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Understanding Required In Concern

Pitt Memorial Hospital is, of all county institu- aimed at the hospitaPs administrative staff, Irather tions, probably the most vulnerable to the shifting than the medical staff. The hospital director also winds of public opinion. said the Reflector should have termed .the twenty-

For, entrusting friends and relatives to the hos- eight items recommendations" rather than criti-pitaPs care at the always worrisome time of illness, cisms." Perhaps so, although it seems like six of one the public rightly demands that the hospitaPs opera- and half a dozen of the other, or, at most, the dif-tions be conducted in a blazing noonday light ference between calling a jar half full or half empty.

This public scrutiny, always sharp, was height- The report on immediate and total desegrega-ened last week by stories on the haspitaPs accred- tion at tjie hospital also seems to have touched off itation and plans for total integration. public concern. The board of trustees have leaped

Director C. D. Ward says he has received nu- into total integration rather than easing into it as merous calls concerning the story on the accredila- they had been. This ws promptd by fear that the tion report which listed twenty-eight recommenda- hospitaPs gradual policy might be slow enough to tions for improving hospital service. Most sugges- choke off funds for the East Carolina College Nurs-tions concerned records kept by doctors. Ward says ing School.

But although the boards action was more pre-citate than planned, it is nothing more nor less than a move to place Pitt Memorial squarely within the law of the land.

Both the accreditation report and the hospitals integration have two sides: The report can be construed as a fairly serious criticism of certain procedural matters at Pitt Memorial; but it must not be forgotten that the accreditation commission awarded Pitt Memorial full, three-year accreditation and acknowledged the hospitaPs growth by saying that next years visit will have to take two days rather than one.

And some may think the hospital is moving ahead of the consensus of local opinion in desegregation. Here again, the coin has another side: Pitt Memorial, in putting into effect completely equal treatment for patients and employeesin effect, becoming color blindis doing nothing more sinister than joining the great majority of the country and complying with very clear, plain law.

Public interest in hospital affairs is not merely desirable, it is essential. But public concern without understanding is only a stumbling block.

It is hoped that persons interested in the present and future state of affairs at Pitt Memorial couple knowledge with concern. It is further hoped that the hospitaPs trustees and director follow the T most enlightened and farsighted approach in their efforts to govern the county's hospital at a/difficult time. r

that some persona mistakenly misinterpreted the story to think that the recommendations" were

Hit Choices In H.C. Sampling

B.t WnJJAM A. SHIRES

BOILING - State school of--'ials are boiling about the Unexplained recent selection of 19 on North C^u^Unas 169 lo* cal puWlc school systems toe Inclusiim In a federal study educational <H>Portunity under the avll Rights act.

They do not believe that aampUng these particular unite most of them In relatively poor, nirtl counties will furnish an accurate picture of statewide educational (H?por-tunity as a whole.

Two thirds of the schools selected are located in counties in which current per-pupU school expenditures fall below Uie state average. In addition, there to a marked imbalance between racial percentages In the schools selected as comimred with the state as a whole.

No ce In the state department of Public Instruction has been Informed exactly how and why these 19 units were singled out, now what the study In intended to show. Selection was made in Washington, and it am>ears unlikely that the units were chosen at random.

STUDY The study Itself la called for in a sectioiw of

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the 1964 Qv Rights act providing for a report concerning the lack of availability of equal educational <^;H;>ortunitles for individuals by reason of race, color, religloo. national origin in pubtto educatl(mal institutions at all levels In the United SUtes. .

Reports from Washington, however, indicate the study also will deal with effects of lack of educattooal ot^tortuni-ty on economle levels and social relatiooahlpa. A staff Is being set up in the U.S. Office (g Editeaticm to conduct this s(Ht of woilc and prepare a report.

QUESTIONS IP North Carolina, meanwhile, nuntoroui questioiie are being raised both by state officials and administrators of the ecb(Xg sya-tefs sticted.

For example, what Is the apedfic purpose of the survey and what procedure wiU be followed?

Quite a few questions related to the study already have been put to the U. S. Office of EducatiOD by Dr. CSiarles P. Carroll, the state iperin-tendent of public instruction.

