rhufsdiy, Novtmber 14, 1968

Welcome Change For School Board

Grwnvlilss Board of Education has taken another forward atei in letting contracts for a new elementary achool in the eastern section of the city.

Favorable bids received last week for the half-miHioti dollaiAatructure were a welcome change from recent experiences in which boards of educa tion have found proposed school buildngs attracting bids considerably above what was anticipated.

By letting contracts for the new achool, the Board of Education haa taken another importent step in implementing the long-range program it has carefully developed in the past couple of years. The new school will meet the need for additional elementary classrooma in the area of the school district where those classrooms are most acutely needed. The 16 new classrooms in the new school will relieve the pressure in some other^elementary schools and alleviate some of th ovrcrowding whch now exists.

In the past two years Greenville has made significant strides with its school construction program. One elementary school has been completed, addi* tions made to other schools, a new junior high is well along in construction, and now bids have been

Sanford Stock Given A Boost

Bf mUAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RA11CIH - PoUUcal notebook:

Among those who enhanced their political stock and statare this year, according to old Raleigh hands, was former Gov. Terry Sanford.

Sanford, they say, almost certainly made a wise decision he chose to oppose veteran Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. in the primaries last Spring and consequently it appetfs that he was right again when he_ accepted the dismayiiig tasic of heading the Ntbonil Citizens for Hum-phrey-Muskie committee at a time when the Humphrey chances to win the oresidency appeared almost nil.

Now, however, Sanford Is credited with playing a large part in dispelling the loom and iglneering Humphreys dramatic political comeback In the final weeks and days of the campaign.

Wins Gratitude

Had Humphrey won, San-

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forf Qil|ht have been rewarded with a cabinet poet. As it is, be woo the gratitude and edmirttton of national Demo-crafie pirtgr leaders and notice that he if himself one of the prty*| younger leaders and aoofoer.

Of course, the vice presi-dsntiiJ nominee, Sen. Ekl Mus-kit, is anotherMuskie is fully aware of Sanfords role in me im Fall campal^, and of his organizing ability and know-how.

Thui thare are predictions of biggv things ilk store for Terry Sanford four yearn from DOW or sooner.

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The Greensboro Racogd predicted over last weekm that Sanford would be offered chairmanship of the National Democratic committee.

But according to sources cloee to Sanford, from which the newspaper obtained the story, Sanford was not likely to accept The story added that Sanfords dose political associate, Bert Bennett of ' Winston-Salem, also figures heavily in speculation about a successor to Postmaster General Lawrence OBrien. Bennett worked with Sanford in the Humphrey-Muskie citizens movement.

Senate Ambitions

Sanford made no secret of the fact that be heldand pos-sih'' still holdsambitions of serving in the U. S. Senate. He went so far as to appoint an Informal advisory committee and began mapping campaign strategy last winter. Later he announced his decision that it was not ^he proper time to challenge Ervin.

He recognized that running against an incumbent, established and widely known was much more difficult* than campaigning for an office which was open.

Meanwhile, however, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Sanford would be considered for eppointaient if a vacancy should occur in either of North CaroUnt*f two Senate seats during the next four years, or that If someone else is appointed be would oppose that choice et the next election.

Maimged Bcott Campaign

In the event of a vtcany, the appointment would be made by the next governor, Bob gcott. It will be remembered that Sanford, then a 36 year old senator from Fayetteville, managed the campaign of Scott 5 father, W. Kerr Scott, for the U. S. Senate 14 years ago. Scott won the seat to which Alton A. Lennon had been appointed, by defeating Lennon in a primary election.

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let on Another now elementary school. There are still needs which must be met and construction projects yet to be undertaken. Hut with turn prority system set by the Board of Education in ^ts long-range planning, the greatest needs are being met fimt.

Although progress may at times seem slow In meeting the needs of our schools, eignificant strides are being made im.the citys school administrative unit.

Swonquarter Keynotes A Void In Leadership

It is regrettable that, with the school boycott at SwanqUarter developing into a serious situation, both Gov. Dan Moore and U. Gov. (and Gov.-Elect) Bob Scott have been out of the etate.

