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Wednesday, May 18, 1966

Just Rehashing Old Conclusions?

There appears to be the feeling among editorial writers for some of North Carolinas larger newspapers that it is heresy to suggest there may be some other means of meeting North Carolina needs in higher education than the present structure.

The formidable Greensboro Daily News terms . the suggestion that East Carolina College become a university as insurgency against the established educational policy o the state.

P'rom Winston-Salem the Journal and Sentinel has declared that the current campaign to over-lyde the board (of Higher Education) and win university status for ECC through political cunning is clearly against the public interest.

Certainly that statement assumes that the Board of Higher Education is opposed to ECC becoming a university. So far as any official records are concerned, however, the State Board of Higher Education has never considered the question or offered an opinion on the matter.

If, as the Journal and Sentinel suggests, the board is opposed to the idea of a university at East Carolina, then there is little need for the study Gov. Moore has suggested. Why go through the motions of a study if a conclusion already has

been reached and the facts revealed in the study will have no bearing on the conclusion?

The Raleigh Times, while insisting that Gov. Moore is correct in calling for no piroposals until a study can be completed by the Higher Board nevertheless draws the conclusion: But if North Carolina should take on to support two universities, it couldnt support either adequately.

There appears room to queston whether the study will result in a genuine new look at an old problem or just a rehashing of old conclusions.

Record Investments In

N.C. Show The Pace

.rorestry Loses

An Able Friend.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES CLARIDGE It was the final quarterly report to the board of Conservation and Development to be delivered by retiring State Forester Fred H. Claridge. And it brought a twinge of regret.

His forestry division report was 13 pages in lengthCla-ridgc doesnt believe in skimping on details. Also, he was reporting on a very severe forest fire season for which overall damage will amount to millions of dollars.

He took occasion too to point out a developing situation affecting forestry and the states wood-using industries about which he is concerned and feels positive action is needed.

Claridge has been saying for years that reforestation and quality timber production in North Carolina must keep pace with demands of its furniture makers and its plywood, pulpwood and paper industries.

LOSS So it was that there was a real sense of loss by those in the C&D family, on the board and close to C&D because of the impending retirement of the veteran State Forester.

Claridge, known affecUonate-ly and respectfully by his colleagues as the Colonel, is retiring July 1 after 40 years of service with the forestry department.

At 67, he is the jovial, genial, Yale gentlemanly dean of C6tD division heads. He is one of the roost colorful and well-liked personalities in state government.

REPORT It was somehow appropriate that his last official report to the C&D board was delivered here in High Point, center of the

states furniture manufacturing and marketing industry.

Few people have done more in the way of developing and promoting the states woodlands and timber resources, the supply of the basic raw material for the furniture industry, than Claridge. "v.

And here, in his final report, he sounded a plain warning. A favorable balance of timber growth over drain in North Carolina may soon be eliminated unless constructive steps are taken, he said.

BRIGHT One bright spot stressed in his report concerned hardwoods. The hardwood program at the four state forest seedling nurseries, established through Claridgcs efforts, is being expanded. Another million hardwood seedlings for the furniture industry and research are being produced for a hardwood research program at N.C. State University, he said.

Even this, he feels, will not be enough. Claridge reported, current and predicted demands for hardwood indicate serious future shortage of hardwood pulpwood and quality hardwc^ sawtimber and veneer.

Furniture industry officials, he said, are urging greater emphasis on proper hardwood management of all hardwood sites in the state. Demands by industry and requests from forest owners have increased noticeably in recent years.

DRAIN The drain on the state s forest resources applies not only to hardwood species but to softwoods as well, and in both cases industrial growth of the state is affect-

A record $104 million investment in. new and expanded industrial plants in North Carolina during the first quarter of this year reflects the sharp pace at which the states economic progress was moving.

Conservation and Development officials estimated the new and expanded plants will provide employment for an additional 9,700 Tar Heels and add more than $86 million to the states annual industrial payrolls. Although these are impressive figures, there must be the realization that North Carolina must post these record figures quarter after quarter and year after year if it is just to keep pace with other states.