We are still waiting for replies, Dr. CsTToll said.

Dr. Carroll said he has no Qusrrel witr the provtoion in the Civil Rights act for a study of educatltmal ojp^ortun-ity. He felt sure that moei If not all of the selected school units would participate.

All we want to do is understand what we are participating in, he said.

MIRROR - Dr. Carro said he submitted a series of questions to Washington officials on July 16 In an effort to determine whether this is intended to represent a proper sampling. .

If It Is going to be irsed as a mirror, we would like for it to reflect North Carolina as It Is."

bi his letter of July 16. Dr. C^UToIl asked federal officials can we assume that an effort is being made to survey conditions that are representative of the state as a whole? n so, why was a sample drawn In such a way that characteristics of the sample are not similar to the characteristics of all schools in the state?

He said he was told subsequently that the study was not Intended to reflect all t h e conditions in North Carolina. SAMPUNO-He asked why distribution of race in the survey was not similar to distribution In the state. The proportion of white high schools to Negro high schools in the state is 7 to 3 while the sample survey consists of 42 per cent white and 58 per cent Negro,

In addition. 75 per cent of the high school teachers In the state are white whereas the sample survey includes 44 per cent white and 56 percent Negro.

Dr. Carrolls letter of July 16 also asked the relationship between the survey and social, economic and racial conditions, and what infonnatimi would be collected to enable one to say whether equal educational opportunities do or He asked whether an effort do not mclst.

He asked whether an effort would be made to measure atdUties, achievement, values and the like.

SELECTED Dr. Carroll added that an examination of the 39 high schools selected sufgeet ttiat a survey based upon these sohotds will not provide data from which In-ferenoes can be made about aH the schools.

The SO schools are located In 12 counties as follow: Al-amanM Including Burlington city, Alleghany, Anson including Morven city and Wades-Ixttt) dty; Bertie, Camden, Caswell. Iredell Indud 1 n g Mooresvllle dty and Statesville dty: New Hanover.

Swain, Vance Including Henderson dty; Wayne Including Goldsboro dty. and WUkes.

Per pudl whod expenditures In eight of the 12 counties are below the statewide average.

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

While the academic life is not determined by bricks and mortar alone, the physical campus can help or hinder the learning process, a noted architect recently told a Campus Planning Conference at the University of Texas School of Architecture.

The conference Itself was evidence of the growing concern of Southern colleges and universities lor creating a physical environment for productive learning.

Only in recent years has documented research appeared on the ways in which such a basic factor as room size for housing, dlnkig or studying is affecting develoiMiiental patterns, pointed out Ronald W. Haase, architectural associate of Educaticmal Facilities Laboratories, Inc., an organization created and supported by the Ford FoundatUm.

Observations of student study habits indicate that productivity varies inversely with the eke of space offered students for study, said Haase., Yet how many of our campus-* es are still it>vidlng their students with huge bar<mial halls labeled library reading rooms and even more importantly. how many architeds now have such plans on their drawing boards.

There is growing recognition among architects that spatial definitions should change to parallel the students own developmental pattern. Stressing the social and intellectual differwices between the freshman of 18 and the senior of 21, Haase cited the New Oxford House dormitories of The University of Michigan where freshman students are housed In supervised dorms with central dining facilities while upper daasmen are offered a choice between double two-bedroom suites with shared kitchens or separate self-contained apartments.

He also recommends Individual studies for the senior and graduate student involved in thesis work while advocating more open-loft space for the team efforts of freshmen and sophomores who are dependent on and susceptible to peer group influences.

Citing the tendency of colleges and universities to utilize space hiefflciently. Haase revealed an EFL study of 60 campuses which proved they could Increase enrollments on an average of 50 percent simply thrwigh more efficient scheduling of space and staff and without one doUor going into new facilitlee.

Y>t many of the casual, but significant encounters between students and faculty cm the

campua art the result of inefficiencies, says Haase. Critical discussion can continue after class li the room isnt Faculty and student Interchange is encouraged 4 space for It exists.

He commends the campuses which are setting aside apace for these encounters with informal lounges located between lecture halls and Uboratories.

