Wednesday, August 16, 1967

When Local Governments Fail

Greenvilles rat control program was old hat long before Congress became involved in the great debate over a multi-million dollar federal program that would control the rat population in cities and towns across the nation.

Sundays Daily Reflector carried an account of the simple, long-standing rat control program which has been carried out by the city for lyears. The program has been so routine and so much accepted as a small but vital part of the citys normal function that it has attracted no attention until rat control came into the national spotlight. Already this summer, in the routine operation of the program, more than 1,600 of the citys dwellings have been inspected for rat infestation and breeding places. The work has been done without fanfare as has been the case in past years.

Certainly the rat control program that has been carried on for more than a decade by the city of Greenville is far from what would be done under a formal federal rat control program for this same community. Its a good guess that a federal program

Moore Favors State Contro'.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH - Gov. Dan K. Moores administration has never been very enthusiastic about nor fully in favor of the federal governments many anti - poverty programs as they have been administered in North Carolina.

This fact is clear from interviews with dozens of administration officials in the past and from cautious, rather restrained statements by the governor himself.

Moores most recent comments come closer than anything yet in explaining his position. Even so, more misunderstanding apparently has developed between Raleigh and Washington, between cities and detractors and supporters and officials of the antipoverty program.

The governor, at a press conference last week, expressed his feeling that while the goals of the various programs were excellent and some worthwhile results had been achieved there have been abuses and, in some cases, wrongdoing on the part of antipoverty employees and work ers.

More State Control

Moore also contends and has contended all along that state officials should have greater control and closer supervision over all public programs affecting a state.

He argues that by having better knowledge of situations and circumstances, supervision by state officials would mean more efficiency, more positive results and fewer abuses.

He cited the fields of education and highways as examples of close federal - state cooperation and state control of programs financed to a large extent by federal funds. The anti - poverty program is different, he said.

It should be clearly under-tood that the state of North Carolina has no control or authority over the administration or operation of these federally-financed programs, Moore said.

Reluctant To Criticize In a sense, Moore appeared almost reluctant to be critical. But he came to the press con

ference, his fmst in s e v e ral weeks, with a three page prepared statement referring to allegations that anti - poverty workers had engaged in improper or illegal p^tical activities.

The statement mentioned specifically the North Carolina Fund which has been under attack by Republican Rep. James C. Gardner. Moore described the North Carolina Fund as a private, non-profit charitable organization, over which the state has no control . .

Of course, the Fund does, by providing seed money, support numerous anti - poverty projects financed largely by federal grants. Such projects are operated in meet of the state's larger cities and in some rural areas.

Moore began by saying the legal aims of the various anti - poverty programs are noble in purpose. He spoke of concern about the poor, the need to rehabilitate and train and to provide jobs.

Asks Dismissals

There is, Moore said, no excuse for the misuse of such programs for political purposes or for the teaching of hatred and bias, or for inciting mob violence.

He called such actions a grave disservice to the poor and a threat to the peace and welfare of all our people.

Any such employe, he said, engaging in such wrongdoing should be dismissed.

The governor went on to pledge again to uphold the law and to put the weight of his administration against any individual or group which attempts to take the law into their own hands. . .

Shriver Replies

The day after Moores statements, the governors words caught the attention of Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, who was visiting in North Carolina.

Shriver disputed Moores -i

statement about control. Gov- TGnCTt T. ernors already have more con- ^

trol over these (anti - poverty) programs than they have over any other federal program,

Shriver said. And he said Moore could veto any federal poverty program in North Carolina he wants to.

for Greenville would cost many times what the municipally financed program now costs Greenville.

But the proof of such a program is not in its cost, but in its effectiveness, and Greenvilles program has been effective over the years.

Most cities, large and small, could have effective rat control programs without the assistance of federal dollars or federal directives. All it takes is a little initiative on the part of city officials and individual citizens, and a desire to eliminate one of the problems that potentially faces any city. Most cities would find such a program would require very few dollars out of the total municipal budget.

The problem is that too many communities have failed to meet this local responsibility. The rat problem has become acute and now they look to the 'growing federal government to step in and do what the local government and local citizens have neglected to do.

Little wonder that the federal government continues to grow, that federal spending mounts and that federal operations move into fields where local governments formerly assumed full responsibility and authority.

