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EDITORIALS. FEATURES II. PAGE 1 to safety on highways The General Assembly of North Carolina has shown a much greater concern throughout its now fast dying session for matters of purely internal concern Chan it has for an issue of such compelling importance as highway safety. While Gov. Sanford has done supremely well in shepherding his public educational program through the Legislature, it is a sad thing to note the Legislators mis erable and willful failures in rejecting the administra tion’s highway safety proposals. Of this Che Charlotte Observer has said quite appropriately: “Throughout the session, the legislators, particularly the lawyers among them, have displayed a paternalistic concern for —- the motoring minority which flouts the law without exhibiting much sympathy for the careful and safe majority. “The 1963 session has done little to alleviate one of North Carolina’s most pressing and depressing problems. Before the next session convenes, history tells us, more than 2,000 people will die on the ’highways.” It has passed a bill requiring seat belts on all new cars sold in the state as of next year. It will likely pass a law to give chemical tests to drunken driving suspects, including in the law an ' amendment to favor tipsy motorists. This Legislature has also displayed a ridiculous de nial of space age living in slapping a limit — and even attempting to eliminate — the use of airplanes by the Highway Patrol. * •' - ' It (has delayed action on court reform, rejecting the will of Che voters of North Carolina Who approved this in last year’s referendum. It has killed a very modest and sensible motor-ve hicle safety check proposal. It has approved increasing Che speed limits on some highways. It has eased the driver license requirements for persons over 6o. It is balking at requirements for more stringent licensing regulations for teen-agers. There s one sour note in appropriations tune In the broad consideration of its financial welfare through the years, the University has never fared bet ter than it did in this session of the General Assembly.; The current prosperity of the State of North Caro lina and its sound fiscal condition have been reflected in substantially - increased appropriations for its state University. It is indeed an unusual, and a fairly cheer ful situation for that University and its administration. President Friday is pleased to admit, and the rec ord bears out his statement, chat the University got al most everything it wanted in appropriation requests from the legislature. The normally-tense period of waiting, lobbying, and hoping during these biennial sessions was not tense this time. There was compara tively little controversy. A strange refusal . . . The appropriations bill brought all - important I. QPbr Jleto* of (Grange Count? Published Eixry Thursday By -— THS NEWS INCORPORATED Hillsboro, N. C. Chapel Hill, N. C. Box 647 Box 749 Telephone 968-4444, Chapel Hill; 4191 Hillsboro Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Hillsboro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879 EDWIN J. HAMLIN.publisher ROLAN** GIDUZ . Editor --- --—s— ■ ..-.v ■-• -y . Hillsboro Office -- * 4 Hhapel h&JMlyr*-_ an x.atasn st., caprhoro l SUBSCRIPTION RA l$J5. six mo i John XXIII f MAH OA FjF/tC* ' -M'alt forty miller, fork Gazette * Daily faculty salary raises and needed increases in current ex pense and construction budgets. Only sour note in the sweet song of appropriations was the Assembly’s strange refusal to give tire University at Chapel Hill any help whatsoever in long - postponed requests for money to 'build a new undergraduate library-student union build ing and a 925-man dormitory. Precedent was incomprehensibly reversed. That these buildings have been put up with Legislature ap propriations at the University campuses in Raleigh and Greensboro could not sway the Assembly. That it has time and again in the past made appropriations for men’s dormitories in Chapel Hill did not move the As sembly to grant one cent of help toward this need today. Soak students... Instead the students themselves, for the first time in the 107-year history of the University, will have to pay the cost of these structures through fee and room rent increases. These buildings are very much needed, and worth the additional outlay on the jxtrt of the stu dents. But we join them, and the University administra tion in the fervent hope that the contradictory logic that made the Assembly so generous at one moment and niggardly at the next will not be interpreted by any body as precedent at any future budget reckoning times. Bigness and goodness aren't one and same Orange County’s oldest bank will no doubt soon join the inevitable trend of the financial world of to day in merging with North Carolina National Bank. , A news release issued by N. C. National this week shows the superior financial resources of that institu tion, in comparison to those of the Bank of Chapel Hill. The implication is that the merger will be for the over-all benefit of the community. If the actions of government regulating agencies which control these transactions are in the public inter ests, as seems probable, rhen Chapel Hill and Orange County will be better off with the resources of the giant banking institution at hand. But, almost trite to say, bigness does not necessarily mean goodness. Chapel Hillians will no doubt welcome the patent ly superior resources and services of North Carolina Na tional to their community. And they will also hope that “headquarters in Charlotte” will remember and retain the benefits of small-town banking that have been so effectively given through the 64 years of independent operation of the Bank of Chapel Hill. President's challenge to localities well given It will be better for all citizens if Americans can wo$jk -for and attain the goal of equal opportunity for afl in the peaceful and constructive manner urged by B$ejiid£f}t .Jtennedy in his address to the U. S. mayors conference in Honolulu last Monday. New oqrfy will this goal be «gsier and less unipl^s Newsman's Notepad Reaction to j Americanism i bill was not' that expected In an erudite, educationally oriented community such as Chapel Hill there are a good many persons who thought it fashionable to decry and curt ly cast aside any serious con sideration of Orange County Rep. L, J. Phipps’ American government instruction bill in the General Assembly. The General Assembly felt pretty much this way, too, in quickly rejecting the bill in the face of opposition from Su perintendent of Public Instruc tion Charles Carroll. The News man, likewise, had some ques tions in his mind as to the need for this legislation. But he didn’t feel, as a layman, that he was legitimately quali fied to simply give it an edi torial thumbs - down without some consideration by persons better qualified to piass judg ment on it. Showed to six . . So he read a copy of the bill to six different persons, all of whom he felt might well have legitimate objections to it. One was a public school history teacher, one a school adminis trator, two history professors at the University, and two po litical scientists. While most expressed seme immediate reservations on the bill, ell declared, after, been' ing a full reading of its pre visions, that they thought it would bo a good Mae — "if it means and does what 4t says, and doesn't lend to witch hunting or un-balanced super *- patriotism." (The last quote is a'composite of the summary opinions expressed.) After the bill was defeated in the Assembly The Newsman went back and asked some pf the same people again how they felt about it. Some still held to their support, but some also admitted to a new doubt — and one not generally a point of controversy in the deciding debate on it. This was a feeling that the General Assembly should not be fii mm . , w£! courses should fep taught in t|o (See NOTEPAD, Page tj,,
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