Thursday, March 2, 1967

High Standards For A Profession

ONE MANS POISON----

Can you envision a city police force made up entirely of men with college degrees, perhaps with majors in law enforcement?

And how about police salaries ranging from $8,421 to $16,905 measured in todays dollars?

Such standards now seem far off as city offic-

Hoffa Appears To Be Running Out Of Time

It may be just another swing in the cycle, but Teamster Boss James Hoffa apears to be running out of time in his battle to beat a rap on a jury tampering conviction.

The Supreme Court earlier this week refused to grant Hoffa a second hearing on the conviction and thus opened the way for him to be ordered to begin serving the sentence handed him by the lower court.

There are still legal maneuvers which Hoffas attorneys are certain to try in an effort to keep their big union boss from behind bars. They will postpone as long as possible the commitment of their client to begin serving the sentence ordered by the court.

Hopefully, this series of legal roadblocks has

ials scratch to find even modest salary increases for the men and women who provide protection and other police services for the community.

Yet within the lifetimes of many living today these may be the standards and the salaries paid to police officers.

If you doubt this ,discuss with some elder citizens the standards and salaries for public school teachers of 50 years ago. Four year degrees were practically unheard of and salaries of well below $100 per month were common.

Americans of that day would have scoffed at any theory that within 50 years practically all teachers would have college degrees and many of them graduate degrees. Low as they seem today a teacher of 50 years ago would have been astounded at the incomes of teachers in 1967.

So it is not beyond the realm of possibility that similar standards will be developed for the professional law enforcement man of the future. In fact there are strong signs that the trend is that way.

Pres. Johnsons Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice has recommended that law enforcement agencies work toward eventual requirement of a college degree for all police personnel.

Court rulings are already making it more necessary for the police officer to be certain of his legal

being jailed on the federal tampering conviction. For four years he has defied the authority of the courts through legal maneuvers,while under conviction for a crime that undermines the very basis of our :ju4icial system.

Being convicted of a serious crime In the courts, and having run more than the normal course of apeals and delays, Hoffa should now be made to serve the sentence imposed upon him by the court. He shonld not be allowed indefinitely to defy the courts and postpone the debt the couits say he owes to society for his crime.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH - The board of trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, at almost its full strength of more than 100 members, had been in session for more than two hours.

Finally, the moment everyone had been waiting for arrived. The chairman of the trustees visiting committee, W.C. (Buck) Harris Jr. of Raleigh, came forward and uttered the words on the minds of ail the board members.

We arc aware, Harris said, speaking slowly and deliberately, that this may be the last meeting of the board as we know it.

It was not said humoro|isly. But it broke the tension, and there was a titter of laughter in the crowd in the historic old Hall of the House. Harris meaning was cletar to all, a reference to the report by * a blue-ribbon study commission to reor g a n i z e and drastically reduce the size of the Consolidated University board of trustees.

Trustees Reject Report The trastees also knew having been Informed in advance what Harris would ay next He would move that the trustees go on record favoring that the board be maintained at its present size of 100 members, all elected by legislature.

It is said and it is argued that the size is unique, Harris said. *T say and I believe we all agree that North Caro-

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This in itself means more training for officers and it is forseeable that in the future a college education will be required if a law enforcement officer is to qualify for the profession.

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lina is unique. He said the present board has served the people of North Carolina and the University, and the University has grown quantitatively and qualitatively.

Has Served Well Harris conceded that on his own committee which analyzed and studied the Hodges commission report on University trustees there were differences of opinion in certain respects. But he said it was the unanimous feeling that this board has served well.

And he said the board has an obligation to let the General Assembly know its feelings on the matter. The problem is bigger than our modesty or immodesty, he said.

The legislature is expected to receive shortly bills to implement the Hodges commission report, reducing the size of the board from more than 100 to 24 members. Harris attacked the idea of reduction in membership, c<itending that a 100-member board permits a broad cross-section of a large diverse state to be represented^

"The University, as long as we have the one-university concept, needs a broad representation, he said. A drastic reduction would certainly make it more difficult and unlikely that we would have that cross section.

