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?pf m, - f Editorial Views ****** Let's support the Red Cross Financially, it has been a disastrous year for die American Red Cross. But, when weighed by ac complishments, it has been a proud year for the humanitarian organization. Its volunteers and staff have fed, sheltered and cared for disaster victims in every state and in such far flung locales as Guam and Guatemala. The catastrophes have ranged from earthquakes to typhoons, from tornadoes and floods to fires. In so doing, the American Red Cross has expended a staggering $35 million in assistance. It's a whopping figure, the largest relief expenditure in the history of the organization's 95 years of giving this kind of help. Some of the disasters received prominence in the press, and on radio and television. Others received little notice. Typhoon Pamela's ram paging sweep across Guam is an example. The May storm left over 20,006 families with losses. The Red Cross flew in 74 relief specialists from the Mainland and Hawaii to assist Guam Red Cross volunteers. The relief costs for this little known disaster came to Hi million TO help offset this year's drain on Red Crofts resources, a nationwide special fund campaign has been launched for $10 million. This amount will be needed so the organization will be ready what natures future blows occur. The Red Cross is all too aware that the hurricane season is upon us and it must be ready to pay bills for the help that must be supplied in the im mediate aftermath of any disaster, long before federal disaster aid can be brought to bear. We say "must" because under the Red Cross' 1906 Congressional charter, the Red Cross must help "mitigate the sufferings" caused by natural calamities. It can't?and we all can be tl ^nkful for this ? turn its back on Americans who fall victim to these calamities. We believe each of us has a responsibility to help the Red Cross by donating the special fund appeal. Write a check to our local chapter earmarked for Red Cross disaster relief. We depend upon the Red Cross to fulfill its obligations. Let's fulfill ours. Misery has company Many people in the property casualty insurance business in North Carolina have complained all during the nearly 4-year tenure of State Insurance Commissioner John Ingram. When he won nomination to another term over their candidate at the August Democratic primary, their hopes for a commissioner they could better work with were dashed. In all this extended hassle between - insurance agents and their com panies and die state commissioner, the public has been mostly per plexed. They have seen things they like and dislike in Ingram. They have experienced mixed feelings over charges by insurance spokesmen that they are going broke or that companies are being forced to withdraw from the state because of low rates. According to Forbes magazine, there are other states where problems between insurance commissioners and insurance companies seem as great or greater than in North Carolina. New Jersey is the worst state for "rate adequacy," says Forbes. During a recent year that state's assigned risk plan lost $34 million, or $101 per insured car, because of inadequate rates, the report states. Other states where regulators have been creating problems for insurance people inelude Con necticut, Pennsylvania, New York, California and Michigan. North Carolina somehow wasn't mentioned directly. But while those in the casualty and property in surance business in North Carolina wait for more court reversals of Ingram's decisions and for the next meeting of the General Assembly to hopefully aid their cause with new legislation, they seem to have plenty of miserable company across die land. ? The Laurinburg Exchange A look at inflation If there'# anyone who thinks that inflation isn't affecting us all, he only has to look at the latest recom mendation concerning the nation's coins A government-sponsored study was done by the Research Triangle Institute and it was recommended that the penny be eliminated as a coin by 1980. Seems there's not much you can buy for a penny these days so instead of carrying them around, people hold them until there is enough value on hand to cash in for larger money. And, of course, we all know that there is little that you can buy for a penny anymore. There's no more penny candy The biggest use a penny has is making changt *hen the total bill comes out to some amount less than a nickel. But it wesn't clear just what would be done when a shopper spends a dollar and gets charged the extra four cents tax. In fact it wasn't even certain that the recommendation would be accepted by the govern ment. Mint Director Mary Brooks said she had reservations about the conclusion, but they would be studied. Seems like the penny is necessary to us, but then again maybe its elimination would graphically illustrate to us all just what inflation is doing. If it didn't, another part of the recommendations might. It proposed elimination of the half dollar and instituting a smaller dollar coin. That ought to dramatize inflation. We all know how the dollar has shrunk. - The Daily Reflector (Greenville) What? no pennies? currency ? bringing back the two dollar bill It has not proven to be of value in ///ooafrn^ State school tiff looms By BILL NOBLITT (From the Way. Mountaineer) The legislative stage is being set (or what could well be a major battle in 1977 ? a rewrite of North Carolina Public School Law. A legislative study com mission chaired by state Sen. Edward R?nfrow, D-Johnston County, is now meeting in two day sessions every other week in preparing the sweeping reforms which will be proposed. Ilie unknown is how seriously those proposals will be taken by members of the General Assembly. It will take legislators a good many weeks to wade through the volumes of material and pinpoint the numerous changes ? and mull the impact of each Some significant changes are raadymade for conflict. One such is f proposed constitutional amendment which has been written in draft form by the study commission. It calls for an end to the election of a state superin tendent of public instruction, presently on of the con stitutional Council of State officers elected statewide along with the commissioners of labor, Insurance, agriculture; secretary of state; auditor and treasurer; and attorney general. Under the Renfrew Com mission proposal, the State Board of Education would be made up of people chosen this way: The governor would appoint four members at large upon confirmation by the General Assembly. The other 11 would be appointed by the General Assembly from a list of nominees submitted by local school boards, with one member elected from each of the state's 11 U. S. congressional districts. The proposal spells out overlapping four-year terms shall be used, with no member serving more than two terms. Vacancies would be filled by the governor The State Board of Education would hire the superintendent, who would serve as chief administrator and secretary to the board. The proposed law makes it quite clear that the superin tendent "shall be a position exempt from the State Per sonnel Act....