Friday, June 8, 1962

Facilities Needed To Do The Job

Ea&t Carolina College's request for $10.4 provements to meet its future demands, but like-milHon from the state, for capital, improvements in wise the task of making up for facilities it should the next biennium is certain to cause raised eye- already have but doesnt.

browa in some sections of North Carolina. In the words of President Leo W. Jenkins,

At the same time, officials of the school would Carolina is already four years behind in capi-

not be fulfilling their responsibility if they failed tal improvements to meet its needs. The making to present realistic capital improvements to meet up for this lost time in meeting capital improvement the needs of this large and fast-growing institution needs makes the request appear larger than usual. They would not be fulfilling their responsibility to But unless the facilities are forthcoming. East Caro-the young people seeking a college education or lini will find itself in the position of having to turn to other citizens of the state if they ignored needs away more and more prospective' students who are

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of the school for the sake of presenting a lower request for'capital improvements.

It is significant that although the request is some $2.5 million more than the one presented by East Carolina College two years ago, it would be under the 1961-63 request had the items included

seeking a college education. It is our feeling that the college already is havipg to lurn away too many prospective students for lack of facilities.'

If North Carolina citizens expect East Carolina and other major colleges of the state to meet the demands being made upon them by an ever in-

in last Novembers bond issue been approved by the creasing number of applicants, it is essential that

these colleges be provided w*ith the physical plants needed to handle the greater number of students. If North Carolina expects to pull itself from its next-to-the-bottom position among the 50 states in the number of college-age people who are actually ill college, it must both improve and expand its facilities for higher education.

Although the $10.4 million requested for capital improvements by East Carolina is a large request,*-it is obviously realistic when viewed against the backdrop of the needs of the institution, the demands being made upon it, and the position it is expected to fill in higher education in North Carolina.

Without classrooms, without dormitories and without other needed additional facilities, neither East Carolina nor any other college can expect to meet the greater demands for higher education being made by the young people of North Carolina.

voters of the state.

Of the $10.4 million being requested by East Carolina now, some $3.4 represents improvements that were approved by the 1961 General Assemblv and included in the state-wide bond issue for capita) improvements at institutions of higher learning. As is the case with most other state-supported colleges, East Carolina now faces the task of providing im*

Emphasis Is On Traffic Safety

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

IMPACT North Carolina is about to begin a concentrated, coordinated drive against and study (rf traffic accidents, doing things that have never been done before in the age of the automobUe.

Officials in charge of Project Impact fully expect that one result uilJ be a marked reduc-tiwi in accidents, deaths and in-jurie.s in the six counties carefully selected fo** the effort.

It is one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken to curb and study cause and effect involved in the problem. A number of other states and the National Ti-affic Safetv Council ah'cady Inve expressed Intei'e.st and will be watching the project closely.

The first orintaion and briefing for officials involved in the project was scheduled this afternoon Fndayi in Fayetteville, with oUic kick-off sessions to be held later in Greensboro and Aslwvilic.

SCOPE Three areas, one in the East. Wc.st and Piedmont. were chosen for Project Impact The aitas comnrise two adjoining counties each Cumberland and Robeson in the East. Guilford and Forsyth in the Piedmont and Buncombe and Haywood in the West.

These areas were chosen on the basis of accident rates, geography, topography, h i g h-ways, vaning and peculiar traffic problems and altogether present virtually every traffic situation which might be encountered in the state.

Guilford and Forsjth are ammig the most populous counties in the state, presenting urban and expressway traffic sit-uatlwis. There are industrial and suburban areas, shopping centers and congested areas.

Cumberland has both urban ind rural traffic problems, plus the largest military installation in the state. Ft. Bragg. Robe-<Mi, a large, mostly rural county with numerous small town, has three racial populations white. Negro and Indian represented, and has one of the highest accident fatality rates In the state.

Resort areas, tourist traffic, parkways, mountains and other factors are found in Buncombe and Haywood counties.

There are State Highway patrol troop headquarters and highway department district headquarters in each of the three areas, facilitating the coordinated effort which is planned.

EFFORT - It W1 be the first time that such fuD coordination between the Highway department and Motor Vehicles department has been achieved.

