Tuiday, September 8, 1968

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The Fastest-Growing Institution

When the fall quarter begins at East Carolina vested millions of dollar* in new capital Improve-rollefff it will become an institution with more menta at East Carolina since the close of World War than loOO studenta enrolled on campus. II, and still the college has not been Provided with

Tt win continue to hold its position as the fa.st- all the facilities it could wisely and efficiently use. e,t-growing institution of higher learning in North As East Carolina College has gfown it has Carolina and it' will push closer to the day it will likewise accelerated the growth of Greenville. Ties become the third largest rather than the fourth between the college-and the community, always lareeT college in the state. have grown even stronger as both the college

Fiftecn*vtari ago,East Carolina emerged from and the city have moved forward together.

i.s so much a part.

The

Greenville community

important growth for the college. They could foresee the day when East Carolina Teachers College

might double or triple its enrollment.

All too quickly even these optimistic views were eclipsed by the actual growth of the institution. Ap-plications from prospective student* grow fro mhun-dreds into the thousands. Enrollment not only w VAO

doubled or tripled, but has six-foid At Darlington yesterday stock car drivers, some

in little more than a decade^and a ha i. mnntrv. tore around the race

Real Difference In The Drivers

With it also, the annual cost of operating th* of .Xest_in the .country,

With It also, tne annua, cosvo. 0 ,0 .n.a ^ 130 per hour with-

college has moved up sharply. The state has in ^ accident in the hard day of racing.

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By WnJJAM A. SHIRES

INTENT A committee of the powerful new Legislative Coundl ha* Issued Its first edict one that U sure to set a precedent on the controversial question of legislative bitent.

It said in effect that the 1963 General Assembly intended to require Insurance companies s to cwitlnue to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of all cancellations of automobile liability policies.

Thus establishing intent the committee issued a formal request to the cqmptnles to continue use of the socalled PS-4 forms sent in th SMV in all cases of policy cancellation, not Just in those cases in which the company cancels.

The request, of course, lacks the force of law but coming from tne, Intermin little General Assembly is undoubtedly a persuasive lever.

QUESTION There Is question about the new law which becomes effective Oct. 1 dealing with paperwork Involved in administering the states motor vehicles financial responsibility act.

The law is designed to out down drastically and almost eliminate the burdensome detail of PS-l, proof-of-lnsurance forms. It also apparently left a loophole in which companies are not required to notify DMV when Insurance is cancelled by the policyholder. The cancellsr tlon notices are the P8-4s.

The chairman of the Legislative CocncUs Insurance committee. Rep. Sam Whitehurst of Craven, said question aro.se almost immediately about legislative Intent" in this particular.

The attorney generals office uled that the new legislation wiped out the requirements for FS-4 notification when policies are cancelled by the insured.

Assistant Atty. Oen. Ray Brady said this ruling was based imply on ^'the wording of the law."

WORDING Whitehurst said he and Rep. Sneed High of Cumberland constituted a subcommittee which had looked into the matter prior to the meeting of he full committee.

The General Assembly intended that PS-4 forms be furnished by Insurance ccnnpanles any time a liability policy Is cancelled, for whatever reason, Whitehurst said. But. he said, it left the one word. Insured, out of the law.

He said he felt that the dif-ficatty could be resolved by a letter or resolution to spell out legislative Intent in the matter. High said he believed he loophole was left because amendments prepared "hurriedly during floor debate on the measure. But he said he

feels notice should be given DMV In the event there Ls any change in relationship between company and Insured,

ACTTON With this report and explanations by DMV Commissioner Ed Scheldt and Insurance Commissioner Edwin Lanier, the committee proceeded to draft a resolution containing its request.

It will go to the Oovenilng Board of the North Carolina Rate Admhilstratlon Office, a statutory organlzati(Hi of the companies, and to Schiedt and Lanier. Schiedt asked for a letter or resolutlwi to clarify his departments position in Ught of the attorney generals ruling.

Lanier said he felt that the matter can be handled expeditiously through a telephone conference with the Governing Board prior to the Oct. 1 deadline.

key ~ Key to Impending controversy apparently is the matter of the committees establishing legislative Intent rather than its request pertaining 10 a rather technical, clerical matter.

Insurance company spokesmen attended the meeting, but did not express one way or another the position that t h e companies may take. Committee members and Lanier said they felt that continuing the practice of supplying PS-4 form.s in all cases would be both to the interest of the public and to the companies,

Whitehurst said he felt that the committee's action had been useful and valuable and that it was a proper function of t h e Legislative Council. He said thl.s first case appeared to establish the need for such Interim leg

islative housekfleplng. Authority critics of tiie

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\ng up a long Labor Day week-end left behind a string of thousands of accidents and a death toll that climbed well pa.st the 500 mark.

