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Thursday, Saptember 11, 1969

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THOSE THINGS ARE HARD TO FIGURE OUT!

Otherwise, Even Worse Tragedies

' Tuesdays tragic air mishap in which 84 per- more stringent controls over pnvate fljdng than sons died in an Allegheny Airlines jet crash,'is in the less populous areas.

The FAA should begin nov^4o^ devise reguU-tiojs that will adequately deal with the situation ^ahd provide maximum safety for the airliners.

Otherwise the tragedies are going to gat bigger in futre years as each jet airliner carries more and more passengers.

an*dther which involved a coUision with a'small private aircraft.

It is evidence enough that morejtringent controls are going to have to be instituted to keep small aircraft and the big commercial liners away from each other.

We are not trying to place the blame in this

particular collision. We can only point out that - i n 1

the big airliners of today carry large numbers of i ff 10C*1 S jElOlO passengers. Future planes wdll carry hundreds of *, people on each flight and with such huge numbers of lives involved the nation simply cannot continue to take chances with many private aircraft flying in areas where the big commercial jets are operating.

There is ob\iouslv a place for private flying in the nation, but it should be dohe from airports Avhere scheduled flights do no't operate and private aircraft should be restricted to reas well aw^ay from the commercial airlanes.

In populous areas where both commercial and private flying is heavy there may be a need for

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By WILLIAM A. finRES Reflector Raleigh Bureas

KALEIGH-Reporters com> Ing around to call at the offices of the State. Highway ConuniaaioD on Monday morning were told tersely, there will be no announcements this week.?^

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nor informed, ITiey did not know what to thh. The situation created quite a bit of tension and many highway officials and employes were up-set

Faircloth felt it was a poor way in which to handle the matter, e^cially at a time when he is trying to pull the highway department team togetherand also less than a week before a formal, bud-

Service Is Increasing

That Pitt Technical Institute is increasingly filling a need for Pitt County citizens is shown by the healthy increase in enrollment recorded with the opening of the new year.

Institute authorities reported that enrollment of full time students showed a 25 percent increase over last year. Ori Wednesday there were 440 full time day itudente as compared wdth 358 last year. The figure does not include-part time or night students. ^ '

Pitt Techs curriculum is very flexible in that aradendc. trade and technical courses are available. The Institute also takes on such assignments as training workers for specific industries.

Next year Pitt Tech will further expand its services when it becornes a community college and can offer college credit.

We fully expect to see another outstanding increase in enrollment next year.

BrflALBOVLE NEW YORK (AP)-Jumping,, to conclusions:

The quickest way for a husband to get his wife to give up miniskirts is to meet her in a public restaurant wearing mini-shorts himself.

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By JAMES KILPATRICV

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But obviously there will be.

The highway chairnian, Lauch Faircloth, was summoned to the office of Gov. Bob Scott that very morning.

Later, Faircloth was noncommittal It c(Hild be guessed,'however, that he and governor discussed the subject of greatest political speculation which arose in Raleigh last weekthe reported request, or* order, for the dismissals of four top career highway officials.

Premature From eveiy Indication, the leaking of this news was not of Fairclotb's doing nor to his liking.

^The fact is that Faircloth .rweived the word while both he and the governor were out of town. Scott was in Colorado Springs all of last week attending a national governors conference.

Some cources believe that while it bad Scotts tacit approval, the.letter adiich Faircloth received actually was written by a Scott aide and not by the governor himself.

In any case, Falrdoth wanted an opportunity to the dismissal matter /more fully with the go

News When the news of the letter broke, there was much surprise. Some sources says Faircloth was furious.

None of the career officials involved had been advised

Highway commission, uled in Raleigh.

Sources belieye the story of the request for dismissals was leaked by a Scott political aide.

Announcements There was chagrin in Highway department circles because of the manner in which the report was handled.

Some of the officfiflmrd sources there pointed out that Scott has given most departments and agencies, especially the department of Administration, department of Public Instruction and certain others virtually a free hand in making public announcements and releasing news stories concerning agency affairs.

Now it appears that Scott himself will make the next announcement cOTcerning any possible highway department shifts.^

The governors press secretary, C. T. West, says he has been in the dark about any such plans. But it is understood that Scott wants to disclose some chariges at an appropriate time or place.

