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Jackie Robinson Blazed A Trail

NOW WELL SEE HOW GOOD AN IDEA IT IS!

The death of Jackie Robinson is a sad occasion for the sports world and our ientire society.

After a Ixilliant athletic career, Robinson had aged prematurely. At the age of 53, he was silver haired and nearly blind and he died of a heart at-teck.

Complex Mix In Aspirations

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH. - Role stereotypes for women and men must be shattered before there is parity of career choice and employment opportunity.

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A complex mix of social attitudes, semantics, and institutional structure shapes what little girls and boys aspire to be, said Dr. Mary L. Ellis, director of the Technical Education Research Centers (TERC) of Washington.

To say that education by itself can surmount the p>roblem is a Polly anna attitude, she asserted. The home, school, church, and business all must begin to look at societal expectations for females and males.

The goal, though still in the future, is a society in which each person can find self identity and select an occupation without strictures b^ed solely on sex, she said.

A step towards that objective is a national seminar-workshop series on Women in the World of Work, conducted by TERC under sponsorship of the U.S. Office of Education.

Top-Level Gathering The second of the three regional meetings was held in Raleigh this week. Sixty-three participants from eight states represented a cross-section of top.level education, civic, business and industry leadership.

The roster included the chief education officer (all men) of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama.

We want to get to the policy-makers, the movers and shakers in education and business, explained Dr. Ellis, and involve them in a realistic examination of our values and attitudes about job functions for women. Recommendations from the three seminar-workshops will be pooled for a report which will attempt to blueprint a revamping of the system to broaden work horizons fro women. Evaluation of career

preparation for women takes its cue not only from the equal rights movement, but also from the rising strenth of woman power in the nations labor forces.

Two out of every five American workers are women, a total of some 31 million. During the 1970s, it is estimated that women will be entering the labor force at the rate of 500,000 per year.

In early 1970, Dr. Ellis noted. 42 per cent of all women 1,6 years old and over

were employed.

Occupation Choice Limited Yet, half of them held jobs in only 21 of the more than 250 distinct occupations reviewed. One-fourth of all working women are. in five occupations secretary-stenographer, elementary school teacher, bookkeeper, waitress, and household worker. Most of these. Dr. Ellis observed, are relatively low-paying and dead-end jobs.

In comparison, male workers were widely dispersed with 50 per cent in 65 occupations.

Subtle discouragement for women to push ahead with careers is embedded in language and custom. Dr. Ellis said. Ambition is admired in a man. but the aggressive female is avoided.

A husband calls his wife the little woman, but hed take it as insult if she called him a little man.

The thrust for feminine access to jobs traditionally reserved for males has gained ground, but overt or covert discrimination barriers remain. Dr. Ellis said.

An official for a major merchandising chain reported women never were considered for executive positions because they dont like to travel. Hed never asked, he admitted, but he just knew they didnt. Earnings Disparity Cited Disparity in earnings is a hard fact. The 1970 census said that a male with an eight-grade education earned an average of $7,140 a year, while a female of the same background earned only $3,970. The respective averages for high school graduates were $9,100 and $5,280, and for college graduates, $13,320 and $7,930.

Despite the handicaps, Dr. Ellis advised young women to set their sights where their aptitudes lie and buck the system to achieve goals.

Start early thinking about options, she recommended, and consider the whole field electronics, drafting and design, the professions, technical education. ^Not all need to go to coUege; 80 per cent of young people can benefit from vocational or career training, she said.

Mary Ellis grew up on an Oklahoma farm, roping in rodeos for spending money until her mother decided it wasnt ladylike. She went off to Oklahoma State on a home demonstration club scholarship and earned three degrees -gthe first woman in the country to receive a graduate degree in technical education.

Shes been first for her sex a lot of places since, matching capability and wits with men on equal footing. Has,it been worth the effort?

You bet, she responded. After all, she remarked, men are people, too, when you get to work with them.

