Tuesday, December 20, 1966

WCC Prepares For The Inevitable

We think it wise that the Western Carolina ultimately emerged as region^ universities. The

College board of trustees has begun study of university status for the intitution.

Specifically the college has announced it is considering steps to elevate the college to the status of an autonomous, regional university.

Action by the board of trustees followed recommendation of such a step by a faculty committee. The Committee also recommended structural changes including separating the college program into five divisions or schools headed by deans. This is similar to the recorganization carried out at East Carolina a few years ago.

According to WCC president Dr. Paul A. Reid the committee found that a number of other states within the past three or four years have broken new education ground.

It found state after state establishing university systems embracing regional institutions, he reported. There were parallels between WCCs growth and those institutions of other states which

committee felt this final stage \vas an inevitable and desireable one for Western Carolina College as well.

We^stern Carolina set no time table for conversion of the college to a university nor did it preclude becoming a branch of the Greater University.

We believe the Western Carolina trustees are doing as East Carolina Colleges trustees have already done; that is, bepi^ining to prepare for what is inevitable for their institution.

It must be obvious that neither East Carolina nor Western Carolina can for long be limited in their service to the people of North Carolina if this state is to show the progress its citizenry demands.

The Western Carolina trustees have done well to follow the advice of its faculty committee and initiate this study. Like East Carolinas leadership, they may well bring violent criticsm crashing about them, but future generations of Tar Heels will thank them for their foresight and courage.

A Big Year Of Main Responsibility

Events Closing o shoulders of u.s.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH Years overlap. Time and events telescope each other in a continuing pattern of developments. These may be s e e n clearly only in retrospect.

But looking back through a newspaperman's noieb o o ks and bulging files the e v i-dence is there as one year ends and another is about to begin.

A year ago, amendment of the .state's controvers i a 1 Speaker Ban law in a special session of the General Assembly was voted the top news story of the year 1965 in North Carolina. The speaker ban amendment is still in the news a year later it is being challenged in a federal court suit.

Another of 1965's top state news stories was resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and its influence in North Caro 1 i na. This one still ranks high.

Striking Similarities

There are many strik i n g similarities and parallels in the list of events and happenings of major significance in 1965 and those of 1966.

In politics. Gov. Dan K. Moore appointed Dr. I. Beverly Lake to the State Supreme Court bench in 1965. In 1966, Moore put his form e r state campaign mana g e r, Joseph Branch, on the high court.

In 1965, Charlotte Colle g e became a fourth campus of the consolidated University of North Carolina. In 1966, clamor and controversy arose about university status for East Carolina College.

Shakeups Continue

Shakeups in high public places which began with the new Moore administration in Raleigh in 1965 continued to make news. The director of the State Bureau of Investigation, Walter Anderson, was fired. Former Atty. Gen. Malcolm B. Seaw-ell quit as chairman of the state's Law and Order committee and chairman of the State Board of Elections. There were others.

A year earlier, George Randall was fired as state prisons director. Vet eran state motor vehicles commissioner Ed Scheldt resigned.

For example, a wave of racially - motivated bombi n g s highlighted by blasts at homes of four Negro civil rights leaders in Charlotte continued through the months of 1966.

A year ago. North Carolina was faced with court - ordered reapportionment of its legislature and congressi o n al districts. Today it faces doing the job over again.

Crime Makes News Crime continues year after year to make major news headlines. In 1965, two b i g crime stories occurred in Chapel Hill. One was the fatal stabbing of a Univers i t y of North Carolina coed and the other the second trial of Frank Rinaldi for the slaying of his wife.

Economy Expands

WILLIAM The expanding eco n o m y and its up and downs in North Carolina made news of SHIRES a continuing nature. The r e were signs of a slowdown in some segments, particularly construction, because of a tight money situation in 1966. But plans were announced for a $25 million 41-story skyscraper in Charlotte, and big bond issues were voted for major improvements in a number of cities.

In spite of encouraging comments from Secretary of State Dean Rusk that other countries may step up their aid to South Vietnam, it is a foregone conclusion that the major burden for carrying on the fight against communists will continue to rest upon the United States.