Harris also argued that the present board has a functioning system of committees and that it would be impossible for a 24 member board (Continued On Page 5)

By TOY H. DUNCAN March 2, 1927 Heaviest Snow In Quarter Century

Greenville is today in the midst of what is described by older residents as one of the worst blizzards since back in the 90s, Shortly after the noon hour the snow had reached an average depth of more than a foot and the flakes continued to fly thick and fast.

Because of the weather the city schools were closed and business in general is at a standstill. Traffic movement was almost impossible and automobiles stuck deep in the snow, were abandoned by the drivers....

A whole new specialty has grown up in journalism during recent years. It is called East Carolina watching.

News media have stationed their correspondents in cities surrounding this strange and forbidding land and it Is their job to determine what course of action is being pursued behind the walls of Eee Cee Cee (pronounced ECC).

No one knows exactly what is going on in Eee Cee Cee, but the East Carolina watchers gather information as best

they can frwn travelers who come out of the eastern land.

East Carolina watchers are stationed in Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, but they are most heavily concentrated in Ralei^. This crown colony is inhabited ^in-cipally by easterners. It Is said that East Carolina leaves this colony only to preserve it as a bridge to the western counties.

It is known that the leader of Elee Cee Cee Shao Qii Jen-

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Forbes And Morton Warehouse OoUapees Under Wei^t Of Snow

Just before three oclock this afternoon the roof of the Forbes and Morton tobacco warehcmse, on the comer of Church Street and Dickinson Avenue, collapsed under the weight of todays snow storm.

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Mt\. Bryan Entertains Bridge Club

Mrs. Fred Bryan entertained her bridge club yesterday afternoon at her home in College View...High score was made by Miss Estelle Greene and low score by Mrs. A. J. Moore, both were given blooming hyacinths...Mrs. Jack Overman, Mrs. V. H. Bradshaw and Miss Bessie Brown were guests.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS EMOTION Emotion is regarded by many people with deep suspicion. If in any way a conviction is found to contain an emotional factor, many people are ready to toss It into the ash can.

This is a mistake. Our emotions are a part of our physical and mental equipment and a very important part. The emotions can, to be sure, quickly get out of hand, and they are also responsible for interfering with straight thinking on many occasions. But certainly everyone would say that the emotion of love is one of the most precious things- humanity deals with. The emotion of anger has its place if the anger is directed against evil and kept well in control. Let us not get into our minds the feeling that the emotional approach to a problem is always wrong. The emotions are a liability only when they occupy too much place in our decisions and are not under the control of our will-power.

Have you ever come In contact with a person in whose life emotion appears to play no part? If se, you have met not a pleasaqt person but certainly an unsatl^actery person, and prebtply a misfit. The person whe beats his breast and declares that he looks facts strai^t to the face is frequently sdf-deceived or emotionally mixed up. The persons who inveigh again.st emotion are usually themselves in a precarious emotional state. They have too much emotion or too little. Thcv allow a helpful factor of life to twist and deform their living.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court will lose its clearest and best - organized writer when Justice Tom C. Clark retires, sometime before the end of June.

Yet, he has had small recognition for the clarity of the opinions he wrote, perhaps because he was less colorful or controversial than some of the other eight justices.

Now 67 and on the bench since 1949, Clark announced Tuesday his dedsicm to step down after President Johnson named his son, Ramsey Clark, 39, attorney general. The younger CJlark had been acting attorney general.

Justice Clarks reason for leaving: to avoid any conflict of interest since the Justice Department, under his son, will be handling Supreme Court cases.

The present court, for courage and the tremendous impact of its decisions in the past 12 years, is probably the greatest in American history. But most of the justices still write opinions in the fashion of 75 or 100 years ago.

In short, those opinions lack precision, self-discipline, good organization and tiwefore the kind of easy clarity the court could but doesnt achieve. As a result, most of the opinions are a complex scramble.

Clarks opinions, when he was writing for the majority or dissenting, got to the point in a hurry, stating the case, background, opinion, and the reason for it The court has been told privately and publicly that it could and should do better writing but it wont change. Thus, from a literary view, it justly could be called reactionary.

Clark was the courts real

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middle-man. He could never be flatly identified as liberal or conservative. He moved from one side to the other, depending on the case, although it seems fair to say he was frequently very conservative.

