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Better Preparing Our Youngsters

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As the quality of public school education im- ^ It is much more difficult, on the other hand, proves in this and other counties throughout North to evaluate hoAv well the public schools equipped the Carolina, young people as a whole will be better other stuclentsthe 63 per cent not in collegefor prepared to face the challenges which lie before, competing in the labor market for means of a livelihood.

Although more and more youngsters are going to college, *North Carolina has not yet reached the point where as many as half its high school graduates continue their formal education at the college level.While efforts are being made to better prepare high school students for future college training, there must also be greater emphasis on preparing high school students for entering the labor market immediately following their high school

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them after they finish high school.

With an increasing number of high school graduates entering college each year and academic requirements being up-graded on ..the college level it is essential that the calibre of instruction at the public school level be improved.

It is also important that educators and the public not overlook the fact that all youngsters who finish public school are not planning to enroll in colleges. Well over half of the youngsters who graduated from high schools in North Carolina last graduation.

spring ^id not enroll in college. A follow-up study on these young people show that only 36.84 per cehTenfolIed in colleges.

The remainder of the 1962 high school graduatesmore than 63 per cent of themare not in college. Some of these, to be sure, ar^ engaged now in various types of technical training looking toward skilled jobs. Many probably are enrolled in the industrial training schools located throughout the state. For many others, however, the months since high school graduation have been spent eithei working at jobs or seeking employment.

It is not a difficult matter for educators, by follow up studies, to determine how well those who enter college do with their academic work beyond high school level. And by determining how well the high gchooL graduates do with their college work, an evaluation can be made of the preparation they received in high school.

egislation On msurance

After all* most Tar Heel youngsters still fail into this latter group.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES REACTION Reaction to a package of state Insurance leg-lslati(m unveiled by Insurance Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier rippled through the General Assembly today.

Most members of the Senate Insurance committee, where La-joJer disclosed details of his forthcoming proposals, appeared generally to favor much of the leglslaticm but not all of it.

Keen Interest and concern of the lawmakers, however, was unanimous.

He told legislators that the financial reports of 659 companies doing business in the state came in March 1 by the truckload.

FINANCING In the much-publicized matter of auto liability premium financing, Lanier urged regulating those persons and firms not now regulated either by his department, the banking department or other agency,

Just so they are regulated, it makes no difference, he said. There are a lot of these

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Committee chairmen John R. out in the middle of the

Jordan Jr., of Raleigh noted at the outset, in Introducing Lanier, that there Is no area of our law In which there is more public interest than insurance.-LANIER Lanier began by saying that he has not the sltehtest desire to try to tell this committee what it should or should not do.

Disposition of the proposed legislation, he said, is strictly your function.

Some may be adopted, some Junked and some rained out. he said. It is only my duty to present recommendations, and *I have not the slightest notion that all Insurance legislation should originate in the insurance department.

LIST With the opening statement out of the way and mention of the multiple diities of his department, Lanier launched into his list of proposed bills.

He accompanied each with a Lanier - like brief explanation, and with an example or two.

He reported a'rash of companies seeking to get into the Insurance business on a shoestring. This situation, he said. Is behind a recommendation to Increase capitalization and surplus requirements for insurance companies and requiring that they maintain a fixed percentage of surplus at all times.

cornfield not regulated by anybody. Lanier also reported a rash of unregulated motor clubs springing up across the country.

He mentioned one firm in a large midwestem city which Is

flooding .agents with requests \ to sell memberships at fat 80

per cent commissions.

I dont know whether this is a hole-in-the-wall outfit, or what, he said. He said the bogus point artists his department has been investigating worked with such fly-by-night outfits.

He called so-called ma order insurance sold by companies not licensed in the state a scourge on the backs of the public. He said this should be controlled,

QUESTIONS - Lanier was questioned sharply on his proposals to abolish the present FS-1 proof requirement and a substitute,honor system plan for certifying financial responsibility.

But there appeared to be some support at least for part of the proposal. When Lanier listed recommended penalties for false certification, Sen. Thomas J. White added that the motorist might be put under the penalty for perjury.

