Tu*diy, Auguit 23, 1966

An Important Day In Life Of Area

ToDiorrow when the auctioneers chant marks has traditionally regarded as its busiest. It is the be-the beginning of another tobacco marketing season ginning of the season of the year when money flows throughout the Eastern area of the state, farmers most freely throughout this region which BtUl feels will not be the only ones keenly watching the early the economic impact of good and bad crop years, market trends. The whole economy of Eastern North Carolina

Although the Eastern area of the state is no longer radiate srfom the tobacco marketing today not nearly as dependent upon tobacco for season as it once seemed to, but the opening of the its livelihood as it was even a decade ago, the crop merket each year still remains an important day in still accounts for a large part of the total income the life of the area, of the area. It still accounts for the lionas share of the total farm income in the section, and as such plays a considerable role in the total economy.

The experience on the more southern tobacco belts this year point to another banner year on the Eastern markets. Prices have been high on the more southern markets, and the quality of the crop in Pitt County and its immediate vicinity appears good.

Beginning tomorrow and for the next eight or 10 weeks, literally millions of dollars will be pumped into the economy of Eastern North Carolina through the tobacco market. In addition there will be additional millions of dollars paid out to those employed and to others whose jobs are associated directly or indirectly in warehouse or redrying plant operations with the tobacco sales season.

It is a season of the year which the Eastern area

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Consolation For Budget-W atcher s

State's !?^roblems

School

Grow

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SCHOOLS Not only will North Carolinas public schools continue to feel the pinch of crowded classrooms, lack of space, equipment and facilities this Fall but a shortage of classroom teachers have become acute.

Both problems, classroom space and teachers, are being ?lewed with fresh and considerable alarm in Raleigh and by local boards of education.

Only a very few communities in the state, a bare handful, are ** in what could be called really good shape, according to state school officials in Raleigh.

In addition, increased levels ef racial integration among both pupils and faculty and higher costs for lunchroom programs and other items are adding to the headaches of public school administrators.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

TEACHERS - Figures fUed with the N. C. Department of public Instruction indicate a probable shortage of at least 1,676 classroom teachers statewide and of several hundred other instructional and administrative personnel, all needed Immediately.

The help wanted columns ef the states newspapers daily list dozens of available teaching positions.

Ik*. Charles F. Carroll, state superintendent of public instruction, cites the teacher shortage as perhaps the most pressing problem.

The staffing problems of our schools must have immediate and concentrated attention, he says. He concedes that the supply of teachers, Is well nigh exhausted.

REASONS - School officials across the state have cited numerous reasons for the teacher shortage, but few are willing to pinpoint these or attempt to fix blame.

The state teacher allotment for 1966-67 provided for a net gain of only 541, Carroll says. But with federal ald-to-educa-tion funds and programs, projects were developed for more than 3,500 extra teachers, librarians, counselors and supervisors. This meant more pos-sitions 4o be filled than originally provided for.

Also, public school teachers have been going into more remunerative fi Sources said many have teaching because of dissatisfaction, uncertainty and unpleasant situations.

QUALIFIED - Carroll, apparently backed up by a majority of the states educators, insists that quality of instruction not be sacrificed and that only capable, qualified and competent teachers be hired.

If we cannot find them to take these positions, let us leave them vacant for neither school not the children ever benefit through use of incompetent personnel.

He feels that if competent qualified teachers cannot be found for such specialized fields as mathematics, science and foreign languages, he would recommend that the courses not be offered.

SPACE Probaby as many very likely morepup 11 s will attend classes in mobile units this Fall. These will have to be used to house the

It probably didnt help the ulcers of many bud-get-watchers and taxpayers the other day when Dr. Charles Carroll predicted North Carolina would be spending a billion dollars a year on education in another decade;

The statement by the superintendent of public instructionhead the public schools of the state is more realistic that many people may wish to acknowledge. To say the state will be sepending twice as much of its own funds on education a decade from now than it is today may seem exagerated. Yet, North Carolina will face each year increasing demands upon its school system. It will have to handle the job of educating an increasing number of young people. More than that, it will have to provide better quality education for this larger number of youngsters year-by-year.

