Tuesday, May 2, 1967

An Important Step At Our Airport

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By modern standards, the new administration building at Pitt-Greenville airport is neither a large nor an expensive building. In terms of what it may jnfiaiuto tlie local air facility it has an importapce

that reaches far beyond the number of square feet of structure or the building cost involved. ^

There has never been an adequate administration building at the local airport. Until the completion of the new building which was formally opened Sunday, operations of the local facility had been directed from an old, inadequate, shoddy-looking Quonset Hut, a left-over from the World War II days.

Visitors to the Pitt-Greenville airport could

One Essentia, To Comoromise

By WILLIAM Ai^HIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH A condition which most observers feel is essential to any compromise, now or later, on university status for East Carolina College was missing from last week's last - ditch effort.

That condition is the legislatures changing the makeup and method of selection of the present Consolidated Univer-

Ity board of trustees. It has not been met, and perhaps will not be met in the fore-eeable future.

It is something which has been suggested, recommended and urged many times in the past long before the ECC independent university status controversy arose.

But the legislature wh i c h chooses and elects all 100 UNC trustees has given no indication of being willing to change the system and surrender any 0 its zealously - guarded prerogative.

Was Not Included

Now, however, without clianges in the UNC trustees set - up, sources believe any move to bring ECC into the consolidated university is doomed from the start.

course, there are 1)ther objections on the part of East Carolinas supporters posr sible loss of identity, loss of uniqueness and regionalized advantages and programs and others but policy control by the big UNC board is the principal one.

This position on the part of ECC and a majority of its trustees and supporters is well known, and was repeated last week.

Yet nothing has been offered formally either in ^e legislature nor by the govw-nors offlce which would include changing and reorganizing the UNC Iward of trustees.

Overwhelmingly Rejected

Sen. Thomas J. White of Kinston, Appropriations chairman and (^airman of the Advisory Budget Commission, saw it as his duty to offer a substitute which would bring ECC under the consolidated university umbrella. It was

shouted down.

White, of course, knew of the resistance on the part of ECC to coming into the university system as presently constituted, both because of the trustees set - up and loss of identity.

- Yet his substitute made no mention of revamping the UNC trustees of which he is a member and, in fact, added insult to Injury by proposing that the Greenville campus become the UniVer-.sity of North Carolina at Greenville.

An earlier bill, introduced March 14 by Sen. John Henley of Fayetteville, would bring ECC into the consolidated university system but allow it to retain its name and be known as East Carolina University.

Come In Now The only advantage offered by Whites proposal in the eyes of ECCs supporters was that it would grant university status almost immediately by July 1.

White noted his own ties with East Carolina which are not only very strong but very close and the fact that the people in my district want me to vote for independent university status. (On the final roll call, he did.) But he said granting independent status would be to launch the state on a sea of fiscal uncertainty in financing higher education.

White said he felt it was his plain duty to offer a further opportunity to resolve this unfortunate conflict.

Morgan Objects Opposing Whites substitute plan, ECC's trustees chairman, Sen. Robert Morgan, said compromise on the ECC issue had been talked about for months but that insofar as a realistic solution was concerned the opponents never gave an inch.

Morgan said just such a solution had been discussed between himself. White, Rep. Hugh Ragsdale of Onslow and Gov. Dan K. Moore, but nothing came of it.

He might have agreed to a compromise if offered earlier, organ said, although it would have meant political suicide for me to have done

SO.

Morgan added, pointedly, that the governor asked two years ago for a blue ribbon study of possible changes in the UNC trustees set - up but now has refrained from recommending them to the legislature.

not help but get an objectionable impression of Greenville and Uitt County if their first iihpressions came from what they saw when they stepped off a. private, plane.

With the new building, although it is not large, there is bound to be a different impression imposed upon visitors to the local airport. More important, perhaps, is that the new building represents another step in improving and up-dating facilities offered by the Pitt-Greenville airport.

In the past couple of years improvements have been made to the runway lighting system. A base operation has been instituted on a full-time basis. Runways and surrounding areas which were growing up in weeds have been reclaimed and'put in better condition through better maintenance which has brought on greater use. Local officials are now in the process of acquiring a radio homing beacon for the airport which will make it safer for use in bad weather. A new hanger has been constructed. Officials have plans for other improvements which will increase the usefulness of the facility and enhance its value to the surrounding area.

