4The DUy Reflector, Greeaville. N.C.Mondey, September 1. If75

Municipal Election Deadlines

Municipal flections are comings up in Pitt County Towns during October and November.

Citizens of these municipalities should be aware of some important deadlines, however.

In Greenville and Farmville those who want to seek office as mayor, or on tllfe governing board miet file by FYiday. Thus the slate of candidates in these two cities will be set by the time this week is out.

In addition citizens who are registering to vote for the first time should bear in mind that they must get their names on the books by 5 p.m. on Sept. 8 next Monday. R^istration is done in Greenville at the Pitt Elections office at Cotanche and Second Streets or with registrars in Ayden, Bethel, Falkland, Farmville, Fountain, Grifton, Grimesland and Winterville. New voters who roister for the municipal elections will be eligible for all future elections.

In Greenville voters will go to their regular precinct polling places on election day, but voters in the old precincts of 2 and 8 should keep in mind that the precincts have been merged and now vote at the Willis building located at Reade Qrcle and First Street.

THIS AFTERNOON

Both Greenville and Farmville will hold their non-partisan municipal elections on Oct. 7. If a second primary is necessary it will be held on NoV. 4.

Pitt Countys other eight municipalities will all hold non-partisan elections on Nov. 4 with no provision for a run-off election.

The non-partisan aspect of the municipal election refers to the fact that candidates do not file according to party affiliation. Potential candidates in municipalities other than Greenville and Farmville have until noon Oct. 3 to file. New voters have until 5 p.m. Oct. 6 to register in.order to be eligible to vote in the upcoming elections.

Both potential candidates and new voters should keep the various deadlines in mind. It is importent that all elections have the fullest participation possible. That means we need qualified candidates seeking the office and we ne^ every citizen who is qualified to vote eligible to cast a ballot on election day. Hiose who dont register dont vote, and thus they do not participate in the process of choosing the leaders who will determine their future.

Driver Ed In Classroom?

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGHAge 16 is of prirnf importance to most kids: thats when the driving license and accompanying freedom of movement and place at the wheel of a status symbol occur.

" Playing on that motivation to achieve, North Carolina educators are working on a program to introduce driver training techniques into the regular classroom.

The benefits would be mutual, educators feel: the highly motivated student anxious for his license would study ^harder and learn better; the future driver would be a safer one because of a wider understanding of safety factors, the role of attitudes on the driver, and the laws of speed and motion which control a car underway.

The approach now under study involves incorporating safety education in the regular English, science, social studies, mathematics, economics and other subjects in grades 10 through 12.

The INSIDE REPORT

Pilot Project

A pilot project costing $50,000 (half from the federal Department of Transportation, half from the state Governors Highway Safety Program) will be carried out in schools of the Southern Piedmont Education Consortium. That organization includes Cabarrus, Rowan, Stanly, and. Union County School Districts, and the city

systems of Albemarle, Concord, Kannapolis, Monroe, and Salisbury within those counties.

Thirty driver education teachers from those districts will take part in the program, and each will be expected to involve at least three additional teachers of

classroom studies in

developing study materials for young drivers.

The Safety and Driver Education Center . at

Greensboros A&T State University will direct the project.

The object is to add to the vast pool of knowledge

needed by young drivers in making better and safer traffic decisions.

Norman E. Leafe, director of health, safety, and physical education for the State Department of Public Instruction says use of regular classroom work to help make better drivers is something which can be done in almost any settingeven physical education classes for junior high schoolers or elementary students.

That is one of the side benefits of having the children run about a gymnasium in a circular pattern without bumping into a classmatethey can begin to see the rapidly changing patterns of traffic.

Rapid Change

And when youre on the rojkl, everything is changing constantly and you must constantly be alert, Leafe explains.

The pilot project goes far beyond that, with the idea of using safety as the theme for written reports in English classes, the study of motion and mass in physics.

discussions of motivations for safe driving and understanding attitudes which make bad drivers in social studies classes.

Part of the project will include funds to follow up on students participating in the special program for a period of three years, to compare their driving records with those of students elsewhere in the state.

School officials think the results may prove important both in North Carolina and nationally.

