Tutsday, April ^5, 1967

Exploration Has Its Special Price

Loss of Cosmonaut Vladimir Kormarov is certain to be a severe blow to the Soviet program as was the recent loss of three American astronauts to the U. S. space program.

The difference, of course, is the where the United States loss three of its first-team astronauts in a static test, the Soviet Union loss its veteran

at any one of a thousand or more of the intricate operations involved. Mans exploration of space is still in its infancy. Before the job is done the cost will be measured in terms of lives as well as in terms of material costs.

But in this way, the exploration of the space frontier is no different from the cost of exploring

spaceman in actual flight. Which of the two inci- the other frontiers which have draym man to them

through the centuries. None has been easily or cheaply won, and none is likely to be won easily or cheaply.

dents poses the mose serious problem to the space program of the respective nations is a matter of conjecture. ,

Certainly the inquiry into the cause of the fire which swept the capsule of the Apollo I ship has delayed for months the U. S. space effort. Whether the difficulty with the parachute which was supposed to allow the Soviet spacecraft to settle safely hack to earth is more serious remains to be seen.

Offcially, tie death toll in mans attempt to ^plore space stands at four. Although this may be looked upon as a tragic toll, the wonder is that man has been able to venture into space so many times in the past few years with so few losses. Komarov alone has lost his life on s space flight so far as the public knows.

The accidpt which took the life of the Soviet Cosmonaut points up again the danger involved in what we have come to regard routine space flights. They may be routine so far as the laymans thinking is concerned, but they are staggeringly complex undertakings which could end in tragedy

in Ihree Parts

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH The East Carolina College - university status issue in the le^ature is now, like Ca^ars Geul, divided into toree parts.

East Cantona diehards insist en sepaite, independent, re^ gional univerrity status and say they irill acc^it nothing less.

Just as tomiy, R is argued that there should be no major change In the state-supported s3Tstem of higher education and higher education^ institutions at this timeeither to the extent of granting independent utoversity status adding a fifth campus to thf Consolidated n i v e rsity (k iChanging the,presil set - up of the ConSOHflated University board of trustees. This is the position taken by Gov. Dan Moore and his administration, and backed by the leadership of the Boaid of Higher Education.

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dont can it com'omise, says Sen. J. J. (Monk) Har-ringt<m of Bertie. TU never compromise, but IU go along with tols.

PROPOSALS - Harrington is not alone among the supposedly solid bloc of Eastern North Carolina legators who would favor a middle ground solution, speciflcaHy the compromise suggested by Lt Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott.

ActuaUy, Scotts compromise proposals on the ECC issue werent original with the lieutenant governor.

They were proposed at least two or three weeks earlier and reported to this column by Rep. Ragsdale of Onslow and other Easterners seeking a middle ground. Scotl gave them the necessary politick impetus in a recent speech at Parmville, but the Mils whidi will be introduced are the product of the thinking of Rep. Ragsdale and certain other legislators.

Ragsdale, is ready to introduce his bffl, catong for a 44 member Consolidated University Board elected by the legislature, with four members from each of the states U congresskmal districts, and brining East Carolina into the consolidated univerrity system.

TIMING - Ragsdales bill is ready,, but he is holding off on

Landowners Can Help Natl Defense Effort

Although the civilian population will not be directly involved in the giant military maneuvers to be held in Eastern North Carolina in late August, their cooperation with the undertaking will be essential to its Success.

Greenville will be the geographic center of the area in which this largest combined military exercise since 1946 will be held. In all, the exercise will take place in some 18 or 19 other counties in this part of the state in addition to Pitt. Some 70,000 military personnel will be involved as will some 8.6 million acres of land.

It is in land use that the cooperation of the civilian population will be most vital to the military exercise. Some 40,000 land owners will be requested to give permission for their property to be included in one way or another for use in the exercise. There are no funds available for rental of land to be used in the maneuvers, so voluntary permission of property owners for use of the land is essential. Officials have said, however, that property owners will be compensated for any legitimate claims for damage to their property caused during the maneuvers.

For Pitt County, it Is,an unusual situation to be involved in such military exercises. Even so, the cooperation of the people of this as well as other counties in this exercise Is important to the operation and through it to the national defense, of our nation.

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Percy s New Plan

By ROWLAND EVANS and

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WASHINGTON Behind the meteoric take ofr of Sai-ator Ctoarles Percys new plan to encotffage low - income families to own their own homes lies a somewhat similar plan, all but forgotten today, with a most un - Republican sp<msor Vice - F^esident Hubert H. Hun^)hrcy.

