Tuesday, May 12, 1964

Take A New Look At Consolidation

Pr**Better Turn Your Glasses 'Round

One of the great needs of ptiblic schools in both vocational training and college jireperation much of North Carolina is to be able to offer young- for their youngsters and fall short of the mark in sters first-class educational opportunities in the both fields.

fields of college preparation and vocational train- Although North Carolinas fledgling quality ing. education program has begun to change the face

One of the great tragedies of our public school of educational opportunities offered youngsters, system is that in many of thesmaller high schools it is going to remain largely up to the individual scattered about the state it is impossible to afford community to create its own atmosphere in which^ the youngsters either, ' quality education can be achieved. The state can

Because teachers are assigned individual increase teacher salaries, provide funds to reduce schools on the basis of average daily attendance, teacher loads even help with financing new con-many of the smaller schools find the variety of strnction. It cannot, however, determine whether courses they can offer extremely limited. Tn some the youngsters will attend tiny high schools that taser they point their courses toward, college pi^p- offer Only a limited number of courses or large high aratiniuThis leaves much to be desired by the young- schools in which youngster^ will be able to take ster who looks forward to competing in the labor full advantage of quality vocational or college prep-market W'hen he finishs school. In other cases the aration cources. That will have to be determined high school courses are pointed toward vocational by people in the individual counties and communities training,^ which serves poorly the youngster who for their own children.

plan.s to go to college. Many counties, inclding Pitt, need to look

Perhaps the greatest shortcoming, is the fact carefully and objectively at the quality of education that most schools, however small, try to provide being offered its youngsters in many smaller high

schools and compare it with what may be accomplished through, a well-planned, sound consolidation program at the high school level.

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B? WILLIAM A, SHIRES INSURANCE The Insur. nee industry now has in operation in six suites unique new programs which enable the offering of broad health insurance plans for the elderly with few strings attached.

This is something of a pioneering project for the industry, developed in respaise to a need for mw*e adequate coverage provisions for a growing prtHiortlon of senior cltl-nens in the U. S. population and, partly at least, as an answer to government concern about the problem.

-The programs have he e n

launched by major health and accident insurance companies on a voluntary, cooperative basis in which participating companies pool resources to back the coverage.

Insurance officials feel that no single company nor small Insurance cwnbinc could afford to tackle the job on anything approaching the scale or at a c<x$t so low.

PROGRAMS The programs include a basic plan with h06pitalizati(Hi. hospital services and supplies and a limitad surgical schedule. At additional cost, major medical coverage Is available which provides increased hospital and surgical benefits, radiation therapy, anesthesiology, doctors viss, private duty nursi n g, prescription drugs and medicine and other items.

During the initial enrollment periods, applications may be made for and by persons 6.') and older and their husbands or wives regardless of age without physical examinations and with a minimum of red tape.

Applicants are accepted If they have not been confined with illness for a period of only U days prior to application, dtte.

STATES - Two of the six states in which such programs are being carried out are North Carolina and Virginia with a single new plan, the only states in which the plan to provide auc^ coverage hu ^een undertaken on a two-state basis.

The other states with separate but swnewhat similar plans are Connecticut, t h e first state to establish (me, and the big populous states of New York, Texas and California.

The two - state Virginia-North Carolina 65 plan became effective this Spring under special enabling legislation necessary to set up a voluntary, unlncoporated association for joint acti(Ki by the var-loiw participating companies.

BACKGROUND - The insurance industry in the two aiates became Interested in such a bi-state pn^ram more than a year ago and a plan was drawn up. Virginia insurance officials did the prelimi

nary groundwork and approached North Carolina Insura nee companies about it. An exploratory conference was held in Raleigh in April. 1963.

There were several further meetings. The North Carolina General Assembly was In session at the time.

The Insurance commit tee chairmen of both House and Senate, Rep. Joe Watkins and Sen, John R. Jordan Jr., attended the conference with State Insurance commissioner Edwin S. Lanier and the necessary legislatdiMi was drawn and given unanimou.s approval.

The Virginia legislature, how-ever did not meet until 1964 and the two-state program could not be started until after approval by the Virginia General Assembly in March.

