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Tuesday, December 19, 1967

Practical Solution Is More Space

If the recent survey hf Greenville police with respect to automobiles parked in the vicinity of the ECU campus points to any one conclusion, it is that both the city and the university must take more positive steps toward providing additional parking for these vehicles.

Admittedly this may be the most costly approach to solving the problem, but it is likewise the most practical approach. The University is limited in what it can do to restrict the possession or use of automobiles by students. The city, on. the other hand, can hardly make rules which prohibit parking of certain automobiles on its streets in the vicinity of the campus while allowing the parking of others.

Under rules the University now has with respect to student possession of automobiles, the rules which apply to the campus also apply to Greenville. In general the ECU rules stipulate that no freshman may have an automobile and neither may a student who has less than a C average or a student who is on disciplinary probation. While this would seem to include many students, there is a big loophole

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - In a few weeks, the administration of Gov. Dan K. Moore enters its fourth and final yeara year which will leave its mark both on history and the future. i Already many of those who worked for and who have worked with the mountain man from Canton and SvI-va, N. C., are conducting a self-assessm e n t, tliinking back and trying to predict just how the Moore administration will be judged and remembered.

Theirs is view from the inside.'*They have seen the inner workings and learned the Moore way of doing things. Being involved, they may be accused of prejudice ::nd of polishing the image but they nave a perspective and insight I which administration critics lack.

It is worth listening to.

Making A Judgment For example, listen to Charles Dunn. Dunn is the governors administrative assistant, a project leader, a speech writer and advisor.

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SHIRES

He is both experienced and objective. A former newspaperman and staff assistant to Luther H. Hodges and Rep. Horace Komegay in Washington, Dunn learned how things are done in the political world. He returned to Ral-leigh in 1965 to take a key post in the new state administration which Moore was forming and confesses that It was a revelation.

He found that in many ways working for Dan Moore was different

Moore was unlce Hodges or Komegay or any of the newspaper editors and man

aging editors who had been his bosses. Like almost everyone else who worked in inner circles he underwent an adjustment.

Carefully Considered Judgments and decisions were considered carefully. There were no snap decisions and no actions on impulse.

Ideas were welcomed but never immediately accepted. They were examined and studied. Dan Moore, with years of experience as a judge, is a man with judicial temperament. He seldom if ever acts on impulse. He studies the case and examines the facts presented.

This manner of the man has impressed all who work with Dan Moore. Even more, they are impressed by his foresight and unselfishness in thinking ahead about what the state of North Carolina will need and require.

Dunns Impression This is Dunns impression expressed in a recent talk in High Point.

We are, today, planning ahead in North Carolina, Dunn said. The next governor, regardless of who he may be, will have available to him complete reports and recopimendations on a variety of subjects of vfutur% importance to this state.

He will be better equipped than any governor in the history of ^this state insofar as availblity of informatioi and sound |thinking by knowledgeable and dedicateif citizens is concerned.b In Dunns opinion, Dan Moore will be remembered and go down in state history as a governor who thought and planned for the future.

Not For Todayi It was not so much for today, Dunn saidbecause Moore feels that North Carolina is doing well, is progressing and is stressing total developement.

In his recent High Point speech, Dunn said total development to this point has been a success. |The sound development of the states abundant resources is proceeding at a record rate and this, in turn, is providing for expansion of state services to all the people.

in that these regulations do not apply to students who live more than eight blocks, or approximtely one mile, from campus.

Some of the student automobiles parked on streets in the vicinity of the campus may be owned by freshmen or those on academic or disciplinary probation who live, within the restricted area. For the most part, however, those automobiles probably belong to students who live outside the restricted area and therefore are permitted to have automobiles so far as the University rules are concerned.

It should also be recognized that many students who live in Greenville beyond the one-mile limit from the campus do not bother to register automobiles with the Universitys housing office. Many of those who commute daily from other towns, knowing they will not find parking on campus, do not bother to register their vehicles with the University.

So far as penalty for violation of the auto rules are concerned, ECUs is among the most severe in that it provides that a student who violates the auto possession regulations is subject to suspension for the remainded of the quarter in which he is in violation.

Enforcement may be a problem, but it is not the basic one. The basic problem faced by the city and the University is that there simply is not sufficient parking area on or off the campus for all the vehicles. The University needs to do much more than it has done in providing parking on campus for student automobiles. The city, at the same time, must give its attention to providing means by which the cars can be parked somewhere other than on the, streets in order that the increasing volume of traffic may be kept moving.

In this situation, as in many others, it is evident that what affects ECU likewise affects Greenville and vice-versa. This is just one of the many mutual problems to which the University and the city must give their combined attention and effort in seeking workable solutions.

Adding Fuel To A Lona Debate

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By EDMOND UBRETON

WASHINGTON (AP) -The new Social Security benefit and tax scales both upadd ^uel to an argument about the retirement system that has been hot for some time and gets hotter as the average population gets younger.

Critics of the system say it is loaded against the young worker, that the wage earner starting out now or still in his early productive years is being taxed unfairly to pay benefits to those already retired or well on the way to retirement, who paid much less.

Defenders say eyfpyone, statistically speaking, stands to get a lot more out of Social Security than he puts in.

The mathemati<^ involved are complex and the social and economic agruments finely drawn. Skipping the philosophical dispute, here is an effort to simplify the mathematics, rounding all figures: Suppose a young man starts work Jan. 1, 1968, nd continues until Jan. 1, 2013, at which time he is 65 and retires.

