Wednesday, June 21, 1967

Same Fight To Be Waged in House

NOW TO GET IT THROUGH THE NEEDLES

University status for East Carolina College and the creation of two other regional universities now rests with members of the House. There, this measure so important to North Carolina and the future of higher education, should receive the same overwhelming approval that it did yesterday in the Senate.

By a vote of 34 to 12, members of the Senate gave their blessing to this measure to create uni versities of East Carolina, Appalachian and West Carolina colleges. In doing so, the Senate recognized the wisdom of granting to these institutions the university status they deserve and authorizing them to prepare to offer doctoral programs in the future.

In spite of the overwhelming vote in the Senate, the proposal for university status for East Carolina College and the other instisutions has not been without its vigorous opponents. Those same forces headed by Chairman Watts Hill Jr. of the Board of Higher Education and others who have done everything in their power to prevent university status for East Carolina will not give up because of the Senate vote.

They will now focus their attention on the House where some observers feel the regional university measure may not have as solid support as that which was evident in the Senate.

Member of the House, however, also are intelligent men who recognize the needs of higher education in North Carolina. If they are willing to weigh legislation on the basis of its merits, they will have to come to the conclusion that the regional

university bill is in the best interest of the state and its people. They will recognize that opponents of the measure have shown themselves willing to resort to almost any tactics to undermine the measure and discredit it.

Chairman Hill of the Board of Higher Education reportedly contracted a number of four-year-colleges in the state, insisting they demand university status under the bill. His obvious intent was to discredit the measure and bring about its defeat. Only yesterday Sen. McLendon, who has joined Hill in the long vigorous fight against East Carolina, admitted on the Senate floor he would vote against the measure regardless of action on his proposal that A&T College be declared a university under the measure. There is little question that his proposal to make A&T a university was not for the purpose of helping that institution, but for the purpose of killing off the entire bill.

The bill now before the House should receive favorable action to permit these institutions to render the better service of which they are capable to the people of this state. University status for these institutions should not be denied when the overwhelming evidence points so clearly to the fact that this status is indeed deserved by the institutions and in the best interest of the future of the state.

itile Idealism

This Assembly In This Debate Saw Indecision

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH In final analysis the 1967 General Assembly will have to go down as one which had trouble making up its mind.

Since its convening back in early February the lengthy session has been marked by uncertainty, indecision and harp division. It has hemmed and hawed, delayed and stalled. It was unpredictable.

When forced to a vote, sometimes relunctantly, there was little if anything approaching unanimous agreement on any major issue or proposition.

And no more than a few occasions, legislators have reversed themselves at least In theory and turned around to do or undo something which appeared settled.

Rooted In Politics There can be only one real reason for so much mind-changing and day - to - day shifting of stands politics. In one way or another.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

It may be denied, but the S967 legislature has been as politically conscious, politically nervous and politically motivated as any in recent state kistory, probably more so.

One factor has been state politics next year is an election year. Another has been local politics which always plays a part in the legislature. %is appears to have had a keener influence this time than Id the past.

There are personal political fonsiderations, and there is

internal politics.

Partisan Politics Involved

What is going to happen back home, what will be the effect on my personal political image, will it help or hurt the party all these have been questions weighing heavily on legislative minds.

In addition there has been the factor of partisan politics. The usual overwhelming Democratic majority in the General Assembly has been confronted by a sizable minority of Republican members in both houses.

But there has been less of a clear - cut matter of Democrat - versus - Republican than anyone might expect. Rather it has been a question of whether to play ball with the Republicans, woo their support, give them concessions, support their bills or kick them in the teeth.

The strategy changes daily. The Republicans have become as confused as anybody. Through all the fog, however, the GOP has served notice it isnt willing to be a pawn in this legislative political game. And this realization raises further questions in the minds of Democratic party leaders how far do you go? How serious is the Republican threat in 1968? More puzzlement.

Final Chapter Awaited

All of this thrust and parrying appears to have been more than four months of prelude to what may happen before sine die adjournment of the 1967 session.

The final chapter remains to be written in the next couple of weeks. And this is bound to be action-packed.

What happens now in the closing days and hours of the session undoubtedly will become the basis of final judgment on performance and accomplishment of the 1%7 legislature. The crucial votes aie coming.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP)-The first sour note in the U.N. debate on the Arab-Israeli war came with Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygins walkout while Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban was replying to his speech.

It was rude, and the Soviets ts explained later Kosygin had to leave to keep an appointment. But millions saw this on television.

