Wednesday, August 11, 1965

Bowl Gome Is Helpful To Many

Three years when the North ('arolina

Jaycees undertook sponsorship of the first Boys Home Bowl Game in Greenville there were those -wBtrseriously t|uestiotTeit die vx isdom of the venture.

On the eve of the third annual staging of the game to be played in Ficklen Stadium Friday nigth, it is amply evident that the howl games have been successful and have brought a great many benefits to a great many people.

Staged for the benefit of the Boys Home at I.ake Wact amaw, the first two games produced some ^40.-000 in proceeds to be used for the benefit of the Hoys Home.

Come Friday night, some 150 football players from large and smali high schools across the state will have been giyen an opportunity to display their athletic ability in the post-scason games. For some

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For Greenville and for East Carolina College, the game has attracted several thousand visitor^ from across the state who otherwise might not have visited the city of the local campus. The game itseb has produced top-quality high school football foi many thousands of sports enthusiasts.

From every standpoint the Boys Home Bowl Game has been successful, and the third annual game Friday night promise.s to be the most succe.ss-lul in the series. With each year it has grown in prestige, in the number of spec^tors it has attracted, ami in the financial assistance it has provided for a most worthy cause. *

Greenville is fortunate to have such an event .staged here, and it should lend every possible assistance to assure continuation of the Boys Home Bowl game as one of North Carolinas outstanding, high school athletic events.

ContinuinQ' Ris6 Experiment In Safety

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES TOLL Day after day, night after night the ghastly toll of timfflc accidents continues to climb across North Carolina.

A poiiltry truck pulls out of a Ihie of traffic cm a busy two-lane U.S. highway near Ra-Irtgh and slams into an oncoming car. A 2! year old youth driving the car is killed. Two cars came racing at high speed an estimated 90 miles per hour down a road in a mountain valley. A motorcyclist approaching them swerves to get out of their path. One car attempts to pass the other, brushes it and both vehicles plunge wildly off the road. Three persona are killed.

A vacationing mother and her teen - age daughter, neither wearing seat belts, are thrown from their car and killed when another car rams the rear of their vehicle near a coastal re.sort.

These tragedies along with others are contained In the dally reports of atat highway patrolmen, sent to Raleigh to be studied grimly by alarmed state officials.

Investigaloi s can

tor which find.

Bad weather was not a factor during the first weekend in August. The fatal accidents occurred in both daylight and

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On the ba.sis of only one week-end it is difficult to Hs.se.sa the effectivenevs of a special effort by the dark, and w various types of State Highway Patrol to reduce traffic accidents,

o'- North Carolinas highways. On the surface, at least, there are signs that the effort last week-end was a step in the right direction. At least 19 people died in traffic accidents in the state during the 54-hour period last week-end. By compari.son with th correspending week-end of last year when some'37 persons lost their lives in traffic accidents, the experiment may be termed successful.

It must be recognized, however, that many factors other than efforts by law enforcement officers influence the number of traffic accidents in any short period of time. Officials are now in the proces.s of evaluating the concentrated effort in which every available patrolman was put on the road during the test period.

From the evaluation may come new ideas that North Carolina can utilize in making its people more safety conscious. We trust that will be the case. In the final analysis the .states traffic safety record is going to depend more on the efforts of individual drivers to reduce accidents than on the action by officials or officers assigned to patrol the highways, f

VILLIAM

SHIKES

REPORTS They are re* 5cni reporta, aR within a week -- and mct of them lor the first full weekend in August during which such accidents claimed at least 19 livea in Korth Carolina.

They come from every comer of the state. On the main street of a Piedmont city, a pickup truck swerves across a median and coUlded with an oncoming car. Two 15 year old youths and the mother of one of the youths are injured fatally.

A car pulls out to pass another on a tmsy .S. highway bypass of an East e r n North Carolina city and dashes Into an oncoming car. Two people are killed.