' On Saturday, Scott leaves town againto attend the Smithem Governors Conference at Williamsburg, Va. MeetingIn addition to working on an overall budget for this fiscal year, the Highway CommisskHi is also expected to act on letting contracts for 17 new highway projects, totaling 89.2 miles in 21 eoun< ties at meeting this month. The call for bids was Issued during the past few days. Contracts win be let to successful bidders in late September.

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rates and Shakespeare, pickets and protests.

After college, there is a boss, and, parents say, some if not all of the college years should be spent preparing to meet him.

The men who head America top businesses generally have had a college experiencei-those who didnt usually wish they had had the Opportunity And from their years in busin-ness, the yare able to offer students advice on the best ways to prepare for business and life while in college.

A goitlemans educatiw will be useful even if there are no gentlemen left,** said Bennett Cerf, chairman <rf Random House publishers. He advised a concentration on history, economics and literature to give a broad education.

1 sympathize with the young peopleA-anger at the estabhshment-dont blame them a bit,* he continued But while theyre going to festivals 4 protests, they shouldnt forget the fllnda^^ mental education.**

John MbLeaii, jwesident of Continental Oil Co., urged that students understand that they are long past the ap when they can be taught anything.

Cdlege provides the op^-tunity and perhaps the inspiration, but what they learn, and how they learn Is up to them," the Caltech graAiate said. McLean, who runs a company with business in over 30 coustries wishes he had had the time to learn more lang-cultures more closely.

George Moore, chairman of First National City Bank, said students should ephasize

It doesnt do any good to

The House of Representa-" tives this wedt will debate the most important propoeal for constitutkmai amendment, in terms of the structure of our government, since the Constitution itself wu adopted in 1788.

The pending resolution calls for direct popular election of our Presidents. In my own view, the proposal is wrwig. It ought.to be defeated in favm* of a less drastic plan that will accomplish all needed retorms. The better plan is the "district plan.

Under the propol recom-

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Self-discipline was emphasized by many businessmen as the most important thing a student can learn in college Hie first thing about getting an education is.its discipline not a sleigh ride or chance to revolutionize (m* to get away from your family, said Rodney C. Gott, chairman of- American Machine % Foundry Co.

Develop a of attack learn to be citical, but not cynical, choose a goal ami Ling, who never made It to college but managed to build Ling Temco Vought Inc., a tion an^ay.

Much of what you need to learn will not be taught

in a classroom, Ling added. __ --- , *pv

Not The Worst Drivers

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mended by a divided Judiciary Committee, the Congress effectively would take over the management of presidential elections. The States could still fix an age limita-tim fmr their votersthat.is the presumption, anyhowbut all other regulations would be subject to Federal law.

The idea is that Congress would provide for the qualification of presidential candidates, for toe make-iq) of ballots, for the holding of a na-tiwial election, for a run - off if none of the candidates received 40 per cent. Ccmgress

Other Editors Say

Discipline in another fleld was stressed by Spenctf D. Moseley, new presldmt of REA Express Inc.

A student cant study all the time, Moseley sai^" so he should pick one thing and do it well instead of Mtter-ing away all his time on different things.

Moseley followed his own advice and became captain of the Yale football team.

Most of the businessmen interviewed urged that students try to get a broad liberal eicatioQi in college and spe-ciallM in graduate school. And above all, they said,^ students should value their" college years.

College is a great opportunity for learning a lot about this fast moving world," said Fred Lazarus Jr., the man who built Federated Denart-ment Stores.

As a first-year dropout I continue to be very jealous of everyone who has had this opportunity," he said.

11 aoesn I oo any gooa lo be right if you cant get any- ( IT 1 one to follow you, he said. Vi^LXwLwO

And its not hard to get people to go along if youre smart about it"

Moore agrees with many young people about money, however. When I graduated from college, I wanted to make t le of money,* he soid. **Young people today rightly put it behind other

God asks no mmi whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take, it The only choice is how." Henry Ward Beecher.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. Douglas MacArthur.

From tone to time we hear it said that "so and so is to old to drive a car." And there ve instances where persons in Ihelr latter years should not be behind the wheel on account of tha infinnities of

And likewise there are individuals in all age faradieta who have no businmn behind the wheel because of the hn firmities of youth or tiie redi-lessness of the mind.

Today in America statistics tell us that one out of every 13 drivers on our highways is more than 65 years of age. These same set of statistics also ten us that dkivers who are more than 65 years of age are involved only in one^ wreck out at ev^ 23 happoi-ing on our highways.