The Humphrey plan, which was quite unknown to t h e freshman Republican from Illinois until his staff found it to their research, was briefly outltoed during toe 1966 Con-^essiona! campaign in the following words:

I would like to see a national housing development fund for cooperatives in nonprofit corporations, just as we

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All Sides Senator Opposes Poats

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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WASHING looks like President Johnson is going to get it every which way.

Alabamas former governor, George C. Wallace, the Souths outstanding segregationist, is thinking of beading a third - party ticket in the 1968 presidential race and believes, if he does, it would hurt the Democrats more than the Republicans.

At the other extreme Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights apostle, is now busy trying to join the civil rights and antiwar - in Vietnam movements into an antiwar

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^ A third, or Qii^e stage has its tofroduction for the proper Uj Y SCIFS emerged a middls ground timing. ^ ^

which Is gateiftg ooosiderable legislstlve and political support

CCHiliSOMfiSE - TMs is tbs Idea of CQimmoinise, by which toe Ooasdtolsted University board sf tmststs would be ret-constituted East Carolina brought onder tiie eoosoiidat-fd university antoaella as a fifth canqms.

The weed compromise itself is repugauit at ttos point, and those legislators favoring this 30^ prefer to call it somettaag ease.

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of independent untver sity status is brpu^ out of committee onto the legislative floors wtoe, aeoprding to best estimates, it would be defeated by a narrow niargin. Committee action on toe hni for independent university sta^ ... at Greenville may come to the next day or so.

Contrary to reports, the govemor made no overtures toward compromise or a deal on the East Carolina

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Pitt CoanDr Urged to Meet For Aid Fer Storm

The citizens of Pitt County are most urgently requested by toe local chapter of the American Red Cross to meet the request for aid that has been received from the National Red Oo for toe relief of tiie Mississiii^i flood sufferers. .. .In the worst catastrophe this country has ever experienced, a aistcr dty with the same name u ours is at present the worat sufferer. . . Those of you who have listened on the radio for the last two evenings have gotten a o m idea of the appalling sitnation that Greenvie, Mississippi, Vicksburg, Missls^pi and other dtizens of toe flooded area aro having to contend with...

Woman Sets Hike Record

Ashvtile, AprU 25 - Mrs. Charles Hutchins, 83, mother of two children and a wife of a prominent attorney of Burnsville, finished at 1:16 oclock this afternoon her forty mile hike from Burnsville to Beaver Lake, 8 and a half miles north to Ashville. Her time is said to have beaten by four minutes that of Miss Eleanor Sears hike btoween Province, R. L and Boston.

Local dob to Observe Home Week

The week of April 24 to May 1 will be observed throughout America as Better Homes Week, Secretary to Commerce today made the following statement regarding toe nationwide program: More than 3500 local committees invited the American people to join in observing Bettm: Homes Week from April 24 to May 1. .

Miss Rose Hadley returned today from Lexington, Va., Where she has attended the Easter dances at V. M. I

Reid Perkins has returned from V. M. I., Lexington, Va., where he attended the Easter dances.

bloc tiiat will try to pressure Johnson into seeking peace.

King talked at a news conference at Cambridge, MassI, where a pamj^et, distributed at the conference, said, We aim at more than changing n vote or two in Congress. We seek to defeat Lyndon Johnson and his war.

On the CBS tdevison program, Face the Nation, Charles H. Percy who took his seat last January as a senator from Illinois, wasnt satisfied with the way Jtomson is handling the war although Perms solution sounded confusing.

In just about three months Percy has toot up to such prominence among Republicans that be is being mentioned as a possible candidate for his pa^ against Johnson next year.

He said the United States should press for more participation by its Asian allies in the war and toould not take no for an answer.

Getting back, for a moment, to the matt^ of Rutherford M. Poats. For tiie past three years, toe gentleman has served as assistant administrator for the Far East of the Agency for International Development. He now has been nomi-

Other Editors Saying Why Out Of

he ought not to be rewarded with ^eater responsibilities. The Senator probably will lose his fight, for no one is much steamed up these days about waste in government. Besides, an effort is being made to turn this affair into a vendetta on Bayhs part, and Poats is being characterized as a sacrificial lamb on the hearths of Indiana steel -1 . ^ If this were the beginning

n 9 T1 on f and nd of the story, it would XAWi X . ijo - hum and skip It, for

nated for promotion to deputy administrator of toe entire AID program.

