fViday, May 10. 1963

Growing Concern On School Needs k

Equal Opportunity In Birmingham

Although the Mayor and City Council of Greenville have no direct voice in local public school affairs, at either the policy-making or administration level, discussion of school needs in the recent political campaign reflects a growing concern for meeting those needs.

The fact that the matter was given considerable attention by candidates for municipal offices should suggest to the local Board of Education that the time may be right to move forward to meet existing needs.

Where public schools of Greenville are concerned, it is the responsibility of the local Board of Education to formulate policies and see that the policies are implemented. The only authority the citys governing board has with respect to schools is appointment of members of the Board of Education.

Since the matter of school needs has come in*o the public spotlight it would appear wise for the Board of Education at the earliest practical date to present its assessment of local school needs. The Board of Education subsequently should present to

local citizens its recommendations for meeting any existing needs as well as future needs in the way of facilities.

It should, in our opinion, immediately renew efforts to resolve with the county school administrative unit some of the problems that now exist with respect to school district lines. Already, portions of the city of Greenville have spilled over into the Winterville school district. As the geographic ara of the city continues to expand, the problem of district lines will become more acute unless remedial action is taken. Certainly any school expansion pro-am must take into account long-range considerations, and this immediately brings up the matter of district lines.

It wdll take considerable time to formulate policies for meeting present and future school needs in the Greenville district. Additional time will be required to implement the policies once they are determined. The atmosphere of public sentiment, in our opinion, is now ripe for the Board of Education to move toward whatever school expansion program it deems is needed.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SAFETY - Nothing else has fired this sessiai of the General Assembly like the subject of highway safety.

It has great popular appeal, growing concern and mounting public Interest and highway safety - conscious legislature Gov. Terry Sanford Is pushing It vigorously and has made highway safety a prime legislative objective. Other groups and leaders are supporting a more effective highway safety program, and numerous individual legislators are taking the lead In the movement. These Include the respective highway safety chairmen. Sen H. J. Hatcher of Burke and Rep. R. D. McMillan of Robeson.

INSPECnON-In fact, the seal for highway safety has reached a point that now, after 15 long years. North Carolina may get another motor vehicles Inspection law.

There are those who say dont count cm it. Motor vehicles Inspection during the past decade has been a taboo item, but regardless there is more noticeable support and favor for a new inspection plan now than at any time since the lU-fated (Hie of the 1940s w'as killed.

Inspection is something which a few months ago was hardly more than a fond hope of highway safety advocates. But it now appears likely that an inspection bill providing for a relatively simple and easy-to-administer equipment check will come out of the committees.

DETAILSA number of legislators on the Highway Safety committees remember the devastating public reaction which destroyed motor vehicles inspection conducted by a state garage system in the late 40s. But they say they are now willing to try againunder a bill sponsored by Rep. James Vogler of Mecklenburg County.

Voglers bill would provide that checks of basic safety equipment be made at licensed, supervised service stations and garages for a fee of fifty cents, of which the station would retain 40 cents.

Any defects discovered might be repaired anyw'here the motorist chooses.

It wont solve the whole problem, Vogler says. But it wiU help.

PROBLEMThe traffic safety problem in North Carolina was Illustrated at a public hearing <m Vogler's bill by executive director Phil Ellis, of the N. C. Traffic Safety Council, citing figures showing that North Carolina has the 10th highest mileage death rate in the nation.

There were 1,320 traffic deaths reported in North Carolina last year. There were 37,-490 persons injured. There were 65,000 reportable accidents in-

The fate of a realistic increase in the states minimum wage law now appears to rest with the membership of the House of Representatives.

The Senate has given approval to a measure which would increase the states minimum wage to 85 cents an hour next January 1, and to $1. an hour a year later. This level of minimum wage requirements is much more realistic than the proposal ap-P^*oval in a House committee which would increase Inspecuon works to reduce ac- the minimum to 80 cents an hour next January and'

cldents, Ellis said. It is e ne- ti) cents jin Vinnr in TamiQi-tr cessary part of any effecUve o,cenis an fiour in January, 1965.

program.

MANDATE Hatcher echoed the feelings of many legislators (HI the subject when he told the joint committee that

volving motor vehicles.

The economic loss in the state from traffic accidents amounted to $225 million, or almost as much as it costs to operate the entire public stihool system in North Carolina.