The educational standards of this year in the public schools will not be adequate a couple of years from now. Indeed, they probably will not be adequate even a year from now. North Carolina must year-by-year provide better quality educational opportunities for its young people if they are to meet the demands that will be made upon them as adults.

Rather than fretting over the billion dollar prediction of Dr. Carroll, North Carolinians would better use their time in preparing to foot the bill for that kind of educational expenditures in the next decade.

Dr. Carrolls estimate is more likely to be on the low side than on the high side.

Might Change

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By HAL BOYLE

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)Probably no president in history wished more for public approval than President Johnson. So it should be no surprise if he makes changes in the way he handles his job.

Polls indicate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York is gaining strength as a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.

This must be a shock to Johnson. Kennedy had been considered a good presidential bet in 1972. But speculation about 1968 hardly went beyond thinking Johnson might want him as No. 2 man on his ticket, instead of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.

Theres wide gap, and a cool one, between Johnson and

Kennedy.

Since his election in 1964 the senator, brother of the late President John F, Kennedy, has kept himself steadily in the public eye with speeches, statements, and colorful trips like the one to South Africa.

He has differed with the Johnson administration repeatedly, and at times has been bluntly critical, thus setting himself apart from close links with the President and creating a picture of him- ^

self as a sort of independent i 1\ ^TTl

spirit to whom Democrats 1 iV KZ i CJ V iC:L iNiU-iii

could turn for leadership

(Richmond News Leader)

NEW YORK (AP)-It used to be that the American office employe who came to work late had no way to kill time on the job before leaving early for lunch.

Then someone invented the morning coffee break, and the

problem was solved.

No history of U.S. business and how it grew will be complete without a chapter on coffee breaks.

Coffee breaks now often are held in company - sponsored lunchrooms, and here are some

Other Editors Saying

whenever they wanted to.

This is hardly a new experience for Johnson with the Kennedy family.

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overflow of an anticipated a ^ t r statewide record enrollment, Y 0OFS

Ago Today

In this respect, however, relief is on the way in t h e form of a stepped-up state school building program financed with proceeds of a flOO million state school bond issue and increased local support.

Many new classrooms have been completed or will be ready for occupancy this Fall, but not nearly enough.

Thanks to a lone house-wife in Freeland, Michigan, thousands of families are finding out that it costs only five cents to send airmail to servicemen in Viet Nam. Mrs. Gail Hock discovered that three letters can go for less than the price of two, and they MABLOVf will arrive within four to six days. It also means great savings for packages, which get almost the same treat-ment.

JAMEA

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By JOHN G. DUNCAN Aug. 23, 1926 Rudolph Valentino Died This Morning in New York Hospital NEW YORK, Aug. 23-Ru-dolph Valentino, the original shiek of the movies, died this morning at the Polyclinic Hospital . . . Valentino came East several weeks ago to attend the Broadway premier of his latest picture and collapsed in his apartment here a week ago Sunday afternoon. He was removed to the hospital where an immediate operation was decided upon. Local peritonitis set in shortly after the operation and the doctors announced that only his rugged constitution could save him from the dreadful infection becoming general. He rallied Wednesday and was reported definately out of danger. A statement that he had developed pleurisy issued last. night followed the terse report of a relapse.

Moores Creek Celebration To be Held Tomorrow

MOORES CREEK, Pender County, N. C., Aug. 23 With appropriate ceremonies a 30 acre tract of land here will tomorrow be transferred from the State to the Federal Government, the cerem o ny being the celebration of the sesqui-centennial of the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge. Assistant Secretary of War, Hanford MacNider, will accept the land which will be converted into a nat i o n a 1 park.

Returns from New York Miss Pink Manning returned today from New York, where she has been to purchase fall millinery and ready-to-wear for Misses Mannings Speciality Shop.

