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LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT
None Will Listen
The futility of trying to gain relief
from federal intervention in local af
fairs is vividly shown in a letter
received here this week by a mother
of five school children, concerned
with the continued disruption of edu
cation.
Like the foot bone connected to
the ankle bone, one thing has lead to
another and the circle has been com
pleted. This mother's appeal to "the
President was passed on the Depart
ment of Health, Education and Wel
fare. If the President even bothered to
read the letter, let alone give conside
ration to it, it has not been shown.
The HEW official routinely re
marked that the President had asked
him to answer the correspondence.
There has to be a doubt that the
President did indeed in actuality make
such a request. Nevertheless, HEW did
answer. It said the matter was being
referred to an old nemesis of Franklin
County in the Justice Department.
And after being touched by the
hundreds of bureaucratic hands in the
nation's capital, this mother's letter
finally came to the end. And what was
the reply? That contempt charges
against the Board of Education-a
move which stirred the school system
as much if not more than the full
integration order of last fall-had been
brought only after an "objective"
investigation by the FBI which in
cluded interviews with "persons with
knowledge of the facts". School of
ficials have said that not one had been
interviewed by the FBI. This includes
Board members, the superintendent,
Associate Superintendent and attor
neys for the Board.
So, this mother's attempt to bring
some reason into the education of her
five children has fell -as one suspected
-on deaf ears. So is the way of things
nowadays. Washington knows more
about educating these children than
does the mother. The FBI knows
more about the school system than
does the Board of Education. And
heaven help us, there is no place to go.
Nobody is willing to listen.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Boling May Have Started Something
?
A Mount Olive (N.C.) Tribune
One could well believe that Boling
Chair Co., with home offices in Siler
City, started something, maybe some
thing big, to paraphrase a popular
tune, when it established a branch of
its furniture manufacturing facilities
in eastern North Carolina - Mount
Olive to be specific.
It was revealed this week that J. K.
Rishel Furniture Co., of Williamsport,
Pa., is also coming to eastern North
Carolina with a 1 1 7,000-square foot
plant It will be located on 50 acres of
land near Louisburg.
This is not the re-location of a
Rishel plant, as Boling's was not the
re-location of one of their plants.
Instead, it represents an expansion of
the manufacturing facilities for Rishel,
just as it did for Boling.
The Pennsylvania furniture folks
will make wooden office, bedroom
and dinning room furniture in its
Louisburg plant, and will employ 150
persons at the start of its operations.
Lack of sufficient labor was given
as one of the reasons for not ex
panding Rishel operations in Pennsyl
vania. This firm, as did Boling, Bur
lington, and an increasing number of
manufacturers, looked to the fertile
fields of available labor, of the highest
possible type, which is becoming more
and more abundant in Eastern North
Carolina. Job opportunities in the old
standby areas of farming, forestry,
and similar rural occupations, are cer
tainly undergoing changes in our sec
tion.
Happily, industrial firms are be
coming more aware of this, and care
fully consider such an advantage when
planning moves or expansions of their
operations. In this respect the future
looks bright, indeed, for this area.-CB.
You'd Think They'd learn
The Courier Times, Roxboro, N. C.
Sixteen year old T ony was arrested
on Jan. 14, 1969 by a North Carolina
State Trooper. The charge was driving
1 10 miles per hour in a 55 mile speed
zone - at night and without lights.
Sixteen year-old Bobby was ar
rested four days later by the same
State T rooper. The charge was speed
ing 90 miles per hour in a 45 mile
zone.
Sixteen- year -old Joseph was ar
rested later the same day by the same
Trooper. The charge was speeding 90
miles per hour in a 55 mile zone.
All three youngsters were from the
same county; two from the same city.
^Two of the three already had previous
driving violations and the third had
previously been involved in a traffic
accident.
Unusual? Not really - except for
one thing they all had in common.
On November 6, 1966 - a little
over two years earlier ? Tony's
brother had been killed in an automo
bile accident involving excessive
speed.
On May 10, 1968 - a little over
eight months earlier ? Bobby's
brother had been kHIed in an automo
bile accident involving excessive
speed. ? ?