There is clear proof that

highway safety program.

He termed the traffic accident toll the responsibility of irresponsible people which requires stnmg preventive and corrective measures. And he said won

Working on highway safety is not a popularity contest, Hatcher said. If youre looking for popularity, the highway safety committee is no place to be.

PACKAGE The package of highway safety legislation before the legislature bears the Sanford Administration label, because of the governors efforts and his outlining of a seven-point highway safety program in a special message on the subject early in the session.

A seat belt bill which wiU require safety belts on aU new cars sold In North Carolina after next Jan. 1 was the first bill in the package to be enacted.

Othersincluding Inspection appear to be on the way. JUVENILESA house judiciary committee has packed off to a sub-committee a bill to put North Carolina in an interstate compact on juveniles and chances are it wont be revived.

The snag in the lengthy compact proposal are provisions dealing vlth runaways, objected to by Rep. Steve Dolley of Gaston. Dolley opposed the runaway provisions and blocked third reading of this so-called Gamble Benedict bill in the House and had it re-referred to the judiciary committee. He offered a set of seven amendments in (iommittee designed to eliminate objectionable features and draw a distinction between juveniles under 16 years old and minors.

Juvenile runaways arent persons accused of crimes, Dolley said, and it is completely repulsive to me to permit a 29 year old person to be locked up and held for 90 days.

I fail to see why we have to have a contractural relationship with provisions objectionable to U.S. when cooperative laws will accomplish the same purpose, Dolley said.

Unless members of the House override the recommendation of their Committee on Manufacturing and Labor, the matter of a new minimum wage level appears certain to go before a Senate-House con-wc have a mandate from the f^rence committee. Whether an acceptable compro-

people to enact an effecUve mise in such a committee will be possible is a moot

question.

The course taken by the Senate to raise the minimum wage standards of the state is more in keeping with the needs of the state than the action iid.""to Wwhiris'nSceUaj^ , which has come out of the House committee. When ^Ui^Txdng essay stored for i-

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the levels approved by the Senate than to holding ^ recall my Missus

to the recommendations of the House Committee on Manufacturing and Labor.

By DON SCHLIENZ

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON API All through his news conference President Kennedy stepped gingerly on the subject of racial strife in Alabama as if he were leading an expedition on tip-toe around a land mine.

Then it suddenly p()ped or it siHinded like a pop because of clumsy Alabama timing. Negro leaders themselves disagreed on whether they heard an explosion.

Kennedy kept quiet this past week while day after day Negroes by the thousands in Birmingham put on massive demonstrations for equal treatment and thousands of them were jailed.

The President might have stepped publicly into this critical situation by calling for a solution or criticizing the Negroes or the whites who refused them equal treatment or both. But he preferred not to.

Behind the scenes his administration was trying to get white and Negro leaders to reach some kind of understanding. As this seemed near this week he decided to say something publicly, but in a very miW and indirect way.

Tuesday night through an aide he expressed hope the increasingly dangerous problem could be settled peacefully. Then less than 30 minutes before he faced has news (jonference Wednesday came the word.

Negro leaders announced a 24-hour truce in the demonstrations.

Kennedy told the newsmen, We can hope that tensions will ease and this episode would remind all communities how urgent it is that "all bars to equal opportunity be removed as promptly as possible.

He said very real abuses had been inflicted on Birmingham Negroes too long and that the situation in that city was damaging the reputati(Hi of Birmingham and the United States.

And he added the thought that the best way to prevent that kind of damage is to, in time, take steps to provide equal treatment to all our citizens.

While all this might be taken as a rebuke to the white segregationists, Kennedys Idea that in time steps toward equal treatment should be taken can hardly please the Negroes.

Their massive demonstrations were as vivid evidence as anything In American history that they are fed up with this theory of gradualism of wait-Ing for equal treatment. Theyve been waiting for it since the days of slavery.

Kennedy made it clear he Is reluctant to step directly inco the Birmingham problem. He w'as asked if he thought a fireside chat by him might help Improve race relations.

Well, it might, he said, but added: If I thought it w^ould, I would give one. He said it didnt seem to do much good when he made a television appeal for restraint last fall on the night of the riot at the University of Mississippi.

He told the new'smen: I

think what we are interested in now. Is seeing the situation peacefully settled in the next 12, 24 hours. I think all of our statements should be devoted to that end.

