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LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER Remark* to th# Graduating Class of Florida Southern College at the Commencement Service on Monday, May 4, 1970 by President Charles T. Thrift, Jr. This commencement ceremony marks th* completion of an Important phase of your Ilf*. It is an occasion in which all who know you can share in your sens* of pride and accomplishment. You have had the unusual privilege this morning of hearing Lord Caradon, the Permanent United Kingdom Representative •t the United Nations, remind‘you that the hope of th* world lies not in nations, not in great movements, but in individuals like you. He has pointed out how individuals may still make their voices heard even at th* international level. Yesterday you heard Mr. George Hartzog, Director of the National Park Service, speak about our enviromhont and our responsibility for improving it. This is an occasion in which all who know you can share In your sense of pride and accomplishment. No one has more pride in your accomplishment than the older generation. How ever, I am not going to tell that older generation how bright you are. Nor am I going to say we have made a mess of things and you — the younger ones — are the hope of man kind. I would like to reverse the process. I want to'ask you of the graduating class to look over your shoulders, first to the left and then to the right, and I will re introduce you to representative* of some of the most remarkable people ever to walk the earth. People you might want to thank on this, your graduation day. They are the people you already know — your parents and your grandparents. I think you will agree that a remarkable people they are indeed. Lit me tell you a little about them. Not long ago an educator from Northwestern University by the name of Bergen Evans, a radio performer known to your parents, got together some facts about these two generations — your parents and grandparents. I would like to share some of these facts with you. These — your parents and grandparents — are the people who within just five decades — 1920 - 1970 — have by their work increased yoiir life expectancy by approximately 50 per cent — who while cutting the working day by a third, have more than doubled per capita output. These are people who have given you a healthier world than they townd. iiecao»e cf ihis, you no longer have to fear epidemics of flu, typhus, diptheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles or mumps that ihey knew in their youth. The dreaded polio is no longer a medical fa-tor, whi!e TB is almost unheard of. Let me remind you that these remarkable people lived through history's greatest depression. Most of you know of want and hunger only through the experience of others. You have learned that there are some people in some areas of America in dire need, but few if any of you have ever experienced such need personally. Many of the people of whom I speak today — your parents and grandparents — know what it is to be poor; what it is to be hungry and cold; to be unemployed and on public assistance. They know what it is to have their spirits crushed, in a manner equaling any mood produced by the so-called ghetto of the seventies. Because they gave you the best, you are the tallest, healthiest, brightest, and probably best looking generation to inhabit the land. Because they were materialistic, you will work fewer hours, learn more, have more leisure time, travel to more distant places* end have more of a chance to follow your life's ambition. These are also the people who fought man's grisliest war. They are the people who defeated the tyranny of Hitler, and who vyhen it was all over, had the compassion to spend billions of dollars to help their former enemies rebuild their homelands. These are the people who had the sense to begin the United Nations. It was representativas of these two generations, who through the highest court of the land, fought racial discrimination at every turn to begin a new era in civil rights. They built thousands of high schools, tralnad and hired tens of thousands of better teachers, and at the same time made ihigher education a very real possibility for millions of youngsters — where once it was only the dream of a wealthy few. They made a start — although a late one — in healing the ,4cars of the earth and in fighting pollution and the destruction of our natural environment. They set into motion new laws giving conservation new meaning, and setting aside land for you and your children to enjoy for generations to come. They also MM the duMes* record for paying taxes — al though you will ipafcsbty exe«N! them In this. ' ' ■ ' iMtff?- i ■ f. >■ While they have dopo-aiJMN JW—k ft»V .hi* had soma, \/aAa r/ifi gi Q-Does the VA provide any educational program for veter ans disabled in military service? A — Yes. There is a rehabili tation program for veterans whb suffer serious service-connected disabilities. For information on this program, contact the near est VA office, or your local ser vice organization representative. Q — 1 ani a World War II veteran and the VA has advised me that I can carry, only $10, 000 worth of Government Life Insurance. Is this true? A — Yes. The maximum of. $10,000 in VA insurance cover age is established by law. ' Q — Is a veteran penalized if he pays off a GI home mortgage loan before it is due? A — No. A GI loan may be prepaid without -penalty at any time. Prepayments may be made in the amount of the regular monthly installment