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Although the report of the Board of Higher Education recommends against independent university status for East Carolina College and against any other fundamental change in the structure of the existing system of higher education in North Carolina, the total report clearly shows efficient merit in East Carolina to warrant a continued effort to achieve that status which is in the best interest of the institution and the state as a whole.

Those who have steadfastly opposed even the suggestion of a departure from the one-university concept will take delight in pointing out the unami-mous recommendation f of the Higher Education Board is that ECC not be granted university status. They probably will not point out, however, that even before ECC made its request, official sources close to the Higher Board repeatedly asserted the group opposed university status for ECC.

Those opposed to East Carolina's proposal will delight in declaring that the consultants concluded ECC is not now prepared to undertake doctoral level work. They probably will fail to note, however, that by law the college has not been allowed to undertake such programs and therefore could not have fully prepared itself. ECC opponents may tend to overlook the consultants' assertion that the institution is serving its undergraduate students in

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First termer

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH Everybody tiunks I have been here four or five terms or longer, says State Sen. Harry E. Buchanan of Hendersonville who qualHies as pr(A>^ly the nKst experienced . and knowledgeable freshman legislator of tiie* 19-67 General Assembly.

The serious, quiet - spoken Buchamm is so familiar around Ralei^ and so well acquainted with the legislature it is haid to believe he is a first tenner.

A group of veteran legislative lobbyists swore it couldnt be true. But it is. The fact is that iriiile Buchanan is a freshman legiaiatiM, hes far from being a oewctmier to Raleigh wd the legislature. Hes served' in an unpaid, but usually full time ciq>acity during eveiy legislative session for the past 35 years.

Unique Position This long unpaid, unelected service puts Buchanan in a unique position. He probably knows mere legislative ins; and outs and more petle in positions of power and influ-ice fiian most veterans.

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And now Budman has the title and elected rank and privileges of a itate.senator.

He was elected from the S2nd Senatorial district comprising Haywood, Henderson arid Po& counties last November by approximately by 4,000 votes over bb Republican op-defeated the incmnbeat Democrat, Oral Ya-es of Haywood, in the Democratic primary.

1 juri decided to run, Bu-dirnian says. We had been

rotating with Haywood (in a fonner senatorial district) and it was Henderson Countys time. We hadnt had a senator since 1963.

Failed First Time Actudly it was the first time Buchanan had campaigned for elective public office in 40 yemrs. He failed tiie first time.

Back'in 1926, he was the Democratic nominee for the legislature from his native Jackson County. But the Republicans swept Jackson in a landslide that year. In 1931 he was elected mayor of Sylva without ever campaigning personally for the office. In 1953-57 he served as a State Highway comnssioner under ap-pointmmit by Gov. 'William B Umstead.

In the interim, however, Buchanan started coming to Raleigh for every session of the legislature, as chairman of the legislative committee of the titter owners associatimi. I^s been a director of this association for 42 years, and until his recent election had been chairman of the Hendersonville city ABC board since it was established in 1960 and chairman of the legislative committee of tiie state ABC association since 1961.

Ive never been paid a dime for either, Buchanan says. Sometimes, whi business was bad I wasnt even paid expenses.

fritrodnces Bills Buchanans experience as legislative lobbyist for the theater owners and chairman Historical

a manner consistent with the traditions of quality in higher education to which the state has historically aspired.

They inay also tend to overlook the consultante assertion that any plan for higher education in North Carolina would assign to the Ea^ Carolina College a major role in higher education in the state and that the institution would discharge its new responsibilities whatever they might be with the same vigor and dedication that has marked its effort in the recent past.

The report of the boardapart from that of the consultantsclearly shows the commitinent of the Board of Higher Education to the one-university concept, not as a result of any study but rather as a conclusion which was predetermined. The board study is obviously shaped to support that prede* termlned conclusion on the part of members of the Higher Board. Its conclusions show the firm and uncompromising opposition of the Board to any basic change in the system of higher education in North Carolina ... not as a result of study but rather as a matter of policy.

Although the consultants in their report said East Carolina is not now prepared to offer doctoral work, they pointed out clearly the foundation ui>on which the institution has to build such programs. The consultants also clearly .voice, their conclusion that ECC'should be given support with which to strengthen its program, particularly at the graduate level and looking to the development of terminal degree programs.

