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Tuesday, September 27, 1966

Limited Area Sets Economic Pace

It is not surprising that the Empjpyment centrated in the Piedmont section. It probably is Security Commissions figures show that hot one a little surprising to some, however, to note the of the top ten North Carolina counties in non- degree of concentration in a relatively few counties agricultural employment and payrolls is located even in that area.

East of Wake or West of Buncombe. The commission's figures for 1965 show that

Most Tar Heels are well aware that the states the top ten counties account for more than 536,000 manufacturing and industrial jobs are highly con- of the states 1.09 million jobs covered by the

employment security law. 'These same ten counties account also for well over half the $4.7 billion in^ annual payroll represented by the non-agricultural jobs.

While the growth of North Carolinas non-ag-

ricultural employment is a source of pride and

satisfaction to all Tar Heels, the situation points up again the need for greater effort toward economic development in areas of the state outside this small group of Piedmont counties. 'The state as a whole cannot realize its economic goals or its economic potential unless the potential for development is achieved on a broad footing. It is not sufficient for North Carolina to limit its development to a relatively small area.

This, of course, it is not doing, for the state is developing on a broad base. Counties in the eastern and far western areas which a few years ago had no industry are today developing some industrial jobs and payrolls. Many counties whose economy was once almost wholly dependent upon agriculture are today finding new vitality in economic diversificaton.

In spite of these things, there is no getting around the fact the majority of North Carolinas non-agricultural employment and payrolls remain concentrated in a few counties. The day may come when employment and payrolls in non-agricultural jobs are diversified across North Carolina, but it is going to take a greater effort at both the state level and at the local level to achieve such a goal.

By WilIAM a. SHIRES

EFFECTS - What will be the effects of possible poor judgment on the part of Dr. Leo W. Jenkins in withholding a consulting study report on the readiness of East Carolina College for a two - year medical school?

In sum total, many observers feel the immediate effect will be a severe setback for ECCs hoped - for great leap forward to independent univeristy status.

Others say wait and see. Expressing full confidence in Dr. Jenkins and trustee chairman Robert Morgan, they sav long range effects may be both good and bad from ECCs standpoint.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

DAMAGING - At first there has been an immediate psychological effect. And this may prove as damaging to ECCs chances for quick approval of a medical school program and university status as anything contained in the report itself.

That the full report was withheld for many months even from members of the board of trustees has left many of ECCs staunchest supporters upset and divided.

It undoubtedly has loosened and weakened a bloc of legislative support which had been building on behalf of both a two - year medical school and independent university status.

And it served to focus a critical spotlight on deficiencies listed in the study.

POINTS Dr. Jenkins insists that actually the findings were generally favorable.

But the psyehologicvi effect of forced disclosure appears to have obscured and overshadowed certain points which would have been to ECCs advantage.

These points include: 1. Certain favorable findings of the three member study group. 2. The fact that constructive steps have been taken to strengthen ECCs science programs. 3. That the report recommended establishing a community health and life sciences institute as a forerunner to any future medical school program.

Hie latter was the reports principal recommendation other than its finding that the college lacks a strong academic base in the sciences.

ACTION It was report-ed prom|>tly by Dr. Jenkins

and after several months study such a community health and life sciences program at ECC has been approved by the State Board of Higher Education.

Meanwhile, since the feasibility study last January steps have been taken to beef up ECCs science programs. 'Hiree molecular biologists have been added to the faculty and the Chemistry department has been reorganized.

The report had noted that the Chemistry and Physics departments are acknowledged to be weak.

Dr. Jenkins feels, somewhat bitterly, that East Carolina is not getting credit for its strengths.

FINDINGS For example, the study committee found ECCs programs in health -related fields such as nursing, clinical psychology and medical technology were rapidly expanding and most promising.

'These programs all seemed strong and popular, the report said. Pre - professional emphasis in X-ray technology, physical therapy and speech therapy is developing rapidly.

The committee was especially impressed with the educational potential of the public health program.

It also pointed to health and hospital facilities already established or planned in the Greenville area and enthusiastic medical practitioners of the area which could play effective but limited roles in medical education. It listed the colleges sense of commitment to serve Eastern North Carolina and strong regional support as impressive assets.