or $100. whichever is lesser, or irt any larger amount. Q — I am 62 years old, and desire to convert my National Service Life Insurance term pol icy to the modified life plan. What premium must I pay? A — Sorry, you cabnot con vert to the modified life plan after age 60. However, Ordi nary Life has the lowest prem ium of the other plans available at your age. i Q — i understand veterans ( | have deadlines which they must meet to be eligible for certain benefits. Is there a deadline for applying for VA hospital care? ,, A — No. There is no time lim it for a veteran to receive hos pital care if he is eligible, needs, it, and a bed is available. Beds are always available at VA hos pitals for veterans with a ser vice-connected disability. Legal Notices IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA JONES COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S — EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of Roxie Mumford Gooding of Jones County, North Carolina, this is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said Roxie Mumford Gooding to present them to the undersigned within 6 months from date of the publication of this notice or same will be plead ed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said' estate please make immediate pay ment. This the 2nd day of April, 1971.,, Louise Gooding Gentry Pollocksville, N. C. Brock and Gerrans Attorneys at Law Trenton, N. C. J—4-8.15.22J ■SsT tO PUZZ] ON PAGE SEVEN -V: 9. Boundary S.Constel 11. Righteous ' lotion 1 12. Mennonlte 7. Make 15. Playing lace marble 8. Drink 14. Old 10. Aquinas campaigner 11. Reduce to 16. Gandhi's pulp title 15. Operated 20. Chinese 17. Apply boat oneself 24. Genuine ; 18. Com 25. Musical panion groups 10. Arkin 26. Actress ; 20. Bustle 23. See SI across 26. Cruel garet, to pals 30. Diving bird 35. Apartme 32. Sugar v cost source 36. Identify 33. Bird of prey 37. Conceit 34. English 38. Homo river sapiens 27. Frosting device 28. Infuriate 29. Pestered 31. Animated cartoon character (2 wds.) 36. Pace 39. Be of use 40. In addition 41. Carpentry piece 42. Percussion instrument 43. Camping need wMM ANGLER'S DREAM SPOT NEEDS HELP by Jim Dean For some 20 years now, I have carefully nurtured a sporadic but rewarding love affair with a wild beauty in eastern North Carolina. I regret to report that she is in trouble, but, more on that later. This wild beauty is Tyrrell County (you expect Raquel Welch, maybe?) I have enjoyed too many of her favors,' seen too many of her charms to write about her without a certain amount of affection. You see, it was in Tyrrell County at Fort Landing down on the mouth of the Little Alligator River that I first did any seri ous fishing. During the sum mer, my grandfather would lead the rest of the family to a small run-down cabin built out over the coffee-colored water on the edge of a marsh. A nearly two mile boat ride was necessary to reach the cabin. When you got there you came in shooting. Snakes were al ways lying around on the nar row boardwalks which surround ed the cabin. Though we -never found too many inside the cab in, my mother would just as soon we’d rolled in a grenade be fore entering. This was the height of adven ture to a Id-year old boy, and I failures. They have net yet found an alternative for war, nor for racial hatred. Perhaps you, the members of this graduating class, will perfect the social mechanismr by which man may follow their ambitions without the threat off force — so that the earth will no longer need police to enforce the laws, nor armies to prevent some men from trespassing against others, but they — those generations made mere progress by the sweat of their brows rfiin in any previous era and don't you forget it. If your generation can make as much progress in as many areas as should be able to solve a good these two generations hove, maqy of the world's remain! It Is my hope, and I k tions, that you‘find the ai that plague mankind. But It woaft be easy. played it for all it was worth. I spent many summer days float ing in an old juniper skiff with three or four cane poles hang ing over the end waiting for white peach. I never had to wait long. • • •» At other times, I fished the stumpy banks under the spanish-moss draped cypress for largemouth bass. I watched the osprey and occasional bald eagle soar high pver the primitive land. In the fall, the rockfish would come, followed closely by the ducks and geese. The small bedrooms in the cabin were so jammed with decoys that you had to crawl over them to reach the beds. Tne cabin — witn ns pot-oei lied stove, calendars on the wall and cane poles stacked in the comer — is in ruins now. A good storm will take what’s left. But that is the only real change at Fort Landing. It is still pretty much the same as it was 20 years ago. So is the rest of Tyrrell Coun ty, ana this is both reason for rejoicing and reason for sadness — depending upon how you look at it. Tyrrell County is the state’s least populous county. Only 3, 800 people live in this vast re gion of marshes, savannas and coastal forest shrouded with moss and guarded by fish hawks. The population drops, yearly. On the eastern edge of the county lies the untamed Alliga tor River, while Albemarle Sound borders the north and Phelps Lake touches the west ern boundary. Columbia — with a population of 1,000 — is the largest town. > A Tyrrell County is in trouble because its young people are leaving. In a time when most of the country is prospering, Tyr Countylflg
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