If the development which the consultants point to is to take place, the official status of ECC must be changed. ECC cannot be expected to develop, for example, research programs without lookiilg toward doctoral programs in which research would play a part. It cannot be expected to develop a library which would support a doctoral program without being given the status which could lead the development of such a program.

The consultants concluded that ECC has done and is doing well the task which it has been permitted to do in higher education in the state. The consultants also asserted their opinion the institution would discharge whatever new education responsibilities might be assigned it with thekame vigor and dedication that has marked its effort in the recent past.

The state has much to gain for its program of higher education and for its people by permitting East Carolina College to assume the new responsibilities it seeks in service to the citizens of North Carolina.

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8/ ART BUCHWALD

;:No Peace In Washington

Congress Sees New Attitudes

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - The changing timas have had a quieting effect on Congress. There is still just as much noise from the Capitol. But its a different kind of noise.

And, just because it is, President Johnson doesnt get the same kind of lashing that was inflicted on President Harry

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door drama, Unto These Hills, made it natural for him to introduce legislation opposing daylight saving time in North Carolina.

Unless tiie Assembly approves his resolution by April 1, clocks in the state will go on' 4)ST automatically under federal legislation from May to October. Buchanan fears North Carolina might become an iriand If nei^boring statr (Continned On Page 5)

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By FOY H. DUNCAN March 15, 1927 Wm Start OU WeU Near aty At Early Date OreenviUes lates oil venture got under way today when a number of local business men were busily engaged in securing oil arid gas leases on five thousand acres, just south of the city, upon whidi a test well will be drilled within the next few months. Todays activit I e s followed a meeting held last night wbidi was attended by fifty or more citizens, including severid owners of the property in the proposed tract.. Xast nights meeting was the result of negotiations that have been going on for several weeks with a syndicate head^ by E. R. Roy of Christal Lake, Illinois. Geologists of the concern have visited the surrounding territory and are very enthusiastic over the prospects here and indications are that work will

S. Truman. One reason, of course, is that the cast of characters in Congress has changed.

But thats only a minor part of the reason. The attitude in the country is different.

President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal ended in 1938 with the passage of the minimum wage law. From then on Roosevelt and the country put all tiieir resources Into getting ready for a war and then fighting it.

On Sept. 2, 1945 Japan formally surrendered and four days later Truman sent a message to Congress. He had the tremendous task of reconverting the country to peace. He never forgot that day, as he made clear in his memoirs.

It was on that day, he wrote, and with that message that I first spelled out the details of the program of liberal-(Continaed On Page 5)

WASHINGTON - The big question everyone in the nations Capital is asking this week is, Can there ever be peace in Washington? ^ As every day passes the positions of President Johnson and Sen. Kennedy harden, and the chances of a peaceful solution to the war in the Democratic Party grow dimmer and dimmer.

From his government - inexile headquarters at Ifickory Hill, Va., Sen. Kennedy told a Japanese newspaperman hes willing to sit down with the President anywhere, at any time, providing the President stops bombing the jwess with news releases just when Kennedy is making a speech on the floor of the Senate.

A White House sp<*esman said that it still hopes to go to the conference table with the Kennedys, but first they must make some gesture to show they really want peace.

When asked what land of gesture was expected of the Kennedys, the spokesman replied, They have to stop infiltrating Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Goodwin anJ John Kenneth Galln-aith into the New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post and the Today show.

When asked if they would consid^ a pause in the bombing of the Kennedys to see what the reaction would be, the White House spokesman replied, We have tried a pause in the bombing but it didnt do any good. Bobby Kennedy went off to Europe and escalated his attacks by

meeting with President De Gaulle. We cant stand by and let the Great Society be shot in tiie back.

A Kennedy spokesmpn saiq he doubted the sincerity of the Johnson administration in seeking to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Democratic Party. He said that on the one occasion when the R*esi-dent put out peace feelers to Bobby at the White House, the President spent two hours chewing out the senator from New York. Then the White House leaked the confrontation to the press, causing Bobby to lose face in front of his broth-Teddy. The Johnson ad-

that the country is divided and weak. If the critics did not pdilicly side with Kennedy, hostilities would cease overnight.

At Hickory Hill. Va., everyone scoffed at the White House statement. Ckie of the Kennedy children said, They call that a peace feeler? Weve had better peace feelers from Look magazine.

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talks peace, but to escalate the

ministration it continues war.