In every brush-fire war in recent years between communsim and the free world, the United States has been the nation of the free world block which supplied the lions share of materiel. When it has been necessary to commit troops to action in the name of the free world, the United States has been called on also for most of these.

It is not a surprising situation in view of the fact that the United States is clearly the most powerful nation in the free world block. When free world commitments have to be met, this nation has moved to meet them. When its own commitments in various parts of the world needed to be met, the United States has moved to meet them.

Additional help from other nations in aiding South Vietnam will be welcomed, as was the case in the Korean conflict. But it will continue to be the United States that will be called on to take the primary re.sponsibility for keeping South Vietnam among the free nations of the world.

What Kind Of .BJ In 1967 ?

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

A Doctrine By Douglas

In Durham, however, defeat of a proposed hospital bond issue ranked as that city's top local news story of the year.

State employes received a 10 per cent across the board pay increase in 1965. But they claimed Inflation and increasing costs of living wiped out most of this and additional increases will be asked when the next legislature convenes.

Asks Tax Cut Pacing the economy in the state was growth of a huge surplus in the states general fund, expected to reach (Continued On Page 5)

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WASHINGTON (AP)-What kind of President Johnson will there be in the White

This Date-' 40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Dec. 20, 1926 WRIGHT DISCUSSES PROPOSED CHANGE IN COLLEGE NAME ...Mr. Robert H. Wright, president of the college, on being asked today what he thought of changing the name of the college said:

I have read the recent press notices and editorials with much interest, he said. Two of the best friends I ever had were Governor Jarvis and Mr. Ragsdale. I think I am perfectly sake in making a statement that Mr. Ragsdale, as head of the Northeastern Division of County Superintendents for something over twenty years had more to do with sowing the seed for the building of a teachers college in this part of the state than any other one person. I am reliably informed that Governor Jarvis did not think that the 'state would estahlisn an institution of this kind in the East. In fact, he did not get behind the movement until after it was well under way. Senator James L. Fleming had as much to do with the establishment of this school as any one person. He was Senator at the time the bill was passed, and in fact he endorsed the bill and fought for it until it went through the legislature. Personally I do not believe it a good policy to. name the college for any individual.

On being asked if he thought the name ought to be shortened, he said; I do. A long name is always difficult. A short name that expresses the purpo.'se of the institution is better.. . . If a college changes its name the people in the state continue to call it by its first name and later get the two names confused and call the institution by names it never had.. . .

If the legislature must do something with reference to the name of the institution,

I respectfully submit that they name it State Teachers ('ollcge. The name carries with it the purpose of the institution and Ihrer vMiid^ do not make them too long.

House in these final two years of his first full term?

He seems different from the Johnson of most of the first two years.

For months now this extremely vigorous and aggressive man, an arm twister and master politician, has been op crating within a kind of half light. He has been seen, he has been heard, but only occasionally.

This in itself is extraordinary. It is a switch from his earlier White House days when he would take to the airwaves two or three times within a week at the drop of a bomb in the Dominican Republic.

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Mr. Justice Douglas was right in principle but wrong in its application last week, when he spread - eagled himself on the real and ominous dangers that accompany the use of electronic surveillance devices and the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections.

The Courts most consistent and redoubtable liberal was laying down purest conservative doctrine in his impassioned dissent in the cases of Z. T. Osborn, Jr., and Duke Lee Lewis. It is possible to agree with almost everything he had to say, in urging that the convictions be reversed in these two cases, and yet to support his colleagues for voting to affirm.

Hear Douglas out:

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from

government. The aggressive breaches of privacv by the Government increase with geometric proportion. Wire tapping and bugging run rampant, without effective judicial or legislative control.

Secret observation booths in government offices and closed television circuits in industry, extending even to rest rooms, are common. Offices, conference rooms, hotel rooms, and even bedrooms are bugged for the convenience of government. P e e p-holes in men.s rooms are there to catch homosexuals, Personality tests seek to ferret out a mans innermost thoughts on family ilfe, religion, racial attitudes, national origin, politics, atheism, sex, and the like. Federal agents are often wired so that their conversations are either recorded on their person or transmitted to tape recorders some blocks away. The

Food and Drug Administration recently put a spy in a church organization. Revenue agents have gone in the disguise of Coast Guard officers. They have broken and entered homes to obtain evidence.

i^ublic Forum

Within the past few months a change seemed to set in.