The cmirts. other official*, the relatively new North Carolina traffic Safety council and the genei-al public also will be asked to cooperate in the project emphasizing the three Es of an effective traffic safety program education, engineering and enforcement.

An all-out traffic safety education will be carried on. The highway department will undertake a massive engineering program of speed limits, signing, signals, marking and other traffic flow and accident-prcvention measy^s.

Maximum enforcement Is planned. The highway patrol likely will increase its strength in the selected project areas by as much as 50 per cent, using every speed and unsafe-driving deterrent it can muster. An official said new methods, materials and imaginative treat-men^: would be employed.

Additional highway and highway patrol personnel and equipment will be moved in for Project Impact. Go\. Terry Sanford has appealed for necessary cooperation of public of-ficial*: on the local level.

RESULTS - The officiaLs in charge of the project say it is almost certain, a proven fact, that the continuous, rigid enforcement and other phases of the campaign will quickly reduce the traffic accident rate.

This we know for certain. says Phil EUis. executive director of the N. C. Ti*aific Council. But more important. * w-e believe this sort of coordinated effort and study will show just where and how a program of this sort can be most effective. If there is a falldown somewhere, we should be able to pinpoint it.

The goal, of course, is to determine methods and policies along with improvements which may be indicated and apply them on a state-^lde. continuing and permanent basis. In Project Impact, the engineering and enforcement measures to be employed have been proven effective and. are merely being demonstrated on a concentrated scale.

The third arm of Project Impact the only factor which officials believe is untested is public support.

BELTS - The Traffic Safety councils effort in cooperation with Junior Chambers of Commerce to get seat belts into u.se in North Carolina resulted in 6(1.000 seat belts being sold on a non-profit basis.

Council officials point out the magnitude of the traffic .safety problem in the toll of 1.254 persons killed and 34,438 injured in traffic accidents in North Carolina in 1961.

Water Safety Remains By DON SCHLIENZ

Largely Up To Parents SeOSOnal

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Each hot (lay from now until September will stimulate the desire of most youngsters for a cooling dip in a nearby pond, pool, river or stream. And in the refreshing waters of each of these will lurk potential tragedy for those who are ill equipped to safelv'venture in.

In recent veeks there has been an increasing number of accidental drownings in rivers, streams, farm ponds and other unsiipervised areas where youngsters aild adults have sought relief from the rising temperatures. As the summer bears down and the mercury goes higher, it is probable that the number of such tragedies will increase.

They will increase, that is, unless adults in every community make more than the norhial effort to instruct youngsters in water safety techniques, to provide for supendsed swimming in specific places, to seek to prevent youngsters from cooling themselves in unsupendsed ponds and streams. There must be a concerted effort by parents to impress upon their youngsters the importance of water safety, the dangers which may be encountered and the tragedy which may.jg^sult from what starts out to be a carefree, refreshing dip.

Organized agencies during the next few months will give swimming lessons and water safety in-

rae UDon Us

After struggling through a long fall, a longer winter and brief spring, thoughts gravitate to vacations.

Its part of Nature.

Like the migration of birds or the return of salmon to their spawning grounds.

Parts of the vacation phenomena is that people advise other people to take them. And, despite each experience of sunburn, exhaustion, aching muscles and slimmer wallet, the approaching season spurs a yearning to walk on new ground, travel down strange highways, see new scenes and depart from the accustomed rut of dally living.

For some it means the cool clean breeze (closer to Heaven)^ at a mount^ resort:. for others the bumitg sun, sand and salty foam of (the beach.

Tme. some trivel for the sake of travel: a holiday spent on the road; each hour, each day providing a new panorama to sate a hunger for novelty and

beauty.

Visiting a foreign land is no longer an unusual vacation treat. Mexico, Bermuda, Canada ai-e all within easy range. And almost any place in Europe is only hours away.

The curative effects of vacationing are such that they should be taken only infrequently. The constant vacationist is in time prone to becoming a bum. But when Judiciously taken, the subject L" an inspired laborer in the vineyard.

'That familiar restlessness has been growing more acute, and w'aking and sleeping thoughts are bent on briefly departing from a hitherto comfortable rut.

Come the end of June, and zoooommmmm.

