FACE POimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Wednesday, June 8, 1860

Wednesday, June 8, 1960

Sneci^l Receotion Committee

ECC Still Lags In Its Facilities

Capital improvement requests by East Carolina College amounting to almost $8,000,000 during the next biennium are sure to cause sorne raised eye*brows around the state. But before any citizen jumps to the conclusion, Thats too much, he should give careful consideration to the needs of the college and the demands being made upon it.

The $7,7 million capital improvement program outlined by President Leo W. Jenkins will not meet all the needs of the college. It will, however, place the college in a position to provide for its almost 5,000 students the kinds of instructional program the state expects of ECC in the years immediately ahead.

If one reviews item by item the requested capital outlay budget, he will find it contains a realistic evaluation of what the college needs in the way of facilities . . . not an out-of-the-hat figure that has been hastily chosen.

Included in the request is the proposal that two of the oldest buildings on the campus be demolished and new structures built to replace them. While many will be reluctant to see Austin Building and Wilson Hall come down, the condition of these buildings makes it imperative that they be replaced for the safety of the students who use them. Almost $1.9 mil-

Brief Visit To A Field Office

By LYNN NISBET COURTEOUS SERVICECol. Dtve Lambert. Commander of tht highway patrol, and your reporter found themselves with time on their hands between entagements in New Hanover county. We used it to visit the newest of the district field offices of the Motor Vehicles Department located on US-17 about five miles north of Wilmington. This is the newest and one of the best arranged of the 20 or more such offices throughout the state. It serves the district embracing Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties, not only for patrol purposeswhich are perhaps most Important and beet knownbut for all functions of the department including driver licenses, theft bureau and inspection services.

Because this is the newest, and because veteran Sgt. Harry Clark takes as much personal pride in it as a father for hs favorite child, it admittedly is better than most of the other stations which perform similar services to the public. The attractive brick building sits well back from the highway with a large front yard carpotcd with grass and studded with pine trees and planted shrubs in front, a commodious paved parking lot in the rear. Dont press me too much about how we got money for the lawn and the paving, suggested Sgt. Clark with a smile. Further inquiry developed that he and other per.sonncl whom he persuaded to help him did a lot of the work In their off-duty time.

Opening from the entrance lobby are the executive offices of the patrol, the radio cubbyhole, large quarters for the driver license bureau, and offices for the other branches. In the rear is a barracks room equipped with cots, showers and emergency patry supplies, which saves the State a lot of hotel bills when need requires concen-trstiOB of patrolmen in the areas. The radio cubbyhole and the confidential files on accidents. license revocations, etc-, are off-limits to the public.

INFORMATION The main lobby Illustrates the fact that aale travel is the prime objective of the patrol, with law enforcement a necessary part of the fuaction: and that the giving of iafermation to highway travelers is the next important function. A large wall chart shows the record for three years of traffic accidents, with deaths, injuries and propw^ damage listed. There are photographs of the most horrendous accidents.

On a large table are displayed maps and other literature for answering inquiries of travelers about where to go and how to get there. Col, Lambert, who took over command of the patrol about six menths ago, is emphasizing this information service feature.

His theory is thit the driver who knows where he is going and why and how to get there is a much better safety risk than the one who is rambling around with uncertainty as to destination.

He says he encourages all his men to give as complete and

courteous information as possible on routes, historic and scenic attractions, accommodationseven the weather. He suggests that more signs along the roads telling travelers where information can be had, and perhaps fewer individual signs shout accommodations and attractions might contribute to traffic safety For that reason he would like to have the highway patrol stations recognized as official information centers, and every patrolman on the highways able to answer many of the questions casual travelers a,'k.

He docs not intend that this added courteous service should In any way detract from the fair and firm enforcement of traffic laws. It does not imply special privilege for in-state or out-of-state highway users to violate the rules established for the common protection of all the people.

POTPOURRI Modern practice has brought a lot of new words into general use. The word gymtorlum is fairly common designation of a room used for athletic contesvs and phy.slcal training as a gymnasium, and for public gatherings as an auditorium. The Wrightsville Beach school has a room with a sign designating it as the cafetor-ium. . .used for school lunch room and general meeting purposes. . . .

Johnny Mercer, who operates a fishing pier at Wrigbtsville Beach, claims the record for variance in age limits of customers. At one time he had a family with a seven-weeks-old baby, waiting for admission into the hospital, and 96-year-old man who insisted on fishing. . .