There must also be the recognition that North Carolinawith its relative position in per capita income and its acute need for more and better job opportunities in some sections must do much better than just keep pace. If its economic position and that of its people are to improve compared with other states. North Carolina must move forward at a pace which is ahead of that in other states.

At the same time North Carolina must exert every effort to see that economic development moves forward in the areas where it is most needed across the state. It must seek to lift its low income areas as well as intensify the pace of development in its more fully developed sections.

The goal of total development in North Carolina requires the input of total effort at both state and local levels.

A Zero

Is Poor

Star

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1966, King Fea\u .s Syndicate, Inc.

The trouble with the K_.i-nedys, Bob and Ted, is th; t on foreign policy subjecti they are talking into a wind that doesnt change. It blov.s cold, so to speak, from ih pole.

Senator Bob has just taken off in a two - part marathon speech on the subject of Latin America. His words are distinguished for their logic, but when he argues that the U. S. should double its aid to the Latinos the logic somehow doesnt start from the right premises. The trouble is that when you double your grants to something that is zero in spontaneous productivity, or creativity, or whatever you want to call it, the answer still comes out to nothing.

jomi

CBAMBEBLAIM

Suit, Ia iidon l\iakes Me Boil^But I d Hale lo Be Seranihled in With Re|iiihlieaiis

Showdown Hac.

1 By ALVIN TAYLOR

Fo Be Coming

Notes Made In Passing

ed.

For example, Claridge said several large concerns looking at Eastern North Carolinas available resources in southern pine plywood and pulp have decided recently to look elsewhere. He noted rapid expansion of the plywood industry and expansions in existing pup mills in predicting that the favorable balance of growth over drain in North Carolina forests will be largely eliminated in a few years.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - A country with a fever. 'The one certainty about South Viet Nam is its uncertainty, no matter how optimistic the Johnson administration sounds about it.

There had to be a showdown there between the military government and the Buddhists who want to topple it while the UniteH States is busy trying to defend it against the Communists.

Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who met with President Johnson in Honolulu last February, forced the showdown over the weekend when troops loyal to him seized Viet Nams second largest city, Da Nang, a Buddhist stronghold.

This could mean civil war, and a bloody one.

The Johnson administration appeared deeply disturbed and said it had no foreknowledge of Kys action. Johnson met repeatedly with his top aides. Then late Monday a high U. S. official said he doubted there would be civil war.

He would not let his name be used but met with newsmen after a late Monday conference between Johnson and his aides, including Henry Ca

bot Lodge, U. S. ambassador to Viet Nam.

But this officials optimism turned out to be limited.

James T. Cheatham, candidate for solicitor in the fifth district, will have one eye on the campaign trail and the other on home from now until May 28.

The stork is expected to visit the Cheatham fami 1 y within the next couple of weeks and this means he will have to be in constant touch with the situation at home.

Cheatham is married to the former Bren Bunch of Statesville. They now have two daughters ages five and seven.

While he didnt expect war now, he said he foresaw a long period of instability while the United States was still trying to keep out the Communistsbut hope fully thought this might evolve into stability.

And this gets back to a basic question;

Other Editors Saying

TOTAL Development

If no civil war now, what about later? The country has been more or less chaotic for years. While Ky may get away with his showdown now, no one can predict there wont be a blood bath eventually.

The South Vietnamese have never had democracy. Their concern, as they have demonstrated it, has never been so much for the national interest as for the interest of special groups.

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40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN May 18, 1926 Leonard Speaks To Merchant^ Body In Goldsboro J. Paul Leonard, of Statesville, Sec. of the Merchants Association declares:

It now appears that the educational forces will endeavor to finance the eight months school term through

tax to be collected from the merchants of the state and the merchants may be put in the position of opposing an eight months school term if they oppose sales taxes.

