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\ Editorial Opinions Heavy, Heavy, Hangs Over Thy Head. YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER'S edltori^s are the opinions of staff members. A? such they may be wrong. Whether you agree or disagree our columns, under "The People Wr^" heading, are open for you to express your own opinion. Eastern Secession Impractical “The people of Eastern North Carolina look to East Carolina College, the State’s third largest and fastest growing public institution of higher learning, already or ganized into seven schools, and they say, ‘Here already stands a university. Why not then declare it so?’ ’’ With these words, Leo W, Jenkins began the current discussion over converting East Carolina College into an independent state univer sity. But long before these words were spoken, progress toward university status at East Carolina College was well under way. The above paragraph is on the inside of the front cover of an elaborate pam phlet now being distributed in support of ECC’s bid for independent university status. The booklet is full of facts, figures, graphs and illustrations which amply prove Dr. Jenkins’ contention that his in stitution is entitled to the name “univer sity” on such counts as enrollment, aca demic structure, even its library. The one aspect of the controversy which the booklet does not go into, how ever, is the most important. Why should ECC be an “independent” university separate and apart from the rest of the state’s university system? On this key question, which disturbs people all over the state, not a word is said. Possibly the chief reason for the silent treatment is that positive ones are so few in number. All the sound reasons for ECC having university status will hold up whether it is independent or a part of the existing system. East Carolina College deserves the name university and ought to be allowed to develop its standards to true university stature. But since its own propaganda fails to make any case for “independent” status, there seems to be no good reason, except possibly obstinancy, why the in dependent status portion of the college’s otherwise sound request should not be dropped. Eastern North Carolina is in no position to go it alone without the rest of the state. For better or for worse we are just as much bound to the rest of the state, as the state is to the nation. Seces sion was never a very practical solution to problems. It is now more than a cen tury out of date even as a possibility. The sensible solution then is not to attempt to tear the state, or its carefully built up university system, apart. Instead we should be seeking to join it. The vast area east of Raleigh deserves and needs a university campus. Greenville is the logical place for it to go. But achieving this goal will be more likely if we co operate with the rest of the state, rather than either attempting to withdraw or make war on it. Aiding Local Tourist Industry '2sct\\G5ai(£: It’s coming spring again with folks taking to the highways and tourist busi ness something that will begin to pour wealth into the hands of those who are ready to take advantage of the season. So what is the Roanoke-Chowan area in general doing? Look around you. If a visitor stopped you tomorrow morning and asked what points of tourist interest in the area you could direct him to, how would you answer? Honestly now, could you name a single point of interest with sufficient descriptive details to make it .sound worth visiting? There’s Hope House in Bertie County, for example, focal point of historical in terest for the many in the area who have contributed generously to its restoration. Every county in this area of North Caro lina hasj many sites such as this, of true historical value. What do you know about them? Think hard. If you had five minutes to come up with the answer, you probably couldn’t. So what about doing something about it? First step is to open your history books or go visit some of the old-timers and then do some research and put your material into shape for use in talking to clubs or other gatherings about your favorite historical spot. After that, how about submitting your material pictures too if you have them to Your Home Newspaper? We’re always happy to make use of these stories. You could become part of the pattern to aid your local community in the tourist business in just this fashion. It’s worth a trial isn’t it? Carlton Morris Writes Invisible Indispensables 43 Million Strong Seems as if the world bows down and worships at the feet of youth while we of 39 and older can only sit on the sidelines and weep. The computers have it all figured out. Those 25 or younger are about 90 million strong in our land and make up nearly half our total population. We are prone to boast of our machines of de struction and we worship them, too, but in youth we find our real wealth. Without these same 90 million youngsters, absolutely nothing important will happen in the next 50 years. AS t a Teachers Need To Know We Care Evidently there is no way for North Carolina to maintain a reasonable com parative position among the states in sup port of public education other than pe riodically dropping way behind and then trying to catch up again. The battle of statistics this “fail-back and catch-up” business requires is now raging in wide open style. But while this apparently unavoidable procedure is in process, the need for local support of public schools should not be either forgotten or abandoned. No matter what the state does in raising teacher salaries or providing other school support, those school systems which do little other than accept what the state