FACE FOUltTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N, C

5turday, May 14, 1960

Saturday, May 14, 1960

Khrushys Favorite Ghost Story

Pulling Together For Education

The hand-in-hand development of public school benefite for our colleges. And that which is done to education and higher education in North Carolina was improve our colleps will likewise be reflected in emphasized by many of the speakers who participated better public schools. -,i

this week in the inaugural events at East Carolina Col- This spirit of unity between state-supported edu-j ^ cational systems on the public school and college levels

'it is significant that practicallv all of those who is often overlooked by many people. The mistaken idea in thp exercises touched uDon this point that each is pulling againstnot withthe other is

unfortunately widespread in North Carolina.

It is important to education and to the state that

participated in the exercises touched upon either in major addresses or in brief remarks. It points up again the fact that leaders in education in North Carolina are keenly aware that the progress of higher education in the state cannot be separated from the progress of our public schools and vice versa.

The apparent unity of feeling between officials on both the public school level and the college level

citizens realize that all the forces for education in North Carolina are pulling together for better programs on both the public school and college level. To a great degree the progress of one will depend entirely upon the progress of the other.

Leaders in education recognize this. Somehow

should impress the people of North Carolina with the i^eaaers in

f^t that L combined forces for education are pulling "lany citizens have overlooked the point.

Poor Atmosphere

together for the betterment of education at all levels. The leadership they are affording should likewise draw the citizens of the state into a more united sup-

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port for education in public schools and in our colleges. ^ , ifil^ CPJ. * ^

The time apparently has passed when the colleges |\AgO I VlllCf X 110 tlTCLlIlS

T.nhl,V sphonlR for not crivinff ^ 1,1# fc*

of the state blamed the public schools for not giving them students with adequate academic backgrounds. The time has passed when public school systems are finding fault with colleges for not providing them with adequately trained teachers.

There is the realization that education at each level is dependent upon the other. Anything which im-

What long-range effects on easing world tension can we now expect from the summit conference in Paris next week?

Even if we expect very little, we may be disappointed.

The agenda for the summit meeting gives high

proves our public school system will be reflected in priority to the Berlin situation and Germany which

have been sources of varying degrees of tension and

^Ervin Watches ?olitica.

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.By LYNN NISBET ERVm-Senator Sam Ervin waa in Raleigh the other day to talk to the doctors convention .-In a briei informal conversation with your reporter the Senator got off some typical wisecracks. He has an idea that the much publicized controversy over medical assistance for the older people is more concern for the political health of the participants than for the idiysical health of the aged.**

Congressional leadership is shooting for adjournment not later tfcian July 2, and he thinks that is a reasonable hope. Undoubtedly some bad legislation will result from the final weeks rush, he said. On the other band, he is convinced that oftentimes first impressions are best and it frequently happens that the longer there is to think about it the worse confused the thinking becomes. Senator Ervin has a keen but impersonal interest in the current political campaign in North Carolina. So long as they let me be the Senator,* he said, "I will leave it up to the people whoever they want for Governor. He will come back for the State convention next Thursday, and indicated he plans to attend the national convention in Los Angeles. He also expects to come back to vote in the primary on May 28 as a citizen.

With respect to one primary contest he did voice an opinion. He said he hopes that his colleague, Senator Everett Jordan, will hold his seat, and he is pleased that indications are he will come through all right.

The fact is Senator Ervin and Senator J(h^d have more in common than general agreement cm basic issues and the ability to work as a team.

SIMlLARrrTErvin was appointed to the Senate by Governor William Umstcad upon the death of Senator Clyde Hoey in the summer of 1954. He was nominated by the Democratic state executive committee as the partys candidate in the election that fall to fill the un-. jBXPired term. He was elected,

- and he entered the primary for a full term nonainaon in 1956 not as an appointee, but as an elected Senator.

Jordan was appointed by Governor Luther Hodges in the spring of 1958 uiran the death of Senator Kerr Scott. He was nominated by the committee and elected that fall for the un-explred term. He enters the primary for the full term now. as Ervin did in 1956, not as an appointee but as the elected Senator.

In that respect Ervin and Jordan were in different situations from other recently appointed Senators. William Um-stead in 1948, Frank Graham in 1950 and Alton Lennon in

1954 went into their first prf-maries for senatorial nomination after less than two years in office by executive appointment and without the prestige of previous election by the people. All three were defeated, their opponents successfully using the charge they had been hand-picked by one man rather than elected by the people.