The more chaotic Viet Nam becomes, the less reason the United States can have before the world for keeping its forces there to defend against communism a people who meanwhile make war on themselves.

Young Peoples Service Attracts Large Aodleiicc Rev. E. L. Hillman, in a service at the Jarvis Memorial Church, appealed to the young people to live clean liv^ea and let God enter their hearts.

Capt. J. J. Laughinghouse, Col. R. R. C^tten, and Mr. S. F. Tyson left today for Bhrmingham to attend tha Confederate Reunion.

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Messrs. C. B. Rowlett, J. \l Blount and Curtis Perkins left today for Qoidsboro to attend the State Merchants

and National Retail Clothiers Convention which is convening in that city.

If under such circumstances the United States had to pull out, it would be an international embarrassment for the United States without parallel in its history.

No wonder the Johnson administration keeps hoping

thing* will turn niif all right

PHaps Ky will be able to perform such a miracle. He will be the only one in contemporary Vietnamese h i s-tory who did.

And at this moment anyone trying to look at the whole situation objectively has to keep his fingers crossed.

The same U. S. official mentioned above said one of the Buddhist leaders, Thich Tri Quang, is totally committed to the down fall of Kys government and that his ambition would not be diminished by any temporary Ky victory.

'hie Buddhists say they want a civilian government. Ky says thats what they will have, but not for about a year, and not then If the new government turns out to be neutralLst or pro-Communist.

And at this point it ^nt clear at all whether Tri Qutfhg Is pro-Communlst although he has mlde vague statements to the disci lhai be wasaX.

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

Governor Moore, as one of the themes of his administration, has placed arophasis repeatedly on total development of all parts of the state.

The dedication of Governor Moore and the state agencies was spotlighted in the series of public meetings held in Wilson, Camp Lejeune, Charlotte and Asheville. Attendance running into the thousands attended the day-long discussions at each of the meetings.

Total development will include an institutioh of higher learning of university standing for the eastern part of the state. Easiest, cheapest, and quickest way to attain such an institution is through East Carolina College.

You hear it said that North Carolina cannot finance another university.

North Carolina cannot afford to fail to support a university for its great rich eastern half of the state, with more than a million people just emerging from agricultural bondage, just moving into industry, processing, mining.

Research is one of the big keys which can unlock the up-excelled treasures of assets of soil, water, and forest for Eastern North Carolina.

A university is the surest and most economical machine for total development of our

assets.

The rich and populous Pied-mont should support the idea of a university tor the eastern part of the state, for selfish reasons if for no other. When the east has come into its own, when it has thrown off the chains of one-crop farming, it will be able to bear a greater proportion of the states total tax load.

Remember the days after the sales tax was extended to food and other items?

The cashier used to ring up a dollar and then proclaim; . . . and three cents for Terry, meaning Gov. Terry Sanford of course.

Theres a new wrinkle now. A cashier at the Coed the other day rang up a dollar and said, . . . and three cents for the airplane, or whatever it is the governor travels in. You might recall selling the governors airplane was a campaign issue in 1964 with Gov. Moore indicating he would get rid of it.

Aid from foundations and from special government programs is tar more easily obtained if the petitions for aid come from a university than if they come from a college. Check the records and you will see that this is true. One reliable estimate says that over 90 percent of aid for research and development from foundation or Federal sources goes to universities.

Applications already on file from students for entry next year, plus the enrollment of this year, indicate there is good prospect that total student body at East Carolina College next year will be 9,000. Over half of the faculty of East Carolina hold top gradu-uate degrees. National associations of special fields of education already approve and certify the work at East Carolina.

Making East Carolina C o 1-lege an institution of university rank would be one of the greatest steps in the total development of North Carolina.

ALVIN

TAYLOB

Instead the news was the other day that the governors plane would be traded in for a larger one.

And do you remember when gas meters were installed in homes, in which s quarter was inserted to obtain a measured amount of gas?

Bruce Sugg and Hoover Taft were recalling such days at a Utilities meeting recently.