As ah amateur connois.seur of such things, Im mildly miffed by writers at home and abroad for putting Benny Goodman and his band in the jazz category.

adults. But even with this effort, many children will be left to learn for themselves about the water, r how to swim, what is .lafe nd what isnt. The major responsibility for preventing water tragedies during the summer months will rest with the parents and the instruction they give their own youngsters.

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WASHINGTON (APt - There is probably no activity in which the Kennedy administration has been so vague or silent as on the economic and military aid it is giving South Viet Nam.

The United Slates, under the Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations combined, has put about $2 billion in aid into South Viet Nam in its fight against Communist puerrllJas.

President Kennedy has sent a force of perhaps 6,000 mUilary men there, plUs variou.s kind.s of militan-' equipment, including about 80 helicopters.

Exact infoiTnation on the equipment, the men. and what they're doing is suppo.sed to be classified technically as a military secret.

The French, before they pave up, held South Viet Nam a.s a colony. Now the couptry, with Its own government under President Diem, is in effect, a dlc-tatonshp. The Communist guer- rilla^ had been making a lot of progre.ss.

When Kennedy was a senator he emphasized repeatedly that South Viet Nam needed economic aid and reioiTns to" give the masses of the people a tangible reason for opposing the Communists and their promises.

Last October Kennedy sent

his military adviser, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, over there to see Avhat was needed. Last December, after Taylor's return, the administration let out this in-formation:

That militauy help to Viet Nam would be increased and that the Diem government had agreed to a dozen new steps-including social reform,s and more representative rovciti-ment to make the anti-Com-munist fipht tougher.

Everrthlng since then ' on the subject of reforms has been extremely vague.

But what kind of help the American military forces are giving South Vietname.se has also been extremely shadowy. Kennedy has said this is a sensitive subject.

Here are some bit* of information picked out of AP stories which have come out of South Viet Nam In the past s i x m(Miths about the American military role there.

American fliers ferry .South Vietnamese troops in helicon-* ters to the battle zone. U. S. pilot.s are in the cockpits of Vietnamese fighting plane.?, instructing Diem.^ pilots in the learn while you fight principle.

Further; U. S. advisers are the Jungles, marehes and for-

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(Christian Science Monitor)

A thoughtful look around the world today produces exactly the opposite impression from the daily headlines. This Is not a time of confusion drifting toward catastrophe. It is a world where people are hard at work, conscientiously and with a surprising show of good sense and ihtelligence, attacking their problems.

To say this Is not naive optimism. It is to look through the surface confusion to the real forces at work in today's world. The West is~hot soft with prosperity. On the contrary, the more fortunate countries in material teiTus are ver>' much on the alert In .several respects. They are resisting that peculiar kind of stagnation, that let down of effort, which comes in the soothing lap df prosperity. Europe is opening up a great new market with an extraordinary buret of enterprise. Britain and the United States are refusing to settle back in apathy and self-satisfaction. They are bracing themselves to join with the new European progress but to turn it outward, to make it consistent with their larger international responsibilities. At the same time they ai c making unprecedented efforts to help the new and developing countries and to remain militarily strong to keep communism in check.

This is a formidable battery of constructive efforts. They are all beset with problems but all making headway.

The trends in the Communist world can be looked at in two ways. One is to rejoice in the discomfiture of one's enemies Which is a dubious luxury and

unproductive. A better way is to see that a slow' working of humane values is putting pressure on the Communist system and that economic difficultieslike the painful meat shortage in the Soviet Union and the farm setbacks in China are making state controls look a little ridiculous.

Make no mistake. Communism is a powerful opponent. But the greater strength and resilience of the free system in all its departments is beginning to tell.

The uncommitted world is going through the most extraordinary period of condensed and intensified growth, hurtling into independence, economic growth, and social change. A huge popular impatience is straining against delays and the Inertias of the past. What is remarkable is the comparative poise and good sense, speaking generally, of these untrained and untried peoples in the midst of such turmoil. Communism has made surprisingly few gains, and has lost many of the.se.

What is realiy happening in oui' time is a great acceleration of the spread of good concepts and good things and an intensified contest between these trends and the force.s which w'ould misuse or resist them. In Lincoln's phj-ase the times are piled high Avlth difficulty. But there is no case for despair. Looking at the members of a graduating class at this season of the year we would not wish to give them rhetoric^ but the evidence that intelligence and good will are at work on all sides to an unprecedented degree. ,

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Weve never had it so good or taken aw'ay from us so fast, Wheatland (Iowa) Gazette.