MENTAL The states c(mt>-mlssioner of mental health. Dr. Eugene A. Hargrove, foresees a gradual change In em-pha.sls In North Carolinas larger, state-level Institutions for the mentally 111.

These large centers will remain necessary and useful despite the development and

Passenger Safety Is Keyed To Crew Safety

The air tragedy in California last week which took the lives of 44 persons strongly points to the need for additional protection for the crew of commercial airlines.

For years there have been those who have advocated that the pilots of commerical aircraft be separated from passengers by locked and even bullet-proof doors. Had such a system been in effect ^ irnnv di \r\^ aboard the Pacific Air Lines plane over California Y bULK

Thursday, the lives of the 44 people aboard the plane may have been saved.

Increasingly, the air lines have taken pre cautions against people armed with guns or explosives boardmg commercial fliglvts. They have taken steps to protect the pilots of aircraft from passenger interference in carrying out their duties which mean the difference between life and death . for all who are aboard (!ommercial flights. An in- goodness hobo in years. Appar-

cident such as that -which occured la.st week makes ently in this age of prosperity

- Hoboes No Lonoer Seen

RICHMOND, _Va,_^ (AP) What ever happened to the

hoboes t^used to know as a kid?

it plain, however, that regulations now in effect squeezed into

are inadequate to cope with a situation such as

employment.

^hat which doomed the flight from Reno to San poTdepreil yemt ey

Francisco. were everywhere. Tre railroad

The tragedy will cause airline officials as well tracks were only a few blocks

as federal authorities responsibile for the saftev .HU 1 4- 4^ 1 11. brought morc of them to the

growth of community mental travel to take a new look at provisions now Louisiana bayou country where

health centers on a local level, made for protecting the crew on commercial flights. I krew up.

After all, the saftey of passengers on airlines is

Hargrove says. He believes both types of center-s will have an Important role.

We caniuA foresee a time when we will be able to scrap our state-level institutions for mentally ill and retarded in favor of complete psychiatric care In the community, Hargrove said.

Centralized institutions will not dLsappear. They undoubtedly will remain large centers of treatment for many years to come.

He added, however, that these units are devel(H>ing Into centers for research and training, as well as being service units for the mentally 111 and retarded. This development will continue.

METHODS Dr. Ha r-grove forsees more speciliza-tlon, more pers<mnel and more programs rather than more beds and more patients in the state hospitals.

He urges development of creative methods at the state level including such things as pi-e-evaluation and aftercare services at the state hospitals. day units. Increased use of part-time staff from the community Including private physicians and more volunteer services.

The creative research program now being carried out on mental Illness in North Caro-lins is necessarily modest, he says. But plans are proceeding to set up research in mental retardation at Butners Murdoch Center and In mental and neurologicsd illness and basic science at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh.

Looking back. I suppose most of tten were derMcts, bewildered and abandoned, but in those days they seemed like soldiers of fortune.

In old felt hats, knee-length coats and open-toed shoes, they had an aura of glamor. They came and went like the wind and every meal was a picnic around a camp fire.

We had no sidewalk in front of our house on which to scrawl a sign, but the hoboes all seemed to know my mother w'as an easy mark. She was always good for a plate of

operates the plane.

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3ig Issue

Violence Grows With Struoole

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - For three centuries American Negroes had been waiting at the gate that kept them in the Jim Grow tllar of American life. Then on May 17. 1954 the Supreme Court unlocked it for them.

That was 10 years ag obut Negroes have been able to push it open only very slowly.

On that far-reaching day In May the court said public school segregation because of a childs race was wrong, that it meant unequal treatment and was therefore unconstitutional. But the ruling really went far beyond schools.

For In effect the court said the very principle of segregation l.s wrong, which meant from then on Negroes could fight with confidence against all forms of segregation and discrimination in public places.

They have been fighting since. And may white people

Including the clergy who had no racial prejudice but had sat idly by through the decades until 1954 have joined them in the struggle.

But prejudiced whites are an obstinate army who never really believed the Declaration of Independence which said all men are created equal and have tried to ignore or defy the court in preserving segregation and discrimination.

