Tu*day, September 19, 1967

Development Institute Is Out Front Coming

As a three-state effort to develop the potential tainly should be the Institute could play a major of Coastal Plains North Carolina, South Carolina role in achieving the general aims of the initial and Georgia moves forward, the Regional De- study for this area. It surely could play a vital part velopment Institute of East Carolina University in developing long-range plans to help the area real-should be called upon to play a vital role for North ize its potential for economic growth.

Carolina. Actually, the Institute at East Carolina Univer-

Following the Southerp Governors conference last sity is a couple of years ahead of the three-state week, governors of the three states announced that program which is being underwritten now by federal

a special research program is being undertaken to bring into focus the major problems and potentials of the region. The executive director of the three-state Coastal Plains Development Commission announced that more than half a million dollars in first year of the program.

federal aid will be available in the area -during the So far as the 44-coiinty area of North Carolina is concerned, the Institute on the East Carolina campus already has done considerable work in evaluating the potential of the area, population, income, employment and other economic data which will be vital in the study. If it is allowed to and cer-

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By WILUAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH Meat and poultry usually are the most costly items in the average housewifes market basket, omitting luxry and specialty foods.

Certainly the meat counter causes the weekly supermarket shopper more concern and requires more of her time and thought about effect upon her total food bill and the family diet. And it is there she shops more selectively.

There is considerable price fluctuations as to cuts of meat and in poultry and eggs on a seasonal basis, and most housewives are keenly aware of this. Many shop with plans to take advantage of such fluctuations.

These are findings borne out by studies by food economists and specialists in home and agricultural economics, many of whom are now questioning the overall findings of a N.C. Fund survey which indicated that food prices in North Carolina are as high or higher than the U.S. ave. age.

Questions Arise Questions arise about several of the reported findings one, that meat, poultry and eggs are priced lower in North Carolina than in the nation as a whole.

Another, what about the finding that cost of fresh fruits and vegetables generally is lower during season?

Economists and state agriculture officials, along with some food and dairy distributors and retailers, are wondering whether the statistical result of this widely-publicized survey are valid on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis.

They have doubts, bases on their own studies and surveys, that higher costs for.processed foods, fats and oils, perishables and milk and dairy products in North Carolina would entirely offset lower costs for meat, eggs, vegetables and tertain fruits in season.

Selectivity Is Factor Selection of foodscuts of meats, fish, dairy products, fruits, vegetables and processed foodsplays an important part in how the housewife spends tfie family food dollar.

A recent study cited bv itate agriculture officials in^

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Raleigh says the average family is able to spend a smaller portion of its income on food than at any time in history of such economic records. The reason is wide choice and selectivity.

State Agriculture Commissioner James A. (Jim) Graham is one who feels that per centagewise, the consumer gets more for his food dollar today. The comparsion Graham uses is it takes less hours of work to buy the same amount of meat to put on the table. He does not deny that prices are up, but so are costs of everything.

He feels that it is not food that pinches the family budget because people actually are spending a smaller portion of their income on food than ever before. The result has b^en that farmersthe food pro-duccerare in a profit squeeze.

Other Factors

.Actually, Gaham says, the increased cost is in processing, packaging, service and distributionwhich the buying public demands.

There is a great feeling of frustration. Graham says. The producer, the farmer, feels he doesnt get enough for his product. His costs are too high and his profit too low. The housewife is upset. She feels she pays too much. On the other hand, the distributor and the retailer are unhappy

funds. The reason the Institute was conceived and brought into being was to serve as a catalyst for helping Eastern North Carolina recognize its needs and develop its potential. In the few years since it was founded, the Institute has initiated a number of studies of considerable importance to counties of this area and to North Carolina.

This is another example of the far-sighted leadership East Carolina University is providing for North Carolina as it seeks constantly new ways to be of greater service to the people of a region and the people of the state as a whole.

Traffic Congestion Calling For Attention

Adequate traffic movement in and near parts of Greenvilles business area and adjacent to the East Carolina University campus requires immediate attention of local officials.

At certain times during the day, traffic problems of significance occur in the vicinity of the campus and along some of the streets in Greenvilles central business district. Particularly is this true at several of the intersections which handle large volume of traffic.

