Monday, May 1, 1967

A Good Way To Ease Frustrations

WHERE HANOI PINS ITS HOPES!

Chalk-ins might not produce great literature but they surely must be a good way to.work off frustrations.

At least one did for many East Carolina College students who purchased five cent chalk sticks Friday and set to work on the drives and walks around Wright Building.

As might be expected most of the impromptu creative writing involved the burning issue of the day^the defeat of the East Carolina University bill in the State Senate.

Some of it was quite insulting to the governor, who opposed separate university statuslike Gov. Moore drives an Edsel." What could be more insulting than that?

Or Dear Gov.^ Moore, Tomorrow will be Saturday if it is all right with you. Signed God.

Some of the lettering had nothing to do with the ECU issue and, of course as might be expected,

some of it was gross and of th^kind usually found on rest room walls.

Be that as it may, everybody had a big time and the whole operation proved harmless so far as property or permanent damage to personal pride was concerned. Literally hundreds of slogans and messages crowded one another on the streets and sidewalks.

It was sponsored by the College Association of Student Artists.

The first good rain will erase these vented frustrations and no one should be any worse for it. were applied to all the state, national and world Who knows? Perhaps if problems everyone would be worth a try.

the same technique happier. Maybe its

Pollution Curbs

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3ill Under Fire-

By STACIE SIMS ^ Reflector Raleigh Burean

RALEIGH Attacks on a bill to create a board of water and air resources for control of pollution came from til angles in a\ public hearing before a joikt session of the House Wat Resources Committee am the Senate Conservation and Development Committee.

An unusual aspect of the criticisms was that almost all came from proponents of tighter and more comprehensive controls on the pollution problem.

Opponents criticized the bills lack of provisions to support local jwllution control programs, its failure to extend forcibly to areas used for recreation, and the contention that the bill is slanted favor industry rather than public health.

A forceful speaker against the bill was former State Sen. Herbert Hyde of Buncombe County, who prefaced h i s statements by saying that he favors an effective air and water pollution control program.

Hyde told the committee that the presenU)jll is largely a rewrite 1951 pollu-

I vtion law. / ^

It contains almost all the Infirmities ot the old law, but jnot quite, plus some new pro-cedual problems.

Hyde told the committee that the new commissions hands would be tied when It came to enforcing the pollution controls.

He explained that sections of the proposed bill which give deference to Industry, make cleaning up the streams and rivers almost an impossible task.

He cited a section which provides that the court and the jury shall give due consideration to the practicability, the physical and economic feasibility of disposing of the waste involved, and the economic effect on the community. This, Hyde said, is so broad as to be ineffective.

Hyde also pointed out that the offender is entitled to a Jury trial. a

What jury, in a county dependent on a large industry, is going to pass a conviction which woid run the industry

out of the country? he asked.

Hyde suggested that the State adopt a model law developed and reconunended by the U. S. PubUc Health Ser

vice.

A spokesman for the Public Health Association told the committee that air pollution is a health issue, adding that there is an urgent need to study the problem more carefully. before any decision to remove air pollution control from the North Carolina State Board of Health.

The question of what to do with the pollution programs already in operation on a local basis was also pointed up in the hearing.

E. Wade Copeland, Chief of Air Pollution Control activities of the Durham Health Department, told the committee that he felt all authority should not be taken from the local health departments.

He cited the 14 counties in the State which are waging effective battles against the air pollution problem, commenting that these programs would collapse with a\state takeover.

A resolution of censure directed by the Senate Ethics Committee at Sen. Thomas J. Dodd appears gentle wrist-slapping for a man whose conduct the committee says is contrary to accepted morals, derogates the public^ trust expected of a senator and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.

If Sen. Dodds conduct in the past does all that, the Senate should do more than just pass a mild resolution telling the Senator he should be a little more discreet in the future. i

While we would not presume to compare the unethical conduct of Sen. Dodd with that of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, it does seem to us that the House in its punishment of Powell took a more realistic view of the seriousnes of the offenses than the Senate Ethics Committee proposes for Sen. Dodds conduct.

If a Senators conduct is such that it tngs the Senate into dishonor and disrepute, it sterns to us the Senate should do a little more than just talk about it. If a Senators conduct derogates the public trust expected of a senator it certainly raises the question of whether the individual should be allowed to sit among the 100 most important men in the nations government.