Every native Tarheel five years old or more knows the difference between corn meal and grits. Did you every try to explain the difference to somebody who didnt know much about either? A table companion at a restaurant the other day asked that question. Your reporter was amused at efforts of the other two guests to explain It until it came to his time to tell the difference. It wasnt funny any more. You try it. Both come from corn through a grist mill. Meal can be bolted or unbolted, which means all the bran and chaff had been screened out through a cloth, or that it hadnt been screened out. The actual difference there is hard to put in words. Grits are less finely ground, the corn grains being cracked rather than pul-erized by grind, with varying amounts of bran left. Meal is used to make rornbrcad. t(V> often with a mixture of wheat flour and other ingredients: or huahpuppies or mush, and is often to roll oysters, eggplant, squash and other vegetables for frying. Grits are often eaten with gravy Or butterand by some Yankee folks as a cereal with milk. Sure, that dont explain the difference. You try

to make it clear.

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lion of the requested capital outlay budget would be earmarked to replace these facilities.

Slightly more than $2 million of the remainder of the budget request is earmarked for construction of one new dormitory and half the cost of constructing another dormitory. Although several new dormitories have been constructed on the East Carolina Campus in recent years, the influx of students has made it impossible for the college to keep pace with the demands for housing. The new dormitories are needed if the college is to be in a position to accept the students who apply for admission.

The bulk of the remainder of the capital outlay request is earmarked for expansion and improvement of classroom and instructional facilities on the college campus. The construction of these instructional facilities are urgently needed by the college to alleviate overcrowded conditions that now exist and to provide for additional students who will swell the colleges enrollment to a higher level before the buildings are completed. *

The request for new athletic facilities on the campus, together with the acquisition of an additional 75 acres of land is needed because some of the expansion of present facilities would take up space now used for the athletic program.

East Carolina College, while it has fared well at the hands of the legislature in recent years so far as capital improvement appropriations are concerned, still lags far behind what it needs in the way of physical facilities. The lack of these facilities has handicapped the college in providing the potential service it is expected to provide for its students and for the slate.

State officials, legislators and friends of higher education in North Carolina should carefully study the requested capital outlay program for East Carolina College during the next biennium. Such a study, we believe, will leave no doubt that the request is realistic, that the facilities are needed, and that the college should be provided with them.

East Carolina can meet the needs of the state and the area it serves only if the state provides it with the facilities for meeting those needs.

Can't Back Down, And President Faces Risk

If Pre.sident Eisenhower goes to Japan as scheduled, he risks being confronted with anti-American demonstrations that could be embarrassing.

If he elect.s to cancel his scheduled visit in the face of demonstrations protesting the U. S.-Japan military security treaty, he backs down from a challenge ... a personal challenge and a challenge to U. S. leadership.

Unless and until the Japanese government decides that the trip scheduled by the President later this month is unwise, President Eisenhower should not change his plans. If he cancels his plans to go to Japan, it will obviously be a victory for the communist and other left-wing groups in Japan who aie trying to break the close ties between Japan and this nation. It will be a victory for communism not only in Japan, but in the entire Far East; and one which the Red propaganda machine would play to the hilt.

Naturally, the communist propaganda machinery will al.so play up any anti-Ike demonstrations which occur during hi.s vi.sit to Japan, but at the moment this appears to be the lesser of the two unpleasant alternatives that seem to face the President. It will be far less damaging to the prestige of the governments of both the United States and Japan than cancellin|f the trip. It will clearly demonstrate to the Far Ea.st and the re.st of the world that the President, representing the United States, is willing to visit where the outward reception is not nearly so warm as was the case on his recent trip to the Far East.

If the Japanese government has any doubt about its ability to control the situation, it will certainly ask the President to postpone his trip. Unless that happens, the President should stick with his plans to visit Japan this month.

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Bia Boat In Yacht Basin

We took s trip to Morehesd

this weekend where, despite the threatening clouds here, the skies were clear and the sea sparkling.

During the day we wound up at the Morehead City Yacht Basin as we often do. For it is there that some of the largest and most elatwrate pleasure vessels tie up.

They are on their way north or south along the inland water way and Morehead must be a favorite stopping point.

This time, an unusually large yacht caught our eye at the very end of the pier. It was much longer than the dozens of other expensive boats, which lined the pier and filled the nearby boat house. It was very evident even from a distance that this was a costly craft.

