Tesday, June 4, 190

College Cost Must Stay In Reach

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The $8 2 million capital improvements program this form of financing has been a boon to the state approved for East Carolina College during the next and its institutions in providing capital improve-two years will enable the institution to take a major ments. it has likewise necessitated an increase in stride in constructing facilities to meet tho increas- student fees and rents at most mstotions in order ing enrollment demands being made upon it. to amortize these loans It

Projects approved for the college by the legis- round of increases in these rents and fees will have lature will provide urgently needed classroom, to be made by state supported institutions to provide dormitorv and other facilities. Not all the needs sufficient revenue to repay the additional monies will be met with the $8.2 million, but the college that will be borrowed for capital improvements will be in a much better position to meet the during the next two years.

demands made upon it after this improvements It is important that the individual institubon.s

program is finished than it is today. and the legislature, see to it that too heavy a reli-

Citizens of the stateand particularly this ance is not made upon self-liquidating loans to pro-

ovea should bear in mind that approximately vide for capital improvements m future years. If GO per cent of the $8.2 million that will go into the self-liquidating loans are made to bear too large capital improvements at ECC during the next two a share of the total apital improvements there will veL-s comes from state funds. The remaining 40 have to be a corresponding increase in the cost to per cent, or $3.3 millions, will come in the form of the individual student for attending state supported

^elf-liquidating loans that will have to be repaid out colleges. , ^ ^ . . u* u

of rents and fees charged students at the college. In North Carolina is entering an era in which its

pffeet the state is putting $4.9 million into the efforts are pointed toward putting a college educd-canilal improvements program at the college in the tion within reach of each young person who next two vears College students themselves, over qualified and who desires to attend college. As it period of vears. will pav off the other $3.3 million moves forward with this program, it must guard

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for capital improvements approved by the current against Putting the cost of attending its established

colleges beyond the reach of too many of its joung

people.

legislature.

Most of North Carolinas state supported colleges have found it necessary in recent years to use self-liquidating loans to secure needed facilities for which state funds have not been available. While

hopes JriicKer ?or Bond Issues

Shepherd Of More Than A Church Alone

By WILLL\M SHIKES

LATE Last -for big, s.'Lat

highway and school bood suts are flickering out in Uje vjfr eral Assembly.

Enthusiasm for then has wared. and it is late in the session probably too late to revive them.

It also appears now that chances for enacting tax relief, even that urged by Gov. Terr> Sanford, have all but disappeared. This could, however, be written into the forthcoming revenue act or hammered in by floor amendment.

The final word on these money matters lies with the Joint Finance committee which does not appear favorably disposed toward them. In fact, in the minds of most committee members. the items are shelved for this session.

POCKETBOOK It has been recognized for many months that the 1963 General Assembly was committed to no new or additional taxes. It will keep that committment.

The Finance committee presently is involved with revisions of the Revenue Act proposed by the State Revenue depart-nient. Most of about 40 proposed changes are minor and technical. and the cumulative effect for the entire bill would be an annual increase of $1,378,675 in revenue.

There are numerous other pieces of legislation either enacted or in process which also will effect the taxpayers pock-etbook, one way or another.

REVENUE The revenue act revisions deal chiefly with the franchise tax structure, providing for the lions share of the increase in revenue, $1,039,675 a year.

Revisions in the individual income tax paws would do relatively little in the way of revenue change, providing for an estimated annual increase of $210,500.

But one section deals with changing and simplifying individual income tax return forms. Revenue officials believe this will be a welcome change. It is also designed to make the job of checking returns easier, and would speed up refunds.

Other sections under proposed revision include corporate income, sales and use tax schedules. Intangibles and gasoline along with general administration of the revenue act.

TABS Officials w'ho keep tab on the revenue estimates and total up the appropriations

'T'Xffci by legislature say less than four million cciliTs leri for the 1963 Generic Assembly to earmark for the vtxrmg ofieomum.

rt;s fact m itself has been a zuaior reason for a tight rein oc the record $1.8 billion ap-propratioos. biUs. the opposition to approving bigger pay increases for state employees and the melting of support for big road and sclKXil bcd issues.

