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Hoke Highlights by Donna Holland September is the month that begins when it is summer aiid ends when it is autumn. It is a month in which many events take place, such as Labor Day, Citizenship Day, and some people celebrate their New Year during this month. All of these go together to make September a very interesting and important month for everyone. However, the biggest interest about September to Hoke High students is that school begins again, after the summer vacation. Jobs, summer trips, and the other recreation that has kept us busy all summer have to be put aside for club meetings, football games, band practice, chorus practice and, of course, a little studying too. The citizens of Hoke County just do not realize how busy we students are, and the Hoke High column will inform them of our activities. If a student or group of students get in trouble, it always makes the news and I think the good that goes on at our school should be known about too. My name is Donna Holland and I am a sophomore. This year I hope to stay posted on activities that clubs or other organizations are involved in at the high school. With the help of the students, we may even be able to make Hoke Highlights as interesting as a "Letter to the Editor". Burlington F aces Cotton Dust Standard ] Burlington Industries is intro ducing its cotton textile employees to the realities of the new cotton dust standard recently announced by the Occupational Saftety and Health Administration (OSHA). Dr. Harold Imbus, Burlington's medical director and a recognized specialist in byssinosis, said, "We are required by the new regulation to inform all our cotton plant employees of its contents. Thus, every cotton plant employee is being fully briefed on the new standard and how it will effect his or her job. We're using the best communicatins methods we have -- including video presentations ?? to show employees all aspects of the standard, because the success of our compliance effort will depend largely upon their cooperation. Even though we do not agree Disabled Veterans Mobile Unit To Be In Southern Pines Soon Free assistance for veterans and their families will be available locally when a Field Service Unit of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) visits Southern Pines on September 19. This is the fifth consecutive year that one of these 26 - foot mobile offices has visited the state, providing free counseling and claims service to veterans and their families. The DAV Field Service Unit will be located at the Town and Country Shopping Center in Southern Pines from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The traveling veterans' service facility will be named by DAV National Service Officers who are fully qualified and trained to assist veterans and their families in filing claims for Federal and State bene fits to which they are entitled by law. These include disability com pensation. pension, employment and job training rights, educational benefits, hospitalization and med ical care. Social Security, death claims and more. During the first four years of the DAV's nationwide tour wkh its fleet of nine Field Service Units. 183.000 veterans and dependents contacted the mobile offices for assistance. As a result of these visits. DAV National Service Of ficers filed 10.400 new claims and reopened another 57.000 claims for veterans" disability compensation and pension benefits. Thousands of claims for other government bene fits were also filed. A veteran need not be a member of the DAV to take advantage of this free service. The project is an extension of the DAV's 50 - year - old National A. A. Meetings Wed. 8 p.m. Nursing Home Dining Room B&B Cleaning Service Carpet Steam Cleaned High Pressure Cleaning IHomes, Heavy Equipment, etc.) CALL Roy Bellamy Tel. 875-5489 f il DA V MOBILE UNIT ?? Veterans and their families in cities and towns across America are taking advantage of the free counseling and claims filing services provided by the Disabled American Veterans [DAV] Field Service Unit program. One of these mobile offices, manned by experienced DA V National Service Officers, will be located at the Town and Country Shopping Center in Southern Pines on September 19. Service Program that provides a variety of assistance at no cost to veterans and their families. Under this program, the DAV employs 280 full ? time National Service officers -? more than 80 percent of whom are disabled veterans of the Vietnam War period -? at Veterans Administration (VA) facilities across the country. From July 1976 to June 1977. the most recent full year for which statistics are available, these Na tional Service Officers successfully handled 257.000 individual cases representing Federal benefits total ing S642 million for veterans and their families. DAV National Commander Oliver E. Meadows pointed out that the Field Service Unit program is needed to complement the DAV's National Service Program because. "Many veterans, depend ents and widows live some distance from VA facilities where DAV National Service Offices are locat ed. Our Field Service Unit program carries DAV services right to the doorsteps of these