Instead of devoting every possible minute to campaign ing for Democrats who needed all the help they could get in the November elections, he went offt 0 Manila and toured East Asia for a couple of weeks.

It was a trip wiiich, it seems reasonable to believe, could have been made earlier or postponed even until 1967.

Last week Gov. Harold E. Hughes of Iowa told n e w s-men that Democratic state executives attending the National Governors Conference at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., were almost unanimous in blaming Johnsons unpopularity and his administrations programs for the partys poor showing last November.

This isnt the only rebuff for Johnson. He has seen the public opinion polls show his popularity going down. Yet he seems to be doing no more to help himself, in a public relations way, than he did to help his party.

Tliis doesn't add up. He is being criticized although why this has started at this time is not at all clearfor the credibility gap in what is said by himself and his administration.

Johnson, an extremely sensitive man who in the past has hungered for public approval, smarts under this kind of criticism. Rut he i.snt taking any aclinn. al least pub-(C'ontinucd On Page 5)

To The Editor:

We, the Steering Committee of Operation S u n s h i n e, would like to exp^s our sincere thanks to tffe. people of Greenville and Pitt County for their generous cooperation in helping us get Operation Sunshine started. This cultural enrochment program aided over one hundred little girls this past summer, enriching their lives with many experiences they would not otherwise have had.

Even after just one year of operation we have seen such rewarding results we feel the program must be continued. We are encouraged to believe that in the future it can be financed by funds already set up for community services of this kind, but it is reassuring

to know that we live in a community that will respond so willingly to a plea for help from their fellowman.

Once again let us say thank you to all those who gave so generously of their time, materials, food, talents, and money to such a worthwhile cause as Operation Sunshine. Over one hundred little girls will never forget you!!

Sincerely, Rev. Bronson Matney Jr., Mrs. M. P. Bailey Dr. Robert Deyton Mr. Ed Harris Dr. C. C. Cleetwood Mr. Ted Gartman Rev. Tommy Payne Dr. Malene Irons Mr. Eugene Prescott Mr. Frank Wooten Mrs. D. R. Roscoe

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

Polygraph tests of government employees and of employees in industry are rampant. The dossiers on all citizens mount in number and increase in size. Now they are being put on computers so that by pressing one button all the miserable, the sick, the suspect, the unpopular, the off - beat people of the natian can be instantly identified. . . Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of mans life at will.

The time may come, said Douglas, winding up his opinion, when no one can be sure whether his words are being recorded for use at some future time; when everyone will fear that his most secret thoughts are no longer his own, but belong to the Government; when the most confidential and intimate conversations are always to eager, prying ears. When that time comes, privacy, and with it, liberty, will be gone. This is the terrifying, totalitarian prospect that George Orwell sketched so vividly in 1984. Douglas is not alone, (Continued On Page 5)

Stance

Shifts

By ROWLAND EVANS

AND ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Unnqtic-cd in the victory euphor i a that permeated last weeks meeting of the Republic a n Co-ordinating Committee was a subtle change in the partys official position of the war in Viet Nam.

A statement approved on Monday simply put the Republicans on record as affirming unqualified support for the national objective hf resisting Communist aggression and conquest in Viet Nam.

A year ago, the co-ordinating committee (composed of the highest policy-makers in the party) called for a Kennedy-type naval quarantine of the port of Haiphong to cut off all aid shipments from the Soviet Union and other countries.

The decision to retreat from that hawkish posture to the all-but-meaningless positi o n of being against Communist aggression wasnt taken without debate.

The consensus finally reached was that under tne new political conditions resulting from the Republican victory last month, and the imminence of the 1968 presidential election, the party must leave all the options open, as one participant put it.

When the matter of a Viet Nam policy statement was first broached by Drake Edens, Republican nat i o n a 1 committeeman from S o u th Carolina, at the closed - door session, Gov. George R o m-ney of Michigan demurr e d. Romney, the leading presidential contender today, then withdrew his objection and Thomas E. Dewey drafted the suet-bland statement.

