Friday, September 28, 1982 '

Can Serve Best As An Independent

A .move toward establishing a branch of the education in North Carolina, and in the section of University of North Carolina at Charlotte and pel the state it primarily serves, by continuing its prog* haps in other large cities of the state has naturally ress as a liberal arts college rather than being drawn raised speculation on the possibility of existing state- into the University system as a branch operation, eupported colleges being made a part of the Uni- If the pattern of growth and development adversity system also. s East Carolina continues, it is quite probable that

Particularly is this true with regard to East the institution will become the leading liberal arts Carolina College which is the largest state-support- college as distinguished from a university not ed college outside the University system and the only in North Carolina, but in the Southeastern sec fourth largest institution of higher learning in Norta tion of the country. There is, in our opinion, a grow-Carolina. ing recognition of this fact throughout North Caro-

With the system of higher education Nortn lina. The support which East Carolina has received Carolina now has, it would appear impractical to from state administrations and from the Genera! seek to incorporate all of the existing state-support- Assembly in recent years attests to the awareness ^d colleges into the University system. To incor- of the needs of the college and the potential it has porate^e\en a part of them into the University sys- in the states system of higher education, tern would probably prove detrimental to the Uni- East Carolina College can best serve the state, versity itself and to the other colleges as well. In its people, and higher education in North Carolina, such an event, such a move would obviously be detr-i- it seems to us, by continuing its program of develop, mental to the entire system of higher education in ment as a leadin college rather than as a branch North Carolina. :>f the University system.

In a little more than a decade, East Carolina College has made the transition from a relatively small teachers college to the states largest liberal arts college outside the University system. Though its pattern of development it has filled an important role in higher education in this state, and seems destined to take an even more important part in the years ahead. It appears to us that East Carolina College can best fill an importaat need in higher

Coloring The Nomts

Budget-Framing iVIoving. Along

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

BUDGETThe process of framing biennial budget rec-wnmendatiOTis for the 1963 legislature is moving along and a good deal of preliminary paperwork already has gwie to the printer.

The documents that will come forth when the General Assembly convenes next February will reflect the thinking (rf the Advisory Budget Commission and partly at least that of the Sanford administraon on anticipated state revenues and recommended spending for the next two years.

It is then up to the General Assembly to put it in final form.

The governor, (rf course, may make other ^gesti(ms and rectnnmendatioiis as the legislative session proceeds. Any major changes or recommendations may hc' made in ttie form of special budget messages.

But until the convening (rf the Legislature a close timetable Is followed.

TIGHTThe states A budget, that designed to keep state services and <)crati(Mis at present levels, is in tentative final shape already.

A high state budget official sa.vs It jys the most conservative and tightest A budget in recent years. It is geared to abiwt a five percent increase for grov-th.

The A* budget figures traditionally are kept secret until the governor places it before the legislature. Actually, the figures are not finalized until latest revenue estimates become available and those now drawn up are tentative.

Whatever these figures are in February though, the A budget Is not expected to contain any major surprises.

WORK Where the major portion of work remains for the budget-planners is in the B budget for enrichment and expansion of services and new programs and in the so-called C budget for capital improvements.

It Is in these budgets that there may be big variations and possibly surprises.

Getting these budgets in shape Is going to take considerably. more time and work by the members of the. Advisory Budget Commission who at this stage of budget-writing, draw $25-a-day salaries while they arc in session.

The Budget Commission finished up hearing B and C budget requests In Raleigh last week and will meet for two days

Oct. 11-12 behind closed doors. October state revenue experience reports will be available by that date and some more preliminary decisions can be made. Major budget decisions, however, are not expected until sometime in November with most of the budget figures then going to the printer, allowing for last minute changes, in December.

Lets Not Waste All That Time And Effort

In most sections of Pitt County the United Fund campaign is underway with volunteer workers calling on their fellow citizens for their annual contr-tution to the agencies which make up Pitt United

The campaign goal this year is $95,000 for the seven county-wide agencies, the dozen state agencies and the community agencies which share in each dollar collected for the Pitt United Fund. Bui there is more to this years goal than just vhe dollars involved. The effort is being made to conduct the campaign quickly in order that it may be completed by mid-October.

It is important that every citizen of the county contribute his fair share to the dollar goal, but it is also important that each citizen make his pledge promptly in order that the campaign can be com- pleted as soon as pos.sible.

