Monday, September 12, 1966

Serving Students Of All The State

Arrivtl of Almoat 9,000 itudenU on th Eftit- tions, it i providing the states taxpayers an In-Carolina College campus for the new fall term is creasing return for their investment of tax dollars further evidence of the growing service the insti- in higher education.

tution is rendering citlaens of North Carolina. As the new fall term begins on the ECO campus

While most of these young people are from the and on other campuses, North Carolinians must Eastern section of the state, almost every one of the recognize the increasing needs of its institutions of 100 North Carolina counties is represented in the higher learning brought about by the constantly increasing demand for a college education on the part of its young citizens.

INTO THE VERY HALLS OF CONGRESS!

ECC student body. Year-by*year an increasing number of students are enrolling at ECC from the Piedmont and Western counties of the state. This is as it should be, for East Carolina is a state institution, dedicated to the service of the state.

As It provides higher education for young North Carolinians, whether they come from Manteo or Murphy, ECC is rendering a sendee to the state as a whole. As it makes its facilities available to additional young people through the highest utilization of buildings among the states educational institu-

Political Costs Also Going Up

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES FINANCE - The cost of political campaigning, like almost everything else, is going up and up.

In addition, finding funds to pay for todays higher priced campaigfia is tlcklieh business. Political financing relies almost enraly on fund raising dinners at anywhere from $5 to $50 and $100 a plate and contributions to the party

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and its candidates.

If the hat is passed too often, if a contributor is asked repeatedly to put up more and more money, if a political organization stages too many fund - raising dinners, the money - raising effort may backfire. It may have an adverse political effect.

So the problem facing political leaders and individual candidates is how to run a campaign on a tight budget, yet be able to pay for costly television t im e, billb o a r d space, advertising, posters, travel expense, printing and

. . . through the Red Cross Blood Progrofii.

Bloodmobile will be here Sept. 15, 16

postage, telephones, office space, employes salaries and other items.

Money The money problem is common to both political parties and to most individual candidates.

This is why North Caro-linas's Democratic party leaders called county chairmen and other officials to Raleigh the other day for a closed-to-hte press luncheon at the governors mansion.

State chairman I. T. (Tim) Valentine passed out quotas for each county to meet in the way of funds to finance the Fall campaign on the state level. He also urged care and caution in good about raising the money.

County chairmen were urged to give a great deal of attention to the fund - raising effort in order to meet the needs and maintain party stability.

COSTS While campaign costs have skyrocketed, Valentine said there were indications that certain Republican candidates have substantial financial support.

We want to be sure we are not outdistanced anywhere in our campaign effort, Valentine said.

At the same time, he said that while county quotas have been adjusted upward in most cases the total amount being sought is not substantially greater than in past years.

He said each county was assigned about what we thought they could raise.

BALLOTS Official ballots for the November general elections should reach county boards of election across the state in a few days.

The ballots are being sent out by the printer, Owen G. Dunn of New Bern, as rapidly as they can be run off, bundled and addressed. The Dunn firm has held the contract to print ballots for the State Board of Elections for a number of years.

Packages of 500 ballots and containers for absentee voters were shipped by insured parcel post to all 100 counties on Sept. 1. The law permits applications for absentee ballots to be filled on or after Sept. 1. Apparently because of Labor Day holiday mail delays, however, some counties failed to receive their absentee ballot supplies for nearly a week.

Questions Resolved Whatever The Ruling

The state has coved wisely in appealing to the Supreme Court a Superior Court judges ruling on brown bagging as it is practiced under existing liquor laws of North Carolina.

Some citizens, of counje, will object to the states appealing the earlier ruling. Some will object because they fear the high court will rule brown bagging illegal, and others for exactly the oppoeite reason.

Without an opinion by the Supreme Court, there would be no final, legal ruling on what the existing statutes mean with respect to brown bagging. Present confusing and conflicting opinions would continue.

Once the high court has ruled on the question, however, previous opinions of the Attorney Generals office and Superior Court judges will no longer have any bearing on the matter. The law will mean what the Supreme Court says it means.

If what the court says the law means is not in keeping with the desire of some citizens, then they may set in motion efforts to have the law changed.