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Fhey'd Never Grew, Up

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All That Faith

He stated that the State Program could not possibly do as effective a job as a IfctU program, simply because to administer such a large program would be too expensive.

Air pollution causes a rising number of diseases, was stated by Dr. David Smith of N. C. State. ,

Smith also suggested that the authority of administering a pollution program should remain with the Health Department rather than the proposed new commission.

A spokesman for the Tryon Palace Historical Society asked that tighter controls be made on pollution, especially In areas of recreation and tourist attraction.

Mrs. J. A. Kellenberger told of the proposed location of a new paper plant on the, outskirts of New Bern which she complained threatens the success of Tryon Palace as a^ historical tourist attraction.-

By ART BUCHWALD

WASHINGTON Mrs. Adam Clayton Powell, wife of the frequently elected congressman, has just written in the Ladies Home Journal that her husband told her he was not a Negro. This news has shattered the prejudices of everyone in this country, both white and black, and no one knows if well be able to recover from it.

As soon as I read about it, I went up to the Capitol to speak to members of Congress to see if they might change their position on Powell now that they know he Is white.

The first congressman I spoke to said, It doesnt change my position at all. If theres anything I hate its an uppity white man.

Another congressman said; We did not kick Powell out of Congress because of his color. Why, some of my best friends are white folk. I used to play with white children when I was a boy. I grew up with white people, white people work for me, and even today I cherish my white

If the town begins to smell like we think it will, she said, we will lose many paying visitors.

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS A VITALIZING REALITY ' An English wit has described the Oiurch in three words: Attitude, Latitude, and Platitude.

Those of us who are Christian believers would deny that this is an adequate description of the Church, but we would confess that it reflects certain weaknesses in the Church.

In the first place, there ara too many people who hold that Christianity is an attitude. It is not an attitude, it is a revelation of Gods purpose for man as revealed in the Bible and consummated in Jesus Christ. Attitude religion is a weak, diluted variety of the real^ thing. ..

There are others whose religion can best be described by the word latitude. They twist their religion around until It sanctions everything they want to do. They believe they can find in the Bible justification for all their weaknesses. They want to gain heaven without giving up anything particularly desirable to them here on earth.

For still others, religion is a platitude. Whether they stand in the pulpit or sit in the pew, their religious belief is something which tires everyone who comes in contact with It and with them. This is a great misfortune, for religion pure and undefiled is the most thrilling and vitalizing reality in the whole world.

Religion is a revelation of God and His infinite purpose.

friendships. But Adam Clayton Powell is a disgrace to the white race and hes set the Caucasian cause back in this country by 100 years.

A third congressman was shocked by the news. This puts a whole different shade on the Issue, he said. We may now have to look at this in a new light.

Does that mean you might vote to seat him?

Well, he really didnt do anything wrong, did he? I mean, he might not have kept accurate books, and he could have been loose with his expenses. But many of us would have done the same thing if we had been in his position. You give a white man all that power and hes bound to run away with himself. 1 think he should at least be given another chance.

A Southern congressman was so mad when I broke the news that he could hardly talk. If theres anything worse than a black man passing as one of us, its a white man passing as one of them. How can we judge people fairly if we dont know what race they belong to? I think we should find out how many more white people are pretending theyre black so they can reap the benefits of the Great Society.

A liberal congressman Btd: If we dont seat Adam Clayton Powelfthis time, the white people all over America are going to rise up in anger and take out their frustrations on this Congress. Adam Clayton Powell may not have been punished because he is white, but the important thing is that the white people think he was, and he has now become a rallying cause for white power.

Then you predict a long hot summer with white riots in the streets?

It could come to that. The white people are getting tied of having everyone promise them things and no one delivering them. They see in Adam Gayton Powell not a wrongdoer, but someone who is being punished only because hes a Caucasian.

Several Negro leaders were also upset by the revelation that Powell told his wife he was white. One said: Ive got nothing against Adam Gayton Powell personally, but I think he should be punished as an example to othw members of Congress who think they can get away with anything just because weve mistreated the white people all these years.

Aj^militant Negro said, Welf> there goes the faith, baby. The only thing that can save us now is if Sen. Dodd turns out to be one of us. The last Negro I spoke to just shook his head and said, And to think Powell wanted to marry my sister. '

NEW YORK (AP) - Jumping to conclusions:

If zoo gorillas were fed the same diet that most teen-age kids choose, theyd never grow to maturity.