As inatttutions become in-creasingly aware of the necessity for careftU lAysteal planning, they are turning more and more to the c(nputer to schedule space, students and staff at optimum efficiency. Yet Haase stresses the fact that the computers relationship to architecture can be of no further significance than programmed learning, the teaching machine and audil-visual presentation is to education.

We may continue to learn facts from things, but values only from people, he said, anticipating a day when campus archttecture will reflect a systematic knowledge of the students potential for lean-Ing and creative expression, his unconscious resistance to it and knowledge of ways In which desired changes may be brought abmit In him.

Opinions In Brief

Help!

An indication of just how far the Federal government has gone in its efforts to take care of American citizens every need from the cradle to the grave Is a newly published book. The txx* Encyclopedia of U. S, Government Benefits can belong to anyone who has $7.95. Publishers of the tome, in their advertisements, say that the government is ready and willing to help you with your childs education, your vacation home, your business success or any other problem. You name it! they say.

The current volume has over 1,000 papes with benefits listed from A to Z. It might be noted that with the pitesent mood of President Johnson and the Congress, this present, modest volume may wen be expanded to s flve-foot sheH of gov- , emment benefit books. -Wheeling (W. Va.) InteDlgencer

Job bunting can be rough for a young man, particularly if he isnt a drop^cut and has no qualifications to mi&e him a target for the war on poverty.

A young friend ot mine from New London, Conn., named Dan Robertson Jr. wrote me about his troubles trying to get a job in the submarine-buUding yards near his home.

As a high school graduate'he kept applying for woik, but they kei^ turning him down. On bis last visit a Negro friend was hired alter he threatened to charge the company with discrimination. Skice my friend was White, he couldnt use that gambit.

But what really discouraged him was that, as he was leaving the yards, he ran Into ono-

ther friend whom he knew to be a pacifist. He asked his friend what a pacifist was doing building submarines, and the pacifist replied he felt he could do more for the cause on tiM inside, slowing down productitm, than he <xmld <m the outside, picketing again^ the company.

Outside the gate, the pacific said, you can get slugged by the shipyard workers and even thrown In the river, but inside its much safer, and besides, you get paid.

My friend said he was having a terrible time getting a job and the pacifist said, Youve got to have cool. The trouble with you, man, is that you want to work and it gives you that tense, anxious look.

Them personnel cats dont

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I want the people of Greenville and estem North Carolina to know and share my experience with Feixy Service from the Outer banks.

I d(mt know how many people had this experience but I hope to save some a very disappointed adventure.

One Sunday morning my family and I did some fishing at Oregcxi Inlet and decided around noon . that we would come back to Greenville by way ol the Ocracoke Perry. We enjoyed our fishing at the Herbert C. Bonner bridge, made some pictures of the bridge and ourselves fishing on the surf.

We drove down to Hatteras and got on the ferry to Ocracoke with no trouble at aU. I think a few cars had to wait on the next ferry, but they were running four ferries and the schedule said every forty minutes. It took less than an hour to get to Ocracoke. We got off the ferry and drove on to the Ocracoke exit. When we got there at the circle, there was 24 cars lined up for the ferry. The cashier said the ferry would only tte about 19 cars sccording to size and shape, but we could wait in line for the next ferry which would leave At 9:30 am., the next day which was Monday. Then I saw the only schedule that Id seen all the way from Nags Head concerning the Ocracoke Perry.

They are running four ferries from Hatteras to Ocracoke every 40 minutes and only two ferries a day from Ocracoke to Oedar Island and the mainland. It takes around two hours and 16 to 30 minutes to go one way from Ocra-

c<*e td Cedar Island. The four ferries running from Hatteras to Ocracoke are free and all of them were loaded Sunday. Now here Is a subject I want the readers to hear about. Why are these four ferries running every forty minutes for free and two ferries every 24 hours for this price list: Adults $2.50 per person, children $1.00 apiece no matter what size, cars $4.00 per car There was five ol us and our car, total $12.00, IP we had wanted and had time to wait from 3:00 p.m. Sunday to 9:30 a.m. Monday. They also charge extra If you have an out-of-state license plate or regtotra-ti{Mi. The lady assured us if we wanted to wait for the next ferry that we could get lodging and meals on the Island if we left our car in line over night.

