Thursday, October 11, 1962

Pitt Near The Bottom In Drop-Outs

Pitt County Citizens traditionally have taken problem of school drop-outs the study shows in this great pride in their public schools and generally county. A vigorous and comprehensive local pro-have demanded a quality of educational program gram should be immediately initiated to stem the

they consider above the average in North Carolina.

With few exceptions over a long period of years, citteens have come forward to support school bond elections, tax supplements for school operations and programs designed to provide better edu-

tide which is syphoning more than 55 pei cent of Pitt's youngsters from the classrooms before th*.y complete their high school education.

Whether the situation in Pitt improves or deteriorates will depend on what is done locally to

In Words The Kids Can Understand

cational opportunities for their youngsters. If jrou encourage youngsters to remain in school, ask the average Pitt citizen about schools of the We do not believe the people of Pitt will be county, he will m all confidence tell you they are content for the county to remain in its present reU-better than the average in North Carolina. tive position with respect to the number of students

Against this background of pride in local pubhc dropping out of school. Citizens of the county can schods and support for them, it is shocking to nota ill afford to sit back and wait for someone else to that Pitt ranks near the bottom of the county stand do something about the problem.

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ings in the number of youngsters who actually finish high school.

The school drop-out study recently released in the state shows that only 18 of the 100 counties of North Carolina have worse drop-out records than Pitt. In 81 of the 100 counties of the state the percentage of students who drop out of school is lower than it is in Pitt.

The study showed there were 1,630 fifth grad-em in Pitt County schools in 1954-55. But in the high school graduating classes of the county's schools in 1961 there were only 724 students; 44-1 per cent of the number in the fifth grade seven years earlier. Between the fifth grade and graduation, the county schools lost 55.6 per ceiil of the students wno would have been in the 1961 graduating class. During the seven year period 906 of the 1,630 fifth graders dropped out of-public schools.

Change Indicated In Administration Stand

Pitt County citizens, as well a.s school officials, should give serious consideration to the shocking

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Bj WaUAM A. SHIRES

CARAVAN A big, gleaming bus loaded with state officials and Democratic partv Teial^ liIIed buf of't on the warm, sunny October aitemotm and headed east.

The biennial campaign caravan which has become a tra-dlticHi for North Carolina's Democrats was on the road.

It was warm and the political personages aboard shucked their coats, almost as if they were rolling up their sleeves to get the Fall campaigning into high gear.

The caravan teclmique is stump politics, in an up-to-date dresscarrying various elected state officiEds and state party ofiiciais into the hinterlands to meet the voters* and the party faithful OB the county courthouse level.

WHIPThe caravan schedule includes each of the states 11 Congressional districts and the Idea is to whip up enthusiasm for the Democrats in every race fr om constable to Cotuzre

Edenton, In the middle of the big First District.

There was a parade in Eden-. tOLlPl a ^ ory and the leading lights were Govenior Sanford and First district Rep. Herbert Bonner of Elizabeth City.

The rally schedule also was altered slightly to cut down on the speechmaking and allow more time for handshaking.

From Edenton. the caravan rolled on Wednesday to More-head City and Beaufort. The fan out program for the morning was cancelled because of the funeral of State Rep. D.G. Bell, which the state officials attended.

There was, however, some individual stump touring and handshaking around Carleret County during the aftermoon and prior to the evening rally and fish fry at Beaufort.

FOURTHThe first westward movement of the caravan came Thursday in Rep. Harold D. Cooleys Fourth district.

Reports that American taxpayers will pick up the tab for some $13 million of the ransom to be paid Castro foT captives of the Bay of Pigs inVasim suggests there may be considerable difference be-tween the Kennedy administration's official statements on the negotiations and the actual role of the administration in the matter.

Officially the administration has taken the position that the government of the United States would not enter into the matter directly. It appears evident no\v, however, that the administration has been closely associated in the negotiations, if indeed it has not played a major role backstage in the matter.

If the United States government does underwrite a considerable part of the ransombe it in cash or in items of barterthe administration should give a forthright explanation of its action to the American people. Many Americans will find it difficult to reconcile the administration efforts to discourage other nations from trading with the Cuban communist state at the same tim it pays a ransom of millions^ for the release of prisoners.

Even if the items of exchange paid by the U S. government include only food and medical supplies, vt'h.ese- .Avili serve' t-D - -st^^engfthen"'the-^ position of "'the' -v-ery Cuban leaders who threaten to spread communism in this hemisphere.