STEPS Dr. Jenkins told newsmen that the consultants

Another Reason Why This Is A Focal Point

It was a big week-end in Greenville for sports enthusiasts. And it is another reason why this community is becoming the focal point of interest in Eastern North Carolna.

The home football -game of East Carolina uai o/-w/i c

College on Saturday evening brought literally V ''AL dCjYLc

thousands of people from the area into Greenville.

Then on Sunday afternoon many others came here TV /T *

for the exhibition golf match at Brook Valley \/

Country Club where golf greats Sam Snead, Ben lOiwl 1

Hogan, Mike Souchak and amateur Charles Smith

put on a show without precedent in this section of NEW YORK (AP) - Me-

the state. mory is the mansion of the

All things considered, it was the kind of week- spirit.

community stand out just 'The longer you live the more

a little above other comparable communities in rooms that house has, rooms its area. It is the kind of activity which helps one with vast views from yester-

community gain a reputation for being a little more windows, rooms with

aggressive and offering just a little more for its hearths where the remember-own people and others in the area in which it is heart can still warm it-located. self with the glow from by

The college activities, of course, have become hres. a familiar part of the^ extras which Greenville child lives only in the

______________________________ offers. The golf exhibition which was staged under hut of today. As time passes

report would not deter ECCs leadership of S. Reynolds May for the benefit of he adds rooms to that hut un-

efforts to qualify for and es- the Boy Scouts is the kind of additional frosting on ^1, if he lives long enough, at

tablish a medical school. the cake which gives a community a big plus value

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We are going to continue to strive for these things needed in Eastern North Carolina. He added that it should be quite obvious that we are trying to take the necessary steps and to develop the finest program possible in terms of need and resources. He pointed to the steps we have already taken.

Also, Dr. Jenkins declared he feels that the medical school report should have no effect on ECCs bid for university status. In fact, he said, university status would enable

Bleak Pursuit Of Peace Ideal

the end he has built himself a rich and many - chambered mansion, a mansion only for

him and unlike any other ever built by another human being.

Youve built yourself quite a house of the mind if you can look back and remember when

You were a business success if you had a rolltop desk and a wooden wastepaper basket.

The most famous walrus mustache in America decorated the bibulous countenance of John L. Sullivan, the heavyweight champion.

At railway terminals the red caps vied for the privilege of carrying your luggage at a

Other Editors Saying Signboard Lobbyists

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Peace is our passion, President Johnson said more than a year ago, talking about Viet Nam. But it has been a

ECC to overcome certain o i nis Date-

the deficiencies listed by the consultants the lack of . _

doctorate programs (now re- /Jl Y OfHTC stricted by law to the Consoli- o dated University among state-supported institutions), and w rp i

the scarcity of foundation and AlT'O I OP OV federally - financed research y

programs.

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. By FOY H. DUNCAN Sept. 27, 1926 TRAFFIC SURVEY

The traffic survey for the past week shows 39 dead, 235 hurt. Florida and Virginia tie for f i r 11 place with eight death each. North Carolina was next with seven. Kentucky had none.

bleak pursuit. Peace Is still as elusive as a mouse on a

beach.

Things perked up in bits and pieces, getting nowhere back in 1965 which was a very busy year for empty peace

talk.

In March of that year Johnson said the North Vietnamese must stop their intervention in South Viet Nam as a precondition for peace negotiations.

And Secretary of State Dean Rusk said the North Vietnamese would have to give some indication they were prepared to stop what they were doing before any peace talks could begin.

KIWANIS CLUB PAYS TRIBUTE TO DR. LAUGHING-HOUSE A farewell party was held by the local Kiwanis Club on Friday night for Dr. Charles OH. Laughinghouse who is leaving the city to take up his duties with the State Board of Health in Raleigh.

JAMBB

BfARLOW

(The Durham Herald)

Highway Commiss i 0 n-cr Chairman Joseph Hunt Jr. warned the Governors Advisory Commission on Highway Beautification that successful highway beautification depends on being practical and avoiding emotionalism.

