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Lucille Caldwell
At Army Hospital
Miss Lucille Caldwell, former
head of the Roberson Street Cen
ter, is now on the staff of the
Aiperjcan Red Cross at Womack
Army Hospital, Fort Bragg.
Her work involves the direct
afplication of Recreation to the
individual patients, assisting the
Hospital staff in the recovery
aqd adjustment of patients to
the hospital and the community.
The patients are all veterans,
many with problems.
The Recreation Department is
composed of ten persons, and
is a part of the Social Work pro
gram of the hospital.
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PROCLAMATION—Mayor Sandy
McClamroch issued a proclamation
this week designating Nov. 10-16 as
American Education Week in Chapel
Hill. Sponsors of Education Week in
Chapel Hill are (standing, from left),
W. G. Kilpatrick Jr., commander of
BILL PROUTY
Did you see where the House
Post Office and Civil Service
Committee last Wednesday rec
ommended increases of 600 mil
lion annually in the salaries of
federal employees, including a
SIO,OOO-a-year boost in their
own pay, which would raise
the salaries of Congressmen
from the present $22,500 to a
much more substantial stipend
of $32,000?
The proposed raise, which
would affect nearly two million
federal workers, is bound to meet
with considerable resistance
from economy-minded congress
men before and if the measure
passes this session of Congress.
You know, next year being elec
tion year, the M. C.s who are
most vocal in their admonitions
against excessive spending must
make at least a token squawk
against raising their own sal
aries if they are to come out
against the measure. To do other
wise would be to commit the
gravest of political heresies, that
of demonstrable hypocrisy.
American Legion Post 6; Dr. Howard
E. Thompson, superintendent of Chapel
Hill schoors; Roy Holsten, represent
ative of the PTA Council; and Mrs.
Barbara Day, president of the Chapel
Hill NCEA Chapter.
However, since the measure is
a compromise (the administra
tion-backed recommendation had
called for a pay hike for con
gressmen of from $22,500 to $35,-
000), and since an across-the
board boost in salaries for near
ly two million persons would be
making a whole heap of political
hay, its a pretty good bet that
the recommendations of the
committee will be passed by
both houses in its present essen
tial form.
There’s really no good rea
son why it shouldn’t.
Oh, I know there are many
who will say that it’s doubtful
if all congressmen are worth
the $22,500 they’re getting now.
And in some cases they’d prob
ably be right. And there are
plenty of voters who will won
der if there are more than a
handful of lawmakers in Wash
ington worth the proposed $32,500
salary, plus, of course, all the
free-loading fringe benefits which
have attached themselves to
congressmen down through the
years.
On the other hand, is it rea
sonable to expect a congressman
to maintain two homes, his own
and one in Washington, and all
the accompanying expenses such
living implies, and to participate
in increasingly expensive re-elec
tion campaigns, on a $22,500
salary? Actually, of course, this
would of itself be impossible of
attainment except for the very
most parsimonious of our law
makers.
Yet, for a man whose career
depends directly upon the appro
bation of his voting consiiiucnts,
it’s a very ticklish business to
approve himself a big raise, and
especially in a session preceding
an election year.
Somehow it just plain strikes
most taxpayers in a sensitive
spot to see where his congress
man has voted himself a big
raise in salary. It’s sort of like
accidentally running up on your
preacher taking his just salary
out of the offertory, when all
the time you’d visualized his
having been entirely and exclu
sively provided for by the Lord.
Actually, the proposed $32,500
salary is probably not enough.
Perhaps $50,000 would be a more
adequate salary for our con
gressmen. But if this kind of
money is to be voted the law
makers, it should be passed
along with a proviso that all
nepotism must be forbidden,
along with fun-loaded junkets all
over the world, and other ex
travagant expenses-paid ven
tures so commonly practiced
now in the name of good govern
ment.
Certainly, the lawmakers of
the most wealthy nation in the
world should be provided salaries
which leave them financially in
dependent and free to concen
trate on their manifold duties to
feather-bedding jobs on their
staffs in order to make ends
meet.
No one has a solution to this
problem but our congressmen
themselves. They're the ones
who must decide whether only
those of independent
means will be able in the future
to represent their constituents in
Congress in an independent
and straight-forward manner, or
whether those lawmakers of
limited financial backing will
have to take advantage of any
fast-buck opportunity that comes
along in order to stay in Wash
ington.
The ultimate decision will lake
a lot of soul-searching, but it
must come some day. And the
sooner the better for the Con
gress and the country both.
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
STEW AND ’CUE
Barbecue and brunswick stew
supper will be held at the Cedar
Grove Fellowship Hall on Sat
urday from 5 until 8 p.m.