Well it seems I went that way to save some time, but we ended up turning around and going back to the first ferry along with about everyone who went over on the Hatteras - Ocracoke Ferry in the first place. There seemed to be a lot of angry people but there was nothing else to do but go back to Nags Head and proceed towards Greenville on Et- 64 west and south.

I still laugh as 1 think of ferry load after ferry load going from Hatteras to Ocrac(*e and having to turn around and come back. Of course some make it across. But I think the people on the Hatteras side should be verbally warned before they make their first ferry trips.

Thank you very much.

A Faithful Subscriber

L. E. Smith 2701 Jefferson Dr.

all about you. Youre not a dropout, you have no racial problems, you dont even oome fr(n an underprivileged background. Why sh(Hild we hire you?

I thought you might want to have somebody different. How would it be if we just hired everycme who came off the street without a problem? Well, I do have cme pro^ lem. I seem to fall asleep during the daytime.

Hmmn, you might have something there. Do you have any other skill?

Thats it. But Im willing to learn.

AU right. We-U consider application. We have a strike coming up next week and perhaps you can work for us while its on.

Youve got a heart of gold, Robertson said gratefully. But I dont think Id like to cross a picket line.

AU you kids are the same. We offer you a Job during a strike, and you turn It drnvn. What do you want, everything handed to you on a sUv-er platter?"

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Statistics show there art twice as many people engaged in clerical work as there were a decade ogo. We may still be just as mixed up as we ever were, but at least were now getting it all down on paper.BoonvUle (Mo.) Record.

go for eager beavers.

This made sense to Dsn, so

he went out and took 500 mUi-grams of tboraadne given to him by a pal whose father waa on it. He returned to the personnel office as cool ss he could be and waited for an Interview. The next thing he knew the personnel manager was shitidng him. Youve been asleep for two and a ball hours and we want to go home.

What about a job?

If youre going to sleep waiting to get <me. how do we know what youll do when you start woiWng.

AU I was trying to do was show some cool.

Look, RobertsOT, we know

Peking Helo?

By WILLIAM L. RYAN

(AP Special Correspondent)

Viet Nams Communists may be nervous about a posslbUity that they could get more Red Chinese help than they want In the Indochina war. Their behavior hints at a fear that Viet Nam might need a Korean - style battle-ground.

Their propaganda suggests that Vietnamese Communists would rather face a prospect of 20 more years of war than have their country overrun by hordes of Chinese mUitia, a possibility posed by Red Chinese statements. lUie Chinese occupied Viet Nam for centuries.

Both North Viet Nam and the Viet Congs political front seem eager to get across a message that the Viet Cong cans. They claim the Viet Cong with help in materials but without manpower from the outside.

Hanoi and vtoe Cmicts front insist ^war^ entered a new, dedto^ase, and that even left to their own devices they cannot lose.

They Insist the Viet Oong has lU the strategic, poUtlcal and psychological advantages and can now etrlke repeatedly and vigorously at the Americana. hey claim the Viet Ctong can frustrate moves to pacify rural areas. They issue caUs to sympathizers in the Souths cities for repeated political attacks on the Saigon administration. They broadcast appeals to the Souths soldiers to *tuni their guns on Americans.

Since April, both Hand and tlto Viet Congs front have been calling the Saigon government the rebel regime. This may Indicate an expectation that eventually there wlU be an approach to a conference table, where they would want to assert the Viet Congs right to be represented as a government entity.

Poeelbly, Hanoi might like to draw closer to the Soviet view of the situation, if it could wriggle out from under the domination of its big neighbor. Red China.

Though Moscow apparently la avoiding overt dlplomatie moves, there are vague suggestions its thing goes thus: It might be possible to guarantee South Viet Nams independence and neutrality.,, as a means of breaking the dlplo-toipasse and permitting EVENTUAL U. S. withdrawal.

Pekhig voices suspicions of Moscows intentions. After a^ cusing the Russians of begging the Americans for peace. Peking says the only way to deal with the Americans is to wage a tit-for-tat struggle.