Preventing Vandalism Is Up To Individuals

Vandalism at Greenvilles recreation areas should be a matter of concern to all citizens as it is to city officials and those responsible for the local recreation program.

City Manager Harry Hagerty recently told the Recreation Commission that repairs are being made to the South Greenville Recreation building, but that any damage done after the facilities are finished will not be fixed. We havent the money to repair the buildings every month.'

Obviously the city does not have funds to replace all the windows young vandals can break. It doesnt have funds to repair all the damage that unthinking young people can deliberately do to a recreation building or other city property.

For citizens of the communityyoung and old alikethe good maintenance of recreation facilities Rv/ |AAAF<^ k'll PArDiri^

and other municipal property should be a source of ^ MLFAIKIL.1^

pride and individual concern. The prevention of damage by vandalism to recreation and other facilities should be a part of the responsibility assumed by individual citizens.

Funds that do not have to be spent in repairing unnecessary damage to recreation facilities can be channeled into creating better recreation programs for all citizens of the community.

>A Fair Vote Is

"Its Really Very Simple-This Little Piggy Goes to Vielnaiii and This Big Piggy Stays HomeJ

Why Spoil That Dream

Denouncements Go Far Afiele.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) theres plenty at home to use up their energy since the civil rights! movement is bogged down, but some of its leaders are reaching way beyond civil rights for something to attack or denounce.

Latest example: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committeewhose past and present leaders are a couple of Negro agitators, Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown is now accusing the Jews of atrocities against the Arabs.

Before that Dr. Mar t i n Luther King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS KEEP GOING!

Two boys were running a race at a track meet. As they rounded the first turn, one jostled the other. There were a few heated words exchanged Again they jostled each other. The epithets flew thick and fast. Suddenly they stopped and lit into each other with their fists. The others ran on and finished the race. These two fellows stopped half way through to fight it out.

They never stopped talking about it in the two schools which the boys represented. Twenty years after the thing occurred, old grads when they met at reunions used to say, Do you remember the day Bob and Harry dropped out of the race to sock each other in the jaw The inference was that Bob and Harpy were a pair of idiots, that they had been disloyal to the school, that they had sacrificed something worthwhile for something too cheap and worthless for real men to bother about.

And yet we all do it every day. We quarrel and bicker about little things which are worthy of no consideration at all. Fully half the divorces arise from circumstances which both parties brood over in later years with regret

And among nations this mistake is notorious. If Hitler had conspired to overwhelm England and France by introducing mass production into his mills and had decided to defeat those countries and others by underselling them in the market, he could have been the master of Europe without the shedding of one drop of blood. But no. He had to start swinging arouHl

Conference, was denouncing American involvement in the Vietnamese war and calling this country the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.

He called for a coalition of the antiwar and civil rights forces.

In a recent letter SNCC charged Zionists seized Palestine through terror, force and massacres. The publication carried two photographs purporting to show massacres in the Gaza strip in 1956. SNCC denies its anti-Semitic.

Thats not the way Irwin Shulman, southeastern director of the Anti-Defamation League, sees it. He says the whole business smacks of anti-Semitism. He said the published photographs previously appeared in Arab propaganda publications.

And, he said, the SNCC charges represent the total propaganda line taken by the Arabs with some changes which, he said, reflect Soviet views,

Ralph Featherston, SNCCs program director, said his organization had received no financial help from the Arabs. But it does need financial help. The newsletter appealed for funds in an announcement saying: Help, help,

were sinking fast. i

It would be interesting to know what kind of financial shape Kings organization is in. About a month after his (Continued On Page 5)

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The trouble with this world one of the troubles with it is that it suffers from too many seekers after truth. The scientists especially the archaeologists, never will leave a man alone. Now theyve gone and discovered Atlantis. Why did they have to do that?

The ordinary mortal has a hard enough time as it is, surviving his one brief hour upon this earth. At every step, he stubs a toe on rocky facts his boss, his unpaid bills, the tire that has to be replaced. The faucet leaks, the toast burns, the putt curls away from the hole. His life is knotted up in broken laces. Its oatmeal every morning, and all of it has lumps.

Only a mans illusions save him from the river. So long as he can dream of the big sale,

the fat raise, the perfect game, he hangs on. A little of Walter Mitty lies within us all, tucked away in the hidden heart, an old loves snapshot in a drawer of socks. Take away fantasy, and what remains? The paunch, the bald spot, the sniffles.