Sept. 22, 1968 - less than four
months earlier - Joseph's brother had
been killed in an automobile accident
involving excessive speed. '
Three arrests in less than a week ?
all for flagrant speeding.violations, all
by the same Trooper, and all in just
one of North Carolina's 100 counties.
Makes you wonder - doesn't it?
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Legislative Report
By Rep. JAMES D. SPEED
Raleigh ? The shortage of
doctors in North Carolina,
especially family physicians
and those engaged in general
practice, has become quite
serious.
This is pointed out and .
documented in the recent re
port of a committee which
eh.Xin/l In
depth the
situ ation
that exists
in rural
areas of
our state.
I am con
v i need
that the
legislature g
must give I
special at- I
tention to I
una piuo
lem to the SPEED
end that it may be solved.
I believe that additional
e n c o u r a gement can and
should be given to the train
ing of doctors who would
devote themselves to general
practice and practice in areas
of the state in which doctors
are scarce. There is both a
great need and a great oppor
tunity here. In many in
stances, there is more speciali
zation in the medical field
and more concentration in
the cities and populous areas
than is necessary. This tends
to cause an overbalance in
medical services and talent,
much of which is state sup
ported in the educational pro
cess and later subsidized by
the state and other agencies.
1 feel it is possible to
specify that certain legislative
appropriations be applied to
training of family physicians
who would locate and prac
tice in North Carolina.
I believe it would be per
fectly right to require that
state money, whenever pos
sible, be applied to meeting
the problem which now exists
in rural areas of North Caro
lina.
In view of the desperate
need it is clear that more
appropriations are needed for
medical education. I think we
need to strengthen the pro
gram at Chanel Hill and to
encourage and assist those at
Duke and Bowman-Gray in
Winston-Salem. Further, I be
lieve we need to begin "add
on" medical programs such as
preparing and expanding East
Carolina University's program
for eventual development in
to a companion institution. I
see no reason to consider this
as competition. We recognize
the need to make provision
for strengthening and expand
ing the output of medical
graduates at Chapel Hill.
Meanwhile this is the time to
consider future needs as well.
Broadening of the field of
medical education is not di
viding; I see it as planning for
providing the needs which
will come.
An expanding medical cen
ter at East Carolina would be
helpful to other state institu
tions such as the deaf and
tubercular institutions at WU-"
son and the mental and
psychiatric centers at Golds
boro. It would improve all of
these fields of service. All are
struggling for personnel of all
types, especially medical per
sonnel.
I believe the legislature is
going to examine this prob
lem in a broad scope and very
carefully.
We have, this week intro
duced two statewide bills re
lating to assessments on the
sale of cattle and providing
for mail ballots in refeten
dums among producers of
agricultural products in the
various self-assessment pro
grams.
I believe that these meas
ures will improve the admin
istrative procedure of both
programs. Certainly' mail bal
loting will allow a much
larger number of producers to
participate in the voting on
such issues as the self-assess
ment program. All ballots will
be checked against verified
lists of qualified producers
registered by the ACs.
I am greatly in favor of a
bill introduced by Rep.
Nancy Chase of Wayne Coun
ty and several others to ap
propriate $42,000 for a cen
tral communications center
for North Carolina's Rescue
Squads. The Rescue Squads
perform a very vital service in
most of the counties of North
Carolina and they have been
handicapped .by a lack of
support and help in moder
nizing of their facilities. I feel
this would be a step forward.
We have several very fine Res
cue Squads in our Vance-War
ren-Franklin district which
would benefit by enactment
of this bill and I intend to
support it
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You know that TV commercial where the old man with the
yellow slicker comes in all wet and cold and announces, "I am
your cold. 1 just want to be near you". You seen that one?
Well that son-of-a-Alka-Seltzer has come to my house and
brung his whole family.
I got the stuffy nose and the runny nose and the watering
eyes and the aching bones and sundry other things. I may not
survive. } feel mighty porely. -
I been taking things. I took a capsule and a pill and vitamins
and drunk some orange juice and I been to bed twice since I
had it.
