, one after the other.

Meanwhile, the thing claims it has learned to read.

The cat saw the rat, it leers. And the dog saw the cat,

Then it hands you a copy of War and Peace by Tolstoi and demands. Tell me the rest of the story.

Triumphantly it lolls back in yours arms like so much melted butter, as you try to stuff it into its clothing so that it can face new victories in the first grade.

And it has to get there on time, though all else in the world end. This is the desperate major problem of a parent of a minor in our time.

"The cat saw the rat, it leers again. And the dog saw the cat.

The echoing bus bears it away. And its on a round trip.

The

Public

rorum

To The Editor:

Thanks very much for the wonderful editorial appearingi in the DAILY REFLECTOR of Saturday. September 26th.

It is indeed unfortunate the staff of the Pitt County Mental Health Clinic has been depleted to its present state. I believe the County Board of Health and the County Commissioners realize the wonderful service that can be rendered by the Pitt County Mental Health Clinic and will go to work immediately to acquire a full staff.

This is very important, not only to Pitt County, but to Eastern North Carolina and can render a tremendous service. Your editorial pointed this out and did a wonderful job of urging the county authorities to replace the staff so that full service might be rendered. Greenville, to me, is definitely a small medical center for we have some wonderful doctors here. The Mental Health phase of treatment certainly should not be neglected and I sincerely hope your editorial will bring result from tha county authorities.

Again, many thank* for your great interest.

Sincerely.

E, O. Parkinson, Jr.

President

Pitt County Mental

Health Association

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Costs?

By Elmer Roessncr How many men are wrongfully held in jail because of the high cost of printing?

This is a logical question following a study reported by the American Judicature Society. It found that briefs must be printed for appeals in 18 states, court records in 6. Three of the 11 United States Circuit Courts still require printed briefs.

Since few copies are needed of briefs and the trial record, printing costs are far greater than .simpler reproduction methods, the study showed. A New York legislative committee found that from 30 to 50 per cent of the costs of appeals would be saved by allowing mimeographed or off.sct reproduction of records and brief,*; The committee found that such reproduction would be satisfactory.

APPEALS DROPPED

What effect does the high cost of appeal have on Ju.stice? a.sks the Public Administration Bulletin. Up.tatc Ni'w York law'yri.^* .surveyed rcLonlly recalled that nearly hall the cases

they felt should be appealed were dropped because of high appeal costs.

It may be assumed that this applies largely to civil cases.In criminal cases, if the prisoner cannot afford the costs of an appeal, courts generally provide funds. And while the Public Administration Bulletin does not allege that any convicted persons has lo.st the right to appeal because of high costs, .such indeed may be the case under existing regulations.

Take the case of a middle-in-come person convicted of a felony. Suppose he has a family; suppose that after his conviction he has a few thousand dollars left. Should he drop appeals and leave the money to care for hi.s family, or should he gamble with their subsistence and pay printing costs?

If there arent such men wrongfully in prison, there could be.

WHERE FAULT MES

The investigator... Prof. Bi*r-frarn Wlllcox and Ruth Roemrr of Cornell, and' Prof. Delmar

Karlen, of New York University, HOW TO AVOID TROUBLE

said:

The one simple and sure way to reduce costs without imposing serious burdens on the lawyers and the courts is to concentrate on inexpensive methods of reproductions and briefs.

This seems to imply that the courts and the bar are to blame for the denial of justice In so many cases.

Dissent.

The fault lie.s with the huge corporations that manufacture mimeographing, offsetting and other duplicating machines. It is their responsibility, since they stand to profit most, to convince legislatures and higher courts that various modern methods of reproducing legal matter is Just as satisfactory as the old Johannes (or was It Henne?) Gutenberg system devised Just over aOO years ago.

Indeed, these corporations may have a duty to the public to spend a.s much for lubble.s to change Hie law as tin- printing lndu:itric.i spend to lubby agftinst change.

WITH TRADEMARK LAWYERS

Once this column referred to Sanforizing textiles and got a nasty communication from the owners of the trademark. They said that the trademark was Sanforized and to mention Sanforizing was a violation of the trademark and not to do it againor else. So we avoideci mentioning Sanforized, Sanforizing and Stanford University, which had nothing to do with it, for years.

Now comes Gerald E. Amer-man, president of Clupak, Inc., to announce that his company is promoting Clupak, a new paper Invented by Sanford L. Clu-ett, the one who invented S... etc .. Because of the grave danger of saying paper has been "Clupaked, and of resulting indignant letters from vested Interests, were going to duck th# whole thing and never memtion

C...etc...K." If Mr. Amerman wauls to get into this new.'s-paper, he can get lineage rate* irom th# advvrtisiflf mamaftr.