Thus with history; thus with Atlantis. Plato told us how it really was an island empire, half a continent in size, and Poseidon was its god. Poseidon fell in love with dark - eyed Cleito, daughter of Evenor, and kept her prisoner in a maze of misty islands. She bore him five pairs of male twins, of whom the first born was called Atlas. Some time later, men would name an ocean and a kingdom in his honor.

The kingdom was really ten kingdoms, each equal in size and beauty, each ruled by a

Forty Years Ago

By FOY H. DUNCAN August 17, 1927 Merchants To Hold Meeting Next Tuesday The regular monthly meeting of the directors of the Greenville Merchants Association was held in the offices of the secretary yesterday afternoon, which resulted in discussion of plans for an intensive advertising campaign for this city. . . . The campaign is to be conducted during the months of September, October, November and December; its purpose being to advertise Greenville as the principal shipping center of Eastern North Carolina. . . . Greenville is already the trade center for over twenty counties in this section of the State and opinion prevails among many of the members of the association that an intensive advertising campaign would result in greatly increasing the scope of trade

activities.

Brandi Bank Of Federal Reserve Will Open

Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 17 The next stop in bringing the Federal Reserve banking system closer to the financial interests and the people of the Carolinas will be the appointment of a ixiard of directors and the equipping of the offices of the branch bank of the fifth district reserve bank of Richmond in the recently complete First National Bank building here which will be possessed October 1. . . .

Miss Elizabeth Carr has returned from a visit in Wilson.

Mrs. Agnes Blount and Mrs. S. M. Quiherly of Ayden was in the city this morning.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith and children, who have been spending some time in Clars-ville and Buffa Springs, Va., have returned home.

son of Poseidon. Together they claimed wealth never before possessed by kings. Their islands were linked by canals, bridges, causeways. Every kind of animal was there, and every fruit and flower, fair and wondrous and in ii^te abundance.

In the midst of At 1 a n t i s stood the temple of Poseidon, covered with silver, its pinnacles of gold. The temple was 600 feet long and 300 feet wide. It housed a towaing statue of the immortal god, fashioned of gold, standing in a chariot drawn by six winged horses; around him a hundred sea - nymphs were riding golden dolphins. Here the ten kings met to write the countrys laws. They sacrificed a perfect bull, drank bloody wine from golden cups, then sat in azure robes about the embers of a ritual fire.

The ten cities of the ten kings were great cities, their harbors crowded, their commerce flowing. Everywhere were fountains, parks, baths, aqueducts, race courses. The spirit of Poseidon prevailed for generations; and while it prevailed for generations; and while it prevailed, the contented people of Atlantis united gentleness with wisdom, despised everything Init virtue, and thought lightly of their vast possessions. Alas, the spirit waned. The gardens of philosophy grew up in weeds of comiption. And at last 2!e' delivered an earthquake that riw>ed the bottom from the wine - dark sea. The waters overwhelmed; and Atlantis disai^)eared.

Now, that is the way PLito told the story. He got it from Solon, who got it from some Egyptian priests, and wh e r e they heard the tale no man can say. It happened 9,000 years before wise Solon came along. But is it not believable?

No, say the scientists, coui-(Continned On Page 5)

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - The vital importance to the Johnson administration of a reasonably clean election in Vietnam was underscored last week-end in a confidential cable from Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker.

Deeply worried by the clamor in Congress over alleged irregularities in the campaign for President, Bunker methodically knocked down one charge after another that the military junta running South Vietnam has systematically subverted the electoral process.

But while rebutting most charges, Bunker (who also was chief U. S. pollwatcher at the successful 1966 pres-identoal election in the Dominican Republic) had words of caution. Some critics, ho told the President, expect a standard of conduct in tha Vietnamese election that even an election in the U. S. could not meet.

For example, he cited complaints that the militarys candidates for president and vice fxesident-Gwi. Nguyen Van Thei and Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Kyshould have resigned their present poii-itions in the government before the presidential campaign began. Not so, said Bunker, adding:

The President and the Vice President of the United States do not resign to run for re-election.

