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Wednesday, September 17, 1969

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Student Conduct Code Fits - Needs

The Greenville city school board has N-ery properly reaffirmed the rules dealing with student behavior. ^

The board in its Monday ntght meeting also directed the school administration to see that a copy of the rules"areplaced in the hands of each student to be taken to their parents.

Board members made it clar that there was no adoption of nev^ measures in the action; rather it was a restatement of ihe code of conduct'which has long been in effect in the schools:

Action was taken after approximatefly 200 white parents appeared before the board.

We haVe read a copy of the rules and there is certainly nothing in them that any student could not eoTtrply with. In fact enfopcement of the rules merely insures that the students can live and work

N.C. ImDressed

in a democratic environment.

Certainly no student cait do his best work if he is being harrassed by another student Nor cap the entire iichool syjitem operate efficiently if there are no enforcable rules concerning-school procedures. This is true in an integrated system as it was in the old segregated schools. ^

We think that the boards meeting with the parents was good in that the Monday* night action reassured school patrons that schools do have au-^ thority to act when troublemaking occurs. We also believe that it is important that school officials be free to handle their internal problems.

We think, too, that everyone involved students, parents and school aifthorities should continue to be aWare that all the students are in a new situation this'year. Jt is^goinfi^to take a little time for the youngsters to adjust, but bur faith in young people is such that we are fuj]y confident they 'will work but their own problems in the best interest of everyone.

::ficial Visitor * Trick, if The

' By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Labor Departments safety iri-

- Reflector Raleigh Bureau spectof, Cardan^Ward, when

RALEIGH-An official from he returned to Washington and

a government office in Wash-/"wrotgjiis report,

Ington came to North Carolina ,' 'IPlp certainly was impres-!< week last January to (A- sd. And now, the new Secre-

serve a program which, in effect, had been swept aside by an edict from his higher-ups.

The wheels in Washingtcm turn slowly,-and perhaps do not grind very finely either. But in this case, it appears that someone had second Noughts. ^

An' order had been Issued by the Secretary of Labor, the former Secretary of Labor, that the driving of public ichool buses was a hazardous occupation in which no one under 4e age of 18 might be employed. The state of Normar-olina, which operates the lar-ges^ public school bus fleet in the nation, had 5,600 school bus drivers between the ages of 16 and 18and approximate

the same number now.

WILUAM

SHIRES

Edict It meant that if fte edict from Washington was implemented and enforced, the" states dwol districts would be faced with a nearly impossible {MToblemr^ladng 5,600 capably trained, young and alert and safety-conscious drivers with adult drivers willing to work for a very minimum and paltry wage.

Officials in the departments of PuUic Instruction and Labor in Raleigh lool^ at the tttuation and said it^ld not be done.

Ad(fitonally, department of Motor Vehicles j^ficials said privately that it was doubtful whether it would license more than one of 10 applicants for school bus driving permits without very careful screening and additional training. DMV officials said flatly that the young drivers who receive in-teneSive training are far mor capable and reliable.

Report This apparently was also the opinion of the

tary of Labor, George P. Shultz, has rescinded the order and will allow Nwth Carolina to continue to use student school bus (frivers.

Gov. Bob Scott makes note of this in a recent statement. Undoubtedly, the safety cord of our student school bus drivers, their training programs, and the supervision proceduresat both the state and local levelshave been instrumental in North Carolina being allowed to cmtinue to use 16 and 17 year old drivers.

Scott urged a ccmtinuei effort Ml the part of the youthful drivers and adult supervisors to improve the program and its safety record. Hie safety record is outstanding and this was recognized and duty noted by Ward.

AppointeesGovcmorScott followed the dictates of the 1969 legislature in appointing a majority of non-bankers to the State Banking Commission, but he also chose some very close political associates.

The only,member whose term had expired and who was reappointed to the enlarged Banking Commission was Mrs. Axsom Smith of Belhaven.

The other posts went to some of Scotts strongest political supportersGeorgs B. Collins, a I North Wilkesboro banker; Graham Smith of Burlington, also a bai&er; Charles Reeves Jr. of Sanford, and John Williams of Raleigh. Williams was finance chairman for Scotts campaign for the governorship, and raised the , necessary funds.

Pat Spangler of Shelby was a staunch supporter of Scotts candidacy even while^ serving on the State Board of Conservation and Development (C and D) in the previous administration. It had been expected that Spangler would receive a blue-ribbon appointment in the Scott administration, and he now has one.