In western North Carolina, a 22 year old man is killed when his car goes off a highway and overturns, A 24 year old man is killed when his car runs off the left side of a mountain road and over an embankment

A man walking down a rural road In the Piedmont on a Saturday night is struck down by a driver who failed to see the pedestrian and is dead on arrival at a hospital.

PATTERN - There is no really clear - cut pattern, nor any single common denomina-

dents but not all. It will take time to determine the extent of blame for faulty equipment. Driver error may be the most prevalent factor Involved, and it is the one most difficult to determine and to prevent or correct beforehand.

Nevertheless, finding ways of making the highways safer for all who use them is a continuing prime concern of state officials the governor, the N. C. Traffic Safety Council, officers of the Highway Patrol and others.

EFFORTS ~ Awareness of the problem and efforts to do something to redufee the traffic toll are not new. However there are a couple of new developments.

Gov. Dan K. Moore has asked for a sweeping study by the N. C. Traffic Safety Authority and recommendations for developing a new highway safety program. The State Highway Patrol is renewing weekend "saturation during August by cancelling all weekend leaves.

Meanwhile, Highway Patrol and other highway safety officials are undertaking more detailed studies of traffic accident mports for use by the governors safety authority.

One thing which airea d y staiids out is the inordinately large percentage of young people Involved in accidents,

althar as drivers or victims.

There are also Indications that the new study will have to deal, to some extent at least, with the increasing number of motorcycles on streets and highways which, according to some experts, already constitute a new. additional hazard situation which must be dealt with.

WATER - At the same time, the governor's office is giving considerable attention to the growing problems of

water safety in the state.

In the same weekend I

which 19 traffic deaths were

counted, there were half a dozen or more water accidents.

Two persons were drowned in Hlawtssee Lake. There was a drowning In a wildlife area of High Rock Lake and t h e first drowning death recorded thus far from an accident on a new Carolina Power and Light Co, faciUty lake in Person County. Two smsJl children were drowned In separate tragedies on Lake Tillery and In a water - filled hole at a construction site near Shelby.

There may have been oth-er.s, but reports on water tragedies are not forwarded to .state officials as promptlj? as aiT most tiaffic fatality reports.

By ALVIN TAYLUk

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans in Congrc&s are beginning to look like a nonparty, thanks to their own lack of direction, the weight of President Johnson' performa nee and the huge Democratic majority.

But aven countrywide they havent recovered yet from the divisions which plagu e d them in 1964 and the political catastrophe that overwhelmed them in November.

It left them with wily 141 of 435 seats in the House, 32 of 100 seats in the Senate, and 17 of 50 governorships. At this moment theres no reason to think they will improve their fortunes much to the i%6 elections.

After the GOP Naon a 1 Committee met two days this summer, the chairman, Ray C. Bliss, said the memb e r s were not cocky about t h e partys chances "but we honestly believe we can make gains.

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Party leaders have been worried that a sprawl of Independent research and campaign groups will cloud party policy and splinter financing in the 1966 elections.

Meanwhile Johnswi, luckily free of unpredictable difficulties at homfe like an ecwjomic downturn or paralyzing strikes or fights, has been setting an astonishing pace and record.

His performance in ramming through the Democratic - run CongresB what he wants but what was never achieved before. like medical care for people 65 and older, makes even President Franklin D. Roosevelt look sluggish.

In both houses Hepublicans spill almost In half cm the mcdicaie bill while on the 1965 Voting Rights Act the great majority of Republicans in both houses voted for it.

And Johnson still has pretty much full support for his foreign policies even .hough there are some misgivings about the increasing American involvement In Viet Nam and w^here it may lead.

Unless Johnsons luck at home turns som- or he suffers disasters in foreign affair it's hard to see how the Republicans can better thcmsel ves much in 1966.

Tliere is, of course, the question Can Johnson keep it up?

He has no doubts he can. It i.s kuovn that hs attitude toward the success of his multitude of programs in Con-gres* this year can be summed up tHs wav;

"You ain't seen nothing yet.