hands out will go lacking important ingredients that make for good schools. For too long local supplements to teacher salaries have been almost nonex istent in most rural school systems in the state, particularly in the East. The Roanoke-Chowan area is typical of those areas which in the past have done al most nothing on their own in providing school administrators with financial sup port to help attract better teachers. No teacher in any area county receives a supplement of any sort based on class room teaching. The only supplements that do exist are mostly paid with other than regular school funds, usually for athletic coaches. While coaches are teaching a subject vital to a good school—sportsmanship— by encouraging better varsity type athletic programs but doing nothing for better classroom instruction, the real pur poses of education are in some cases actually retarded rather than helped by the few local supplements that do exist. With the almost total lack in the Roanoke-Chowan of local money for use in bringing in better new teachers, it was interesting to many to learn that the Edenton city school system trustees last wpj^ voted to almost double its local I cner supplement for next year. Eden ton plans to increase by 80 per cent its supplement from $150 to $270 for the nine-month school term. This will amount to $30 per month over and above the teacher pay provided by state funds. While $30 a month is not a large sum, . its affect can be expected to be more valuable than just the monetary rewards to the individuals receiving it. By local support of teacher salaries, a school sys tem providing it is saying in clear, un mistakable terms to its teachers, “We be lieve your work is important. We believe it so much we are spending our own local money as a premium on your work. In return we expect premium performance.” The psychological rewards to a school system which pays a local supplement is at least as important, often more so, than is its effect in attracting better teachers. At least one Roanoke-Chowan school board—Hertford County’s— has during recent months discussed instituting a local teacher supplement. All the boards would do well to do so. Its effect in bring ing more respect to teaching and other side psychological benefits will be well worth the expenditure, no matter how small. The state is almost certain to raise teacher salaries by a considerable amount when the legislature meets. But this ought not to be enough, no matter how large. If “our” schools are really “ours” then the people working in them ought to be getting a token sum of local money as proof that we really care about what they are doing to, with and about “our” children. However, we*re still the people who make the decisions, -we o-ve-r occupyv the so called seats of power, though we’re not sought after by business or Industry, and If we haven’t established our ownbusiness or otherwise made ourselves independent by the time we reach 40, we’re more than likely to be on the outside looking In. I’m prone to call us middle aged people, ’’old goats,” or ’’forgotten men” but Time magazine has named us the INVISIBLE INDISPENSABLES. I think they call us invisible because you don’t see many of us on TV or In popular magazines. We don’t photograph too well, and we’re not too graceful when we do the ’’monkey” or ’’mashed potato.” And here’s another figure that will sur prise a lot of people. We INVISIBLE INDISPENS ABLES are 43 million strong and make up about one-fifth of the nation’s population. We are the guys who pick up the tabs. Time pointed out that we have financed most of the student riots and rebellions from California to New York and our actions and decisions have a profound effect on how the other four-fifths of the people live. It appears to me that It all of us, young and old alike, could turn away from our evil ways and get back on the side of the Lord, our youngsters would be entering a thousand years of peace and prosperity. There’s no need to kill people off in wars or otherwise, lor we have so many great Remember Me? Remember me? I’m the fellow who goes into a restau rant, sits down, and patiently waits while the waitresses do everything but take my order. I’m the fellow who goes into a depart ment store and stands quietly while the sales clerks finish their chit-chats. I’m the fellow who drives into a gaso line service station and never blows his horn, but waits patiently while the at-* tendant finishes reading his comic book. Yes, you might say I’m a good guy, but do you know who else I am? I’m the fellow who never .comes back! And it amuses me to see businesses spending thousands of dollar every year to get me back into their stores, when I was there in the first place. And all you had to do to keep me was to give a little service and show me a little courtesy. Looking Backward Interesting items reprinted from the old files of the Roanoke-Chowan Times My MISS ESTHER CONNER, Editor Emeritus FEBRUARY 6, 1930 son, his former pastor. A thought for the week - Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right, - Proverbs 16:8, The Woman^s MissionarySociety ofRichSquare Baptist Church gave a program at the County Home Sunday afternoon. It was good news to Northampton people made in the daily papers last week that in the F ebruary letting of road and bridge contracts the State Highway Commission had included two North ampton projects, a new bridge at Weldon, and paving the six miles of road from Garysburg to Pleasant Hill, Work on the four miles of approach to the new bridge site has been begun. The vocational agriculture students of Conway High School have completed 15 tables for the high school cafeteria. FEBRUARY 