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Future Holds New Challenges

Graduation has been rather spread out in our area this year because of the varying starting times for some schools.

Rose Hi^, ECU and Pitt Tech have already had their graduations as well as some of the county high schools. Others are coming up shortly.

For these young people who are now finishing high school and college there are challenges ahead. It would be easy to say that things are in terrible shape and the only thing for a young man or woman to do is drop out. Our young should never accent this, however. An exciting world awaits. It is not perfect, just as it has never been, but it it were, there would be no challenges for the young people who in just a few short years will be the ones who

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By BRVAN HAISLIP

RALEIGH How old is old enough?

Old epough tb vote? Old enough to fight? Old enough to execute a binding contract? Old enough to sue and be sued in court?

One answer should fit all questions on the age of legal majority, said Senator Zebulon D, Alley of Haywood. If we are going to extend the privilege of voting at 18. it should be accompanied by the full responsibility of citizenship. he insisted.

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argument, but it looks like he may get the 1971 General Assembly to agree with him.

The freshman Senator from the mountains introduced his bill to achieve the purpose the day the session convened back on January 13. Last week it finally came to the Senate floor and passed after prolonged debate and a last-minute stall.

Now it waits action in the House. Alley is optimistic it will move faster there to the samr TffvortWe eoRclusori.

Lowering Legal Age What it would dp is ipwer from 21 to 18 the age at which a person ceases to be legally a minor. It would be effective upon amendment of either federal or state constitution setting the voting age at 18.

Once the bill is enacted, Senator /^lley said, he will introduce legislation making the appropriate corrections in the lawbooks. Research by the Attorney Generals office, he said indicates some 260 separate references in the '"law whicTi Will be affected.

While the age for voting is a matter of principle and politics, legal majority has many practical ramifications.

For example. Alley noted, he has a client who at 19 owns and operates successfully a sawmill. "He has to have a guardian in order to conduct his business affairs the Senator explained.

I know there is no magic number of years which assures maturity, but I do feel the 18-21 age group has a pretty high level of good judgment.

Senior Senators .Aided Support from senior membeiT"T5f^Tfr^ Senate helped Alley get his bill through. Senator S. Bunn Frink of Brunswick, a six-term veteran, co-signed the bill.

Frink. 72. used his turn on

the Senate floor^peaking for the bill to announce ^ legislative retirement. "I do not intend to run again. Ive been here long enough," he said. "I sincerely believe young people are entitled to the right of first-class citizenship

Senator Claude Currie of Durham, dean of the upper chamber, said ballot enfranchisement of the 18-21 age group is here whether we like it or not, and I like it" and loNyering the legal age should follow.

But Currie stirred up some of the middle age set with the comment that young people today are much smarter than we were at that age.^ Senator J.J. (Monk) Harrington of Bertie thought otherwise. Smarter academically, maybe, but thats just about where it stops," snorted Harrington, 52. Theres such a thing as common hoss sense, as well as book learning. Something tells me this is a bad bill. Not Smarter; More Exposure "Theyre not necessarily smarter; theyve just been exposed to more,^ipJbserved Senator Jyles J. Coggins of Wake.

The real importance of the legislation, cautioned, Coggins. 50, would be to relieve parents of responsibility for acts of their children in the 18-21 bracket.

Politics: salesmanship and marriage got mixed into the debate.

Senator F. ONeil of Anson, noting he is the next-to-youngest member of the upper chamber, urged that the vote on the bill be based on its merits and not "cheap and tawdy political motives" of appealing to the new, young voting constituency.

As a lawyer. Jones added, I make a living on the mistakes many of these young people make. I see an awful lot of bad judgment in this area."

Coggins feared opening a door for high pressure salesmen to get young people tangled in debt. "Young people can be sold anything." he argued.

Senator William D. Mills of Onslow pointed out an exception to the bar against 18-year-olds entering into a binding contract.

We allow 18-year-olds to marry, which is a contract." he said. *! signed that contract 18 years ago. I thought it was binding then, and it still is today."

In sum. Mills said, the question is whether enfranchisement for those between 18 and 21 should be restrictive: he favored

making it full and complete.

So did a firm majority of the Senate, passing the bill and routing it to the House for final consideration.

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control the destinies of our community, state and nation.

