Tuesday, December 29, 1959

Tuesday, December 29, 1959

Cloud Hanging Over Times Square

What "a gruesome prospect confronts New Years Eve revelers in Times Square, now that the Big Citys transportation workers threaten to strike at the stroke of midnight, come December 31!

Not many of us hereabouts have watched that ^cene first hand; but nearly all are familiar (thanks 'to teams of courageous reporters and photographers) with the frantic crush that gathers at the crossroads of New York City to greet a new year.

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7he Extension

?ieaches Us A]..

By PEGGY CHEARS Guest Writer SPREAD-Oirr COLLEGE Every nook and cranny in North Carolina is served by the Extension Division of North Carolina State College in Ealeigh. No matter what occupations or what interests people have, the extension courses are Designed to help evcryone-teach-ers. engineers, cemetery superintendents. business executives, iecretaries, housewives, truck drivers, technicians, servicemen. and students.

When did aU this happen? Lets return to the year 1924. In that year. State College's fifth president, the late Dr. Eugene C- Brooks, organized the Extension Division under the direction of the late Frank

Capps. ^ ^

In its first year, the Extension DivLsion eni'olled 461 students in correspondence courses. During the next few years.

' agricultural courses were add-

ed. , ,

Gradual growth of the past JS vears finds the Extension Div-

- ision of today offering correspondence courses, extension ana night classes, short courses and conferences, educational television courses as well as the States only technical institute and the nation's fust truck driver training school.

In 1928. Edward W. Ruggles. a State College graduate from Southern Pines, became the divisions assistant dii-ector, and 1934, he was named head of the department.

What factors can explain the extensions rapid growth to one of the largest extension divisions in the South?

Worthy purpose gives the first answer. Director Ruggles states. The State College Extension Division was organized td carry the practical and cultural advantages of college studies to individuals who cannot attend classes on the campus. Courses are given to groups and in communities which need and can profit from the services offered. BY MAIL AND IN PERSON Approximately 90 correspondence courses are conducted on the year-round basis. Most of these offer college credit. A special mathematics and English group is for high school students who are planning to enter college and need to fulfill college entrance requirements.

Local citizens are not forgotten. In the 1959 fall series of night classes, held on the college campus, a record-high enrollment of 678 students registered for 42 courses.

Also on campus, there are 274 students taking review English and mathematics. Off - campus, but also in Raleigh, are three banking courses with 48 enroll-

- ed, 14 taking courses sponsored by Westinghouse, and six studying bacteriology at the Stale Department of Public Health bringing the grand total for Raleigh classes to 1020 students.

Another record - breaking enrollment occurred at Fort Bragg when 364 military personnel regLstered for eleven night classes. Under this special program, college professors Journey to the military base and conduct college - credit courses.

Also in the night class program are three courses at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem with 30 linroUees, two at Elon College with 31, an improvement in reading course in Rocky Mount with 21, and an industrial certificate program In Greensboro with 14, making a grand total for off-campus night classes of 460.

All of these night class programs combined directly bene

fit nearly 1,500 North Carolinians.

Closely allied with tbe night classes in the sponsorship of educational television programs through the facilities of WUNC-TV.

At the present time, Engineering Graphics is being taught each Tuesday and Thursday nights by Prof. Edward H. Stinson of the colleges Department of Mechanical Engineering. The.se televised lectures are beamed to students within range of the station.

The Bassett Sacks Company in Winston-Salem has installed a special receiver and ten of its employees are emoiled in the course.

The varied array of short courses and conferences includes special programs lor all types of groups. The majority of the courses take the latest research findings and best methods to engineering and agricultural associations.

Among those programs which have been offered annually for the past 20 or more years are those for electrical metermen, nursermen, gas plant operators, nur.^rymtn, gas plant operators, erators.

Varied In scope, the short courses are designed for such groups as photographers, garden clubbers, income tax specialists, commercial flower growers, clay plant operators, swine breeders, cattlemen, apple growers, and for representatives from all fields of engineering.

In keeping with the technological age. courses are presented in atomic energy, statistical methods for research workers, indus-ial engineering for small indu.stry and week-end industrial seminar programs, industrial safety, motion and time study, and linear programming.

UNUSUAL COURSESTwo of the more recent additions which have attracted national interest are the Sport Fishing Short course, conducted each June at Nags Head, and the Game Hunting short course in Southern Pines.