Just Monday he disclosed a plan; He will appoint a task force of leaders in government and private life to chart ambitious goals for the nation. We mu5t advance daily" or

said.

At this moment, look I n g ahead to the 1968 presidential race, no single Republican is a standout for the nomination, although the next tluree years might produce one.

Barry Goldwater. after what happened to him last year, is out of presidential coneldera-tion; he intends to run for the Senate In 1968. And not one of his top men who ran the show In 1964 retains a commanding party position.

Nevertheless, conservat 1 v e Republicans who think like Goldwater are a strong force In the party. They were a divisive force in 1964 and may be again.

Goldwater heads a recently formed conservative organization the Free Society Association which he said would be academic and educational in makeup and goals.

The society, he said, would launch a crusade of political education In the principles of conservatism.

But Bliss said the Goldwater group would hamper his quest for unity and money to rebuild the battered party, Whenever you have splinter groups, he said, they dont assist hi uniting us.

That Isnt the onlv splinter group. But as a further example of division within the party:

New Yorks Qov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who tried hard

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We heard the storytrue, so help usabout two Greenville lassies who walked to the top of the Washington monument on a trip to the Capital.

After climbing ail the way up they decided taking the

elevator was the way to get down. So they joined the mob attempting to board the conveyance. The only trouble was there werent any gentlemen in the crowd. Everyone kept swarming in ahead of the local girls.

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CC &L Higher Education

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCA.N August 11. 1925 CITY PUTS SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN IMPROVEMENTS Most of unpftved Streets being curbed and guttered. More improvements anticipated.

(Chapel HiU Weekly) People who look at the new buildings going up at East Carolina College, at the swelling enrollment, and at the new programs being undertaken are apt to comment on what a wonderful Job the college is doing. In a way such a comment is appropriate; in another way it 1 loaded with irony.

East Carolina College certainly is doing a remarkable job in populating its campus, raising buildings and grabbing new programs. At the same time, it is doing a remarkable job of betraying the fundamental cause of higher education in North Carolina.

Dr. William C, Archie, who has just resigned as direcror of the embattled State Board of Higher Education, has not accused East Ca.rolina of any sort of betrayal, but he was candid enough to describe what amounts to the s a m e thing.

"I expect, said Dr. Archie that 90 per cent of the trouble the State Board of Higher Education had in the 1965 session (of the Legislature) can be traced to Dr Leo Jenkins.

The "trouble that Dr. Archie referred to was. among several things, an effort by the Legislature to aboUsh the Higher Education Board. Dr. Leo Jenkina is president of East Carolina College.

Of course. Dr. Jenkins did not take a direct hand in the effort to kill the Higher Education Board. He just .*nib-

marined the Board by ignoring it and going straight to the Legislature to grab new facilities for East Carolina.

This sort of cunning was illustrated best In the 1965 session when Dr. Jenkins and his right arm in the Legislature, Senator Robert Morgan of Harnett, won approval of a new two-year medical school at East Carolina, contrary to recommendations of a study commission and the Board of Higher Education. Earlier, Dr. Jenkins had used the same maneuver, ignoring the Higher Education Board, to grab off a four-year nursing school.

Dr. Jenkins bold grasping and his great talent for politicking doubtless are winning him applause among the East Carolina people. They have paid off handsomely for the mcHnent. But this unabashed greed which Dr. Jenkins seems bent on satisfying even at the expense of aU the other State institutions of higher education. cannot continue forever.

To foUow Dr. Jenkins lead would mean all of the States colleges and the University bypassing the Higher Education Board and taking their problems and requests straight to the Legislature. This would inevitably result In a dog-eat-dog brawl for aiH)ropriations, and the whole level of higher education in North Caro lina would be reduced to that of petty politics.

This is how Leo Jenkins and East Carolina College are betraying the fundamental cause of higher education In North Carolina.