people. It's surprizing how many people don't even know what benefits they're entitled to until they step into one of our mobile offices." DAV officials urge veterans of all wars, particularly disabled vet erans, to take advantage of this free service by visiting the DAV mobile service unit to discuss any problems they may have concerning benefits. "Special emphasis is placed on Vietnam Era veterans," said Mea dows, "because many of these young men and women are not taking advantage of the benefits they've earned.' Local DAV and DAV Auxiliary members are cooperating with the National Headquarters of the 550,000 - member DAV in bringing the Field Service Unit program to this area. Wisdom We must be silent before we can listen ; We must listen before we can leam; We must leam before we can prepare: We must prepare before we can serve: We must serve before we can lead. ?William A. Ward JESSE HELMS: A Man Who Cares CITIZENS FOR JESSE HELMS Coach Wallace Wad* lormer Duke U Football Coach Durham, N C Richard Petty NASCAR Racing Champion Asheboro. N C Jim "Catfish" Hunter Pitcher, New York Yankees Ahoskie. N C Congressman Charles Jonas Lincolnton, N C Mrs William B Umstead Wile of former Congressman, Governor and U S Senator Durham N C Charles Reynolds former Denocrattc State Senator and president of NCSU Alumni Assoc Gayle Bo mar lormer UNC quarterback Durham. N C Dr Danny Lotz former UNC basketball star, son in law of Dr Billy Graham Raieigh, N C Edwin Pate former Democratic State Senator l.aurinburg. N C Col William T Joyner former chairman, N C Democratic Party. Raleigh, N C Melville Broughton. Jr lormer chariman, N C Democratic Party and candidate for Governor Raleigh. N C Senator Jesse Helms is a man who cares about people. All his life, Jesse has worked to help others. His commitment to service is real, and one for which he works every day of his life. ? Because of his work for our senior citizens, Jesse was inducted into the Golden Age Hall of Fame by the National Alliance of Senior Citizens. ? Senator Helms' work for our vet erans hs won him a special award from the Legionnaires and the gold medal from the N.C. Dept. of the V.F.W. ? Jesse has won the Southern Baptist national award for service to mankind as well as the annual Freedoms Foundation award ? His leadership and hard work made possible the annual Cerebral Palsy telethon... which has raised over $1,500,000 for the crippled children of North Carolina. Paid for by the N C Congressional Club. Lib Smith. Treasurer ? "No man in public life is held in higher esteem for his integrity and morality than Jesse Helms." Alton Lennon: U.S. Senator & long term U S. Representative Jesse Helms is a man who cares about people... a man we can be proud to have working for us in the United States Senate. Jesse needs your vote in November. Let's re-elect Senator Jesse Helms. m Jesse. ..he's working for North Carolina with some its provisions, we're asking employees to help us comply with the standard, since it is now law. "One provision we Find partic ularly unfortunate is the require ment that beginning October 4 employees wear respirators in areas where dust levels are above the new 200 microgram standard. In many areas, technology is simply not available to bring the dust levels down to the 200 microgram level. "We believe, based on evidence of more than eight years of research and medical testing, that a 500 microgram dust level, plus a tho rough medical surveillance pro gram such as we have, adequately protects our employees." He went ahead to say that there seems to be little public under standing of what 200 micrograms of dust in a cubic meter of air (required in a new standard) really means. "For this reason." he said, "we're demonstrating in our video presentation that it's the equivalent of one speck of pinhead size dust in a quantity of air about the size of a large cook stove." Dr. Imbus noted that the com pany was concerned that complying with the new standard will be difficult, if not impossible, in some yarn processing areas. Thus, Bur lington has supported the Ameri can Textile Manufacturers Insti tute in its suit against OSHA which was filed recently in a Federal court. "We feel we've done much to bring cotton dust under control in our plants," he said, adding that the incidence of "reactors," that is, employees who experience chest tightness in the workplace, has dropped from 6 percent when the Burlington program began in 1970 71 to less than 1 percent today. "Much of this is attributed to dust - control equipment, in which we have invested well over S35 million," he added. "Since equip ment is not available to reach the 200 microgram standard in some*, areas, we cannot accurately esti mate costs. But we know it will be extremely expensive." In addition to mechanical means of lowering dust levels, Burling ton's byssinosis program incudes testing of all employees working in cotton plants, periodic re - testing, maintenance of health records to detect any change in breathing capacity, transfer of affected em ployees to less dusty areas without loss of pay, referral to specialists at company expense when necessary, and support of worker compensa tion for those medically