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Tuesday, August 7, 1962

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Should See Ruling Followed

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ixriii of Education has made it clear it petition between districts for school enrollment is

^hon? rfiir rPiw of^students of one giving birth to programs of special inducements for

InroHmln nf youngsters to attend this school or that, the Board

r ^ should follow up Its of Education shopld step into the situation with a

statement ^vith a careful check into-each-activities firm hand.

Dont Look Now, Jack

among the school districts of the county.

In a number of districts of the county school

If it has now come to the

The matter came to light at the Board of Elu- attendance has dropped in recent years as a result cation yesterday at w^hich members of the of population shifts from rural to urban' areas Pactolus School Committee asserted that free pr* of the county. Some of the schools have lost teachers yate transportation is bein^ offered some children because of declining enrollment. Others from on3 in Pactolus schooEdlsMct^ they, attend the to the next find themselves on the borderline

Grimesland school during the coming session. where a few more or a few less students wmuld

As a matter of policy the Board of Education difference in the number of teachers as-

has allowed students of one district in the county the school.

to attend a school in another district if the students* Community pride, and the desire to retain parents provided their own transportation. As & elementary and high schools, could in some in-result of this, there have been many instances in fiances prompt well-meaning citizens to attempt to which students who lived in one district of the I'ecruit students from other districts to attend a -county attended school in another district. By and particular school. They may feel it* is justified to large, however, this policy did not affect the bal- ulfer transportation or other inducements for stii-ance between the number of students in each dis- dents to cross district lines to attend the school in trict because losses and gains in a particular school tberr community.

usually off-set each othei. .Such tactics in the long run, however, can only

point where com- be detrimental to the overall educational program of the county.

Now that the matter has officially come to the

attention of the Board of Education, it is the re

sponsibility of the board to step into the situation and let the people of the county know whether such tactics are being employed in some districts. Further, it is the responsibility of the Board of Education^ in the interest of the entire educational system of the countyto put a stop to any attempts at student pirating that may be going on.

Note Of Appreciation For Our Rescue Team

Gyeenvilles rescue team richly deserv^es the honor of international champion which they won during the jyeekend in Montreal in competition with other top rescue organizations from the United States and Canada.

Plan Celebrate .toads Opening

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES ROADS ~ Gaston County plans a big celebratlcm on August 25 to open a new road, a section of the Interstate 85 superhighway, which will relieve (me of the most congested traffic areas In the state.

nie section to be opened Is that from the eastern city limits of Gast(Hiia to the Mecklenburg County line at the Catawba river. This will tie in the 1-85 north of Belmcmt and the Charlotte bypass.

It is a fruit of summer highway construction which has sent tentacles of the Interstate highway system reaching out for cwmectors In many parts of the state.

Eventually, for example, 1-85 will be completed around Gastonia right-of-way and construction troubles have delayed this and it wiU tie in with a 10-mile stretch into South Carolina near Grover.

PIEDMONT Interstate 85 already Is finished and open across the Upper South Carolina Piedmcmt.

When it is built around Gastonia. tying in with the section to be dedicated Aug. 25, It Win ^able traffic to miss the multitude of traffic lights and slow-going along the main street through the textile city.

For years it has been a favorite pasttime of motorists going _ through Gastonia to try to count the traffic lights and remember how many were red.

Then, on U. S. 74 to Charlotte. Oirs and trucks whi2zed akmg. jockeying for position, in )g|l caogestioa that It was . and is one of &e m(f dangerous highways in North Carolina.

The Gaston County section of 1-85 will, with the exception of two stretches, complete this superhighway (rrying a miehty river of traffic across the Piedmont of the Carolinas, 1-40, meeting 1-85 at Greensboro, is carrying traffic across the Western Piedmont and to Asheville and beyond, eventually to traverse the Pigeon river route In Haywocxl County into Tennessee.

South Carolina is pushing another Interstate highway, 1-26, toward western North Carolina in the Tryon area, but the exact route of 1-26 entering North Carolina has not been decided.

SECTIONS The other sections of 1-85 not completed in North Carolina are those in the Concord-Kannapolis area and that from Durham to Henderson.

Rep. Horace Komegay, D-N. C.. has urged that the State Highway Commission expedite Its long-range plans for the 36-mile 1-65 stretch between Durham and Henderson. Under the

present timetable, this would be the last of 1-85 construction projects, not to be completed until about 1970.

State highway officials have indicated a willingness to study expediting of <^rtain iwrtions of the Durham-Henderson link if -Congress gives the go-ahead for a $17 million federal psychiatric hospital planned by the U. S. bureau of prisons in the Butner area.

