Thursday, May IT, 1967

Should Amend Firs;t District Plan

Proposed changes in the First Congressional District approved by the Senate committee should be amended when the redistricting measure gets to the floor of the Senate.

Under the redistricting proposal, Northampton would be moved from the f'irst to the Second Congressional district, and Lenoir County would be transferred from the Second into the First District. While this arrangement may seem logical to someone from another part of the state, it leaves a great deal to be desired so far as the First and Second Districts are concerned, and also so far as the people of the counties involved are concerned.

We mean no disrespect to the citizens of our neighboring county of Lenoir when we speculate that they would be happier remaining in their present district than in joining the First District. We are confident Congressman Walter Jones would be honored to represent the people of Lenoir County. At the same time, Lenoir has been an important part of the Second District and has close ties with the counties which make up that district. As a matter of fact, Lenoir probably has much closer ties with the counties which make up the Third district than many of those which have long been a part of the First district.

If it is necessary to increase the population of the First District in order to meet the guidelines set forth by the courts, it could be done more logically by adding a county other than Lenoir to the present district. Under any circumstances, Northampton

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County should be retained in this district. The most logical move would be to add Carteret County to the First district rather than retaining it in the Third. As a coastal county, Carteret has much in common with the other coastal counties of the First District. Its interest in fishing, waterways, port facilities, military installations is shared by a number of the counties which make up the First District now.

Adding Greene County to the First district would also be a logical move, j

In spite of the difficulty in hammering out a redistricting plan which is acceptable to all areas, the legislature should not hastily adopt this plan which has cleared a committee hurdle and is being pushed as an all-or-nothing proposal. The plan is not without its shortcomings and is certainly not the only plan which could meet the necessary requirements for redistricting the states congressional seats.

Certainly so far as the First District is concerned, a better arrangement could and should be worked out before a new redistricting plan is approved.

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By STAQE SIMS

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH A main difference of opinion on the licensing of day care facilities has boiled down to whether the setting of standards for daycare centers is a matter of legislative or departmental authority.

Backers of a bill to put licensing authority with an in-terdepartmental bill under the Welfare Department feel that spelling out specific standards should be for the department authorized to license to work out.

Those who want authority put with the Health Department maintain that the setting of standards is most definitely a legislative concern.

Both sides, however, appear agreed on the need for an advisory committee to whichever dep^ment does finally get licensing authority.

Sen. Martha Evans of Mecklenburg County, a member of the Senate subcommittee handling the interdepartmental bill, has offered an amendment requiring such an advisory committee to include a representative of the State Health Department, the Department of Public Instruction, the Insurance Commission, the Mental Health Commissioner, and a representative of the Welfare Department.

Rep. James Exum of Guilford County has drawn a substitute bill for the original he introduced, giving authority to the Health Department. Included in the changes in the bill is a provision for an advisory committee also.

This one would include representatives from most of the departments included in Sen. Evans advisory committee, as well as representatives from the North Carolina Association for Children Under Six and the North Caro

lina Kindergarten Assoc i a-tion.

Exums advisory committee. however does not Include representatives of the Insurance Commission.

Exum maintains that fire Inspection should be covered by local fire departments. He does give authority to the Insurance Commission to Inspect day care facilities where a local fire department is not available.

Exum maintains that the Health Department should be given authority to administer the licensing program because most things Inspected for, such as sanitation facilities, cleanliness and safety are better handled by the Health Department.

There would be less confusion with all the authority given to one department, rather than having it divided between three or four agencies, she said.

Standards to be met by the people running the facilities should be spelled out in the bill, so they will know what to expect, Exum said. He said the interagency bill giving final licensing authority to the Welfare Department does not give any specific standards.

Those backing the Welfare interagency bill contend that the main concern in the issue is the total welfare o f the child, which can be bet-

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The public mind is so occupied by Vietnam there is hardly any talk of what lies beyond it even though what lies beyond it will haunt this country for years to come.

Red China, for instance. A bit of the future was mentioned Tuesday by President Johnson - but without dwelling on it, as if it could be taken for granted forever.

He was at a luncheon honoring Generalissimo C h i a ng Kai - sheks right-hand man on Formosa, C. K. Yen, vice president and premier *f Nationalist China, with which this country has a mutual defense agreement.