diagnosed as having bvssinosis. He added that Burlington recent ly conducted a program to recall former employees who are thought to have had a problem for re - testing and to consider compensa tion settlements where conditions warrant them. Commission Works Overtime To Select N. C. Textbooks Since the days of the little red school house there have always been textbooks. School children have studied them, learned from them, and even once in a while grown up to write one. Each one of the books public school children in North Carolina are issued come as a result of thousands of hours of work, study and deliberation by the 14 members who comprise the North Carolina Textbook Com mission. According to Jim Martin, superintendent of the Stanly Co. Schools, and chairman of the Textbook Commission, "The books are not picked arbitrarily. On a particular text each commission member will have many people reading the book and giving their advice. On a book, we will have input from 75 to 100 people." The job of the Textbook Com mission is a tough one. It's not one of those meet -eatand- go - home commissions. Martin has one entire office crammed to the ceiling with textbooks set aside for nothing but Textbook Commission work. An other member, a teacher, devotes all day every Saturday to her commission work. It's no wonder moit of the members serve only one four - year term. Mrs. Jeanne Brown, who serves as administrative secretary to the commission, says she doesn't see "how in the world people with full time jobs can do this mammoth job, but they are dedicated and conscientious. It's a real labor of love." Here, in simplified terms, is a step - by - step description of the textbook adoption process In North Carolina: The first step is the appointment of the Textbook Commission. Members are named by the Gov ernor, on the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The law provides that the commission shall be composed of 14 members, seven of whom shall be outstanding teachers or principals in the elementary grades, five outstanding teachers or principals in the high schools and two parents. There is an added provision that one of the members may be a county or city super intendent. The State Board of Education authorizes textbook adoptions as set forth in the state law. The state superintendent notifies members of the commission that there is to be an adoption in a given subject area. The state superintendent also noti fies all textbook publishers and representatives registered to do business in the state of the adoption call and invites them to submit any materials they would like to have considered. The professional staff of the state agency develops a thorough over view of the program of studies and develops a concise statement of philosophy, goals, and objectives for the subject area under con sideration. This statement reflects any changes or innovations in the program and takes into account current trends and emphasis stemming from sound, authori tative research and experimenta tion. During the review and evaluation process the commission members secure the help of as many advisors as they wish. The number will vary, but the usual practice has been for each member to select eight to 12 such advisors. Each member tries to secure a representative group including classroom teachers, col lege personnel, supervisory and administrative personnel, laymen, and students. Once the review process is com pleted, each commission member files a written evaluation of every book submitted. These reports are delivered to the state superin tendent. At the next meeting of the State Board of Education after evaluation reports are filed, the members of the commission meet with the board for joint review and considerations of the reports. In the evaluation of textbooks the mem bers of the commission do not concern themselves in any way with the prices of the book or its physical features. Following the joint session of the Textbook Commission and the State Board of Education to con sider the findings and recommen dations of the commission, the board officially calls for sealed bids on those books which the com mission found to be most appro priate. Bids are customarily re ceived on five to eight books. At the next meeting the bids are opened and contracts awarded. Where significant differences in the appropriateness of books were noted by the commission, the board traditionally has placed priority on securing the best materials avail able. The textbook selection pro cess normally takes four to six months. North Carolina carries a massive inventory of textbooks. According to Claude Warren, director of the Division of Textbooks for the state education agency, the state has an inventory of about 10 million basic textbooks, In an average year, about three million new books are added. At present, there are 306 titles available for use in grades one through eight and 5% titles avail able lor grades nine through 12. The average text is in use about five years. The State Board of Education adopts three to four basal texts for each subject area and the local school units determine which of those should be used. 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