Monday, September 4, 1967

Many Will Be Watching ECU Role

Eyes of friends and foes alike will be closely watching East Carolina University in the coming months as it moves through its first academic^year of new university status.

The year will mark a continuation of the transition period that has seen the institution change from a small teachers college, to a liberal arts college, and then to the university level. East Carolinas quest for universi^'y status has been marked by great controversy in North Carolina. It has been tinged with hard-fought tJolitical battles. It has not been easily achieved and even now does not have the universal blessings of the states leaders or of its rank and file citizems. It does, however, have the blessings of the vast majority of these two groups.

Re that as it may% East Carolina University has been accorded officially the status which it has earned. This new official status marks the beginning rather than the end to the struggle. It is now up to nfi'i' ials of the university, the large group of alumni ami supporters of the institution, and to its growing

N. C. Democrats May Heal Rift

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGHDemocrats are taHfrng mofe ami lore fidently and hopefully these days about healing the faction-alisrn that cost them dearly in dozens of local and legislative elections in North Carolina last year.

For the states nearly one and a half million registered Democrats, stfch talk is encouraging at a time when encouragement on the political scene is needed.

The fact is that there is deep concern on the part of the

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if itc's Democratic partly leaders about the course of politics in North Carolina during the nextyear or so, especially nc' t year.

Next year is election year, and one in wiuchj|iany factors will enter ilGjPtermining how tiie elections .vill go. Faction alsim in the Democratic partv in.North Carolina is just one of them.

Factionalism A Factor Factionalism alone did not Jo-.e the elections last November, but certainly it played a big part in dividing the Democratic party and permitting defection in individual, rank-and-file voters to the Republicans candidates.

It now looms as an even more important factor in planing and preparing party strategy for the 1968 campaigns.

But again, it isn't the only nor perhaps the most important factor to be reckoned with, nor with which it is intertwined. There will be other things, equally or more important when election day, 1968, arrives.

National Party Stance Most state Democratic party sources, from chairman I. T. (Tim) Valentine on down, feel there is a goodeven excellent-chance of healing

factionalism on the state party level in 1968.

But there is worry whether this will be enoughwhether the real mw of I968s campaigns and political decisions will not hinge on issues over which the party iir North Carolina has no control. These, as last year, probably include the stance of the national Democratic party and reaction of the voters to the Johnson administration policies at home and in Viet Nam the poverty programs, domestic spending, taxes, inflation, civil rights, rioting as well as Southeast Asia and the U. S, involvement there.

Last year, there was reaction and it revereberated in the precincts and the Congre.s-sional di.stricts, and loudly in the voting booths. Overall, the result was a Democratic party setback.

Other Factors Involved On paper at least, the only thnig which would prevent election of Robert W. (Bob) Scott or another Democrat to the governorship in 1968 would be wholesale defection by registered Democrats.

Statistically, regis t e r e d Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 10-1 in North Carolina but the proportionate division in recent general elections has been less than 2-1.

It means simply that registered Democrats have pulled the Republican lever on the voting machines or marked ballots in the GOP column ifl large numbers, for one reason or another. The reasons may be lumped togetlier under one tent called dissatisfaction. This tent covers many things, all of which must enter into planning next years po-btical strategy.

Factons Are Considered In some cases, political candidates, hopefuls, planners and strategists for 1968 already are considering the factors involved and trying to reach a decision.

Should they individually and apart? Should they hook their star to the national ticket, or stay strictly on a state platform? What issiies must be discussed? Which issues may be glossed over, or ignored? There are shades of 1964 (Continned On Page 6)

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student body to continue to buikti soundly upon the solid academic foundation which has been established over a period of more than 60 years.

ECU will be watched much more closely than the other three new universities in North Carolina. J0is by far the largest and most advanced academically and structurally. Jts-.reaeh of service in the state and its sphere of influence in higher education in North Carolina is far beyond that of the others. Moreover, it was East Carolina which led the fight for new university status.