As the project summary puts it: Driver education needs to provide pupils with wider and deeper educational experiences that are at-titudinally oriented. . .a new dimension of relevance may emerge. . .important in helping pupils transfer the products of their school learning experiences into their life styles.

Future plans are to expand the new approach to other sections of the state if it is successful in the pilot program.

Turkey's Uncertain Future

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK ANKARATwo weeks ago, windows of an American " bank in Istanbul were broken by students demonstrating against the congressional ! j embargo on U.S. weapons, including spare parts, for Turkey.

At about the same time, an , American flag was burned in front of an American embassy building.

Last week, when Ambassador William Butts Macomber made a three-day tour to buck up Americans stationed on now-inactive U.S. bases (flying only the Turkish flag today), the Turkish government doubled normal security. The reason: rising fear that anti-American sentiment aroused by the arms embargo (a result of Turkeys invasion of Cyprus) might endanger the ambassadors party. In fact, it did not.

Skeptics wonder whether all this is not simply Turkish mood music to dramatize the crisis in U.S.-Turkish relations and influence the embargO/^epeal vote to be taken next month in

Washington. But there is no evidence to support such Machiavellian suspicions.

To the contrary, the highest officials in the government, joined by responsible opposition leaders, seem unanimous in wanting to minimize the long-range impact of what Turkey regards as a humiliating and discriminating injury.

A symbol of this perceived injury was the highly-publicized trip of Democratic Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri to Athens last week. Eagleton, a minor hero in Greece as Senate leader of the pro-embargo forces, did not fit Ankara into his schedule. It was an omission that the Turks regard as typical of the rising, often contemptuous congressional power over U.S. foreign policy.

Indeed, the shortest chat with Turkish lei^ers invariably and quicklK turns to the growing ambivalence of American policy as seen here.

If the Soviet Union attacked us, an influential legislator who is one of this .countrys leading

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Eurppieanists told us, your President would order retaliation. But within 48 hours, your Congress would veto the President.

That crystalizes the American problem here: credibility of policy deriving from a government torn by assassination, political scandal and divided powers. Now capped by the stark conflict between the anti-embargo President and the pro-embargo Congress, this has left the Turks not only bewildered but actually willing to discuss a highly improbable new source of arms: the Soviet Union.

The issue of the moment is air power. With its NATO ally Greece, not the Soviet Union, its main adversary, the government worries that denial of spare parts could give Greece air-power equality within two months. Greece now has some 39 F-4 Phantoms and has received the first three of some 60 attack bombers from the U.S. Turkey has 16 Phantoms, of ' which only six are operationalbecause of the lack of spare parts.

Overall, Turkey has more fighter aircraft than Greece, but according to informed officials here, the gap is fast closing.

What worries Turkey is not that if Greece achieves air equality or superiority it will attack, but rather Turkeys responsibility to assure its safety at the level it sees fit. That cannot be fulfilled from

the West today.

It is hard to take seriously the oblique references to Moscow by Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel and other top Turksincluding the politically-powerful military. Turkey and Czarist-Communist Russia have warred a dozen times, breeding Slavic-Anatolian hatred centuries old.

Even with detente enshrined, with the North Atlantic Alliance eroded from Portugal to Greece and with repeated inconsistencies in U.S. policy, a Turkish turn to Moscow appears preposterous.

Yet, deputy prime minister Necmettin Erbakan, leader of the Moslem-Nationalist Salvation party, told us, The worlds major mistakes are mistakes in judgment. Your Congress thinks we are tied to the U.S. That is a judgment and it might be a grave mistake. #

From Demirel on down. We heard no criticism of Moscow. Soviet restraint in steering clear of Turkeys problems with the U.S. was widely noted. So were new commercial agreements with Moscow, under which the, Russians are helping to quadruple the size of the Soviet-built steel mill and triple an aluminum plant.

When we asked Demirel whether Turkey would consider buying weapons from Moscow, he said there may be other places, but

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Strength For Today

THE GOLDEN RULE Tlie Ciolden RuleDo unto others ps you would have them do unto youteaches that we should put ourselves in the place of others. It is the principle underlying the Biblical injunction, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

If we will but put ourselves in the place of others and feel anothers pain, we will do something about it, and that something we do will be what we would like to have someone do for us, if we were in a like predicament. If we can take the anxiety of a brother into our hearts, it will

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bestir us as nothing else will to remove that anxiety. Every hospital that was ever built and endowed was created because some individual or a group of individuals put themselves in the place of sick and suffering humanity and did something alx)Ut it.