Even with more than 100 volunteer workers in this years campaign, it takes considerable time and shoe-leather for these volunteers to contact all of

By DON SCHLIENZ

The Home Front Morale

We civilians should be ap- hand out a score of place-

the documents going people in Pitt. When a person asks a solicitor having Air Force p^nes nam-

to the printer in December will come oack .ater, or puts him off until another ed for area communities.

time before making his pledge, it just increases the *^

amount of effort requ'red to complete the solicita- m

tion. It delays the successful completion of the*cam- aJid presumably a City of paign for both the solicitor and the giver. Goldsboro and a City of

Citizens of this county are w-ell aw'are of the a City of Wii-

worthwhile work which is carried out each year n is somehow disillusioning.

be that for capital improvements, the C budget.

FIGURESThe much-discussed State Board of Higher Edu-catlai Is going to meet with the Advisory Budget Commission in executive sessi(m on October 11.

The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss the more than 100 million dollars in capital improvements requests for higher education. The higher education board advises the budget commissiim and the General Assembly on such matters as Institutional budget requests.

The C budget requests in all 10 major function areas of budget-makiDg total just under 155 million dollars. Higher Education requests make up $100.-426.968 of this, with other education items Archives and History, State Library, State Museum and the likemaking up some six million more. Health and hospitals has asked ^ $14,780,000 in capital improvements. non-highway transporta tion $13,650,000: General govern ment $3,034.000; public safety and regulation $2.809,000; correction $5,476,500; highways $2,-579.300; natural resources and recreation -$2,516,654; agriculture $3,162,675.

ENRICH The enrichment B budget requests total $93,-586.660 in General Fund appropriations, The Highway Funds B requests are something else agahi.

Education again leads the list In B requests from the general fundtotaling $71,031,945.

This includes $51.3 million for public schools, $15.4 million for higher education and $4.2 million for other education.

Health and hospitals has asked for $11.1 mlUion, of which $8 million would go for mental hospitals. Public welfare

has asked $4,157,000 In B budget appropriations, correc

tion $2,057,564; agriculture $2,-710,737; natural resources and recreation $1,312,850; general government $844,694; public

safety and regulation $335.326

and retirement and pensions $13,658.

by the agencies which make up Pitt United. They No one ha.s a greater appre-

are keenly aware that Pitt would be a much poorer ^^i^tion or affection for the

county without the efforts of these agencies.. They

also know that these agencies must have public suo- little bit irked over ahy infer-port in the way of funds to carry out their programs. "ce the citizenry needs a

The individuals gift to the United Fund is im portant, but it is also ^important to the success ot it is one thing for a native

the*-campaign that the gift or pledge be rnade lovingly paint The

promptly without requiring unnecessary hours cf mu^Ieor^ockt

eifort by volunteer workers. launchers; and its another

thing for a senior officer to

names to his pilots and say Paint these on.

Once it was the civilian-types who were concerned over the morale of men In uniform. They sent hams, hog jowls, fried chicken, cakes, cookies, chittlins and candy to far-off bases.

Unhappily, the mail service was not up to insuring a proper freshness of such goodies through the APO-maze, and the tide of generosity ceased; Though the spirit lingered.

UBO troupes and Bob Hope were also Iboked upon as bet-ter-than-the-average morale boosters, and Big Sister used to spend hours wTiting letters to four or five guys in uniform.

In short, the folks at home have always figured they had a responsibility above and be-

Nary A Bong In Oth?r Editors Saying...

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By JAMES M.ARLOW

WASHINGTON <AP> Almost any question-and-answer session with President Kennedy hks some kind of bang in it. But Wednesday's, for business editors and publishers, hardly produced a beep.

Newsmen who cover the regular news ctmferences were barred from quizzing the President Wednesday, although there was much they would have liked to ask about Cuba. Mississippi and other places. Tiere was no television or radio broadcast.

This was strictly for business editors and their bosses and only they could ask questions. Naturally enough, they asked business questions.

And the President answered them pretty much in a business-like w'ay but stilk in a way that gave the foretaste of some ideas hell try to put across in this years election campaigns.

Before anything was asked he admitted the economy was not in an ideal condition yet but said it had been moving under him toward fulfillment of a number of goals.

He .said unemployment is still too high, this countpfs ability to produce isnt being used to its fullest and there is still economic distress in certain regions.

Even since last spring when Kennedy angrily pushed the steel industry into calling off its sudden and unexpected price increase. relations between business and the Kennedy admini.s-tration could hardly be described as happy.

So the business editors, or some of them, probably expected Kennedy to turn the conference into a kis.s-and-make-up get-together. He didnt.