It would be better for the administration to openly declare its feeling of responsibility to secure release of the prisoners and act accordingly, or to keep the U.S. government entirely out of the matter. The game of hide-and-seek the administration has been playing with respect to its interest in gaining freedom for the prisoners Castro holds has not help ed the administration either at home or abroad.

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JlcNauffbt Syndicate,

By DON SCHLIENZ

Columbus Day Notions

Space permitting. . .elsewhere In today's paper there Is a picture of a, repHca of thr Nihit. smallest of the three ships in Columbuss expedition, which found the New World in 1492.

one Rodrigo de Triana on the Pinta discovered land.

easy to pronounce, and adaptable.

Columbus got all the credit, though he presumably was sleeping at the time.

The replicas picture was surprising to me. The new Nina is a little bit of a thing. It's original carried a crew of only eighteen men.

The Scandinavians and Irish take a dim view of Columbus Day.

If precedents are followed, in the next week or so well be reading about UNICEF collections on Halloween.

Negro Still Has

Looking at the picture, Its not easy to equate this fishing boat-sized craft ia 40-tonner) with historians verdict that the Genoese navigator was provided with relatively good sWps ifor the times) by Queen Isabella.

Why all the fuss? they say. We found the place several centuries before Columbus was born.

Well you know how it Is, Those ancient Norse and Irish names just arent easy to pronounce. . .even when one isnt hurrying.

/or* Way To Go

The Santa Marla was the big one (100 tons); the Pinta was of 50 tons. Eighty-eight men comprised the three ships crews.

At 2:00 a.m., October 12. 1492

^d as names go, Columbus Is a natural; most states have at least one city or town or crossroads based on his name.

Which goes to show It helps to have a name easy to spell.

By JAMES MARLOW

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A Idi'of Seeches are rnade A lot of barbecue is consumed Party officials feel the caravan technique is effectiveand anticipated as a highlight lor local campaigners.

It is, of course, merely added support for some of the candidates who have been campaigning hard for weeks.

The state officials, some Whom have statewide opposition* like the caravan Idea and go into the &rtnd with a zest NEWThere are some Inno-vatirms in the caravan plan this year.

For <Mie thing, the timing has been arranged for the various rallies to be held in the evenings Instead of during the mornings or afternoons when the local officials have office hours and appointments and when the farmers are working Party leaders are looking for larger crowds at the evening rallies.

In addition, the fan-out" technique is being employed. The caravan bus schedule permits a few hours free time for the caravaners to go various places throughout a county and do some handshaking there before assembling for the formal gettogether,

SCHEDULEThe first of the caravan district rallies was in

county which has just been added to Cooleys bailiwick under the 1961 redistricting. Cooleys district stretches 130 miles from Nash County, his home, to the east of Raleigh to Davidson which is 100 miles west of Raleigh.

The State Young Democrats convention beginning in Greensboro on Thursday added Interest for the two caravan forays Into the 'Piedmont late in the week.

SIXTHA number of the party leaders who went to Lexinl^^ ton for the Fourth/district rally stopped off at Greensboro to do more politicking at the YDC conclave and the caravan schedule was such that Greensboro tuid the Sixth were on the Friday timetable.

Close grassroots campaigning was planned in the Sixth district w-hich includes Durham, Alamance, Orange and Guilford counties.

There was a reception in Durham and the fan-out parties went from their Into Alamance and Orange during the late morning and early afternoon.

Stage fot the Sixth district rally Friday night was the Greensboro Coliseum wdth further politicking continuing downtown at the YDC convention headquarters.

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yearstoward equal treatment wlih whiieaihan in me rest oi this countrys history. He still has a long way to go, both In the North and the South,

Only about 25 percent of Negroes eligible to vote in 11 Southern states have been registered to do 50.

Only about one-third of the public school districts in the 17 Southern and border states have been desegregated to some degree. And Negroes frequently complain of discrimination in some Northern school districts.

A little more than half the tax-supported colleges and universities in the 17-state Southern and border area have been de.segregated in practice or principle.

Yet the constitutional provisions to give Negroes undiscriminated equal treatment in voting and the usual spheres of living have been on the books almost 100 years, the 14th and 15th Amendments.

But the Supreme Court in the latter part of the 19th century boiled the meaning out of these protections for the Negro.

In 1896 it handed down a famous decision saying It was all right to segregate Negroes so long as they got treatment equal to that of whites. It was the doctrine of separate but equal.