A footnote: At that same session, Romney, Dewey and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller all expressed fear that President Johnson would accept almost any negotiated settlement to "^end the fighting In Viet Nam before the 1968 election.

HOT DEMOCRATIC FIGHT

Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia is now claiming ;hat he has 24 votes among the 64 Democratic senators to replace Sen. George Smathers of Florida as secretary to the Democratic confere nee. A hot fight for this leadership post has broken out, with strong ideological ovenones.

This year Byrd, a conservative, voted against President Johnsons demonstration cities bill, for the Dirks e n amendment on apportionment of state legislatures, against the motion to end the filibuster on the 1966 civil rights bill, and for the 750 million dollar reduction in the poverty program.

Byrds top challenger is Oklahomas freshman Sen. Fred Harris, widely touted as one of the Senates real comers. A political moderate, Harris voted- far more consistent 1 y for the administration than Byrd. Nevertheless, powerful southern Democrats want him to run against Byrd.

Third entry is Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, a northern liberal and one of the most popular men in the Senate. Finafly, although given no chance to win, Sen. Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania, an all-out liberal, Is also looking for votes.

Smathers Is quitting the leadership post. He has announced that he will ret i r t (Continued On Page S)

Yist Houses For All Purposes

By ELMER ROESSNER

One list house is offering a list of 1,292 syndicated columnists at $32.50 a thousand names and addresses. That makes your boy's name worth 3U cents.

Fritz F. Hofheimer, Inc., has just published its 1967 catalogue. It contains more than 20,000 lists, ranging from nine Swedish language newspapers in the United States for $7.50, to 1.700.000 retailers of all kinds at $27.50 a thousand-

List houses have in stock, or can develop, lists for almost any conceivable business or other use. Charities are good customers. Imagine a list of 456 millionaires, bracketed as higher-paid executives, for only $40, which is Hofheimers price.

There are broad lists and broken-down lists. For example. going back to columnists. 481 in the cnlertainment industry -e $31.50 and 116

sports for $20. That may tell you something about the relative value of sports and entertainment columnists.

A PICTURE OF AMERICA The lists, in a way, offer a broad view of the nation. For example, there are 207,-000 restaurants, cafes and luncheonettes, at $25 a thousand, but only 9.495 better class restaurants at $28.50 a thousand.

ELMER

ROESSNER

Listed also are 2,412*Chinese restaurants and 2,487 seafood (no Chinese) restaurants Also available are 6.673 320 names and addresses of aged people, at $17.50 a thousand,

but with a minimum of 5. *. You can have them by

states, if you wish. There are 766,600 in California and 340,-800 in Florida. However, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania have more than Florida.

Advertising agencies are heavy customers of list houses and Hofheimer, not biting the hands that feed it money, offers 10,928 names and addresses at $28.50 a thousand. There is also another list of 3,448 advertising agencies (leading). ALCOHOL CLINICS, UNDERTAKERS

Among other lists are 140 alcoholic clinics for $20, and 25,834 imdertakers at $28.50 a thousand.

There are also lists of 202,-837 churches at $30 a thousand, of which 155,000 are Protestant. There are lists of almost every sect, ranging from four Assyrian at $6 50 to 1,016 Jehovah's Witnesses at $45.

There are 74 circuses, 87 clam canners, 6,066 charitable foundations, 30 disappearing bed manufacturers, 4,727 discount stores, 115 doctors in private practice including 2,351 allergists, 34,619 Roman Catholic priests, 1,183 earthworm farms, 24 helicopter manufacturers, 1,441 accordion players, 78 pet cemeteries and 15 pet crematoria.

No claim is made that all lists are complete or 100 per cent accurate. Hofheimer guarantees 95 per cent deUvera-bility and pays refunds on returned mail in excess of that. Each list house has its own guarantee.

List houses have lists of almost every kind of busintss. profession and assoclatioa tod if they haven't got what is wanted, they'll oompU# B tor a fee

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of 899 list houses tor t40. ooiv siderably higher per aamt and address tho ureliia.