Wednesday, June 7, 1967

Choice Schola^s^ips For Scholars

In an era when we sometimes think more attention is ^ven to athletic achievement than to scholastic excellence in high schools and colleges, it is reassuring to note the number of scholarships that are received by high school graduates.

While some students receive athletic scholarships, they are relatively few and far between com-pared with those scholarships received by students who have excelled in academic and leadership roles in high school. Going over the list of scholarships awarded in recent days to youngsters just from the Greenville and Pitt County high schools, the value of these awards run into many thousands of dollars.

The fact that these young people have been chosen from numerous applicants to receive these scholarships and awards in itself attests to the emphasis on academic achievement in our high schools. The fact that someone provides every one of the dollars which goes into these scholarships attests to the interest of the general public in recognizing and rewarding scholastic achievement. It attests to the fact that citizens are anxious to see that young people who have shown the aptitude to profit from a college education are given the opportunity to attend college.

These young men and women \vhose scholastic achievement has been recognized through the pre-

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGHThe legislature vhich has rejected attempts to abolish or reduce capital punishment and generally opposes coddling of criminals may finally approve some iweeping prisons reforms,

A bill is pending before a

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House committee to allow a program of graduated release of prisoners into society a nd to rename the states Prisons Department. If enacted, the new name would be Department of Corrections.

The names of all prisons in the statewide system, some of them grim and foreboding, would be changed.

Womans Prison in Raleigh would become the Correctional Center for Woman.

Reflects Philosophy Change Changing the names of the prisons simply would be an outward reflecten of an overall change in prisons philosophy which is taking place in North Carolina and elsewhere.

This philosophy of correction rather than punishment has become a well-defined policy of prisons boards and administrators, according to Prisons commission chairman Clyde H. Harriss. We want to save a man, not scar him, Harriss says.

Harriss says the general pubic has little idea of the enormity of the problem, nor its Importance.

We dont say coddle. We say correct, if we can, says the former veteran legislator from Salisbury. And, Harriss adds, it can be done in 90 per cent of the cases. Bounds Explains Goals Prisons director Lee V.

Bounds asked a House committee on Penal Institutions to approve the requested legislation. The name Prisons Department connotes a place where a criminal is merely held for a certain amount of time, then released, just as he was when he came in, Bounds said.

Instead, Bounds said, We want to take on the function of correcting these people, and send them back into society not as criminals but as non-criminals

This, Bounds s aid, is the modern idea and approach to penal administration. It is neither coddling nor pure punishment, he said.

Present law provides that a man kept behind bars for the time required by his sentence is released abruptly into society which has rejected him. This, Bounds said, is un-fodtunate both for the released prisoner and for society. Those released abruptly, he said, are least 1 i k e ly to be able to adapt to life outside prison walls.

Proposes Program

Bounds said the proposed program would allow a gradual readjustment to n o r mal Wiety. First, under the new program, a p r i s o n er would be taught a trade or means of earning a livelihood. Secondly, those who would qualify would be placed on work-release, a further step toward readjustment to the outside world. There would be strict supervision and counseling.

Bounds cited examples of outstanding rehabilitation of prisoners under the states work - release program, in which the prisoner is able to make contacts in the community and has a job waiti n g when he is released.

He contrasted this to the release of a prisoner separated and isolated from the outside world for many years and finds himself shunned, confused and without aid. This man, Bounds said, is likely to return to the life of a criminal.

sentati n of scholarships are to be commended. Also to be commended are the countless citizens whose /dollars have gone into establishing the funds that make possible these scholarships.

In Congress, Charity Also Begins At Home

Perhap.<, as some Congressmen asserted, there is no room in the House budget to permit a five per cent reduction. It would seem, however, that there might be at least some fat worth trimming from the $228 million that body has earmarked for its own operations next year.

Early last week the House imposed a five per cent cut on budgets of the Justice Department, the State Department and the Commerce Department in passing appropriations measures. When it came to the budget of the House itself, members quickly balked at the five per cent reduction. Crocodile tears began to flow as members insisted the House budget cannot be cut without reducing salaries and even pensions paid to widows of former members.

By voice vote, avoiding the roll call method that had marked the vote on other department budgets, the House decided against cutting its own budget.