One of the Extension Division's most important projects Ls the operation of the Gaston Technical Institute in Gastonia, a division of the State College School of Engineering.

The technical school, located in Gastonia, is open to all high school graduates and trains young men to enter the fields of electrical, civil, mechanical-production, and electronics technology. A two-year training program, the school now has 162 students working toward their associate degrees from State College.

Another Ruggles original which serves the industrial development of the South is the North Carolina Truck Driver Ti^ining School, sponsored by the N. C. Motor Carriers Association.

Opened in 1949. the truck diver school attracts students from all areas of the nation. During the four - week training course, students learn facts and skills to prepare them to become professional truck drivers. Since its beginning, the school has graduated more than 100 consecutive classes totaling more than 4,000 young men and one woman.

A pioneering force in todays growing adult education programs the Extension Division grows each year adding new courses on every topic from atomic energy to bee - keeping. During the 1958-59 school year, the Extension Division served 12 6)80 people, bringing its grand total of seiwice to 163,284 s'udents during the past 35

years.

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That sea of faces, the waves of sound, the crushing tide of humanity, is one of the annual spectacles ifamous at home and abroad as a New Years Eve phenomenon.

Last years mob was estimated at about 300,000 happy souls, wishing each other and the world at large a big Happy New Year.

No matter how you look at them, three hundred thousand people are a lot of people; especially so, when they are jammed into a few blocks of street partitioned by New Yorks tall buildings.

Imagine, if you can, the havoc to be occasioned should their buses and subways deliver a similar throng to Times Square and then not take them out again.

Marshal Foch moved an army to the Marne in the taxicabs of Paris; but is there a Foch in New York to organize another such caravan of cabbies to meet another emergency?

Nor is there much point in sugge.sting privatel.v-owned automobiles handle the congestion. Theyd com-pri.<e an even worse traffic jam, extending back for mile.s from the heart of the trouble.

No sir, and no maam. If the .'ubways and buses of New York are going to stop the momenf 1959 bows, out, Times Square revelers should plan to stay home. That, or bring with them enough food and drink to last out a long siege.

There are two bright spot.s.

The New Years Eve celebrant who reluctantly returns to work two &r three days late has an excellent excuse for his bo.ss: T was on Times Square that night.

The other bright spot stems from confidence, rather than facts to date might indicate, and its this:

Neither city officials nor transportation workers are going to relinquish the Times Square party without a mighty struggle. Somehow, theyll work it out. Just you wait and see.

The Same Old Causes, The Same Old ResultsAnother .Provocation?

6EE! U.9.U5IN6 OUR. talented CUBAN BOtERS TO PROPAGANDIZE AGAINST

By DON SCHLIEN?

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That Kills?

In North Carolina alone the Christmas holidays claimed 27 lives in traffic accidents. it may sound like some sort

A time of jov was transformed into a time for sor- of heresy, but at least half of

row in many families d me'

The commander of the State Highway Patrol, in weekend is behind u.i. commenting on the holiday toll, gave fair weather We survived yawwnnn), in a jiart of the blame for the accident.<, linking it to a ten- manner of si^aking, a week of (lency toward high speed when driving conditions are arsingat''the

good. customed time each mprning.

Pitt Countians were either lucky over the holi- There ha.snt been much opport-day, or they displayed a notable amount of restraint; catching up on

we had no traffic deaths.

But over the state, the same old violations of familiar rules for safety exacted a terrible price.

Look at the summation by Colonel James R.

Smith:

High .speed caused ten accident, in which eleven cheerful ft was a pleasure to be persons died:

Kailure to stop at stop sign caused two accidents es com; ww 'soml TL in which six wer% killed; small people was worth a zillion

One vehicle ."^kidded through a drawbridge, kill- times the price paid in ing fives Frantic shopping, nasty wrap-

Three wreck.s in which six were killed were caused by cars being on the wrong side of the road.

ITider the circumstances, what could one expect but tragic con.se(iuences?

thr.t lost sleep.

Looking back, we agree that The mild weather of the Yule-tide made it easy to smile on wishing a Merry Christmas;

The Christmas Eve shopping crowds were so happy and

ping, watching appetities ruined by candy, picking up and disposing of wrapping paper and ribbon.s and beautiful bows, the kitchen duty, picking up and putting away as.sorted toys, coaxing the small ones to bed, over-eating, picking up and pi !ting away as.sorted toys, fac-inr, the bills, cleaning up the house over and over again.