Funds for this facility were deleted in committee and Sens. Ervin ,and Jordan and other North Carolina officials are exerting efforts to have them restored.

DEFEND State Highway commissioner James G. W. MacLamroc of Greensboro told the commission he had been called on to defend North Carolinas highway modernization in a meeting with Virginia officials the other day.

It concerned a four-lane divided highway in the DanvlUe area which was connecting with a two-lane road, U. S. 29 in North Carolina.

MacLamroc said he conceded that there was a contrast at the state line, but that he invited the Virginia officials to look at U. S. 29 south from the Rockingham County line. This route, which includes the 1-85 sections across Guilford. Davidson, Rowan, Mecklenburg and Gaston counties is virtually all four-lane divided, whereas, he said, Virginia doesnt have near that much four-lane divided highway mi the U.S. 29 section in the Old Dominion.

R he said, a pretty good jo6T of defen(iing North Carolinas roads.

PLANS Major thoroughfare plans are advancing for several cities and towns, with agreements between the state and municipalities being n^otiated. Advance planning agreements w'ere approved for Statesville.

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8y ALVIN TAYLOR

Championship Pleases

than

Nobody Is happier George W. Gardner.

He has seen 40 years of fire fighting and rescue service cll-

He can look back to 1923 w'hen he went to work as a full paid fireman on the local force. There were only two full time firemen at that time and two tnicks.

Five years later Gardner w^a.s named chief of the local department, a job he has continued to hold for 34 years through good times and bad.

Gardner soon found out that the public just naturally looks to firemen to do other things than fight fires. When a cat is up a tree, the fire fighters are called. But, more important, when

But their contribution in time and effort has t

encompassed much more than just answering ( .PltorQ ^P!\7TnPT

emergency calls. For every hour they have put into -LjVaiLV^i O kJ'U.y iiiy . ..

answering calls, they have spent many hours pre- r-pi j j

paring themselves, studying and training, in or lot me Use LJi bars

It is the highest honor for the members of tlie local team and one which reflects tremendous

credit on the entire Greenville Rescue Squad and ^ champion-

upon the citv itself. 4 u competition.

Were mighty proud of

For years members of the volunteer Greenville them, he said of his boys. Rescue Squad have rendered countless hours of ser- utmost confidence in

vice to the residents of this community and sur- Then. . .You word it up. Ypu rounding area. They have been called on in every know what i want to say. So type of emergency, and they always have respond- usually talkative Chief

ed unselfishly, ready to use their time and talents staoe

in an eiiort to help their fellow citizens in time Oi fore many of his men were

accident or disaster. bom.

(Christian Science** Monitol)

As a nation Americans need to leani how to listen. In world affairs, and particularly in deal-

that they would be able to render the best possible service when a call came.

In recent months the nine members who made up the special Greenville team in international competition have given unselfishly of their own time in nations, they talk

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in the Lnited States and Canada. The results of the inside the minds of peoples competitionand the top award the team brings they want to help. This creates

back to Greenvillereflect the quality of the ser- Carriers to misunderstanding, it

" jeopardizes American leader

ship.

Mo.st Americans have a very poor idea of what their closest friends in Asia, the Filipinos,

vice the Greenville Rescue Squad voluntarily offers thi.=! community.

It should be a source of great satisfaction to

Cary and Mt. Airy. Fayette- the people of this community to know that a rescue think about the United States!

ville's major thoroughfare plan is in its second stage, that of delineating responsibility.

NOTES Highway notes: A $60,000 allocation from state primary funds was made for widening Wicker Cut on the Sanford bypass and stabilizing the slopes which have been washing .. .

An $8.000 project was approved for erosion-control and paved secondary roads in Alamance County . . .

A third increase in overall costs for the Knotts Island ferry. surveys, plans and dredging was asked and approved, this one in the amount of $25.000 transferred from secondary bridge maintenance funds , . .

The state already this year has added a net total of 20.5.50 miles to its secondary road system. already the largest in the nation.

brganization of .such calibre stands ready to ser\'e them at a moments notice.

We join with other citizens of the community in congmtulating the Greenville Rescue Team, and expressing to them our appreciation for the outstanding service they have rendered.

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By JAMES .MARLOW

WASHINGTON <APt Tel-star, thalidomide, testing, taxes and .senatorial talkfests have pushed the Congo contest dovn in the news. It may be explosive news before years end.