Ervin had no opposition for the unexpired term in 1954 and he polled 410,574 votes. Jordan was opposed in 1958 by Richard Clarke and the vote was 431,482 for Jordan, 184,977 for Clarke. In other words, when Ervin went into his first senatorial primary he had the prior endorsement of more 410,000 Democrats. Jordan goes into his first primary backed by the endorsement of more than 421,000 Democrats, who voted for him in November of 1958.

COUNTY VOTESNine counties each of which cast more than two percent of the total vote, accounted for 31.5 percent of the Democratic votes cast for Governor in the 1952 pri-fary, latest real contest for that office,

Mecklenburg led with 5.3 per cent. Wake came second with 4.9 percent. Buncombe and Guilford came through with 3 8 percent each; Durham with 3.5 percent and Forsyth with 3.4 percent. Gaston produced 2-4 percent of the total. New Hanover and Rowan 2.2 percent each.

On the bottom of the totem pole Avery yielded a bit less than one-tenth of one percent. Clay and Mitchell just a little more than one-tenth of one percent of the total.

Sixty-one of the 100 counties turned in less than one percent each of the total primary vote. Nine* counties with more than two percent each, 61 counties with less than one percent each, means there were 30 counties with votes amounting to between one and two percent.

In view of this record it is easy to understand why candidates for statewide offices devote most of their time to the big voting counties. If North Carolina had a county unit system comparable to that in Gewgia, or a plan like the electoral college where plurality in any state carries the entire electoral vote for President, the method of campaigning might be different.

Yet the candidates are fully aware of the fact that when all the votes cast in each of the nealy 2100 precincts go into a common pot, ten or a hundred votes in tl)e littlest county are worth jiust as much as the same number of votes in the biggest county. And that is the rea.son why candidates who spend most of their time in the concentrated population centers do not ignore the little bailiwicks.

crisis in recent years. It gives high priority to discussion of disarmament plans and control of nuclear weapons that has been discussed with little genuine progress between East and West over a period of years.

But now these and other important items on the agenda for the meeting are completely overshadowed by the spy plane incident which came about last week. Though not on the official agenda for the long awaited summit conference, this one item probably will take

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precedence over all others. It will be the primary p WFISTRV TinWARn source of concern as the leaders of the East and West ^ AI\U

meet in an effort to ease world tension.

We must face up to the fact that relationships between East and West in the past few days have drop-ped to their lowest ebb in more than a year. The so-called spirit of Camp David has gradually disappeared

ohnny Needs A Go-Go

since the visit of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to this Reflector Phosophers was country. The smiles and at least luke-warm words of commenting on the current col-friendship between the top representative of the Com- legiate vehicular situation munist world and the leaders of the Free World were

replaced by coolness. Now the coolness has changed to mobUe was indeed quite a rarity, words of anger, bitter charges of hostility and aggres- in fact, he declared, there were very few cars owned by

T, . . 1- X I. XI. X XU 1^ anybody around the campus.

It IS in such an atmosphere that the long awaited ..Things have changed.

summit conference will take place. It is not an atmOs- though. he said thoughtfully and phere conducive to finding a reasonable means for philosophized the general attitude bridging the differences between ^ast and West It is not a situation in which leaders of the divided world another,

will be inclined to quiet, careful and reasonable dis- Education used to be real cussion of the sources of international tension. serious business, he said.

More likely it is an atmosphere which will further irritate the crisis that already exists. Words, more heated than those of recent days may be expected.

Threats, similar to those that have been spoken, may IIjQlIOrS OQ y iny . ..

also be expected.

thoughts than he is nowadays. He said there just wasnt any time to play til each man had made his own way.

Just take a look at any college campus now, directed the philosopher, You can seeum. Lined up bumper-to-bumper all over the place.

He continued his good-natured lambast at todays mechanized youth, By the time hes out of the cradle, Johnny's gotta have a Go-Go.

Whats happened? Maybe the nations youth needs more time to play these days. Maybe folks in general generally have more money to buy Go-Go's. Or maybe they just make more car*

nowadays.

At any rate, most folks say: Drive on, Johnny, drive on

ment

Thus, the summit conference offers at this mo- A IP

; little hope for an easing of international tension, i tCJti

for paving the way to a more lasting, peaceful relationship between East and West.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (P)A batch of proposals to provide some kind of medical care for the 16 million people over 65or, at least, for some of themhas been dumped on Congress.