I tried everything anybody suggested. And you know that's
enough to kill you! or
cure you. ' Ever wonder
where so many folks got
so many remedies? I put
hot mud on my chest
and cold mud on my feet
and it didn't do nothing
but get me dirty in both
places.
p
I
soaked my head as
was suggested long be'
fore I got this cold. And
I soaked all of me but
that didn't do much good. Didn't have no hot water.
Finally, I decided to do the smart thing. I went to the drug
store. I shouldn't oughta have.
"Doc," I said. "I got a cold. You got anything for it?"
"Yeah", lie said, "Let it go into pneumonia. They know
how to cure penumonia".
Now if there is one thing in this whole wide suffering world
I can't stand it's a smart aleck when I don't feel like it.
Pneumonia, indeed. They can cure it. Bah. Wonder if they
found a cure for smart-aleck pharmasistS?
"I got a runny nose", I said. "You got anything for it?"
"Over there", he said pointing unpolitely. "All that stuff
over there". He had a whole wall full. Covered one whole side
of his establishment.
"How do I know which one to try?" I asked. "How about
me taking a sample from each bottle and And out which one
works?"
Well you'd have thought I had asked him for his ice cream
scoop. He got all red in the face and gimme a look that almost
froze my fever.
"Take your hands off them bottles", he said. "The very
idea. You know you can't sample the medicine".
"I don't know why," I said. 'The car man lets me try out a
car that costs thousands of dollars. Why can't I try just one
little pill? I ain't gonna buy nothing that don't work. If it
don't stop a ninny no9e, I wouldn't have it How else can I
teU?"
"Just pick out the colored box you like best. Pay me. Take
it home. Try it. If it don't work, come back. Pick another box.
Pay me. Go home and try it and so on."
"Yeah," 1 said, "But this takes -time. I could die before I
found the right one. And this nose is giving me a fit ... "
I could tell he was mad and he started to walk off and leave
me. "I tell you what", I said. "Gimme one of them cork
stoppers".
Charity Begins At Home
The News Reporter, Whiteville, N. C.
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While the finger of neglect has not
been pointed at the Tar Heel state in
recent months on hunger charges as it
has with South Carolina, it is highly
probable that pockets of hunger and
malnutrition could be found all over-*
by those who really want to know if
our people have enough to eat. No
doubt there are plenty of people of all
ages who go to bed hungry and on
getting up in the morning find the
larder lacking enough to satisfy their
appetite. "
Perhaps our greatest shortcoming is
that too many do not have a balanced
diet day on day and this state of
malnutrition leads to ill .health child
ren and adults.
As many viewers may have seen on
television recently, U. S. Sen. Fritz
Hollings of South Carolina walked
into a rather dilapidated home of a
family between Cheraw and Chester
field and inquired what the family of
10 children had for breakfast that
morning. The reply was "grit*-" Evi
dently, that was all they had and
anybody knows this is far short of a
balanced diet. No milk, no meat, no
butter, real or substitute. And more,
several of the children were splotched
with various sores about their faces. If
we look hard enough the same might
be the case among many Tar Heel
families.
It would be well to look for the
causes of these casef of evident neg
lect but, the better pursuit, take. steps
for prevention. Gifts of food and
other necessary needs will help for the
moment but such handouts will not
cure the malady.
It is a simple matter for a person to
sit in a warm office and write about
what should be done and how it
should b$ done to bring about a
lasting correction of this state of
hunger and malnutrition. We don't
know what the full remedy is but
there is a conviction here and with
many more elsewhere that people
living in huriger and privation can do
things for themselves which they are
not doing.
In this land there is plenty of fresh
water, plenty of good soil for growing
things to eat and plenty of good toil
for growing crops that will produce
meat. When summer comes it is time
to prepare for winter. How many give
this a thought? It is as dignified to
operate the business end of a hoe
handle as it is to dress up for church
on Sunday. And soap and water are
cheap but too often not used.
If we are not willing to do some
thing for ourselves, then we do not
deserve others doing for us.