Hal Hoyle Jr. of Lincolntwi and Tom Watkins of Charlotte, both prominent businessmen, were iihe other appointees. Trey fill the posts specified by the leigislature to be non-bankers, Md public representative

President Can Do It

President Nixon seems to be calculating his moves in withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. Yes^ terday he announced the second withdrawal of troops whieh^ will bring the total number taken out so far to 60,000. It appears likely that further troop withdrawals will be announced at a later date.

Pulling out the U.S. troops, however, is a ticklish business. The United States must be careful that South Vietnam troops are ready to take their place. Otherwise American troop strength could be weakened to the point where the enemy could strike a disastrous blow to the undermanned U. S. military men. '

Too, if all troops are withdrawn and the South Vietnam army collapss, Nixon could bear the consequences for whatever that led to in Southeast Asia.

The trick is goihg to be to withdraw troops as the South Vietnamese troops are brought to the point where they can take over. With full American arms aid it is possible to carry this out over a period of time and it seems the direction in which Nixon is headed.

Discontent On race Of Peace

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Sidewalk comments by a Pavement Plato: ' ^

A common dream among American girls today-and among many young men. for that matter is the dream of marrying a millionaire.

One WMiders why. But if you ask a poor working girl the reason shed like to marry a mil-Uonaireany milllonaireshe looks at you as if you had gone daft and replies:

Because hes got all that rnoney.**

It could be toat a millionaire might also have acne, ulcers, athletes foot, and a cast in his eye. It makes no difference. He# still' got all that money.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON A sum-mo: of discontent by many Republican Congressmen over the slow pace of troop withdrawals is about to explode in a formal proposal to give President Nixon just 15 months to end U S. participation in the war.

A grsup of House Republicans soon will circulate a letter soliciting co-sponsors for a resolutiwi putting a deadline of Dec. 31, 1970, on the 1964 Tonkin Bay resolution. That resolution was adopted by Congress at President Ji^nswis request oh Aug. 10, 1964, to cope with Communist activity in Vietnams Tonkin Gulf. It is the statutory authority for waging the conflict in lieu of a declaration of war.

The Tonkin Bay resolution, of course,'will not be repealed, no matter how many Republicans sign thej^repeal resolu-tii. But that is not its- real purpwe. What the Republicans want is to give the President a clear, public message of their discwitent with thr pace of disengagement ffom'^ the war. ""

Throughout the summer, many Republicans in Congress and some inside the Administration have privately grumbled that Mr. Nixon has listened too much to the U.S. military, the U. S. Embassy in Saigon, and President ThieU of South Vietnam. This discontent was fanned \during the August recess when voters asked why, so long as the U.S. had no intention of winning the war, dont we get out right now?

Consequently, when Congress returned, two young,

second-term Republicans Reps. Donald Riegle, 31," of Michigan and Paul McCloskey, 41, of Californiabegan devising a strategy to test CongressiiHial sentiment.

McCloskey was elected to Congress as a Vietnam dove in a celebrated cwtest against Siirley Temple Black. But Riegle has come mcHe gradually to his present hard-line war opposition. Until now, he has avoided public criticism of Mr. Nixon.

More significant, other Republicans not in the peace vanguard have expressed deep interest in the Twikin repeal resolution. Several of these will join Riegle and McCloskey in sponsoring the resolution. Sn. Mark Hatfield of Oregon has agreed to introduce it there, and additional Republican Se^ nate sponsors are being sought, The strategy behind the Riegle-McClo[|:ey move is to avoid overt provocation of the President that might make fellow Republicans feel gility about disloyalty. Thus, no Democrats are wanted to sponsor the repeal. Further, a suggested provision to set a Dec. 31, 1970, deadline for mandatory withdrawal.of all U. S. troops was omitted as overly harsh. "The theme of the Republican repeal movement is not so much to criticize the President as to prod Congress to assert its Constitutional prerogatives. Thus, a draft copy of the letter to be circulated says:

^is action should not be interpreted as a challenge to the President; on the contrary, we believe it coincides with his expressed hope to de-Americanize the Vietnam war within a reasonable period of (Continued On Page^6)

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ART BUCHWALD

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WASHINGTON - The most impwtant division of the telephone company these days is the Department of Recorded Announcements. As telephone service in this country keeps getting wOTse, the Department of Recwded Announcements plays an evcr-greater role in the system.

Heading up the DRA at the phone company is Miss Shirley Thrush, who recently was made a full vice president. I visited her at her complex which covered several acres outside Pleasantville, N.Y .

Miss Thrush told me, A few years ago I used to do all the recordings for the telephone company at my desk during lunch hour. But now, as you can see, I have an entire division devoted to It, and were growing all the time.

Any time anything 'goes wrwig we have to make a recorded announcement, and you can imagine how many

these days.

Hien, you thrive on the bad luck of the rest of the company?