There was considerable difference in the conditions under which the two sets of drivers operated their vehicles. The ones on the track had carefully prepared for the Labor Day grind. Their reflexes were razor sharp after weeks, indeed months of conditioning. They were well aware that a split-second error on their own part or that of the other fellow could end in disaster. They knew the odds against them and exercised every resource to keep them as low as pos.sible.

On the highways it was different. Many of the motorists got behind the wheel in the worst driving AT.VTN TAYT.OR shape they have been in possibly in months. Weary in ii-iwxv

from a week-end of recreation, tense under the

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pressure to get home, their thoughts may often have Seen Here And There

strayed from the life-or^death business at hand. Per hap.s they too knew the odds predicted by safety organizations in advance of the Labor Day week- Anybody who has ever slap-end; but somehow those odds always seem to be ped mosquitoes at Nags Head i. XU 41 XU f can appreciate the sign at the

against the other fellow . Bodle island Lighthouse.

Speeds on the highways of the nation didn t ^ .^thp infor-

average near what thy did at Darlington Monday, reads: Do Not

Traffic on the open road was not nearly as congested peed the Mosquitoes. a.s it was on the oval track.

The difference was in the drivers ... as it almo.st always is on holiday wesk-ends.

any rate there's one on the way to Nags Head on U. S. 64.

les breathed a real sigh of relief as she started across a second time.

Most folks would gladly obey that!

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Eastern North Carolina affords some quaint sights, if you just look for them as you travel.

For instance, along side U.S. 64 near Columbia there are two folding chairs set up alongside them. No one was there at the time, however.

And Ill also never understand how grass manages to grow on ' a modem concrete bridge far out over the water. Buf if youll look closely on the Alligator River Bridge you will see the stuff that makes lawns green peeping through at the joints In the handsome new bridge. This is true even though the bridge is nearly three miles long.

Opinions

Brief

Legislative Council, howe ver, are expected to challenge its authority in quasl-Judlclal actions such as establishing legislative Intent.

It closely approaches interpretation of the law, a function which the constitution i-eserves for the Judicial branch of government.

This question of authority was not challenged and was referred to only by indirection in the meeting of the Insurance committee. At one point, Whitehurst suggested that a subcommittee prepare a written draft of the resolution to be submitted for approval, but House Speaker H. Clifton Blue said tt could be done by the full committee at the table. The wording. he said, would be merely in the form of a simple request, not an order.

Other members attending this first meeting of the Legislative Councils first working committee were Sens. Irw-ln Belk of Mecklenburg and R. E. Brantley of Polk and Council chairman Hugh Johnson of Duplin.

BY WINFRED L. GODWIN

Director. Southern Regional Education Board

When President Grover Cleveland made Labor Day an official American holiday in 1894, most American laborers took their vacation from a plow or a carpenter's bench. Today, theyre more likely to leave behind a machine, a computer, or an a.ssembly line.

The average working man in 1963 takes home an annual pay check of $2,000 plus for a 40-hour w'eek. The working man of 1850 made $405 for a 70-hour week.

Jobs available today werent heard of In the early 20th century and they may have dlsap-peartKl from the nations job descriptions again within the next 50 years replaced by automatl(Hi, modenilzation and lU'w kinds of endeavor.

Because thats true, the education a man must have to fit him for work is va.stly different from that which would see him through a lifetime in 1900. A.s a result, all post-high school educational programs face new responsibilitles.

Fifty years ago more than .30 per cent of all workers were on faiTns compared with fewer than 190 per cent today. During the same time, clerical occupations increased from 5 to almost 15 per cent.

Technical and semi-professional Jobs requiilng one to three years of post secondary education make tq) the second fastest growing category in our labor force. In the last decade, over two million new jobs were created in that field a growth of 40 per cent.

A recent study shows that nearly 600,000 technicians were employed in indu.stry in 1959, It l.s anticipated that more than 800,(X)0 additional technicians, capable of working wttb engineers and scienllst.s, will be needed by 1975.

