Thursday, August, 13, 1964

Distributive Education Welcome

Reinstatement of a distributive education pro* however, the program will be reinstated under ffram as part of the curriculum at Rose High School the direction of Miss Margie Smith, a newcomer 'vh^ch should be welcomed by residents to the Rose, High faculty, o he Greenville school district. There has been growing concern on the part

It IS a program which combines classroom work of some people that the local high school, while it in regular high school courses with on-the-job offers an excellent college preparatory program traming m specific fields for boys and girls inter- and some commercial courses, lacked sufHcient ested in vocational education. emphasis on vocational programs to adequately

r or a number of years prior to 1961 distribu- .equip graduates who did not plan to continue their tive education was a regular part of the program formal education after high school. Reinstatement of study offered at Rose High. That year, because of of the distributive education program at the local the shortap of qualified coordinators, however, high school will, in our opinion, be a major stride that distributive education program was discon- toward eliminating this inadequacv.

"Forward, The Volunteer Fire Brigade!"

tinued. When the school year begins next month.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

eye state officials are turning a careful eye on pur-chai.s and inventory of costly scientific and technical instruments and equipment being bought in increasing amounts for state Institutions.

This has become a major item in state purchasing. The bill to North Carolina taxpayers for new scientific equipment and laboratory instruments on college and university campuses alone may-reach one million dollars this year.

And officials foresee this as Just a start. Buying of such equipment is expected to become an ever-increasing item of expense, much of it necessary. as college and university systems and research centers expand and scientific and technical enrollments grow.

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SHIRES

But theie is, of recent date, a new concern about possible duplication and waste involved in multiple purchase of Identical or nearly identical items and limited use of this new, recently - devel(H?ed and highly expensive equipment.

BUY Little more than a year ago, for example, the state purchased an amino acid analyzer for a research laboratory at North Crona, State. A few days ago, it bought an identical analj^r for a lab at UNC in Chapel Hill.

An amino acid analyzer costs $14..500. The two pieces of equipment cost $29j000.

On May 8, 1964. the state bought an Akashi electron microscope for the school of public health at UNC, a $20,000 item. On May 22. an RCA electron microscope of somewhat different specifications was purchased for the UNC school of dentistry at a cost of $30,810 c<Hnplete.

COSTS In most cases, there is only one source of supply for highly-advanced, specialized equipment and apparatus meeting exact specifications and requirements.

Not only is the cost nece.v sarily high, the state is unable to get competitive bids.

Among the items being purchased are spectrophotometers. used in analytical chemistry. at an average cost of $8.000: microphotome t e r s

which cost $8,500 each; amino acid analyzers which cost from $10.500 to $15,000 each: clec-trtm microscopes which cost $20.000 to $30,000 each.

Even a thermo compression wedge bonder carries a price tag of $3,500.

DEMAND Already, the amount of such equipment being used in various laborator-. les, research centers and tech

nical schools is enormous and investment cost staggering.

And the demand for more and more is growing.

Most of the demand is for such equipment for use in re-searoh-projects and studies in various schools and departments of the Consolidated University system. But there is also considerable purchasing for equipping laboratories at the states senior colleges, in the rapidly-growing system of community colleges and technical Institutes.

The cost of technical equipment and scientific instruments and apparatus purchased by the state thus far this year totals approximately half a million dollars.

CONCERN In a memo to Gov. Terry Sanford, state purchase and contract director John T. Henley has expressed concern about the grow i n g amount of technical equipment which we are purchasing each week.

Henley proposes to look into the matter. And the governor has given his approval.

Henley says he plans to meet with the chancellors, business managers and purchasing agents of the branches of the Consolidated University at an early date for exploratory discussion.

We want to see what can be worked out, he says. Our concern is to get the most use out of this equipment at least possible cost to the taxpayers.

At present, Henley says, it seems that where on department gets a new piece of equipment, another department desires the some thus creating a chain reaction of buying and stocking expensive items.