So we walked out on the pier. The ship, as seen from a distance, had not deceived us. It

was indeed a luxury craft. Its wheel house sported the latest equipment and was elaborate to the point of a chrome steering wheel. Behind the wheel house W'ss a galley and behind that a well furnished state room.

Portholes along the hull showed that there was considerable more space beneath the deck.

This craft even carried radar as the dish shaped antenna above indicated.

We would have liked to have boarded her but sadly there was no one around to issue an invitation. So we headed back down the pier to the basin office.

There we found Adam Mayer who was on duty at the time. He confirmed the fact that this was an expensive boat, Mayer estimated it cost $LtO-160.000 to construct the vessel. She was about 65 feet in length, he said.

Other Editors Saying... Too Much 'Charge It

ust me mtest ''n A Lona Lis

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower is just the latest in a long list of people denounced by Nikita Khrushchev.

The Soviet Premier calls names like a fishwife over a back fence. The older he gets, the fishier he sounds.

Over the pa.st few years the Soviet leader has run up quite a record, particularly against people with whom he had had some friendly personal relations.

In 1956 he visited Britain, dined with the British Laborite.s, was asked by them to free 200 imprisoned Social Democrats in eastern Etiropc, and returned home to denounce them as the lackeys of reactionaries.

That same year at a Moscow banquet attended by Gen. Nathan F. Twining, US. Air Force chief, Khnushchev reportedly drank heavily. in.sulted various Western military officials present, and was told by the then premier, Nikolai Bulgalnln. to shut up.

That was quite a year for Khuushehev. He shocked the shocked the world and shook international .communism to ifl roots by dfnouncifti his late hoss. Joseph Stalin. He rteacrib-d fitalin as t murderer.

In 1987 he got rd of a whole hatch ef hia eld Commqiust cron- the Molotrtv-Miltnkev-Ka-

ianovich *et by getting them ouhccd from the Pi*e.Mdium and into oblivion.

'1lie next year, 1951, he gave his old traveling cotnptnioo Premier Bulganin, the ax and toul: hix job

He visited Mnr.'ihal Tito, .teemed to get aiong dandy with him, and In the end excoriated lull a.s a renegade.

In between times, he belittled Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and gave Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat, an 8-hour interview In the Kremlin.

Early in 1959 Humphrey, reporting on that visit, said Khrushchev had been critical of Red China, the Soviets big ally, for its commune system.

As Humphrey said later, this must have touched a sensitive nerve. Khrushchev denounced Humphrey.

The Soviet Premier put on a real show when he visited the United States in 1959, particularly at Los Angeles.

There he complained about tlio security arrangemcnix which, for his own safety, kept him cut of Disneyland: took offense at a movie can-can dance w'hlch he said was immoral: and in one grand temper tantrum threatened to go home because Mayor Norris Poulson made a crack about an earlier Khriuxhchev

crack that communi.'iin would bury the We.st.

Then came 1960, the U2 spy plane flight over the Soviet Union. Khrushchevs WTCckage of the summit which he bjamed on Elsenhower. He denounc''d Vice President Richard M. Nuen anc| Secretary of State ChriAtiag A. Herter.

Hie weret ineults were reeerv-

ed for Eisenhower and West Germanys Chnnecllnr Konrad Adenauer.

l';i.ienho\ver, KhnixhchPv said, wa.1 vveik-knted. Lt only to run a thUdrens home, and com-plelelv lacking m will-power A.X for the German chaiieellor. Khrushchev called iiipv a nut who ought to be "Iraitjackctcd in a luuatic asylum.

The Anniiiton fAIa,), Star

In our view, theres cogency in the warnings voiced by U.S. Senator Paul Douglas and others regarding the encouragement being given to teen-agers to open charge accounts.

An official of the National Retail Merchants Association was quoted recently in a trade publication to the effect that the teen-age market is a made-to-order opportunity for sales-minded credit executives.

It is true that billions of dollars are Involved, both in what young people buy on their own initiative, and in family buying which they help to Influence. Moreover, the volume of sale Is sure to go higher by reason of the high birth rate in recent years. It is estimated that there will be 28 million Americana in the teen-age bracket by 1970, compared with 18 million today.

But we agree with Senator Douglas when he describes the charge It refrain being trilled by youngsters a one of the most unfortunate developments in consumer credit. He note that the credit plana frequently do not requii,: the signatures of parents. Youngsters, he points -out, are being urged to learn about credit by getting into debt, and the teen-age credit accounts are aimed at children too old to spank but too young to garnishee.

