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4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N. C.Wednesday, March 25,1970

Reasonable Point By NCEA

The North Carolina Education Association has raised a reasonable point in warning that the quality of instant private schools thrown up to avoid segregation may not be what is desired by parents or needed by students.

The resolution pledges the states teachers to extra effort to maintain and improve the quality of teaching, whether it be in public schools or in well housed, established and accredited private schools.

Most citizens of the state, we believe, recognize

shad Run Has Broad Appeal

(Todays column is written by Vernon F. Sechriest, Editor of the Rocky Mount Telegram).

By VERNON F. SECHRIEST

ROCKY MOUNT - The shad are running! Thats an electrifying statement in these parts at this season of the year and always signals a mad dash to the banks of Tar River on the part of hundreds of citizens who would rather catch and eat a shad than gobble up a bowl of strawberries with whipped cream

The shad appeal not only goes out to local fishermen but others for miles around and some from much greater distances flock here in quest of this member of the herring family.

When the head of a big cor^ration, which has a branch in Rocky Mount, was talking over the telephone to his local manager some year ago he startled the local man with the sudden assertion that I think its high time I made a personal, on-the-spot inspection of my holdings in your town.

Then, as the local manager was trying to collect himself, the big boss, who has an undisguised yen for a certain kind 0 fish, broke the tension by asking, by the way, arent the shad running now?

Once again the shad are starting to come up the Tar River from the coast and once more shad lovers are expected to throng the banks of the Tar in this vicinity as they seek to entice these highly delectable creatures to partake of the latest lures.

Because of an ancient dam which spans the Tar at the site of Rocky Mount Mills, which has been in business since 1818, the shad and the rock fish must end their annual journey from the Atlantic Ocean at this Edgecombe-Nash capital. The fish come up to spawn in fresh water after which this eggs start drifting coastward, hatching on the move. Of course, the male or buck shad accompany their females on the journey so that the anglers are able to take fish of either sex.

On the banks shortly after the first of the year the fishermen keep a constant vigil and the first to land a shad never is able to conceal his catch for long. Then, the anglers really turn out in full force. Some use, nets, other catch fish from boats but the majority will be found on the banks.

'The rock, second coastal fish to invade waters each season, come later. Fishermen say its usually after the first full moon in April.

It was not until the late 1950s when it became known that the shad could be taken by any means other than a net. The reason is that the shads mouth, comparatively

small, also is quite tender so that the fisherman, although sometimes able to hook a shad, found the hook tearing away and the fish escaping. Finally, somebody came up with a tiny, shiny spoon and somebody else fopnd a small be-featured lure, each of which was able to hold a shad until he could be brought in.

Then, the post of catching shad on hook and line became so fascinating that most fishermen forgot about their nets.

Chief attraction in catching the shad is the roe, which is considered the best from any fish found in the state. The fish itself is most delectable, but possesses quite a few tiny fish-hook like bones. Some of the real gourmete when it comes to preparing fish have been able to overcome the bone meance by cooking the shad for several hours in an oven on low heat. The causes the bones to disintegrate so^ that they may be eaten just like the bones in canned salmon. .

Shad found hereabouts run from one to five pounds and both the males and the females are highly desirable.

Expert fishermen who have made extensive studies of shad habits report that the female about to spawn usually is surrounded by a number of bucks. It is the latter which is responsible for swimming beneth the females and cutting, by means of a ^arp fin the sac which contains thousands of eggs. They are fertilized by the male before they start their long journey to the coast.

Fish hatchery people discovered years ago that shad eggs would not hatch if kept in a tank of still water, but agitation of the water was found to produce the desired results.

Stories concerning shad and shad fishermen are legion in this area. Most fishermen who have had any luck at all usually consider themselves as experts. One of the stories going rounds here a few years ago concerned the church deacon, an ardent fisherman, who discovered his pastor sitting on the bank with a pole in hand.