To make mattere worse the death of D. S. Col-trane, who had done such outstanding work as head of North Carolinas Good Neighbor Council, left that organization without a chairman.

North Carolina has had a splendid record of handling difficult matters during recent turbulent years. This has been because the states highest officials have watched sensitive situations constantly and acted swiftly to settle them fairly.

As the Swanquarter problems grew to ominous proportions, however, there seemed to be a void in the leadership that had previously come from Raleigh.

There is not much doubt that the absence of the governor and the lieutenant governor and the Good Neighbor vacancy had much to do with this.

Fortunately Dr. James T. Taylor was appointed yesterday as acting chairman of the Good Neighbor Council. This should help the state work toward a solution. It should also help for the governor to return to Raleigh for a close assessment of the situation.

Gov. Moore has a good record of handling racial matters. He should not allow this most recent occurance to blot his record so near the end of his term.

Old Generation

Always Critical

Hail to the QiiefT

ART BUCHWALD

The Gloating Republican

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Curbstone comments of a Pavement Plato:

What is a teen-ager?

Is he merely todays demon? Is he tomorrowa savior? Is H poasible that he is both?

Condemning the younger generation has been a popular aport among mankind probably ever since Adam and Eve were saved their eviction notice in the Garden of Eden.

History holds many surprises but it has yet to produce an older generation that prais- >

ed its auccaaaor generation as one more promising and more fit to hold the reins of power. No, tha gaotral attitude has always been pessimistic.

Each generation haa assured itself, with upraised hands of rejection and an air of profound melancholy, that the younger generaticm is the worst on record and is surely to Hades in a hand isket This hollar - than -thou attitude haa gone on through countless generations and centuries.

If this parade of peasimism were true, surely the human race woulid have perished of malnutrition long since. Yet, somehow, the earth still circles the sun as before, and holds more people who live

better and last longer than it did when all these dark pro-phendes of disaster first be- gan to be voiced.

The teen-agers we confront today across our generation gap are regarded as particular^ appaUing. They enjoy the worst press since Guten-bag came up with movable type

And I think "enjoy is the right word. In our adult hysteria we l ave mesmerized ourselves into believing we have spawned a new race of monsters, a youth that has loat all idealism and lives only foe its own kicks and selfish thrills.

Recognizing this hysteria and amused by it, the kids enjoy scaring the daylights out of their parents by pre-taiding to live up to this caricature.

Many a grownup now sees the typical teen - ager as if he were viewing him in a Coney Island amusement park distorting mirror. He sees an unwashed, disheveled, mop - headed youngster with a marijuana cigarette dan-

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WASHINGTON - The next few weeks are going to be very tough for those people who were rooting for Vice President Hkimphrey to win toe election. After gloating at the Republicans for eight years, the Democrats are getting some of their own medicine back and its not easy for the Dems to accept the loss with good grace.

The only Democrat I know who has been able to handle it is my frimd Rumpelmeyer. I bumped into him at lunch the other day and he said,

Sharkeys joining me to a few minutes, and hes going to be impossible over the Nixon win. He specifically invited me to kmch so 1 would eat crow.

Why did you accept?*

"I thought Id have some fun. Hang around and see what happens.

> I took a seat and a few minutes later Sharkey came in bubbling and bouncing, hardly able to ccmtain himself Well, Rum, he said after he ordered a drink. What did you think of toe elec-

Other Editors Say An Implied Consent Law

tions?

Who won? Rumpelmeyer said. Ive been out of town for a week and havent seen a paper.

Sharkey flushed. Dont ^e tm toat, Rumpelmeyer. You know damn well who won.

No, I really dont, Sharkey. The last I heard was that new called the New York Tiroes a fat Jap.

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Strength For Today

(The Raleigh Times)

The directors of the Carolina Motor Club are wi the right road to safer high-wayjs in supporting an implied consent law to help combat drunken driving. Under M?h a law, the issuance of a driving license means that the driver agrees to take a test if he is suspected of drunken driving.

North Carolina now has a law providing such a test, but it is not mandatory that suspects take it. If they refuse, that refusal can be brought out to testimony, but the court still doesnt have the benefit of a chemical test to determine whether the suspect was too drunk to drive, or was sober enough to drive.