As might be expected, juvenile charge accounts are defended as community services and as living educational

programs In money management. A New York banker came closer to the truth, we believe. In likening such credit to teaching the young to use narcotics.

Even without going Into the matter of interest rates applying to juvenile charge accounts, the ingredients of an extremely unwholesome situation are plain to see. Neither, In our opinion, would matters be helped if youngsters were to avail themselve of the protection that is provided by law. This 1 to say that many an obligation can be avoided at the option of a minor.

Chores

(The Dallas Times Herald)

A professor at Pennsylvania State University says there is absolutely no relation between the number and kind of chores a child is assigned and the sense of responsibility he shows latsr as an adult.

Indeed, said the professor, from some of our data there is a suggestion that too many urgent and serious duties, assumed too early, can have an adverse fect on children.

Most parents have enough trouble standing on their feet without someone pulling the rug out frohi under them.

Doing the dishes, dusting the furniture and feeding the pets may not make a child a better adult, but it will at least get the dishes washed, the furniture dusted and the pets fed.

The boat was named Eskimo III and it was owned by a Wis-conslner.

we a8kcd..MAir U. tbl* ^ere

the longest boat to tig up at the basin.

No, he replied. He had seen 118 foot boau pull in there.

At one time both the Sealevel Tavlor brothers yacht and its sister ship to that one were moored at the same time.

Both boats were 118 feet in length and cost around S750,-000 tb build. The two boats just happened to arrive at the same time. It was unuial enough so that an aerial photo was taken of the basin with the sister fhips tied at the pier, Mayers exhibited'a print of it.

We took another look at the Eskimo the

other vessels tied up at the dock.

We tried Imagine one almost twice as long as even this one. Somehow It seemed that a boat of that size should be at the state pwrt down the road.

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS GRATITUDE AND HAPPINESS

Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks. The Hebrew psalmist who write this verse more ^lun^ typ thousand years ago had learned what a great many people living today have never discoveredthe connection between gratitude and happiness.

It i* a strange thing, but we can almost never enjoy our blessing to the fullest extent unless we are grateful for them. Perhaps it is because we do not realize what blessings they are until we also realize how much we owe to the provider of them. And for almost everything which make us truly happy, we are partly Indebted to the work, gifts, or generosity of scmicone else.

Real gratitude to the giver makes us enjoy the gifts more. But ingratitude prevents us from enjoying It as much as we might, for It automaUcally minishes the value of the gift. What we do not give thanks for, we do not value much; and what we do not value much, we cannot greatly enjoy.

Happiness is at once the cause and the result of graUtude. If w'e are grateful to those around us for their goodness to us, how much more we should be gi*ate-ful to God as the giver of all goodness and the source of all beauty and joy!

Oh give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good.

Silly

Season

Ideas

By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKY .Copyright, IMO, King Featnree Saadlcate, Inc.

I see In The Insider's Newsletter. an item to the effect that Denver, Colorado, has invented a new method of hiring and firing teachers. They wlU do it by the pound. To discover how competent a teacher is to teach, let us say, calculus, Denver will put the tescber on a scale and weigh her. If the-weight is right, that proves the teacher knows tbs Quantum Theory. ' . . ^

The story aays that Denver's Health Service Department has liated t minimum and a maximum for teachers. 11 a young lady Is 5 feet 6 inches, she must weight between 99 and 170 lbs. That proves beyond doubt that she speakc French like a native, can teach American history like Charles A. Beard and can produce a school orchestra as Paul Whiteman's father did. 11 this same teacher seeks tenure, she must weigh between 116 and 153 lbs. Nothing is said about tht condition mi her teeth.

Maybe, you think I dreamed all this up on a Spring day wr that I hava run out ol copy. So help me, that is what The liudders Newsletter says in Its issue lor wbtneo. oft Mty 30. on page 2, I read it twka to make sure that they wera tAIking about teachers and not hones.

The account even gives the reason lor this Important advance in education: teachers must be "physicilly, emotionally and mentally lit adults, and In Denver they expect to prove this fitness by weight. It is true that these days it is fssluonable to believe that skinny people re fitter than fat. It ta said that fat people are mort prone to heart ailments. However, skinny folks catch colds and sneeze. So. which is a better teacherone who is prone to a heart attack or one who sneezes? Of course, well-rounded but not fat gals are pleasanter to the eye; it is doubtful 11 very young children really care.