One could go on and on.

But. a.s aforementioned, it all seems worthwhile <yaw'wmini.

The week after Chri.stmas by rights should be devoted to happy contemplation of the holidays ju.st past and happier anticipation of the bright new year looming on our horizon.

We're doing our best, but the prospect is dwarfed by more immediate forbodlngs.

There is a matter of properly saluting the demise of 1959 and

No Warm Words

By

Ot her Editors Saying . Metric Debate Rages On

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By JAME.S MARLOW WASHINGTON <AP)-Its A Study in frigidity.

New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefellers statement Saturdaythat he will not be a candidate for the Republican presidential nominationwas a cold piece of business.

There was nothing friendly in it toward Vice President Richard M. Nixon or the professional Republican politicians.

Although Rockefellers withdrawal leaves Nixon unopposed for their partys presidential nomination, the governor never mentioned Nixons name. Rockefeller, in fact, didnt even promise to support the Republican Party or its nominee. The most he was willing to say was that he expects to. Newsmen tried to get him to say specifically Sunday w'hether he would back Nixon. But he replied he would not go beyond his statement Saturday which said, In part, I expect to support the nominees, as well as the program, of the party in I960. Further, it possible to read into Rockefellers words the idea he will be a critical thorn to both the Republican bo,sses and the Eisenhower adminLstra-tion before the Republican con-\ention opens in Chicago July 2.),

Rockefeller, in stepping aside, at no place indicated he felt the majority of rank-and-file Republicans preferred Nixon over hi:n or even that he wouldnt have a chance against Nixon if he did oppose him.

He put hLs reason for withdrawing squarely on the "great majority of those Republicans who will control the convention.

This is what he said, in the sequence of his thinking:

1. The majority of profession-aLs dont want a contest among Republicans for the nomination.

2. Therefore, in order to overcome the opposition of the pros to him, hed have to gjve the rank-and-file Republicans a chance to choose between him and Nixon by going into state primaries.

3. But this W'ould take up so much of his time and energy he couldnt properly fulfill hi.s obligations to the people of New York who elected him to do a job as governor.

, In the past few months Rockefeller, w'hile whisking around the country to appraise his chances, was critical a number of times of the Eisenhower administration.

That he may continue to be now, from the sidelines, can be read into this part of his statement:

He listed the various issues facing the country, at home and abroad, and then said: 1 will contribute all I can toward a profound and continuous act of national self-examhiation.

He said: I shall speak with full freedom and vigor on these Issues that confront our nation and the world.

Nixon now looks like a sure-shot for the Republican presidential nomination. But the future is unpredictable. And Rockefeller did not rule him-selt out as a possibility.

He said he would not be a candidate for the nomination. But he didnt sayas he did in the case of the vice presidency he would not accept the nomination if it Is offered to him.

So, if somehow Nixon gets sideti-acked. Rockefeller is still available.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Once again the issue of metric versus inch - pound systems has come to the front, and once again a stalemate has developed between laboratory sci-entiests and industrial mathematicians over the value of changing from the English system to the metric as a national unit of measure. The laboratory men have been using the metric system predominantly and point to its greater acceptance by the rest of the world, but industrial representatives say the cost of conversion would be ruinious and there is nothing wrong with the accuracy of present standards.

There are strong arguments in favor of both sides a fact which guarantees a continuance of the controversy. Proponents of the metric system point to Japan and India as the latest nations to make the switch, and remind their debating opposites that most of the world now uses the decimal system based on grams and meters.

Advocates of faithfulnes.s to the English system, of which the United States, Britain and Canada are the only large users, contend that for industrial nations to make such a sweeping change would present a prohibitive cost in converted tooling. specifications and blueprints, not to mention the difficulty in maintaining two sets of standards as long as there remained any equipment built un

der the present system to be maintained and serviced.

Scientiests generally favor the metric system because they are involved in daily familiarities w'ith universally accepted theories and formulas based on metric weights and measures. It would be a useless annoyance in such situations to be continually converting from one system to another. Thus the metric system wins by default.

On the industrial front, it is equally cumbersome to work with the metric system since all domestic measurements are based on the inch. Only in foreign trade and certain types of government contracts is the metric system prevalent in industry, and this constitutes a small part of the total output-

To rewrite all specifications, rework all tooling to conform to the new specifications, revise all standards nationwide and train and equip all employes to work with the English system would entail a tremendous investment which would produce little return in the immediate future.