Those officials concerned with traffic movement, it seems to us, should give consideration to Dw iaaaf^ kllPATDiri^ opening more traffic lanes where needed to handle MtrMiKiV-N

the flow. Turning lanes need to be provided at several intersections to facilitate the movement of vehicles. Traffic lights are needed at several intersections where there are none, and at several of the busier intersections traffic officers are needed to handle the flow of vehicles during rush periods of the day.

It may be necessary to remove some on-street parking near the more critical intersections. With at least two additional off-street parking lots being developed now in the central business area, the removal of some of the on-street parking for the sake of keeping traffic moving should be an asset.

The traffic congestion which occurs several times a day at several points in the business area and near the university campus needs to be dealt with. The city has the resources with which to alleviate these congested conditions. Its officials should move to improve the situation before it deteriorates further.

^Much Talk, 6 Decisions

Senator Shows Hazy Memory

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and say labor Is taking a big-I ger share of their profit, and they need a better return. Graham believes more efficiency, greater productivity in certain fields and better marketing and distribution methods hold the ansewer to problems in the food cycle from farm to dinner table.

If we dontt (produce, package, move and sell, we re going to have to pay more for what we want, Graham says.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. J. William Fullbright, now anxious to curb the presidents power in foreign affairs, is getting a little hard to follow SHIRES is good. His

own memory on American wars sounds hazy.

In 1961, in a speech which got little attention, Fulbright, Arkansas Democrat and chairman of the Senates Foreign Relations Committee, complained the President had too many restraints on him in foreign affairs.

We have hobbled the president by too niggardly a grant of power, he said.

He raised a question about what the Constitution, put together in f787, says about the separation of powers between President and Congress in foreign affairs.

All it really says is that

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Strength 'For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE DIVINE LEADER

Lo, he goeth before you...

It was with these words that the angel disclosed to the wondering disciples the whereabouts of Christ after t.ie resurrection. He had gone before them into Galiee.

He always goes before us. When there is a pathway to be blazed through circumstances we have never encountered, he goeth before us. On some dark night wherein we are called to tread paths as if we walked in the light of noonday sun. The mysteries of religion are many, but let us take the first step in faith, and every step after that will lead us into the dawning. An impassable gulf may seem to yawn between ourselves und certain achievements, but if we are diligent and trusting we can leave the issie in hands far stronger than our own.

Here is a good text to hold cose to our hearts on this and every other day of the year: Lo, he goeth before you. . . The disciples had much to learn, even after they had seen the risen Lord, but they knew henceforth t h e y would walk as followers of that One who goeth before His disciples.

If we raise our eyes we see Him. If we keep our eyes on the ground we are sure to miss most of lifes glories.

while Congress alone has the authority to declare war, the president is commander in chief of the armed forces and can make treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate, if two-thirds agree.

The founding Fathers didnt know much about foreign affairs and couldnt anticipate the complexities to come. For instance, instead of going through the formality and delay of getting Senate approval on a treaty, the presidents have a very often made sim^ pie agreements with other powers.

The source of an effective foreign policy under our system is presidential power, Fulbright said. He wondered whether it wasnt time for Congress to pverhaul the Constitutions 18th century procedures on foreign policy.

Now, in a statement copyrighted by Newsday, a New York newspaper, he complains that the power of congress in foreign policy has been diminishing throughout this century. He wants Congress to (Continued On Page 5)

40 Years Ago

One of these days, you keep telling yourself, an exasperated people will turn upon the United States (ingress and throw the bums out. You keep saying this, but its hard to believe. The national body politic has a billy goat stomach, and the voters will swallow just about anything. Even so, the wonder is that the people continue to tolerate the performance they are getting on Capitol Hill.

Here are 535 men and women, each of them drawing $30,-000 a year plus perquisites, and what are they doing to earn their pay? Precious little.

The jobs, honest to goodness, arent that tough or that prestigious. When it comes to pres tiage, the typical member of the House cant even get an elbow on the bar. During his first two terms, he gets confused with the doorkeepers. Taxicabs wont pick him up. Little children stick out their tongues when he passes on the street. He-wanders in and out of that great cave of tiie winds known as the House chamber, clutching his fellow orphans for support.

Being a Senator, of course, is better. Being a Senator is the softest job on earth. The work ;s congenial and the surroundings elegant. Once in your

dbair, youre set for six years; and such is the short memory of the voters that you can behave pretty much as you please in the first four. Senators have it made.