Bunker dealt with the most publicized charges of intimidation by the junta against tha 10 civilian tickets running against Thieu and Ky. The charge: when these civilian candidates arrived by air for a scheduled campal^ appearance in Quang Tri city, in northern South Vietnam, their plane wasarbitrarily deflected to the small town of Dong Ha. Finding no rec^tion committee or transportation, they angrily left and accused the regime deliberate sabotage. Said Bimker In his cable to the White House:

A strong crosswind (at Qcang Tri) convinced the pilot that a landing would be dangerous. He went to the nearest field (at Dong Ha) nine miles away. No one was present to meet the candi-didates. A convoy sent from Quang Tri) convinced the pil-after they had left.

According to Bunker, the sensational incident was a combination of bad weatiier and planning, combined with impatience and suspicion on the part of the (di^an) candidates.

Although Bunker did jnot again refer to this susjdcicn of the civilian candidates, that aspect of the presidential race in Vietnam is worrying the Johnson administration perhaps more than anything else.

They arc worried less about l^oof of campaign discrimination and sdiotage turning up before the Sept. 3 vote. What really concerns the White House is the prospect that if the Thieu-Ky ticket wins, as everyone assumes, defeated defeated civilian candidates will then charge a vote steal and blacken the credentials of the new government.

How dangerous this could become for the Johnson administration was hinted at in the U. S. Senate last Friday. Two Adminislrttion DemocratsSen.Stusrt Symington of Missouri and Sen. J<^ Pasi-(Cimtiiined On Page I)

Damper On Color TV Set Sales

To The Editor:

In observing the Summer Theatre at East Carolina University, I would like to commend Producer-Director Edgar R. Loessin on his fine choice of productions for a highly successful season in eastern North Carolina.

This being my first summer pe problem, in Greenville to enjoy the pro- sub

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By ELMER ROESSNER The discovery that some color television sets emit X rays and the Congressional investigations of the matter may put a damper on TV color sales this fall.

It has brought three inquiries, which have disclosed considerable inept handling of

production, I cannot express how impressed I have been with the performers Mr. Loessin chose, and the quality and diverseness of each of the six plays. The musicals have been splendid, and have added much prestige to the cultural aspect of the Greenville enviro-ment. In speaking for a large majority of friends, I hope there will be more of the same next summer.

Jean C. Harrell i Elm St.

committee on Commerce and Finance held hearings on a bill providing greater safety for consumer products. The bill was introduced by Rep. John Moss, D., Calif., and would bear on TV safety.

This week a House Interstate Commerce subcommittee on Health and Safety has been looking into a bill by Reps. John Jarman, D., Okla., and Paul Rogers, D., Fla., that would authorize federal radiation standards for various types of electronic devic

es.

Later this month a Senate committee will hold hearings on a bill by Sen. Bob Bartlett, D., Alaska, which would also set up federal standards. What Coinmitteee Have Found

Hearings so far have disclosed these facts:

1. That General Electric discovered the possibility of radiation in November, 1968, but did not make it public until May of this year, when it called for the return of about 100,000 sets for changes.

2. That sets sold this year are probably safe, since GE immediately devised a shielded tube said to eliniinate the radiation, for use in all sets sold subsequently.

3. That servicemen who increase the voltage of existing sets may make safe sets unsafe. Also that servicemen who replap dangerous tubes are aa amnre it iam them in

or destroy them.

4. That the sets involved bore the seal of apiH*oval by the Underwriters Laboratories, apparently because the amount of radiation was not detected. However, its standard for permissible radiation will be lowered Sept. 1.

5. That there is a $75 device known as the personal radiation meter which can detect radiation, according to testimony of an Atomic Energy Commission witness.

Effect On Sales?

It is likely that some prospects will postpcme purchases of color sets until there are assurances from otfldal sources that all sets have been tested and found safe.

However, the amount of radiation in the suspected sets was very small, and since no injuries have been reported, the setback to sales may not be erious. Hqme Fur-

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nishings Daily surveyed tailers in the New York area and found that some had found no customer reaction, while others had reported that up to half their customers had questions about X radiation.

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After the fint discloiure el fbe connection between dgi-natti iitiekiTtg and cancer, ci-gi^tte sales fell and the 1, with the rise in tiie use of Alters, rosa to MW heights. So it may be with color TV. After an initial setback, sales of seta with X-ray filters may hit new