4, 1937 The toy orchestra of the first and second grades of the Seaboard High School gave a chapel program last Monday morning. The orchestra is composed of 90 children. The Northampton Chapter of the Meredith Col lege Alumnae Association will meet on Saturday afternoon, February 6, with the Seaboard alumnae in the home of Mrs. H. K, Harris. Mrs, W, C. Conner of Rich Square, president of the local chapter, will preside at the county meeting. Conway Parent-Teacher Association will ob serve Founders Day Monday, February 17, at the school house at 7:30 p.m. Special program is being prepared and a birthday cake for the as sociation will be cut and sold at five cents a slice. Come and donH forget - "We want you to buy a slice of cake," thereby aiding the national exten sion of Parent-Teacher work. ^‘J don^t know where the world is headed (1 have my suspicions, though)/' said Old Sorehead, ''hut at its rapidly in creasing speed, it'll soon get there/' The Rev. R, M. Von Miller filled his regular appointment at Potecasi Baptist Church Sunday morning at 11 o^clock. He was dinner guest in the home of Mrs. Euzelia Doffermyre. "Women are members of the lost sex," says a woman psychiatrist. She is badly mistaken, as any man can testify who ever tried to lose one of these members. Rich Square suffered a distinct loss last Fri day night, January 31, when one of its beloved citizens, Joseph Warren Weaver, passed to the great beyond in his 71st year. The funeral was held in the Methodist Church Monday afternoon conducted by his pastor, Dr. O. P. Fitzgerald, assisted by the Rev, R. M, Von Miller of the Bap tist Church, and the Rev. B.C. Thompson of Jack- NORIHAMPTON TIMES-NEWS RICH SQUARE & JACKSON. N. C.. THURSDAY. FEB. 2, 1967 R-C Editors Say... This Doll Was Special By LAURA HARRELL Editor Bertie Ledger-Advance Windsor All of a sudden there she was again - Ann Sheridan, the beautiful movie starlet whom I had known as a little girl when there was nothing to do except go to the movies and play dolls. Ann Sheridan had special meaning for both activities because I had an Ann Sheridan doll. That was one of those very special dolls that little girls keep - not to play with but just to look at. One writer said Ann Sheridan’s death invoked a number of mem ories for the filmgoers who cut their teeth on the Hollywood films of the Forties. Without trying to reveal too much about my age, I must admit that I don’t remember much about her movies but I do remember that she was very beautiful and, at that age, I was happy to have anything in my possession that resembled a movie star. Not only was the doll special because it was an Ann Sheridan doll. It was extra special because I won it in sort of a popularity contest. Each year the Windsor Pharmacy had a contest with coupons being given with purchases to count as votes for any boy or girl named. As best I can recall that year the top prize was a large bride doll but that wasn’t the one I wanted. I wanted that Ann Sheri dan doll. Apparently I let my wishes be known among enough of my adult friends. I can remember the night the votes were counted almost as if it were yesterday. I was so anxious to get that doll and get it I did. Sometime back in the late summer I was cleaning out an extra room and I looked in the box where my dolls are still kept (no, I don’t still play with them). That Ann Sheridan doll is as pretty as it ever was and I wondered what happened to the movie star of over 20 years ago. Now I know that for almost a decade she only worked sporadical ly in summer and winter stock, A few years ago she landed a con tinuing role in a television soap opera. This served as a reminder to producers of her ability. Finally last fall she returned to Hollywood in her own weekly series, "Pistols ’n Petticoats.’’ It wasn’t much but it was nice that she was able to be working again because a lingering illness took her life last week. It was a good time for a performer to die _ when she was starring and having critics saynice things about her. I shall continue to treasure that doll. It has been tucked safely back away until another day when I’ll take it out for another nos talgic look. things going for us, things that can only be done by the young, we can be prosperous to the end of time. I have no idea in what paper you will read this column, but in the next few years you can bet your life that the paper itself will undergo some drastic changes. Already there has been more progress in the printing business during the last 10 years than there has been since Gutenberg invented movable type in the I5th century. For instance in Miami, Fla,, and in Toronto, Canada, reporters now feed their stories into electronic typewriters. From tyat point on until truck drivers pick the papers up for distribu tion there is no handling with human hands. All typesetting, page layouts, printing, assembly and bundling is done by computer controlled machinery. WHAT'S NEWS AT ItMifTTriTtelir; ■Inorthampton memorial J l'UI IhMlI bi 1 » 1 Ml LIBRARY A 19-year-old lad, doing his homework as signment in science, developed a tube that gene rates a laser beam powerful enough to melt gran ite in seconds and the human body can be re duced to a greasy spot in the winking of an eye. Used for peaceful purposes, imagine what this beam can do. Tunneling through mountains be comes child’s play and there are thousands of other lesser uses. As a matter of fact, a high speed tunnel under our east coast cities from Boston to Washington has long been dreamed of but the expense was prohibitive. With the laser beam it can be done in a fifth of the time and cost. Great things are happening in all phases of our material life. Yet few of us see all this. Rather we are content to read about the war and listen to the way-out dream world of television and argue politics. Open your eyes young man. The world has many new frontiers left to conquer. We invis ibles see them, but they can’t see us. They belong to the young. Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Outland moved on Monday from Elm City to Rich Square where Dr. Outland will be engaged in the practice of medicine. For the present they are making their home with Dr. Outland’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R, W. Outland, The Rich Square basketball teams losttoAure- lian Springs teams Tuesday night, the girls score being 30-19 and boys score 16-12. For the moment we can talk of nothing other than the success ful tea honoring Mrs. Nancy M. Froelich upon her recent retire ment which took place here at Northampton Memorial Library on the ^ternoon of January 26 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. The weather smiled upon the occasion with a bright and balmy day. The rooms were tastefully decorated throughout by a committee of la dies from the Jackson Book Club who used the glossy greens of magnolia and holly to accentuate the medley of colors in the books upon the shelves. Upon the tea table and on the mantel banked with green white tapers burned in silver holders. The honor guest was presented with a love ly pale pink orchid. Dainty party food consisting of petite-fours, nuts, mints, and punch was pro vided by Mrs. M, B. Stephenson who catered the affair. All this, and the smiling faces of dear friends from near and far plus the obvious pleasure and keen appreciation of Mrs. Froelich, made this a memorable day for the 125 guests who came during the afternoon. Mrs. W, M. Ste phenson assisted by Mrs, Eric Norfleet greeted guests upon ar rival. Mrs. E. W. Lewis presid ed at the guest book which was presented to Mrs. Froelich at the end of the afternoon to keep among her souvenirs. Mrs. T, T. Ste phenson, Mrs. T. J. Draper, and Mrs. J, Q. Taylor served at the tea table. We, the staff, had a lovely time acting as floating hostesses and assisting wherever needed. The high spot of the afternoon was the emotion - packed moment when Buxton Weaver presented Mrs. Froelich with a surprise gift from her long-time co-work- ers on the Courthouse square, the library staff, and the mem bers of the Library Board of Trustees. His presentation re marks were so beautiful and "right" that, for the sake of you you could not come and for those who did not hear, we will enter them in this column. "Miss Nancy: "I have a most pleasant duty to perform, but under the circum stances I am bound to make it short to keep from breaking down before I finish. "The Board of Trustees, mem bers of the Jackson Book Club, and the Courthouse people, as well as so many of yoiir friends,- ^e testifying today to the love that they have for you and the es teem in which you are held by all of our people. "You have resigned as the county librarian, a post that you have filled for so many years in bad times and good and the library today stands as a living memorial to your accomplishments. In fact, the Northampton County Memo rial Library and Mrs, Nancy M. Froelich are inseparable in the minds of our people, and always will be so. "We are going to rely upon you for advice and counsel whenever we feel that we may be headed for trouble. Although you will not be behind your desk every day you will always be here in our thoughts. "I understand that there is a little item that you have wanted for a long time, but a new roof, a new heating system, an accident and other things have intervened, "Therefore, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, the library staff, and the Courthouse gang, I am happy to present to you this little gift with the hope that it will always convey to you the affection that we hold for you." The gift was a handsome two skinned mink neck piece which Miss Nancy proudly wore for the remainder of the afternoon. Thank you, Buxton, for putting our feelings into appropriate words. The only cloud upon this day was that many of you could not share it with us. We missed you. Don't forget that the bookmo bile is back on the trail. Watch the papers for the schedule in case one of the changes effect you. We don’t want to miss you. Watch for What’s News at Northampton Memorial Library. Marriage Licenses JACKSON -The following mar riage licenses were issued by the Northampton County Register of Deeds office for the week of Jan uary 30: Thomas Wilton Burgess, 20, of Sedley, Va., and Alice Clarke White, 20, of Franklin, Va.; Gio vanni Porter, 19, of Pensacola, Fla., and Teresa Griffin, 19, of Hopewell, Va.; William Ronnie Pearson, 22, of Wilson and Mary Norma Barfield, 20, of Wilson. On next Sunday eveningin the Rich SquareMeth- odist Church, a sacred concert will be given un der the auspices of the Woman’s Missionary So ciety. In addition to the local choir, members from Seaboard, Bethany, Conway and Woodland choirs, and Mrs, Perry Bryant of Lasker will present special numbers. Mrs. J. A, Fleetwood of Conway, violinist, will also be a guest on the program. "The man who doesn't look at a pretty girl as she enters a room, but at others to study their reactions, is a philosopher," says a psychologist. Perhaps so; at any rate, he’s old enough to have become a philosopher. Miss Margaret Brown of Burgaw visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs, E. L. Brown, during the weekend. “Construction Worker Escapes Serious Death.”— Headline. Some people believe that under any circum stance death is serioiLs.
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