We never follow Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the term until we put ourselves in the place of others and with earnestness and sacrifice begin to do something to meet their needs.

By Elisha Douglass

Gosh! They really know how lo make you feel at home here/*

By ART BUCHWALD

Why Fathers Go Broke

(Mr. Buchwald has taken a short respite without our permission. He left behind what he claims is one of his favorite columns.)

WASHINGTON^We have nothing against toy companies. They have a right to live just like everybody else. In their own way they bring happiness to the hearts of our young ones, and they give employment to thousands of people all over the country. It is only when they try to bankrupt us that we feel we should speak out. If our situation is duplicated around the country, every father who has a daughter between the ages of 4 and 12 is going to have to apply for relief.

This is what happened.

Our 7-year-old daughter

requested, four months ago, a Barbie doll. Now, as far as were concerned, one doll is just like another, and since the Barbie doll cost only $3 we were happy to oblige.

We brought the doll home and thought nothing more of it until a week later our daughter came in said, Barbie needs a negligee. So does your mother, we replied.

But there is one in the catalogue for only $3, she cried.

What catalogue?

The one that came with the doll.

We grabbed the catalogue and much to our horror discovered what the sellers of Barbie were up to. They let you have the doll for $3, but you have to buy clothes for

Other Editors Say This We Don't Need

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

TheBalanced Growth and Economic Planning Act of 1975 is a piece of legislation which, if enacted, would sound the death knell of economic freedom in this country. Anytime you face bureaucratic planning in the economic sector, yoir face trouble The bill was introduced by liberal Sens. Hubert Humphrey and Jacob Javits. Among other things, the bill provides for equitable distribution of income Thats what th^ocialists have been after for years: take all the wealth and^vide it . equally. The idea being that its the only fair way to do things, that those who have through work and ingenuity accpiired worldly goods are somehow committing a crime, and must pay for it by sharing their goods with those who wont work.

Ih an effort to forestall the torrent of criticism certain to be directed at this bureaucratic nightmare, Javits has soothingly assured us that there would be no coercion involved under such a system. Hogwash. If the proposal is enacted into law by Congress it carries coercion by its very nature.

Javits claims that the assumption that planning will dictate economic activity and supplant the free market is highly erroneous.

Nevertheless, at a time when government disposes of approximately 40 per cent of the national income, and is steadily increasing its control over the economy, such airy pronouncements are anything but reassuring.

Historically, the inevitable result of planning has been the loss of freedom, as perceptive individuals have long understood The object lessons of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany ahd Communist Russia have long been lost on American adv(x:ates of {danning. It has been said that our own creepers toward socialism often dont even know where they are creeping.

But then again, they just might knowexactly where they are going. And wherever that is, it bodes no good for the American peale

her at an average of $3 a crack. They have about 200 outfits, from iceskating skirts to mink jackets, and a girls status in the community is based on how many Barbie clothes she has for her doll.

The first time we took our daughter to the store we spent $3 on a dress for her and $25 to outfit her Barbie doll.

A week later our daughter came in and said, Barbie wants to be an airline stewardess.

So let her be an airline stewardess, we said.

She needs a uniform. Its only $3.50.

We gave her $3.50.

Barbie didnt stay a stewardess long. She decided she wanted to be a nurse ($3), then a singer in a nightclub ($3), then a professional dancer ($3).

One day our daughter walked in and said, Barbies lonely.

Let her join a sorority, we said.

She wants Ken.

Who is Ken?

She showed us the catalogue. Sure enough, there was a doll named Ken, the same size as Barbie, with crew-cut hair, a vinyl plastic chest and movable arms and legs.

If you dont get Ken, our daughter cried, Barbie will grow up to be an old maid. So we went out and bought Ken ($3.50). Ken needed a tuxedo ($5), a raincoat ($2.50), a terry-cloth robe and an electric razor ($2), tennis togs ($3), pajamas ($1.50) and several single-breasted suits ($27).

Pretty soon we had put up $400 to protect our original $3 investment.

Then one evening our daughter came in with a shocker Barbie and Ken are getting married.