When informed of what the Kennedy spokesman had said, the White House replied, The Johnson administration didnt seek out a war with the Kennedys, but it cant flinch from its responsibilities to the party. If it loses to the Kennedys, New York could fall, tiien California, and, on the basis of the domino theory, every state could follow and the whole country could be taken over by the Republicans. We owe it to the people never to let this country fall under Republican domination.

The White House spokesman continued that criticism of President Johnson by those supporting Sen. Kcn-nedys speeches was just prolonging the war in the Democratic Party. Sen. Kennedy interprets any opposition of

In the meantime, neutral source;, were working behind the scenes to find some way out of the impasse. One proposal for a truce was that President Johnson not go on television the same day Sen. Kennedy gave an im^rtant foreign policy speech.

In exchange Sen. Kennedy would have to promise not to meet with Pope Paul VI the same day President Johnson gave a press conference.

President Johnson has told intimates he would do anything to achieve peace in* the Democratic Party. He said, Ahd even send Hubert Humphrey to Hickory Hill, if Ah thought it would do any good.

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Charlotte, March 15 Foul balls are worth $2,500 in Charlotte to the spectator who got hit foy a bgll.

W. V. Birdsong, a (^ar-lotte cotton man took a crack on the shin from a baU a year ago last summer. He thought it was worth $20,000 and filed suit Felix Hymw, owner of the Charlotte League teiin. in whose it hsiiFafied; thought it wet werth quite a bit less $2/-500.

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By EARL L. DOUGLAS CREEDS ARE SIGNPOSTS

We live in an age which pays scant attention to creeds. Many people pride themselves on the fact that they have no creed save a williniess to do the right thing day by day.

But creeds have their place in life. Unfortunately, they often have been overemphasized in the history of the Church. Creeds are man-made statements of what the Bible teaches. Gods revelation his truth to us, culminated in the coming of Christ to earth, is sometUng that is fixed, as it were. But mens understanding of this truth is not fixed. It may well change with the passing of time, and sh^d.

Creeds are meant to be sign posts. We need them to tell us which way we should go on a Ck)d - directed pilgrimage through life. But they are not the pilgrimage itself. We need signposts when we take an automobile tour. But no one, upon his return 'rom such a tour, would spend his time going into ecstasies over the sign-algnposts be bad seen. The tr^ltself and the expertehces of the trip constitute the ex-

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So in religion. Life with God throu^ Jesus Christ is the main ming in fact, the only tiling woi^y of consideration. But we need the sign-

To The Editor:

I suppose you noticed the absence of broken glass and discarded beer cans on our streets during the recent Christmas holidays. It is certainly plain where all this damage to our tires Is coming from. And this campus wants to become a university!

A tour to the towns around GreenviUe shows a remarkable Absence of this juidt on their streets. How about Imposing much heavier fines on the hoodlums caught doing this? If they cannot pay, then

make them go around cleaning up some of this mess that they have made.

The solution? Impose a 9:00 p.m. curfew wi the city for college and high school students if this does not stop. At least, get the license numbers of the cars involved. This should confine the people causing this mischief. Impossible? Then, just continue paying for your cut tires on your automobiles.

BRYCE W. THARP 1806 Sulgrave Road Greenville, N.C.

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One thing about the late TV shows, no matter how good or exciting they are, they never seem so thrilling when the alarm goes off the next morning. West Bend (Wis.) News.

There is this to be said for the snow shovelit doesnt require a lot of expensive repairs and checkups on the moving parts to make sure its ready for the season Roanoke (Va.)

ahead. Times.

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Behind the facade of joyous harmony t last weeks rare meeting of the Democratic National Cpm-mitteq were valid complaints about the past and realistic c()cems about th futura from state party leaders.

National Oirirman John Bailey and the WMte House did everything possible to appease the national cmnmittee-' men, angry over long, neglect from Washington. They were, entrant^ by piditical" pep talks from both Vice Presi^ dent Oimpbrey and PreikieQt Johnson hims^ (who made a hand - ^lakifig table tour at a dinner merting). The bright new national committee rtaff was put <xi ^hsplay to profe that the deadly economy wave of 1965-66 was over. Withouk question, the cMnmltteiBiai left Washington to a betiir frame of mfaid. '

Still, their genukiA MBll-ments had ody oot chMie* to emerge at the two-day 8Mt^ ing: When the naHciial on-mittee divided into wnffl woi'to shop groups on Thnndty monring (iMarch ). Whatbap-desoibai dm noamomR Humphry pap talks can erase.