Many of our hi^ schod graduates will leave school to take jobs ; others will go on to colleges or further training. The graduates of ECU and Pitt Tech will follow various routes to careers or furliier training. Whatever these thousands of young people choose as their own life paths, they should keep in mind that there is a bright future for then, to be filled with exciting times and real challeiges.

There are complaints that jobs are not plentiful, and this is certainly true compared with some previous years when it was merely a matter of choosing from several job offers. This, however, is part of the challenge of life. The early years out of school are times for looking around and finding careers which are best suited to us as individuals. For the graduates going out into the world today, these are not trouble free times, but history tells us that there have seldom been times when there were not problems for the young seeking to make their way into the workday world.

Our graduates of today have grown up in unsettled times, but these young people have already met challenges that other generations have not had to face. We offer our congratulations to all our area graduates. We expect great things in the furture from them.

Fidel Who? The Name Is Vaguely Familiar

Whatever happend to Fidel Castro?

His name and picture, together with thousands upon thousands of words concerning him, used to dominate front pages of the U.S. newsppers.

Castro opinions, threats, actions, were all taken seriously; and pundits were downright nervous about what he might do or could do.

No more.

For the last several years he has apparently been distracted by cutting sugar cane and coping with problems and failures.

Not many cane-cutters can hold American attention for very long.

Its like water seeking its own level.

A New Style Of Leadership

By AUSTIN SCOTT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -"What do we want?" "Freedom! "When do we want it? Now! The ghant rose out of the boiling dust cloud raised by hundreds of marching feet on a back road in the South,

Hie time was 1965, and blacks were fighting segrega-tionn Bogalusa, La., in one of the few ways that they had mass marches behind big name civil rights leaders.

But now many of the famous names are gone, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Whitney M. Young Jr., to name just two. those still around from the earlier days. Like James Farmer who Jed so many of those marches in the South as head of the Congress of Racial Equality, no longer operate as they once did.

The marches have faded from the black scene. The years since Bogalusa, and Selma, and Birmingham, and Albany, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., and a hundred other marching campaigns, have brought new tactics, a new style of black leadership and a new kind of black leader using different kinds of weapons.

Some of the best-known , faces now are in fields that were closed to blacks six years ago.

Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes is symbolic of one of the most important reasons for the changing leadership style, the rise of the black politician.

Blacks who are willing to do the homework and learn the techniques will be able through politics to make just

incredible changes in the whole lifestyle of black people in this country, says Willie Brown Jr., a man very much a part of the new black pelitical stylf.

In a poll of national black leaders, Brown's name probably would not even be recognized by most blacks. Yet earlier this year he was voted one of the 10 most powerful movers and shakers of San Francisco.

As chairman of California's Assembly Ways and Means Committee, Brown has a good deal of control over what goes intoand comes out ofGov. Ronald Reagans budget, and he opposes some of the governors key programs. -

"What SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) did in rural Alabama, Mississii^i and Georgia was really leadership development, said Georgia Legislator Julian Bond. "Local leadership was '^no longer willing to accept dictates from national groups.

Now there are attempts to do on a national scale what Willie Brown, Mayor Charles Evers.of Fayette, Miss., Stokes, Bond, Alabama dentist Dr. John Gashin, who ran for governor against George C. Wallace, and hundreds of other black politicians have done on a local scale.

"We are going to set the tone for the black liberation strqggle in this country, said Rep. William Clay, D-Mo., the mining after he and 12 other black congressmen handed a list of 60 demands to President Nixon.

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AGRE AT AND GOOD .AGE There is probably no aspect of present world affairs which baffles us more than the fact that these affairs appear to be different from anything we ever knew before. How many people have personally come in contact with drug abuse? Did we or any of our forebears come in contact wifh student rebellion such as exists today:?,,. Think of conf^t going on in the world today (with our country definitely involved), and yet tjiefo Ijiys been no declaration of war as our federal Constitution provides must take place if we are to get out the guns, raise armies and start lunging at one atjotljer's throats. Did you say there is a war going on? Oh. dear, no. Were just sending men and military material to the ends of the earth and thinking we

can gloss the whole thing over by calling it a police action instead of a war.

There is a certain pattern of history which sMms to manifest itself thoughot the ages. The loss of forty thousand of our boys in the Korean War" and now an equal number in the Vietnam strugglethese tragedies seem to mean nothing to millions of people. They# shrug their shoulders and harids.'" their eyebrows and say: So ^hat."