The husbandly chore that many men find most distasteful is picking up beauty aids for their wife at the drug store.

Your nerves are in pretty good shape if you can let a telephone go on ringing simply because you dont feel like talking over one at the moment. The average person is a compulsive telephone answerer: He is afraid not to pick up the receiver for fear he will

miss an important message, although the chances of his doing so are slim. Opportunity may knock on a mans door but once but his telephone will ring 10,000 times.

Circus elephants look sadder than they used to. Maybe theyre tired of being paid in peanuts.

Its getting harder to win arguments in spelling. Everyone goes by his own dictionary, and the dictionaries disagree. Why dont all the dictionary-makers get together and agree to agree, at least on the common words?

Bowlers drink more beer, smoke more cigars, and have

more fun and children than golfers do. They are also likely to be more honest about their game.

Well find It easier to believe in a better world whenever television puts on a successful soap opera about characters who lead happy lives. As it is now, many women who watch these shows feel frustrated because their own lives are so normal they are bored to tears.

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In Other Legislatures

BOYLE

(WilsMi Times)

North Carolina legislature is in session and the news from this august body is read with interest. It is also interesting to read what other state legislatures are doing.

The Florida ^nate received a bill which would amend the current law to specify that names of juvenile offenders and their parents can be published. Under Floridas present juvenile offender law, juvenile court records are sealed but a newspaper is not specifically jffohibited from publishing names if the names can be obtained.

Florida Press Association reports the new bill would clarify the entire situation and make all names able. .

There is no law against publishing the names of juveniles In this state. That is if you can get them. The majority of newspapers do not publish tie nameSi^.if the offenders are under 16 years of age and the offense is not as serious, as a felony. We publish the names of juveniles if the charge is a felony.

We do not publish the names if the offenders are under 16 years of age. Sometimes, when the same ones are up for the second and third offenses, we are tempted to publish the names and addresses of the parents. For the situation is serious when parents are not interested in their children and when they

are not concerned of their whereabouts at night.

The chances are one In five

New Mexico has enacted a

law protecting Jiews sources. This state now joins 43 other states with similar laws already on the books. Previously, reporters In New Mexico risked being held in contempt of court for refusing to divulge news sources. There are 13 states with what is called shield laws. But North Carolina is not in the list. The southern states are Kentucky, Maryland, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Illinois is working for a full access to public records of state and local government. Their freedom of information bill, introduced in the Illinois avail-^ Senate, provides for all records of expenditure, receipt, appropriations of funds by any state agency or local government would be available under the freedom of in formation bill.

The Illinois exemptions cover medical files which could be used for unwarranted invasion of personal privacy and investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes which are not available by law to a private partyThe law further provides for precedence to be given by circuit courts to any actions concerning freedom of information. The court would further be empowered to order compliance of any government agency failing to adhere to stipulations in the bill.

that the next fellow you meet will have a good luck silver dollar in his pocket or in a drawer at home and thats one reason they are becoming so scarce.

Its generally safe to lend money to a man who returns a ball point pen he has borrowed from you.

People who are content to drink hot coffee from paper cups regularly probably never expected very much'from life anyway.

God, of course. Is not dead at all or even in bad health. But there do seem to be more ministers going to psychiatrists for help than there are psychiatrists going to ministers. Man is just more myopic toward diety. ^

Half the pretty young girls who carry hat boxes along the streets here do so in the fond hope that they will be mistaken for fashion models.

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The most annoving thing about a stand-patter is not his stand, but his patter. Atlaqta (Ga.) Constitution.

Nowadays colleges are emphasizing educatiOD. One university has gottoi so strict it wont give a football player his letter unless he can tell which one It is. Tulia (Tex.) Herald.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK , WASHINGTON - Exactly 75 days before becoming chairman of the Nixon for President* national committee, Dr. Gaylord Parkinson,' the former Republican state chairman of California, propositioned Michigan GoVemor George Romney In an effort to become chairman of the Romney Presidential campaign in 1^ Western states.

Romney and top political experts in his camp were astonished at Parkinsons tern\^ They would liked to have had Parky Parkinson on the Romney team, but Parkinsoni financial conditions were, to put It mildly, rather stiff.