Secretary of Labor Willard, Wirlz backed these figures up with more facts In a recent Ktatement about two-year college programs,

Graduates of the nations rapidly growing junior colleges, technical Insututes, wid other two-year college programs .seeking to enter the labor market are generally finding good employment opporiuiiltles, he said. Job opportunities for en

gineering technicians trained In electronics, mechical, chemical, metallurgical and most other areas of technology are especially good, particularly if graduates are willing to relocate

Other statistics concerned with labor and the two-year college graduate show wide-open oi>-portunlties for nurses, dental hygienlsts, and other persons trained In the health fields. Medical technicians are also in demand for work in hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices.

There is not as much opportunity for graduates of business admlntetration without accounting, marketing and two-year libei*al arts programs. However. many of these graduates find Jobs as sales and management trainees and other jobs In the retailing field, in banks. Insurance firms and public utilities.

For the woman two-year graduate, there are jobs as receptionists, airline stewardess trainees and In many kinds of clerical occlpatlons. Those with secretarial training and some background in business, medical and legal fields are in special demand and can usually choose among offers, the U. S. Labor Department reports.

Beginning salaries for most two-year graduates fall within the range of $300 to $500 a month, and these are (rften stepping stones to better promotions. Engineering technicians are frequently offered beginning salaries in the $450-475 a month range higher than those averaged by some liberal arts and other graduates of four-year Institutions.

There l.s a serious unemployment problem, but It Is most acute among those adults of the South who have not finished high school or continued on into post-high school education.

Labor in the South has changed and education is called on to keep a labor force from being obsolete.

And Ill never understand why the "Impeach Earl Warren signs always seem to pop up on routes leading to the resort areas.

Maybe the supporters of the movement think touri.sts will be more receptive to the idea. At

Here In Greenville the ped-estrian-motorist battle goes on. Thus we saw two ladies crossing the street against the light at Five Points. Suddenly one saw a car coming through the intersection. She grabbed her companion and pulled her back. At the same time the motorist saw the two and applied the brakes.

The degree of progre.ss throughout the country can be compared to the womanly figure; some areas are underdeveloped, some are overdeveloped, a few are just right and some are even falsely padded. Towne County (Ga.) Herald.

The car stopped hr time and no one was hit. One of the lad-

Other Editors Saying. No S.Deciol Session?

Tentative plans for a successor to the Queen Mary, scheduled for retirement because of age five years from now, have completely scotched the gloomy predictions two years ago that the stately pa.s-.senger liners were doomed by modern air travels.Norfolk (Va.) Ledger-Star.

And the more practical the nurse, the wealthier the patient she marries.Cambridge (Md.) Banner.

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Tile Italian Suprenie Court's ruling thatHt is a mts-deineuuor to whistle at a pretty girl or to comment on M girls obvious charms has created a problem. Whos going to enforce it?~The Richmond New.s-Leader.

Reports indicate Gov. Sanford is having difficulty gathering support for his Senate re-districting plan. And because such support is lagging, there i.s some political leaders who feel he may not even call a special session of the General Assembly to con.sider the problem.

Rep. James Ramsey of Person County has note the difficulty encountered by Sanford in mustering a majority vote in the Senate on the redistrict-ing plan. Ramsey feels the governor will not call a special session until he does have a majority and Ramsey doesnt think that majority will be obtained.

The Sanford plan would realign senate seats closely along population shifts as require(l by the state constitution. The proposed makeup of various districts -is causing discontent all over the state. In the face of such discontent, Sanford still has one .selling point: the threat of federal court action.

But while Ramsey see.s no majority support for Sanford's plan, others say they will back it. Democratic political leaders of six w'estern counties have offered support for Sanfords proposal, despite the fact it would water down their voice In the legislature.

Tlieir support, as in the ca.se of many others, is based on the realization that court action has left them with no alternative. Con.stltutionally. the North Carolina Legislature Is required to

reapportion after every federal census. This hasnt been done in over two decades. Now the .state is faced with having the job done for it by federal courts.

This was the case in Oklahoma, where the legislature refused to carry out Oklahomas constitutional mandate. The federal courts steeped in and did the job, along population lines, it is Sanfords hope to get this ta.sk accomplished In the special session which he said he would call in September.

Lawmakers in Raleigh have balked, for various reasons, at several redistricting proposals

The average person takes from 15 to 20 thousand steps a day. The trouble is that many of them are in the wrong direction, Elberton (Ga.) Star.

by JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright. 1963. King Featurea Syndicate, Inc.

Labor Day waa once American Fwlaratlon U La^

holiday, set up as a foL Days, which waa th* wxcluaiva property of th Oonununlst*. It was supposed to repr**ont th* orderly dignity of Ubor M against the Marxist coooapt revolutionary Intranslgdh^. Stressing dignity, It was <pii^ In tune with the character o Samuel Gompers, the A. P. of L. founder, who belleTad in fighting in an orderly, demt^ cratic way for better wage# and better working condltl<Mi* m a society that was predominantly a middle class affair.