Johnson said this country is committed to the defense of Formosa, which was just stating the obvious since this has been the case ever since the United States, after first wanting nothing to do with it, took Formosa under its wing during the Korean War.

It is an alliance tested in time of war, tempered by our struggled against forces that would have destroyed us both, said Johnson, with out mentioning Red China or communism.

As a nation the Red Chinese are still in their infancy. They didnt take over mainland China until 1949, which is when Chiang and such forces as he had left, fled to Formosa.

But the revolutionary fanatics, like Mao Tse-tung, are still alive.

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tion of other state agencies.

Rep. Donald Stanford of Orange County told the House Public Welfare Committee that since the Health Department was supported mostly by local funds, they would have less meahs to administer a day care inspection program.

The Welfare Department is better off in the area of federal matching funds, and would be able to do a better job, he said.

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By FOY H. DUNCAN May 11, 1927 Greenville Man Honored

Dr. John D. Humber, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Humber of this city, has been chosen by Dr. Caffey, head surgeon of the Southern Pacific General Hospital, San Francisco, to represent him and through him the hospital, at the national convention of the American Medical Association, which meets at Washington City May 18th. The Southern Pacific Railroad is one of the largest systems, with one of the largest hospitals in the United States, with a large medical staff, and is an unusual honor for one of the younger members of the staff to be chosen to represent the Head Surgeon who usually attends in person. . . .Another indicator of the esteem in which Dr. Humber is held is evidenced by the fact that he was granted a years leave of absence to complete special research work at Tulene University, New Orleans, his alma mater, when he was attached to the medical staff. After the completion of this work, he was invited by Dr. Caffey to become co - author with him in a medical textbook which has recently completed and will soon be on the New Orleans press. . . .

Car Crashes Through Tar River Bridge J.E. White of Eight Street had a narrow escape from death last night about 11:30, when his automobile crashed through the temporary barra-cade.^ The accident ocourred.^t a place where the highway commission was making improvements. Seven feet of the

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And the American war against their next-door neighbors, the North Vietnamese Communists, is something like the barrier President Harry S. Truman set up in Europe with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to stop the spread of Soviet communism.

NATO served another purpose in holding communism back: It gave that revolutionary fanatic, Joseph Stalin, time to die. TTie American war in Vietnam, a similar holding action, is giving the early Red Chinese fanatics time to die.

In the Soviet Union more moderate men took over after Stalin, although that was almost 40 years after their revolution, a period long enough for the Soviets to come out of primitiveness by industrializing and modernizing.

It was also long enough for new generations of Soviets to develop different motivations. Scientists, managers, party workers found security and well - paying jobs.

This is enough to take the revolutionary zeal out of most people for now they had selfish, personal reasons f o r wanting to preserve what they had obtained and valued the good life more than revolution, war and chaos.

This is probably the basic reason why the Soviets are easier to get along with now. But Red China, trying to modernize in a hurry, is still pretty much in its original primitive condition.

In time some of the conservatism which overtook the Soviets may do the same to the Chinese, when the zealots like Mao are gone, and life and jobs are better.

But by that time they should be a heavily armed cation, with enough nuclear power to lay this country to waste. By then the Vietnamese war should be settled with, perhaps, the Americans gone from Asia.

But will a new generation of Chinese, once they have the

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS UNDERSTANDING SPIRITAL THINGS

Justin Martyr, a famous figure in Christian Church history who lived and worked a-bout the middle of the first century, has left us this helpful and penetrating statement, Without God, God cannot be be known.

Can we not pick up the Bible and read about God and understand what the Bible teaches about Him? No. All the worlds wisdom will not enable us to understand. In fact, we can be sure that no matter how broad our knowledge or how deep our understanding, we shall not be able to understand adequately anything we read in the Bible unless God gives us the gift of understanding. The Bible is not like other books. This is demonstrated in many ways, but in none more clearly than in the complete unwillingness of the Bible to yield the secret of its message to anyone who fails to meet its spiritual requirements.