Whatever the ruling, it will open the way to finally resolving questions that now surround brown bagging as it is practiced throughout the state.

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Standing room only and sold out are frequent signs at Broadways hits. They are just as appropriate to d e s-cribe the continuing crisis in college admissions and enrollment, reflected in the record number of students now streaming onto campuses throughout the region.

The strain is especially apparent at public institut i o ns, which enroll about two-thirds of all college students. Therefore it isnt surprising, as the overall admissions picture tightens up, that it is increasingly difficult for high school graduates to enter public colleges and universities outside their home states.

Although 80 percent of all college students remain in their home states to attend college, the 20 percent who do cross state lines are competing for relatively few places. The ratio of out-of-state applications to out-of-state places soared as high as 14:1 at one state university, and a ratio of 3:1 is fairly common at such institutions.

Nine out of every ten Southern students enroll in colleges in their own states. The typical Southerner who goes elsewhere selects a colle g e within the region.

There was only one Southern state, Virginia, with a net outmigration of more than 1,000 students in 1963, but North Carolina and Tennessee each made room for a net inmigration of more than 10,000 students.

There are marked differences in the pattern of student migration among levels of enrollment. Among graduate students, 23 percent stu-

Ooinions In Brie:;

The community that aspires greatness and achieves its goal is one where every resident considers himself the head of that community: I am the community in which I choose to live; I am the generating factor for the progress that community makes; I am responsible for the conditions that exist in my com-munity.Clark (S.D.) Courier.

Recent studies here and abroad indicate that the increase in heart disease and cancer among humans in the past 20 years corresponds to similar increases in those diseases among animals. Dr. H. Stunzi of Switzerland, for one, has found a striking increase in lung cancer in dogs and cats. Somerset (Ky.) Commonwealth-Journal.

In Ceylon, 16 members of parliament walked out in protest, when the finance minister began presenting the budget in English rather tljan in Tamil. We thought that was very Interesting, inasmuch as we ourselves have never heard a budget presented in English. Atlanta (Ga.)

A Survey Of Grown-Ups

dy outside their state of residence, while only 17 percent of undergraduates do so. Students involved in various professional schools have the highest rate of migration, 33 percent, explained in part by the fact that not every state offers every kind of professional education.

A recent study of state university admissions polici e s reveals that while few state universities set quotas for non-resdent students, their requirements for these students are clearly restrictive. Charging higher fees and raising academic standards are two means frequently employed to discourage out-of-state enrollments.

Actually the percent of students who attend college in states other than their own has not changed since 1930, but our rising college enrollments are causing us to re-examine all factors making up the college population. Some states have gone so far as to introduce legislation severely limiting non-resid e n t a d -missions to state colleges and universities.

The most frequently used argument against accepting out-of-state students at public institutions is that, even with higher tuition, they do not pay their fair share. This argument though heavily outweighed by the benefits of a diverse student body, the economic contribu i o ns made by a four-year student resident, and the ultimate contributions of the migrant student who elects to remain in the state where he received his education, is effective in a period when demand for admissions exceeds space.

There have been so many surveys on teen-agers and what they are thinking lately, that nobody knows whats going on with the adults any more. I was, therefore, happy to see that Hurt, the Magazine for Grown-ups Who Hurt Easily, has just completed a survey probing the minds of our nations adults. No matter how we personally feel about adults, they can no longer be ignored in our society.

The survey revealed that there is a sexual revolution going on now amongst grownups and a much more mature attitude has been achieved.

i"or example, a surprisingly large percentage of adults, 75 per cent to be exact, said they they believed there was nothing wrong with a man and woman living together after they were married. Only 12 per cent thought there was something wrong with it, and 13 per cent said they didnt know.

If you love somebody, one of the women said bluntly, you should marry him. Another man said, Our attitude on sex is no different from our childrens. They pre

tend to be shocked by what we do, but its hypocritical. I think sexual emancipation is as important for grownups as it is for teen-agers. We should be allowed to do anything they do.