The New York Times, writing about a magazine editor who had been promoted, noted that he served as a reporter in Los Angeles and Washington before becoming a writer in 1949.

We working newspapermen lay ilttc claim to high sounding titles, but at least we use the same language as those who have gone on to be called writers.

And that all serves to remind us of the definition of a journalist: unemployed newspaperman.

One of the interesting things we have learned in our readings is the fact that elephants are so constructed that they cannot run, in the accepted sense of the word. But the big animals sure can walk fast faster than a man can run. So if an elephant ever gets after you pink or otherwise dont feel that you can out distance him.

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"Show me a man who stands on his two feet, and Ill show you a man whose car has been repossessed.Atchinson Globe.

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An Idea

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Dynamic young Twn Van Sickle, head of the Young Reimbllcan Naticxial Federation, flew his new twin Cessna plane, his first solo flight, here fnmi his home state of Kansas the other day to help nerve up the local Republicans. He made a speech built around a terrifying statistic: by 1968, he said, one - half of the total U. S. population will be under twenty - five years of age. The twenty - five - and - under group will have no memories of anything before the Korean War. and the only political reality they know will be that of the Great Society and tlw Welfare State.

JOHN CHASmERLAIN

Finally oaa of them had an idea. O-h-h-h-h, she moaned and slumped to the floor. The group of men parted and she was carried on the elevator. "Is anyone with her?" the operator asked. Her friend volunteered that she was.

"It worked, the girl said, with a smug look, back in Greenville. Then with a frown, "But they kept idving me smelling salts and by the .time we got down I really was sick.

One state paper, writ i n g about the phosphate mining, referred to North Carolinas Pamlico valley. Finding a valley in the Pamlicos flat-lands might prove difficult, Indeed. The paper by the way was in the Piedmont, where there are such things as valleys.

What hope, then, has any political party which tries to ground Itself on the idea that man is a self - starter, clMrg-ed with the respOTSibllity o making the most oi himself by use of his own powers? It so happens that Tom Van Sickle had brought his question to what In my book must be related the most hopeful city in the whole United States. Fw Milwaukee, months before anybody had begun talking about federal anti - poverty p r o-grams, had addressed itself firmly to the Idea of wiping out discrimination in hiring. Moreover, it had done this on a purely voluntary basis that imposes no draining taxes and no looming danger of currency inflation on anybody.

The Instigators of what subsequently became the Milwaukee Voluntary Equal Employment Opportunity Council were Bob Stevenson, boss of the heavy equipment company of Allis - (IJhalmers, and Ted Smith, head of A. O. Smith, which is famous for its auto frames. Back in 1963 Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Smith called the thirty . three largest employers In the Milwaukee area together for hit of soul - searching. The result was a pledge from all concerned to do everything within their power to give a fair emrtoyment shake to Milwaukees mlnorits^ groups. This was of particular interest to Milwaukees ninety thousand Negroes, who constitute about nine per cent of the pop-uiatlon in tte greater Milwaukee region.

What is particularly hopeful about the Voluntary Eq u a 1 Employment Opport unity Council is that it never once slackened its pace after Lyn-dcm Johnsim put Sargent Shriv-cr and Franklin D, Roosevelt Jr. to the task of ushig tax money to the.^fali ends of eradicating poMsty, and dls-criminatidh:. Hffvttt lived through WPAT my own feeling is that- lferal money spent by and thiwh a federal bureaucracy produces nothing very permanent.