The Congo was bom in Shocking anarchy two years) ago when it got Its independence from Belgium. Thanks to the United Nations and its troops U has 6,500 there noworder Was restored.

In this way the central government of Premier Cyrille Adoula got on its wobbly feet. But it's in sad shape.

The United States and other Western powers tear new an-archv if Adoula fallshis grip is repoi^.ed weakeningwdth a talp-over by extremists and rventuplly perhaps by com-nnirism.

The key problem is still what it WIS two .vear.s aeo. Katanea Prn(tincr. which .^ecedod from the ^central republic, still won't

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I vrt-.stT"'lo express my gratitude and app-eciation to the Gii^ivillf Pile Depaitipent foi their e:;cellent w;,qi; or the fire late SftTUiciay aiternoon ?.t Reese Furniture Co., next to my theatre.

V/hen the.se- firemen saw that the fire jt^s^'out of control in thO burning building, they with-. tood severe heat in putting a linc. pn .top of my building to light fire and .saved my JttnWliip. al.so the viound crew wa.s aleit in piotecting the .surrounding l^iJdmrfT--Juicl.^kcepiiig tiic fire N .spreading

unify with it.

Dickemig between Adoula and Katanga President Moise Tshombe ended in June with no solution after six months of talking.

The Congo in general Is poor. Katanga is rich in mmeral resources controlled by rich Bri-tish and Belgian interests that pay taxes to Tshombe's government, not Adoula's.

Adoulas goveniinent is pretty much in hock from big expenses it doesn't have the Income to pay for. Katanga, as pari of the central government. would make a rich difference.

For instance, while the central government's economy is in tatters it has to suppori a big army, big for the Congo. Adoula.s govemment is still in a me.ss just trying to nin itself.

The United States and other goveiTiments have been thinking of ways to force Tshombe. without wai\ to join up with the central govemment.

The thinking has Ix^en along the lin:-s of economic pres.siue. like get*ini' the Britlsh-Belman minin int'-rests in Katamia to pay tliPir revenue to Adoula's eovemmeut. or boycotting the Ke^anva mineial Products..

Meanwhile. U.N. effo*t.s In the Ci/iign co.st biff nion^v. To raise It the United Nations Is tryi"ff to sell $2(K) millio" ' bonds ^0 mmnVr nation.s. Pte-Meof Kennp''b' wan^s Congrs to aoprnvr. <Mof) miUjon as th; ro'mb-y's share.

Bn' nrono.sal has run

into f.roniile in Con'rres.s 'ViPi-p not all rnemher'- ^avor and some are to Kn.

na, La*it P-iHav Ren. Thnma.s J Dnd'^ P-Conr . .bongly o-ifC ei'/ed Ih ,S. and U. N roliev in he Conen.

Ik'-s econcmie pi-es-

sure on Tshombe and Katanffa .Some in Cop'^re.s.s want to be other nations buv at lep;

Americans take the friendship of their one-time territory for granted. They expect gratitude and devotion to the' American way of life. They know their Philippine friends are men of proven courage and reliably an-ti-Communist.

Thats about as far as their impressions go.

Thei do not know that they huri the Filenos feelings badly when th^House of Repre.sen-tatives voted against the final Philippines war damage bill last May. They would be suprised to learn that even with this weeks reversal of the vote the huri to mutual goodwill remained.

Americans would probably blink with astonishment if told that thinking Filipinos, good friends of the United States in the Islands, are turning away from their American ties and somewhat grimly confronting the fact that they stand on their owT feet and that they are primarily Asians.

This is the fact. Paradoxically. some good may come of it. The self-respect of a people cannot he w^ounded by a sense of disillusion, only their loyalties and feelings. It prohahlv is good to stiffen the .self-reliance of any people, and .'jurely a new

nations, even though a painful personal exp>erience.

But the other aspect of the affair, the needless erosion of a close emotional link to the American people, is deplorable.

Of course it was not just the negative vote in Congress or the crude comments of a few heedless congressmen, that let the little foxes into the vines. It was an accumulation of slights. The plain fact, says an a.s-tute Philippine commenttor, is that the Philippines are low on the American list of priorities in the East. This has been proved time and again when much more American interest and aid was lavished on other Asian countries far less dependable.

The United States think.s it has the Philippines in its pocket, thats the fact. So it treats us shabbily as if no effort was necessary to keep our friendship and co-operation.

This is a sincere friend of the United States speaking, one of the last to be provoked. Yet he says the effect of the adverse vote on the war damage bill w^as devastating, and that even the handsome statement of President Kennedy now that the bill is passed by the House will not repair the situation.