AH of these things impose upon ECU a far greater burden to prove to the skeptics and the hold-the-liners that it is worthy of the new name it bears. It imposes upon East Carolina the continuing burden of providing sound leadership in the field of higher education in North Carolina as it has done in recent years. Only now it provides leadership as a university rather than as an institution permanently relegated to a secondary role in higher education in this state.

East Carolina University must undertake its new tasks with renewed vigor, with continued deep dedication to the state and its people, and in the great tradition of service and excellence that have become the trademarks of the institution.

Underground Utilities Lines Are> Desireable

Greenvilles City Council should follow the recommendation of its Planning and Zoniag Commission that the city require future constructi(Mi of utilities lines to be underground.

In recent years both the local utilities commis-.'^ion and the telephone company which serves this area has been making underground installations in some of their expansions. They have also be constructing new above-ground lines in many areas where services have been expanded. Unless the city does not adopt an ordinance which requires underground installation of utility lines in the future, many miles of new utilities lines and telephone lines will be strung on poles throughout the city.

By adopting the proposed ordinance, the city will be hastening the day when most of its utility and telephone lines will be underground rather than above ground. It will assure that new construction will follow this pattern, and in time old poles and lines come down and be replaced by underground s.vstems.

In spite of objections by Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, it does not appear that the proposed ordinance would work any severe hardship on the telephone company or the local utilities commission. In the long run, the new ordinance probablv will prove beneficial to the utility comnnnies as it certa ini v will to the city as a whole.

The Citv Council will be making a wise move if it foHows the recommendation which has been made by the Planning and Zoning Commission.

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By ART BUCHWALD

Gut-Issue At Stake

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NEW YORK (AP) America's idolatry of the gadget has reached a peak in the present worship of the color television set.

Whether you own one or not determines your social classwhether you belong to the haves or the have nets, the in group or the out group.

How long are we going to go on living the Dark Ages? demanded my daughter, Tracy Ann, who is 14.

Yes, the Dark Ages! she said dramatically, T h a t\ what life is without a color television set.

Practically everybody has a color set except us. How long are we going to stay underprivileged?

Oh, weTl get one soon.

How soon?

As soon as you can get one by mailing away breakfast food boxtops.

But I suppose we will have to buy a color set before too long. My wife Frances has joined my daughters assault, and it is difficult for a man to bold out against two ruthless females, no matter how great his integrity.

Besides, I dont think its fair of me to subject them to possible social ostracism. My neighbors for some time have looked upon me with suspicion because Ive never owned an automobile. If I dont give jn and buy a color television set, they may start picketing me as a guy whos un-American and a threat to local property values.

There are several reasons why I havent joined the race to bring glorious living color into my living room.

Such as;

A. I am, lets face it, something of a cheapskate. It shocks my sense of values to pay for an entertainment toy more than I spent for a fuil year of college in my youih.

B. If I want to see glorious living color, I can watch a sunrise or sunset, or stick my head out the window ^ter a summer shower and look at a rainbow.

C. It is my firm belief that seeing Ed Sullivans teeth in beige, or Barbra Streisands nose in pastel mauve, wont really mak-e me admire their artistry any more.

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D. Im afraid that if I get a color television set Ill become as snobbish as some ol imy friends who now own

one.

My friends dont talk of their color sets as machines. They speak of them as if they were pampered petsalmost a.s if they were alive, but in somewhat delicate health.

Is yours all right?

Yes, its coming along just fine. How is yours?

Recently the color set of one of my friends had a breax-down. I thought my firend was going to have one, too. I (Continued On Page 6)

Strength !-or Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE

Beginning in the earliest chapters of the Bible and going through to the very last, we find the idea that human life is cut after the pattern of sacrifice.

The crucifixion of Jesus was not only a great redemptive event, it was also the symbol of lies greatest reality, namely, that life involves sacrifice, and that you and I are out of step v/ith the whole universe until we are willing to put self aside. Jesus Christ is God sacrificing; and God m^ ir Very plain to us tnfal the sacrifice we see in the cross is of the essence of the universe. The unseen spiritual world is built on sacrifice.

There are so many people today writing and speaking enthusiastically about Jesus the Great Teacher, but Christianity was not founded on the Great Teacher. It was founded on the supreme sacrifice of a man who laid down his life as Saviour of the world.