These very statistics, is analyzed carefully, show that as an age groiip^ the citizens more than 65 years of age are poiiapS the roost careful group of an And fliat tells a story which wiR siBTrise many people.

Today in North Carolina we have individu holding driving licenses who are past 90 years of age. While we hear talk from time to time of putting a top limit on the issuance of stxto licenses, the truth of toe matter is toat we hardly would cut down on highway wredu by potting a

lid sudi as this one on elderly (frivers.

In all age groups there are recMess operators, careless op^ators, and persons who for one lyason or another are more than average risks on toe highways. But as an ge group, those people more than 65 years of age apparently have the best driving records of all. And we are told toat toe worst driving records are held by persons between the ages of 16 and 31.

The fact of age is not necessarily the most important one when we consider a arsons qualifications for driving a vehicle on our highways. We look at some person and say he is too old to drive, but what we could better Judge by is his attitude toward h i g b-way safety.

And when we come to the matter of giving it real thou^it, we suspect toat persons more toan 65 years of age are me cwiscious of highway safety than any oflier age group. Perhaps they are watched equally well as ar toe teen age drivers.

If we are going to judge toe ability to drive safely on our highways, then the statistics tell us that our elderly dti-zens have a record of extreme Iide. And those of us of younger yean ought to, show more respect for people of ability.

presumably would provide for vote challmges, recounts, and all other aspects of the elections. Every vestige of the present electoral system would be wiped out; the people would vote in one naticmal march to the polls. -

These are drastic changes. The proposal, if adopted, would tend to cimvert this Republic from a union of States into a oonsolidaled form of democracy. Overnight, we would abandon our stnicture of federalism in one of its most important man-estationsthe election 'of a President It is a fundamental change thiat the House has before it

No such upheaval is required. The great George Wallace scare of 1968 arose from toe pcssjbtiity that tbe^ Alabaman might prevoit either Nixon or Humphrey from obtaining a dear majmity of the 538 electoral votes. If this had developed; the election might have gone to the Hoiue, or Wallace might have traded off his electors in some faction, and the country would have faced a constitutional crisis.

None d this happened, of course; no such dreadful prospects have materialized since 1828; but the apprehensions are valid. Besides, there are ther things wrong wlto the present system of mdependent presidentisl electors, chosen in each State <mi a basis of wlnner-take-all The system cries out for reform.

But reform is one thing, and fundamental change is quite another. The Hou^e ought to ask: Is there a way of achieving the reforms without such radicsl nirgery? The answer is plainly,-yes. In the district plan, or in the similar proportional" plan, every procedural objective sought . by critics of tiie present scheme could be attained. Either of the two jrians would (1) abolish indepoKlent electors, (2) abolish the last resort of one State, one vote, in the House, and (3) end toe evil of winner-take-all.

Under the district plan, a presidential candidate would win one electoral vote for each congressional district he carried, plus two for each State he carried. We can see how the (Coitinued On Page i)

The three most boring quea-_ tions in mans vocabulary, questions veryww aMis but never really wants to hear tn snswer to, srt: Whits new?," How are you?, ind What do you thinfc the weather will do next?

Time, fat and baldness do more to turn ordinary men into philosoplwrs than afi the wisdom in all the books in all the libraries in all the world. ,

Financial revenge is what a plumber gets when he is called to fix the pipa in the home of a doctor who once took out his appendix.

one of toe wwlds most beloved childrens books is sup-K)8ed to be Alice in Wonder-and," but few children actually manage to enjoy much about it except toe pictures. It Is far more popular with college economics professors than with kids.

Americans are probably the worst pronouncers and toe poorest spellers of their language rf any so-called literate people on earth. Half .of them cant pronounce the word adult with any real sense of whether its the preferred way or not, and all the prisons in the land (XKildnt accommodate a tenth (tf toe people who cant spell accommodate correctly.

Everybody thinks a bow-legged baby is cute except its parents.

You never know for sure what office workers think of eaca other until you take up a collection for one when he leaves. The larger the fund raised the more unpopular he may be. His detractors are glad to chip in a Ixick to see him go.

In a world where it is getting more and more difficult for one to keep his identity, wouldnt it* be nice if people, like ^nations, had their own personal flags? What design would yours have? Considering the times, I think my flag would show three gold pawnshop balls, a question mark, hnd a mushrooming atomic cloud.

The easiest way for a fellow to stay on a diet today is to do his own grocery shopping. The price of food is enougih to mgke anyone lose his appetite.