No doubt many concluded Kosygin was expressing contempt for reasonable deoate, that he was relying on power politicsthe number of nations already lined up on Moscows sideto win the day for him.

Even if this were not a cynical act, before the first days discussion was over Monday it was clear this debate was going to be neither altruistic nor idealistic. But nobody ever thought it would be.

Moscow asked for debate in the U.N. General Assembly, wanting Israel condemned as an aggressor, told to give back the land it had captured from the Arabs, and ordered to pay for damage done them in the startlingly short war.

In order to get in a word ahead of time, one hour before the assembly was due to meet President Johnson took to television, too, to lay out this countrys ideas for restoring peace in the Middle East.

But Ebans was the most brilliant speech of the day, in or out of the United Nations. It was a classic example of making a case by eliminating leiterary flourishes, which Johnson almost always tries, and relying entirely upon documentation.

He jCited not only all the threats Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser made

Strength

For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS

A STRONG FOUNDATION

A man who was once an atheist and who has now become devoutly religious told me recently how his change of viewpoint came about.

It started when he was a child. He used to look up at the stars at night and say. There must be somebodv guiding them or there would be lots of wrecks. As he grew to manhood, he could never get away from the feeling that some intelligent and well- disposed power was behind the beauty of the hills, the massiveness of the sea, the sure rotation of the seasons, the intelligence of man. From this he went on until, amid the experiences of life he was led to seek the guidance of revealed religion,

When a man opens the Bible, he finds there a message from God. If this message were false, we should be infinitely deceived. It is our faith in its truthfulness which causes us to accept it as authoritative.

So many people waste their time seeking for religious truth elsewhere than in the Bible. They think they can arrive at it by studying philosophy, or by throwing themselves into service for their fellow men. Both philosophy and service have their places in the Christian life, but the Christian life begins with certain firm convictions about God and His will for man. These things are all dealt vvifh in the Bible.

When we have Itial .^olid conviction, we have suinelhing on which to build

about demolishing Israel before the war began but listed by number, which must have startled the Soviets, how many weapons they had given Egypt.

Nevertheless, the Kosygin-Eban debate was very often on the intellectual level of tit-for-tat.

To show long-time Soviet prejudice against Israel, Pan listed the times through the years when Moscow sided with the Arabs in U.N. problems. And he accused Moscow of encouraging the Arabs in building up the Mideast frenzy.

Kosygin condemned the Israelis as aggressors, accused the United States and Britain of encouraging them to violence, and declared Mideast peace is possible only if the Israelis withdraw from the captured Arab land.

While there was little new in hours of discussion, anyone who followed the war con-controversy closely probably wound up the day just as much impressed by what was left unsaid as by anything Eban and Kosygin did say.

For instance, Kosygin never mentioned the Gulf of Aquaba although from the moment Nasser closed it to Israeli shipping promising it was closed for good, Israel and the Arabs were on a collission course.

Both Johnson and Eban singled out the gulf blockage as the most critical move m the series of events which led to war.

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By FOY H. DUNCAN June 21, 1927 Tobacco Men Leave For Convention

About fifty members of the Greenville tobacco market will leave here today and tomorrow for Morehead City to attend the annual convention of the Tobacco Association. Tobacconists from many sections of North Carolina and other states will be in attendance.

Memorial Baptist Church To Have Picnic Tomorrow The annual picnic of the Memorial Baptist Church will be held at Public Landing tomorrow. The outing was planed for Wednesday but was postponed on account of inclement weather.

ey ART BUCHWALD

Seminles Get Florida

WASHINGTON - There has been so much concentration on the Middle East situation in the past few weeks that some people may not have noticed that the United States has lost a state. The Seminole Indians of Florida just got a court ruling that they own 90 percent of Florida.

According to a treaty that the white man signed in 1823 and had no intention of keeping, the Seminles were supposed to be paid $40 million for their land. The money was never forthcoming, and so the Seminles sued. The U. S. Court of Claims ruled that since the United States defaulted on the payment, the Seminles could easily claim 90 percent of the state.

If the Seminles exercise their rights, we can expect to see many changes in Florida in the next few years. A chief spokesman (Or is it a spokesman chief?) told me in an in

terview:

There is great unhappiness among my people. Even though Florida is a mess of highways, housing developments and resorts, we will once again make it a happy Indian hunting ground.

One of the first things that the chief said the Seminles intended to do was to change the policy at the Hialeah race track. In past years, before the races, Seminole Indians paraded in costume in the infield among the storks to give Hialeah a colorful local flavor.