If any old-age health bill ever gets through Congress this year it probably will not be exactly the same as any of those now talked about. But there have been four major proposals:

One by the Eisenhower administration, and the others by Rep. Aime J. Forand (D-RI), Sen. Pat McNamara (D-Mich), and Sea. Jacob Javits (R-NY), 'The Eisenhower and Javits bills have this much in common: Theyd be voluntary.

Theyd be paid in part by the individuals who chose to buy into the program, in part by the federal government, in part by the states. This would take time

to set up, with each state de

ciding when and if. Some states might not participate.

The Forand and McNamara bills would be compulsory to the extent that theyd be paid for

out of Social Security funds, with a slight boostone-quarter of one per cent on the first $4,800 of incomein the tax

now being paid equally by employes and employers.

The Eisenhower proposal:

It would, theoretically, be open to 12>i million people. Those with Incomes of $2,500 a year, if single, or $3,800 if married would be excluded, Butr and its a big but:

The cost: $24 a year from each person taking part, whether or. not he got sick, plus the first $250 of his years medical bill (or the first $400 for a couple), plus 20 per cent of all costs over $250 or $400^^ The federal government ana the states, sharing about equally, would pay the rest.

The benefits: Hospitalization for 180 days; or 365 days in a nursing home; or 365 days of home health services; payment to doctors; dental services; and Up to $350 for drugs.

Youd have to have a major or prolonged illness to come out ahead on this one.

The Javits bill:

Open to all 16 niiliien people over 63 and, if some Jhad h|K-bands or wives under 65, it would be open to them, too. The cost: No charge to those with under $.500 Income: 50

rents a month or $6 a year for thqse between $500 and $1,000; a' sliding charge qpwards for

those with incomes up to >8.-

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600; and $13 a month, or $1(>5

a year, for those with incoifte over $3,600.

The Javits people figure the average medical bill of a person over 65 is $150 a year. So, under this program, the government would assist states up to that $150 average.

The benefits; Each state would decide what benefits to provide, so long as one-third of all the costs were for doctor's fees for treatment at home or in the office.

The Forand bill:

About 13*4 million people would be eligible. It would be limited to those already getting a Social Security pension or eligible to receive it. It would be run by the federal government, not the states since the Social Security tax is a federal one.

The people already on Social Security pension would not, of course, be taxed although theyd be the ones getting the benefits. Bat the under-65 people, whod be paying the tax, would become eligible as they reached 65.

Benefits: Hospitalization for

60 days, with all costs paid: 120 days in a nursing home, or two days of each unused hospital day. There would be full pay for surgery but not for medical doctors. Thered be no home health services.

Laboratory and X-ray services would be free only for people confined to a hospital. Outpatients wouldnt get them.

The McNamara bill;

The casjt: The payment for this program would be the same as under the Forand bill a boost in Social Security tax and the program would be run by the government.

Benefits: It would pay no

doctors bills but would provide 90 days hospitalization a year, with all costs paid; 180 days in a nursing homg, or two days there for each unused hospital day.

It would provide 240 home health services a year, such as home - maker services, medical somal work. The laboratory and X-ray services would b paid for as provideil not only for in-hos-pital patienf^f' but for ou.-pa-tients. too. All drugs used in th^ hospital w'ould be paid for.

The estimated total costs of these programs are sometimes sharply dLsputed,. but sponsors use these figures: Eisenhow'er's $1,200.000.000; Javits Plan the .same: Forajid bin^l.tOO.-OOO.tQyMcNamafa bill r- $1,100,-).OiD the Jipt yejr' and I'i Ilion yearly

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The American Assembly, holding its 17th annual meeting since its creation by Dwight Eisenhower in 1950, who at that time was president of Columbia University, has come to some definite conclusions about educational needs and the role to be played in meeting those needs by the federal gcvern-ment. Some 60 educators, legislators, businessmen and labor leaders from all parts of the country have offered some recommendations based on the assemblys report.

The group noticed a trend which indicated that, -faced with a doubling in college enrollments and trebling of costs in the next decade, the U. S. is cautiously moving toward more federal aid to education while erecting safeguards to keep it supplemental to other support.

One of the assemblys rw-ommendations was expansion of federal aid In construction of ir.stitutional facilities on a matching basis through a program of federal grants or loans. Another suggestion was continuation of higher educational aid already being extended through the National Defense Education Act. land-grant institutions, the National Science Foundation and the national institutes of health, research contracts and other channels.

Establishment at the White House of a council of advisors on education and a joint congressional committee of Congress on education, as well as a suggestion for setting up a nongovernmental citizens committee for higher education to

interpret their higher education system to Americans, plus a stepping up of the American Council on Education or another group to speak for American higher education in Washington.