It is true that the $200 million highway bond issue proposal might not require additional taxes, but would require continuing budget items for debt service and the like.

Bigger pay raises for state employees would have to be calculated in succeeding "A budgets as well as being provided for this time.

FORESEE A number of legislative observers and legislators themselves are saying privately that they foresee trouble ahead in framing a l%5-67 budget.

These sources say they do not envy the lsk that will confront

Our world, filled as it Ls with distrust and misunderstanding, has reason to mourn the passing of Pope John XXIII.

Of all the great figures on the contemporary stage ... his efforts, his spirit, his example, posed the most inspiring hope that solutions might be found to resolve seemingly insolvable differences among peoples and nations.

We may well marvel that a man of such humble origins and simplicity of heart should contain the wisdom and understanding that made his goals seem

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Reigning less than five years as supreme pon- oy AL/ViJN i A 1 J-iVJlv tiff of the Catholic Church, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli stirred the hearts of men as few popes before him have done.

He labored for peace and a social order that was just for all; but this son of an Italian share-

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cropper will be best remembered for his strivings jg going to get tough wdth toward a greater sense of unity among Christians. those people who crack pay The work that he launched in this direction is telephone coin boxes.

filled with pitfalls which invite fairufc. But hr his comSS- thou8-

verv straight forwardness, his very real desire whicn ands of dollars each year. The brooked no impediments, he opened the door company reported that 149 coin

through which others may someday pass. thrflrst''four'months

Pope Johns concept of an Ecumenical Council of 1963. Last yesr 220 phones with its many-times told aspiration of change and were damaged robted dur-unity was possible only in an inspired visionary with 'taken

the simplest single virtue: that of love. from the phones, damage to the

Now that he is gone, a flood of tributes is being equipment far exceeds the val-

.....______ - - - heard from the four corners of the world Evidence that It

the next Advisory Budget Com- perhaps, that in truth he was not the shephera 01 sustains a loss of approximate-

mission, nor the next General Assembly if the revenue estimates now projected prove accurate.

More optimistic sources point out that (1) the revenue estimates probably are on the conservative side of that a surplus will accrue from a spurt in the economy and (2) that a great many of the capital improvements items in the 1963-65 budget are non-recurring and will not have to be included two years from now.

ITEMS Those who are predicting headaches two years from now point to the sidetracking of the highway and school bond is.sue proposals this time, and to the fact that nonteacher state tmployees are being asked to stand aside for the second successive legislature in the matter of bigger pay raises.

These sources say the percentage increase in the size of the States budget demonstrates that spending may be outstripping growth of the states economy and its available revenue sourc-

his church alone; his concern was for the world.

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ly $200 In property damage each time a coin operated telephone is looted. Thus, in 1962, Caro

lina Telephone lost about $44,-000 in property damage.

So the company nas come up with a five - point plan to reduce losses:

1. A $100 reward will be paid by the company for Information resulting in the arrest and conviction of persons stealing from or removing coin telephones. The nearest law enforcement agency or local telephone manager should be notified in such cases.

2. Cwnpany personnel will make more frequent collections from coin telephones to keep coin losses at a minimum.

3. Carolina Telephone )^ill maintain closer liaison with law enforcement officers to protect the coin telephones.

4. Certain coin telephones have been equipped with burglar alarms.

5. Company personnel will increase their own surveillance of the coin telephones.

Convlctiwi of willful damage to or destruction of a coin telephone, or the larceny of money carries a sentence of as much as two years.

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They are the ones who have been predicting that, while the 1963 General Assembly adhered to a policy of no new taxes, the 1965 Assembly may face the necessity not only of raising the gasoline tax for highways but possibly also finding new revenue for the hardpressed General Fund.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Pope John XXIII said he preferred the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity, and he used it to minister to the ills of the world.

He had been ruler of the Roman Catholic Church for less than five years when death neared. That wasnt long enough to bring about a recovery to the worlds troubles. He hardly had time to do more than write out a few prescriptions in his eight encyclicals and his Ecumenical Council.

Yet. it is doubtful any Pope in more than a century gave such a sense of vitality to the Catholic church or created so much good will among the non-Catholics of the v'orld, both those with a belief in God and those without any.