Parson, theres a right way and a wrong way to catch shad, the layman observed as he advised the minister to leave his site and accept another kind of lure. The preacher sat at the new site beside the member of his flock, but after an hour of steady fishing neither had received even a nibble. When the layman started to protest after discovering that the minister was about, to move, the pastor waved him aside and completely hushed him with the assertion, 1 believe Ill go back to my original site, using my first equipment. You see I had caught nine fish there before you came along.The Daily Reflector

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the danger of sacrificing the quality of education offered youngsters when some purpose other than education is the over - riding factor in establishment of a school. Although North Carolina has seen more private schools established in recent years than in any comparable period in this century, it should not be concluded that all of them have been established at the expense of the quality of education offered their students.

Many of the private schools are proving themselves to be sound, well financed, with high academic standards, well rounded educational programs for their students.

There are some, however, that obviously are nol offering their students the calibre of education available in the public schools. There are some in which the desire to avoid integration, rather than the quest for quality education, has been the motivating factor in their establishment. It is of this latter group that the NCEA warns in its resolution adopted last week.

Those teachers who make up the state Education Association have expressed a concern that should be shared by all other citizens. If any child is getting an inferior education in North Carolina, the entire state and its future are being penalized ... not just the child himself. The degree to which citizens throughout the state strive to assure quality education in both public and private schools will in large measure chart the future for this state.

Like many other states, North Carolina too long has paid the price of unequal, inferior educational opportunities for some of its young people in public schools. This situation, rapidly being corrected throughout the state, must not be replaced by a similar set of circumstances where instant private schools are concerned.

Tobacco To Continue Playing Large Role

The Fat Man Is Happier

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) Why do most fat people stay fat?

This is a perennial puzzle to thin people who like to point a skinny finger of scorn at corpulence. They think fat is a sign,,of a glandular problem, a sign of gluttony, a sign of inner guilt, a sign of some hidden neurosis, or a sign of all these things.

While mildly flattered by all the attention paid to their blubber by thin people, fat people themselves rarely take the trouble to reply to the accusations or insinuations leveled at them.

They have a secret of their own: they stay fat because they

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[enjoy being fat. If they didnt, theyd worry themselves skinny. _ Looked at objectively, a fat man has a number of advantages over the bone-thin critics who are always jabbing him in the stomach and asking, When are you going to take it off. Tubby

A fat man takes things in slow stride and achieves a philosoph-serenity denied many thin

While there are great changes going on so far as production of tobacco is concerned, there is still much to indicate that the crop will be around for a long time.

The latest evidence of this is the Agriculture Departments repiort that tobacco consumption throughout the world increased by three percent in 1969. The Foreign Agricultual Service estimates that 153 billion packs were consumed during the year. This was true even though U.S. consumption is estimated to be down by about two percent.

The tobacco experts say that world cigarette output is expected to continue rising although growth may not be as rapid as it has been in the past. The U.S. tobacco industry will in all likelihood share in the increase because The American blend requiring high-quality tobacco is a symbol of prestige. the report said.

So far as our own area is concerned, this should mean that there will not be any sudden disappearance of tobacco with the disastrous consequences this could have on our economy. Tobacco will continue to be under attack but it is going to continue to be an important part of our agricultural picture.

By ART BUCHWALD

to Update Shakespeare?

people. He runs after neither bus nor blonde but stands patiently on the corner waiting placidly for one or the other to pick him up. He is not a restless prisoner of time.

Wallace's Only Political Hope

WASHINGTON Now that tie best minds in the Western World have improved the Bible in the most modem edition, which is called The New English Bible (the new 23rd Psalm begins, The Ird is my shepherd, I shall v/ant nothing. He makes me l e down in green pastures and leads me beside the v/aters of peace; He renews l)fe within me and for His names sake guides me in the right path. . .), it has been decided to update Shakespeare and make him easier for people to understand.

With this goal in mind and using The New English Eible as our inspiration, a

group of us has already managed to update some of Hamlets soliloguy.

To be or not to be will soon read as follows:

Should I or shouldnt I? That is the question.

I dont know whether it would be better for me to take

a lot of guff and that sort of thing

or to fight back against all this trouble Ive been having

Maybe I should drop dead, and sleep;

thats all. And by

sleeping hope to end

all this emotional conflict that everyone goes through; boy wouldnt that be

solution?

If you could just cop out, close your eyes and

sleep. And maybe have a few good dreams. But thats the trouble.