Consider one workshop presided over by ex<5orgia Congressman Charles Wiltair, who, as head of the national committees youth (fivisioii, la the most glittermg new itaf-fer. The sesrion got a <tiias-trous start when John Meek, a national committee staffer, asserted that past records showed the national committee never had done so much for candidates in an off - year as in 1966.

That was just too much for Committeeman Eugene Wyman of California, who h a provided important national leadership in urging rebuilding of the national c o mmi tt ee staff. In all conscience, said Wyman, he had to say that the national committee ma-teriaUy helped Gov^.Edraund G. (Pat) Browns succ^ful campaign for re-dection in 19-62 but ignored his losing campaign in 1966.

For the future, Wyman went (m, tiie national committee sbxMid establish a master strategic plan id get on with it now. Specifically, he suggested Weltner go soon to California to confront disaffected college students. More important, he added, was a trip west by President Johnson.

Next on the firing line Was outspoken, tou^ David Carlcy of Wisconsin, who, like Wyman, is an aHy of the vice president. Carley grimly told the group that President Jtkn-son, who carried Wisconsin by

409.000 in 1964, would lose U by

409.000 votes if the election were held today.

The big question was this, as p<^d by Dave Carley: Does Lyndon Johi^n really want an active national committee? Carley really was asking whether the President has managed to bring to an end his ancient feud with the national committee, whidh hi long regarded as an instrument of his Eastern liberal enemies inside the partyj Now more and more pom* mittee members rose to give testimony. Mary Helen of Kentucky recalled that Lawrence F. OBrien, now postmaster general and thrii * White House aide, cami ti (Continued On Page I)

Economists Critical Of Budge

Birtii Amioimcement Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. J(knson, Gbestnut Street, announce the birth of a daughter on Monday, Misrch 14th.

stf just tba same. It is on-y when the signposts take

precedence over the journey itself that religion ceases to be an experience and becomes merely a conformity to ator-ile staadards of othodoxy.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Three distinguished economists sharply criticize the Presidents budget. Two of them have warned that it is inflationary; the third is not certain.

Dr. Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Eisenhower, declared that the budget had gotten out of hand and said that unless a detemtined effort if made by Congress to cbck the prt^cr-fltion of federal spidlng, the foundations of our eoooomy may be weakened.

Eknilio G. Collado, chairman of the research and policy committee of the Committee for Economic Development, declared that present government economic policies exj^ the country in 1967 to risks of inflation comparable to those we faced at the outset ot mk

Inspired and Baffled Dr. C. Lowell Harriss, Col-umbia economist and Tax Foundation consultant, wrote in the Manufacturers Hanover Trust monthly letter that the Presidents budget inspires and baffles, challenges and frustrates. He c o n c 1 uded:

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Whether or not the 1968 budget is si^piificantly inflationary may be debatable and of relatively temporary concern. But the bicrease in the number and size of federal spending programs is clear. I

Dr. Harriss aaalysls ot the

1968 budget shows total receipts of $167.1 billion and total expenditures of $169.1 biHion, for a deficit of $2.1 billion.

On cash bases, the estimated receipts would be $168.1 billion and expenditures would be $172.4 billion, a deficit of $4.3 billion.

However, the cash receipts are ertimatcd to include $4.7 billion from the income tax surcharge, which now seems to be a dead prepoisL Thus the deficit would be about to bUUoD.

Furthermore, the receipts assume that tiw level of business will be the same as to the curr^ fiscal year, a yet uoocmficmed assumption, to put it mildly.

More Than Mass Of Figure*

Dr. Harriss said:

The budget is more than a mass of figures. Sometimes the Presidents text is purely objective; other timet he seeks

to persuade and convince, reflecting credit on tiie rord and portraying the attractions of new propoffls. And who would not push disappointments and failures into the background? Puffing is not unknown. Ingenius gimfllicks put a better face on things. Political considerations Influence the presentation of snore potots than are at first obvious. A budget,* it has been said, ;h(dds as many secrets as a cematery....

Each federa} tax increase in and of Itealf redueea the abUity of fanUiii. baitoto-ess and state - lecid govera-mwits Co,pay for what they want. The tax rise Chareby contributes Indirectly to iffgu-mrtitt for itill more federal action. Are wa not altoaay to something of a viciooa ctocle .of this sort, one which would become more pemicioui and insidious from a boost to Cat rates?