Discussing of the safe driver reward point system brought comment from Sen. Wilbur Jol-

One By One, Old Pitt Landmarks Disappear

One by one Pitt County has seen its rare t Id landmarks of other centuries disappear^ There are precious few left in the county.

This week there was another loss when fire destroyed Blount Hall near Grifton, the oldest known building standing in Pitt County. Blount Hall was one of Pitts few relics from Colonial days, having been constructed more than two centuries ago. In the 1700s, it was a popular gathering place for people of this area and is said to have been the scene of many prominent social and political functions.

To many people of this county, Blount Hall ha.s become in the last several decades just another old house out in the country. To some other citizens, it was an important monument to residents of the

area in bygone centuries. It was a link with the By JOHN ABNEY past.

Like so many other counties, Pitt has put forth little concerted effort to put its historical landmarks on public display. The county has been content with its owm knowledge of local things of historical importance and has assumed that people from other areas wouldnt be interested in seeing them

The few counties which have endeavored to bring to public attention their points of historical importance have found a ready and enthusiastic response.

With the loss of Blount Hall, Pitt has one less exercise his profession. Includ-thing to show. It has one less original building of "SS!

bygone eras to put on public exhibit if and when a good hammock and very silent it takes a notion. How many others will be lost women, before some concerted effort is made to preserve ^ an^ original

for future generations places of historical im-"tance in Pitt?

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?hiiosoDher In Action

OAXACA There is this ru-i-al gentleman named Candelario who dedicates himself to thinking. That being his career.

And Candelario, a Latin counterpart of our own cracker-bar-rel sage, has arranged things so that he has plenty of time to

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In Congress, Tog

If they go under, the public- ly of Louisburg that the depart-.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) That ebb-and-flow rhythm President Kennedy sees in national and international life alternates between hot jazz, a slow waltz and pandemonium, particularly in Congress.

When things slow down one place, by Kennedys theory, they perk up in another. For example, the Russians ease pressure on Europe and then French President de Gaulle, wdth the heat off, causes his own allies trouble.

And while Congress has done practically nothing on Kennedys domestic program, as he noted this week, individual members find time to pant for facts about foreign dealings, especially Cuba.

At this point up pops Rep. George Mahon to complain that both Democrats and Republi-

beatlng a steady tktto on the President.

A few have been so carried away by their ardor for extinguishing Castro that they have called for a Cuban blockade. Kennedy had to remind them at his news conference Wednesday a blockade means war.

It was probably Sen. Kenneth B. Keating. R-N.Y., who got under the administrations skin more than anycme else with his doubts that all the Russian missiles were out of Cuba.

Kennedy felt compelled to defend himself by putting Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and an aide on television for two hours last month to show, with aerial photographs, how the United States spied on Cuba,

This may have saved time and trouble for Soviet agents who

philosophy but it indicates forceful thinking.

He said, with calm and certainty, that no woman can learn anything listening to herself tallg < Will all ladies please take note of this observati(Mi?>

The old homestead occupies an indefinite plot of hillside real estate a few miles from this city. Candelario occupies a hammock strung between two pepper trees and keeps a jug of ^ inspiration within easy reach.

In additon to-these worldly possessons, he owns a combi-natiMi com and bean patch, a burro and a wife namid Eufe-, mia (listed in this order)' When Eufemia isnt manufacturing

pottery beside their thatched hut she grinds com into a gooey dough for tortillas and-or tends the patch of groceries out in back.

She did, however, grumble from time to time about a lack of attentiwi but the maestro of psychology fixed that. He humored her by sx^inglng his hammock where he could watch her work the garden.

This he can do while concentrating on any number of important subjects; as long as Eufemia maintains silence. He points out that a fellow who has to think cant work properly if he ILstens to female chatter.

Such items as politics and economy have no place in this gentlemans meditarais, which are reserved for concepts of greater import.

He has, for example, calculated the pattern of stau-s visible through the pepper trees at night. The appearamce of certain celestial bodies on the horizon signals the end of daily labors and the beginning of rest.