This is a great age. and we Jtiould be deriving from it great and enduring satisfactions. And why are we not enjoying this wonderful age in which we live?

Let us thank God for this age and do a lot of praying that theUreator will put some sense into our heads.

By Earl L. Donblass

By ART BUCHWALD

The Land Of Paranoia

WASHINGTON - In the city of Manicdepressia, on the banks of the Schizophrenic River, live the rulers of the great country of Paranoia.

The rulers of Paranoia are constantly announcing a plot against the government by the citizens. The citizens are always announcing a plot by the government against the people.

Since these plots are passed on by the news media, the rulers suspect there is a plot by the media to destroy the government. This has made the news media suspect that there is a plot against them by the rulers.

The leaders of Paranoia believe that if the news media would stop poihting out what is wrong in the country, the problems would go away. The news media think unless they point out the faults of the government, things will get worse.

Skin tone means a lot to the people of Paranoia, and the light - skinned people inhabit the best houses, have the

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most money and live in deathly fear that the dark -skinned people will marry their daughters. The dark -skinned people live in deathly fear that the light - skinned people will kill them. Both the light - skinned people and the dark - skinned people are Slocking up on guns, as each is supicious that the other is plottinji against them.

The young people suspect jhat the older people and the leaders are going to get them killd in some senseless war.

Other Editors Say Damage Prevented

(Henderson Dispatch)

When first there was talk nearly two decades ago of cra-str^tion of a dami^on Roanoke river at Buggs Island, one of the ^ objective pereistently emphlisized was that of flood control in the big river. Public power was in the background but less was said of that. Moreover, flood control had a strong talking point in devastation that accompanied the great flood of 1940, which did millions of dollars damage downstream in the river, and mostly in Eastern North Carolina.

Not since that catastrophe has there been anything like it. But existence of the dam and its capacity to hold back a deluge from torrential rains has on several occasions demonstrated its value.

^kesmen for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have said that heavy rains in up-State Virginia some ten days ago would have caused an estimated damage of half a million dollars in the downstream basin for the river but for the capacity of Kerr dam in holding the water back. Now there is the prospect of still more high water following more recent rains. The level is said to be likely to go higher than in other recent days. But Eastern Carolina areas are assured that there is nothing to fear, and because of the great barrier across the river at Buggs Island.

The dam and the lake have accumulated all the water needed and have provided the means of containing excess flow. TTie recent high water level was n(^ quite as threatening as that of a decade or so ago. In neither,, instance was there more than minimum damage, and certainly nothing remotely to equal what thM-e would have been but for the dam.

Whatever may have been the (pinion fifteen to twenty years ago about public power, the fact is that as of now there is both flood control and plenty of power. So far as facilities at the dam are concerned, there is nothing to worry<^bout.

So the young people have taken to the streets to protect. This has made the older people suspect that the young people are plotting against them, and they have demanded that the rulers use force to see that the young people do nothing to change the system.

Many of the people in Paranoia believe that the large companies in the country are trying to destroy them by poisoning the air and the water. The large companies belive that there is a plot to prevent them from making the things the people want. The rulers are caught in between, because Paranoia's economy depends on the companies that are destix>ying the ^vironment.

The rulers have promised the people to clean up the air and water. At the same time they have promised to raise the gross national product and give people full employment. Since the people know its impossible to do both, they are very

There are not enough jobs in Paranoia, and therefore the people who are working suspect people on welfare of cleverly dodging work, and the people on welfare suspect the people who are working of keeping them off a payroll.

To make matters worse, the leaders of Parnoia believe that other countries are plotting against them, so they spend more than 30 percent of their budget for defense.

A great deal of this money goes for digging large holes in the ground for great big missiles, which everyone assures everyonse else will never be used.

very night before they go to sleep, the rulers of Paranoia look under their beds to see who is plotting against them. In the morning they check again. Even if they dont see anybody, they suspect the worst.

Because of this the citizens of Paranoia are always looking over their shoulders and wondering if their phones are tapped.

With everyone suspecting

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By LOUISE COOK

Aifoclatod Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Dear Department Store:

You do not owe me $18.55.

I know you think you do, but its all a computer error.