According to Mr. Hunt, roadside improvements have been blocked up to now because of emotional proposals that would have put the signboard people out of business.

With all due respect for the Highway Commissions chairman, it Is hard to square this estimate with the record of inaction along North Carolinas roadsides up to now. Indeed, the emotionalism has largely been a product of the very potent billboard lobby which has made the most modest proposals for controlling some signs along some stretches of open highway sound as though they were written in Moscow with the avowed purpose of destroying free enterprise.

No one has ever seriously or emotionally proposed putting

billboard operators out of busl-sess in this state. All that has been suggested up to now is that North Carolina adopt the modest proposals for restricting signs along open stretches of the interstate highway system and collect the federal bonus that has gone along with this sensible conservation of natural beauty.

Presumably, North CaroUna will now take action that previous legislature rejected in deference to billboard interests. Beautification is no longer offered as a bonus-producing adjunct to road plans. Faced with the effective opposition of billboard lobbies in most states, federal provisions now insist that beautification efforts proceed or federal funds will be withheld.

Even the billboard lobby shouldnt be able to talk itsetf around that point. But if supporters of roadside beautification get too low - keyed and practical in pursuit of this long overdo aspect of conservation, they may find they have accomplished precious little.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK LOST ANGELES When Richard M. Nixon returned to his native California for a fund - raising speech Sept. 16 during his nationwide barnstorming, there was public silence but private anger inside the camp of Ronald Reagan.

'file reason for the irritation was Nixons comment, in response to questions from newsmen, that he still believes Republican candi dates should completely repudiate the John Birch SocietyiSnevi-tably, Nixons remarks led to a new batch of newspaper stories and Democratic reminders that Reagan has made no such repudiation of the Birchers in his campaign for governor of California.

That Nixon, one of Reagans top strategists stormed. Weve just got where the Birch Issue has disappeared, and Nixon has to come to California to dig it up again.

The remarkable aspect of this incident Is that with some six weeks to go in the campaign, the Birch issue Indeed Is dead. Nor, despite the momentary case of nerves at Reagan headquarters, was it really resurrected by the Nixon incident.

This fading of the extremist Issue partially explains Reagans lead of a few percentage points over Democratic Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown. Moreover, it underlines a basic misconception that has plagued the Brown strategy from the beginning.

BROWN SHOPWORN Democratic planners rightly judged as early as a year ^0 that Brown, shopworn political merchandise after eight years in office, simply could not be refurbished Rather, the road to victory lies in tearing down Reagan. And the best way to do that, it was reasoned, was to publicize his ties with the far right.

That process has been going for months under the general direction of Harry Lerner, a veteran public relations man from San Francisco and intimate of Pat Brown. Another research man who dug into Barry Goldwaters right wing ties in the 1964 California Republican Primary was assigned to probe Reagans associ-able links with the far right.

But the impact has t^en zero. Polls taken by both camps show Californians particularly the 60 per cent of the states population that lives in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties in Southern Californiacouldnt care less about the John Birch Society or right - wing extremism issue. What bothers them much more is the Negro revolution and high taxes.

In truth, as much was obvious months ago. Browns own polls showed that the voters did not regard Reagan as an extremist and were unconcerned about his attitude toward the Birchers. Reagans lone vulnerability^ according to these surveys,is his lack of experience and a lingering vice for you would think of anKMig the states vot-

taking your money without say- whether a Hollywood acting thank you - and mean-ing it.

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dime a bag.

Even the healthiest childs nose seemed to run all winter long.

During the big depression some people with pride stubbornly said theyd starve before theyd go on public relief and a few actually did.

It was possible to go through life without ever filhng out a government form.

If a kid wore tennis shoes to school, you knew he came from a poor family.

Many farmers thought it Immoral and a sin against nature to turn good pasture land into a golf course since nobody would use it but the idle rich.

A juvenile delinquent was a boy who fudged by putting his knuckles inside the circle while shooting marbles for keeps during a schoolyard recess.

Many a farm boy learned about women by studying the underwear ads in the mail order catalog.