It was too much for one justice, John M. Harlan, who protested in a dissenting opinion our Constitution is color blind. It was to be 58 years before the men on the Supreme Court of another day-1954agreed with Harlan and

no law scliwlTof NeijroM ^ ed to let a Negro enter the state 8 white law school.

Tne court-harping back to that separate but equal doctrine of 1896 said Missouri was treating the Negro unequally when It barred him from the white school without providing him with one for Negroes.

The court didn't say segregating the Negro in a Negro school was unlawful.

In short, it still stuck to 1896. Other decisions of this nature followed, with the court alw'ays ducking the central question: Isnt segregation by its vei-y nature unequal under the 14th Amendment?

The cou. finaUy faced the question in 1954 when, in one of its truly momentous decisions, it ordered public schools desegregated with a ruling that knocked out the 1896 decision completely by saying separate means unequal. Many other steps followed in many fields, always slowly.

The court has ruled out segregation on buses and trains.

Congress in 1957 and 1960, for the first time in this century, passed civil rights laws to give Negroes more protection, especially in voting.

Some of the picture as It is now follows in figures provided by the Justice Department, the U. S, Civil Rights Commission and private sources:

Voting About 1,400,000 Negroes, out of 5,045,000 eligible, have been registered to vote in 11 Southern states.

Public schools About .960 school districtsout of 3,047

This, as If you didnt know, Is a version of the trick-or-treat line that can be welcomed by any householder

This Is the picture: a couple of accredited youngsters knock and ask if you can spare some loose change. . .pennies, nlc-kles. dimes. . .for the United Nations Childrens Fund.

For this you can afford to say a willing yes.

Those coins literally change the lives of millions of people you w^lU never see.

TB vaccine for one child costs a penny.

A young yaws victim can be cured with three cents worth of penicillin.

Is Conformity A Must?

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reversed the ruling of 1896.

The first chipping away at the 1896 decision came in 1917 in a decision which for some odd reason has been generally ignored in books on the court.

That year the court knocked out a Louisville city ordinance separating white and Negro residential districts because, the court said, it denied Negroes the equal protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of 1868.

But this didnt really jolt seg-

with white and Negro students in 17 Southern and border states have now been desegregated to some degree. This fall 46 additional districts opened with some desegregation. Only four of them were under court order to desegregate.

Colleges and universitiesof

Seventeen year old Judy who does not want to expose her knees in gym class, has many on her side we are sure. board members have not said that her attire hampered her exercises. It is another question of conformity.

She is ready and willing to wear either slacks or pedal pushers in gym classes. But no, the board says it is going to expel her from school because she does not obey.

We have now gotten into another angle, one we did not intend injecting into the case. The side of obeying the board. Here Is where the board made a mistake in holding out and requiring such a demand, thus making the point of disobedience.

The issue should be, Is the girl hampered in the normal movements necessary for taking the exercises because of the bloomers or pedal pushers? If It Is because what the majority are wearing, that Is another point. And to expel a girl from school, when, after all. education is the objective, casts i-eflection on the school board. They are putting the petty ahead of the important.

We can remember when you took gym in bloomers, and no girl exposed her knees. The bloomers came below the knee, and you wore a white middy blouse with the navy blue serge bloomers. And believe it or not, there was a time when no lady would be seen with lipstick and rouge on her face. That was a sign of being fast as those who used the artifi

cial coloring, Were called. It was not accepted as the refined thing today.

Today you look odd without rouge and lipstick. But you certainly should not be made to wear it just because about every girl does, from 14 years on as long as she lives.

There are some parents here who do not consider it necessary to have to buy the gym suits when Just abflut any play suit should do. We recall several phone calls last year when students were told to bring in the money for the ym suits. One mother w^anted to know why a special suit had to be purchased when her child had clothes she could use. We checked with Mr. Willard and found itwas not a requirement, but the suits were bought by the schools for the students and sold to them at cost. And naturally the child had presented the case as a necessity as all the others in the class had the special gym suit.

Now this young girl has religious convictions. What she is asking is nothing earth shaking, it is commendable in that she is ready to stand up for what she believes. It is a religious requirement. And in our opinion the school board has certainly stepped far out of line, to bring conformity. The members have gone so far that it wdll be difficult now to retract. But this would be the big thing to do.

We cannot think of anything more foolish than to deprive a 17-year-old girl her education because she does not want to expose her knees, in a gym class.

cents worth of antibiotic ointment.

A dollar buys a dally glass of milk for 17 children for one month.