Taft recalled that the trick then was to freeze ice disks* the size of quarters. These were inserted in the meters.

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At the risk of being invidious, which is not my intention, lets look at the comparative figures for aid to West Germany and aid to Bolivia in the years 1954-63.

The West Germans received some five billions in dolla r s from the U. S. in that period. Bolivians got approximately three hundred and thirty million. That sounds like quite a difference. But the population of West Germany, in-cuding West Berlin, is fifty-

eight million, while the pop- ,

ulation of Bolivia is around four million. So it takes only a grade school education in long division to show that, per capita, Boliv i a got almost as much as West Germany.

But in West Germany you I were multiplying something by something to produce what has gone down in the books , as the German miracle.

In Bolivia you multiplied nothing by something and got nothing. ;

What West Germany had. even after the terrifying destruction of six years of war, was a pool of mechanics, a lot of inventive enterprisers, and a whole class which, despite a decade of deep |ieeze State controls imposed by the Nazis, had a tradition shopkceping, borrowing, investing, and employing other people. In Bolivia, yOu had a tin monopoly and a relatively sterile agriculture. Money took hold in West Germany and put people to working and saving. Money sent to Bolivia found its way into the state budget, and was soon eaten up, leaving the economy more or less right where it was.

So what should the United States do? It should be trying to get money into the hands of creative people, not into the hands of officials who dole it out to maintain their own careers or their own status. This Is a large order when you are dealing with a continent whose traditions date bad. to conquests by caballeros who looked upon the State as the only licensed director of an economy. But the problem can be identified, and any problem that i.s recognized can be ultimately solved.

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3anks Trying Credit Card Plan

:-ley;

Following the Bank of America and other financial institutions, a growing number of commercial banks are going into the credit card busi

ness.

Eager to compete with the existing card plans, from the venerable Diners Club to the assorted new plans that have popped up the last few years, the banks are mostly offering charge now-pay la t e r plans of their own. One of the few exceptions is the First National City Bank of New York, which last December acquired operating control of Carte Blanche from the Hilton Hotels.

first coast - to - coast plan to be offered exclusively by a group of bank?, is the First Financial Marketing Group of Boston. Participating in the plan on June 1, according to Arthur R. Greene, president of First Financial, will be about 50 leading banks, and more than 100 by Christmas.

REVOLVING CREDIT

it as the loan balance is repaid.

For a service fee, card liolders will be supplied with a checkbook containing $500 worth of checks in $25 or $50 denominations. But un I i k e travelers checks, the checks can be filled in for any amount up to the maximum imprinted on the check.

The latest development is a new all purpose plan, called Buncard(hek, to he lauiH-hed June 1 by a national network of coinmerc i a 1 banks.

n ME! BOBMNER

Sponsoring this new ent r y in the muiti^iliion d o 11 a r

Bancardcliek was described by Greene as not' only a superior type of credit card but one that offers the added features of a trave 1 e r s check and continuing avail-

Bancardcheks will also cost nothing until used, in c o n-trast to ordinary trave 1 e r s checks, which must be paid for in cash in advance, along with a 1 per cent fee. In addition, those using them get records of payments, and return of used checks, handy in income tax reporting.

Tlie plan will be offered by some banks in connection with cliecking accounts, and by olliei's as an extension of tlieir revolving credit service.

Card holders should have no trouble using or cash i n g

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plained, since they will be guaranteed, like a cashiers or certified check, by the issuing bank, when presented with an accompanying identification card. It will not be necessary, as with ordinary credit cards, for the card holder to search out participating merchants or other vendors.

Restaurants, hotels, gas stations, merchants and others receiving the new guaranteed checlu are expected to favor them since they will receive the full amount and not be required to pay the annual 5* to 7 per cent carrying charges levied by older credit card plans. They will, moreover, get their money right away, sim^e Ban-cardehekl can be deposit e d with their daily cash receipts, and they wont have to do any special bookkeeping in connection with the transaction.