Even some white Christian churches still refuse to let Ne-gores in. And Negroes are discovering, If they doubted it. that the South has no monopoly on prejudice. They have found it intensely against them in the North, too.

Negroes, with increasing confidence and swelling numbers, have sought to batter dowTi the barriers in a thousand places, a hundred ways. North and South through sit-ins, lie=downs, marches, freedom rides, dem-(Continued on Page 51

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It is generally being taken for granted in North Carolhia that Robert Gavtn of Sanford will be the winner of the Republican primary for governor. He has two opponents, Don Badgely and Charles Strong, both of Greensboro.

The fact that four years ago Mr. Gavin ran in general election and polled about 614,-(X)0 votes, the largest ever given a GOP candidate in this state, has placed him in a rather commanding position insofar as getting the Republican n<Hninati(Mi this time. Mr. Badgely and Mr. Strong wero both members of the last General assembly in North Carolina but neither is kno\vTi on a state-wide basis.

Among the three Republicans running for governor, there seems to be very little in the way of issues among them. They all are saying very little now about Issues, and in general it Is a sort of popularity contest. Meanwhile the Democrats are hammering away at each other on isvsues, and the three majoir contestants seem to have several Issues on which they differ.

Once the nominations are set, then comes the business of a Republican nominee opposing a Democratic nominee in the November general election. While we can say that Mr. Gavin udll be the GOP nominee in the November general election. While we can say that Mr. Gavin will be the GOP nominee, we dare not try to say which of the three leading Democrats will be the party nominee..

But accoi'ding to Infomiation over the state, Mr. Gavin

plans to make the sales tax on food the meat of his campaign. He apparently expects it to be the big issue. With a surplus In the neighborhood of $75,(X)0,(X)0 being predicted for the state by Edwii'Gill, State treasurer, Mr. Gavin is said to feel that the state can operate well without a sales tax on food.

If this Is to be the big issue of the campaign, then the campaign is going to be a lively one. It is expected that the Democrats will have a second primary, so the name of the Democratic nominee will not be known until the last of June. But a campaign of four months between the Democratic and Republican nominee is a certainty right now. It is very difficult to judge what effect a campaign based on one big issue might have in North Carolina. The fact that in 1960 the GOP nominee for governor polled only 121,000 votes less than Governor Sanford poUed Is no doubt causing some Republicans to feel they might improve on their total this time.

The food issue might be an explosive one. But after all, we cannot measure now just how the rank and file people feel about the food sales tax. When it first came up, there was a lot of oppasitlon to it. Since it has been enacted, we seem to liear much less about it than we did at first. People have accepted it quietly for the most part, but whether or not they will continue to do so remains a question that (ily the votes will answer.

The food tax issue could be the real big issue of the campaign.

wrambled eggs, bread and a cup ortwo of C50ffee. S 0 m e-times I would sit beside one on the back steps and watch him wolf down the food.

Dad had a brick yard along the tracks, and for a time it was a hobo Hilton. There wasnt much demand for bricks, and for months at a time its kilns stood empty. We used to play there, up the chimneys, down through the tunnels, and out again, yelling just to hear our echoes.

The hoboes turned the kilns into harbors from the wet and the coldand perhaps too from The world. A knapsack tossed Into a corner and a blanket on the floor and it was home until the wail of a train whistle called them on again.

A few bricks made an excellent hearth on which to set a battered pot. I pooled my nickels with the hoboes for a sack of beans and salt pork. It odors filled our cavern, and nothing ever tasted better. We sat around the ftre while the rain dripped outside and I heard embroidered tales of places that seemed to me like the Arabian Nights.

I was especially envious of one ingdiious fellow who fashioned a home out of an abandoned auto. It sat under a weeping willow beside a brick pond filled with junk.

It was a shell. The motor and wheels, even the fenders, were gone. He stripped it bare inside, then plastered the walls and chinked the holes with newspapers to ward off the chill. From the junk heap he salvaged an old car seat and It was chair and bed. An upturned crate was a table.

Later, long afterward, a gang of us braced ourselves against the willow and shoved the car into the pond. A little sadly, I watched it settled into the murk.

They are gone now, and no hoot of a diesel will ever bring them back. Like our Childhood, they are gone.