As he lay dyinghe said he was prepared and had his bags packedCatholics, Protestants, non-Christians and atheistic Communists alike regretted it.

He had tried to open the door to unityat least unity in the sense of better understanding between the Catholic and non-Catholic worlds. Real unity is still a dream. Disunity was too deep for a quick solution.

John, out of a peasant family in Italy, was a pastoral Pope, warm, humble, extremely contemporary, and optimistic. He went to work at once.

Pope Leo XIII, on the night the cardinals elected him in 1878, immediately sat down and wrote Chancellor Bismarck in Germany where Catholics suffered under repressive legislation. This opened negotiations and in a few years Bismarck lifted the legislation.

John, within a day after his election Nov. 4. 1958, went on the radio to plead for peace

He began efforts toward

some form of working arrangement between the Vatican and Communist governments in the interest of peace and of Catholics behind the Iron Curtainand his efforts seemed well received in Russia.

In almost no tirne he did what no other Pope had done in almost 100 years: he called an Ecumenical Council, a meeting of the cardinals, bishops, and leaders of the church. More than 2.500 went to Rome to take part in the first session.

It was different from other such councils. Protestants and representatives of the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches were invited as observers. More than 40 Protestants and two delegates from the Russian church went.

The council lasted from Oct. 11 to Dec. 8, 1962 and then recessed until next Sept. 8. Its possible Johns successor will postpone the next session but very unlikely he will cancel it.

The council has several purposes, among them some church reforms, like letting priests say parts of the Mass and administer the sacraments in their own tongues instead of all in Latin, and beginning closer relations with the Pro-te.stant world.

What John did, since any hope of unity he had could hardly be achieved in his lifetime or perhaps in several lifetimes. was to open access on a new road for Popes coming after him.

Encyclicals are circular letters to Catholics. But even here John broke new ground. His two most famous encyclicals were Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacheri and Pa-cem in Terris (Peace on Earth).

He addres,sed the latter not (Continued on Page 5)

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The civil defense question Is getting much attention of late in Washington. This is as it should be. Albert Ein,stein came up with his atomic theory first in 1939. From that date to the dropping of the first bomb on Hiroshima only six years elapsed. But since 1945. 18 years ago, nothing has been done in the way of defending America from atomic attack, although Russia completed its first bomb in 1949. This is fantastic and tragic.

Being debated now in the House Armed Services Committee is the administration request for $300 million for the next fiscal year to boost civil defense. The controversial item in this total is $175 million asked as incentive payments to help fix up shelter space in nonprofit institutions like schools, jails, "Tiospitals, and to spur fallout shelter construction.

Opponents of fallout shelters offer some ridiculous reasons for opposing fallout shelters. For example, they ask: Is it American to become obsessed with burrowing in the ground? Well, since when have American soldiers throught it wrong to seek shelter in foxholes in order to live and fight again?

Opponents of shelters claim .such protection would induce a false sense of security, diverting the peoples energies from the quest for peace? Well, it was the ant who survived the winter because he had forethought enough to prepare for it, while the grasshopper had him.self a ball during the gay summer months, but had to pay the piper come winter. One can be prepared at the same time

he's seekiiig peace. To think this isnt possible indicates lack of real thought on the matter. Opponents of fallout protection simply arent being realists.

Some embarrasing questions have been posed to the congressmen themselves. For example, while they debate about shelters for the public, what has been done to afford protection for the government in Washington? The answer is nothing, except for some emergency measures for the President and a few Pentagon brasshats.

So, obviously. Congress isnt setting an example. There are no emergency supplies under the captol dome. Pew cwigress-men knew whether there was a box of K-rations or even a band aid available. Rep. Charles Chamberlain of Michigsm said, in view of the state of unpreparedness in Washingt(. that a nuclear attack there would touch off a Chinese fire drill on Capitol Hill with lawmakers and their employes running tn all directions.

Plans are being made by the administration whereby possible shelter for 70 million people has been located in existing buildings, caves, mines and tunnels. Does this sound like Americans, obsessed with burrowing in the grounds? No, it sounds like a government approaching a problem with a sane plan, at least making a first effort to save a population from annihilation. What does sound American. Is the idea of lethargic, day-to-day indifference to this threat. And thats what weve been guilty of since the first inception of the bomb, two decades ago.