In the backward parts of the world. . .which covers an awful lot of territory. . .disease and hunger are heartbreaking-ly commonplace.

Theres more, much more to the story of UNICEF help than can be told in this limited space.

The organization la fliteen years old. It was established after President Truman had a survey made by Herbert Hoover. Findings of the Hoover mission demanded something be done.

What has been done is one of those things an individual simply cant grasp. Over 148 million children and young adults received anti-TB shots; another 17 million children and mothers cured of yaws; over 9 million mothers and children saved from possible blindness due trachoma.

And some of the curse of malnutrition has been eased.

Quite a record.

It's worth remembering on Halloween.

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

If General Edwin A. Walker requires psychiatric treatment, he ought to have the best. There are two sides to General Walker. He has been a brave soldier, with a special capacity for lifting the morale of discouraged troops. He was sent to Little Rock by President Elsenhower to do precisely the job which he denounced In Oxford, Mississippi.

If General Walker Is suffering from psychosomatic illnesses, they could be a result of war service. In that event, he is entitled to the best treatment available In this country. The man's war record establishes that. But his mental Illness must be medically sure, so that no group may say that he is a scapegoat. If he Is suffering from paranoic tendencies, he should be properly hospitalized, but he should not become a political prisoner.

The issue is a simple one: any penson can become ill and for mental Illnesses there are very big and frightening words. Two wars and the anxieties of a war period and the uncertainty of life during and after wars have left their marks on many more persons than Is obvious. Certainly at Oxford, Gwieral Walker did not act like a soldier or a gentleman. He went wd.

General Walker joined the John Birch Society while he was In charge of troops in Germany. The John Birch Society Is anti-Communist and has attracted many Americans to membership. Its weakness has been Its inability to discriminate between Communists astld-.Pther. aiti-dmmunLsts who prefer to combat Communism by different methods. Thus, the John Birch Society got a had name not because of Communist propaganda against it but because of its assumption that anyone who Is not for and of It is a Communist. This, of course, is a nonsensical notion as the record shows.

Those associated with the John Birch Society also tend to search for a vile and vicious conspiracy to make it easy for Communism to take over this country. Hunting for conspiracies by inexperienced, doctrinaire persons is a very dangerous enterprise, particularly by persons who do not understand what Communism is. Many such conspiracy - hiinters are sincere; others are just antis.

There have al'^kys been antis. General George Washington

As long as were talking about giving; local needy families are not being forgotten this Monday evening.

The Moose are collecting used clothing that still has some wear in it. Greenville citizens are asked to go through their closets and sort out the ouU grown items, or clothing that is no longer needed.

There are people who will need it this winter, right here in Pitt County. Again, children are often the ones in greatest need.

You could help, if you will.

troops. Antis are human beings who dislike their environment and particularly dislike change. They cannot adjust to change. They burned men and women at the stake in other times, because their Ideas did not conform to prevailing ones. The fact that the burned ones turned out to be right did not matter, because. In every generation, there are those who find any difference, any change, any novelty of thought abhorrent.

A man may have been publicly and at personal sacrifice opposed to Communism for 40 years, but If he does not go along with the John Birch Society or If he does not believe that Dr. Fred Schwarz Is the greatest anti - Communist on Earth, the Birchers and t h e I r friends are liable to believe that he has Joined President Elsenhower and Attorney General Kennedy to say nothing of Ad-lal Stevenson and Ralph Bunche in a conspiracy to turn the United States over to Khrushchev!

The ^tis are very strong in those areas where racial questions are serious. It is a reflex of their objection to change. Such persons believe that the Western European in the United States is superior to all pigmented peoples. Including the darker-skinned Mediterraneans, such as the Italians, Greeks, Syrians and Jews. They tend to be anti-Semitic because, although they may read the Bible, they, do not grasp its morality, they eschew history as a bunch of lies. To most of them, the Negro Is inferior.

It is not possible to say that all who oppose change are suffering from psychosomatic illnesses; it is possible to say that their adjustments to a changing world are slow and even arrest-(Continued on Page 5)

the 285 tax-supported schools on this level in the 17 states about 155 have been desegregated in practice or principle.

Eating facilities About 116 Southern cities have at least (Continued on Page

Its Love, Marry By Jan. I

By ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

THINK FOR SURVIVALS SAKE

Despots and tyrants of all varieties have to banish God if their Ideologies are to succeed. It is not simply a coincidence that Hitler and Stalin were atheists and Khrushchev still is. No one could be a communist and a Christian at the same time. Very rightly the communist leaders decree that everyone acceptable to their perverted arrangement of human affairs must avow a disteUef In God arid maintain that atheism Is alone true.