Whos paying for the wedding?

Theyll need a house to live in. Heres Barbies Dream House.

Seven ninety-five? we shouted. Why cant they live on a shelf like the rest of your dolls?

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n Writer Of The Laws

By ROBERT B. CULLEN Associated Press Writer RALEIGH (AP) The doldrums of late summer hit state employes as much or more than normal folks. More often than usual, the typical bureaucrat is out to lunch, in a meeting, or has just stepped away from his desk.

But Milton Heath was behind his desk as usual late one afternoon last week. That was not surprising,! because Heath is one state employe who gives the taxpayers their moneys worth, and then soma

Heath, 47, who has worked for the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill since 1967. He is not the type of person to call attention to himself, but those who wcx-k with him use phrases like mature judgment available when we need him ... instrumental when they talk about him. They mean it sincerely.

He is a lawyer, and a smart one He went to Harvard as an undergraduate and to Columbia Universitys law school. He worked for a time in the office of New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, but eventualTy decided to head back to the good life in his native Chapel Hill.

What Milton Heath does is write laws. They are not your common, pedestrian laws. They are the hard ones.

Every year when the legislature meets, the leadership takes stock of what is coming up and determines what area is likely to produce the most important and complicated legislation. Then they assign Heath to work on it In the past few years, North Carolinas statute books have been improved by numerous examples of his handiwoilc. The coastal zoning act of 1973, the utilities laws passed this year and a host of others are his legacy.

Heath, by nature, is quick to disclaim any credit Most (rf what I work with is legislators ideas. Sometimes they come from the Administration or from b imiversity source. Bills are most successful when they embody a legislators idea. What hai^ns is that a legislative committee chairman will turn to Heath and say, We want a bill that does such and such.

Heath always nods pleasantly. The next morning, the bill is ready. Quite frequently. Heath winds up exdaining to a sponsor what his bill means.

Sometimes, he sees a piece of work hacked apart on the floor. It frustrates everybody to see something chopped apart If youre got as much business to worry about as I do, you dont have much time to think about it Heath has seen some interesting things during his years in government A few years ago, he watched two burly legislators stand up, square off, and nearly come to blows in an argument over a major bill

But in his understated style, he wont mention their names for fear of em-barassing them.

When the legislature is over. Heath goes back to Chapel Hill, subject to recall by state officials who need his counsel. He works on projects like the water resources study he was making last week. He teaches a course in environmental law.

Few people would notice that the smiling, nondescript man in the slacks and (Continued on page 5)

Boosting The Metrics Switch

ByJIM ADAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. conversion to the metric system, authorized by Congress in 1866, is expected to get a boost soon from a government committee > created to coordinate the switch from pounds to grams.

The House is to take up this month a voluntary metric conversion bill that was snarled last year in c<m-troversy over whether federal payments should be made to workers to rei^ace tools. Passage through both chambers is considered certain this year.

Hie bill would create a 21-member board to coin-dinate voluntary conversi(xi of U.S.

industry and, therefore the public, to the metric system. The board also will be authorized to make recommendations later on such matters as whether federal payments should be made for tool replacements.

A House Science Committee report on the bill says the choice before the Congress is not whether we should move to the metric system. That conversion is underway.

The choice is between continuing the conversion process in an entirely uncoordinated fashion, as is the case now, or going forward with the conversion process on a coordinated basis.

It says the U.S. drug in

dustry and medical profession already are using the metric system and major American automobile companies plan to be on the metric system within the next few years.

Further, all 50 states are committed to teaching the nietric system, and the school systems of a number of states have aniH>unced that textbooks will be changed entirely to the metric system by 1976, the committee said

Basically, the 21-member United States Metric Board will coordinate metric conversion plans to be developed by every industry in the country and by other groups such as state and local governments.

The board also would be di rected to conduct a progran of public education teaching youngsters in schoo how to use the system an( teaching adults througl television, newspapers an< magazines. Finally, th< board wcHild recommend h the President and Congresi any legislation needed U move the country to the new way of measuring.

An authorization passed bj Congress July 28, 1866, mack the metric system legal bul not mandatory in the United States. Congress has considered going to the metric system many times since then but international trade with other countries using the metric system now has given the effort new impetus.

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