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People & Issues
GASOLINE PRICES ...
Gasoline prices are too high, and 1
hate to mention the subject.
However, gasoline prices have
been easing down during the last
several months, whereas almost
everything else has been creeping
up and up. Maybe there's hope!
COMMUNITY COLLEGES ...I
have been connected with the
Community College since our pre
sent system was established in
1963, in one way or another. I was
appointed a member of the San
t'ord Commission on Education
Beyond the Hi?h School in 1%1. It
recommendea the state-wide
system of community colleges and
technical institute to the 1963 Ses
sion of the N.C. General
Assembly. It was my privilege to
serve as House Speaker that year
and the community college bill was
enacted by the House with one
vote against, by Rep. Roger Kiser
of Scotland County. Rep. Kiser
was a retired school teacher. He
voted against it, saying that we
were not doing enough for the
public schools, and that we should
not establish another system of
education until we could do more
for our present school system
The community college system
has brought education beyond the
high school to more boys and girls,
and also men and women, than
anyone dreamed of 18 years ago.
Not only has the community col
lege system brought education to
the high school graduate, but also
to the men and women who have
taken advantage of the opportuni
ty after marriage to attend college
and learn a trade or profession that
they never dreamed about 20 years
ago.
FIVE YEAR PLAN. ..What
brought all this to mind was a
meeting last week at Sandhills
Community College where 1 served
as a trustee for nearly 16 years
before being clected by the General
Assembly to the State Community
College Board.
Dr. Raymond Stone is president
of Sandhills Community College
and has done an outstanding job.
He and his assistants have been
studying a new "five year plan" as
to how best to continue to provide
the most in the widening horizon
for the Sandhills Area students.
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Dr. Stone is right. While most
community colleges and technical
institutes feel they are doing the
best, every few years it is well to
stop, look, and plan.
That's what was going on at
Sandhills Community College last
week. This would be something
good for all community colleges ~
and technical institutes to study. 1
Stop, Look, consider the past,
and the opportunities of the
future.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP...
When President Reagan was out
west last week speaking to Iowa
and Indiana lawmakers he used an
old phrase, "put up or shut up."
This reminds us of some of the late
Harry Truman's plain talk in his
1^48 campaign for reelection, when I
he surprised himself and the nation
when the election results gave him
another victory!
SHARING JOBS.. .Last week 1
mentioned sharing jobs among the
Federal employees. I suggested
that three might do the work of
four in Washington, but if the
fourth person couldn't find work
that he or she work on in the same
group and that the four be paid
what three had been getting. |
Come to think of it, it might be
more practical to begin with to let
one out of ten go, but if the one let
go was unable to locate a job, let
the ten remain on until someone
found a job, while the pay was cut
ten percent until one dropped out
or did find a job.
This is a compassionate way to
face the unbalanced budget
without anyone having to go g
jobless. '
1 suspect that the average
government worker's salary in
Washington is right much more
than the average Tar Heel worker's
in North Carolina, and such a plan
would not put anyone in the poor
house.
SENATOR HOLLINGS ...
Senator Ernest Hollings of South
Carolina has come up with a pretty
good substitute to President
Keagan's proposal towards balanc- ?
ing the Federal budget. He would
forgo the 10^o tax break due this
year, and says his plan would cut
Reagan's 1983 deficit in half and
produce a surplus in 1985.
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear cuitor:
According to a newspaper article
I read last night. "Analysts inside
and outside government say the
economy in the first quarter of 1982
will show a decline, but will show
a.n upturn by the fourth quarter."
In view of the fact there are some
people as well as some businesses,
including some big ones, that
aren't sure they can hold out till the
? fourth quarter. I think I have a
solution.
The economic analysts are using
the wrong numbering system and
the solution is to change it. They
ought to count the four quarters of
a year like satellite launchers count
for a blast-off. Four, three, two.
one.
Thus we'd be in the fourth
quarter now. not the first, and the
upturn would be at hand. Inflation,
interest rates and unemployment
would be down and car sales, home
construction and farm prices would
be up.
lo get my mind off terrorists,
nuclear bombs, crime and the
forthcoming political campaigns 1
have been keeping tab on econo
mists and their ideas on what
causes and cures economic trouble,
along with which one I think comes
closest to hitting the nail on the
head instead ol his thumb.
So lar I've found only one who
seems to know what he's talking
about and I don't know who he is.
He was being interviewed on tele
vision in one of those 30-second
glimpses and 1 didn't get his name.
He was asked what caused the
current recession and how can we
get out of it.
He looked the camera straight in
the eye and said: "1 don't have the
slightest idea."
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Sewing Workshop
For Young People
Set For Monday
If you are between the ages of 9
and 19 and are interested in
learning how to sew, then the Hoke
County 4-H program invites you to
sign up for their sewing workshop.
The first workshop will be held
on Monday. February 22. at 6 p.m.
at the Lester Building (Agricultural
Extension Office, South Magnolia
Street). The following classes are
tentatively scheduled for March 2. )
9. lb. 23 and 30 from 6-8 p.m. at
the Hoke Courty Library.
Parents are asked to attend the
first session to reccive information
on materials needed for the work
shop.
The beginners' sewing workshop
will be limited to the first ten
people who register. Interested
persons should call and register by
Friday. February 19 by calling the g
4-H office at 875-2162.