The 90th Congress came into session last January, with a flock of new Republicans on hand. There was a lot of talk that this time, the country would see its legislative needs tended to efficiently. Not so. It isnt the fault of the freshmen Republicansit isnt anyones fault exactlybut the record so far is about a billion words, but only six decisions.

Both House and Senate continue to slog along with inadequate legislative procedures. The congressional machinery is mostly junk. Back in March, the Senate heroically attempted improvement: It passed the Legistative reorganization Act of 1967, providing some modest but helpful steps in the general direction of efficiency. The bill has been bottled up in House Rules ever since. It may never been seen again.

As this is written, the Congress has completed action on only three of the 14 major appropriation bills for the current fiscal year. The affected departments and agencies are living hand to mouth.

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(The Wiliion Times) Greenville's Planning and Zoning Commission recommended and the City Council passed an ordinance which requires that future installation of utility lines be underground.

The City Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission should be commended for their farsighted approach to a problem which eventually must be met, if the cities retain their natural beauty.

wires underground. It says that future lines must be put under ground. As a rule, these will be in new developments where the cost is not nearly as great as it would be in the older parts of this city.

This is just one facet of the beautification programs being carried out in the cities. This program has been going on for some time now. Where it has beenn the rule, .ou can see what it means. Richmond is

Crime in the streets is a big issue; it has absorbed little minds. The question of a tax increase remains unresolved. Social Security amendments are up in the air. Nothing significant has been done in air pollution, firearms control, or the revision of copyright law. ^

Members are floundering in a sea of legislative decisions; they are bailing themselves out with teacups. They cannot get a fix on foreign affairs: One day they ratify a Soviet consular convention, by way of building bridges; the next day they slap at the Russians by sinking the Fiat auto plant deal. Last week the Senate swatted the British too. In the aviary known as Vietnam, its getting so you cant tell the hawks from the doves.

Both houses did get around to approving an increase in the debt limit, but they ran around this unavoidable fly ball like a bunch of rookie cen-terfielders in the Three-I League. They extended the draft and made it appear a great decision. Tom Dodd was censured and Adam Clayton Powell booted out. These are achievements?

What you hunger for, watching these gentlemen in action. Mighty little can be seen. Down at the foot of Capitol Hill, workmen are digging a vast hole, 60 feet deep and a hundred yards wide. It was supposed to be a highway tunnel, but no; if is where they will bury Chuck Percys novel housing bill. The several schemes for tax sharing with the States will lie in the same grave.

Two months to go before this first session ends. If they prove no more productive than the first nine, a dreary autumn is in prospect.

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dinance is reasonable when you consider what it does. It does not say that the utility companies, in our case, the City of Wilson and the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, have to put the

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wires are evident, even in the old part of the city. And you notice the difference immedia -tely.

Greenville is leading the way

It is about time for politicians in the country to be honest with Negroes and tell them we arent talking about qual cars, equal houses, equal incomes. We are talking about equal opportunity, which is really all anybody in

in this area. And the City Coun this country can ask.Rep.

cil is to be congratulated

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3attle In ADA

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Anti-LBJ activities of a newly elected national vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic A tion (ADA) named Allard K, Loweinstein are setting th scene for bitter battling at ADAs national board meeting Saturday (Sept. 23) in Washington.

ADA leaders loyal to President Johnson privately com-plaia that Lowenstein is using his new high office in the liberal organization to fight th# Presidents renomi nation. They may publicly voice their, irritation at next Saturdays meeting, not only with Lowenstein but with Professor John Kenneth Galbraith of Harvard, ADAs current national chairman, as well.

Lowenstein, well known ii New York Citys Reform Democratic circles, is conducting a national campaign to dump Mr. Johnson from th# 1968 ticket. He carried that messag# to the recent National Students Assn. (NSA) convention in College Park, Md., and will makt the same pitch at the leftish California Democratic Council (CDC) convention in Long Beach, Calif., Sept. 30.

What irritates Johnson loyalists inside ADA is that Lowen-steins activities have been played up and given semi-official sanction in ADA World, the organizations monthly publication. Moreover, Galbraith, while by no means advocating a dump-Johnson campaign, was at College Park along with Lowenstein and also will be at Long Beach.