Then came that popping sound which may turn out to have been an explosion.

The Rev. Martin Luther King and the Rev, Ralph D. Abernathy were leaders In a Negro demonstrati(Hi April 19. They were arrested and charged with parading without a license. They were also leaders in the recent massive demonstrations.

Both were Involved in the 24-hour truce arranged Wednesday. Shortly after It was announced, perhaps during Kennedys news conference, they went to trial In Birminghams City Court (a the April 19 charge.

Both were convicted and sentenced to 180 days in jail, plus a $100 fine, plus costs. The fat was In the fire all over again. Other Negro leaders immediate-Lv announced the 24-hour truce was off.

Some said they considered the jailing of King and Abernathy as breaking faith on the truce. One. Wyatt Tee Walker,

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TO THE EDITOR:

I have never before written a letter to the editor, but thLs one I write in defense of all the policemen, policewomen, and law enforcement officers of the city of Greenville. I sincerely hope that the citizens of this city will think about, realize, and rec<^rnlze the good job and good things that all of these officers are doing, have done, and will continue to do to make Greenville a safer and better city in w'hlch to live and work.

These officers of the law have been condemned, intimidated, cursed, abused, degraded, slandered. and falsely accused of wrong doings by a great majority of the people of this city. Why? For simply trying to discharge their duties as they are required and supposed to do. They are called loafers when they are seen walking or driving the city streets, doing what seems and looks to everyone as doing nothing. Citizens fail to realize that their motto Ls no business Is go<xI business. They are called smart alecs, fools, and a thousand more disrespectful, profane and vulgar names when they write a parking ticket, or issue- a citation or warrant to someone for a violation, in some manner of the laws of this state, county, or city. Worse still, they have been accused (by rumors and gossip) of willfully attacking, abusing, and harras-sing, (both physically and legally citizens without any cause or provocation.

Very few citizens have ever taken time to verify these facts, or investigate as to whether these accusations are true or false, but I have, and knew, and found them to be false. Those who continue to spread these cancerous lies do not care either way they consider it something new to converse with friends and neighbors about to make conversation!

How many times do the citizens of Greenville give credit salute, or praise, these officers when they stand (hi a street or school corner and save a child

or pedestrians life? Or, when they are petroling every alley and street in this city, risking their lives to protect you, your property, and loved ones, while you lie peacefully sleeping tu your warm homes and beds, do you thank them by a kind word, or hello when you see or pass them Could you pay enough parking ticket and citation fines to justify and pay for the life that any one of them culd lose at anytime protecting you? How many citizens take the time, or initiative, and consider it a privilege to personally meet and introduce themselves to them, and find that they also are humans with warm hearts, friendly hellos, wives, children, families, relatives. and, most of all. good friends? Not many!

I. as a business man. and citizen of this city can say I have made it my business, my duty, and ccHisidered it my privilege, to meet and know them, and I pers(Hially know that there are no finer group of officers and people in any city, county or state than these we have in Greenville. They pn^ct me. my family, and my business 24 hours of every day and night, and stand ready to risk their lives (If necessary) to continue so. They like and respect me as a law abiding citizen and if I should violate the law. I shall not expect leniency because I am a perscmal friend, business man, or so called big shot citizen.

Now is the time for every citizen to stop and think before they condemn and disgrace every law' enforcement officer in this city, with their unfactual, unsubstantiated. gossiping, wagging tongues. If you will recognize these officers for Who and what they are, what they stand for and what4bey do. you can rest assured they will recognize y(HJ in the same manner. Cast a vote of assurance, respect, and consideration for them. Youll win every time. At least, try it. You cant lose!

Respectfully,

Bill Griffin

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A little girl can be sweeter (and baddert oftener than anyone else In the world. She can Jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves; yet just when you open your mouth, she stands there demure with that special look In her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing In the mud, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

God borrows from many creatures to make a little girl. He uses the song of a bird, the squeal of a pig. the stubborn-ess of a mule, the antics of a monkey, the spryness of a grasshopper. the curiosity of a cat, the speed of a gazelle, the sly-ne.ss of a fox. the softness of a kitten, and to top it all off He adds the mysterious mind of a woman.