For these reasons there will remain two systems of measurements for some time to come. Both have found accept-tance by important segments of the population and it would be impractical for either to switch to the other- Necessity has not yet demanded an an-sw'er to which is the better.

the so-called fateful fifties* as well as greeting the sixties. That is an occasion we deemed worth a special effort.

(Yawwnnn.)

This year we are not precisely marking the start of a new-decade nor the end of an old decade. That Is reserved for next year. Irregardless of this level-headed approach, to mo.st of us, when the clock strikes midnight Thursday It denotes the ending of one era and the beginning of another.

on other January firsts I have greeted unhappy morning-after celebrants with the smugness that comes only with getting a full nights sleep. This time there is a compulsion to do it up big.

Plans have been made. A baby-sitter arranged-for. There is a faster beat of the pulse whenever New Years Eve is mentioned.

The fly in the ointment is in having a working day immediately follow such a festive occasion.

Our alarm clock ts already adjusted to ring its loude.st; and of late even that hasnt been quite enough.

It doesn't seem right the spirit of revelry should be dampened by human frailties and <yaw'w'imn> duty.

Fact is. New Years just comes too soon after Christmas. If they were spaced a month apart it would be easier to cope with for us part-time liver-uppers.

Of Big

Details

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) As the frantic 1950s draw to a fretful close, the pundits look back on this decade of doubt and try to explain its meaning to us.

We have read a number of their high-sounding reviews, and listened to others. They aU did a good job of turning the pages of world historythat is, for a visitor from Biars.

But they seemed to miss a lot of those small personal details that made life in the last 10 years so meaningful to the man in the street.

After all, the fact that Africa erupted in revolution or the Soviet Union landed a rocket on the moon, does not impress many of us so much as the fact that we became middle-aged- We remember that in 1950 we stiU climbed the stairs two at a time, and realize at the dawn of 1960 that we now look around for an escalator. We dont even push as hard going through a revolving door.

Here are a few other things that made the 1950s memorable to many;

At the start of the decade there were few things you could buy with a penny, and at the end of the decade there were few things you could buy with a nickel.

The younger generation grew taller, and found they were making bus seats smaller.

Man learned to copy his caveman ancestors, and began cooking his meals in the back yard over a fire. ^

Woman went in for frozen foods, and learned how to start dinner with an ice pick instead of a can opener.

People built two-car garages then started buring small cars that would fit into a doghouse.

Parents discovered it was easier to obey their children rather than to try to boss them.

It became possible to send a girl through college for only slightly more than it took for her grandfather to buy a 10-room house on a five-acre lot.

Television developed Westerns in which only the horses remained free of psychopathic symptoms.

The movies went outdoors. Drive-in theaters became ths countrys be.st known romanos pits.

The cigarette and the full di** ner plate, symbols of pleasure in earlier eras, became symbols of doom to many. Millions began filtering their smokes, counting their calories.

Men went in for the pencil- < Slim necktie and the slender silhouette. Women climbed briefly into something called the sack,* then climbed right out again amid national laughter.

Something called rock a roll took the place of music.

Everybody tried so hard to keep up with the Joneses that the Joneses couldnt stand the pace and moved to a cheaper suburb.

Those were the 1950s- Remember them?

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It is an observation from history that a civilization begins to \ane at the point where challenge changes from physical to spiritual. Apparently men are capable of contending with privation, armed attack and the most rugged of nature s environmental handicaps. But they fail to measure to the demands for spiritual strength imposed by wealth and luxury.Dally Oklahoman.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

What is the true meaning of the word repentance?

Most people would probably say that repentance means being sorry for ones sins. Repentance usually involves sorrow for ones sins but not alwaysor not neces-' sarily so. We get a better insight into the word repentance when we go to the New Testament and examine the Greek word metanoeo which means I repent. ^

The basic meaning of this Greek word is to change ones mind.vl Repentance, therefore, Ls not just being sorry for ones sins or just forsaking ones sins but completing the process by changing ones mind with re

ference to ones sins.