CENTER Henley has in mind possible establishing of a central equipment laboratory in the Research Triangle, or possibly a central supply center for such equipment on each campus.

The idea is to find a method of inventorying and keeping track of the use of these items to prevent duplication of purchase. A system (rf this sort, he feels, is essential to keep down costs in the future.

We re in an age of advanced science and technology, he says. Theres no getting around it. This equiixnent is necessary and our purchases now are small compared to what they are going to be. The amount the state will have to buy is going to skyrocket.

Lets make it clear' that in no way do we want to deter any project or field of study or research.

He suggests that when a piece of,equipment is needed for a research project it might be checked out for as long as necessary a year or two years. Unused equipment might be leased or rented.

In effect, he proposes a central stockpile. In addition to the states purchases, equipment bought with research grants federal and private, except military, usually remains with the University.

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Young people are finding increasingly higher demands being made upon them after they graduate from college. Those who wish to enter college are finding that both entrance requirements and academic standards for remaining in college have moved upward. Those youngsters who enter the labor market after finishing high school are also finding they have to meet higher standards to qualify for the better jobs that are available.

A distributive education program in high school is one step which enables the school to better prepare young people who look toward entering the labor market at the end of their high school careers.

Many Assets Found In Boys Home Bowl

P' r i d a y night in Ficklen Stadium some 50 high school football stars will exhibit their gridiron abilities to raise funds for the Lake Wacamaw Home for Boys, one of North Carolinas most worthwhile projects.

It will be the second annual Boj\s Home Bowl game sponsored by the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce in behalf of the Boys Home.

Since late last week the more than half-hundred bojs from across North Carolina have been in Greenville to prepare for the bowl game. When kick-off time arrives Friday night there will be people here from all over the state to witness the game between these high school football stars.

While the purpose of the Bowl Game is to raise funds for the Boys Home, there can be no question about the fact that it is an asset for Greenville and East Carolina College. It draws By ART BUCHWALD attention to the city and to the college because it is located here. It brings countless people here for the sole purpose of seeing the game . . . people who might not visit Greenville or East Carolina College otherwise. Across the state people who are intere.sted in football and high school athletics will see the name of the city and the college as they read of the Boys Home Bowl game.

Although the publicity that Greenville or East Carolina College receive from the Bowl Game is only incidental, there is no getting round the fact that .such publicity is helpful. This and other worthwhile events which draw attention to the city and to the college are important assets even though their commercial value may be difficult to measure.

Behind-The-Scenes Tale

It is not generally known but every newspaperman in Washington played some role dur

ing the Cuban crisis. The role that John Scali, the American Broadcasting Companys State

Other Editors Saying.,. Building Character

They Do Adjust To Situations

By J. W. Davis

WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the marvels of politics is the way politicians can adjust to situations.

Take that Republican unity meeting at Hershey. Pa. Barry Goldwater, the GOP presidential nominee, sent out the invitations to Republican governors and gubernatorial nominees.

And the host was Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania.

Just a few weeks ago. Scranton was doing his best to keep the presidential nomination away from Goldwater. He went about the country saying Goldwater should be rejected, that we need in the White House a leader who thinks clearly, who doesnt shoot from the hip.

For another illustration of how a politician can rise above strong words, look at Goldwater himself.

Having opposed civil rights until this year, let him make an issue of it. Ill just repeat back to him the thousands of words he has spoken.

Lyndon Johnson is the blg-Ke.st faker in the United States. Hes the phoniest individual itwt ever came around.

^fore the month was out, Goldwater and Johnson .^at down in the White House and talked about the civil rights is-.sue. how to keep from inflaming racial passions.

Goldwater told newsmen the atmosphere at the meeting wa.s good, were good friends. Were old political friend.s.

One of the classic examples of a politician sidestepping a heat-of-the campaign remark

came in February 1941. when Wendell L. WlUkie was questioned by a senate committee.