^ I wouldnt say that, Miss Thrush said. But lets say for years everyone in the company thought I was a joke. Now its my turn to think theyre all jokes.

How do you make the recordings?

Come, well go to one of the studios.

She took me down the hall to a large studio with a dozen mikes hanging from all positions. An attractive woman was standing at one of the mikes. In ttie control booth was an engineer, a writer, a script girl, a director and a producer.

Miss Thrush asked the producer what he was working on.

Were doing the circuits are busy recording.

Oh, said Miss Thrush. This is one of my favor-

?ublic Forum

TO THE EDITORAS, the Sheppard Memorial Library concludes a building .expansion program, it is marking an ending and a beginning the ending of years of planning and building and 'the beginning of new and im-proveiMibrary services for the people of this community. '

The building is proof that libraries can be beautiful as well as functiMial. For the first time in recent years we believe we have enou gh room for everybody. As tois new facility has been viewed by th public, I have received more credit than I deserved.

At this time I should like to pay especial tribute to some special people who have helped me through these past three years. In particular,

' I say thank you to Bill Brewer, present chairman of the" library Board, for his moral strength, consideration and strong support; to C h a r 1 e s Horne, past chairman of the board, whose help, profession-aUy and otherwise, was in

valuable; to Harriet Wooten, a board member who has assumed the responsibility of |)eautifying the grounds; and Colonel Harry Hagerty, who as City Manager has handled finances for the" entire project and helped us in numerous ways.

I should like to thank the public for their cooperation during a difficult time. The building was noisy and crowded; the books were dusr ty, but the people did not complain. They continued to come and they encouraged us always.

My deepest thanks go very humbly to the library staff. No one knows tie hardships, the handicaps, the inconveniences they endured. Life was not easy but they were cheerful and optimistic and willing to undertake whatever _^was necessary. I could never ripay them fortheir loyal support but-1 shaA be grateful to them always.

Elizabeih R. O^land, Librarian

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ites. We sat down in the cwitrol booth behind the director, who said over h i s mike All right, Gladys. Lets do it again.

Gladys, holdihg her script, started to read into the microphone, Im sorry, all circuits are busy now. Would you please place your call at a later time?

No, no, no, the director shouted over the mike. You didnt soi^.id so-ry when you said it. The person who hears you isnt going to believe you. You must make him feel youre sorrier than he is that he didnt get the call. OK, lets try it again. Im SORRY, Gladys said -dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief. All circuits are busy. Would you please place your call at a later time?

The director said, The sorry part was OK but y,ou didnt sound strong enough when you asked them to call at a later time. It was too weak. If somewie heard you, they immediately would have dialed again. We want them to get the hell off the phone.

Miss Thrush said to me, Theyll be doing this for hours. Come, Ill take you to another studio. We went down the hall to another studio and into the control booth. A girl was just reading the lines, Tm sorry, the number you have reached is not in service at this time. Please be sure you have dialed the right number.

Where were the chimes? the director yelled. They were supposed to come in be-fwe sh says shes sorry.

I thought you wanted chimes at the end, the engineer said.

No, at the beginning, to get the caller in a good mood. Youre going to tell Wm he's an idiot, and the chimes prepare him for it.

When we finished the tour, I said, Youre doing a wonderful job here. .

Mis# Thrush replied, The tail is \now Wagging the dog. If things continue as they have been, the telephone company could have its first woman president.

Of course, when a girl dreams of marrying a millionaire she idealizes him as welP as his money. She envisions him as tali, dark and handsome, joung, deeply romantic, poetic and generous to a fault. She has the idea that the first thing he will do after they leave the church i# to take a bag of gold off his shoulder and divide it into two pileshis and hers.

And since he is generous to^ a fault, he will gallantly see that her pile is slightly larger than, his.

The fault with this picture is that it is hardly typical of the average millionaire.

Your run-of-the-mill millionaire is usually middle-aged, partly bald, has a bulgy stomach and is already married to a woman who watches over him and his money like a hungry vulture. Romantic? Pah! Like any other cost accountant, the figures that interest him most are those in a ledger.

Suppose, however, he is still a bachelor. Do you think that, like Prince Charming, he spends his days and nights running around the kingdom trying to fit a glass slipper to a poor but honest sackcloth-clad Cinderella?

Not him. Making money is ordinarily a time-consuming passion in itselb Your ordinary millionaire has no idle hours to spend in vain* pursuits. Ask him if he is looking for a pow working girl to marry, and hell re-ply:

Are you out of your mind? I already have one dependent Im supportingUncle Sam. What do I need with another?

Money likes to mat with money. A millionaire sees no logical reason why it isnt as easy for him^ to marry a rich girlthus parlaying his fortune^ as it is to mari7 a poor girl with no social position.