If youre dead, who knows what kinnd of bad trips youre going to have leaving the station? It sure gives you something to think about.

You have to show some respecl^ if you dont you could be in for real trouble.

People trust him more and have greater confidence in him. When you think of a gossip, dont you think of a thin, hatchet-faced person rather than an overweight one?

The fat man finds it easier to borrow money or get credit. A banker looks at him and says to himself: This guy ought to be good for the loan hes asking. After all, hes too slow to run away and too big to hide.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

POBERTSDALE, ALA Before an all-white audience of 5,000 at a fish-fry in this south Alabama village climaxing his first full day of campaigning, George C. Wallace unveiled the strategy that holds his only hope for political survival.

The reason droves of newspaper columnists from up north were journeying to rural Alabama, said Wallace, was their awareness that the life or death of his effort are at stake. I want this effort to continue, he said. The eyes of the country are on you. You have the power in your hands.

Wallaces appeal for election as governor of Alabama interms of national politics was fully expected by the forces of his opponent and erst while protege. Gov. Albert Brewer. What has surprised them is the timing. They thought Wallace would experiment with state issues

for weeks before settling down to the one strategy capable of closing the gap between him and Bewer by the May 5 Democratic Primary.

Indeed. Wallaces national strategy is the cloud menacing the Brewer camps euphoria, which stems from amazingly favorable polls plus defections of old Wallace courthouse politicians. The disquieting note is that even Alabamans who no longer want Wallace as governor still would support him for president. Thus. Wallace must prove that the only way they can vote for him for president is to make him governor again.

This means Wallace has come full cycle in two months. When he revealed early this year he might run against Brewer to save his third-party movement, polls showed public indifference. Brewer then proclaimed that he, unlike (Continued On Page 5)

Other Editors Say Gompetitive Rates

(Kinston Free Press)

H. A. Lansman, executive vice - president (rf Kemper Insurance of Chicago, has discussed competitive auto 'liability rates and alternatives with the Governors Study Commission on Automobile Liability In-sjrance. He says a change to competitive rates would have the immediate effect of increasing rates, but that the li>ng-range result would c)*ystalize the efficiency of the companies as the reduced rates began to meet competition.

Lansman suggested the possibility of applying a surcharge of varying amounts on the cost of insurance for certain makes of automobiles, depending upon their toughness and engineering design.

Competitive rates would be the ideal answer if the matter o;^ liability for accidents were

not a compulsory requirement in this State. It is the law that such coverage must be provided by all licensed motorists, and that tends to give the insurance companies a lush sellers market that would not exist otherwise. ,

We are glad the matter is getting careful study. We believe the Study Commission can render a valuable service to the pe(^le of North Carolina if ways and means to hold down the rate levels can be found, and ways and means of providing swifter service to those entitled to insurance benefits can be assured. Many damage cases now hang on for years before final court settlement. This should not be permitted when one considers the vast liability insurance investment made yearly by all motorists in this State.

Thats as far as we got with Hamlet. But we have also been working on Romeo and Juliet.

So far it goes like this:

JULIET (on balcony to herself): Oh Romeo# Romeo. Where are you Romeo? Why dont you change your name? Or if you cant do it. Ill work it out some way so 1 wont be known as a Capulet.

ROMEO (underneath balcony to himself): I wonder if I should stick around and, listen to what shes saying, or speak up and jawbone with her.

JULIET: The only thing I hold against you, Romeo, is your name. Personally I like you for yourself, and not because youre a Montague.

Like, whats a Montague? It isnt your hand or your foot or your face, or any other part of your body belonging to a man. Gosh. I wish you had another name.

But whats in a name? Suppose you saw this flower which was called something else besides a rose. It would still smell pretty good, wouldnt it?

And thats the way it is with Romeo. If his name, for example, were Irving, he still would be perfect in my book.

It is also easier for a fat man to aA'oid doing all the time-wasting and frenetic things by which many people seek pleasure. No one expects him to play tennis, ride horseback, or climb Mt. Ex'erest. Even if he should be drafted to help fight a war, he is asually assigned to the safest placebringing up the rear.

Sensible women prefer to marry a fat man because they instinctively know he makes the best of all husbands. It is the thin husband who is more likely to philander than the fat one. The fat man realizes that the energy philandering wastes is hardly worth any possible reward it may win.