Take the cross out of religion, and you take the core out of it. Take away sacrifice and you take away salvation. The teachings of Jesus Christ will never of themselves save men and were never intendeu to. Men are saved when they accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ at the value God placed upon it. The teachings of Christ are meant to guide them in the right way after they have made the great acceptance.

MARTHAS V I N E Y ARD, MASS.Although weve a certain amount of inclement weather up here, Marthas Vineyard has had a long hot summer. In previous years the great issues at stake on this tiny island off the coast of Cape Cod have had to do with zoning laws, protection of wildlife in the ponds and debates on ways of saving the sandy cliffs at Gay Hoad.

But this year the Vietnam was has raised its ugly head. The big gut issue on Marthas Vineyard is; Do you or do you not spoil the vacation of the United Stales iirulerse-cretary of state who happens to vacation up here is the

summertime?

What happened was that Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach testified a few weeks ago before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington on the legal aspects of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution. As might be expected, he defended President Johnsons policies. This incensed a group of Marthas Vineyard summer people and they decided to take a full page advertisement in the Vineyard Gazette to write an open letter to Katzenbach.

The letter, expressing shock at the testimony, called on Katzenbach to stop playing the functionary and speak

out against President Johnsons indefensible diplomacy of violence. Among the signers of the letter were playwright Lillian Heilman and authors John Hersey, Philip Roth, John Marquand Jr. and William Styron. After the letter appeared in the Gazette, full-blown debate on the island began.

The gut issue at stake was not the question of the right to dissentmost people agreed

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Brooks are for little boys.

Others, such as strolling lovers, make occasional use of brooks, but their emotions are not centered on the meandering waters.

On Saturdays, Sundays, or weekdays, after school, or any blissful holiday hourto jump across the brook, to teeter across it on a leaning fog, to get a foot wet, to fall in completely, to swim in a birthday suit, to fish, to build a dam, to start a fire of driftwood, to eat crisp-black wieners, to play leap-frog, to race along the short, to yell and make like crazy, and, finally, to lie blissfully down beside the brook~is the full essence of the boy.

A boy is lured to the brook, in spite of organized sport and the baffled Batman on TV,

A boy comes to the brook because the fascinating flow

of the water is unorganized. It runs on without public parenthood, from the small trickle in Summer to the full flood of Spring. A brook never admonishes a boy.

While the valley of the brook looks scraggly and matted here and there with burdock and weeds, while it remains a poor site for cultivation, it is a haven to the boy; a secret, magic place, fairly safe from the despoiling adult hand.

Occasionally during the humid summer adults come to the bank of the brook. But'the atmosphere is lost to them. They return to the chatter of the bridge club or to the fore of the golf course. Theyve outgrown the brook...

A brook has always something to say to a boy. The only difference is that a boy has learned to listen to the message of the brook, and the man can no longer hear.

that dissent on Marthas Vineyard is a healthy thing, particularly during the rainy seasonbut rather, should people have the right to ruin a mans vacation by writing an open letter to the local newspaper on a subject that the poor official comes up to Marthas Vineyard to forget?

The pro - vacation people maintain that Marthas Vineyard should be considered a safe port-of-call for all those caught up in the storms of official controversy, while the pro-anti-Vietnam war factions on the island maintain that since -Katzenbach spoiled their vacations by his testimony, they have every right to spoil his.

Tragically, the argument has split the island down the middle. Cocktail parties have become so acrimonious that hostesses are now asking their guests to wear life preservers at all times. Tennis games have taken on a new ferocity. Crews on the sailboats are (Continued On Page 8)

Better IjSchoo!. Udea?

Theyve found a new way to put better schoolhouses together out in California.

TTie new technique is called the systems approach to construction. In a way, it reminds the non-technical observer of a childs erector set.

Modular components some of them much like the pieces of an erector set are prefabricated, shipped to the building site and plugged together to create a school.

The idea is catching on across the country. Schools using the California components already have been built in Illinois, Georgia, and Nevada.