Willkie had run against Franklin D. Roosevelt for president the year before and had declared that, On the basis of Roosevelts past performance with pledges to the people, you may expect that we will be at war by April 1941, if he is elected.

WUlkie was asked at the committee hearing, Do you still agree that might be the ca.se? He replied:

It might be. It was a bit of campaign oratory.

To cap this discussion of political flexibility, there is a story that former Rep. Brooks Hays of Arkansas tells.

A congressmans friend told him. Jim, Ive Just come back from your district and Bill Jones is going to run against you.

Well, Im not surprised. the congressman said. He is a dirty skunk and there is no good in him.

And furthermore. the friend said. Charlie Smith is going to help him run. Theyre two of a kind. the congresnan reacted. Scoundrels, both of them. Then the friend broke down and admitted he had been teasing. He had made up the whole story, that, in fact. BUI and Charlie were both strong for the congressman's re-election.

Reproachfully, the congressman told his caller:

Now look what youve done. Youve made me say ugly things about two of the finest, sweetest characters who ever lived.

(Washington Daily News)

Over the years we have heard much about competitive athletics as a means of budding character. Sadly enough, many people hear those words building character, and they tend to smile in disbeUef.

In recent days we have read a great deal about the baseball programs over the nation involving youngsters from seven to 14 years of age. These Summer baseball programs are terrific if carried out under the right leadership and in the right atmosphere.

We will be the first to admit that there is no substitute for winning, and winning is the ultimate goal in every competitive contest. But we say quite frankly that if we win a ball game and lose character we have lost more than we have gained. Losing a sense of human values ought to be always important to the human Iace whether it be in a baU game or In business or in relations one with another.

We have watched many of our youngsters here in the area during the Summer base-baU programs. There is something real fine and real inspiring about them. The boys enjoy playing, and the parents enjoy seeing them play. But somehow we must say that too much emphasis is put on winning among the youngsters of all ages.

The argument so often advanced that unless we put emphasis now on winning, that the boys wiU go through life with a defeatist attitude makes no sense to us. When we see parents at a teen age ball game "riding the umpires, yelling at the players with

words of condemnation, scolding their own children for some error or poor judgment play, then we wonder if we are playing the game or looking at it with the right frame of mind.

If we admit that winning is very important, then by the same token knowing how to lose gracefully and in a sportsmanlike manner is impckant, too. We all know that when two teams are playing, one is going to win and the other is going to lose. If the boys on both teams learn _ something of the art Displaying, then they also automatically learn something of the art of winning or losing. When we see parents join In arguments, when we see players crying bitterly after a game, or at any time we see so much emphasis put on winning and so little on sportsmanship, we wonder if we have the game in the right focus.

The Summer season is about over now. Next Summer will be another one, and a lot of our youngsters will be out there playing. Perhaps now is the time to think about putting more emphasis on the need for building character along with that of building a winning complex.

Many will disagree with what we have said here. It is their right to disagree. Whatever values we build now among our children wUl remain with them, many of them for life.

It is our duty and our responsibility to make our Summer program as wholesome, as attractive, and as sportsmanlike as it is in our power to do.

Department correspondent, played has just been revealed in Look magazine and the national press. According to the reports, Mr. ScaU negotiated with a Russian Embassy official to get the Soviet missiles out of Cuba. It was no small feat and Secretary of State Dean Rusk told Mr. Scali that he served his country well.

Now that Mr. Scalis role In the crisis has been exposed, we can reveal OUR role, which weve been sitting on for two years. We were sworn to silence by Mr. Scali, but we feel our lips no longer have to remain sealed since the Look piece has appeared.

We have a little p<^er group In Washington which consists ''of Mr. Scali, Pierre SaUnger, Ambassador Llewellyn Th(xnp-son, Carl Rowan, Don Wilsr of the USIA, David Brinkley, Robert Manning of the State

ART

BUCHWALD

Department, and a few other questionable Washington types. Its a nickel-and-dime game and we only play to forget the fateful state decisions that all of us have to make constantly.