The question of drugs came up in the survey. Forty per cent of til people questioned admitted they had tried aspirin and didnt find anything wrong with It. Ten per cent admitted they took Bufferin and 31 per cent said they had

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tried one of the other pain-killing drugs.

When asked why he took aspirin, one man replied, You have to try everything once.

A lady said, All the women in my bridge club use aspirin so I have to go along with them.

Strength For To(day

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Washington officials could solve our money problems the way we keep solving theirs? Greenville (S.C.) PiedmonL

By EARL L. DOUGLASS KEEP ON GOING

Yesterday we spoke about the charge often made that the Church is full of hypocrites. We voted thu m b s down on people who make such charges, jdeclaring that the Church isliot full of hypocrites but full of weak, stumbling Christians who morally fall flat on their faces every day but who pull themselves to their feet and start pressing on toward what they believe to be the better life.

In fact, there is more hypocrisy outside the Church than within the Church. We encounter frequently those people who are ready at all times to point out the mistakes in the Bible. What the Church calls revelation, they call myth or legends handed down by word of mouth through the centuries. 'They keep after the Supreme Court until they get a decision

outlawing prayers at the beginning of a school sess i o n. But let danger confront these people and many of them suddenly become as religous as the saints themselves.

Someone remarked recently that there are no atheists in cockpits when a plane starts to get out of control. Neither arc there many atheists when business ventures begin to topple and threaten collapse. There are probably more prayers offered in the doctors waiting room and in hospitals than anywhere else. Liberated teenagers, who smile complacently on the superstitions cherished by their parents, can do plenty of praying before examinations.

Some guy has written a book entitled, God is Dead. This is an astounding discovery and we wonder why it was that this particular chap was alerted to this stupendous circumstance above all the other three billion people on the planet.

And a father replied, I guess we take it for kicks. Its a way of us getting even with our children.

The majority of the adults polled said their children annoy them, and 57 per cent said they would leave home if they could. As soon as we possibly can, one father told the interviewer Were going to break away from our kids. ^

When asked what they had against their children, a majority of parents said, They dont understand us. Theyre always criticizing the clothes we wear, the books we read and the music we listen to. Some parents complained that their children ddnt approve of their friends and didnt want them going out at night to parties or the theater.

A few added that their children complained when they took the car. One man said, As a parent you have no

freedom at home, and a teenager will never listen to your problems.

The parents questioned also said that they resented the way their chidren were always criticizing their haircuts. One man said, I wear my hair ijhort because all the fellows down at the office wear it that way. Youre considered a square if you wear it long. But my kid is ashamed to walk down the street with me.

Ninety-five per cent of those polled admitted to cheating on their childrens homework.

One mother summed it up by saying, If we didnt cheat on our childrens homework, we would never get it done.

Despite these radical Ideas, the psychologists who examined the findings of the poll concluded that grown-ups were no better or no worst than they had ever been. It wa natural for them to want to revolt against teen-tgers and even healthy.

The worst thing we could do, one phychologist said, was to pretend adults didnt have problems. Its hard for teen-agers to believe, but grown-ups are very worried and insecure people.

Schools

Seeing

Change

By DON MCKEE

ATLANTA, Oa. (AP) -segregation of public schools has expanded considerably this fall in the South. But with thi spread of change have com# spurts of new resistance white pupil boycotts, challenges of federal guldcUnes and at least one punch In the face of a school superintendent.

Associated Press spot surveyi of the 11 Southern states, from Virginia to Texas, Indicate a

grobable doubling of the num-er of Negro pupils in school with white chidren since last year.

The most significant development, however, is the start of faculty integration in many school systems, a major effect of the controversial guidelines drawn by the U.S. Office of Education.

We desegregated as many faculties as we could, said A school official in Knoxville, Tenn., where 20 of the 68 schools have Negro and white teachers.

We have just one system for everybody now, said Supt. Jacob Johnson of Winchester County, Va. Classrooms and faculties were integrated io thA county, eliminating the dual achod system.

Two Negro schools closed la Huntsville, Ala., to become relics of racial history. Despit# the Alabama Legislatures enactment of a law nullifying school board agreements on federal guidelines, integration increase in the state many systems are under court orders.