It was all pleasant enough Certainly it was polite. Kennedy drew laushs several times with his quip.s. And ho did noth-mg to antagonize the men and women facing him.

Strength For Today

But, w'hen it w^as over, it was clear Kennedy hadnt tried to be cozy, either.

Right at the start one editor handed him an opportunity which Kennedy must have been hoping for: A chance to talk about relations betweej^hls administration and business.

He was asked about being sensitive to the alleged hospitality of the business world, Kennedys answer was like saying; Im glad you asked. The frankness of his answer may have surprised his listei^ers.

He said there has been a traditional difference between Democratic administrations and most businessmen and the former havent banked very heavily on the amount of political support they could expect from business.

Then he rebuked businessmen for failing to give him the kind of support he felt should have been fortSscoming for his tax revision bill which Congress badly chewed up.

The White House had sponsored this conference of business editors and publishers just as in the past a number of .times it has arranged conferences here for newspaper, magazine, television and radio peo-Plp-

in such sessions a number of top government officials talk to the visitors and answer their questions. At the windup the President does the same.

This may provide these moldis of public opinion with some insight into the administrations problems and thinking although hardly more so than they get every day from their Washington corre.spondents.

All this is part of the administrations efforts at public relations. It can hardly be consid ered entirely unselfish since it provides the administration with a chance to .send the visitors home feeling more sympathetic if not more favorable-.

There is no man in State government for whom we have greater respect or in whom we have greater confidence than Treasurer Edwin Gill. We had as soon trust him as to integrity of purpose and actual knowhow as any official of our acquaintance, and a good deal more than some. He would have been, and would still be, highly pleasing to us as governor.

Mr. Gill has come up with a plan for issuance of $200 million more highway bonds for what is described as necessary building of new roads all across the State where most needed. He says such an obligation can be incurred, carried and liquidated without additional taxes. On the surface that appears fantastic, but we are Inclined to take his word for it.

At^the same time, $200 million Is a lot, a mighty lot, of debt, even for North Carolina. There is a great agitation for more roads and especially for Improvement of those already built and in use. Bift there is quite a difference in what is wanted and what can actually be afforded. Sfometimes the, two become confused; sometimes the agitators speak so loudly that their claims are accepted as reality without adequate analysis. Could this be true as to a further multi-mll-lion-dollar road program?

Of one thing there Is abso-

motOr traffic is constantly Increasing and at a terrific rate. What was sufficient several years ago to carry the load might not be now. Hence the possible need, even necessity.

A good question to ponder in the present agitation is as to .whether the necessity justifies further huge indebtedness on the part of the State, even without new taxes. Many people would go along with the proposal If they could be assured for a fact that there would be no more taxation, either on gasoline, motor oil, service, charges or what not. The record Is, however, that programs which appear desirable and promising on paper somehow mushroom into outlays well beyond original amounts predicted. If such a road, undertaking did not move in that direction, it would be unusual to say the least.

No one can dispute that more and better roads are desirable, some even urgent. But we seriously doubt if the need outweighs the benefits of a sound economy and holding down indebtedness to the minimum. On the basis of meager knowledge as to actual conditions, our thinking is that the suggested $200 mllliim of road bonds should be authorized only if the debt can be assumed without additional taxes. We do not follow Treasurer Gill's calculations that this is feasible, even if possible.

yond paying taxes. Hence, it is disillusioning to face the inference morale on the home front needs a lift.

Another sore point: Aircraft-naming reached the stage of a fine art about 18 years ago. The P-51s, p-38s and P-47S ... as well as their heavier brethren . . , were rarely weighted down with se-'date propriety In the choice of names. Some, I recall, as being occasionally indelicate and often flip.

But the missions in that generation were violent and life was often brief; and the bravado of their planes names was something to be admired.

The purely professional atmosphere of todays Air Force rules out yester-years flam-bouyancy; and in a way, thats a pity ... for the spirit of it all would *seem to have gone over-far in the other direction.

Much as I love Greenville, I cannot visualize a pilot flying his jet interceptor on mission being fired-up with enthusiasm over having his delta-wing destroyer named The City of Greenville.

Ive tried, but it no go.

Tuesday afternoon I approached a co-worker to tell him that among my dislikes were people who said J told you so; and that when the results were in, I would be careful not to use the phrase ... but he would know' how I felt about it.

Floyd Patterson, I went on to say, was grossly underrated by the odds-makers . . . whether deliberately, or through ignorance . . . and those who put a bundle on Floyd would be richer Wednesday.