The local air facility will continue to grow in importance to this country. Even without commercial air service, the airport will be used by an increasing number of flights each day as more businesses and individuals turn to private planes for transportation. Certainly Ihe presence of a good airport here will he increasingly important in the location of new industry^ in Pitt County.

Those members of the local Airport Commission and other officials who have spearheaded the move to improve the local facility deserve the commendation of citizens of this county. They should continue their program of improvements in order to provide thi.s county with a completely adequate and fully modern air facility to meet its present and future needs.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - In this peculiar war, dragging along as if time didnt count and the two sides couldnt hear each other, the fighting gets tougher, a little bit now, a little bit then, until it is a terrible war.

Getting tougher hit by bit is called escalation, a high-sounding phrase for stepping it up, and both sides, the United States and North Vietnam, have stepped it up.

Its like the heavyweight title bout between John L. Sul-livan.*and Jake Kilrain 78 years ago in Mississippi, the last bare - knuckle match of its kind under the old London Prize Ring rules which put no time limit on a fight.

It didnt make any difference how many times a fighter was knocked down. He lost when he was too beaten to punch any more or get up any more. It took Sullivan 75 rounds to get Kilrain into that condition.

Once more the United Stales look ready to escalate again, although nobody is say-

This Date-' 40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN May 2, 1927

Red Cross Asks For More Money In Relief Work In Mississippi Valley

Many people in this section have responded liberally to the call for funds fo aid the flood sufferers, but there are many who have njj^g(E contributed to this causCTteports from the flood area show increase devastation with an increased number of homeless. If you have not contributed, do so now. Whatever you give, large or small, it will be a great help in the work and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have rendered a service of suffering humanity.

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ing so exactly. But the ^ound-work for it has been laid over weeks and months.

Last week Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of the U. S. forces in Vietnam, talked twice in this country, and Henry Cabot Lodge, the just-retired U, S. Ambassador to Vietnam, gave an interview.

What they did was let the American people know, by saying the end was not in sight, that victory wont come soon or easy. Or, to put it in the words of the Senates Democratic leader, Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, the war is going to get worse before it gets better.

If all this is considered a way of preparing the Congress and the people for a step-up in the war, the real conditioning is spread over a longer time, starting earlier this year with President Johnsons frustrations in trying to get the enemy to talk peace.

While there is some intense dissatisfaction with America being in the war at all, there is also increasing impatience to get the war over with. And Johnson and the State Department have presented this country, as having been very patient, perhaps too patient.

Tt was last February that Jolinson called a bombing (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

Gaylord Nelson, the junior Senator from Wisconsin, packed up his mess kit and blunderbuss last week and announced that he is ready to take off along the trial made famous some years ago by Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. He is hot after the American drug industry. His Senate sub-committee on monopolies will begin its safari May 15.

The Senator blew all the old familiar bugle calls in his speech of April 26. Many of our citizens, he said, are being dramatically short-changed on prescription drugs. They are paying exorbitant prices; they and their doctors are tragically unaware of what is going on.

All this comes about, said the Senator, because doctors tend to prescribe in terms of brand - name products promoted by the drug manufacturers. Tlius a doctor may prescribe Serpasil for high blood pressure, or Miltown as a sedative, or Meticorten for asthma.

In many cases. said Nelson, the victims of this situation do not know that drugs which are just as pure and just as potent are available at

Cotton Queens

The following girls have been chosen to represent their town in the cotton fashion show to be held in Gormans warehouse next Friday:

Ayden - Misses Irene Haller, Estelle Lyon, Marie Prescott.

Grifton Mrs. Cecil Cobb.

Greenville Misses Ada James, Lucy James, Elizabeth Casey, Jessie Moye, Hester Phelps, Elizabeth Harringtonf Marguerite Hall, Rose Hadley, Lillian Hardee, Louise Hooker. Helen White, Mabel Mjn-nefee, i^na Long, Katherine White, Hattie Sue Scovillc, Helene Higgs, Ruebelle Evans, Virginia Perkins, Eleanor Barr, Eva Hodge, Francis Spillman, Margaret Stroude, Jessie Summerville, Bruce Tucker, Deige Skinner, Eleanor Tyson, Mary Warren, Rebecca wAliams, Elizabeth Bost, Helen Brown, Elizabeth Phelts. Bessie Brown.

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a fraction of the cost. These are clear, undisputed facts...