Expunging of the disclaimer affidavit from the present student loan program of the National Defense Education Act as unwarranted government interference in institutional policy was also urged. A major controversy arose at the s^sem-bly meeting as to whether the group should go on record as opposed to the oath of loyalty as well as the disclaimer affidavit now required of students getting aid under the NDEA.

The assembly refused to give direct support to the oath but said it distinguished between the positive oath of loyalty and the negative disclaimer affidavit. The affidavit was condemned as a direct inquiry into beliefs, hence contrary to principles on which this nation was founded.Actually, it is difficult to see how the assembly could help but oppose the loyalty oath, which we have insisted all along is a direct insult to an American citizens loyalty and intelligence.

Indicative of the kind of federal interference American educators fear was a protest of recent direct federal allocations of graduate fellowships to specific institutions which violated inter - university agreements made at the state level. The assembly warned that federal support should be only supplemental. To have it otherwise would endanger the idea of distributive responsibility which is the bedrock of effective democratic practice.

This same philosopher also found himself a little baffled at one point during the afternoon.

He entered the newsroom suddenly and found a pair of the staffers standing in chairs running their fingers along the inside edges of the steel girders overhead.

Naturally, the whole thing looked ridiculous. As a matter of fact, it was probably an incident without precedent around here.

After a moments study of the scene, with an extra moment for the antics of the lofty duo, he questioned. Is there a mouse ia the house.

There probably was no mouse in the house at aU. Anyway, if there was, nobody saw it.

What happened was, one of us (namely, me) had tossed a quarter Into the air (like folks will do occasionally when theyre just being lazy) and it had lodged on one of the girders.

By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKY Copyright. I960. King Feature Sjmdieate, Inc.

Every air channel Is ttie property of the people of the United States and is under the control of Congress through the Federal Communications Commlaalon which was created for that purpose. The networks are supply enterprise which sell programs to local radio and TV companies. although it U true that they do own some stations. The owner of a station owns the real estat and the physical property of the station. The owner has no vested right In the channel, the right to use which is Issues by the PCC in the form of a license.

By precedent and as a practical matter, licenses are generally renewed, m assumption being if the conduct of a station were satisfactory, the license would be rencwid and it generally is.

It is this renewal without examination which has led to te belief that a vested interest exist* In the license. ^

Along comes tht PWlco Broadcasting Company of Philadelphia to apply for caaannel Three, a TV station, WRCV-TV, now operated by the National Broadcasting Company. Philco makes this application on the grounds that under N-B.C. management, less than seven per cent of broadcast time on this station is allotted to local live programs of any description. Philco offers to provide 20 per cent of its time to local live programs. -This raises a very interesting qu^tion as to whether TV exists for service to the Community or as s commercial venture to earn profits for its owner in disregard of the fact that the channels are publicly owned and should be available for public service.

Should Philco best N.B C. in this action, it could have a revolutionary effect upon the radio and television Industry* If Philco loses, it could establish the precedent that there ia a vested interest In the license, A great fuss has been made over payola in this medium, the assumptUm being that some of the so-called disk jockeys make large or small sums pushing certain records or by mentioning items which were not advertised by contract with the owners of the station. While the commission of these acts is not criminal and no ,one has thus far gone to prison for them, several disk jockeys have lost their jobs and undoubtedly are ruined.

On the other hand, little or nothing has been said about radio or TV stations employing a public facility Improperar.

Some radio stations have little facility improperly.

Some radio stations have little on them but news snatches, weather rep(t8 and endless rock-n- roll or other musical abominationa. Some TV stations are mere push button affairs, running through network material. murder after murder, with

The cooperation of the second party in searching the girders ^

upper surface, concealed from ^^pccasional news. The questira of

view, was greatly appreciated when the quarter was safely retrieved.

Over in Wilson this week a straw vote by the students at Atlantic Christian College produced a majority victory for gubernatorial candidate Terry Sanford,

The same balloting established Sen. John Kennedy as the students presidential choice.

Sanford polled 154 votes. His closest challenger was Dr. I. Beverly Lake with 59. John Larkins had 30, Malcolm Sea-well 28. and Republican Robert Gavin 10.

Kennedy won by 65-63 over Adlai Stevenson. Richard Nixon placed third with 48, Lyndon Johnson had 43, the withdrawn Sen. Hubert Humphrey 35, Stu Syfington 15. and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller 12.

Interesting.