But even old Sam Oompera. canny man though he would have been surprised If he could have foreseen th tion of his own pet bbUdax# I* was destined to tcome e<r decidedly middle class that' its original connotation of the workers democratic holiday has been almost totally sque^ out of It. To most people is simply the long week-end that celebrates the end of sununer. The flavor is seasonal, no* social, or sociological. It is the time that tennis player* are moving to Forest HUl* for the culminating matches of the long summers tennis grind, the time that nine teams in the American League give up the notion of catching the Yankees, the time that the natives of thore and mountain resorts are tom between counting their change and counting the momenta be^ fore they can *be rid of tha^ summer people. If one man In a million gives a thought to old Sam Gompers and the dignity of labor, it can be set down as a minor miracle.

Let us not be cynical, however, about this tendency of the new to fade and blend with the old and the immemorial. Actually, it Is the worlds best hope for peace. A labor holiday, taken over by a middle class which Is virtually everybody, means that the fabric of our democratic society Is seamless. And in Soviet Russia, which 1s the official champion of the claims of revolutionary May Day as against bourgeois Labor Day, the struggle of old, pre-rovolutlonary tendencies to reassert themselves Is what gives pause to Khrushchev in his campaign to subvert the world.

The fact that Khrushchev Is in trouble because of the universal tendency of tbs old to circumvent the new Is borne home to us In various ways. For example, Isaac Don Levine, visiting Russia for the first time in four decades, was surprised by the Interest of the younger generation in Great Russian, as against purely revolutlooary', traditions. The hunger for freedom of thought among the young strains against the ideological walls et up by the Communist Party to contain the thrust of poets and novelists. The Interesting thing, from our point of view, about Soviet intellectual life today is not that young poet, Yevtushenko,

a

Word from Washington .sounded like a good news for taxpayers at first glance. The Treasury said the earlier .$9 billion deficit forecast will actually be only a $6-billion deficit. But the earlier, earlier foreca.st was for a halfbillion dollar surplus.Rock Hill (S.C.) Evening Herald.

presented during the past ses- .. Dont Take Chances.

The most discussed was

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the .so-called Currie plan. Sanfords proposal Is based closely along Curries plan, but there is the same opposition to the governors proposal that faced Curries.

Chief opposition to any redistricting plan has come from rural lawmakers who fear such a realignment would shift legislative power to the cities and heavily - populated Piedmont counties. On the other hand, with each passing year the cities and big counties find them-.selves more unfairly represented.

The govmor has offered an alternative redistricting propos-sal which a special session could consider. If that is refused, the state may find itself redlstricted by federal authority, .something every one of the lawmakers has tried to avoid, but which they are begging for if initiative doesnt originate vlthin the state itself.

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Yonr Christmas Seal association says if you havo either symptom, you may have a Respiratory Disease (sickness of breathing). Dont take chances with RD, the nations fourth leading killer.

See your doctor.

gets Into trouble with Khrushchev for publishing hi* Precocious Autobiography in French and American periodicals.

The real Importance of the Yevtushenko phenomenon Is that a young Soviet writer should dare to assum* hU right in the first place to make plea for humanity as agalxiM communist Party orthodoxy.

The organization called Radio Liberty, which broadcasts programs in seventeen languges to the Soviet Union from high-powered transmitter* in West Germany, Spain and Pormasa, necessarily keeps tabs, for Its own information, on what to-being printed and broadcast in-.side the Soviet Union Itself. Almost dally it is witness to old, pre-Communlst ways of thinking as they come to the surface of Soviet life In various manifestations, Ham radio operator* in the Kazakh Soviet Republic use their equipment to broadcast religious programs. Th* Kazr akh Central Committee newspaper. Lenins Generation, denounces the radio ham* in an article titled "Hooligans Wade Through the Ether. A 17-year-old radio ham, 'Valery Zherov, described by a Soviet journalist as "a self-appointed king of the ether, was finally tracked down and caught after an extensive career In broadcasting jazz and sharp contem-pcn^ry satire. Even a Russian (Continued on Page 5)

abor Day Gift From Goym

BY EL.MKR ROESSNER

Strength For Today

BY KARL I.. DOIT.LA.S.S MAP.S AND JOURNKY.S

Many people do not seem to lealize that there Is an important difference between belief and faith. Dr. Jowetf, wiuxse preaching made su(^h a profound impre.sslon upon the EnglLsh-speaking world a generation ago, .said that belief Is the acceptance of a may while faith Is the taking of the voyage.