In fact, Lowenstein was elected a vice chairman of ADA at the last national board meeting May 19 thanks to Gal-braighs backing. With pro-LBJ labor members opposing Lowenstein, the vote was deadlocked at 10 to 10 and Chairman Galbraith endorsing Lowenstein, Jack Conway of the United Auto Workers (UAW) withdrew his expositionelecting him by a one-vote margin.

There is, however, a gap between Galbraith and younger liberal militants such as Lowenstein. While a foe of Vietnam, Galbraith generally supports the President and even defended him at the NSA convttition. Standing midway between the Lowenstein militants and the pro-Johnson labor group (headed by Gus IV-ler of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union), Galbraith faces a crossfire at Saturdays meeting.

Ronmeys Friends

Two of Governor George Romneys most important allies for the PresidencyGovernor Nelson Rockefeller of New York and former Govern-nor William Scranton of Pennsylvaniadid not desert him last week, even thou^ Romneys brainwashing blunder shook them badly.

Rockefeller was on the telephone repeatedly to Romney after the storm erupted, urging Romney to take the offensive by carrying through aggressively on his 19-day big city touradvice that wa followed. In no way did Rockefeller suggest that Romney drop out of the race.

Scrantons support was a bit more shaky, but he still is privately advising Romney. Indeed, Scranton strongly recommended the big city tour and dispatched his closest political aide, William KeisHng, to Lansing to tielp work out the (Jctails.

Today Its Dull? Fight

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By FOY H. DUNCAN September 19, 1927 Ruth Efder Iz Perfect Girl

New Yrok, Sept. 19 Miss Ruth Elder, winsome dixie av-iatrix. who insists she is going to fly the monoplane American Girl to Paris, is a real American girl physically, in the opin ion of physicians. They so pronounced her after examining her preparatory to a solo flight in order that she may qualify for a pilots license. . . .

Farmers Club Meets Friday The next meeting of the Supper Club of the Pitt County Department of Agriculture will be held at Piereces school house two miles .vest o^ Ay-den, Friday night, Sept. 25, according to announcement made from the office of the secretary today. Members of the club have been asked to invite their wives and lady friends. . , .

By ELMER ROESSNER

Whenever things dull up in Washington, the big-name correspondents attack the lobbyists. The average reader gets the impression that lobbyists are swamping Congressmen in a sea of bonded bourbon and debilitating them morally if not physically with beautiful yes-saying girls.

If I believed that, Fd run for Congress myself (to reform it, of course).

The fact is that lobbyists are essential to the democratic process. In fact, they are essential to the preservation of democracy itself. Corporations that do not maintain lobbyists in Washington, at state capitals and even at the seats of local government, are negligent in their obligations to stockholders. Trade associations that do not do the sarro are short-changing members. Why Theyre Needed Corporations and associations

of course have no vote, and corporations are forbidded to contribute to make political contributions. Associations ma contribute, but only at the cost of their tax exemption.

But they have a duty to their stockholders, members, employees and to the country as a whole to make known their views on legislation and to influence it as long as their pressures are honorable.

There are other pressure groups: the farmers, the dove the hawks, the churches, the lefties, the right-wingers, the unions and, wiJTst of all, the Republicans and the Democrats. If business did not get a word in, there is no telling where these other groups would push the naHon. In fact, some of them, such as the extremists, would destroy democracy.

Without the lobbyists. Congress might take over a bigger share of business than it it has. In fact, even with the

lobbyists, efforts to get the government out of more than a hundred kinds of business, ranging from paint making to the generation of hydi oelectric power, seem to have faded away.

Power Limited Even at their bestor worst lobbyists have not exerted excessive power. True, they have had a hand in keeping the notorious oil uepletion tax allowance on the books, but this appears to be more the work of a calval of friends and beneficiaries of oil companies and oil millionaires than of naked lobbyfing power.

The corporation tax rate is strong evidence of the fact that lobbyists have only limited power. Corporations now pay up to 48 per cent of their profits in federal taxes, and the rate may soon go above 50 per cent. >

The owner of an unincorporated business pays personal income taxes, and then per

sonal income taxes on whats left of his share of the profits.

Corporations do get some benefit from the government. They get some protection under the anti-trust laws and statutes prohibiting unfair competition: their stockhold

ers are protected if the Ten* ture goes bankrupt, and corporations are allowed to exist But with all their lobbyista, their profitsi are still twice taxed. Their solution, of course, has been to raise prices, which passes their tax burden on to th# consumer.