The Communists, he adds, are rejoicing and neatly arguing, We told you the Americans would let you down. It l.s not surprising that President Macapagal is now talking about

federation of Malay peoples including the Philippines.

The American people and their leaders need to do some serious listening. Most of them dont even know what has gone wrong in relations with the Philippines. And this is only one case of national insensibility.

a drowning takes pace or a cave-in traps workers the fire department is called on to help.

So in 1948 the department begged donations until enough money was raised to purchase a panel tiiick for use as a rescue ambulance.

We had been doing it on a minor scale for a good number of years." the chief recalls. "We decided we might as well get into it.

That was the real start of a rescue squad as a part of the fire department. For North Carolina it was a new approa(ih to life saving work. There wasnt another squad in Eastern North Carolina and only one other in the state that one in Winston-Salem.

Local firemen used to tell how well such work was organized in "Virginia. There they had ample equipment and separate buildings.

This was to come for Greenville. In a few years a volunteer rescue squad was organized. Then the Jaycees raised money for a Civil Defense rescue tiTick. Next the Central fire station became too crowded and an annex was built to house the growing rescue squad.

Then a second rescue ambulance was obtained on a loan basis. Finally, just this fiscal year, the city appropriated fund.s to buy two recent model ambulances.

NOW the squad has 18 men on its roles. No one will doubt they are highly trained not with that .shiny silver bowl the nine-man team brought back from Montreal as world champion rescue squad.

Nobody is more delighted than Chief Gardner. He has seen his depariment grow from t w o men and two pieces of equipment to 21 full-time men, two stations and six pieces of fire fighting equipment.

But this was a big one for him. HLs squad had brought home the top honor.

Suddenly he found the words he wanted.

You can say wc always strive for perfection. We know we will liever reach it but we will always be among the best at the end.- _

And he continued:

Dont forget to thank the citizens. Without the support of the citizens of Greenville, the horse show and fines from court . . .without their support we couldnt have done anrihlng.

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

It is generally assumed that the Civil Liberties Union exists to protect the Constitutional rights of American citizens from the tyranny of officialdom and there is plenty of that. In fact, the Civil Liberties Union might look into the prosecution of cases by rumor and innuendo until the atmosphere of guilt Is established where there is no evidence ot guilt. However, I have before me a letter addressed to Representative Don L. Short in the course of which he is taken to task by Richard Humphreys, Chairman of the Milwaukee unit of the Civil Liberties Union, for the following reason:

You Indicate that your blood was boiling on this occasion because Judge Robert Mlech of the Milwaukee County court system had upheld a fine imposed on a union member who had failed to attend three out of five meetings as required by the unions constitution and bylaws. Your remarks indicate that you are particularly disturbed because the unions meetings, which are held on Sunday mom- ^ Ings, interfere with church attendance by the union membet involved.

The facts are that the union meetings were, held on Sunday: that the non-attending member was fined by the union: and that a court of law did uphold tlie union fine, thus becoming, the legal arm- of the union, Humphreys argues thus:

No matter of conscience was Involved in this case other than the union members unwillingness to pay a fine for failure to attend the required number of union meetings. As far as this union member was concerned the meetings could have been held any day of the week and she still would have complained about paying the fine.

The issue of church attendance came up after the matter had been settled and then only When a reporter of dubiotw; credibility decided that injection of this issue would add a human interest twist to the story.

If the member was unwilling to pay the union imposed fine, this was strictly a matter be-tw^een the union and its member. Do our courts exist to enforce the decisions of private organizations? Humphreys explanation seems to me .specious. How can he possibly know what is in the heart and mind of another person? How does he know that the person in question does not prefer to go to church on Sunday rather than to a union meeting I have carefully read the correspondence between Congressman Shori and Richard Humphreys and wonder precisely what business it is of the Civil Liberties Union unless it were to investigate why a public court upheld a union fine. That could be tyranny. That could be the use of a seci|lar ami in a matter involving a private organization, which a labor union is.

This is the fundamental question in the Benson case. The union preferred to meet on Sunday; Mrs. Benson preferred to go to church on Sunday. She had inalienable rights to do as she chose. The union should Tccognize that religion is a mri-ter of conscience and that if a person wants to go to churcli, the union should not interiere.

If a union wants to meet on Sunday, why not in the afternoon after church hours? An accommodation can always he made by sensible men. The holding of meetings during hours can be an imposition on a member just as it w'ould be an imposition to hold a meetiiig on Yom Kippur or a meeting on Good Friday. A little gentility is always in order, even among labor officials.