In the late 1950s it was the tireless Johnson, chained to his job which, as the Senates Democratic leader, steered the legislative programs through Confess under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Sen. John F. Kennedy in those years spent a lot of time building up support around the country for his president!^ candidacy in 1960. It paid off: Kennedy got the nomination, Johnson got the vice - presidential spot.

He was bound to lose some popular support as a result of the American role in the Vietnamese war: the casualties, the cost, the uncertainty about where it leads.

Yet for months earlier this year he let his critics in and out of Congress practically monopolize the public mind witti their fault - finding while he contented himself with more or less scattered statements.

He probably would have done himself good if he had chosen to meet his critics headon with a length, detailed explanation to the nation on television. He has been reluctant to make the most possible use of televised news conferences.

Johnsons whole political life and training had been spent in a manner which is the opposite of public relations. He dealt with members of Congress, in the House and and Senate, close up to get thmgs done.

His energy was endless. He probably was the best Senate majority leader in American history. But by the very nature of the head - to - head dealings that went with his job he was pretty much shut off for years from the kind of broad public relations a president needs.

Even though tiiis service has been available since February, not many people and few post offices have heard about it. Mrs. Hock made her discovery in a lengthy, three-month correspondenct that involved her Congressman, top Post Office officials, and the Defense Department. Then she discovered that most local post offices had not paid attention to the instructions which were issued routinely on February 4, with a reminder on April 14. No offic i a 1 announcement was made by the Post Office, not even a poster. The only public indication of the new service was a press release that came out of the flood of releases from the White House press office

on January 29.

An inquiry to the Richmond Post Office ran true to form, with airmail rate specialists drawing a blank. After a diligent search, however, local officials confirmed that the Viet Nam mail directives had indeed been placed in their books on the proper date. First class letters, with postage at five cents an ounce, will go first to Washington (since Richmond is in (he Washington air mail district); then the letters will go by air to APO numbers in San Francisco, where they will be routed by air for Viet Nam. Packages, up to five pounds, however, will go by surface mail to San Francisco; from this point the Air Force will airlift them to Viet Nam on a space-available basis. Although no official figures were available, local postal officials estimated that the packa g e air-lift might save two to three weeks.

The administration is to be congratulated for providing this speedy service at modest cost for friends and relatives of servicemen fighting in Viet Nam; it has been too modest, though, in letting people know about this act of war-time generosity.

figures in the cast of characters you may be familiar with in your own office:

Genial George no one gets more pleasure out of the morning break than the office toper. If you take a sip from his paper cup of cheer, youll be cheered too. It has four big ounces of bourbon in it.

The Round Table its patronized by fat stenographers. They gorge themselves on dou^nuts, crullers and pastry so that they can go shopping during the lunch hour instead of wasting it by eating on their own time.

HAL

BOYLE

Suspicious Sidhe believes the management is trying to get rid of the staff by serving poisoned coffee, so he brings his own in a Thermos bottle.

Traitor TomHe drinks his coffee alone in sullen silence. No one wants to sit with him because all are convinced he is a spy and gets paid extra by the front office for relaying disloyal gripes he overhears in the lunchroom.

Hapless HarryHe is a mechanical jinx. Every time he puts a dime in the coffee machine it breaks down. Harry then calls a one-man strike until the personnel director personally returns him his lost dime.

The AddictHe doesnt real-(Continued On Page 6)

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1906, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The case of Senator Tom Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, has apparently been put in mothballs by the Senatorial investigating committee pending further researd into the uses which the Senator put the campaign money raised by the contested testimonial dinners. So we wont know much about the ins and outs of the Senators asccounting practices until some tima in the fail. But if Dodds reputation for financial probity is to be left dangling for a few more weeks or months, it should be said in the interim that the charges that he did anything reprehensible by befriendinff General JuUus Klein,^puollc relations man for West German industrialists, have collapsed utterly.