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"Even If advertismg adds to the cost of some products, Its absence could be pretty expensive, too. The Wail Street Journal.

Happiness is a warm puppy? Shucks, happiness Ls a good ball game. And the season is just beginning Richmond News-Leader.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIM

Copyright, 1964, King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.

New Yorks Senator Jacob K. Javltss broad hint that he and other Republican liberals might take a walk If Barry G<rid-water Is the partys nominee for President has flustered Republican pros no end. Its just the mwt of thing that Isnt d(me, the simple reason being that the (Ussldence of dissent. when expressed in such fashion before a national convention. invites tremendous reprisals after the conventlcm Is over.

This Is a ticklish subject on which nobody who lives or dies by politics likes to be quoted by name, for, in professl<xial circles, it Involves flirting with political treason. But one pnanlnent c(servatlve said on the day after Senator Javits press conference at the Hotel BensOTi In Portland, Ore.: Ja^ vits Is leading with a glass chin. The Republicans have ar more to fear from a nationwide conservative bolt than they have to fear from a slackening of support from the tiny liberal bloc represented by Ja-vits. The conservative then mentioned California. Elinois, Indiana, Texas and various southern states as holding dynamite for the Republican party if the bolting fever should get out of hand In case of a Goldwater defeat at San Francisco.

The Javits threat points up the fact that the 1964 campaign is already booby-trapped as no campaign within recent memory has been. Potential pitfalls threaten Republicans and Democrats alike, and ttiey exist on all levels of political activity.

The Henry Cabot Lodge candidacy.' or non-candidacy, can cut two ways, depending on which Republicans you happen to be questioning. At a Hartford, Conn., gathering of Republicans John Davis Lodge, the Ambassadors brother, posed this question for t h press table: Can the Repub-lican^Party ignore the demand of the public except at its o\ra peril? The question Is well taken. On the other hand, anti-Lodge pros argue that public clamor for Henry Cabot Lodge could be mighty deceptive. They point to Republicans in Oregon who are for Lodge by a process of elimination just because they dont like his opponents. (The quotes are from reporters on 'the scene in a state that Is in itself considered a booby trap because of it.s habit of supporting mavericks like Senator Wayne Morse regardless of the party label.)

The average pros instinct l.s to distrust any man who can be called a spoiler. In the thirties, when the beloved Al Smith took a walk away ~ from Franklin Roosevelt, the pros among the Democrats failed to follow him even though they respected him. With reference ' to the Javits threat, one pro says: Javits should consider what happened to Senator Irving Ives in New York States. Ives threatened to repudiate the ticket In 1952 in case Bob Taft were the Republican nominee. The voteis remembered this later on when he wt running against Harri-man for Governor of New York. Harriman heat him when Queen County Republican.s sta y e d home In large niunbers.

Lodge hlm.self is considered a spoiler by the conservatives in the Republican Party who cant forgive him for going along with the tactic of accusing Bob Taft of trying to steal convention votes in 1952. The conservatives see a Lodge candidacy robbing them of a chance to exploit the South Vietnam Issue and the anti-Dlem coup. They refuse to take the Lodge portent seriously, regarding it as something In the nature of a desperation diversion on the part of those who want to stnp Goldwater at any cost. They accuse I/odge of being a 1964 spoiler whose only effect on the convention cant make it on the second or third ballot.

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By EARL I.. DOlGLASS

probi.e:m always with us

What is progress?

It is movement forward, advance toward an objective. gcUing ahead, gradual betterment, Different people have different ways of mea.sur i n g progress. Some measure it merely by the money stand-aixl. Progress has been achieved if bank balances have been incroaseri

Others think of progross from the standpoint of .status. If their reputations improve, if they vet higher station in the bu.siness or scient i f i c world, if tliey advance from a lowly In an enviable social position, then they have experienced progress,,.

There i.s some truth iif ail these measurnnent.s, hut like mo.T of the problems of life progrc.ss would seem to be primarily an inner matter of heart, soul and mind We- progress wlien We become miui

satisfactory pt'rsons. when our self esteem improves, when others look upon us with added respect, when we learn how to confront problems and not give up In our attempt to solve them until we are able to show' certain improvements as the rosult of our efforts.