As lor the emotions, that is lt>-deed a tough one. The very fat girl may not have bo.vf I that might sour her anU lie might take it out on the k^us. On the other hand, it has long been traditional that fat folks are gay and Jolly and skinny ones have a mean and hungry look. So you can form your opinion from psychiatry or Shakespeare as you choose, Denver being J>lood

pressure is auiCTent up ^here and they may have a different experience from the rest of us with the emotions. Nevertheless. teachers are people anywhere and are likely to have emotions about this or that, no matter how skinny or fat.

Finally, mental fitne.ss is something which appears in queer places. Certainly nobody would have expected Mozarts father to produce such a son. Aristotle, Newton ind Einstein mual have been mentally fit, for theira were the greatest intellects the human race has yet produced but their progenitors gave no indications that they would produce genius. I once saw Einstein waUtini about in the queerest clothts ever and if a stranger who had no intimation of his greatness saw him, he might have imagined that here was sn old man who had lost his way. Well, it was Einstein all right and be had such mental fitness as no teacher in Denver ever possessed.

It would seem that we get wacky Ideas all the time and this one is particularly wacky. Why not select teachers by the size of their feet or the color of their hair? For Instance, a red-headed teacher might be legarded as too fiery and a blonde as too flirtatious, while a brunette might be seductive which would start the little boys off wrong. Perhaps there should be only bald-headed teachers. That would be dangerous too, for the little boys might grow up with a complex to hate women and that might make them masochists or something. There are books on the subject whch you can read if you are so inclined.

The best solution to this serious problem would be to hire teachers who have no heads at all- Or better still, to do all our educating by closed circuit (Continued on page six)

Suburbs Grow At Cities' Expense

By ELMER KOESSNEIl

The decennial Census is forcing business to accept a fact It knew all along: That the suburbs were growing at the expense of the cities as well as through the Increase in population.

For ten years now, biisine.xs has been forced to acknowledge that the suburbs were growing. This took only the slightest observation. An executive In almost any city need only hop in a car and head in almost any direction to discover aras in which thousands of people were buying houses, planting shrubbery, difflng swimming pools, and procreating in a dedicated sort of way.

Tlie trend was quite evident between Uie end of World War II and the 1950 Ceasus. gdme iiierclmnts thought is oriLv a p.u>;siini! mailer; others agreed that the suburbs were neces.sar-i!y Riowing becau.se of the Increase ui populaliou.

MORE THAN A TREND

But most mercliant* rejected tlie secondary assumption; that the change was tidal as well.

An Outsburg shopping and residential center sprung up out.side of Dwntown.sburR in many parts of the country.

Sure, said Downlown.sbiirg merchants, it Is filled with new families that -cant find living space in town. The people out there arc young couplc.s, V ar veterans and all that, who aren't making enough to live in dewntewn apartmenUb, or shop at downtown tres.

Sure, we can set up some branches, stock them with goos for marginal cu.stomers, and keep our main store.s operating with slock.s in depth and breudlh.

In some instances, this was true. Young hu-bands, when tapped for higher jobs, .sometimes movt back into city apartments. But when others get a promotion, they aie more like

ly to move further out than closer In.

CENSUS BURSTS THEORY

Now. fropi city to city, and shopping area to shopping area, the 1960 Census figures are coming in, City after city is raLsing municipal .si ream.s.

The ligure.s .show Lliat not only are live subiirlw increasing In populationwinch everybody had knownbut that the cilie^ are losing. The grim fact is that not only are new families sending down rools in suburbs, but that older urban families are pullisg up roots to migrate to butsburgs around the country.

This will have profound ef-fecUs on retail merchanclLsing In the near future. Slore.s that have resisted surburban Uanch-es on the theory that Outsburg customers would soon be coming back to see shows and hit fancy re.'itauranis will quickly be slocking branches in depth and acklinu lU'W one.s.

Downtown w'iU never die. But

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the facts on population now piling up Will show that proportionately it Is less of a long-range factor in merchandisni. Suburba is growing, not only with young families struggling to keep up payments, but with establLshed families movliiy outward, ever outward.

BE CAREFl'L OF RIENDLY B.\NKERR

Herbert A. Leggett, editor of the house nrgari of the Valley National Bank, of Phoenlz, Ariz., currently questions the practice ef creatisg corporate images for banks, which El-most any public relations outfit will do for a fe.

"It may be heresay to question .such a trend, but there Ls obviously more to banking thru being jovial and friendly,. he writes. One of the friendliest people we ever met bilked his customers, embezzled company fund.*!, dm-rted his family and ran off with a neigh-bojfs wife.