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Robinson was the first Negro player in majw league baseball, joining the M Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, at Brandi Ridteys request. In this age when black athletes are excelling in so many sports, this hardly seems to be momentous. At that time, howevCT it was a situatiwi which was loaded with danger. Jackie Robinson faced much animosity as the first black in major league baseball. His superb skill soon won him his place in baseball. It was years, though, before he could attain the same place

outside the baseball stadium.

Robinsons acceptance into baseball was far more significant for the American social structure than it even appeared at that time. It was one of the first moves which gradually toppled segregation laws and customs that at that timfe kept Negroes out of restaurants and hotels and other public places.

Jackie Robinsons major accoinplishmOTte were in the sports field. His brave decision to join the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first Negro major league player had a social impact that will be remembered as long as our country stands. It was certainly one of the things which has changed our society in the past 25 years.

Confidential Sources Part Of A Free Press

Newspaperman Peter Bridge was released from jail after staying 21 days for refusing to an- -swer a grand jurys questions on a story which he prepared. ^

It shows us once again that something must be done to allow newsmen to protect their sources of information.

The founding fathers recognized the place of newspapers in our democratic Society and they guaranteed that place with the freedom of the press amendment.

Free press is not going to mean much, however, if newsmen cannot cultivate confidential sdurces.

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By JOHN KILGO RALEIGH Alex Brock, the executive secretary of the North Carolina Board of Elections, tells us that about 1.7 million Tar Heels will go to the polls and cast ballots on Nov. 7.

And the counting of those votes is going to be a long and tedious process, probably more so than usual because of the large number of absentee ballots that have been requested.

Brock says its a little early to estimate the voter turnout but he added: At this time Id estimate the vote to be 1.7 million, hopefully a little better.

Some of the election officials in the states larger counties feel the large number of absentee ballots will delay the counting process of the returns until sometime the next morning.

There will be a record number of absentee ballots cast in North Carolina this years.

It is true that we have more absentee ballots out than ever before, Brock told us, but I cant perceive of any precinct in the state having so many that it would hold up the vote count for very long.

Brock also adds that absentee ballots are not usually cast in a quantity large enough to make a difference in a race, unless that race is very, very close. William Culp, the secretary of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Elections, says his office has more than 5,000 absentee ballots out and that number will probably go to 6,000 before the deadline.

Its, going to present a problem for us having to count those ballots, (Xilp told us. Itll probably delay the vote count in Mecklenburg by an hour or more. The law on counting absentee ballots is very strict. The ballot must be taken to the persons home precinct and kept under lock and key until the polls shut for the day.

At that time, the absentee ballots are counted by hand before the count begins on the regular vote. Everyone who votes by absentee will have his or her name listed on a board at the precinct so |)eople will know they voted absentee.

The biggest reason for the increase in absentee ballots, of course, is the right for 18-year-olds to vote. . . and many of these will be voting absentee from their college campuses.

Taking everything into consideration, Brock says, we dont forsee any major problems. This is a long ballot but weve had long ballots in this state before and managed okay.

Brock points out that the ballot during the spring primary was exceptionally long and fairly complicated.

The voting process and the counting process should be easier than during the primary, Brock said, and we didnt have major problems during the primary.

Brock expects the youth vote to make itself known in this election be he adds: Its not reasonable to expect that young people will vote as a group in higher (Continued on page .5)

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Strength For Today

THE BEST IS YET TO BE

Sports - writers often draw the picture of a worn-out old athlete. Perhaps he was prize fighter. Maybe he was a college football captain, or a great runner, a baseball player, or a tennis champion. But the time came when evil days seemed to fall upon him It was more than the slowing down which comes with passing years. Something inside the man himself let up or perhaps we should say let down. Anyway, the chap was left with nothing but memories. He liked to buttonhole people and tell thern what a great guy he used to be. There is always something wistful in the gathering twilight of such a life. When all the glories we have lie in the past, we are in a bad way indeed. The present has little

If the only true purpose of a federal tax credit plan is to preserve the Catholic parochial schools, we may as well forget the proposal here and now. The plan won approval from the House Ways and Means Committee on October 3, but in the rush to adjournment the bill died on the cutting-room floor.

