4The Delly Beflector, GreeovlUe. N.C.'nHrtdey, January 20.1977

Promising Programs By Hunt

THANK YOU!

Gov. Hunt offered some promising programs in his State of the State address to the General Assembly Monday night.

He first offered his opposition to any new taxes. Our citizens are hard pressed already by Inflation and taxes, he said. I am opposed to any tax increases.

This doesnt rule out a spending program which moves the state ahead, however. Hunt promised to propose a program of cutting state expenditures without reducing services.

The governor asked for a $300 million bond issue to catch the state up on road building. The emphasis would be on east-west highways and the projects would boost economic development. It would be paid back from existing revenues. For us in a road starved area, that proposal seems extremely sound.

The governor would establish a single transportation board to oversee all transportation needs, including roads, airports, mass transportation. It should treat all counties fairly, he said.

Education was a prime U^lc with Gov. Hunt as he sou^t the office and he put emphasis on it in his address. He asked for $15 million to emphasize reading in the first grade, with the program to be fully implemented in four years. He proposed standardized tests for students to determine the progress they have made. And he would expect that by the Spring of 1979 every graduating high school senior would be required to pass a minimum reading and math test.

The governor saw the use of school facilities for other community activities.

THIS AFTERNOON

Hunt gave his support to programs to aid underprivileged children and the elderly. He plans a Division for the Aging within the Department of Human Resources.

The governor recognized the growing crime problem and requested time for a future message to the Legislature dealing with this problem

He called for a $150,000 fund to encourage volunteer participation by citizens of the state in service activities, noting that volunteer work in the : state is now valued at $2 billion annually.

And he supported a 6.5 percent pay increase for teachers and state workers, h<^fully more if the economy increases.

We see here the outlines of a solid program which could solve some of the state's most pressing problems. The roads are needed, and the bond funds could do much to alleviate the problems.

We will be getting down to the basics of what is wrong wdth education if we can produce students who can read and do acceptable math.

We need programs which will deliver services to our elderly, our underprivileged. We certainly need to solve the problem of crime, before it totally engulfs us. The teacher-state worker pay raise proposed is relatively modest, but it is a raise and it might be more if additional funds become available.

We are beginning to see the basic outlines of what Jim Hunt will attempt to accomplish in his four-year term. Hopefully in the next few months we will see the practical Implementation of the proposed programs.

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

It's Costly To Hire More Pottstown Band Legend

t Thi Q Inaiiffiiratinn Week never heen fnlind. And Uievll quarters. Be that aS it

By BELLNOBLnr

RALEIGH - THe North Carolina budgets for the coming pair of fiscal years now in the hands of the General Assembly graphically unveil a simple fact of life in paying for a labor-intensive operation such as state government. It will cost every Tar Heel man. woman, or child $53 each Just to pay or raises and new employees.

The budget calls for adding 7,689 pe(q}le to the state payroll by July 1,1978. And it calls for an average salary increase of 6.5 per cent for all employees and teachers beginning July 1,1977.

A close inspection of those two factors alone reveals major future shock to state economists and budget makers.

Big Dollars

The pay raise is for one year alone, leaving (^>en the question of salary hikes In the second fiscal year of the two-year budget period. That doesn't mean no pay raiseit means the politicians will wait until later to make their promises on that.

The cost of the one-year

LOOKING AHEAD

salary increase: $115 million in fiscal 1977-78.

Of course you don't give a salary hike one year, then drop it. So to continue the salary hike In effect, and cover the anticipated new state employees, in the second fiscal year will co^ $118 milliona total of $233 milli<Mi for the biennium.

TTien there is the base salary cost of adding on those 7,689 peclea total of more than ^million.

TTius, new people costs make up a large percentage of the state budget growth-topping $293 million over the next two years.

On July 1, 1975, North Carolina had 155,600 authorized alots for all state employees: public school and hi^er education personnel as well as all other state employees.

One year later (July 1. 1976) that figure had jumped to 162,600; an increase of 7,000.

In the proposed new budget, total state employment would be set at 167,000 on July 1, 1977 (up 4,400); and at 171,000 on July 1.1978 (up another 4,000).

A large share of the people ^owth is in education, with public school kindergarten being the major increase in the past two years; with the reading emphasis in lower grades adding a classroom side in each class from kindergarten through grade 3 being the major area in the coming two years.

For Readily

The reading program being pushed by Gov. James B. Hunt will add 5,401 teacher aides in reading. Cutting kindergarten class size from 28 to 26 wilt require another 308 teachers and aides.