Those who stammer or stutter often shy away frooi public speaking, but some so affiicted make ^ most charming and wittiest of racon.teurs, and orators. They turn their handicap into an advantage: by the time they finiah a sentence they have built up a suspence in the audience in how it will turn out

The guy who likes to show you how many credit cards he has in his wallet is toe last guy who would want to let you see the balance in his bmik book.

If you art five men what time* it is, one will walk on as If he hadnt heard you, fearing youll ask him aomatfaing else. The other four will tiH you toe time, but two win ei;dain that it is probably wrong as thelF watches are rither fast or slow. ,

!3ack To The Peoale

An Important Book

The three greatest books In toe world w<^ld appear to be the Bible, the unabridged dictionary and the check Ix^.

And toe check book can and should hold an honored place in the 'life of humanity. Certainly it holds an important place, for when those monthly bills begin to roll in we have a job on our hands meeting our obligations.

The important tidng about the check book is iiot just the balances maintained but the spirit in which we use it: There are some people for whom the check book is a course. They spend fteir men

ta life. It cannot buy happiness, but it can enable peo-pie to avoid situations which nrod unhappiness. It cannot buy lore, but it can smooth out the pathways before ones feet and make everyday life more bearable. It cannot buy wisdom, but/it, qan pay. educational expenses and giva toe younger generation a chance to meet the problems of hie whh adequate preparation and equipment.

The point is that whether we would have it sb or not toe chect bqok playa an important ta toe lives of us all and we need to keep that, check book honest (in the way we' make our, money),*

By ELMER ROESENSR

Some daj^ after Ralph Nader gets the number of peanuts in cans of mixed nuts limited

ping into the street to avrid a beggar who displayed a running sore on his leg to reinforce his plea fm* al.m But streets have become

md pervade, and. dspit the bit

varliae Uior oa.time records apart lor wdtaw and

Mt, iw /4iinaH/tti Thav lord it decent and gfnaro*w in the over their neighbors. They way we spend It.^

throw motley around right and left and pay no attention to the fact that money can buy some of the finest things

The check book Is important and We can make iLand keep it so if we will.

By Earl L. Douglass

instead of the magnificence of cuisine, he might turn his attention to giving toe sidewalks back to tow people.

But there has been a steady theft of aidewalk apace, some by enterasen, some by city for more city revenue or, perhaps, a llttla pobket lining.

Si^walks were originally designed for the people, especially the common people, to get from one place to another. The rich could ride in carriages.

Early bvastea

At first, a few pitchmta and a few beggars took over part of t^ sidewalks. No one pintestd. Sidmialks-W-e r4 wide and, there was no Sanger, as there is today, in step-

home relief, there are more mendicants toan ever. For one reason, in boom times lllging pays much better toan welfare.

But the wofst impoeers on toe common people are not the beggars nor the salesmen selling neckties from thetr tripes and keisters, but commercial enterprises.

Among toe worst ofenders are phone companiei tiult persuade city officials to allow toem to rsct kiqeka nn sidewallu. Their argument has been that Jt is ior^^ pu

blics conyenlence,but in truto the phones often dcmt work. JQte Walk Phrites.-^ ^

Newsstands are allowed to infringe oii sidewalks by many

cities. Veterans are often given preference. But the annoyance they create did nothing to prevent toe Vietnam war, did it?

Public utilities are generally given a free hand to shove

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toe public off the sidewalk or limit |heir use by the erection of jMaa lodAtandardi. ^ -Ottef tbamaelves art perhaps tot worst offenders, tak-Jng space, not from autoizte and truckers, but from pe* dcstrians to erect posts, lonie-

times with confusing signs, to direct traffic, warn abwt ordinances, hdd up street lights, point the way to Route 1456J and generally Big-Brother toe JopJe.

In New York, at 40th and Broadway, pr*ple on the northwest comer have walked single file tor years because a subway entraacf and , s newsftand taka up toe rest of the sidewalk.

And in otimr cities, all over the country, garages and parking lots preempt sidewalk space; truckt back Into loading ramps Mocking lidswalks; snack bars at the propqrty line cauie pedaatrian congestion; aupperti tor canoftos cut walking space, and welks; afe chipped away to hundrads elotiierwrayii-

Come, Ralj^, gat with It! Pedestrian happtom is more Importapf toan a shortage of; wfflnufi in a can of mixed' nuts ;

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