And Pennsylvania, Florida, the city of Pittsburgh, the Toronto Metropolotan School District all have launched projects aimed at the development of thier own component systems. Purchasing Power!

The California system emerged from a project known as School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) financed by more than $600,000 in grants from Educational Facilities Laboroatories (EFL, an offspring of the Ford Foundation.

Thirteen California school districts were brought together as a single purchasing unit. Between they had S30

million in school construction scheduled over a two-yeor period; enough to encourage industry to develope new products meeting the rigid specifications set up by SCSD for the components.

It has been estimated that the 40^d firms that competed for SCSD contraes spent more than $2 million in research and development.

The ctmiponents the first products ever to be developed to meet educational r^uire-ments include a sophisticated, long-span structural system; a heating-ventilating-adr-condition-ing system; a deling and lighting system; and interior partitions. (Other building elements are built by conventional methods.)

AH were designed to meet performance spedcations spelling out what the products were to do, not how or of what they were to be made. Manufacturers were required to work together to make sure components would fit together without additional engineering work. Construction Speeded All of the components are designed to permit easy and economical rearrangement of teaching spaces to accommodate changes in educational programs and methods. Interior partitions are demountable and can be arranged and rearranged with a minimum of effort and expense.

Last year in Athens, Ga., two new elementary schools were designed in 54 days, normally a six-month process, and built in less than four months as against normal construction time of nearly a year.

Finally, the systems approach for the first time brings" mass-production economies to bear n the school construction process. In most cases the savings, which have mounted to as much as $1.50 per square foot, have been invested in better furnishing and equipment, ing and equipmen.

Even though the systems approach involves standardization of the parts, it does not involve standardization of the building. None of the SCSD schools built so far look alike.

And, unlike the stock plan approach to school construction economy advocated in some quarters, systems building do not freeze education into a rigid pattern but permit rearrange-(Continued on Page )

A Month.., Of ProiiL-Realization

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By ELMER ROESSNER

September will be profit realization month on the nations stock exchanges.

President Johnsons tax-in-crease proposal includes an increase in capital gains taxes from 25 to 27^^ per cent. He also proposed that the tax be completed before Oct. 1 and 1.

It is almost impossible that action on the increase can

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be completed before Oct. 1 and, while a tax could be rct;n;u*-tive to that date, sentiment in Congress appears to lavor

Jan. 1, 1968, as the starting date. Republicans would like to make it an election year event to embarrass President Johnson.

However, many cautious investors will avoid gambling on Congressional action and when possible will realize available capital gains before Oct. 1.

Speed Up Of Corporation Taxes

Another provision of the tax bill will cut business profits. That is a proposal to make all corporations pay taxes in advance, on a quarterly estimated basis. At present, corporations paying more than $100,-000 a year must make advance payments, but the new tax would extend that provision to all corporations and speed up payments over the next five years.

And on top of this will be the proposed corporation tax sur

charge, which may be anywhere from 6 to 10 per cent.

It is estimated that the speed- up will increase corpor-aion tax payments by 20 per cent a year over the next five years. The surcharge could push the increase to 26 to 30 per cent.

Over the life of a corporation the speed - up does not actually increase taxes (though the surcharge will). However, the government will be collecting an interest - free advance, and some corporations may have to borrow to meet the higher payments.

With taxes increased by 26 to 30 per cent, corporation profits will be decreased by al-1 most as much over the five-year speed - up period. And even though their intrinsic value will not be diminished by the speed - up, the shares of corporations will be less attractive to investors.

Other Look-Aheads

Here are more business futures:

Carpet prices will go up. Bor months the industry has suffered from heavy inventories, but these have largely been worked off and carpet makers, facing higher labor costs, are edging prices up.

The 1968 model cars will get sharp looks and tests from consumer groups the National Highway Safety Bureau, critics of auto safety and Congressmen. It may Wad to new laws on safety. One possibility: governors to limit speeds.

A new photographic system will be unveiled next by

which black and white prints and enlargements can be made without the use of chemicals, liquids or darkroom. It may be the biggest thing in photography since Polaroid.