Friends could always tell when youd been to the barbershop because you always came back smelling different

A wise father always gave his son a dime to put in the church collection plate on Sunday; he knew if he gave the lad two nickels, God might wind up with only one.

Nobody who perfomed a ser-

Life was so simple that even your telephone number had only three digits.

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or should go to the governors chair.

Yet, in the face of all this, the Democratic attempt to milk the extremist issue continues spurred by Nixons unwitting assistance. For instance, against the better judgment of some Brown strategists, a research from Harry Lemer that Reagan once signed a restrictive racial covenant on his house was releas-(Continued On Page ft)

Then on April 7 in a major speech Johnson said the United States was ready for un- _condiUonal talks with North

FORMER GREENVILLE PIT-CHER WITH NEW YORK YANKEES Walter Beal, former Greenville pitching ace and known locally as the Iron Man will play his first Worlds Series this season. He is a member of the New York Yankees who on Saturday will enter the World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals as their opponent.

Rising Wages Spur Automation

CHILLY WIND SWEPT STATE YESTERDAY

A chilly autumn wind swept into North Carolina yesterday and sent the mercury scurrying down to 53.

LASSITER - BULLOCK Mr. and Mrs. Rufus W. Bullock announce the marriage of their daughter Margaret to Mr. Herbert Donald Lassiter on the ninth of September in BeLhiU, N. C

ment he was saying it he laid down conditions.

He said the essentials of any final settlement were an independent South Viet Nam, securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others, free from any outside interference, tied to no alliance, a military b^se for no country.

The North Vietnamese gave this the ha-ha. They said Johnsons proposal smelled of poison gas and made a prop-osial of their own, a four -point program, from which they havent deviated an inch since.

Among other things, Hanoi said, the United States must withdraw all Its forces from South Viet Nam, although it wasnt clear whether the Communists meant before peace talks began or before there could be a settlement.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

There will be one of the greatest surges in automation in the next ten yean, greater than in the last ten.

The reasons are that, in relation to manpower, automation will become constantly cheaper, and that companies that do not automete will be unable to compete.

Wages are going up fast and far. And every time wages go up, automatic devices become proportionately cheaper.

When automatic devices can produce goods or services cheaper than warm bodies can, businesses will have to buy them or lose out to competitors. Unions may be able to slow the change, as they have done in printing, railroading, electrical work and other fields, but they cannot stop it. THE BIG THREE

There arc three major rea-.sons why wages will rise in die next decade;

1. The new increase in the minimum wages. In February, 1967, 10 million more workers will come under the minimum and the hourly minimum will rise from $1.25 to $1.40. In February, 1968, the minimum will go up to $1.60.

ELMER

ROESSNER

As pointed out here many times, when the mnimums go up, all rates rise* The skilled demand a differential above the pay of the unskilled. The rise next year is estimated to increase all pay by about $2 billion. That will niakc automatic devices $2 billion a year rJwofm'.

TAXES A FACTOR

2. Taxes are certain to go up. Since anti - inflation actions so far seem ineffective, taxes on personal incomes are likely to be increased as well as corporation levies. Inflation will force higher taxes for social security and medicare.

Labor, as usual, will demand wage increases to cover higher taxes.

3. Labor wiJl demand increases above the margins of the new mnimums, even above amounts offsetting rises in taxes. If there were xx> rise in minimums, 00 rises in taxes, labor would still be asking for increases.

Unions have already ruptured the 3.2 per cent guideline handed down from the mount by President Johnson, made around 7 per cent, more Mo.st settlements are being made around 7 per cent, more than twice the guideline figure.

Because average corporate profits have risen even above the 7 per cent figure, imions will demand even more.

Because every increase in wages will make automatic equipment cheaper, no businessman can afford to overlook savings possible.

In additi(Hi to automatic production equipment cheaper, no businessman can afford to overlook savings possible.

In addition to automgtic production equipment, enterprisers may well explore the possibilities of computers. And they may profit by studying possibilities of outside services for both manufacturing and service businesses. ^ The business that is too small to automate its accounting department, its direct-mail operation, its distribution or other facilities may find it cheaper than ever to turn these functions over to contractor* who can. ,