Senator Birch Bayh (D.-Ind.) is opposing his confirmation on the solid ground that Poats performance in toe Far East was so poor that

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS ONE STEP AT A TIME How much do we really know?

Very little. We have five feeble senses by which we are able to adapt ourselves to toe requirements of the planet on which we live. But never let us get the idea that these five feeUe senses plus our brains can give us much of an idea as to what ultimate tnito is. Scientists cannot give us any adequate idea as to toe . essential nature to gravity. We have not toe slightest idea what this thing called life may be which appears to begin with birth and end with what we call death. And as for the nature of matter -- the scientific world is changing its ideas along that line constantly. There may be as many different kinds of matter as there are stars in the sky. We have a particular brand of matter here on this planet, but even our incomplete understanding of it does not reveal very extensively as to what the nature of matter may be throughout the universe.

One life at a time was a slogan set iq) some

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The Senate Committee on Conservation and Deve 1 o p-ment has approved industrial aid bonds by local governments as a lure to new industry.

This reversal of a long-established state policy seems to fall into the pattm to Everybodys dohig it, why dont we?

It Is no secret that South Carolina, Mississippi and oth-ed industry-eager states are using, and have used for some time, this method. Our Conservation and Development Board apparently came to the decision to back such a plan ^er encountering stiff competition and losing a few favwed industrial clients!

Interest earnings on industrial aid bonds would be tax-free, and could well pose a threat to ti tax-exempt status In the sale of all kinds of state and local government bonds. 'Ibcy do not pledge the faith and credit of any government agency. They aro sold on ti eaniing prospects to toe company to be established. T1ir danger, as many of our mimlclpal leaders see it, is toat the federal taxing authorities or Congress may lift toe tax-exempt status to municipal bonds backed by toe credit of the local government. This would be cOTtain to be increas

ed if more states join in the march to industrial aid bonds.

The Everybodys doing it concept is the newest to 1 favored in toe mad scramble for industry, but we wonder if it is fiscally wise?

The idea that the end justifies the means falls a little hollow on Tar Heel ears. We have be^ proud of our industrial expension record based only on frank appeals to industries which can and will pay their own way.

If the new proposal goes through toe legislature, and it seems beaded that way. North Carolina would set up a state authority to handle industrial aid bond financing. This authority would investigate and approve or disappove the crei it and economic conditions of the industries for whi^ such financing Is sought.

We would not like to be among those who cant change their minds. Apparently, many in the Conservation and Development department seem to have changed theirs.

Still, we cant help but wonder how North Carolinas firm stand in not issuing tax - free

mere personality conflicts in tills town are as cheap as cocktail olivt. But Bayh is right in his stand. And wholly apart from Poats as an individual, tt is a sound principle which decrees that the Senate should take more than a casual glance at a iminee before it gives its advice and consent to his confirmation.

The steel incident arose late in 1965, when Bayh got wind of ^oss comiptimi amoi^ Asian steto interests in selling to the AID program in Vietnam. Through an intricate system of pay - offs and kickbacks, costing American taxpayers some $15 million a year, Japuiese steel sheets were being galvanized in Korea and sold to AID for use in Vietnam.

This procurement program was Poats* torect responsibility no one elses. But when Bayh tried to get the facts from AH), he got no^cre. It wasnt until Bnyh persuado the General Accounting Offlco to 8Ulq>oena the pertinent records that toe scheme was exposed. Bayh himself was fully vindicated when the Congress

gimmicks and b(mds which did approved his amendment last so much to attract stable In- year to the foreign aid bill,

dustry to our state is now suddenly out of fashion especially when we have led the Southern states in attracting and expanding industry.

restricting AID steel purdhas-es for Vietnam largely to Am^can - made products. In January alone, savings to the (Continued on page 5)

did with 3 Rural Electrification Administration.

Percys housing plan, which was introduced in the Senate last Thursdi^ with extraordinary fanfare, would set up a livate, noihproflt national lme ownrshty foundation. Boto plans, to short, are based on a similar philo-so^y mobilizing jEivate resources to make it possible fa* low - income families to buy toeir own homes.

The philos<q>hy of ti Percy housing plan also roughly parallels that of Senator Robert F. Kennedy to New York.

As one Percy Intimate told us: Bobbys speeches on housing early last year were fantastically good. P^ankly, If we had researdd them before we wrote our own plan, we might be accused of steeling his idea.