Charity, after all, begins at home . , . even in Congress.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - U s like a minuet. Faced vith the likelihood of war in the Middle East, a war that could sprout into World War III, the United Nations all last week danced around the problem, doing nothing.

Monday the war came. And again the .N. Security Council dipped into its ever-handy bag of debate and consultation about some kind of agreement calling for a cease lire.

There's a limit on how long the council can dawdle witii semantics, while people pensil in the Mideasts Jewish and Arab world, and still retain any meaning or respect.

And while the fighting continued, and the council members argued, the watching world grew a little more tense for reasons outside the immediate conflict between Jews and Arabs.

Moscow announced the Arabs has its resolute support, which could mean anything from moijal approval ti military intervention although it seemed a little milder than the Soviet statement of May 23 which said aggression against the Arabs would meet with the resolute resistance of the Soviet Union and all peace-loving states.

But the Sviets stood firmly on the Arab side, accusing Israel of aggression and demanding it stop fighting unconditionally.

If this most recent Soviet statement seemed less belligerent than the earlier one it may have been a bit of word-juggling, and. as a result, while Moscow didnt increase the tension it didnt lessen the tension.

This country got into the word-juggling act too. Presi-lent Johnson also issued a statement last May 23, saying this country is firmly committed to the support of the political independence and ted-about some kind of agreement ritoriab integrity of all the nations of the area, meaning the Middle East.

Then Monday the State Department, through its press officer, Robert McClos key, gave the American position on the fighting. Our position is neutral in thought, word and deed. he said.

Did this contradict Johnson's May 23 position: that this countdy is committed to the support of the political independence of all nations in the area? No, some other U.S. officials said explaining it is not clear vet whether the Isr

aelis or the Arabs started the war.

But a little later Johnsons press secretary George Christian, said the State Department statement was not a formal declaration of neutrality. He explained that in a conflict you are either a belligerent or a neutral. And he added that the United States is certainly nat a belligerent.

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN June 7,1927 E. C. T college Finals Held Here Monday

Before an audience of approximately fifteen hundred people, the closing exercises of East Carolina Teachers College were held Monday morning, bringing to a conclusion the history of the institution... The awarding of diplomas to 26 graduates who had completed the four year A.B. course and 174 who had finished the two year normal training and the inspiring address delivered the inspiring adlress delivered by Congressman Lindsey C. Warren of Washington N. C. featured the program this morning....

By ART BUCHWALD

Guide T o The Lanauaae

WASHINGTON-Befor e we go any further with this Middle East crisis, I think we ought to get our terms straight. Its very hard to understand what is going on unless you know what all the countries are talking about. So, as a public service. I am providing an instant definition guide to diplomatic language.

RESTRAINT-Some thing you tell another country to show when your own personal interests are not involved. It is usually urged by countries who would go to war in a minute if one of their enemies threatened war on them.

AGGRESSION-What the other side is committing at the time your side is trying to be a peace-loving nation i.e.,

the Russians claim the Israelis are committing aggression against the Arab world because Egypt has closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.

A RECESSSomething that the Soviet delegate wont let Ambassador Arthur Goldberg have so Goldberg can go to the bathroom.

COMMITMENT-A commitment is a promise one nation gives another nation which it does or does not have to honor, depending on how the political wind is blowing. For example, the United States is fighting a war in Vietnam to honor its commitment in Southeast Asia. Because of this commitment, the Russians and Arabs are counting on the

United States not to honor the one it has to Israel, since they believe the American people are sick and tired of honoring their countrys commitments.

U.S. MILITARY AID-Some-thing the United States gave to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel to maintain a balance of power there. In war, American-made planes will be fight-

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County Sells Founding Bonds The Pitt County Board of Commissioners in regui a r r monthly session here, yesterday afternoon sold $100,000 worth of 4^^ per cent founding bonds to Kaufman-Smith & Co. of St. Louis, Mo. at a premium of 5482....

Mrs. Laughinghouse Hostess At Bridge Mrs. H. D. Laughinghouse was hostess at a bridge party last evening at Hill Horne Drug Co., honoring house guest, Mrs. C. B. Brown of Clinton and Miss Dorothy Nix on of Hertford... High score prize, playing cards went to Mrs. Bruce Warren. Novelty ash trays were given to Mrs. Walter Harrington for low score.