Perhaps the first observation to be ventured is that what Nelson asserts to be known is not necessarily known at all. When the Senator speaks of a typical brand - name drug, and asserts flatly that an identical compound is available at one-twentieth the cost, the Senator is not stating clear and undisputed fact. He is dealing with hotly contested fact. The drug industry contends, with some apparent plausibility, that in terms of the ultimate efficacy of the drug how the drug reacts within the body brand - name com-poimds and the cheaper generic compounds are not In every case identical.

But the question of chemical identity is only one of the issues implicit in Nelsons upcoming investigation. The larger questions go to political and economic philosophy, and to ones view of the function of government in a free society. 'These same fundamental issues figured last year in the debate over the mislabeled truth - in - packaging bill.

Other Editors Saying Should Accept Risks

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS TAKE YOUR CHOICE

A hundred years ago a little man with a black beard and a powerful obsession sat night after night in a small room in a London apartment writing furiously. During the day he pored over the books in the British museum. At night he wrote, often tearing up what he wrote and rewriting it. But he finally produced a book which, for better or worse, has almost moved the world off its foundations. The writer was Karl Marx; the book he wrote was Das Kapital.

We wonder sometimes what all this will lead to. It may in fact lead to a distress which humanity will have to experience for some centuries. Per-hapst he overwhelming maor-ity of humanity will have to fall under the delusion of this mans spell before we can see the realities of life again with all clarity. Marxism stands for class struggle and blames the injustices of the modern world on capitalism.

Yet capitalism is not a system. Capitalism is the only way business can be administered under a system of free enterprise. The quesion is not whetlier we are going to have capitalism or socialism. The question is whether we are going to have free enterprise or economic regimentation.

Most of us believe that the latter not only destroys the economic life of the nation, but the souFs of those \yho have to bow beneath its tyranny. We are called upon to make a choice.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The incident in Haiphong harbor during which an American plane shot up a British ship should cause more embarrassment to the British than to the U.S. government. The American pilot can hardly be blamed for hi& action; he was attacking the enemies of his country, and while the British ship carried a British flag, it was nevertheless in Haiphong doing business with Americas enemies.

The British have little basis for a formal complaint in this matter. Their policy toward the U.S. which is its ally, and toward North Vietnam, which is our enemy, has been most peculiar. They have elected to avoid any responsibility of carying out the war against the Communists, and at the same time have continued to help the Reds who are fighting us.

Thus, if one of their ships get caught ih a cross-fire

whos to blame?

The U.S. is, nonetheless, investigating the incident at the request of London. After the inquiry is completed, the American pilot ought to get a letter of commendation.

Ships trade in North Vietnamese waters at their own risk. The damage suffered by the British ship will have to be paid by the insurance companies who collect high premiums owing to the war hazard involved.

By all logical conclusions, the British should be subjected to the same treatment given (Chinese supplies coming into North Vietnam by overland routes. American tactics have been to destroy these sinews of war transported to bolster the North Vietnamese military against American forces in the South. Why should we draw the line simply because supplies and equipment are coming in on British boats?

They crop up constantly on the Hill.

In our free market economy, the drug manufacturing industry is precisely that: an industry. It is an industry characterized by hot competition, heavy risks, and high profits. To be sure, its purpose is to serve one of the vital needs of mankind, and it has fulfilled the purpose surpassingly well; but this is no special distinction. In one fashion or another, law firms, TV networks, newspapers, and private trash collectors also serve vital needs of mankind; and the first obligation of all of them, if they would survive, is to earn a profit.

So, too, with the drug makers. They spend upwards of $400 million a year on research; they spend an estimated $600 million on advertising and promotion. They give away free samples to physicians; they employ whole battalions of traveling detail men; they inundate the newspapers with publicity handouts. And when they patent a winner, they make great cauldrons of money.

The question is essentially this: Is the system a bad thing? To Senator Nelson, it is an evil thing; it is a very serious and very undesirable situation. To Dr. George Nichols, Jr., of Harvard, it is obviously undesirable that drug products multiply for economic rather than purely scientific reasons. To the crusading Dr. Richard Burack, who promises to be the Ralph Nader of the drug business, the manufacturers are a pack of venal and over-rated rogues.

Yet what have been the end results of this competitive enterprise? Today the American people are among the healthiest people in- the world; and drugs that have been developed, manufactured and marketed by tbe drug houses have contributed significantly toward this achievement. While consumer prices generally have gone up, drug prices have gone down. As a factor in the total cost of medical treatment, drug bills are a smaller component than they used to be. The large profits camed on successful brand -name products go partly to new research, new products, (Continued On Page 5)

Forces bulling

'Ir. Kina

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON Quiet efforts by politicians close to President Johnson are now underway to arrange a meeting between him and Dr. Martin Luther King, whose sharp attacks on the war in Vietnam have broken the already battered civil rights front.