The fat man is rarely lonely. At a cocktail party it is the thin man who stands alone, brooding like Hamlet. The fat man is in the center of the crowd, because people like to laugh with him as well as at him. They just like to be in his company.

No matter what he does, whether he is eating, joking, or simply taking a shower, he has more fun than a slender man because there is so much more of him to enjoy what hes doing.

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Yes, the fat man stays fat because he enjoys being fat. He is an amiable sort and feels there is room in the world for both the fat man and the thin man, but he also feels that if one of them has to get crowded out,well, it isnt going to be him.

Strength For Today The Passenger Train Is Dead

DAY OF SILENCE

Wednesday of Holy Week was evidently a day of silence. There is no record of his having contended with opponents. We can believe that he spent the day in meditation and prayer.

And so this day of Holy Week in which there is no record of teaching or controversy may have for us all a great lesson. We modems are not given much to meditation. We are activists. We want to make the world a better place in which to live. Many go so far as to say that there is nothing in religion save the doing of good works, and especially good works for others? We can well agree that religious faith which does not emerge into g(X)d works is-not religious faith at all but a vain delusion. There is, however, more beside good works in the religion we have come to call Christianity. 'The Christian

cannot expect long to remain a Christian unless he prays. And his prayers must be continuous, a seeking, above all, to know the will of God and to be prepared to fulfill that will.

The Bible is our guide in preparing our minds and souls to know what God wills for us. Worship is not only listening to Bible- - reading, prayer, and the message of the preacher. True religion consists in the bringing of our hearts to God through Jesus Christ daily in prayer, in good works, in kindly living.

By ELMER ROESSNER The American intercity passenger train is dead.

.What you see occasionally bumping over tracks may not be real trains but ghost tTains, a favorite concept of fiction writers half a century afeo. 'They arent real trains and the people in them aren^t

to he^rt by the robber barons who controlled them.

'The death by buses, planes and autos is obvious. You who ride in those conveyances today shared in the slaughter.

The knifings by the robber barons were a little less obvious. But it is now apparent that they were the worst killers of all.

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Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my ydce upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light (Matthew 11:29-30).

By Earl L. DouglaM

real people. They are simply projections of iron horses 1(^ dead and of people who exist only in memory. Murder On The Tracks Passenger trains were kUled by the buses. '

They were killed by the airplane. >

.Hiey were killed by the

privatfi auto.

And they killed with thrusts

They were the managers, directors, executives and stockholders who kept taking money out of the roads. They didnt keep up the roadbeds, they didnt replace the rolling stock as it wore out.

The Chinamen and the hunkies drifted off to the cities; they refused to work ballast at wages railroads paid. My last long railroad ride was from New Ywk to Montreal for Expo 67. I think I still bear the black-and-blue marks from the bounces' on the rocky roadbed.

'The R-R-Rolling Stock, -

Pullman beds are worse. Perhaps there are some cars built since 1912, but when I last slept on the saggy, ripe mattresses, I imagined I was smelling the stale sweat of William Jennings Bryan.

The railroads confess the rolling stock is poor because passenger revenue is not enough for replacement. Thats true. But it leaves unanswered the question of whether it wouldnt be a lot better today if so much revenue had not been pushed out in fat executive salaries and high dividends in the lush days of railroading.

Anyway, passenger trains are dead, even if some go through the eccentric motions of running. Scores of intercity trains have been dropped. .Penn Central now wants to drop 48 trains, including the Boadway ^imited. The Twentieth I Century and other famous

trains have already flatwheeled into history. -The Senate Commerce Committee wants the government to speak $435 million to rehabilitate railroad passenger service over the next four years. Its too late. No amount of money can put flesh on the rusted iron bones of American passenger trains.

World-Hic!Is Getting Hep To Bottled Bourbon

American is bourbonizing the worto. Bureau of ~ the Census figures show that exports of corn-squeezings set a new record in 1969 of 2,152,417 proof gallons exported. This is an increase of almost 45 per cent over the. preytous year.

Biggest importers of the American tipple are West Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Britain, Australia, Belguun, 4apan and Mexico, in that order.da