Bus drivers and mechancis to eliminate standees and provide transportation for students newly eligible due to consolidations or district changes make up a block of 630 new employees.

Another Hunt program will take a lot of people: speedy trial legislation will require 94 new court officials14 judges, 14 clerks. 14 court recorders, and 28 district attorneys. Obviously there will be a major fight In the General Assembly which counties will be those new jobs.

And the Department of Corrections rounds out the major job increase area. Hunt's proposal to build modular prison units for quick relief in overcrowding would require 102 new officers and guards; increased security elsewhere would take another 300 new guards. There would be 95 new probation and paroles officers, and 44 youthful offender specialists.

Children In care of the Department of Human Resources come in for some major attention as well: there would be 161 specialists to look after emotionally disturbed children housed in adult mental hospitals; and 27 people to staff six developmental evaluation .centers.

Then there are a host of clerks, data processors, guards, boll weevil eradicators, water and air analysts, building maintenance, personnel, park development, orderlies, nurses, psychiatrists, tax expertsall in various areas to take care of growth in state business.

By RICHARDE. MEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -Jimmy Carter will promote his domestic programs with a two week national tour in March and will open a drive to reach a new strategic arms agreement by October, if be follows a plan that aides hope will give him the image of a can-do president.

In a pn!^}osed six-month White House agenda, the aides also have suggested: An economic State of the Union address to Congress week after next.

Meetinp next month in Washington with the president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada; sessions between Feb. 15 and March 5 with officials from

Israel and the Arab nations, and a meeting after April 1 with a representative of mainland China.

A speech to the United Nations the week of March 6.

Beginning a National Youth Opportunity Program to create jobs and ending the Office of Telecommunications Policy to eliminate waste and express commitment to a free and vigorous media.

The 29-page agenda, proposed by aides including pollster Pat Caddell, combines substantive and politicai appraisals of activities necessary in the first six months, and especially the first three months, when initial judgments will be made by the press, the public

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and Congress about the leadership of the Carter presidency.

It was not known how Carter has responded to the proposals, made in mid-or late December. But some recommendations already have been followed, and top Carter aides have said others will be.

Aides call the agenda a working paper," not a master plan; but sources say as far as they know it has nqt been superseded.

A copy of the agenda was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

It says Carter must play these roles in his first 200 days: The unifier, who heals past divisions; the shaker, who prods the entrenched bureaucracy: the leader, caring and compassionate about the American people: and the manager, energetic and effective in solving national problems.

It is suggested that effective leadership be demonstrated through a series of early legislative victories projecting the image of a can-do

president, the agenda says.

It adds; The new ad-minlstraticm cannot afford any major early legislative defeats. The word any" is underlined.

The agenda suggests that Carter announce a Vietnam veterans unemployment proposal ...prior to the pardon of draft evaders." It says the pn^x)sal mi^t be an employment-related initiative to be incorpwated in the economic stimulus package...

As part of the pardwi message, the President might then refer back to the Vietnam veterans pn^xisal, stating his deep personal feelings that those who served during the war deserve to be honored, the agenda says.

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Most of us can. as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison. John Lubbock.

Strength For Today

GREATNESS SHINES THROUGH Joseph Hayden was a musician who made a life of sorrow and humiliation contribute to the production of great masterpieces.

He was married to a woman who had no respect for his genius and so little appreciation of the value of good music that she sometimes tore up the scores of his immortal pieces to make curling papers. Hayden lived in a day when musicians occupied a low social status. For thirty years he conducted

rrince Esterhazys orchestra. All this time he wore the livery of a lackey and tocA his meals with the servants.

But Hayden had great rriigkHis faith. He believed that be bad a gift which he must use to perform a noble service. He constantly petitioned God ftM- inspiratkm in composing bis music

I^le trf purpose take hold of life as they find it and make its circumstances, hajqiy or unhappy, contribute to the living of a brave and effective life.

-by EUmia Douglass

This is Inauguration Week in our town. Old-timers tell tall tales of other Presidents, other parades. The loveliest such tale was spun eight years ago by John McKelway in the Wa^ington Star. It Is a true storyas true as any other tall taleand deserves to be told again, and again, and again, just as McKelway told it then.

Somewhere theyre mar-cliiag, marching; marcAfog

Throughout the distant land.

They missed the turn at Fl/teentb and Peon.

The Pottstown Piping Band.

The story goes 'round and round again every four years, when tales are told of old inaugurals, of balls and bands, top hats and teas.