The chief said. We intend to change all this. In the future the white man will parade around in the infield before the races, and the Indians will applaud them from the stands.

The Seminole spokesm a n said. We have no intention of letting the white mans culture die in Florida, and so we

Other Editors Saying

Cordiality Essentia.

Attend B.Y.P.U.

In Raleigh Mesdames L. A. Stroud T.. W. Rede, J. W. Wooder.'W. G. Rush, Misses Mary Win-borne, Edna Stroud, Margaret Rice, Mildred Herring and Minnie and Edward Thomas left this morning for Raleigh to attend the State B.Y.P.U. Convention at Meredith Col-lege.

Miss McLawhorn and Forbes Entertain Winterville, June 20 On Friday evening Misses Leckie McLawhorn and Elizabeth Forbes entertained in honor of Miss Jamie Jenkins and Messrs. Oliver and Charlie Jenkins, all of Eison, Georgia, house guests of Mr. and .Mrs D, T. McLawhorn... Contests and progressive conservation were enjoyed during the evening... Mr. Brandal James favored the guests with a number of very pretty musical selections...

(Henderson Dispatch)

Cordiality and good will are necessary if the United Nations General Assembly is to arrive at just conclusions in settlement of the Middle East war. U. S. Ambassador Goldberg was ran in outlining such a basis for debate, but no sooner had he finished than the delegate from Jordan said in an angry rejoinder that there is only one issue, namely, withdrawal of Israel from territory it occupied in its successful military blitz two weeks ago against Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

There is more to it than that, even if that were to be granted, which it certainly should not be in toto. The Arab states, and probably also their overlord, Soviet Russia, apprently went into the discussion in a spirit of enmity. If Israel were to be required to withdraw everywhere, what indeed would it have to show for its victory over its enemies?

Some adjustment on a basis fair to all must be arrived at if there is to be anything like lasting peace in the Middle East. Israel had a just cause for its action. Had it not

acted when it did, probability is that it would have had to fight on its own soil for the integrity of its own borders. The Arab armies were poised for an invasion; Israel merely beat them to the draw.

The answer to the whole problem lies largely with Russia. If the Soviets take the side of the Arabs unequivoca-bly, without regard to Israels right to exist, and in an effort itself to profit by what it can get out of the shambles, justice will be thrown to the winds. The ill will mostly like-1> will continue and the United Nations may again demonstrate its inability to achieve and preserve the peace.

Most of the tiny nations, with equal votes with the major powers, almost certainly will side with Russia, whatever position the Soviets may take. That conceivably could produce a majority in the ultimate showdown. From there on, the wrangling would continue or the whole procedure could result in a stalemate, with the ever present possibility that hostilities might be resumed, either gradually or suddenly.

have set aside the Fountain-bleau, Edan Roc and the American hotels as white-man reservations. They should be wonderful tourist attractions for the Seminles.

The white man will be encouraged to dress in costume, make white-mans souvenirs that can be sold to the Indians and keep alive the primitive Caucasian dances that the Siminole children enjoy so much.

We believe that if the white men can make their reservations a 11 r a c t i ve enough, they will not only attract Seminole tourists, but other Indians from every state in the Union.

I asked the chief if this meant that Seminles would not make any effort to teach the white men other skills than those they could learn on a reservation.

The white man Is basically lazy, the chief said, and there isnt much you can teach him except for handicrafts. So you still intend to attract white people from other states in wintertime?

Yes, we do, but there will be a difference. For years now the white men in Florida had been scalping their fellow white men in the winter time, particularly when it came to prices. From now on the Seminles will be scalping the white man. The outsiders wont mind it as much if its done by Indians.

What about the college kids who come down for Easter vacation?

We shall let them come, but we shall forbid the sole of firewater. Everyone knows the white man cant hold his firewater, particularly the college stcKient.

I asked the chief if he felt the white man should be compensated for any land he will lose to the Seminles because of the court ruling.

Oh, he said, wed certainly be delighted to sign a treaty with the white man and repay him for the land. Weve worked out a formula. Well pay $10 down and $10 a month until all the land we took in Florida is paid off.

Thats very generous, I said, and the whitepeople in Florida would be fools not to accept your generous offer.

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON The sur. prise appearance of Yugosia-vias Josip Broz Tito at the June 9 Communist summit meeting in Moscow is one reason for growing concern about forthcoming talks between President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Koiy-gin.