Also. Candelario can give a fairly reliable count of tourist cars (a few, enough or many)

Other Eiditors Saying... Gould Lift - A Burden .

aiders, he said. They biigfil-to come in on a sound financial basis. Weve known companies to report a big surplus on Dec. 31 and have It all gone by Jan. 10.

REPORTS One out-of-state company who sent in Its annual financial statement March 1 already has withdrawn voluntarily from doing buslnes.s in North Carolina, Lanier said. Another is on shaky ground.

mnt of Motor Vehicles ought to assign points, not the insurance companies.

And White asked whether any thought had been given to require notice by Insurance companies of cancellation under the assigned risk plan. He said he had reports that thousands of such policies were cancelled without notice and amounts relegated to smaller, possibly Inadequate mximums.

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cans in COTgress.^arid men^rs- had been sniffing and snooping

to find out what the United Sta,tes had found out, but It only invigorated some members of Corgress to fresh pursuit.

While Mahon didnt put the finger on the people he wants to pipe down, there has been a great deal of talking.

Republican Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen reportedly told Kennedy the. Republicans wl continue to pound away at the administrations handling of Cubar Hes been conducting a one-man investigation of it.

A Democrat, Sen. John Sten-nls of Mississippi, whose Senate Preparedness subcommittee is investigating, has demanded full disclosure of all available facts from the administration.

He was backed by another Democrat. Sen, Philip A. Hart of Michigan, who said, the people are concerned.

And this week intelligence chief John A. McCone miide front pages with information he gave Congress behind closed doors, or he must have thought.

He told a House subcommittee as many as 1,500 men from other Latin - American countries were being trained a.s guerrillas In Cuba. Then the subcommittee made it public.

of the administration, too, have been talking too much about things he thinks should be kept secret.

The Texas Democrat, a voice in the wilderness at the moment, ,said:

There is an intelligence gap in the intelligence of those who are daily revealing the secrets of the intelligence operations of the United States government. , His call for silence will be welcomed by the Kennedy administration which, already having been accused of managing the news about Cuba, has been pushed into giving out information about it in dribs and drabs. ,

This Is a- dilemma it might have avoided by giving out more information before most pointedly about the Cuban inva.sion failure in 1961 and for these reasons:

Kennedy himself admitted it was American - backed and took full responsibility for it. Once that had been admitted other details could have been given without endangering the American intelligence system.

For instance: The number of Americans killed in the try to demolish Castro.

For weeks members of both parties in Congrc.ss have been

(The Biblical Recorder)

The Recorder hopes the General Assembly now in session in Raleigh will seriously consider removing the three per cent state sales tax from non-profit, religious publications. Already beset with a variety of difficulties. publications like the RECORDER must stretch their budgets still further to meet this new demand.

In a resolution adopted Jan. 28, the RECORDER board stressed that these are difficult days for religious publications, striving to serve their constituency in the face of rising costs. The resolution called on Governor Terry Sanford and the General Assembly to relieve church papers of this tax burden if possible.

We do not believe the 1961 General Assembly which enacted the sales tax law meant to work a hardship on publications which are the voices of Christian progress in this state. And yet, unless the statute is amended, the hardship will continue.

If religious publications are exempted from the sales tax, the loss In revenue to the state will not be more than $10,000 to $15,000, with nearly $5,000 of this amount being paid by the RECORDER on its 80,000 circulation. Other publication affected Include Charity and Children of the Baptist Childrens

Homes, the North Caroliha Christian Advocate (Methodist i. The Churchnuui (Episcopal. The Presbyterian News.j the. North Carolina Lutheran, the Free Will Baptist, the North Carolina CatboUc, and other fine periodicals of various denominations.

These papers have a long history of service to their readers, while at the same time con-.,tributing immeasuraWy to the moral stability of our state. In addition, these publicatiais stimulate support for childrens homes, Christian colleges, homes for the aging, hospitels, missiais, and related ministries of the church. Unless these causes receive adequate support, the state must assume a greater share of the load, especially in the field of human welfare.