The money gets si o p p e d around; much of it goes Into big social worker salaries and sterile office equipment, and people begin taking it as a windfall right, not as a spur to personal improvement and self - sufficiency. But the Milwaukee Voluntary Equal Employment organization spends nothing on seif . aggradize-ment. It is all business wtere business ciHints. ;

The membership, whicfc "began with the thirty - three, has grown to 170 firms which employ 200,000 workers. The director of the whole affair is Elmer L. Winter, head of Manpower, Inc., who says he "got to be president because I stayed the latest. Und e r Mr. Winters skillful prodding Milwaukee is alive with seminars of personnel direct or. (Continued From Paga 5)

Vending Machine Imoact

Pitt County Historical Society A Pitt Oounty Historical Society, as urged by Rev. James E. W. Cook, through the columns of this paper several days ago, for the {xaaervatlcm of the Old Oourtbouse and converting it into a county museum that the relics and records of past achievements might therebe perpetuated for the future generations, is a suggestion that some of the civic organizations of aU the originations of the community would do well to take otar and carry to <KHnpletlon. '

The proposhicHi is not merely a local one but one that should be of interest to every person in the county and in years to come this form (rf record would be seen more and more valuable to the community.

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Take Phosphate and grow strong. Your nerves demand it and your blood needs it say scientists.

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By ELMER ROESSNER The economic importance of the vending machine industry has been no more dramatically illustrated than by Ccaigresss vote for sandwich dimes and quarters.

It also illustrates the effectiveness of the venduig ca-chine lobby, a refresher course for those too young to remember the Bobby Baker case. However, the lobby had a -strong assist from the companies producing substitutes for the silver in those coins. ^

In the good old days, when a monarch wanted to debase his coinage, he simply shrank the size of the coins. They were still of gold and silver, and they still bore the monarchs profile, name atid guarantee on them, and people accepted them. But with vending machines and juke boxes today. Congress would not have dared to change the size, thickness or weight of common coins. HERES WHY Such sttps would have had the vending machine companies cigarette companies, salcons.

in his message to Congress asking for this minor debasement of the coinage, observed that l,500,0(X) Americans depended on vending machines for at least one meal a day.

The National Automatic Merchandising Association estimates that Americans put $3,494 million in coin machines last year. The total may reach $5.5 blllloii a year by 1970.

ELMER

ROESSNER

In fact. President Johnson.

The coin-in-slot business Is expanding vastly. New coin snatchers in colleges, hospitals and factories, vending soft drinks coffe, candy, cigarettes, ice cream and food up to light meal is a big factor. , COFFEE SAIvJCS^RLSING Coffee saiRs, the association -1eporiii, inrrrased 20 per cent last year, Moi e than three mil-lim cups were old thirough

machines for nearly $270 million. This, incidentally, has enlarged the instant coffee business.

Vending machines have also multiplied like rabbits in zoos, parks, recreatlcm areas, high schools, stadiums and airports. More than $1 biilitxi of last years sales was for food in factories, schools and parks. Many companies in the field believe that the greatest expansion ahead is in food sales. They envision the day when almost all of the countrys workers will get their midday meals by pushing coins into machines.

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However, other ocmipanies think that the jukebox offers better promises for expansion. Bigger machines offer up to 200 selections and hi-fl reproductions. Jukes took in about $400 million last yttr.

Curiously, while labor has been fighting, automation in many plants, it has not cam-gaigned vigorously against vending machines, which have probably thrown twice as many people out of work as automation. ^

Coifi machines art tiUainst-

Ing the jobs of waiters, counter girls, bus boys, soda jerks, cigarette and candy salespersons. musicians, tickettakcr and countless others. But, like autmnatioQ, they are also creating new jobs. And the vending machine industry Is heavily unionized.

VENDING MACHINES HAVE

LONG GRABBED COINS Although vending machines have doubled their take In the last ten years, they ai^ far from new. Coin-in-slot d^ces that sold perfume and" perhaps blessed water were known In ancient Greece.

Near the Cliff House in San Francisco is a museum of old coln-in-slot music machines, dating back generations. Di so some whole ensembles o$ little figures dancc to musice box tunes.

At the turn of the oentgry. Dewey machines appkred in many saloons. Puttiag a nickel in and pulUng a lever spun two wheels. If they lAop-ped -with pictures of Admiral Dewey In juxtapoetilon, the player got $2 lu trade, father won many bottktt of whiskejr that way. ,