The person who must be of similar personality to those who wreck pay telephones is the one who turns in false alarms.

Greenville has had its share of these in recent weeks and. of course, each time the big red fire trucks roll out there Is always the chance of accident. For some reason. Fire Chief George Gardner says, statistics^ show more accidents occur <w false alarms than on calls to actual fires.

More Important, the false alarms pull city fire equipment away from the stations. If a major fire occurred elsewhere, precious minutes could be lost while the trucks traveled the extra distance.

Maybe those who pull false alarms feel a little more valuable as they do it. After all. city ordinances provide a $25 reward for information leading to the conviction of one who turns in a false alarm.

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The gloom has been so thick this week in editorial offices across the South, that Dixies editors have been cutting it out in blocks and storing it up. Who knows? The day might cope when we are perfectly at peace with the worldand then what would we write about? A few blocks of gloom in storage might come in handy. Richmond News-Leader.

If the high court should conclude that the Maryland and Pennsylvania laws are invalidthat prescribed prayer or Bible reading tends toward an establishment of religion' which the Constitution forbidsit does not follow that American education will become Godless or its products religiously illiterate. Pupils and teachers still will be free to exercise their faiths in their own ways." Christian Science Monitor.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963,King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Soon the crest of the, big post-war baby crojf will ^ve flooded through our high schools and on into college. It wasnt so many years ago that the more gloomy prophets were claiming that the ^ates and cities o the niUiwi would never be able to pay for the extra grammar school and mgr school classrooms necessary to take care o the huge load.. But the states and cities met the challenge, and then some. They built so speedy that between 1955 and 1962 the number of pupils per classroom in the nation dropped from 29.4 to 27.

Now the prophets are saying that the colleges wont be able to provide classroom space and dormitories for the swelling registrations of the next few years. President Kennedy, m his January message on education. put the increase of 1962 over 1950 at "more than fifty per cent. And. joining the gloomy prognosticators, he W'ent on to say that by 1970 college enrollment will nearly double. The Presidents figures do not tally with projections made by the Bureau of the Census aud the Office of Education, whicli indicate that the 1970 figure for college enrollment will stand at some 50 per cent of the 1962 figure, not at 100 per cent. But. waiving the discrepancies between the Presidents calculations and those of the statisticians who work in his Administration. it is obvious that college enrollments are going to increase by a good deal. Tbe question is: must the federal government finance whatever space is needed for the flood of extra students, or can the states, cities and private agencies be counted on to meet the coming emergencies, as han-pened before in the case of primary and secondary school facilities?

According to Roger A. Freeman of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, who made a number of exceedingly well-informed and prophetically accurate studies of primaiy and secondary educational needs in the Nineteen Fiftir.s for the White House Conference on Education, the present ov for massive federal aid to the colleges is just as mistaken 'j the call for federally supported grammar and high school programs was a few years ago. Mr. Freeman points out that the diminishing birthrate will soon enable tbe cities and sta.e to channel a bigger proportion of their educational funds to technical schools and to colleges. But beyond that, he poirt.s to the great possibilities of the so-called tri-semester system that enables the University of Pittsburgh, for example, to u-e its plant all year round. T^e tri-semester plan, according to Pitts Chancellor Edward Litchfield. could reduce the $10 bullion needed in the next decade for new facilities to about $6 bilUon.

Realizing. perhaps. that there Is something fishy about the propaganda for massive federal support of college building programs, many members "f Congress have come up more or less simultaneously with the idea that it is the taxpayer who should get the break when it comes to providing aid to education. There are some IM separate bills now pending in the Senate and the H<xi5e which would give some sort of tax concessions to families tht have sons and daughters In private schools and colleges. These bills ring the changes on Senator Abe Ribicoffs proposal to let parents deduct up to $1.-500 for college expenses.