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John Hassel Jr. has returned from Durham where he has been attending Duke University.

Luther Moore, who has been attending Duke University, Durham, is home for the summer.

Miss Jane Hadley has returned from Randolph Macon College, Lynchburh, Va.

(The Wilson Times)

The Flue Cured Tobacco Stabilization Corp. has bought a redrying and storage facility. And the story bills the purchase as a major policy change. This is it, and the trade wants to know what is behind the policy trend.

The Stabilization Corp. was set up to carry its own weight. It is an organization where the growers approve the programs. Until a few years ago, when quantity became the rule. Tobacco Stabilization program was said to be self supporting. This was said with tongue in cheek, for, like all government connected programs, the cost of administration is seldom taken into account when considering expenses.

At any rate the stabilization program has had the endorsement of the tobacco growers and the government. One point is certain, the program has cost the government and the taxpayers less than the other agricultural programs. And the cooperative has been sending the tobacco it buys under the support program to the private company to be redried, and stored until sold.

Now the big tobacco growers cooperative is going into

competition with the tocacco redrying companies.

The tobacco cooperative is going to save that money by by going into the business, and like all government controlled industry it does not have to make a profit to survive.

Now what is the next step? Will the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabilization Corp., expand further its investment in redrying plants'^ Redrying the cooperatice tobacco is a source of income for t o e priv a t e companies.

There are other areas t h e government plan to take this brings concern to all who are interested in the golden weed. And Wilson certainly is, for tobacco is our money crop.

How far does the government plan to taxe this new policy? What will be the next step As has been pointed out for a long time now, government money means government control. For years it has appeared that the flue-cured tobacco program was secure because of the healthy way the Stabilization Corp. operated.

So we repeat, what does the policy trend foretell? And was the policy change discussed with the membership?

ing American-made planes, U.S. antitank guns will try to knock out U.S.-manufactured tanks and artillery shells will pass each other in the night.

COOLING-OFF PERIOD-A period advocated by U Thant to try to work out a solution to the mess he made when he pulled the U.N. troops out of Sinai and the Gulf of Aqua-ba without consulting the Security Council or the General Assembly.

A FACE-S A V I N G AND JUST SOLUTION FOR ALL PARTIESThat which every diplomat talks about, but nobody has any idea what the hell it is.

A U.N. RESOLUTION-If proposed by the United States it will be automatically voted by the Soviet Union. If proposed by another country and passed, it will be ignored by the parties involved in the dispute. The violation of a U.N. resolution is used to justify an act of aggression.

ARAB UNITY-The pledge of all Arab countries to a united cause which could or could not last about two weeks. At this writing, Nasser has signed a military pact with King Hussein while Syria is calling for chopping off Husseins head.

DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY-Actions taken by countries who dont know what action to tnkc.

A SHOWDOWN-Something that observers believe neither Nasser nor the Soviet Union expected they would have at (Continued On Page 5)

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - H is now clear that the Johnson administration allowed prec i o u s-months to pass last fall an^ winter without reacting to repeated alarms of impending disaster in the Middle East.

Moreover, the presumably crucial spot of assistant secre* tary of state in charge of Mideast affairs was allowed to remain vacant from Oct. 19, when Raymond A. Hare resigned, to April 5, when he was replaced by the highly-regarded Lucius D. Battle.

It was precisely within this time span that secret warnings of utmost gravity were relayed to Secretary of State Dean Rusk from well-informed non - diplomats with close contacts to the Israeli government.

These warnings specifically documented the growing intimacy between Egypt and the Soviet Union and their frequent consultations in Cairo They also documented a subtle change in the tone of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser after the United Nations Security Council resolution of last Nov. 25, which Nasser regarded as a public slap at Israel. Nassers truculence increased from that time on.

But the State Department, preoccupied with Viet n a m, seemed frozen in the posture of an ostrich. If only the status quo could be preserved. Foggy Bottom hoped, all the hobgoblins would melt away and peace be assured.

Thus, is a Feb. 11 letter to Senator Jacob K. Javits, the New York Republican whose close relationship to the American Jewish community provides special insights into Middle Eastern affairs. Rusk said:

I am not aware of a n y change in the positions of either the British or French governments which would cast doubt on their adherence to these principles (thf princi|> les embodied in the tripartite declarations of May, 1950, by the U. S., France, and England guaranteeing the integrity of the Middle Eastern states).