Because of the nature of these publications, we think It is reasonable for them to have some relief. We wocld like to think that such a bill would receive widespread support in both the House and the Senate. At a time when Christian journalism In this state has its share of problems, such consideration on the part of the General Assembly would be a tremendous boost. If the legislature Is Inclined to take this step, we believe the vast majority of people in this state will applaud the action.

passing along the highway. He keeps up with business trends that way.

When tourist traffic is good, business is good. If business is good he abandons his cogitations long enough to ride the burro to town and peddle pottery.

Absence of traffic. Im pleased to report, is taken in stride. The maestro stays home and conserves energy for more strenuous days.

This may strike you as odd but bear in mind that Candelario is 40 years old, has no credit cards nor does he let Eufemia or the burro get out of hand. If you can say the same for yourself stop reading here.

The key to this contentment, philosopher Candelario explained, lies in the sense of values. His is impervious to mercenary temptations.

So one day our amigo was riding the burro to town while Eufemia trotted along behind with a load of pottery for the market. A couple of tourists waved them down with a five peso note and Candelario obliged them with a pict^ire.

The transaction was completed and oie of the tourists, in hesitant Spanish, asked how come Eufemia walked while Candelario rode?

Candelario said it should be obvious even to a tourist that Eufema had no burro.

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The function of the police is to enforce the law without breaking the law. If this proves frustrating, then that is the price of a free society.Bos tofi Herald. -

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963,^ King Features Syndicate, Inc.

MIAMIA revolution is an abstract thing untU you run into some of the victims thereof.

Lets pin the effects of the Castro revolution down to Juan Lima and his wife Suzana, which are the names they prefer to go by in order to keep the heat off relatives In Cuba. Up to August of 1960 Juan was a prosperous small business man In Havana, whose firm had been established in the Nineteenth Century.

Like ninety-five percent of the Cuban people Juan was disposed to welcome the downfall of Batista. But little things made him uncomfortable. Sitting last week in the living room of an unpretentious house in Weit Palm Beach, with his wife, a 90-year-old mother, an aunt, and a dog, Juan ssdd the first Inkling he had that the Castro movement coitained high-placed Communists came from the blouses that some of the Fi-dellstas were wearing. They had sleeves without cuffs, he said, just like the Stalinists used to wear.*

Taking counsel among themselves, Juan and his wife decided to play it safe and get some money out to the United States. But even as early a.s 1960 it was Impossible to transfer funds directly from Cuba. They found a friend who introduced them to an employee of one of the Latin American embassies in Havana. An agreement was made to move soms money out under diplomatic immunity. The price: six pesos for every one that was deposited to Juans account in a United States bank.

Thinking the fee charged by the embassy employee a bit extortionate. Juan tried to get some more money out of Cuba by entrusting it to an Amen-can who represented himself as a bu.sinessman. The bu.siness-man vanished with $3,(XK)

In Florida Juan works as a cTerk in a store: his wife sells dre.sses in a womens wear shop. Their Havana home has been confiscated, and the furniture removed. Juans business, which had been left to the care of two employees under a power of attorney, was seized by Fidelistas in the autumn of 1960. Two men came around on a Friday night with a sack, said Juan, and ordered my men to empty the cash register into it. They said theyd be back every week. While Juan was talking, his dog nuzzled up to him affectionately. "We had left the dog in Havana. he explained, and my wife grieved for him. So, one day. she went back to Cuba for him,

I was scared to death every minute. said Suzana, but I found the dog safely in the care of our old gfiirdener. When I brought him to the plane to leave I w'as almost stopped because I didnt have a paper for him. But, when I pleaded that I was taking the dog to his rightful owner, they let us through.

Juan and Suzana both grieve for Cuba as they had grieved for their dog. They are pessimistic about ever returning to Havana. Juan doesnt see how Castro Is to be stopped without the armed assistance of the United States, and he despairs of getting that. As for the big Cuban refugee colony in Florida, Juan thinks It Is too fragmented to function as a unit In the figlit against Castro.