Now toat hes launched his housing program, P e rcys next move is to persuade the building trades unions to relax their rigid restrictions on nonunion labor. The Percy plan is to make maximum use of local citizens, particularly the unemployed, to rehabilitating old housing to prepare it for sale under the Home Ownership Foundation Act. Few If any of tise citizens are either union members or apprentices.

A footnote: Percy has accepted an invitation from Ken-neity to take a look at the Bedford - Stuyvesant rehabilitation project in New York City, a project which New York Republican Senator Jacob K. Ja-vits joined Kennedy in sponsoring.

Reagan and Kuchcl Operating out of publit sight, Govanor Ronald Reagan and his top Califorma aides aro trying bard to reduce the potential to totra p^rty disasta to the Republican Senatorial primary next year.

Vfith the high - powered Los Angeles firm of Stu Spencer and Bill Roberts now signed up to manage Senator Thoma* Kuchels campaign for re -election, Reagan men ar* quietly persuading the partys biggest money men, most of whom are conservatives, not to make any commitment to any ri^ wing RepubUcan seeking support to run against Kuchel to the primary.

Regans public postoe will be one to strict neutrality in ffliy primary that develops against Kudiel, a liberal to the Earl Waiten tradttlon and Assistant Leader of fals party in the Senate. However, the mere fact toat ti versatile political public relations firm of Spencer -Roberts has agreed to handle Kudiels re-election campaign is highly sign-ificant Spencer - Roberts,

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Elxpect Inflation From Now On

ago by a skeptical philosopb-er. And yet mere is considerw able truth to this statement. For what we know about ultimate truth is as a grain to sand compared to the area of a continent.

Discouraging? Devastating to ones ideaUsm and religioas hopes? Not at all We are to take one step at a time, solve the problems of life as tiiey arise, and leave the issue to Gods hand.

He made the world and He alone can attend to its ultimate issues.

By ELMER ROESSNER Burinessmen and common, tax - paytog American slobs may wen lHy plans for the future on ti assumption that there wffl be inflation from now on out, until toe American dollar eoomes worth no more that toe prewar German mark or toe wartime French franc.

The basic reason is that we are using a fiat currency. Fiat comes from the Latin for Let it be!

The American dollar can still be exdianged for sUvo* in the form of dimes and quarters, although toe latter may be largdy of copper to sandwich form. There are few half dollars, althou^ more of the copper centowd halves are appearing. As for sfiver dollars, an advertiser to the Wall Street Journal is offering ten for $25.

Tbe larger domminations of paper m(mey can be exchang

ed only for more paper money, unless you happen to be a foreign government. Only then is it good for gold, on whidi the Almighty Dollar was once based. And if you buy a $20 commemorative gold coin at Expo 67 in Montreal and try to bring it back into this country, it may be ttoten away from you and you may land to jail, jit like tbe Wortham boy who traded American money for even phonier rubles to Leningrad.

So YoBre Free?

A Oiadian, a Britisher, a C^golese can own gold coins hut an American cant, unless he is collector, because he is t dtisen of vtoat is rapidly beconlng a police state.

Because our currency is based only on fiat, other factora are generating inflation. Here are some of them:

Wages are rising. One group to ti United Auto Workers is now sedclng a 30 per cent rise

over the next three years. In theory, wages should go up with toe rise in productivity, but they are going iq> faster. And people on fimd incomes are actually getting less and less In puntoastog power every year, every week.

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R0BS8NER

Qofmment a p t n d i n g if shootiiM up. Not only mo Ifiet-nam war costs listni but demanda of voters tor fif wd^ fare, more coddUng, more sharing of the wealth arc putting pressure on elected of-ficials.

More Money From The People

Consequently, taxes are rising on federal, state and local levels as people demand more lorvtees, more TLC. And dollars suctioned out of earners* pockets buy less aod less of goods .and services.

The bflUons collected by S> cial Security, private pension funds, savings and insimancc will .buy consistently less at they are paid to those who bidit up toe funds. Hence payments ool of toese funds have to merease constantly, and that means payments into tomn win hava to be increased.

During World War H, t h a alumianm one- and two-frane French edai had ao tttUe pur-itoaitog pomar toat thay were usefid 0^ for tippiag atte danta ta public conlort stations.

Lets hope tiiat sometiting I* done before toe American dollar becomes known as tiia powder room buck.