No one has ever been too sure when it happened, under what administration, or what President, or what Cabinet. But old-timers tell of it with wet eyes late in the evening and some believe there must be something to it. For the Pottstown Piping Band has

never been found. And Uieyll never be forgotten.

Little is actually known. But. tis said, the leader was a distinguished-looking man with a bristling snowy white mustache who went by the name of Col. Jciui P. Me- , Sousa. He was known to have served in several wars and then, upon retirement, dabbled in Pennsylvania politics while deciding early one morning, over his kipper, to organize a pipe band.

After a time, and under the stem discipline of the colonel, the band of eight members exhibited a certain dash and wailing at city functions and began building a reputation throu^out the state but always in cities that held marches on straight main streets.

Of course the biggest honor eventually came an invitation to play in the Inaugural Parade. Col. McSousa graciously accepted and the band was on its way.

Tis said the band stayed at the Willard, although others say it was at the old Patent Office Building, in temporary

Carter Plans Are Readied

Public Forum

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To the editor:

I am saddened and repulsed by Monday's display of barbarism by our society. The execution of Gary Gilmore is a denial of the sanctity of human life by answering one murder for another. That sort of logic calls for the raping, maiming and mass murdering of people who commit those crimes. For instance, the person who places a bomb in a car and kills someone ^KXdd have the same thing done to him or her. I wonder if our blood-thirsty society is ready to go this far. Unfortunately, it seems that it is.

If there is one thing we learned-well, ^tould have learnedfrom the Vietnam War, it is that you cant let others make moral decisions for you. By executing Gilmore, we are once again abnegating our re^nsibility and taking the easy way out, saying its the law, as we once said in Vietnam that we were only following orders . When a country takes up killing pecle to maintain law and order (sadly enough, it has not been demonstrated that killing people accomplishes Uils) it creates an atmosphere where life is cheap and (^>ens the doors to fascism.

Now that we have gotten a taste Of blood, the next thrilling news is that there are some 30(k)dd people waiting to die on Death Rows around the country. Why. we could knock off one-person a day. almost, or perhaps one a month, in order to build up a really titUlating media blitz for each one-solely for the deterent value, of course. Of course.

Judith L.WU1S

quarters. Be that as it may, the colonel got his instructions from the Inaugural Committee for those times; he was to form down near the Bartholdt Fountain and follow a string bassoon band from New Mexico, all dressed in white.

There is always some factual fabric to legends and no one can ever forget, tis said, how the Pottstown Pipe Band moved off on a day that was snowy and late in the afternoon.

Once on the avenue, they broke out In The 74ths Farewell to Edinburgh. a tune McSousa had selected for that spiX on the march route, both sad and, yet, in a way joyous.

And as the snow came down in increasing numbers of flakes, the pipers appeared as ghostly figures on some distant motor piping a tune of death mingled with a sense of new beginnings. And while the crowd could not see them too well, they knew something was moving. Many cried in the snow and were treated, later, by the Red Cross, at a tent set up next to (jcneral Sherman, for iced eyeballs.

But the Pottstown Pipers moved on. iq> the avenue, with Col. McSoursas eyes directly on the back of the last man in the string bassoon band from New Mexico. What was on his mind was the difficult turn from Pennsylvania into 15th, and then from I5th, back into P^-sylvania. He had charted the course for the band, lectured at great length about the obvious difficulties, and. for the first time in his life, he was actually worried.

Passing the Willard they broke into The Duke of Rosbur^'s Farewell to the Blackmont Forest, a good, strfld tune, and made the turn well, and thi greater flakes began falling. The leader of the New Mexico aggregation, extremely uncomfortable at the timehis bassoon was freezingdecided to call the whole thing off and retreated as quietly as possible into a warm restaurant on P Street.

The gallant men of the Pottstown Pipers marched on, swinging Into "Bonnie Charlie, and by the time blindly approached Penn-

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Florida

Kite

Fly-Off

By JULES LOH

AP i^wctal Com^wodeot

LIDO BEACH. Fla. (AP) -The news wu unusually weighty and proloimd this week. Some people, however, in this great disorganized land, gave their attention to lighter matters.

Kites.

With airy disregard of the inauguration, the execution, the budget, the weather and all other cares of the momrat, a swarm of kite nuts, summoned hither by Will Yolen, the world champion flier of kites, arrived with chins ig>.

Iliey found a cobalt blue sky above a wdiitewashed beach beside the calm grera water of the Gulf of Mexico and were united in purpose.