But this is neither a hard doctrine nor a hopeless one. Any man who desires to un-dferstand the Bible can 4o so, provided he m*eets the requirements for understanding spiritual truth. Regarding secular knowledge, we accept it when

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.\jid Soiiieliiiies I Even Scare the Davliglils Out of Donkeys'

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Self-Destruction Story

In the end, it is the human beings around this town who make the big news and provide the most absorbing drama. Issues are important, of course, and the issue that recently has paralyzed the Senate ranks high on this sessions agenda. But the self-destruction of Russell Long of Louisiana packs more wallop than the fate of the Senators law on campaign financing. Spellbound, we have been watching a Phaethon fall.

Since the first of April, the country has paid small attention to the United States Senate; and a good thing, too. For the Senate seldom has appeared less impressive. Throughout this period, the pending business ostensibly was an administration bill to restore the investment tax credit. Actually, the decisive question has

revolved a round Senator Longs campaign financing act, passed in haste last year, by which perhaps $30 million in tax funds might be diverted in 1968 to the major parties for their presidential race. The question has been: Should the Long Act be preserved or repealed?

It is a close question. Many observers, appalled at the evils of campaign financing that now obtain, have accepted the principle embodied in the Long Act that presidential condidates should be released through Federal subsidy from dependence upon the fat cats who dominate their campaign funds. Yet the act itself was drawn so ineptly, and thought out so poorly, that it stands vulnerable on a dozen grounds. Wise principle and sound law do not neces-

Other Editors Saying Mr. Paschen Has A Point

(Richmond News Leader)

Mr, Christian Paschen, once a rich Chicago building contractor whose five marriages have ruined him financially, has put a new wrinkle in the old alimony routine. Its about time, Paschen has contended in court, that one or more of his sometime wives start supporting him.

Paschens current wife, who has sued for divorce, contends Paschen has incurred $4,500 worth of bills that he cannot pay. Wife No. 4 has collected $77,000 from him in alimony, but she wants Paschen punished for contempt for defaulting on $1,500 in support payments for their two daughters. Paschen has paid out $78,000 in alimony to wife No. 3. but she, too, wishes to have him keelhauled for falling $2,250 in arrears on life insurance for which she is the beneficiary.

Further, the Internal Revenue Service is after Paschen for $450,000 allegedly due in back taxes.

He. told the court he has fallen upon evil days, the victim of diverse and sundry personal ond financial misfortunes. . . Stating that two of his last three wives have independent means and resources, Paschen proposed that the court decide how much they should contribute to his support.

Clearly, Paschen is long on shortcomings, but in this situation he has a point. In an age when women are clamoring for mens rights, it is unfair to require Paschen to pay entirely for sentiments in which both he and his respective wives initially shared. Equality means just that equality. And if women really want equality, theyll have to learn to pay for it.

sarily go hand in hand. A majority of the Senate has demonstrated its desire to repeal the 1966 act and start over.

In fighting to preserve his law, Long has said, in effect, that the act would be repealed only over his dead body. It has turned out just about that way. Day by day, through his own unthinking arrogance, the Louisianan has lost h i s grip on the reins of power. He has shouted, scolded, threatened, bullied. When the session began. Longs great ambition was to succeed Mike Mansfield as majority leader. That goal has now been lost altogether.

Last week, for example, Long managed mortally to wound New Hampshires Norris Cotton, one of the most inoffensive men in the chamber. I have not troubled the Senator from Louisiana for six long weeks, cried the outraged Cotton, but I am not going to be walked upon.

Ohios Frank Lausche, a tough man in any fight, suffered Longs high-handedness beyond a point of endurance. I will not yield, he snapped. I have listened to the Senator from Louisiana. The Senator can now listen to me. I refuse to concede to the Senator from Louisiana that his judgment is infallible and that only he knows what is right.

Long seemed incapable of accepting defeat with grace. After the key vote of May 2, when the Senate went 52-46 against him, he turned his fury on the gentle Mansfield. All the Republicans had stood united behind Everett Dirksen in opposition. Long looked with scorn at his own majority leader: I only wish those of us who have responsibility for leadership on this side of the aisle were so effective.

In subsequent debate, Long became obsessed with the first

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Whatever he says publicly, President Johnson must now be having agonizing doubts about the effectiveness of his policy of e.s-calation in Vietnam.

The harsh truth is that Mr. Johnson, prodded by his military advisers, has all but climbed the escalation ladder, and is now near the topmost rung, with growing indications that when he gets there he wont find the bacon: a breakdown of enemy morale and negotiations.