Most of lifes important factors are unseen. We ma^ em-pha.size the external factms of life, but as a matter of fact they are not the determining and important factors after all i.s said and done. The imt>orl-\aiit factors have to do with high motives on^ our part diligence, deteimmation. honor and the relating of ever.vthing in our lives to high moral pnnc.ipaLs and ultimately to God and Hfe purposes.

Do we live in an age of progress? In some w'ays ye.s. in other ways no. Real prt^rcss rtrpcnd.'; pi'iniarily upon individual efforts. It staits with you and me.

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By ELMER ROESvSNER

This Is a good day for every businessman to examine h i s insui'ance coverage. He m a y find his company greatly un-dennsured.

Here are some questions he may ask;

1. Are we protected against damage in racial demonstrations?

2. Are we protected against loss of business because of such demonstrations? Even nontarget businesses can be damaged or lose sales.

3. Are we protected against judgments in actions alleging infringment of civil rights? Such actions can arise from misunderstandings, or from telling a member of a minority group that you dont carry his size.

4\ Dors our strike insurance, if any. cover strikes and picketing over luring racial groups

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5. Are we protected against the tide of a.stonomical judg-r mcnt.s in ne-tligonoe suit s? Thr .widow of jockey Sidney Cole was awarded $300.(K)0 from the New York State Racing Associatioa bccwjue Cole

was killed when he was thrown from a hoi*se and his head hit a concrete projection. The father of a Cedar-hurst, N.Y., boy won a verdict of $1.100,000 because his son was paralyzed by a falling coping; he accepted $630,-000 to avoid an appeal. A New York CSty jury recently awarded $600,000 in a negligence case.

6. Are we protected against the rising size of judgments in libel cases? Libel can occur In advertisements or Jn letters as well as in publications, A judgment of $211,500 later cut to $35.000 was awarded a woinan w'ho accused Congressman Adam Clajrton Powell of falsely accusing her of being a "bag woman" for police, Wajly Butts won $3.-* 060.000 judgment, later cut to $400.0(K). against the Saturday Evening Post. John Henry Paulk won a huge award, later trimmed to $550.000 ag-

y ainst a publication and per-

\sons for falsely accusing him of Red sympathies. \ ' .MALPRAUTICE ANOTHER HAZARD

7. Are we fuUy protect e d against malpractice suits? Judgments ia this tisld. too.

have been skyrocketing. Any company hiring a doctor or calling a doctor in to treat an employee can share responsibility for medical error and a judgment.

8. Is our fire insurance coverage adequate In relation to rising evaluations and replacement costs?

9. Are we fully protected by insurance against defalcation? Losses in six and even seven figures are increasingly c o m-mon, and losses above insurance may bankrupt acorn-pany.

10. Are we fuUy protected against the rising Incidence of vandalism and burglary, the increasing number of suits for false arrest, and the broadening range of auto Injury Judgments? The last now Involve car lessors, garage mechanics, manufacturers almost everyone who has had anything to do with an auto accident.

And after an executive checks all these quest! o n s against his buslnc.ss policies, he might well check mostof them again.st his personal affairs.

sler tells me that w'hile tha 1965^ Chryslers may drop.pushbutton gear shifting for leveis on the steering column, it is not dropping automatic transmission. The levers will control automatic transmissl o n, just like buttems do now.

However, manual transmission W1 also be available probably at less cost and longer waits for ' cars.

( HKV.Sl.ER (OXTIXUE Al TOM ATirTR ANSMLS.SION Au InformauJt close to Chry-

SHORT 4 SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS Schenley has announces it will replace all stocks destroyed in the Alaska earthquake., less tax refunds paid by the government. . . .Braniff has cut excess baggage charges In half for golf clubs taken on South American flights, . . . The automotive indu.stry Invested almost $200 ijililion in newspaper advertising last year, the Bureau of Advertising, A N.P.A.,* estlmatevS, And. it could have added, had one of Its best yea,r. . This will be a good year for tniffles, according to reports from Per-Igord. Prance, . . .An Omaha supermarket chain has scored heavily by offering shoppers free want ad In it* w'eekly mailers. Progress 1 v Grocer Magazioa reports.

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