My listener listened.

Furthermore, I said, the champ has the fastest hands in the business, a cool head in the ring, and' a jolting punch. He can box, hes a good tactician and strategist, he is bound to be in superb condition. All those qualities add up to wonderment at why he could be regarded as a setup for the challenger.

Sometimes you just overlook such things as twenty-five pounds difference in weight, and a six-inch differ-ance in reach; to say nothing of evidence your boy can be kayoed by a big ptmchcr.

And then you make up your mind you are not going to pick ahy more winners until after all the results are In.

It's safer that way.

jiving ,u..es

B/GEORGE E. S0K0L8KT Copyriglit, 196S. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Why do you send your child to high school and oollefe? Unless you are rich, you do It at a sacrifice. You might use the coet to take care of ymir old age, to Invetft In a business or > even to spend oo a good time for yourself. You send your children to be educated, to Im-prove themselves^ to Increase their opportunities in life.

Enid A. Haupt, editor of Seventeen, has other ideas. She says:

Start your September social life in high by trying some of these ways to bait a date:

1. Be seen wtere the boys are, at sports events, rallies, field practice.

2. Take counses with labs. Working together in school can lead to dating together later. In other words, one does not go to school .to obtain knowledge, skills, preparation for service. A girl goes to school to grab herself a guy. The school Is a marriage agency, a lonely hearts club, a place where one: 3. Sign up for boy-type classes calculus, trigcmometry and the like. It Is possible that you might even learn something while you are fixing a date.

Apparently it is necessary to keep a girls mind on biological pursuits, euphemistically called sex. Perhaps that Is why the Russians in a short period of 45 years have pushed so far ahead in educati(Mial methods and procedures; why they turn out more engineers than we do, male and female. As socxi as the Communists took over Russia, they laid stress (m higher education and the preparation for it. They got results, too.

I wonder if it Is Enid Haupts educational notion that nabbing a boy will build a strong class of experts who can perform efficiently the thousand tasks now required if we are to survive?.

It seems that she suggests for the intellectual girl that she; 5. Join activities which 1 li r boys: newspaper, year - book, debating squad. It might even be smart, I presume, to be able to read poetry and know something about music so that the hlfh-brow boy might be fooled into believing that the girl is all there. In another period. a boy might have sent his mother to discover if the girl had a glass eye.

Here are a few tricks that aH unmarried girls might try. They will not, of c(Hirse, develop a girl into a nurse or a physician or a biochemist but It might get her a steady:

7. Eat or walk alone sometimes. Solid packs of girls can scare off boys, while a lone lamb is often appealing. 8. Be courteous to new boys in your class as well as class officers.

9, Smile and greet everywie. A friendly girl (you) Is more fun to know. 10. If you know one boy In a group, greet him and join the group. 11. Carry something enormous; it may encourage masculine offers of help.

This ean all be simplified 111 this fashion: Only a square is sincere. In these tough times, any underhand trick is morally O.K., as long as a girl gets a boy. It is like the gangster who says, I got to live, aint I?

There Is one tip for a girl In Enid Haupt's article which truly thrilled me:

14. Offer to type his term paper. In return, ask him to proofread yours. The exchange of Ideas will go a long way toward breaking the dating ice.

Why not write the term paper for the boy? Why not swindle for him? Maybe give h 1 m crib sheets? Perhaps that Is the way to build character and make a great man out of a natural louse? In Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare shows a much easier way for boy and girl to meet. JEven those teenagers came to a bad end.

Enid Haupt undoubtedly plan- -ned this article well, but tho United States needs something more than that at this moment in its history. It requires char^ acter, a moral basis for society; it needs an educated youth that will build as strongly as the pioneers who turned (Continued on Page 8)

The Canned Cocktail Is Coming

By KARL I., l)Ol'(iLA.S.S THIiOLilH A VKRSi:

We often read in the Bible of gseal visions vvijich came to religious leaders. Some liold the theory that visions and miracles of this sort have ceased. Others say that they never occurred. #

If we are to believe the Bible in any helpful way. we must feel that God has at times mau-ifested Himself to men in the foiTn of visions. Sometimes he sent angels. At other times He spoke to men in d:eams. At still other times He appeared .sufficiently face to face that He got Hiss message across to his waiting servant.