Map.s are intere.sting, but nothing is more interesting than to go out on the bounding main and travel to some distant part of the v'orld. He would ba a qucei' Irllow Itidred who plT-tcis. to ."lint him."elf up n, a room and examine map.' ^*nd gIo\r.s Instead of !)ookiiic passaKr to foreign shores. But there aie many people uho, in the field

of religion, spend all their time examining maps and none at all in traveling. They believe the Bible from cover to cover and are horrified at the thought that anyone should ever question a statement in a cieed. But they keep their businesvS and their religion well separated so tha< one never Interieirs with the other. They profess to love the Lord, yet they carry deep ."rated grudges against certain of theii lellow men. They .vpeaK of the love of Goti for niankmri. .vet never practice thl.^* lo\e in their dealing with their fellou.s.

To them, the Bible Is a map and they love to exaniln# it and talk about it. But thfre are oih <>rs for whom ihr jonr-ney is the chief thiiiB To their h* lli f they add faith A map to them 1" a thing of Intei'ost only as it guides thetn on a voyage.

The governments gift to labor Day is changes in the minimum wages: the extension of the 44-hour week tc ceiJain enterprises. principally retail and service establishments; and increases in the mnimums for for executives, admistratlve and professional employees, .

This pre.sent is to be opened today: that i? the eftective date of tho.se changes.

Employer s subject to the Fi'd-eial Wage Hour Law must pay at least $l.25 an hour' to em-ployee.s covered by law .starting Tii(\"(lay. E.xeciitivs mu.st be paid at Jeast $1(X' a week and (enalr other condiiiona nui.st be met, or they wlU TiOt be exempt forn the law and will thereafter get preini'im pay for overtiriip. ^dminUbratlvr employees niii.st be paid at Vast $l(Ki a week: profp,"sioiiR! employers must be paid at least $115.

The minliiiuins for bra.ss in

retail or .service establishments, and in fHi|rto Rico, the Virgin Islands ami American Samoa, are less.

ONI.Y THE START

These changes, on the surface, .seem moderate. Few executives get less than $100 a week these days and a few professionals get under $115. Employees who get le.ss than $1.25 an hour these da.vs arent worth much more anyhow.

But Its a leverage that wUl make these changes cost American bustnes.*! hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Take Plant .\ with only a dozen broom piLsheni who get only $1.25 - at, - lioiir floor scrapers and the II25 an - hour clerks in tne offlc* are going to demand $1.35 oer.ta ar. hour. And .so e.scalaiiori wlL move through the plant. Tbe $5 - an -hour foreman anfi rhe $7 an-hour supervisor of draftsmen will want Mop'ortionaie Increas-

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And in the end, the Increases

will not cost Plant A $6 a week but, perhaps, $600 a week.

And in the same way, th increases proclaimed for executives, administrators and professionals will spread Increases throughout the higher echelons of the industry.

There Is a way to check the spiral of raises on the managerial level. It is to change job classifications of exempt employees and pay them overtime Instead of the government - ordered mnimums.

Suppase Plant A has a branch manager in Port Wayne who gels only $80 as an executive. Tomorrow he geia $100 or a notice tat the Fort Wayne branch 1* under the Chicago manager and the branch manager wllJ henceforth he chief clerk at no cut In salary, and al-vntKst no change in duties. TR.^HES R.M.SE FOR OVERTIME

Tiif conipatiy will .save a $20 rai.'e. However, will have to pay time- and- a- half for overtime. If overtime costs less

than $20 a week, tha c(npany will be ahead.

The changes to tha law establishing the 44-hour weak to large retail astabllshmenta and big service organlzatloos will probably result to mild prloe increases. The cost* wlU nol ba much, since few of thaaa tablishmmts went amptoyaea longer than 44 boun now. But it may result to shorter atora hours which can ba aooopaoaa-ted for only by hlghar prloaa.

POLL SHOWS WHEAT PLANTING ONLY 1 PER CENT OVER ALLOTMENT A poll by Suooassful farming sho)gs that farmers whd' rejected roraminant control* orar aoraaca planted--plan to Inoerasa planttoga moderately. Of thoaa poUad. Tl par cent stay withla whai would hav been tbelr 1M4 wbaat allotment; 14 par omt will exceed their allotment and 11 par cent are undecided. Tha total lncrea.se will ba only 1 per cent, the magazine reported.

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