The bombing of the North that started in February, 1965, against supply depots has been gradually and discreetly extended month by month. It hai encompassed supply routes in North Vietnam and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, oil depots, power plants, and industrial facilities in the North.

Lately the President g a t his approval to the bombing of two of the main Northern airfields near Hanoi and Haiphong on which Soviet built MIG fighter planes are based.

This ladder of escalation now only has a couple of rungs left to go, mainly the port facilities at Haiphong and possibly the harbor itself, which the military have been urging the President to mine in an effort to deny Soviet and Eastern European ships one of their major inlets for aid to Hanoi.

At the same time, the twin of air escalation in the North has been ground escalation in the South. No question about it, without this ground escalation from some 20,000 advisers in South Vietnam when Lyndon Johnson became President to the present level of nearly 500,000 troops most of South Vietnam would long since have fallen to the enemy.

But even with the rapid increase in ground troops, President Johnson today can scarcely count on a successful end of the conflict any more than he could in July, 1965, when the reinforcements on the ground started in earnest.

Moreover, Hanoi seems to have made elaborate plans to deal with this ground escalation. In one of the most reieal-ing of the many documents captured by the U. S. Army in South Vietnam, the deputy chief of the North Vietnamese army. General Vinh, anticipated the particularly difficult military situation that, he said, would continue to confront the United States.

Vinh pointedly noted the difference between the Korean war, where the enemy (that is, the U. S.) sent all his troops to the front, and the war in Vietnam.

In South Vietnam, Vinh told Viet Cong leaders in the spring of 1966, the enemy has introduced between 300,000 and 600,000 troops who must fight on the frontline and, at the same time protect the rear (from the Viet Cong guerrillas).

But he can fulfill only one of these tasks. If his troops oppose our peoples movement in the South, they will be unable to stop reinforcements from North Vietnam. If they concentrate their force to stop reinforcements from North Vietnam, they cannot stand firm on the front in the rear. . . .To fulfill both these tasks, they must have a million troops. To introduce a million troops into South Vietnam, the U. S. must double its mobilization rate.

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barricade. . . .The car landed understand a truth until we aeon the ground about twenty cept it. It doe.snt seem to

feet below the bridge. make sense, but it does.

By ELMER ROESSNER To get home building booming again, Paul S. Nadler, the distinguished economist, has proposed, among other measures. that building plots be leased for long terms, with provisions for renewal. Then the home - buyer would have to raise a mortgage only on the house itself instead of on the house and lot.

While this plan might make it easier for a home - seeker to get a house under certain, limited circumstances, it would not work out in most others.. - ... ?

Here are reasons why:

1. It would cost the home-buyer more. If the land is worth $10,000, the purchaser would led a mortgage smaller by that amount. But the owner of the land, not getting $10,000 for it, would want at

the very least the going rate of interest on $10,000 a.s rent. Thus the mortgage interest, plus the rent on the land,

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would be about the same as the rate of mortgage interest on house plus land. AnchOT-Value Lost ' .

2. If interest rates decline sometime over the life of a mortgage, as they have in the past, the home buyer can refinance h|s tnortgage at a lower ratei This can be done under most mortgages. But the land lease would continue

at the original rate,

3. In a house - and - lot mortgage, the land is the sturdy anchor to value. The house may suffer uninsured damage. it may deteriorate faster than expected, but the land value remains firm and, often, increases. Thus a house-and - lot mortgage Is much more attractive to a lender than a house mortgage alone. Psychological Factor

4. There is a psychological factor involved. When a family leases a plot, even If the lease runs for 99 years, It will

5, Land - leasing for homes creates political and economic unre.st. In Hawaii, where land is very scarce and much of it is owned by tne large estates, V'st week the legislature passed a bill giving leasers the right to buy the pn^ perty on which their homes stand. This resulted from a popular clamor from people forced to rent land on which to build homes.

Dr. Nadler, however, baa one strong point In favor of his suggestion. If inflation continues and It will the

not have the.same 'eolingy rental pri^ of homesites-will that a family has who has constantly become a greater

puj'chased its own bit of America. There will be a psychological block against truly 'permanent Improvements because of the feeling the improvements will eventually revert to the landlord.

bargain. The fellow who has to pay $600 a year rental on a $10,000 homesite may someday before the lease expires find that $600 is only change when he buys a $400 fifth of scotch.