Tw Heel People & Issues,,, . . : • Join the budget commission and see the state!' By cuff Bine SEEING NORTH CAROLINA. .• A good guide to follow if you want to see North Carolina from the mountains to the seashore would be to set out to visit the state-owned institutions. In so do ing you wiH get an excellent view of the Tar Heel state. * INSTITUTIONS . . . Among the several state-owned institutions visited by the Advisory Budget Commission, of which the writer is a member, last week was the North Carolina -School for the Deaf at Morganton. Ben E. Hoff meyer is Superintendent of the Institution and is dedicated to the work of the school. He told us that he had a brother who was deaf, and wiien a boy he resolved that his life’s work would be with the dear. The school has around 500 students and is oae of the larg est in tbe nation-third largest we believe. It to one af the few schools for the deaf in the Uidt ed States which has a full staff of trained teachers for the deaf. This is made possible through a teacher training program winch is nationally accredited,. and which is affiliated with Appalachian State Teachers College and Lenoir Rhyne College. The school teaches several vocations, with printing being the most popular. ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITALS . . . We visited twd orthopedic hospi tals last week, the N, C. Ortho pedic Hospital at Gastonia and the Asheville Orthopedic Hospital. The Gastonia hospital was estab lished many years ago and has an average of about 160 patients. The Asheville hospital was estab lished a few years ago during a polio epidemic. H is not state-owned hot re ceives |5MM per year state support, as a grant-in-aid. It averages abr-rt 36 patients per day. Its marvelous what these institutions are doing to help crippled children. COMMUNITY COLLEGES . . . We visited two of the state's three community colleges last week, the Charlotte Community College and the Asheville-Bitonore Communi ty College. The thW one ie at Wilmington which we will visit this week. For years we have been interested in the Community College movement, feeling that it is good and sound.. Community colleges, wffl la our opinion, bring higher educa tion within the reach of many hoys and girts who are anshle to ga away team home to con done their schooling, Basic col lege education can be provided at a lower cost through com munity colleges than through the dormitory colleges. Million-dollar building for public health unit is under construction i By Jo* Mediin A new home for the University School of Public Health, provid ed for by Tar Heel voters in a bond issue last October, is now taking shape.. The million dollar building Is expected to be completed in 1962. An additional $750,000 has been earmarked by the Federal gov ernment for research and labor atory facilities in' the new struc ture. The four-story building is lo cated on Pitts boro Road across from the School of Medicine. No more students “The n§w building will give us better working conditions and fa cilities than we now have,” said Dean of the School of Public Health Edward G. McGavran. “It will not give us sufficient space to notably increase our student body or faculty and staff. "Wo are forced to give up some of the frills of a now building in order to obtain the space we badly need,” Dean McGavran said. The Perfect Memento of Chapel Hill The Southern Part of Heaven By William Mead Prince fear after year, this is Chapel Hill's favorite bookl Most shops charge $3.75. Our Special $2.49/ The Intimate Bookshop lit East Franklin St. Open Till t P.M. I “We hope for air conditioning, | which we do not consider a frill, but a necessity since we have a large number of summer school students,” he said. About 150 full time regular students are enrolled in the School of Public Health each year; Aside from this, some 700 attend summer school and regis ter for short courses and exten sion work. <00 others from UNC In addition to the above stu dents, approximately 600 other UNC students take courses in the School of Public Health every year. These students are mostly from the other UNC schools in the fields of health sciences . . The school offers 10 differ ent degrees ranging from a Certificate in Public Health Nursing to a Ph.D. degree, which is the top rung in the academic ladder. The School of Public has over 500 graduates working in North Carolina; there being at least one in each of the state’s 100 coun ties. It also has some 1,000 grad uates holding positions in other parts of the United States and approximately 300 doing public health work in foreign countries. Today the school is housed in the basement of the School of Medicine and 13 other buildings scattered over a radius of three fourths of a mile. 59 full-time on fattrlty The school presently maintain a staff of 50 full time faculty members, 29 part time faculty members and other personnel. 5,000 Patterns WALLPAPER SHERWIN-WUUAMS 404 W. franklin Tat 94041 However, it .mast be admitted that the community colleges do not have the cutlunal life of a campus with dormitories, fraterni ties, gymnasiums and other dungs which go with regular col lege life. Hie community colleges are operating on joint county and state aid. It was interesting to note teat last week a formal plea for State-supported community col lege at Elizabeth City was made by te Pasquotank County Board of Education, to the State Board of Higher Education. We suspect you will see a great growth in community colleges during the •text several years. ROG ER KESER ... Rep Roger Kiser of Scotland County happened te be in Boone 'last Friday when the Advisory Budget Commission was visiting Appalachian State Teachers College, and attended the meeting with the group. Kiser told tee group teat if he bad to choose between tee two, teat be would prefer a child to be teught in a poor building by a good teacher, rateer than in e good budding and a poor teacher. He was of the opinion that quality instructional service should not be slighted in the interest of capital improvements. MLL COPELAND . . . It will be hard to And a more ardent supporter of Terry Sanford and John Kennedy than Senator Bffl Copeiana of Hertford Com* ty. which has led some to sug gest Copeland as chief of the Kennedy-Joh noon drive for votes in North Carolina this fail. OLD SALEM . . .The Restora tion of Old Salem in Winston Salem is making great progress and it is proving a most popular place to visit, particularly for school children. In magazines and newspapers over the nation it has received wide acclaim. We think the one thing most in torestng to us at Old Salem is die Wachovia Musenm which honor* a collectioo of local antiquities. Re storation projects like Old Salem are proving to be a great boon to tourism in Tar HeeKa. Salem, a Moravian settlement, wan found ed in 1776. Ks well worth you while to nee it: Triangle Institute end Dr. Olcun featured in public works issue An article on North Carolina's Research Triangle Institute ap pears in the current isue of “Pub lic Works,” a national profes sional journal devoted to sani tary engineering. The article is written by Dr. George R. Herbert of Durham, President of the Institute. The introduction is written by Dr. Daniel A. Okun, head of the Department of Sanitary Engineer ing of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Each issue of the journal uses a photograph of an outstanding person in the field of public works on its front cover. 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