Their aim was to decorate that gorgeous sky with kites. Success was rampant.

They flew kites of every shape and colw. Kites as big as small airplanes, as small as big butterflies. Kites cumbersome and shapeless, tethered by Kites as sleek and graceful as the pelicans gliding by in formation applauding the show with leisurely win^jeats. Hundreds of kites in the bri^t southern sky. A galaxy of kites. An exaltation of kites!

The di^lay persisted until dusk's first chill when lines were untangled and thirst set in.

The thii^ about kite flying is that it is no big deal. There are no stultifying rules, no bosses or referees. Just let fly, fed the tug, watch it soar.

Thus It was last Sunday despite the officlal-soundtng billing of the event; the Ninth Annual IntematkHu Kite Flyoff.

Yes, (me kite did bear a maple leaf design and a certified Canadian was found attached to it. but. in truth, the flyoff, whatevo* that is, was international'' purdy by dec-

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40 Years Ago Today

January 30, in?

President Franklin Roosevdt dedicated himadf anew at the start of his se-c<md administration today to removal of cancers of injustice that caused want in the midst of plenty.

In his inaugural address, ddivered beneath a storm-dartiened sky to thousands gathered cm t^ capital plaza, be pictured uncounted poor families living in disaster, and said;

We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's Interest and cimcem.

Progress in recovery is ob-vi(Ais, the President said, but the new order of things brou^t about since 1933 means more than that.

Restating bis philos<^y in broad terms and leaving his specific program to the future, be ^xdce of using new materials of social Justice to erect on the old fouitdations a more enduring structure ((m* the use of future gmera-tions.

Moments befc be made his address he had taken the presidential oath again from (^ief Justice Hughes. With justices from the Supreme Court among his listoiers, he ^wke of the Cimstitutlon, but said nothing of the courts.

This year, Mr. Roosevelt recalled, marked Uie 150th anniversary of that fundamental charter.

Barbara Mathews

Selling Municipal Band Funds

ByJOHNCUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - Like many items sold through the mail, most municipal bond funds can bcmestly promise no salesman will ever ring your doorbell. Many of them haven't got salesmen of the kind who ai^iear in person.

Instead, they receive orders from individuals acting on their own initiative, but motivated by advertisements and other promotions that rely heavily on the message that, like the ri(9i, you too can earn tax-free income.

Hie Interested pawn often responds by calling a tidl-free number or writing a letter, receiving in return a packet 0 infimnatk that Includes a prospectus, descriptive literature and an application

fiHin.

Almost certainly there also

will be included a chart comparing tax-exempt income and taxable income, beginning perhaps with the 31 per caA tax bracket, whi(9i allies to a sin^e return cm taxable income of 114,000.

In that bracket, a 5 per cent municipal bond a bond issued perhaps by a town or school district or a piftlic aidhority provides income equal to that of another bond yielding 7.25 pee cent on which a tax payment is required.

Mutual funds bought throu^ the mail or by telqibone are called no-load funds, meaning they are sold without payment of a sales charge. But there are load funds also, sirid by bnAers or a funds own sales staff.

A l!dg difference between the load and no-load funds is

the sales or commission charge, which may amount to 4.75 per cent cm orders of less than $25,0(XI. For a $10,000 order, therefore, a customer pays a one-time charge of $475.

' Upon learning this, many customers sudileniy become aware that in the first year their eaniings wmt be what the charter indicates, but instead will be the interest miiuis ctHnmlssbm. A pretax yield of 5.^ per cent would becomejusti percent.

Again, not all munifimds, as they are sometimes called, have sales charges, but all have annua] management fees, at present generally from fburtentfas of I per cent to slxtenths trf I per cent of a persons share value.

A fund that earns S.S per cent would be reduced by the amotfflt of that fee. in the

instance cited from S.7S per cent to 5.35 or 5.15 per cit. depending up<Mi whether the fee is four-^ths or six-tenths.

Still, the returns can be highly attractive for some Investm, e^lally those in the hii^r tax brackets. A couple In a 55 p cent bracket - $64.000476.000 -can earn the equivaloit of 11.11 per CMt on a net 5 per centjield.

Such well-off individuals can, however, purchase in-dividuaJ braids of their own choosing, and enough (rf them to obtain the security of divmlflcatlon. They may not need a mutual fund. Many of the ads tberefim are aimed at smaller Investm.

An Individual may open an account with $1,000 or evrai Coathwedoopaisl)