As a general proposition, courts will not look at the motive of a legislative body in passing a particular bill. But in the case of the several proposals for tuition grants and nonsectarian subsidies, the courts have plunged straight to the religious issue. The Constitution says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establish

ment of religion, and a great wall of separation has been erected on that word respecting.

That wall, in all its essential characteristics, has to be preserved. The Constitution commands it; tradition supports it; the people overwhelmingly attest their conviction on this score. Our nation is badly enough divided on the politics of race; we cannot afford the further dissension that would flow from the politics of religion.

There is this also to be said on the matter of saving the Catholic schools: Money alone is not the problem. If the parochial schools could be kept alive and healthy simply

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To the editor:

We are writing in regard to the suggestion made by Chip Lambeth in his Oct. 8 article, Green Central Skins Panthers 30-8 He opens his article by suggesting that The Impossible Dream rather than the National Anthem would be more suitably played before North Pitts athletic events. Although we doubt the sincerity of his suggestion, we have found it worth considering.

Two years ago amid dust, mud, and workmen, the doors 0 North FMtt opened to over one thousand students with fierce, long-standing loyalities to four separate schools. Most challenging of obstacles was the county-wide belief that it would not work. The success of the past two years has discredited that belief.

Honors and achievements have been abundant at North Pitt.

In our student body we have had two N.C. Governors School students the Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Governors Youth Advisory Board a member of the N.C. Department of Public Instructions Task Force three first place winners in district track competition a first place winner in the Pitt County typing contest, a National winner of the Westinghhouse Science Talent Search a National Merit Scholar a National Merit Semifinalist and of course, the State Girls Basketball Champions.

We are not making excuses for any losses that we have suffered; however, throughout the year, we have 200 students involved in athletic programs which not only keep them off the streets but also help them to better themsleves both physically and mentally. These studenjs are learning to be winners and to continue to strive no matter how hopeless... it may seem.

We at North Pitt have never considered winning an impossible dream; rather we prefer Grantland Rices viewpoint: When that one Great Scorer comes to write against your name He writes not if you won or lost but how you played the game.'

Vickie Everette and other member of the North Pitt Journalism Class

Things

By HAL BOYLE new YORK (AP) All summer long there are more things to do than there is time

to (to them.

But in winter its the other way. Winter is to a grownup what a rainy day is to a child. ie hangs heavy on his

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by the injection of money, the Roman church itself has money in abundance. The problems are far more complex. Parochial schools have been closing in recent years at the rate of one a day for a variety of reasons unrelated to the operating budgets.

Suppose, for a moment, that we put aside all First Amendment questions, Can a valid public purpose be found to support the tax credit plan? I believe the answer is, yes. Wholly apart from its indirect benefit to Catholic education, the plan has merit on two counts one pregmatic, the other philosophical.

Under the bill approved earlier this month, a credit would be granted against federal income taxes for half of the tuition paid by parents for the education of their children in non-public schools. The bill provides a limit of $200 per child, but the credit would diminish as family income rises. The program would affect some 5.1 million children.

If those 5.1 million children abruptly were transferred to public schools, local taxpayers would groan at the additional burden. Whatever else they may do, the private and parochial schools take a significant load off the public school systems.

The philosophical argument seems to me stronger. One of the great strengths of a free society lies in its diversity. Unlike the Soviet Union, we are not locked into a system of state monopoly not so far. Within cor^itutional limits, we ought to promote diversity, competition, and variety; and this general truth applies with special force, it seems to me, in the matter of the education of our children.

What are the constitutional limits? On October 2, a three-judge federal court in New York handed down an excellent opinion defining the issues in terms of a state law adopted early this year. By a 2-1 vote, the court upheld the tax credit plan. Said District

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All this really indicates is a lack of imagination and responsibility. There are dozens of tasks and adventures to embark upon if you just think.

How about finally doing some of those odd chores and quaint deeds youve been mulling over for years?