The trouble started six months ago with an order for five pair of stockingsto be charged and sent, please.

Three weeks after the (xrder date the stockings hadnt arrived and I spoke to your kind representatives in the hosiery department, the shipping department and the adjustments department.

They didnt know what had happened to the stockings jM* ther, but they rejected a suggestion that they simply pack up five more pair and ship them out again.

It seems theres a 10-day period during which the adjustments department adjusts to the idea that its lost and order and tries to track it down.

Right on schedule, 10 days later, you called me and reported that, yes indeed, the stockings had vanished. Youd send another order.

In the interim, however, a bill had arrived. You said: "Pay the bill and well credit you later.

I said: "Send me the stockings and Ill pay you later. Your representative and I agreed to maintain the status quo and a week later the new order of five pair of stockings arrived. So did the old order which, it seemed from the mailing labels, had bem misaddressed and traveled all over the five boroughs of New York before arriving at my homeless than 30 blocks from your main store.

Unwilling to try to unravel the confusion I decided to keep all 10 pair. They way theyre making stockings these days it wouldnt take long before the first ones,wore out.

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Today In History

ByGWYNCOGHILL June 2,1931 The chartering of a new bank at Greenville, the State Bank and Trust Company, was announced yestoxlay by the Commissioner of Banks. The new bank will take over the building that was occupied by the National Bank of Greenville.

Ashley Hathaway, 13-year-old Belvoir boy. killed a two foot rattle-snake today with a rubber slingshot.

Two carloads of hogs left Greenville today for northern markets, according to information given out this morning by E. F. Arnold, director of the Department of Agriculture. The shipment brought the seasons total to fourteen carloads which netted farmers in the neighborhood $13.000.

Miss Sallie Brooks has returned from Mars Hill where she has been a student at Mars Hill College.

J. J. Gilbert returned to Washington. D.C. today. Fred Owens spent the weekend in Elizabeth City.

J. C. Wyatt spent todav in Raleigh.

Cities See Special Functions

By ELMER ROESSNER The cities are taking a beating. Industries and wealthier families are fleeing to the suburbs and taking with them rich sources o&x money. The poor flock in for better welfare payments than they ^an get. say in Forked Springs. Ark.

But cities have facilities that cannot be duplicated in the suburbs, in small towns or in the foiling fields. It is only in the cities that a business can find quick access to

sp^ialized legal advice, to a %Hde ehb1lf w hotels and entertainment for customers, to highly skilled medical services. to highly specialized printing services and thousands of other facilities.

At the same time, itjs only in the cities that the sources of these services can fnd adequate numbers of customers. Where but in,^a city can big tidvertising

agency, for instance, find million-dollar clients or a giant corporate law firm find clients? Or an airline find travelers?

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dergoihg changes that approach life cycjes in scope, states David L. Birch, professor of the Harvard School of Business Administration. WTiting in th' MGIC Newsletter, a publication of the MGIC Investment Co. and other Morgan bank institutions.

These economic and deiDPgrai^ic life cycles start with a homogeneous mix of peoitte and "jobs. They grow

with annexation and immigration. Sooner or later, though, as their densities and problems rise, suburbs no. longer wish to be annexed and migrants no longer prefer to settle in the center." Prof. Birch wrote.

Then the center begins to serve more specilized functions. It houses the poor who are still stuck there and increasingly it houses the rich who cannot bear the pain of commuting."

In the future.-the professor cajg^ fxpect jificaht changes from past trends. The growth o4 the grat northern cities during the first half of the twentieth century will be replaced by growth in the smaller, younger, largely western and sourthem cities during the next 30 years."

Northern Service Cenleri The younger cities will eventually face the problems of the older cities, he wrote, and. "The large northen

cities should increasingly become elite service centers. Employment growth will take place in the services, which should barely offset declines in manufacturing and

retailing.

As the poor follow the manufacturing and trade jobs out. and as the rich find it more convenient to settle in luxury appartments. the northern cities should begin to get back on their feet financially. The tax bas# shquid improve, at least

'.'t-bfr-'''''-suburbs. and the tremendous welfare load of todays central cities should be more evenly distributed.

Absorbing tlye brnt of all this relocation in the large northern cities over the next 10 or 20 years ujll be the inner suburbs. They should experience agonizing problems of a sort they never dreamed of as recently as 1950 or I960."