The Alabama nullification la\f was pushed through by Gov. George C. Wallace, who vainly tried to block university integration three years ago by standing in a doorway at tha University of Alabama.

Ironically, Wallaces son, George Jr., enrolled Tuesday at a Montgomery school where 18 Negroes desegregated classes. In another irony, the Democratic nominee for Arkansas governor, Jim Johnson who opposes the federal guidelines saw his twin aona enrolled in a desegregated school.

Although faculty integration has begun in many schools this fall, it has not been accepted without objection in some instances. A school superintendent a Sanford, Fla., was punched in the face by a white father upset because his daughters teacher was a Negro.

In Interlachen, Fla., about one-half the white children boycotted classes at a predominantly white elementary school which had three Negro teachers. Campbell County, Va., had 25 faculty vacancies last month when white teachers resigned because of integration.

A wholesale boycott of white pupils resulted in Plaquemines Parish, La., when schools opened under a federal court desegregation order and five Negroes applied for transfer to one of the white schools.

Supporters of the boycott announced construction plans for five private schools, an alternative tried in other states also. Louisiana has an estimated 11,* 000 pupils receiving the $2-a-day-per-pupil state grants for private schools.

In Alabama, a three-judge federal court has set a Sept. 30 hearing on a Justice Department suit aimed at prohibiting the state from paying tuition grants for private segregated schools under a 1965 law.

In Mississippi, however, a survey of more than 50 all-white private schools showed the response has been slow. The state pays $185 per pupil under a tuition grant law, but the average cost of private schooling runf about $376 per year.

The true test of civilization is, not the censas, nor the size of cities, nor the cropsno, but the kind of man the country turns out.Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Food Prices Will Continue Rise

Happy (and rare) is the man who finishes paying off his Christmas bills before his family stars talking about vacation trips. Anniston (Ala.) Star.

Contrary to some alarmists, divorce isnt getting to be universal. It only happens to married people. Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman.

Were all for auto safety, but its a sad fact that rules of the road remain at the mercy of fools of the rod. Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimi-tar.

Some batliing suits are more fitting than proper. Toronto (Kan.) Republican.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Food prices will continue to rise, no matter what the administration does to curb inflation.

The biggest reason is the increase in Defense Department purchases for Viet Nam, and for bases and train i n g camps in the United States.

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Neb.) and Sen. Karl Mundt (R., S. D.) have called upon the administration t'' limit beef imports, which Hruska said may total one billion pounds this year, the

level that brought about the awful collapse of the cattle market in 1963.

Expect no limitations. In 1963 military demands were light. And today housewives are angry over rising meat prices, which bodies no good for Democrats in November. Beiides, government and private demand are high enough to consume all meat sent to market.

OTHER LOOK-AHEADS

Here are other glimpses over the business horizon:

Higher copper: Despite the fact that major copper companies have cut prices on copper tubing, the broad outlook for copper quotations is up, not down. Both U.S. and world demand continue high.

Tight sugar: Sugar may

be moderately scarce and prices may stiffen during the

rest of the year. Lamborn & Co., international sugar brokers, report that demand will exceed the current quota of 10,255,000 tons, and that the carryover waa light.

Cheaper coffee: While everything else to drink is going up, the price of coffee may dip slightly. Green coffee prices have dropped and processors are beginning to shave prices. Cuts of a few cents a pound may be general by the end of the month.

More Index confusion: The Labor Department Is considering a new revision of the consumer price index. While the change is undoubtedly justified by the changing pattern of consumer wants, each change makes it more difficult to compare the cost of living with previous months and years and thereby helps to mask the effects of mount

ing inflation.

NO RECESSION BEFORE JULY, 1987

Bullish f(Hecast: There will be no recession at least through the first half of 1967, according to an econometric model of the U. S. economy at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. Tha model is financed by tha Rockefeller Foundation, several corporations and Business week. The prediction ia that even if taxes are increased and defense spending levels off, there wUl be no business downtura.

A Ford in yoor Idtclien: Ford Motor Co., which purchased Philco several years ago, ii reported to be considering using the Ford name on its appliances. The shift would probably increase sales of appU* anees.