You might

Walk barefoot across a bed of

hot coals.

Paper your den with World War I Russian bonds.

Become a pen pal of Raquel

Welch.

Spend a night in a haunted house.

Join a Polar Bear Club.

Break the bank at Monte Carlo with loaded dice.

Vaccinate a bigot with a shot of tolerance.

Comer the breaded veal cutlet market.

Rack your brains.

Get stiff with an embalmer. Grow a lemon tree in your fireplace. Adopt a baby giraffe and raise it in your basement.

Count the number of different kinds of items your favorite supermarket stocks.

Make your own television commercials and show them during program breaks.

There now. That should give you enough things to ke^ you occupied all winter. If it doesnt, mail me the cover of an old copy of Colliers magazine and a boxtopany boxtop will doand Ill send you a longer list.

Forty Years Ago Today

By GWYN COGHILL October 26,1932 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic^ nominee for President, returned from his Southern campaign tour today and announced that he would not be able to attend a rally for him in New York tomorrow night given by the screen and stage division of the Democratic National Committee.

The curb market sales passed the $7,(K)0 mark last week. Total sales to date is $7,074.21. The market is open each Tueasday,*Thursday and Saturday morning offering to the buying public of Greenville a large variety of late fall vegetables.

Opinion

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the eement of all societies. John Dryden. ..

significance. The future has little hope.

But why should it be this way? Certainly not because God intends it so to be. For we can say with great confidence that He does not so intend it. We are meant to grow, not to stand still. We are meant to advance, not to retreat. Life is supposed to go on until it gets somewhere, God has provided all eternity for our fulfillment. When we stop before we get started, when we spend our days thinking about a career that was and is not now then we are sick, we are unhappy, we are completely un(Jone.

It is good to look back on life. It is better to look out on life better still to look forward to life. If we want to, we can face the future with courage because God had made us not for defeat but for victory.

By Earl Douglass

Securities Salesmen Sell Hope

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) Since hope is the product sold by securities salesmen, there is seldom an absence of optimism on Wall Street or its equivalents in other financial ceSters.

Seldom has it been expressed with more spirit than by James Fullerton of the mutual fund industry, which has been beset by the compound woes of lagging sales,. rising redemptions, poor performance, public criticism of charges, etc. ^ The list is long, but it was shrugged off by Fullerton ata fund conference here this week. Fullerton, who heads the Capital Group of funds, gave this r^rt;

Despite all the bad press that the mutual fund industry

has received, and the gloomy statistics one reads about in the paper, and the evn gloomier interpretation of those statistics, the mutual fund industry is currently faced with a magnificent and unique opportunity.

If sales are drooping, spirits apprently arent. Our industry is in an extraordinary position, Fullerton continued. We .have a product that fills an almost universal need and fills it at economic cost to the purchaser

He summarized: Far

from being in a state of decline, mutual funds are in a n condition where they have just siphoned off the surface oil V

' His rem'arks were made as the industry announced plans to enlarge its institutional

advertising budget from $400,000 a year to about $1 million to $1.5 million a year.

Robert H. Parks, the chief economist at Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co., not only produces some of the most detailed and reasoned economic perspectives that emanate from Wall Street, buj he speaks clearly and often with literary verve.

One of his recent analyses ' is bound to give hope to the faint of heart.

Assuming a more peaceful world and hettehib. stabilization policies by government, said Parks, the chances are that the present expansion may turn out to be one of the most vigorous and one of the longest in U.S. history.

Parks went on to em

phasize his conviction in firm words.

The forward economic momentum of the United States is so strong, so clear and incontrovertible that the Atlantic Seaboard would have to fall into the Atlantic (Xean in order to dampen the pace of economic recovery." he said.

The economic momentum shows up. he said, in the leading indicators, in rising purchasing power, in a quickening of consumer buying plans, in the financial coqimitments of institutions, in the expansionary policies of government.

He concludes: Reality suggests that the present economic recovery may turn out to be one of the longest and one of the most vigorous in U.S. history."