Heating invitation for Chapel Hill homeowners . ..
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We invite you to discuss these
heating costs with your architect,
builder or real estate agent
t
Now for the first time—a home heating cost study that
presents the full story.,
_
WITH NfIRMAI incmi ATinM WITH EXTRA INSULATION
with NORMAL INSULATION (required for electrically heated homes)
TOTAL 20 YEAR COST TOTAL 20 YEAR COST
ANNUAL FUEL COST installation, fuel, interest, ANNUAL FUEL COST installation, fuel, interest,
ANNUAL FUEL COST depreciation, maintenance ANNUAL FUEL COST depreciation, maintenance
and repair and repair
fuel oil $l4O $4,420 SB7 $3,120
NATURAL GAS $169 $4,820 I sll9 I $3,540 |
■SHB* $392 $8,940 $235 $5,640
The cost el Natural Gas would be slithtly less IT used for cooking, etc.
Figures compiled by a registered engineer, based
on the detailed plana of this average home with
1800 sq. ft of heated area.
I ■ ■ i - MODERN
• You put out less money for Oil Heat... because Fuel Oil puts out more heat!
oil
HEAT
Petition Presented
To Education Board
A four-member delegation Mon
day presented the Orange County
Board of Education a petition
asking that a proposed Negro
elementary school not be built
any closer than one jnile to
Central Junior-Senior High School
in suburban Hillsboro.
The board currently has sev
eral sites under consideration
and an option on part of one site
located diagonally across the
street from Central school. Con
struction funds for the school
amounting to $2^0,000 —were al
located this year by the Orange
County Board of Commissioners.
The petition, signed by 185 per
sons, was presented by a group
headed by a Negro PTA presi
dent, the Rev. B. A. Mack. The
group said the petitioners, by
seeking the one-mile limit, want
ed to insure an administration
separate from Centra! School.
School Supt. G. Paul Carr noted
that the proposed school would
have its own administration as
a matter of course. In view of
the petitions, the School Board
deferred action until next month
on the anticipated site selection.
Mr. Carr and Chairman Charles
Stanford later appeared before
the county commissioners, ask
ing for about SIB,OOO which they
said they would need for any
site purchase. This allocation
would be combined with about
$12,000 the School Board received
from the sales of the discontinued
Murphey and Haskins Grove
school properties.
In advising the commissioners
of the school board’s conversa
tion with Mr. Mack, Carr said:
“He (the preacher) said he
thought we would have some
of these folks that signed that
petition ... we’d have some
applications from them.” Carr
referred to applications for trans
fer to other schools.
In another school building mat
ter, Mr. Carr told the school
board that the proposed sale of
Caldwell School was called off
because the Board was not able
to give clear title to the property.
A garment manufacturer, he
added, has “backed off” from
earlier interest in purchasing the
Caldwell property.
The School Board also allocat
ed SIOO for a “patron” member
ship in the N. C. Symphony,
which is organizing a concert
for school children in the county
school system.
Mrs. Fred Cates, representing
a group helping with the local
arrangements, said about 1,000
people are expected to attend
the symphony concert, tentative
ly set for February. The pro
gram, she said, will be aimed
at fourth, fifth and sixth-grade
pupils.
The Board wound up its sewer
service program -for Orange High
School by authorizing a $1,048
payment to Dean Patterson, the
contractor, for expenses above
the contract price.
Give to the Community Chest*
Now you can take the hearsay, guess work and half trutns out
of heating costs. Here is the complete information based on
facts and accepted performance data. How much difference does
insulation make? .What about installation costs? Why should
you accept less heat and actually pay more for it? After all,
it’s your comfort, your safety, AND YOUR MONEYI
Miss Becky Wells Chosen as ‘Angel’
Mbs Becky Wells has been
selected for membership in the
Jesse J. Moorehead Squadron of
Angel Flight at the University
here.
Miss Wells, a junior majoring
in nursing, was selected on the,
basis of personality, interest, and
scholarship.
The Angel Flight is an honor
ary service organization sponsor
ed by the Arnold Air Society, a
It’s Old
Book Week
and there’s
treasure
you!
THE INTIMATE BOOKSHOP
119 East Franklin Street . Open ’Til 10 P.M.
Wednesday, November 6,1963
selective Air Force ROTC cadet
organization. The Angel Flight
supports the Air Force ROTC
and the Arnold Air Society by
promoting interest in the Air
Force ROTC program.
Miss Wells is also active as a
member of the University Chor
us and the Student Nurses’ As
sociation.
Give to the Community Chest.