The drawback in the tax deduction or concesslim idea is that the colleges themselves

would get no monetary benefit from it. Indeed, they might very well incur a loss, for individual income tax deductions for educational purposes would probably Increase the enrollments and add to the pressure 00 college facilities. To get around

th^ objection, Mr. Freeman suggests that tax credits be

given to individual families to support an across-the-board general increase in college tuition charges. The deal <m the tax credit would be between the individual taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service, which would keep the federal gdvem-ment out of higher education. But the colleges would get

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Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS WEDDING DAYS

Yesterday we reminded ourselves that June is the period of commencement exercise.s. It is also the month of weddings The June bride is a much beloved figure. She not only is a person she is a symbol. In her - her beauty, her charni. and all the cu.stoms that have grown up in connection w'ith the marriage ceremony one -sees human hope at its best.

Ninety - nine per cent out of every one hundred per.son.s enter marriage with the conviction that his marriage or hers is going to be the most successful marraige ever entered into Oihens may have failed, but we shall not fail.

This, of course, is the right . .spirii^ Anything else would be stultifying at the very beginn

ing, But we should remember always that marriage was not an institution given us by the Creator for the purpose of solving our problems. Marriage creates ten times as many problems as it solves. Notice in the Bible that when men ask God questions His reply is not a declaration but other questions.

We are put here in the world to learn to grow souls. One of the most entrancing experiences of that educational procedure is marriage. But some people make a hell of marriage. No one can say who is to blame for this failure. The millions of happy homes in our own and other countries attest the fact that a good God rules the universe and offers us a chance to find the meaning of life through happiness.

By ELMER ROESSNER A largely overlooked fact is that the present drive for civil rights for Negroes has tremendous implications for business.

As the Negroes gain' civil rights, they will also gain economic rights. Once they have the vote in the South, they will demand economic equality. And if they have power to vote resistors out of office, they will win their economic demands.

It has been an ill - kept secret that the recent economic growth of the South has been based on cheap colored labor. Cities, chambers of commerce and other groups have lured Northern plants south by pointing out that the politically impotent Negroes would work for considerably less than organized Northern unionists and that this low - wage base would force the whites to accept lower wages or go without jobs. BASIC FACTS Many Southerners will deny this. They will say that con

struction of plants, leasing them at low rates, tax abatement cheap water, balmy climate and other advantages are the real reasons for the migration of industries.

But they know in their hearts that the real reascm many Northern plants have run away to the South is the hope of cheap labor. Labor, far more than rent or climate, is important in the cost of production today.

And if Negroes win full civil rights in the South,- with their voting power and other civil strengths, they will insist 1 pay equal to that of whites in the North. If they can vote, they can join unions and Northern organlzeiTS wUl be happy to insist on scales as high in the South as they are in the Noi*th. VAST CHANGES LIKELY

Once Southern wage rates arc equalized with Northern rates, there will be less desire to move south. And the recent boom in Southern industry may be slowed down to NorUiern

On the other hand, as Negroes tend to gain equal pay with whites, they wUl have another kind of impact on the Southern economy. They will become better customers.

As Negro incwnes rise, Negroes will hve more mwiey for housing, for furniture, for appliances, for autos yes, even Lincolns and Cadillacs. There will be more for food, more drugs, lots more apparel.

A Northern businessman said recently, I cant understand those Southern businessmen. Ev-erytime they keep a Negro out of their stores or their lunch counters, they pick their own pockets.

CUSTOMER ALWAYS RIGHT

And so, as Negroes establish themselves as customers, they will establish themselves as essentia] factors in the national and local economies.

Winning the vote winning political equality will give personal satisfaction to m a n y nf rii\nr Irin. Blit Stab

lishlng an ecoDomle power will do much more. It will make the Negroes a more vital ecoQomic factor than they are now.

Today, Negroes are estimated to spend $20 billion a year of their own and their employers mwiey for goods and services. But when they Mng their spending power up to two or three times that, there wfil be many more pe<H)le eager to call each one "Mister or "Missus.

SIGNIFICANT BITS Ik PIECES OF BUSINESS INTEUJGENCE New Zealand butter in aluminum tubes is being introduced in England. . JSoap and detergent sales in the first quarter were 5.2 per cent less than in the last 1962 quarter. . . Bouth Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas and Indiana increased the permissible length of trucks this year. .'.The U. S., which imported 32,5 million pounds of Mexican strawberries in 1962, is expected to import from 15 to per oent more' this year.