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Aggr^ion begets aggression. Retreat begets retreat. We either stand, as we discovered in Europe, and hold the lino at appropriate places or we dont And if we dont and aggression succeeds, they knock op door after door and find that ttiey open. Ultimately they come to the ultimata door where resistance becomes imperative. Then yotr have a holocaust. You have a major war. That is what we are hying desperately to avmd in South Viet Nam. Adlal Stevenson.

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Steel Slowdown Due On Seot

A good scare Is worth more to a man than good advice; E. W. Howe.

By ELMER ROESSNER Whether there is a steel strike

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HOW TO BE UNPOPULAR It has become the custom in recent years fw boys in the public schools to act as traffic policemen and see that the school children get safely across the streets and highways.

A few days ago 1 was talking with a friend of mine, aged tea, who was wearing all the insignia of that office, including a badge as big as that of a policeman. I admired his outfit and told him To my surprise he reitied. "I dont like to act as a traffic patrolman: that sort of thing just makes lots of bad friends. This bright youngster had observed that people do not enjoy being managed, and any of the satisfaction that eame from wraring' a badge and be

ing able to tell epople what to do was neutralized by the fact that many people who had to take his orders did so with poor grace and liked him the less for bossing them.

This is always so. Nothing irks people more surely than does the continual attempt to manage them. Parents often over-manage their children, wives their husbands. There is a ce^tain type of official In every comwiny who is consistently unpopular with his assoctatee because he tries too much to manage them.

There te discipline needed In every home, school, office, and mUl. but whep people use the necessity fof such discipline to indulge themsclvoB in their morbid desire to dominate others, the result to resentment and unpopularity.

on Sei*. 1, there will be many men out of wfflrtc and many miUs Idle.

If there is a airike, the Steelworkers Unitm will leave their j(^, and production, except in a few companies that have or wl make separate agreements with the union, wUl virtually cease.

If there is no strike, production will slow dowm and many workers mi^ be laid off.

The reason: Since early

spring, steel users, fearful of a strike, have been building up Inventoriea. The build-up slowed down when the union agreed to postpone the strike deadline to September, but when no settlement appeared near In June and July, stockpiling was resumed. Ord.-ers have shot higher in the last few days because of prospects 0 fa higher demand resulting from the intensification of the war in Viet Nam.

. Steel weekly report that one major company to vlrttial-

ly sold out for August, but has order for only 35 per cent (rf capacity for September. R will continue to produce at a brisk pace to replenish in-plant Inventories, said Steel. Not

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if there Is a strike, and not for long otJierwise.

OTHER BUSINESS PROSPECT Here are more look-aheads on the economic scene:

Durable orders te rise: For the last two months, durable goodsorders have been slumping. This has worried the cyclic economists who have found that declines in durable orders precede a general dip In busines activity. However, the step-

up orders for war material for fighting in Viet Nam, and for the re-equipping of the National Guard and reserves, will tend to reverae the <te-cUne in orders

Hfhter screws m teorlsta:. The new limit on tax-free importa bf touriata go Into effect Sept. 30. But before that, eus-toms officials will tighten up on tourists. Insisting cm evidence of purchase price and not overlooking a penny more than current UmiU. More baggage will be carefully inspected. But the agents will continue to fiznlle. COSTLIER COPPER

Copper to rise again: The tightening supplies of copper, plus the increase in deinand, even before President Johnstm announced increased might in South Viet Nam. will push the price of the metal even further.

No stockpile break: Despite Sen. Stuart SjmnJngtons pro-toBts that his campaign to speed the disposal of the great Amertean stockpile to not dead, it to ready for burial.

The need for more material in Viet Nam wl mako both Con-greas and the admintotration unwilling to release raw mate^ lato. Even if copper aoors above expected levels, there to not mach expectation that the government will Irease copper, except coi^r - using plants with defrase orders.

OLD PROMOTER FAILS TO END POSTAL STRIKE The Old Promoter waa back today after a futile trip to Canada to end the postal strike there.

I had the perfect rolution. he said. R waa for the government to launch a big neipi-paper, radio and television campaign showing a pile of letters and the slogan. Stop writing these! but the government wanted to aettie thi^ its own way.

How would Washington have settled such a strike? I aek-ed.

Easy. It would give every postman m raise end an aerosol can of anti-dtv spray.