Everywhere the trend is away from agriculture and toward industry. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call.

There is still no better

rule for the communication of ideas than the late Vice President Alben Barkleys

prescription for an effective campaign speech: (D have

something to say, (2) say it,

(3) shut up. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union.

With movies already aloft, about the only freedom remaining to the air passenger is freedom from tv. And W'e suppose that wont last forever.Wall Street Journal.

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That artiste of the clarinet simply doesnt belong in any one category

To me, and Im not alone, jazz denotes a quality of Inus-Ical improvisation with only one constant: the beat. A melody is never played twice the same way.

Benny Goodman and his band depend on arrangers who leave little room for straying from,-the score. The element of musical discipline is needed when a band is In the spotlight and quality must always stay well above average.

The Goodman name has been long linked to swing, a phase of popular music that grew out of an era that knew uninhibited jazz. The odds are, that when Goodman & Co. played One Oclock Jump in Russia, it was nearly identical with that numbers last perionnance by the band in the . S.

Sure, Goodman can improvise with the best.

But that is not the basis * of his popularity lor past decades in this country. He is. and has long been, the King of Swing.

He was one of the bandsmen who formalized jazz to meet the change in popular tastes. And. if you should by chance listen .someday to a Goodman recording. . .check that precise tone, the giving each note its proper and distinct due, the mechanical perfection blended w'ith an upliftjpg and happy spirit.

All in all, a very good choice to o send overseas to illustrate one of the happier sides of American culture.

Ooinions

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

When King Edward "VIII of Great Britain, etc., resigned his post to marry an American woman from Baltimore, Maryland, there were those who said that such a marriage would fail: that the Duke would regret his act. Twenty-five years have now passed and the Duke and Duchess are still husband and wife. This marriage has not failed.

The Duke and Duchess usually live in France, but tfiey come to this country once each year for about a month. Most of their time is spent in New York where they have many friends. They are a cheerful pair, who have no side to them, as the expression goes. Of course, there are Americans wbo thrill at meeting royalty.

But when all that Is done, one finds the Duke of Windsor a well-informed man w'ho has a sharp nose for the nuances of public affairs. He is in these parts 50 often that, in many ways, he has become one of us and is undoubtedly an excellent ambassador from the United States to Europe.

There are very few kings left in the world. The beautiful feudal conception of noblesse oblige is one of the qualities w'hich we have lost in our ascent to freedom. Also, in our civiliza* tion, where there are tw'o types of aristocracy, the lesser one, based on brains and the more numerous one. based on wealth, too often inherited from a rough-neck, self-made ancestor, the characteristics of an aristocracy based on ancestiT are hardly understood.

Many of the so-called European refugees who go by all sorts of feudal titles are not far removed from the fringes of ancient families who, in the thousand years of feudalism, were permitted to hold a spear and were rewarded with some ownership of land. The great families of Europe were few. Others, who ply various trades and give the impression that they have come dov-n in the world, have, in reality, been elevated by being permitted to live in this country where they can earn a living of one kind or another and are often invited to dinner for their titles.

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are, of course, not of this breed. They lend tone and add zest to the waning society^ of New York and the Duke gets to know what is. going on. He likes to meet people and has a flair for understanding.

It is none of our business how the British treat the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. But 25 years is a long time to get over a disappointment or an anger and most Americans like a marriage that lasts and a couple who find happiness.

I first saw the Duke when he was Prince of Wales and visited Japan. Since thSse merry years, much has happened to everybodys life. I saw him and his lady a few days ago and as we spoke, I could not help feeling that the years have really been kind to this man and that he has found a happiness in marriage which he could not have found as a king. For there is this about one who does not like to take advantage of his position; it must be very try'-Ing to have to toe a ministerial line and not speak up for himself. This is nowadays required of a king or queen.

The Duke is an extraordinarily attractive^ person and he and the Duchess' make a charming pair. They are not regal, in the motiori picture sense and one does not imagine anyone playing, Pomp and Circumstance, as they enter a room. They are a comfortable middle-aged couple, who, having been married to each other for a quarter of a century, obviously like the estate. Perhaps it is thus establishable that the Woman I love, is wcirth a throne. At any rate, there seejn to be no regrets.