The connection lies in President Titos motives for suddenly casting aside his unique and carefiully nutured non-alignment in the cold war. There is good reason to be-believe Tito thinks imperialism is on the inarch and that now is the time for all good Communists to band to* gether. If this attitude is shared even in party by the Soviet Union, as some Kren^ linologists here believe, tttes the LBJ-Kosygin talks, wm all but certain, take on critical importiEmct.

TTie concept o the Union at bay, iMrdsaiaf Mi anti-West*n stand, is vshi. mently rejected by olbtr Kremlinologiits liOB wlIB gilt-e<^ed credentialRjM M has enou^ backing wBhki Bit Johnson administra 11 o a ti make it well worth expkxiRg, and the coloration most begin wtth Titos joinmey to Hot* cow.

For that old pcmtisan

er, Tito, this was a more rad-ical departure than is generally understood in the West When we were in Belgrade the other day, Yugoslav policymakers proudly stressed their divergence from the Communist main stream. They pointed with pride to Yugoslavias boycott of the April Communist conference in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia. Thus, when Tito went to Moscow June 9, and promptly signed the manifesto backing the Arabs and denouncing Israel, there was private but intense complaint from officials in Israel, there was private but intense complaint from officials in Belgrade.

The most obvious explanation is Titos long love affair with Egypts Gamal Abdel Nasser. But since Titos grand design of a cohesive third force already was in disrepair, there must have been an additional reason for coming back to the Moscow fold.

TTiat reason has now been supplied by reliable informants in Belgrade. They report that party theoreticians close to Tito have convinced him that the imperialists are on the offensive against communism and have been winning in Brazil, Indonesia, Greece, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

The Middle East was the last straw. At age 75, Tito may even have feared anticommunist unrest in his own Yugoslavia. Thus, it was partially concern over the future of Communism that propelled Tito into Moscow.

Once there, he made no secret of his concern to the Russians. And in the opinion of some Kremlinologists, Tito's concern was simply a matter of pouring gasoline on an already blazing fire. They believe the Kremlin is agonizingly concerned about i t s lack of success in explaining the world of communism.

There Is substantial evidence of Soviet hardening over the last year (through Moscows position remains considerably softer than it was before the 1962 missile crisis): stepped-up aid to North Vietnam naval incidents in the Sea of Japan, naval buildup in the Mediterranean, general increase in arms spending, ob-(Contianed On Page 8)

3ank Credit Card Plans Grow

Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Reddick liiivc fii()V((i into tlieir new liouse on tiie corner of Scven-:od CharkiK

By ELMER ROESSNER

Bank credit card plans are now sweeping the nation. In the Midwest it's a stampede, says the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank in a report on the phenomenon.

In fact, it reports that in the seventh reserve district, which includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, more than 800 banks are issuing their own cards or are participating in plans sponsored <by other banks or nonbanking firms.

The sweep is strong in the West but somewhat less in the more conservative East.

The growth pattern of credit card plans is interesting. The idea is not new. Rank credit cards were tried in the early i;lf)Os. with no outstanding sueec'ss .Many ol the earlier plans were drojiped because bankii luuud it too costly to

sign up merchants and customers. Even the Rockefellers Chase Manhattan Bank in New York failed to find it profitable, even after spending large sums in promotion, and sold out its plan.

Suddenly, Everyone In The Act

ELMER

ROESSNER

Then last year plans began to multiply. This res u 11 e d largely from ttie coincidental use of several factors. They

were;

1'hc wide accej)tance of in-tei national credit cards such

as the Diners Club and American Express, conditioned the public to all credit cards.

The banking business has been becoming increasingly profitable.

The wider use of computers in banks reduced costs of handling credit card account.^.

At the same time, rising wages and the scarcity n[ trained workers made many businesses eager to turn their credit chores over to a bank.

Most plans provide quick payment to participating merchants. In the past, most retailers had to turn to factors to get cash on their accounts receivable, often paying dearly-

The success of some plans forces competing banks to offer their own.

The Bros and Cons

Hank credit cards have been criticized and praised.

Chief criticisms are that

they make credit buying too easy, tempting consumers to overextend their indebtedness, that they would therefore precipitate many more personal bankruptcies in event of a downturn in the economy, hitting banks especially hard, that credit cards are not an appropriate field for commercial banks; that the large number of credit cards will lead to more organized theft of them.

On the other hand, by giving merchants almost in s t a n t cash in full for credit sales, they Increase the merchants working capital, enabling them to take more trade discounts. They permit stores that cannot afford credit departments to compete with big stores. They transfer the risk of credit losses from merchants to

banks, for which of course, the merchants pay a fee.