The three words I have sinned are very easy to say, and millions of people *y them without the least intention of forsaking their sins or changing their mind with rcferencA to their sins. We have truly repented whented we give up a sin and when we no longer defend It as an understandable human weakness or as some desirable thing we have given up fv>. % pressing reason onlybut we would be glad to be back to It again. If this Is our attitude, then we have not repented. W# will have repented only when we both give up our sin and change our minds with reference to its desirability and value.

Kook-Aheads On Business Fron

Opinions In Brief

Ted Williams told a Florida of points, merely to save some-

court the other day his baseball salary last season was Just $60,-000. not $100.000 as had been publicized. It is possible to .see, however, how he could get along on the $60.000, though." Raleigh Times.

Every truliic offender i. entitled to a fair, unbla.;ed trial. But the courts ''hould make Miie that no favoriti>m is played, that uilty plea to li-.^er offenses, carrying a fetter number

body's license, will not be tolerated and that tear-jerking appeal.s are not allowed to .<iu-p^r.sede highway safely \^hich affect.s the very lives of all of us Grecn.sboro Daily News.

The auto industry hopes to make a record number of cars during the first quarter of 1960. And. the way were tearing them up on the highways, we'll probably need all the repi]'cements wc can get, "The Raleigh Timc.

By ELMER ROESSNER

All Senatur.s and^i/Rppre.seuta-tiyes will soon be bombarded w ith pitas to vole for postponement of the effective date of the Food Additives Amendment to the Food and Drug Act.

The amendment. effective March 7 unless Congress votes a postponer, will- require all food processors to offer laboratory proof of harmle.ssne.ss before using any food additive.

Food processors assert they have not had time to complete laboratory tests required since the law was signed September 6, 1958 Backing them are the big corporations that manufacture some 700 additives to give food smoothness, .stability, color, texture and scent.

Determination to seek Congressional postponement Ls increasing. The food industry had hopefully thought that enforcement would be gradual; that nothing would be done for a long time and not much then.

I HE CKANREKRV LESSON

Then came the crackdown oii cranberries with traces of weed-

kiUer, closely followed by the milder kick in shins of poultry producers who loaded their broilers with hormones. This was no-tiCe to food proce.ssors that the Administration plans to swing the big stick Congress gave it in passing the Additive bill.

Here are other look-aheads in business, based on analyses of changing conditions:

Higher aluminum wares. The rise in wages for aluminum workers and the subsequent increase in prices for metal will be passed on to dealers and consumers. The

April 1 anyhow'.

Many aiiTines are becoming convinced that their future prosperity lies more in freight than in passengers. Some feel that .since they have licked railroads in passenger traffic, they can lick them in cargo, and that cheaper, faster freight is the answer.

Slowdown in gold lasses. The United Slates has been losing from $l billion to $2 billion a year in gold becaiuse of the unfavorable balance of trade. However, these lasses may lessen next

first wave of increases will be. year. More U.S. exports and

felt in January housewares .^^hows.

Bountiful vitamins. Orange concentrate stocks are enormoasly high, almost double of a year ago. So watch for many frozen-juice deals: pennies off for buying three instead of twO cans, six-packs for the price of five, and so on.

THE HIGHER THE CHEAPER

Cheaper air freight. The effort to rush new. lower air cargo late.s acro.ss the Atlantic Immediately has been blocked, but they will -become effective

more foreign tourists here will help the shift

More going public. The coming American Management Association conferenceg on

going public will disclose little-imagined interest in this pha.se of management. Hundreds of family-owned busines.ses have indicated intere.st in going public. that Is. making part of their stock ave dable to the public. It can piui new .sources of

and set up means of determininf taxable values fairly and quickly.

There was a gleam in the Old Promoters eye when he dropped in today, so we asked him to get to the deal quickly, because we hadnt finished our Christmas shopping.

I read Jackie Gleason has a television set mounted in the celling of his bedroom. So Im trying to bring out a low-cost set, properly angled and with the right fixtures, so everyone can have one over their beds. Theres a fortune in it.

Wait a minute! we said. Broadcasters will fight you because the audience will be hall asleep.

On the contrary. the old one replied, broadcasters wdll promote my set like cfazy. Its when people are drowsing that the commercials make their greatest Impression on latent minds. People will wake up and rush cut to buy checkered toothpaste, not knowing why buying it has .suddenly become the dominant

equity capital, guard against* force in their lives.

lass of family control by the We told him we didnt believe

workings of iuherUance taxes, it. We duut, dont wa?