Rusk was apparently unaware that the French were ready to scuttle the 1950 declaration, as they have now done, thus shredding the fabric of Western unity in the Middle East. Or, if Rusk suspected what Javits did that the tri - partite declaration by then was virtually meaningless he was not prepared to admit it for the simple reason that he had no solution.

Actually, the State Departments ijability to face the ture dimensions of the Middle East crisis goes back far beyond last fall. During President Kennedys administration, the White House formally asked the department to develop contingency pi a n s, bringing up to date the U. S. response to a variety of po.s-sible crises in the Middle East. The plans never were developed.

In the Johnson administration, moreover, the White House has lacked the services of a top - level trouble-shoote.'' on Middle Eastern affairs, a kind of unofficial ambassador between the President and the American Jewish community.

When New Frontiersman Myer Feldman left the White House in March, 1965, that behind - the - scenes job simply vanished. Instead, Walt Ro-stow, White House national (Continued On Page 5)

Takina Cash, Lettina Credit Go

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGLAS A BRIEF FOR REVOLUTIONS

Those of us fifty years of age and older have lived through one of the most revolutionary periods in history. A genera-^ tion ago, Europe was full of kings. The atlases we u.sed in high school and college some years back would have no value today save as quaint reminders of an age that was folded up and put away. The great Einstein changed the thinking of the whole scientific world. Two world wars in less than a (pinrter of a century have produced uripreeed-ented changes in human history. In some ways we have changed more in a generation than men have changed in the past two thousand year.

The possibility of revolution

increases every day. Yet the one revolution which we need above everything else has not taken place, namely, the revolution which has to take place in human hearts before people are made oVer, before they become essentially different. The greatest need in the world today is the need for a series of one-man revolutions. Such a ,rc 1 step in human betterment might well begin with you and me. And of one thing we can be sure, namely that if you and I so not experience such revolution within our hearts, it will probably not occur elsewhere to the betterment of humankind.

lA't us have more revolutions not less. And let them begin in the area of our thinking and behavior.

By ELMER ROESSNER

It was widely predicted that this would be the year in which organized labor took Omar Khayyams advice to take the cash and let the credit go.

To a great extent, unions are demanding more cash. The 3.5 per cent annual wage increases of the Presidenfs guidelines of a year ago now look like a game of penny-pitching to a sidewalk crack.

The reason is clear: inflation is pushing down the buying power of the dollar. The governments own figures show that workers in five of the largest industrial categories have less buying power than a year ago, despite increases in pay.

But labor is by no means neglecting the credit tliat lies in fringe benefits. Again the reason is clear: taxes are rising and many of the fringes are tax - free or, at worst.

tax - deferred.

Like Rabbits The multiplication of fringe benefits is limited only by the imagination of union leaders and it appears that they are an imaginative lot.

In the May - June issue of Personnel, published by the American Management Association, J. E. Foegen rounds up some Far - Out Fringe Benefits.

The National Maritime Union, he writes is seeking rent-free housing for all members.

The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union is seeking one-week, all-expense-paid trips to Expo 67 for its 12.000 Canadian members.

The United Auto Workers is considering demanding and ployee - financed auto insurance because employees use their cars to get to work.

Among the other fringes on the top cited by Foegen arei Maternity benefits for un

married women employees, won by the Communication Workers Union, showing, perhaps, a little over-communi-cation.

Combat pay won by several unions for teachers as-

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signed to dangerous slum areas. In Boston, teachers are seeking $1,000 more a year lor such assignmenLs.

The Babysitter Fringe A 75-cents-an-hour payment for babysitters when mothers work late in a Texas insurance company.

Courses at an employer-financed school on Long Island \

for members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Students are paid $160 a week while attending.

A $l-an-hour payment to oif-duty members of the Minnesota Nurses Association when they are subject to call.

An annual healthy holiday for physical examination.^, won by 18,000 laundry workers in New York New Jersey and New England.

Five visits to a psychiatrist, won by the United Auto Workers. After that, employees pay a share of the fees.

Foegen cited many more. .'O many that he did not have space to mention what may be the most expensive of all; the coffee break. Nor did lie mention the British union that won a fringe of a penny a dav toward a fund to pay for members divorce suits.