The move to bring the President and the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference together is simply one manifestation of the severe battle for the soul of Dr. King.

Brpadly speaking, the two opposing sides are the traditional liberal movement and the New Left. The increasingly strident New Left lost anx important round this week in \ Atlanta when King said he had no intention of running for President on a third - party peace ticket.

But that stitement stopped short of heeding appeals from such liberals as Allard Low-enstein, a member of tht board of Americans for Democratic Action, and other traditional liberals. They would have preferred an outright repudiation of all third - party prospects by Dr. King.

Pushing hard on the o t h e r side are such leaders of the New Left as Dr. Benjamin Spock, who is ambitious to run for Vice President on a King anti - war ticket, and Robert Scheer, defeated New Left Congressional candidate and editor of the far-left-wing Ramparts magazine.

The battle between these forces for the spul of Db. King is full of propaganda ploys and jockeying for momentary advantage. For example. King a year ago said privately he would never again share a platform with Stokely Carmichael, black power devotee and head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

But King found himself sharing a platform with Carmichael at the United Nations Plaza during the April 16 peace march, although he left before Carmichael attac k e d Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as a racist. Furthermore, the struggle to keep Dr. King from all-out identification with the N e w Left and the peace - now movement Is shaking the high command of his own SCLC. Personal aide Andrew Young is counselling go - slow while firebrand James Bevel pushes extreme militancy.

Dr. King, in short, is being fought over for his name, his prestige and his influence oa 20 million American Negroes. Caught up in the tug-of-war, he seems uncertain today about his own Inner convic-tions and where they should ^ lead him a point forcibly made to Whitney Young, head of the old - line Urban League, in a one-hour midnight phone call from Dr. King last week.

Behind the Senate Fight The deeper reason for Republican opposition to Senator Russell Longs campaign-fund law, now under attack in the Senate, came out sharply in an unpublicized meeting on March 20 in the office of Elmer Staats, who is now U. S. Comptroller General.

Staats is charged in the Long Act with overseeing the expenditure of the potential $60 million of Presidential campaign funds to be raised by deductions frorq, income tax returns of U. S. taxpayers (Continued On Page 5)

Addina Opaque-2 To Corn Field

By ELMER ROESSNER

A crash program has been launched to add opaque - 2 to three varieties of Mexican <-orn. If successful, it may move high-protein grain from the research stage to field development.

The project is sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation as a step to solve the world's food problems.

Time out for definitions; The reproduction characteristics of corn, as for humans, IS determined by genes. Thirty - five years ago, some kernels were found to have a gene that other kernels didnt. Because it was opaque, and because one other opaque gene had been observed, it was called opaque-2. ,

Several years ago it w a s found that corn with opaque-j2 had mpre lysine than other I corn. J.ysine is an ess'cntial

animo acid, and animo acids

ELMER

ROESSNER

aie Ihe main cornpoiienls of proteins. Thus corn with opaque - 2 has more protein than other corn and what scientists are now trying to do is to breed strains of corn in which all kernels have opaque-2.

High - protein grain could alleviate malnutrition in many underdeveloped countries by improving both humans diets find livestock production. Rapid (iains

Much has been accomplished in the last few years.

Numerous tests show that livc'ilock makes much better weight gains when fed opa-(jue - 2 corn..

High - lysine corn protein is found to be equivalent to milk protein. It could even be the sole protein source for humans if calories and other nutrients were present in the did.

I'ood processors established that opaque - 2 corn can be milled commercially.

Mthough it produces less alcohol than ordinary varieties, high lysine corns fermentation characteristics are still satisfactory.

Introduction of the opaque-2 gene does not materially affect the corns starch properties.

Opaque - 2 corn is so promising as a high - protein

.source, extensive re.search has been Initiated into similar improvement of the protein value of other grains, particularly sorghum.

'Three Levels The program in Mexico is concentrating on adding the opaque - 2 gene to high altitude, plateau and? tropical corn. In addition, experiments will be conducted with approximately 5,000 varieties of corn from other Latin American coimtrjes.

Soil, chmate, Ititude, weather and even local fuming practices may modify the efforts to upgrade protein content. The next three years will determine how mucL If opaque - 2 is/ successfully added to Latin American var-ietips it will greatly improve fiitttfltionHn central and JSmittr America, where com If a staple food.