He was part of the court which in 1954 outlawed public school segregation. But to 19-57, in two very important cases involving communism, he was

the court In one, the court overthrew the contempt conviction 0! a

man who fully answered questions by the House Committee on Un - American activities about himself but refused to answer about Communists he might have known.

The court ruled Congress has no right to try to expose for exposures sake, thus narrowing the scope of committee investigations.

In the other the court made a sharp distinction between trying to overthrow the government by force and simply talking about trying to do so.

The court rules just talking about it wasnt outlawed.

Yet, in 1963 Clark wrote the majority <^inion banning the compulsory reading of prayers in public sdiools.

But in 1964 he was one of the three justices against the majority opinion requiring the reapportionment of a state legislature so that citizens of a state got more equal repre-sentation.

kins (pronounced Jen-kinz) has unleashed what he calls a cultural revolutiwi designed to boost Eee Cee Cee to a more influential position. There is some indication that the westerners would consider Shaos requests, but only if Eee Cee Cee were to become a province of UNC (pronounced Unk).

A neutralist group was dispatched to the eastern land to determine if Eee Cee Cee were ready for upgrading, either independently or otherwise.

Their conclusions so far have been a carefully guarded secret. However, journalists interv i e w i n g travelers have reported that the conclusions will be:

a) that Eee Cee Cee Is not ready.

b) that Eee Cee Cee is ready.

c) that Eee Cee Cee should absorb UNC.

A few neutralist journalists have been admitted to the otherwise forbidden land. They report that because of language differences information

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

PHOENIX, ARIZ. - That was simply tremendous amazingly conservative, burbled a prominent state Republican leader after listening to Michigans Gov. George Romney deliver a Goldwater-ish attack on the federal government to an appreciative Arizona State Legislature. We just might end up backing him.

The praise reflected the intriguing possibility that Romney, damned by the Republican right - wing for apostasy in failing to back the 19W Gold-water ticket, has a fighting chance to win delegates from Barry Goldwater s own state in 1968, And his brief visit to Phoenix concluding a five-day swing through the Far West helped make that long shot a little shorter.

Herein was the most reward-inglement of Romneys premature presidential campaigning to the West. While only partially successful in its primary goal of wooing the national press and occ^ionally maladroit in dealing with Vietnam, Romneys trip scored important points among tha conservative Republican politi-

Dcians of the Mountain States. O tO states visit-

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^ stalwarts were surprised and heartened by how proficiently

is difficult to obtain.

Their principal source of information seems to be wall posters put up at night by Shaos purple guard.

From these tiiey have concluded that:

a) bombings by the west would only stiffen the resistance of the East Carolinians.

b) the easterners are determined to fight for another 20 years if necessary.

c) the basketball team is determined to win on the road. Even these conclusions are subject to dispute, because the wall posters are replaced almost nightly.

East Carolina observers agree that the success of the Eee Cee Cee movement depends to a great extent on how effectively chief missile expert Luilin Morgan (pronounced Mor-gan) has done his work.

If East Carolina has developed an adequate delivery system for its nuclear arsenal it will undoubtedly be in a strong bargaining position. -ALVIN TAYLOR

(Norfolk Legder-Star)

There is an old story about a schoolboy who let slip an aint in class and was challenged by a stem teacher: Wheres your grammar? To this he replied, Shes dead. Grammar may not be dead these days, but sometimes it seems to be an arcane art, practiced only in the academic groves and on the margins of student compositions.

On the page opposite this one there appeared the other day a story about a Duke University professor who deplores the way that poor grammar in tile hands of both uneducated and professional peopleimpedes communication. The reason for this situation, he says, is that students at all levels get insufficient training in rudimentary English.

The professor is right, of course. And probably much of the trouble is that the classic, rulebook methods of teaching grammar hava fallen

by the wayside in 0 u r complex, hurried society. But one problem with teaching the rules of grammar, it seems to us, is that all of the rules dont stay put; they change according to the way the people speak the language.

When a person realizes this, he resents being told he has a broken a rule of grammar that he knows is till a rule because not enough other people have broken it yet. He also is confused when one grammarian contends some particular construction Is barbarous, while another grammarian lets down the bars and admits it to standard, good usage.

So, were all for good grammar and for teaching it thoroughly. But sometimes its a matter of knowing (who, whom) to accept as an authority and how to choose (between, among) the various rules (which, that) are offered.