There may be people today who have .such visions. On the whole, we look with su.sficion

on tho.',e who claim such ex-ptnences. VVc aie inclined to believe that in this period of world history the Holy Spirit speaks to us more often hi a verse rather than in a voice. We may readily Ixlieve that before this day is over God may speak to the whole world in the fo m cf a vision unmistakable. He may give the whole Planet a sign w^hlch men nowhere can mistake. But evidently He has not done so for quite a few centuries.

We get our Bibles off the .shelf in the evenlnr <and some do in the morning also) and read what Gofi has to say to us. This is our present dav vision a verse rather Than a voice. But the verse can be ju.si a.s real as the voice.

By ELMER ROESS.NER

The canned cocktail is coming, So is the canned highball, the canned gin fizz, the canned rum and cola and the canned vodka and tonic. -

There are a lot of conditions to the marketing' of canned pop-skull. But under a new Internal Revenue Service niling. It will still be pos.slble to get canned on canned gimlets.

The proprietor of a distilled spirits plant asked the IRS whether it might package certain distilled .spirits and citrus juice.s in tin-plate containers of less than one-half pint capacity with tin-lead soldered seams. The proprietor petitioner plans to market a six-ounce can of a prepared cocktail.

The IRS thereupon issued Rev. Rul. 62-111, which not only pennits the canning of vr-ious intoxicants but also pro-vide.s for the, return of the six-ounce cocktail, long missing from these shores, dunes and bars.

.\0 ACETIC ACID

The ruling -states; Tinplate containers of less than one-half pint capacity manufactured with tin-lead .soldeied seams, .suitably stamped and marked, may, under certain conditlon.s, be u.sed for the pack.iging of

cordials liqueuns, cocktails, highballs, gin fizzes, bitter* and specialties. Under no circumstances may the product contain acetic acic^

Acetic acid, the characteristic acid of vinegar, w'ould react poisonously with the lead in the .solder.

The IRS arrived at its decision by gentle reasoning. Containers of le.ss than a half phit are not classified as liquor bot-tle.s. and hence are not subject to regulations govenilng containers of distilled spirits.

And since containers will be u.sed for prepared cocktails, they are not subject to the standards of fill mquiremcnts regulations.

THE CERTAIN (ONDITIOl^S

The certain conditions mentioned in the order are these;

*T, Such containers may be used only for the* packaging of cordials, liqueurs, cocktails, highballs, gin fizzes, bitters, and specialties exempted from the standards of fill fofbottlted distilled spirits under section 5.74 of the Labeling and Advertising Regulations provided, however, that the distilled .spir-it.s, or any other ingredient used in such products do not con

tain acetic acid.

2. The strip stamp shall be securely affixed across the top of the container and shkll extend an equal distance down each side.

3. The legend Destroy Stamp Upon Opening shall be I>^naHfebtly marked lithographed on the side or bottom of the containers and th^legend Open Other End shalYbe similarly marked on th bottom thereof.

There is another, perhapajfev-en bigger condition. The sale of canned and all other booze is subject to the laws of each state. Many states have laws prohibiting the sale of liquor in .small containers. New York, for example, prohibits the sale of bourbon, rye, scotch, rum, vodka and gin in miniature bottles. but permits the sale j6f brandy and cordials. Other states prohibit the sale of ed scotch and soda and si drinks.

States have powder to prohibit the sale of cocktails, high balls, etc.. in cans and where such regulations do not exist, you can expect the glassblowers union and glass manufacturers to start lobbying for such regulations. And temperance unit* will rise again to demand the

prohibitl(xi of the sale of liquor in any size cans or bottles. And perhaps against the sale of beer and wine either In or out of containers.

But the day may come when, somewhere in the United State, you can step Into a dispensary and say, Otto, give me six cans of Gibsons, six cans of scotch and soda, and a dozen cans of Pisco Punch. And whllo youre at It, Otto, put in a canned Bloody Mary for my Aunt Irma. Her sUMiiiach Is upset.*

SHORT & SIGNIFICjOT BITS OF BUSINESS | NEWS Nehrus Bidia must' be getting nervous. Cigarette output Jumped from 37 billion In 1960 to 41.1 biUkm last year. . . Turkey is trying to attract mora tourists by making it easier to swap foreign currency for liras. . .A ski tour package* featuring a car equipped with ski rack and Urp chains, and reservations in sirt areas. Is being offered by Hertz. . JSofl water will retard the growth of plants, warns the Plumbing-Heating - Cooling Informatiim Bureau. . .The Federal Trade Commission has accused Ideal Toy of misrepresenting Its Robot Commando and its doll Thumbellna on television.

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