The game was scheduled at our house for the black Monday when President Kennedy announced to the country that the Russians had put their missiles in Cuba. That morning we had told our wife to order the necessary be^r and cold cuts that the host Is expected to supply.

But Monday noon, Salinger, who was then White House Press Secretary, revealed thsdt there was a serious crisis and President Kennedy would go on television at 7 oclock to address the nation. No one knew

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.Mothing ''s Ever

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

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This columnist was brought up in New England by a grandmother who had an almost pathological hatred of waste and always insisted that nobody ever really got anything for free. I remember her telling me about ber honeymo(Mi in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, when she and my grandfather wert coming clo% to using up th! money they had budgeted- for the trip. They ate walnuts and drank brcxA water on the last day of the honeymoon, and thoroughly enjoyed it, at least In retrospect.

Since I am a prisoner of ray own early conditioning, 1 am always skeptical ai mm movements that seek to get 1 tilings by political means. 1 Probably because of attitudes I that were ingrained In me by i the time I was ten years old, I I can only see vast dlsUluslcxi-ment coming to the Negro" leaders who hope, by demonstrating in the streets, to seo all their economic grievances removed within twenty-four., hours. I hear my grandmc^r say, Everybody has to wtsrE for what he gets.

This is a ticklish subject when related to the race issue, and anyone who ri^>' talking about it Is apt to be condemned as unfeeling, or at least hopelessly old-fashioned. But it stands to reas( that, once a law is passed guaran- . teeing that no man shall be refused service by a hotel, % restaurant, or a bus line because of his color, it does nol automatically put mcmey In his pocket to pay for that service. Nor does a Fair Em- , plojmient Practices law auto- i matically endow a person, witb,,., the technical skill to run n lathe, or the necessary physical qualifications to model clothes. To quote John T. Hamner, the common-sensici)l editor of Floridas Bradenton Herald, the civ rights law opens economic doors (mly to those Negroes who are trained, talented, willing to work, and

JOHN ' CHAMBEBLADI

able to compete with whites oo an equal footing.

Nobody is asking me, biL If I were a Negro leader I would, at this stage, tell ray followers that the time for magnanimity had arrived. 1 would take both Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater at their latest word, discounting Johnsons pre-1957 anti-integration attitudes on the (me hand, and Goldwaters vote on th civil rights bill (mi the other. Since both candidates for tht Presidency have promised enforcement of the civil light! law, I would tell my follower! to stop all political agitati(i' for a season and give two honorable men an opportunity to live up to their promises. But I would also pnMnise that every infringement of the civil rights law would be fought to the bitter end In the courts. The law is the law.

This country is ready for an almost universal acc(mimoda-tion on the race issue If pe(mle ' would only stop pressing to add new law on top of tht almost new civil rights legislation that was nursed ' through the U.S. Senate by Ev- ' erett Dirksen and Hubert Hum- phrey. 'There is no reason to doubt the sincerity of the southern publisher who told me last spring at the publishers meeting in New York City that he hcmed the publlo accommodatl(ms law wouldnt pass, but if It did he and his readers are (julte pro- 1 pared to obey It. This particular publisher knew that the South of his fathers time wat disappearing, but be rather hoped that the Federal government would let the states find (Continued on page ft) ^

Our Friends Deal With Castro

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS IN TIMES OF CRISIS

Jesus commanded hl.s di.scl-ples to take no thought how or what they would say when brought before governors and kings and other high authorities in the time of persecution: For it shall be given you. he declared, in that same hour what ye shall speak.

We have all had this expcr-ienca to some degree at ipgrt We have faced a terrific situation. What would we say? What would we do?. Yet when the time actually arrived the pathway was plain before our feet. The right words came into our minds and issued from our lips. It has been given us in that same hour what we should speak and furthermore what we should do.