George Romney can brobeat the federal government and praise private enterprise.

In fact, Romney today must be given a slight edge over Richard M. Nixon in the conservative Mountain country that was surpassed only by the deep South in steadfast devotion to Barry Goldwater. Though Nixon is Goldwaters anointed heir, last weeks trip showed Western party leaders surprisingly vulnerable to Romneys charms.

The national importance is plain: If Nixon cant win the Mountain States, he is finished.

In tiie West as elsewhere, Romneys main appeal stems from the win-hungj^ Rfpubli-can Party's newly pragmatic search for a winner. Walter Hickel, Alaskas new Republican governor who was considered a sure Nixon man, stunned Romneys own staff in Anchorage by virtually declaring for Romney because Hickel considered him a winner.

Romneys Mormon faith ii an additional asset in the West.. In Mormon - dominated Utah, it insured Romney the Republican establishments backing and probably a unanimous delegation. Romney is likely to cut into Nixon s long - established streQgtb in Idaho, an increasingly conservative state where Goldwater nearly won in 1964, because of the heavy Mormon population in southern Idaho.

Even Arizonas 10 per cent Mormon population carries formidable impact. Shrewd State Republican Chairman Harry Rosenzweig has been advising Goldwater, with no success thus far, to keep out of the Nixon - Ronmey contest and stop baiting Romney or else run the risk of alienating Mormon voters in Goldwaters 1968 Senate bid.

Beyond all this, Romney forces at last are taking advantage of Nixons self-imposed moratorium on politics by proselytizing through the Mountain States. The chief Romney operative: Tom Judd, an experienced Utah Republican worker who was picked by and reports to Romney strategist Leonard Hall in New York,

For instance, JikM flew to (Continued On Page 5)

Money Cards In Our Tomorrow

The art of living is like every other art; only the cap-aeily is borh with us. If must be learned and pracUccd with mcessaut care.Goethe.

By ELMER ROBSSNER

The day may come when Yvette Muri*y iriecti a $1,000 fur coat, then hands a money card to the salesman. The salesman will Insert the card in an electroiiic machine connected by wire to tie local clearing house aad zip! $1,000 is Insteatly transferred from Yvette Murphys bank account to the account of the department store.

And Joe Murphy, of Subtle Ad Agency, after entertaining a prospect at a night club, will hand his money card, not his credit c^rd, to the waiter and $567.85 will be similarly transferred from the Subtle account to that of the night club.

And the day may come when money cards force many banks toto mergers, end compel the

survivors to seek new sources of income.

This day may come within 25 years, according to 94 per cent of the corporate executives responding to a survey by the Diebold Group.

Not Yet In Operation

The money - card system is still in the pjiqPtog stage, and many bugs still nave to be worked out For example, many people like to charge things so they can pay later. In fact, if money cards eliminated charges an(L.^talment purchases, theyspi^i^afivere-ly crimp retail s^tea. So some system must ^ be devised whereby overdrafts of arranged amounts woujd be paid. Then it must be extended so that overdrafts of certain amounts would automatieally

become instalment accounts at the banks, with the banks adding on predetermined interest charges.

The money card might eventually displace the credit card. Of those polled, 96 per cent said they belief banks art likely to participate to money-card plans. Seventy pr cent sai<t credit cards are a 'Ngln-aing toward the money card systiup; 79 per cent said th$t automatic bank account dtduc-tioos for utiUty kills, mortgage payments, ate., were another step.

May End Charge Aoceowts

Of those responding to the poll, 62 per cent said money cards were ylikely to make charge accounts obsolete.

Seventy per cent said the system^s greatest benefit woaU be to reduce paper

worLHowever, 69 per cent said ^at maintaining credit flics on an card carriers would still be necessary.

The system would also have tremendous impact on banking, according to the responders.

Seventy per cent said the numpCT ot bfpln would decrease becguse of the high cost of money card equipment; 66 per cent said they woqld decdase because of less need for services of smaller banks. Seventy - ei^t per oent said the system would decrease demand deposits in banking; the same percentage said banks will have to turn to other sources 0! income, and 82 per cent said enterprises and individuals would feel less con-stridned to maintaia large balances.