We can see, therefore, can we not, that communism is something more than a mere threat. It is .something aimed at the minds and souls of multitudes of people. The average man is not a theolosrlan. He attends church and helps support good

endeavors but he usually leaves theology to the people who have done graduate work in that field. In other words, the average citizen in all countries knows comparatively little about the religion he professes. It would be a comparatively easy matter to destroy the faith of millions of people once the communists got the upper hand in military power. We are nearer moral ruin than we realize.

Communism threatens not just our government and our cities, It threatens our souls and the souls of our loved ones.

. Let us never for a single moment allow the realization to pass from our minds that atheism and tyranny go together.-God has to be thrust aside before the despot can rule. The communist leaders know this, and we must be aware of It if we want to survive.

Business is like this:

A tax sei*vice is advising clients planning to marry to get it over with before January 1 to get benefits of split - income tax provisions this year. . . . With the rise in popularity of wigs, a brush designed for them has appeared on the market. . . In 1952, the average American paid $65 in state taxes. This year he is paying $112.86. Commerce Clearing House calculates.

B Girls are not private contractors but employees of the saloon-keepers who pay them, for inducing suckers to buy drinks, the Internal Revenue Service has ruled. Employers must deduct Income taxes and Social Security bites.

A government patent on a blend of ground nut shells^ castor oil and polyvinyl alcohol to stop leaks in auto radiators, boilers, etc., is available for 11-pen.sing. . .Stainless steel bulk milk tanks, long in use in America, are now being exported to Great Britain. . . .Now theres a gadget to moisten trading stamps for sticking In bookx.

ANOTHER RECORD BROKEN

The 1962 Greek raisin crop this year will set an all time high of 90,000 tons. . . .West Germany is the biggest buyer; Russia next. . . .Many new users of the element beryllium may result from U. S.-sponsored i-esearchers by National Research Corp., Cambridge, Mass. . . .Uncle Sam is trying to find someone to license a patent for a device that bores square holes.

In the fiscal year ended June 30, states collected more than . $5 billion in sales taxes for the first time.

Vested interests no longer wear vests, says the Valley National Bank of Phoenix, Ariz.

, . .The well - dressed executive w'ill wear a vest this winter, says 0. E. Schoeffler, Esquires fasliion authority. . . . House trailers are the No. 1 annoyance of American motorists, an American Automobile Association survey shows. Low on the list: women drivers. TRADE BARRIER

Fabrlte Metals is having trouble selling brass mirrors to business executives because their

secretaries pilfer samples for their purses. . .Canadian Imports of softwood lumber have thrown 160,000 Americans out of work In the last 15 years, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association told tne . S. Tariff Commission. . . . In one day, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced the purchase of 1,270,200 pounds of canned pork, 2,160,-000 pounds of young chicken, and 1,344,000 pounds of ground meat for school lunches, plus 935,130 pounds of cannecl chopped meat for needy families.

On another day, U.S.D.A. bought 2,200,000 pounds of frozen, cut-up chicken at prices from 30.18 to 31.44 cents a pound. Your wife can get better prices at local supermarkets.

The Republic of China has opened offices at 515 Madison Ave., New York 22, to attract American investors/ money to Taiwan. . .The Federal Trade Commission has promulgated trade practice rules for the kosher food products industry.

New York State is acting to bar the .sale of Si Pauls Health Drink, advertised to cure cau-

cer, pneumonia, heart diseases and dandruff.

SOCK. BUSKIN AND SALES

Newest gimmick to attract shoppers to a shopping center Is a playhouse, being tested at the Bergen Mall shopping cen-. ter, Paramus. N.J.. . .Molding an anti-static agent Into phonograph records is the best way to solve static trouble. Dr. Allan Sherr told the American Chemical Society. . . .By 1963, two out of every five beer cans will have alunilnum lids, predicts Paul Murphy, Reynolds vice president.

One of every ten companies will have made some kind of move this year, the American Management Association reports.

The more beer drunk, the greater government revenue. So the Small Business Administration is seeking someone to manufacture a handle for beer .:ans . . .The SBA also seeks someone to make a noise suppressor for jet airliners. Civic associations can get details from the SBA. Washingt(fli 25, D. C.. . . A patent has been issued for a reversible necktie with a differ-eat patters on each aide.