We need at all times to be filled with the realization that the universe in which we live is a living universe. God is not a hard judge ready to pounce down upon us and punish us. He has the kindness of a father. He has the majesty and power of a king. Never for one single moment has He ever deserted us. And It has been the experience of those who threw their complete trust upon Him and gave themselves perfectly into His hands that they experienced a complete and satisfying adequacy.

Will everything turn out alright in the end? Yes - but thc^ end may be a long way off. We need not only patience we need the realization that a good and all-sufficient God made the universe and continues to administer its affairs.

By ELMER ROESSNER The British purport to be our friends and cheer our action in clobbering the North Vietnamese PT boat bases, yet at the same time they are making all sorts of deaLs with Castro.

Bright new British buses are ninnlng in Cuba, sent there by the Britains Leyland motors, which also sells Triumph cars in the United States. French companies are also selling buses to CXiba.

Many of our so-called friends are shipping good.s to Cuba, despite the somewhat airy-fairy embargo by the United States.

The worst offender is the British, who have sent 84 ships to Cuba, making 220 calls in the last 18 months, u;cording to the U. S. Maritime Administration. In addition, Yarrows Shipyard in Glasgow is reported to be iMillding two tankers to carry sulphuric acid to Cuba THESE ARE OUR FRIENDS Other nations who pretend to be Americas friends, many of whom are accepting American aid. and whose flags fly on ships that have taken goods to Cuba, are Lebanon. 51 ships; Greece. 13: Italy, 10; Spain. 5;

Norway, 4; Prance, 4; Sweden, 2; Finland, 1; Liberia, 1; Panama. 1 and our old friend Free China, under the guns of Communist China, 1.

In addition, the Poles, who profess great friendliness for Americans, have sent 13 ships to Cuba, and Yugoslavia, now seeking wheat from the United States to prevent starvati(m resulting from the cunent crop failure, sent 6 ships.

ELMER

ROESSNER

These ships are blaCRlIstetf; they cannot accept American cargoes a slap on the wrist in view of the profits obtainable by carrying goods to Cuba But shlp.s that promise never to participate in the Cuban trade as long as the embargo exists can be romoved from the list. A total of 35 ships have been delisted. However,

In the same period. 65 new ones have been added,

WHOS ON FIRST

Lack of enforcement of the embargo is largely due to the custard attitude of the State Department Itself. The International Longshoremens Association refused to load the British ship Tulse HUl at Baltimore for five m(Miths, because it was suspected of having engaged in the Cuban trade. Instead of cheering the union for its anticommunist stand, the National Labor Relations Board, with the support of the Labor and State Departments, as^ed Federal courts to declare the union in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act. The court refused and the Tulse Hill finally sailed empty.

The British and other allies have hinted that they would not Mke to ^ee Barry Goldwater elected President of the United States. Thats understandable. If elected he might take more stringent measures against allies who are trying to profit from our dispute with communist Cuba.

WHY DONT AIRLINES SERVE MOOSE

HAMBURGERS?

After traveling 10,000 milea in two weeks on American and Canadian planes, the most persistent conclusion is that airline meals are blah.<

Jet planes are partly to blame. There is so little timo to handle food. A stewardess told me, We give the people two cocktails, a meal and a movie, and by that time wt are across the continent. Everly single meal ihad waa built around a pot-roasted slab of meat, variously described aa a steak, a filet or a trader*, loin' There were some over* cooked vegetables, a limp salad, roll, butter, dessert and Instant coffee. With the n^at it is no wonder airlines pro- vide throw-up bags at each seat.

A little old lady told me that * on the previous Friday th# meal consisted (tf shrimp cocl^ tail and creamed shrimp.

Another little old lady on A plane out oi Anchorage, asked me what the dessert waa. VMousse, I said.

They sure push native products, she said, but I never expected moase for dessert.**