A little girl likes new shoes, party dresses, small animals, first grade, noise makers, the girl next door, make believe, dancing lessons. Ice cream, kitchens. coloring books, make-up. cans of water, going visiting, tea parties, and one boy. She doesn't care so much for visitors. boys In general. large dogs, hand-me-downs, straight chairs, vegetables, snow suits, or staying In the front yard. Who else can <:ause you more grief, joy. Irritation, satisfac-ti(Hi, embarrassment, and genuine delight? She can muss up your home, your hair, and your dignityspend your money, your time, and your temper then Just when your patience is ready to crack, her sunshine peeks thrcHigh and youve lost again.

Yes, she is a nerve-wracking nuisance, just a noisy bundle of mischief. But when your dreams tumble down and the world is a messwhen It seems you are pretty much of a fool after allshe can make you a king when she climbs ( your knee and whispers, I love you best of all!

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The finest of drivers Is only as good as his temperament allows him to be. A Clue Is offered by the fact that speeding was the number one cause of fatal accidents last year. And more speeding cases were made against under-25 drivers than any age group. Columbus (Oa.) Enquirer.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate. Bic.

In the Nineteenth Cmtury In England they used to speak of St. Georges cavalrymeaning money that was M)ent abroad to buy the allegiance of other natl(His or to stir up local rebellions that would benefit the British position In the world. The Justification for using St. Gemrges <valry was that it kept Britain fnxn having to fight wars directly, (hi the record the British used their m(metary substitute for troops wisely. They defeated Napoleon with a very small commitment of British soldiers, and they kept out of lar^e-scale wars for a century theraftcr without visible loss of prestige, real estate or power.

Since World War H there have been many attempts to Justify the U. S. Foreign Aid program as a Twentieth Century variant of the horsemen of St. Ge(Hge who used to ride for Britain. But the U. S. monetary horsemen seem to be headless. For Instance, they have ridden in Cambodia since 1945 to the tune of $248.6 million In economio aid and $85.9 In military aid. making a total of $334.5 million. Surely that ought to be sufficient to earn a little gratitude. y(Hi might think. But the new.s fHHn Cambodia Is that thw neutralist monarchy In southeast Asia has Just signed a document pledging its support to the foreign policies, not of the U. S. and its allies, but of Red China. Included in the specifics of the agreement Is Cambodian endorsement of the Red <3il-nese claim to Fonnoea.

In other parts of the world the American versions St. Georges horsemen have been gall(H>lng off In all (Urections and getting nowhere. There is Brazil, to which $1.9 Ulhon has been sent in h(M?es that the nation might get its skyrocketing inflation under cxmtrol and sKHnehow pull the teeth of Communists who are trying to exploit the sufferings of landless peasants In the Brazilian northeast. If the deployment of our own St, Geiwges cavalry serves to keep the largest nation in Latin America from going the way <rf Castros Cuba. we can (xxmt out foreign aid to Brazil as being money well spent. But when Brazilian President Joao Goulart urges his own Leftist supporters to keep their eyes on what he does, not on what he says. It is obvious that promises may not always match performances in Brazil. The curious thing about our aid to Goularta government is that It has been extended without any hint of real reciprocity. Brazil sells coffee and bu>'s wheat, which would seem to set the stage for gome sort of barter deal connected with our aid program. But we go 00 paying money for Brazilian coffee while Brazil takes wheat from Soviet Russia. This does not mean that our own St. Georges (cavalry has lost the Brazilian war, but it does indicate that it has been outflanked in a rather Important battle.

Elsewhere In the world St. Georges cavalry has ridden into cul de sacs. We have provided Haiti with $100 million In aidand as this (column Is being written the fantastic Haitian dictator has just announced that he has already been reelected President In an election that Is scheduled for next week. Indonesia got $670 mlUi(Xi and thumbed its nose at the West by grabbing Dutch New Guinea. (Xiba got $52 million. and then, in accordance with Castros idea of gratitude, grabbed $1 billion in U. S. property. India has had $3.9 billion, and Is currently angling for funds to build a State^ywned steel mill at Bokaro. The United States Steel Ck>rporatlon ha.s advised (hit govemm^it that the proposed steel mill, which would be built near coal and iron sources, would be practical. but private steel companies in India (H>eraU at costs approximately fifteen per cent below tlw costs of existing government mills, so why not lend the money to private Indian steel companies to expand?