In return for running the Western campaign from fund-raising to dOOTbell - ringing Parkinsoa wanted a binding contract calling for a rock-bottoni'fee from the Romney organization at the rate of 136,000. a year for, the 2S-months starting January 1, 1967, plus expenses.

Parkinsofi obviously hoped for i higher price for his talents. In a letter to the Romney camp, written about January 10 iwt predate to January 1, Parkinson proposed that aU the commissions for advertising and other commission-able expenses be paid to a proposed corporation to be call ed Western Campaigns, Inc., with Parkinson as president. Western Campaigns would have acted as Romneys advertising agency in the 13 Western states. Advertising agencies customarily charge a 15 per cent commission. Considering that one of the IS states was California, and that Parkinson contemplated running Romney in the California Presidential primary, TV commissions alone could have far exceeded the proposed parantee of $36,-000 a year each for Parkinson and several other Republican pros in Western Campaigns, Inc.

According to California Re-publteaoa iamiliai^ with this interesting proposifibh, 'Romneys advisers politely 'told Parklnion that although they

the California campaign, their man could never give carte blanche control over the cam-

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to a relative novice in national politics.

Nevertheless, Romney men had a crucial spot for Parkinson in the back of their minds. On the entirely reasonable assumption that Parkinson really wanted to back Romney^ as indicated by his January letter, they planned to nuke full use of his considerable talents in the one place where those talents had been clearly demonstrated in California.

It was, then, with considerable surprise that the Romney camp learned in early March that Parkinsoa was to become chairman of the national Nixon for President committee.

In a letter to scores of Republicans dated Msrch 15, Parkinson outlined his reasons for backing Nixon. Between January and March, it appeared, Parkinson had discovered that Nixons experience was unmatched In either party, that he would make the strongest candidate, that he would be the most likely to carry a Republican Congress In with him, and that he was the one Republican who can unite the Republican party for victory.

As state chairman, Parkinson achieved a certain national fame from what he calls hii Eleventh Commandment thou shalt not speak evil of any (Contiimed Ob Page I)

Saved By Maizi And Joe Doakes

By ELMER ROESSNER

On the weekend of March 18, it was written here: Retail sales will pick up in the weeks ahead. And it was written on April 5: Once more it looks as if it is up to Maizie Doakes to save the boom. .. .The economy has dipped several times since World War I. . . .In each case, business got moving again. And each time one of the most important reasons was Maizie Doakes and her husband Joe or, if you prefer, the average American family.

As, of today, it looks as if Maizie is buying again. Retil sales are improving, and Joe is buying autos again.

Some observers say it is spring. Some anajysts say ,it^

future of America, is in there spending Joes pay.

Otiier Look Aheads

other vgiimpses horizon:

Here are over the business

ELMER

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is the shaving of interest rates and other federal action. But I think It is Maizie who, with sturdy confidence in the

A flicker in the sales boom:

A drop in retail sales in the past week will have no broad significance. Tornados in t h e Midwest and snowstorms In the Rockies will cut sales, but only temporarily.

New travel peak: Desp i t e jawbone efforts to discourage Americans from hurting the

balance of payments abroad, despite efforts of Mrs. Frances Knight, bead of the Passport Office, to warn travelers going to Russia that they may end up in Siberia for violating laws they dont dream exiat, more Americans t b>a n ever will go to Europe this summer. Passport issuances indicate another high mark. Choice accomodationa have already been reserved in most desirable reiorta; reiervttions in inns and pensions are going fast. Traveltrs without confirmed reeervations may be advised to take slewing bags.

Cheaper beef; Beef will get cheaper biafara X higher* Plans of the American National Cattlemenf Aasodation to slaughter 5 per mA of their herds to increase prices would bring a sharp dri)p in prices as the 8 per cent hit market. Prices would rise if the slaugh

ter is successful.

If prices drop, both consumers and retailers may save money by filling freezers before they go up again.

Ckmsmtier Credtt Bill Alive

Tmth In lending not c^d: While some Washington reports have said that there was np chance of passing a truth-in-lending bill this year. Sen. PhUlp A. Hart, D.. Mich., a long . time proponent of the Idea, la planning bearings in. mid - May by his Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.

Minietare atenaa oomliii: A small antenna developed for electronic vehicles wot Into space may soon be adapted for civUian use. When U ia, It may not only obsolete rooftop television antennas bat also the rabbit - eara antennaa. lirwould also bring vast changes in the TV servicing in-dustiy.