Americans are not a vengeful people who can remain angry very long. To most of us, it is a bit surprising that the British people do not ask the Duke and Duchess to come to London to celebrate thir silver wedding. After all, London is home to them.

No one has lost anything or suffered in any way because the Duke married the Duchess 25 years ago. He had, before that, travelled the world to make Great Britain better liked. / He was regarded as Great \0rit-ains best salesman. Then the Duke spoke up like a m^n about (Continued on Page 7)

; Commercial Finance Comoanies

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ELEMENTS OF PRAYER A general in the Air Force has written this about prayer: The men who fly. . . . know the value of prayer. This has certainly been true of my thirty-year career as a rated officer, when I I was graduated from the old Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas. And I know I am not an exception.

This same officer advises those who pray not to wait until crisis stands before them. He reminds all who will listen that thanksgiving is the most important element of prayer, and that thanksgiving should continually be on the lips of those who have received. ^

Praj^r has l)een defined a.s conversation with God. All tnie

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prayer has about it the element of communion. In p r a y e r we commune with God, become one with Him In purpose, bend our wills until they become one with His. Praise is also an important part of prayer. Why d(^s God w'ant us to praise Him? He know's the perfection of Hia ways, and certainly our prajse of Him docs not further convince Him along this line., for '^^e needs no such convincing. Praise, as a matter of fact, ia 60 necessary because In it we hold before our consciousne.sa the things God has done. We contemplate them. We come to see how wonderful they are. Little by little we, grow' into the image of th^' One we praise. We find ourselve.s not only submitting to Him. but submitting gladly. His life becomes purs.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The Billy Sol Estes case, among other things^ spPtUghted commercial finance companies. ,a phase of business financing little understood by many businessmen. )

CcMsunercial finance coinpan-les, currently financing $16 billion worth of business loans, are Institutions somewhere between commercial banks and factors.

In financing business, they are not as starchy ta banks, nor do they usually take over receivables or control of products the way factors often dp. HELPED MANY TO GROW.

Were it not for commercial financing, some of the companies which would not be big business *today, include Monsanto, Buitoni Foods. Dow Chemical, National Airlines and United Arti.sts. V

And more and mere of the nation's exports imports arc be

ing moved with commercial finance dollars. For example, the last- part of a shipment of 341 American taxicabs, all financed by A. J. Armstrong Co., is-now on an ocean freighter bound for Peru.

Commercial finance companies do not compete,W'ith banks: they supplement their money service. When banks find that an otherwise sound compaliy does not qualify under its criteria for credit, commercial finance companies are called In, frequently by the banks themselves.

Companies with growlng-mon-ey pains are favcirite clients of commercial finance^ companies. They make loans against collateral such as accounts receivable (short-term or revolving), raw material, work in proce.ss, machinery and equipmerit, and fintehed inventory.

DHTERS FROM FACTORING

Acppunts receivable are the

usual collateral. This differs from factoring' which is the outright purchase of accoimts receivable by the factor, who takes the total credit risk.

Many commercial finance companies do both commercial financing and factoring, as well as rediscounting for smaller finance companies, financing of time sales and equipment leasing.

More and more banks are discovering commercial finance companies as allies. Commercial financing often preserves for the bank a good customer who might otherw'ise be lost.

Many firms urgently in need ' of dollars for expansion, mergers,' buyouts, or because they suddenly hit the sales jackpot, find they cannot meet their banks*8 loan standards.

Also, many businesses do not have sufficient seasoning to obtain normal bank credit on their unsecured n^es. Thus, the young growth companies are

hard put to get the cash they need.

FILLS PIGGY BANK

Another stumbling block for such small business is the annual cleanup required by banks, which dislike locked in loans that practically amount to working capital. Then a commercial finance company can fill both the credit gap and a corporate piggy bank.

Once a business has establish* ed itself as a good credit risk with ite regular bank, it leaves the customer roster of the commercial finance company, which doesnt mind a bit. As expressed by David Seiler, president of Armstrong;

Losing a customer to a bank is an honor of which we art proud.

Commercial finance companies appear to stand to lose (ion-slderable money in the Estes affair. However, they are gaining something in wider understand-. Ing- oI their opere^bhs.