Venezuela has bad $274 million in U. S. aidand In view of this oU-rich nati(8 proixim* ity to the Panama (Janal few Americans would begrudge a penny of the money. Even so, it is a little disconcerting to hear, from Cuban exile souro-(Continued on page 10)

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS TEMPTATION

Are we ever tempted by God and do we ever confront temptations we cannot withstand?

The Bible assures us that: There hath no temptatl(Mi taken you but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not .suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way of escape that ye will be able to bear it if Cor. 10:13.

If you encounter a temptation you apparently cannot resist then you can be sure that It was not the Lord who put you there but your own folly or willfulness. or both.

There may be some temptation in life which would overwhelm your powers Put yourself in Gods hands, and vou can be sure that you will never encounter these temptations. But you will encounter tempta

tions. God even required of His only begotten Son that he be severely tempted and thus tested before he entered his life work.

There are places, pers(Mis, situations wliich may be particularly tempting to you. Keep away from these entanglements. The Bible does not tell us to light fornication (adultei-yi but to flee It (I Cor. 6:18). Dont hang around tempting situations with the conviction that you can take care of yourself. Get going and get going fast. The best way to handle most of lifes temptations is to get away from them.

Will you thus be a weakling? Not at all. You will have plenty of temptatl(His to test you and make you strong "Lead us not into temptation we pray. Which means Keep us away from temptation. Lord. Have mercy on us.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The State of New Hampshire and its governor, John W. King, have solved the problem of building new schools. They have created a lottery that is expected to produce $4 million a year.

It Is almost magic. Other states are watching and drool-- Ing; soon our state may have 1 Its own sweepstakes. Why should we .share our throw-away money with those Irish hospitals?

There's another question.

Whence the $4 million?

It doesnt come out of the air. It won't come out of the savings accounts of those New Hamp-shiie people, If I read them correctly.

The only other place it can come from Is the cash registers of the retailers and the suppliers of service in that beautiful green state.

WHERE ELSE?

Its as simple as that. There is just so much income (about $1.3 billion a year) in New Hamnshire. And. the $4 million will have to come out of that.

And that will mean $4 miUion

less for enterprisers in the state.

The grocery stores, the gas stations, those antique shops, the maple syrup stands, the motels, the ski slides and aU the other enteiprises will simply take in $4 million less each year.

The money invested in tickets. of course, will flow back into the states economy. Those $4 million will go to create contracts and jobs in building schools. To that extent, it will boom the New Hampshire economy. And to the same extent. It will take $4 million out of the stream of commerce, which might go to building supermarkets or shopping centers, or increasing wages.

In other words, the take Is simple another tax, dipping Into the pocketbooks of thrifty New Hampshire folk, and making them pay for schools which they might be unhappy about paying for other ways.

It's a tax that bites the little fellow. New Hampshires stocks-and-bonds gentry is too smart to take the lou.sy odds a state lottery must offer. The New York Stock Exchange offers bet-

the shipyard workers at P(t-mouth and the farmers of Salem Depot.

WHAT OF OUT-STATE SAI.S?

Walt a minute! y(iu say. The lottery will attract most of those millions from other states.

So indeed it may. Federal laws prohibit the use of the mails to circulate lottery tickets; they prohibit the transport of tickets across state lines. But, since the Federal government seems to connive at the sale of Irish Sweep-states tickets, it may also <x)n-nive at the sale of New Hamp-shiie Sweepstakes tickets In our town.

Thus, New Hampshire may be drawing money for its schools from our state and the 48 other states that have not yet established their own lotiwr les.

And as it does so, it will draw money from enterprises in the rest of the United States. The American public has just so much to spend. When it diverts some of it to

the New Hamiishlra or the numbers game. It must spend that much less for foods, beer, clothing, shoeshlnes and what* mister, do you sefl?

In fact. New Hampshire la already drawing milUons of dollars from nearby states with Its lower liquor prices, although It Is illegal to take cheap New Hampshire liquor across state lines. And note this; New HamiMihire Is planning to sell sweepstakes tickets In Its U(h uor stores.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HANDLES MAIL BETTER A New York company recently moved and notified all senders of mall of its new address. The address was promptly changed cm all government mail. Including that fnun the Department of Commerce, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Trade Ckxnmlssion and others. But now, after six weeks, much of tiie mall from private corporations Is atlll addressed to the old place of business.

ter gambles. Lotteries are for