CAPITAL CUPBOARD State Is Retaining Greater Number Of Persons Qualified To Teach By EULA N. GREENWOOD STAYING HOME ... Al though N. C. colleges (till gra duate more teachers who leave the State to teach than we get from other states, we are doing better at keeping our teachers home. The N. C. Dept. of Education reports that 52.39 per cent of our graduates of 1962 who were prepared to teach stayed in this State to do it. Reason for the improvement, no doubt, is better pay. Now that the Legislature is at last providing sick leave, we will keep even more of our teachers at home. We need them as badly as anybody . , , and worse than most. HOME FOR ELECTIONS . . . One of the hit tunes during World War II was something to the effect that "I'll Be Home for Christmas, If Only in My Dreams." It's been that way on election days in many a county in North Carolina. Nobody went so far away that they couldn't be ' home ... via absentee ballot . . . come voting time. Death was no barrier, either, on occasion. In fact, the absen tee ballot was the nearest thing on earth to life everlasting. The Legislature has tighten ed up those absentee ballot laws considerably. And that is a ma jor accomplishment. No minor surgery, that! The best comment on it came in last Sunday's Charlotte Ob server editorial, cartoon. It showed the two mountaineers at the porch of their cabin. One of them held a copy of the loc al paper which had headlines reading: "N. C. Legislature Tightens Absentee Ballot Law." He stares off into the distance and says to his brother: "I've never felt til now that our folks wuz really gone." POISON! . . . Most of the states' legislative sessions have ended. However, a few like Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, California, and UN nois are still in ceulon. |?ln Ohio last week a bill was introduced in the Legislature to have all packs of cigarettes sold in that State to have plain ly printed on the package at least one-quarter-inch high the word: POISON. Nobody thinks the bill will pass . '. . but this is not the first time this legislation has been offered in other states. This illustrates one reason North Carolina industry . . . particularly that related to to bacco (as what isn't in this State) . . . must spend more and work harder to guard the crop which sets us apart from all other southern states. UNCERTAIN . . With ad journment of the 1063 session of the N. C. General Assembly leu than 30 days away, there is itill uncertainty about bow tbe State House ? pardon, Legisla tive Building? will be operat ed in the two-year period be tween legislative sessions. Right now, the beautiful six million-dollar structure is over seen by a committee represent ing both houses of the Legisla ture. George Cherry ia Super intendent of Buildings and Grounds of the Raleigh area. He is expected to have major say-so on the Legislative Build ing during the months from ad journment of the current Leg islature until the convening of the next. What days will the building be open to the public? What will be the hours schedule? How many guides will be kept to show around and give the brief lectures as do the legisla tive pages now? Will meetings other than legislative be per mitted to be held iq the Legis lative Building? Does the State plan to buy other nearby pro perty ? particularly that adjac ent to the Legislative Building? These and a host of other questions face the Legislative Building Committee aa they make plans to leave Raleigh 30 days hence. STILL GOING . . . New car sales in the State and nation are breaking all records. Figures released last week by the on-the-ball N. C. Automo bile Dealers Association show ed April sales ran 12,477 to 10,066 for tbe same month in 1962. Said Time Magazine in its is sue of Hay 17: "While all eyes are on the pace of car sales in the nation's auto showrooms (April set another monthly re cord) , 1963 is also proving a greenbacked year for the men who preside over the dustry, sun-baked oaed-car lots . . . about four used cars are now being sold for every three new ones, and at least 13 million used cars will probably be sold in 1963." There is more and more con fidence being shown in used cars . . . and in used-car deal ers. One of the things helping with this, in North Carolina at least, is the Guaranteed War ranty Program. You probably ought to know what this means before investing a whole lot in a used-car. MID-YEAR ... The Ford Motor Co. came out with some thing new this year. It brought out new models in mid-year, calling them the 1963% vint age. It has paid off ? or some thing has. Last year this time Ford was trailing Chevrolet in new car sales by 500 cars. The month of April Chevy sold 2,866 and Ford 2,845 ... this year. Incidentally, newt reaching ui is that Volkswagen is the "hottest thing going" in the used-car field. Time reports that at a wholesale auto auc tion a 1960 VW carried a whole sale price of $1,080 as against *1,000 for a 1980 Ford Galaxie that when new cost 91,000 more than the VW. Here is the way some of the new cars sold in N. C. in April: Pontiac, in third place, 99S; Buick, 724; Dodge, 637; Falcon. 629; Oldsmobile, 687; Bambler, 977; Plymouth, 424; Corvair, 323; Comet, 321; Valiant, 239; Mercury, 293; Volkswagen, 397; Cadillac, 182; Chrysler, 112; Studebaker, 94; Lincoln, 22. Mrs. Teague Riles Are Held Mrs. Noami E. Hodges Tea gue, 94, of Boone, Rt. 4, widow of George David Teague, died Tuesday, May 14. She was born in Watauga County to Riley and Violet Moody Hodges. Surviving are three sons, Gra ham and Odell Teague, both of Boone, and Riley Teague of Manquin, Va. 19 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at 11 a. m. Thursday st Boone Baptist Church by the Rev. C. O. Vance and the Rev. E. F. Troutman. Burial was in Mount lawn Memorial Parte. Reading Workshops Are Being Offered For the sixth consecutive sum mer Appalachian State Teachers College will offer workshops In reading, it was announced this week by Uberto Price, director o i the ASTC Reading Center. The first workshop has been scheduled June 17 to June 28 and is under the direction of Mrs. Virginia Mullaney, coordi nator of secondary reading, Charlotte - Mecklenburg School System. She has had extensive experience in the field of read ing on both the elementary and secondary levels and in correc tive and developmental reading programs. The second reading workshop will be directed by Dr. Sidney 1. 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