Dick Pitts, director of civic affairs for the Motor Club, said that there are more than 5,000 drunken driving cases pending in the courts of North Carolina and South Carolina at this time. Some of them, he noted, are as much as 18 months old, during which time the drivers are stU drinking.

Under an implied consent

law, a suspect who refused to take a test for intoxication would have this license suspended autonuitiealiy. lliat would keep him off the road until his case was tried.

Drunken driving is a major hazard on the highways, and is one of the hardest things for the State to combat. The arresting officer can only testify that, in hif opinion, the defendant was too drunk to drive. In so many cases, th defendant is able to produce witnesses who swear that he wasnt too drunk to drive. Where does that leave the hidge or the jury who must decide hich testimony is correct?

A chemical test would do away with the necessity for such o]'nion '*iy. The

test would protect the innocent driv as well as h**lp convi the gi ty one. The driver whose test showed that he wasnt too drunk to drive wouldnt even be charged with drunken driving. Under the opinion testimony situa-ticm, he might be charged and might ev" * be awivic'

Sharkey waved his finger. "You* e not jgoing to trick me with that mnocent routine, Rump. Ive waited ei^ years for this moment. Rumpelmeyer said, Good heavens, Sharkey. Youre not going to tell me Nixon won the election?

Sharkey yelled, Youre dam tootin he won and youre eitlng your heart out.* Rumpelmeyer turned to me. If it true?

"Fm raid it is, I said. Everyones conceded it but Mayor Daley.

Well; said Rumpelmeyer, this calls for a celebrgtion. * ITl do the celebrating, Sharkey yelled. I rooted for him. You didnt

I think thats rather ic-i-fish of you, Sharkey. After all, Nixon if my President, too. I believe we should Jrink to him.

Sherkey was getting so mad he gripped the table. "Dont patronhse me, Rump. I didnt come here to listen to you (Continued On Page 5)

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Corps On Job

By JAMES BOW

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -"You gave up. You must never give up, a Neffro tea<^r told a fifth grade Negro girl, defeated by en arithmetic prctolem.

At the same time, anoher teitdier, a black girl from Newark, N.J., was pointing: Head, shoulders, knees arid toes. Two Mexican Ame'icaU girls, seooBil and fourth graders, ttsteoed and copied They were learning Englim.

These are the sig.its and sounds jmoduced by 27 college studento-inchiding 11 Negroes, IS of Madcan ancestrv and one FB^toa. Most of ttiem are o-ing back to the ottier side of tht tracks to teach in neighbor-holds such as toe ones they came frin.

The National Teacners Corps chose Stockton as toe test city for an experiment with two new features for toe federal pro-gramfte teachers, working ai classroom aid^, dont yet have their college degrees and most of tocDtt come from poor fami lies.

Ennis Ramos, 30, comes from a family of farm wcurkers. In his application for the corps he wrote: "I remember that on several occasicsis we registered at a school to the morning and checked out of sdiool in the aft-moon of the same day, because while we were to school my fatoer had learned toat tl>e crops warent too good.

"1 wasnt ^le to understand F.nglih until 1 was about nine years old, be said.

Mary Trejo, 21, came from Mexico to Stockton in W She believes middle-dass eachers dont always understand the problems oi poor childrei.

"You see little boys who dont comb their iiair or brush their teeth, Miss Trejo explained. Maybe they dont have water at home.

Still, a diildf sdiool appearance goes on hif formal record, bloddng hif progress later on, she said.

The $273,(XH) south Stockton project is run by toe University of the Pacific to Stodftun. The federal goverrnnent pays 80 per cent and toe Stocon School District pays to per cent

Students from the umversity and from other campusea acroif the country are volunteering to work to poor neigh* borhoods. But Stockton, an agri-cultnral center in the San Joaquin Valtey, neede more than student vohroteo's.

A year ago, Stocktons unemployment rate was 8 J per cent, compred to 3.8 per cent cation-alty. More than 40 per cent of Stocktons 100,000 residents are Negroes and Mexkan-Ameri-cans, working or lootng for work to the towns mimeries and nearby fields.

The Stockton corpsmen, who began this eummer, will havt' two years to turn their enthu-siasins and novel ideas into iasti* ing resolti.