Indeed, the who! weght of the evidence Is that Dodds trip to Germany, in the course of which he told former Chancellor Adenauer that General Klein had been unfairly represented in the West German press because of the grilling he received before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was an attempt to rectify a blatant Injustice. The fact is that Klein, a patriot who served America In two

world wars, had been victimized by a sort of liberal Me-Carthyism. He had voluntarily submitted to ao interrogation by Senator Fulbrights Foreign Relations Committee when it was trytng to discover whether agents of foreign interests were ezerdsing nefarious influence on the development of U. S. forei gn policy.

Nothing was turned np to show that Klein had done anything to harm America. Yet the ve^ fact that he had been grilled by a Senatorial committee led to Slanted news stories In the West German press. Not being ful-acquainted with the nature of an American Congressional investigation, the West Germans apparently tod[ Kel-ins appearance before Senator Fulbright as evidence of some sort of guilt.

This sort of thing is an old story In the hlst^ oi Senate Investigations, In which the Senators get headlines that have a one-to-one relationship with the vigor, not to mention the ferocity, of their questioning. When Sena tor McCarthy was zeroing In upon a supposed culprit, the liberals wrote long articles should be permitted the rights of defense that are accorded to any common criminal in a court of law. But nobody took up for General Klein when, as a result of fbe Senate questioning he lost a fifty thousand dollars a year account with a West German client.

That is, nobody spoke up for Klein except Tom Dodd. Gi-eral Klein was quite within his rights as a citizen to ask Dodd to undo some of the damage resulting from the Foreign Relations Committee interrogation. And Dodd, In taking time out during his trip to Germany to speak up in Kleins behalf, was doing what any friend should have done.

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The people who say money isnt everything usually are NOT those who dont have it. Anniston (la.) Star.

More Ideas For Enterorisers

By ELMER ROESSNER

Joseph J. Shachman, a Chicago sound equipment specialist, has reversed and old sales principle and has made it pay off.

For decades a basic of selling has been: never ask a customer how much he wants to spend. The smart salesman was supposed to find out the shoppers price range from his apparel, liis conversation, and the items he showed interest in, and then push him as close to the limit as possible.

But Shachman asks a customer how much he wants to invest in sound equipment, then shows items at that price. It pays, says, says Shachman. And it got him written up in Home Furnishings Daily. OTHER IDEAS FOR BUSINESS

Here are some more ideas for enterprisers:

When making a change in procedures, equipment, systems, always remember that

people fear change, and that includes your employees. So in planning any change, eliminate fear. Explain, explain, explain well in advance of the innovation. Try to make every employee feel that he is a little father or a little mother to the change. In fact, if you can, try to make him tWnk he thought of it.

ELMER

5 ROESSNER

In leasing equipment, make sure that the agreement does not make you the insurer of the equipment. It may result in heavy liability. And if the lessor Insists on your responsibility, take out a comprehensive policy to cover all risks. Note; This also applies to au

to rentals, even for short periods.

Combine research for new products and research for diversification. Bringing out a new product very similar to an old one may save on tooling costs and distribution, but it may knock out the old one. On the other hand, a new product in a new field, while more costly to launch, may result in diversification cheaper than a merger. DROPS-OUTS CAN COST YOU, TOO

Theres a lot said about school dropouts,but sales and production dropouts can be lighly expensive to business. Investigate every quit. If you you may be able to avert the next quit. And in selecting new employees, look for those who wont drop out. A bad gamble; the man who has had an unusually high number of jobs in recent years.

Apply the same thinking in selecting employees for train

ing programs. The man who gave up before is the most likely one to give up again.

Resist lateness. 11111 can save thousands of dollars in man hurs a year. Let employees know they will be docked for late arrival, then dock them. Even if you get Into a union hassle and you lose in arbitration, you will probably win in the end because you will put over the idea that you Insist on prompt ihow-ups.

If you do more than Incidental mailings, check your scales every day. Most scales are affected by temperature and moisture and a change can cost you a hundred dollars a day if scales are not adjusted for it.

Tip: If you cant make up your mind whether a mailing item is under or over an ounce, put a dozen samples on. Then it will be easy to aee whether they are under or over 12 ounces, and whether one Is under or over.