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. Ranch, associate professor of
reading and education, Hofstro
College, Hempstead, N. Y. This
workshop is scheduled for July
29 to August 9.
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