The Miami Cubans, he said, are split five ways. There Is the riffraff, which left Cuba l(mg before Castro. There are the corrupt Cuban business refugees who had paid money to both the Batista party and the Fidelistas. There are the hoiest business men who paid no protection money. Then there * are what you call the Fabian socialists the ones who split with Fidel because they thought he went too far toward Communism. And there are young Idealists who wanted an honest society. But no leader comes to put them an together.

Juan Lima named two young Cubans who might do the Job of welding the refugees into a fighting unit. One of them is Enrique Llaca Orbiz, he said. The other Is Felipe Rivero. (Continued on page sbO

Caieteria-Style Wage Plan

Strength For Today

By EARI, L. DOU(iI.AS.S ITS UF* TO YOU

We all have to a.ssumt responsibility for our personal behavior. We may try to push off the responsibility on someone else. We may 'blame heredity. We may point out the fact -that in some ways it is harder to live a good life today than it has been previously. But in the end it all comes back to us. Neither our parents, nor our church, nor our teachers, nor our assoclatCsS will in the end be held responsible for the Way we behave. For centuries we have been blaming Adam and Eve for most of the worlds evil. They' ate the apple (or was It an apple?), but let us,always remember that it Was not the apple on the tree that caused the trouble but the pair undei

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, Human life appears to be an enterprise in personal responsibility. No one can breathe for us, or eat for us, or sleep for U.S. We are compact bundles of personality and life. In a way we tare completely independent of everybody and everything. In another wy we are tied so closely to others that everything they do affects u.s and every-, thing we do affects them. But we always come back to personal responsibility.

Dont point the finger of sconi at others. Dont complain and say that If* things had been different or your parents different, or your home different you would have been different. Giv en the same set of clrcumstanc es you would probably behave again precl.sely as you have behaved unless yoii had changed as a i>erson.

Tf* un to you.

By ELMER ROESSNER

A California researcher has come up with a method of paying workers that may have more possibilities^ than appear at first glance.

Mason Haire, of the University of California Institute of Lidustrial Relations, told a Stanford University Graduate School of Business .seminar 1 about a study of 2,0(X) union workers on the West Coast.

The survey indicated, he said, that employers could stretch their wage dollars by giving employees a chance to pick their own package of straight earnings and fringe benefits. By stretchiir *eir dollars. Tie meant that tui;>!o ers could get better morale r perhaps better productivity by a cafeteria-style wage plan Some workers want some rewards more than other benefits.

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While Mr. Hajre did not dramatize his findings, it is po.ssible, to imagine how it would work out. Suppose an employing company . offered each vcu'ker a cafeteria, coun

ter of rew'ards. That is. suppose the personnel manager .said. Okay. Mr. Doakes. you .are to get $100 to a 40-hour week, and you can choose what you want from this menu,

All right. Doakes says, Id like $4 worth of hospitalization, $6 worth of pension contributions, 75 cents worth of free coffee, $1 worth of medicines. $2 worth of free parking. $1 in mental health insurance and $1 of this maternity benefit thing for my wife, who Is very carele.ss. Ill take the rest in cash.

The rest would be $84.25 in cash less, of course, withholding tax. Social Security taxes and state and city withholding faxes, if any.

An older worker might prefer $10 in hospitalization and medical benefits, $20 in pension contributions and $5 in medicines and not a damn cent for the companys ski program. HOW ABOUT EXECUTIVES?

It might not be necessary to stop with organized workers. An executive, hired at a total annual outlay of $25,000. might want $5.000 in Densian beneta.

$5,000 in stock-option benefits, a $2,000 membership In a country club. $1,500 worth of a company car and $1,000 for an extra special secretary.

There are endless possible combinations, ranging from an executive who wanted everything in cash except $1,000 toward medical care of his liver, to one who wanted an introduction to the owners daughter, valued at $8,888 as a fringe benefit.

The reader can have fun by calculating his net salary after taxes and figuring what he would rather have than cash: a key to the executives washroom, a tour of the companys Bahama branch each year, a credit card, weekly meals in the Pump Room or a $100,000 policy against developing an ulcer.

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