Alas, for the fading "dreams of the poor working girl. But an even colder-watered truth applies to the poor young man who wants to wed a millionairess. ^ Even if this dream should come true, it iobably would turn into a nightmare. For when -a rich woman marries a pow man for his charm she gets the better of the bargain. She get# his charm-but that doesnt mean he gets her money.

A rich woman tends to wear a (ContiDiied On Page I)

Anti-Inflation Action Inflates

Strength For-Today

, REAL COURAGE Robert Louis Stevenson, who died a.t the age of forty-four, (Mice wrote that the world is so full of a number of things, I think we should all be as happy as kings.

And although in his few brief years Stevenson wrote some of the^most appealing-novels in English literature, be never gave utterance to a truer statement than this .one about the world being full of a number of things.

When we think of the number of things people cab be interested in, we wonder how it ever happens that '.. some people are bored, or depressed, or angry with life. Why? We,may have to scratch pretty hard to make a living or * to get ahead in life, or to walk happily in pathways acros# which dark shadows of trouble,-sorrow and failure , frequently fall And yet when

we take a good look at life and ask ourselves such a question, we still come up or should come upwith a hopeful answer. Poor Stevenson died of tuberculosis be> fore his career really got started, yet he wrote twenty-five novels, made TREASURE ISLAND, DR. JEKYLL AND' MR. HYDE, KIDNAPPED milepost in the development of English Uterature. He spent his declining years gasping for breath, yet he .smiled throughout all and kept talking about, the wonderful things, (hat fin the world round about us.

There are some people in

life that just caimo^ be knock-ed_:j^ow;| and held down. Bab tlefield, bravery' is_wunderful, but there are other k.in d s of bravery that are wonderful also.

By Earl L.'^Dougtm

By ELMER ROESSNER

A curious tiling about war on inflation is that it actually fcreates more inflatipn. This effect is so pervasive that toe efforts.to halt inflation, which have had only spotty success so far, may fail in the id. .

The anti-inflation actions have inflated toe cost ot shelter. Interest rates, forced up by toe Federal Reserve, have made buying a home more expensive., Wheh a buyer can obtain a mortgage today, he may commit himself to pay for the next 20 or 30 years. Debite this, the price of housing continues to soar. The Wall Street Journal last~f week reported that a house in \ Ridgewood, N.J., bmight for $39,500 eleven months ago has been sold for $70,000.

The high cost of. mon^ is also pushing rents up. It has made new rental housing H|Mire expeiusive. :Furttiermore*_ landlords'of existing rental units niay paj; higher inter-^est ljO finance major improvements and they recoup by

raising rents.

Effects On Corporations Corporati(His vmust piy more for money they borrow for replacing plants and equipment, for eiqianding pro^c-tion and for toe development of new products. Interest rates range from 9 to 12 per cent and these higher costs are added to the selling price of products which the consumer eventually pays.

All over the country, phone, light, gas and' other public utilities are asking federal and state regukUory bodies for permission to increase rates. Higher r wages is ope reasoij

advanced; toe higher cost of money is another.

AT and T, the worldJs largr est corporate borrower, had to pay 7.91 per cent when it borrowed recently. And last week Southwestern Bell had to pay 8.14) per cent to sell $150 mfllion in debentures. Other utilities have to pay similar rates, some higher, for ^expansion necessitated by the growing population and 'current affluence.

AT and T is currently asking the Federal Communications Commission to increase allowable profits on' invest-, ments from Jhe present 7 to 7V4 per cent to 8 to 8Mi per cent. Southwestern Bells new borrowing will strengthen this plea. .

States And Cities Hit

States and tiieu* subdivisions, even toough interest on their bonds is tax exempt are having to pay constantly higher rates borrowed money. Last week the city ql Newark, in selling $20.5 mtW ]im tel boiute, bad to pay in

terest rates of 6.2 per cent on bonds maturing next year and up to 7.4 per cent on bondsv maturing from 1985 to 1990.

. These higher costs of borrowing money will result in higher taxes for the rest of toe century. And hlgbor taxes, plus toe higher 1 cost of housing, higher rehfe and higher prices will help pudi up toe consumer price index. That will give millions of Workers automatic pay increaitos and it will stir millions more to demand higher wages. This, will surely create new waves of inflatiwi. *

During the 1930s depression, the Federal Reserve lowered its rediscount rate to one per cent in an effort to stimulate business. While it ameliorited some of toe effects of toe,depression, it did not cure it It was World War II, not chedp money, that finally pulled America out of the slump. If cheap money did not Ix^m business in the 1930s why should high interest rates slow it down, in the 1960s?