But the question must be asked: what is the responsibility of the Civil Liberties Union In this matter? Exactly wliere does this organization come in? How is it affected? How does such a case fit into Its program? It would seem to me that Richard Humphreys letter to Representative Short exceeds (Continued on Page 6)

Sugar Countries Relying On Jane

TT, otner nation.'; buv at Jrp*;!

po l^v. the value of in bond.'; befnir

.vniy -ici c D'p:ttnent until y/jm couilryJut^-thfr.other 1100 need tlujrh. jrhauks a million to minion the

C Grcnvile Fire Department.

John Warner

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So, after two years of free-doni, the Congo is a inc.ss.

By EI.MER ROESSNER

Jane Doakes has often been acclaimed in this column. She i.s the wife ot Joe Doakes. Jane, the typical American housewife, lias pulled the country out of many recessions. In fact, her inclination to buy at the very moment, may bo averting a re-cea.siO]i tliat, luuiiy economists are talking about.

Sexeral times in the pa.sl when recessions threatened, or had even begun, it has been stated here that any dip would be .shortlived if it happened at all b'-cause Mrs, Doakexs wa.s siiil spending money.

These progno.ses have always been right in recent years. Industrial indexes and Wall Street prices may have slumped hut it has always been maintained he. e that there was no real danger long as Jane was spending 'Joe Doakess money.

Just tlie other day it was staled that current talk about a .slump was nrematurc because department store sales .CQntiiH'ing high. And I believe that as long a.s Mr.s. Poake.s i.s in a buying mood, mrrr -wiH - h<^..wk-dclinps >\nd I have been proved right scv'-' cral times.

NEW JOB FOR JANE

Now a new responsibility is being thrust upon Jane. She is expected to keep up the economies of several Latin American coimtiies. As a side job, she Is being required to suppori the American sugar beet and sugar cane industiy as well.

The new Sugar Law is now in effect. This is much like previous sugar laws, but this lia.s a new provision under which the Secretari of Agriculture can pluck a few more pennies O'om M-.s. Doakes-s pocket If it will help the Philippines or the Utah suar beet giowers.

The priee of raw sugar out-side the United States today is 2.97 cents a pound. The duty-paid price at New York l.s 6.35 cents a pound. The difference includes freight, duty and the new import fee of 2.4 cents a pound, which the Secretary of Agriculture can move up or dow'n,

That 2.4 rents a pound is passed on to Mrs. Doake.s. When .siie pay.s it. she contributes tliat much to boosting the price paid to Philippine and Latin American growers. And at the

fee pre-

BE

because the import vents lower prices.

COFFEE LEVY MAY HIGHER

Meanwhile, 54 nations, with the blessings of the United States, are working out an international coffee tnist at the United Nations in New York.

The U. S, favors the deal because higher coffee prices will help many Latin'American and African coffee-producing countries. Futhei*more, the cost will not be home by the U. S. gov-ei-nment, but by that dear old gal, Jane Doakes,

Coffee Is now around 2 cents a pound at retail. Some of the coffee nations would like to see the price 20 cents higher.

What the new coffee trust decides may be known in the next few days. But whatever agreement is set on prices, that dear old patsy. Mrs. Doakes, will pay the bill.

And so, In a short time, that old American sweetheart. Jane Doake.s the gal who counted ration coupons dvulng the War and stood in line for hours to cet a pound of chopped cow meat to bent Hitler-will be called upon to pay 2.4 cents

to keep far-away nations prosperous. Shell pay these premium prices even if her husband Joe is out of work.

However, the higher prices wlll mean more trading stamps for her.

Ihnc. she hclp.s Amei lean piMtrCfryrTtipv can paillld Jor^i^ and 20

thcii prices up by that much cents a pound more for (ioffce

EXTRA! WAUWATOSA DINERS GIVE 15 PER CENT TIPS ON AVERAGE

And what the State Depariment has done to Joe Doakes, the Justice Department haa done to Jill Kllroy, the all-American waitress.

The U. S. Court of Appeals has upheld the Internal Revenue Services theory that waitresses get 15 per cent tips. II conceded that a waitress may have to split with busboys and hostesses, but ruled that waitress Pearl Mendelson must pay income taxes on 10 per cent ol her total dinner checks In 1957 and 1958.

The big news In this story is that Mrs. Mendelson waltec table in Wauwatasa, Wls. Thua the courts of the United States have ruled that diners in Wau-Watosa give an average tip ol .3 per cent, which is one of the most surprising decisions since the Deed Scott case.