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Guidance from adults the youngsters ask for and appreciate, but they are not Impressed when fathers and mothers dont act their age. 'Trying to be a real pal does not turn time liack-ward, and the boys and girls seem to know it.Philadelphia Bulletin.

payola is by no means as serious as the question of using stations without ample provision for public services. This is a direct violation of every license Issued.

What does payola amount to? It is that a disk jockey either plays records in which he has an interest or a company pays him to push certain records. The music usually played by these disk jockeys, whethw affected by payola or not. Is a criminal act on its own. It Is some kind of brain-washing or better still, brain^destroying.

But when the stations provide no public services, they usurp more than their licenses entitle them to. Frederick W. Ford, Chairman of the FCC, said in a gp0cch *

. .Requests for time by local groups to bring matter of importance to the attention of th conununity arc certain indications of public need. The broadcaster Is charged with respwid-ing sympathetically to such requests and to nnak* availaMe a reasonable amount of broadcast time for these purposes. I fall to see how an operation can be In the interest of the public when such requests for time are consistently ignored or turned down because of disruption to the commercial schedule.

This is the gist of the issue that Philco has raised against the N.B.C, and It will be of public interest to see what the FCC does with it.

(Continued on page aix)

Oddities In The Business News

By ELMER ROESSNER

There are more things in business. Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. For example:

The Limerick Horse - Meat Packers, Ltd., of Annacotty, Limerick, Ireland. Is trying to arrange weekly shipments of horse-meat to Britain, where prices have recen* risen. Shipments earlier t year to Belgium and Swede, .lave not been profitable. . .Hybridizing may soon do as much for trees as It has for corn; a hybrid pine aheady grows twice as fast as its parent stock. . Pep-up chewing: *gum is. now made with vitamin A, said to cujt nightbllndness.

Argentina is new Dyhig high-_ quality beef to Switzerland.

Juveniles are rarly ' delinquent in paying charge accounts,. members of a retail association panel agreed. . Variety Store Merchandiser reports that variety and .general merchandise chains used 289,701,721

lines of advertising In 418 major newspapers last year. . .A Kansas store pays 10 cents over face of all factory payroll checks it cashes because workers then usually linger to spend some.

$35,000,000 FOR EDUCATION

Thirteen manufacturers of synthetic fibers spent $35,000,-000 last year to toach the public new words: the names of^ their products. . .Ottawa, Canada, is spending $30,000,000 to buy a two-and-one-half-mile-wide green belt completely surrounding the city. . .Tape recorders are replacing court reporters in Alaska,

VMfinese smokers prefer Pec< to Hope cigarettes,

14 to t.

^ The Federal government savbs $50,000 year by usinf^* aluminum imstead of s plates fqir. its 200,000 which shows what,, could be done in thus state, ^ost sayings are in handling costs. Life Of aluna^iua) plates is twice that of steel. , .By investing current

operating funds in short - term government bills instead of depositing them in banks, Atlanta made $100,000 in six months, w'hich shows what could be done in this city. RADIOTELEVISION BOOM Manufacturers made 500,-000 more radio sets and 100*-000 more TV receivers in the first two months of this year than in the same 1959 months, says the Electi'onics Industries Association. . ,Tl)e herbicides diuron and monuron are less effective in some parts of the

country because they are decomposed by the ultraviolet rays of the sun. . .Tax-disliking Canadians made 3,500,0(X) gal-long of wine last year, costing the government monopoly $2,-650,000 in protits. ?

' A YorlL'*wajtbr hlg

Iva? didnt 'get enojjgh tlpola, :

Irving Kipnls. Florida deveh opcr^, doesnt w^alt for local governments to install sewer and wa^er sy.slrB3r, he does It himself and tbenn

buyers, netting profits. , .If you are an av*age American, youll get 370 .pieces of mail this year, the Post Office estimates. . JFew cities give substantial preference to local bidders when buying supplies, a survey shows.

MACHINERY* MAKERS SHOW BIGGEST PROFIT GAIN

Fifty machinery companies made 27 per cent more in the first quarter of this year than In the first quarter of 1959, according to a study of earnings of 82 corporations by th First National City Bank of New York. That group made the largest gain noted.

Fifty-nine miscellaneous manufacturing corporations made 11 Wr cent more; 31 textile and parel eonapanAes .were up the toe per ajid, 27 drug,

$iii#tpVan<i cosrttWlfc crporation were up 10 per cent.

The total 812 compnles made 5 peri^j6(^*nore than the first quarter ind 8 per cent more to home than the iourth 1959 quarter.