The National Teadiers Corpe was created by the federal government in 1966 to train college graduates to teach to poor areas, where toeyra Qee<led. But a corps officials to Waslting-ton said that up to now, corpsmen were moetly from middle or upper income groups.

Stockton corpemen have worked their way through two years of college, moetly et jun^ ior colleges. They attend toe University of toe Pacific and are paid $75 a week^with $19 extra f(F each dependent.

Not Much Reducing Relief Rolls

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS TOO BUSY There is an interestmg story told in the twentieth chepter of the first Book of Kings of a man who was set to watch a prisoner and who through neglect allowed him to escape. Some aoltiier of Israel had dragged a ca olive out of the turmoil of battle and instructed a certain noh-combatant to watch him carefully. Instead of watching the prisoner, the guard busied himself with a number of things and the prisoner escaped. These were the wwds with which the man who had given this grave responsibility described how it all hap-l>ened: While thy servant was busy here and there, lo, he was gone.

These words have a raodefn

ring to themThy tervant was busy. So busy to fact that he neglected a grave responsibility for little incidental matters that were not to be compared in importance with the task be was set to perform. Here was a man who failed to see the difference between matters of primary and secondary tm-portancewho allowed tiie incidentals of life to distract his attention from a thing of overwhelming importance.

The stTv 6c?>rc ly needs to be applied. "Here and there things so often take up our time that the real things of life are forgotten; and the excuse we offer is the seme as that offered by this ancient Israelite: While thy servant was busy here and there, lo, he was gone.

By ELMER ROBBRNER

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there were three, I think who promised to take em off the relief rolls and put em on the jiayrolls we.^e kidding the public if not thamselvaa, judgto? from the remarks of Joseph L. Block, chairman of the executive committee of Inland Steel and chairman of the Advisory Oommittee of the Cook County (Chicago) Department of Public Aid.

In I talk prepared before the election but delivered afterward, Block declared in a University of Chicago lecture series that only 4 oer cent of the 300,000 on Cook County relief rolls might qualify for jobs today, "and o! thase, a s'ze^ble number are unavailable because of lack of child care.

In (Chicago, 5 per cent of the population is on public assistance. New York has 11 per cent, possibly because it pays better.

Slim Pool Of Workers Of Chicagos 300,000, he said, 190,000 are children under 18, mostly without fathers able to support thara. There are 19,000 aged, 1,00 blind, 23.000 totally disabled and 8,-000 with physical and mental handicaps.

Of the remaining 80,008, 58-000 are women. (>f toese, 70 per cent have visible physical limitations or have nao no recent work experience. Of the ,000 capable, 11,000 are in training programs or work-in* at jobs that dj not nay enough to leave the welfare rolls.

The balance of 12,000 might qu"l! for jobs but many cant leave their children.

Btock said studtea show that the number of pow had declined more than nine million since 1959. But despite poiiii-cal promise.^, relatively f e w welfare redpiants could be put to wor.

What Can Be Done Tht Inland Steel chairman

cited four new approaches being considered:

1. The negative income tax, which, he warned, required much more study.

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legislation.

As Moaea aaid almoet, 1,-000 years before Block, For the poor shall nevo* eeaae out of the land; therefore I command the, aaytag, thou shall open thy hand wide unto they brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, to thy land.

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3. Etimination of detailed to-vestigation of welfare applicants, taking simple affivadito instead. Whila spme coeaters might gat by, it dljould enhance self-respect pod tower administrative coots,

3. Aged,, bltod and disalited could be transferred to Social Security, '^although sav I n g s would be slight

4. Altowing welfare recipients to take jobs and keep p;jrt of their eirnincs as an incentive to seek work, now

Short Sigoifieant Business News Itemk

The U. i. fndapant Telephone Aasocietion boaats that members* fraud Is toward installing more fecillties underground.

The American Dairy Association has fonnd that best results are obtained to spending sHghtly above IT cenfe per cajeta to promote the sale of

An Owens-CJornteg sur v e y shows that singles, once often barred from garden apart-m6nts bacauae of a leodaacy to partying, are now generally welcome. 'Ibey are eeiiar to pleas toan families.

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