(with) a four year contract, one provision of which shall be that the superintendent serves at the pleasure of the majority of the total board. "If the board elects to dismiss the superintendent, other than for cause, during the contract period, the superintendent's salary and employment benefits shall continue..." Further details in the _ rewritten law specifically spell out the powers and respon- > sibilities of the State Board of Education, making it clear thai the superintendent would canty out the policies and desires of the board. The chief budget officer currently operating in the State Department of Public Instruction would simply be deleted from the law, leaving the board and superintendent to set up such an office. These changes would eliminate the present ruining conflict between some members of the State Board of Education and state schools Supt. A. Craig Phillips. A sharp difference of philosophy In education exists in top levels of the public school hierarchy. That is complicated by the status of the budget officer as any employee of the board and answering to it rather than the superintendent. Thus, questions often come up over who is actually in charge. Other proposals in the massive rewrite Job take from the General Assembly its role in approving local school system mergers, putting that authority in the State Board oi Education; formalizes the procedures for use of force to maintain discipline; and calls for the board to set up and maintain a minimum standard course of study for all public schools. The board would also maintain authority over various officials of the State Department of Public Instruction by requiring that the superintendent submit his choices to the board for ap proval. Alfl/gU'l "A" is the first letter of every alphabet ^except the old Ger man, in which it is the fourth, and the Ethiopian, in which it it the 13th! By MLLN0BJ1T to catching on in iw'f Carolina People appear to be iw'"g education ai something you do in a formal setting during a end It. For yean, educational leaden have envisioned lifelong learning as the trend for the future, and have planned in that direction Such an awareness to one of the strong supporting blocks underneath the state's com munity college system. Now, an in-depth survey in the state's most populous county has pointed out the strength and direction of the adult-learning trend: over 70 percent of those surveyed in Mechklenburg County (Charlotte) said they wanted to learn more about some subject. And not necessarily something related to Job im provement ? more just want to learn for the sake of learning something new. FUTURE PLAN8 Carried out by Central Piedmont Community College, the survey of 1,341 adults broadly representative of the community was modeled after a national survey; the purpose is to help in planning future programs and policies. Community college officials believe the results can be rather largely applied to all of North Carolina ? especially the key finding of such large numbers of people who want to go back to school. The survey went far beyond that simple finding, however, getting into kinds of subjects wanted, best times for classes, how mud) people will pay for adult learning opportunities, even some significant dif ferences between the races regarding learning. While about the same number of either race ex pressed an interest in con tinued education, more whites suggested subjects involving recreation or personal in terests. More than twice as many blacks as whites con sider 'desire to reach a per sonl goal" (a degree or Job edudtioo. . goals such simtiiirpattern with r. - ? 'complying with foemal '^Ju'^f'uieee factors led appMin^^that blacks view education clearly as a means for achieving fuller and more meaningful participation ?? ? society." INDIVIDUALNEED6 iimt significant fludhg la I reasons for learning, however, was the conclusion that those ? are as many reasons as these ? are people interested and ? subjects available. I Thus, the schools need to ? come to gripe with the moot important problem of tailoring ? education to individual needs. ? Among subjects which ? I adults want to learn, hobbies I I lead the list: pottery, weaving ? I and woodworking captured the ? interest of 54 percent ; gar- ? ?wiing and investmenU were next highest at ? percent each; followed closely by I hoshssss skills such as typing, ? I accounting and bookkeeping; ? then sewing and cooking nenj. ? At the low end were citizen- ? I Witn, medicine, physicsr-g science, biological odencafcH occult sciences, social- ? sciences, architecture and ? engineering. * I Still, overall, vocational subjects as a group were the; ? I most frequently mentioned (41 percent), even though most,., respondents said they are most, interested in learning for thg; I STofknowtadge primal and only secondarily in imr,it proving job skills . Most adulU choose classes taught a couple of evenings I each week as the beat time fo^. learning, and moat do not mind _ the prospect of spending up two years to master a new, subject area. . What are the barriers to I lifelong learning? Time, CNtJ and pressures of home and job were most often mentioned. - A slot for $2 Bill The Treasury Department has agreed to redesign the $2 bill to mollify the complaints of several congressmen. They were upset when they discovered that in order to reproduce John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back of the $2 bill, several signers were cropped out of the picture. Six delegates from New Hampshire, Virginia, South Carolina, Delaware and New York just didn't fit the bill. The new design will reinstate the delegates and, it is hoped, boost the popularity of the $2 bill, which so far -4 has failed to gain much circulation. But a major reason for the limited 0 distribution of the deuce is that moat retail-store cash registers don't have. , a slot to accommodate the bills. Clerks just stuff them under the drawer, where they languish until , returned to the bank. ?n So it would seem a redesign of the-.d cash register drawer, rather than the ,lJ bill, is in order. What's the point of stuffing six more signers under the,^ drawer??Chicago Daily News * x w /*"" TJ 1 / cons your eesr rl \ IS NOT ENOUGH (QJ / IF YOU'RE NOT V=M V WORKIM6 ON THE I?3 i RK5HT PROBLEM. ?=1 Editor s Quota Book You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork. but the will ever hurry back, to triumph in stetth over your foohth contempt Horace ? li ' 55 I (Mniiwantuiwn *) | FOR ANY PURPOSE | new cor loons < recreational j vehicle I loons | vocation J loons 4 home improvement loans ^ educational checkloan IDArsonal frw" ^wiseas I fninfl
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