Strength ;-or Today

By EARL L DOUGLASS

GLORY OF THE SEASON

The approaching CJhristmas season comes with the oro-mise of light, gladness and renewed hope in the significance of Jesus Christ and his ministry.

The Gospel story has often seemed incredible 10 those who are plagued with religious doubt. A man of .apparently simple life and tastep, a carpenter of Nazareth, turns out to be the most important individual ever to have appeared in human history. Time has been dated from his birth. Millions of people now call themselves his followers. Some months from now, God Friday, with its shadow of death and suffering will cover the earth. Then Easter will come with its message of resurrection and eternal life. Between Christmas and Easter there is set the ministry of that child bom in a stable and destined ulimately to be exalted to heavenly glory and to judge the world.

There is certainly a place for gift-giving at this season, and what would Christmas be without gifts. But we have overdone this aspect of the season. We need always to remember that Christmas is a religious festival. To be sure, it emphasizes a gift, but this gift is Gods gift to us. Our httle gifts to our loved ones are symbolic of the great gift God made to us.

There is music in the air distant music, but still distinct. There is a light upon the horizon. Soon the air will resound with carols, and the eyes of the world will be looking toward Bethlehem.

Gods mercy and Gods miracle are about to shine forth is

Suppose further he starts out at $4,000 a year and gets annual raises of $1,000 until he passes the $7,800-a-year mark-the limit on which the payroll tax is leveled.

Under the new rates, he would pay in a little less than $20,000 during his working life.

Of this total, almost $3,000 would liave gone into medicare, giving him and his wife hospitalization rights in old age. Whether he ever actually recovered the equivalent of these contributions would, of course, depend on his and his wifes health.

Of the remaining $17,000 4t is generally agreed that some-'^ thing must be charged off for the insurance value of Social Security during a mans working life.

If^ihe had died leaving minor children, there would have been payments for theim.

If he had come disabled, he would have received payments.

Social Security values this insurance at 28 per cent of the contribution. Others put the figure^s low as 20 per cent. Taking 25 per cent as a round figure reduces the $17,-000 to $12,750 for retirement.

At the new benefit rates, the retired wor^ker and his wife of the same age would receive $323 a month in 2013. So a couple would recoup the jM*incipal amount of the contribution in almost exactly three and a half years, or by the time they were 684. An unmarried retired worker would take half again ais longt 0 do this.

Social Security actuaries say the life expectancy of a man who has reached 65 is 13years and that he can expect his wife to outlive him by five years.

These calculations dont take into account interest that might have been earned or capital gains that might have been realized by the worker if he had been able to keep and invest his Social Secuirty contributions. But they also dont take into account the virtual certainty that Congress, which has made numerous changes in Social Security in the past 30 years, will make more during the next 45. '

These probably will be in the direction of greater benefits, tending to give a mathematical break too the retired and the older active workers.

The calculations moreover dont take into account the employers contribu ions, which are equal to those of the employes. These contributions provide the cushion enr abling the system to broaden and, generally speaking, to pay the individual contributor more than he has put in.

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Smalles

It passed altogether unnoticed in the news, but a record of sorts was set here the other day. The worlds smallest honest-to-goodness nation was voted into being; and a nice story goes with it.

The nation is Nauru, population 6,048. By contrast, Monacos population of 23,000 bulks remarkably large, and the 93,-000 inhabitants of the Maldiva Islands constitute an empire. In the annals of modern s^--^ereignty, nothiif^ like Nauru exists.

Now, it would be easy to writewhat is known in the trade as a lights pi^ on the independence of Nauru. At first glance, there is something absurd in a proclamation of nationhood aris-

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ing from a dot in the vast Pacific. Some puckish speculations come to mindNauru in the U. N., Nauru seeking foreign aid, Nauru threatening to go Communist, Naurus tiny population voting every man an ambassador and establishing embassies around the world. It is a temptation to treat Nauruan independence as a joke.

But it is not that way at all. Soberly and respectfully, one extends admiring greetings. Up the flag of Nauru! And may her sturdy people prosper!

Nauru, you should know, was dis^vered by Pacific seafarers in 1798, and survive ed with no sovereignty of any sort for 90 years thereafter.

?orty Years Ago

By FOY H. DUNCAN

Dec. 19, 1927 Girls CotiUon Club Organized

The young ladies of Greenville have recently Drganized a Cotilion Club, and will give their first dance in Gormans warehouse Friday evening, Dec. 30th.

(Christmas Party

Mr. and Mrs. Sam 0.

Worthington delightfully entertained at a Christmas party on Saturday evening, Dec. 17, from 8 to 10:30 oclock. . . Their lovely home on Tenth Street was beautifully decorated with Christmas greens. Cards and dancing were enjoyed throughout the evening. . .

Christmas Program Given At Christian Church Last Night

A crowd that packed the main auditorium to capacity and overflowed into the bal

cony attended the Christmas exercises at the Eight Street Christian Church last night. It was the first of the usual exercises given by city churches during the present holiday season, and proved to be probably the most Inspirational in many years. . . .The regular church choir assisted by singers from Ea^ Carolina Teachers College and other choirs of the city, furnished a musical program ^f surpassing excellence. Immediately following the rendition of opening numbP^, the y 0 u ng women of the church presented a play dealing with the spirit of Christmas. . . .Rev. R. J. Bamber, pastor of the church, spoke briefly of the celebration of Christmas, declaring it to be a day of gladness and joy throughout the world an occasion when human hearts are drawn more closely together than any other season of the year.

Then the Germans took over in 1888. The island offered little enough for any man to raise a flag on eight and a half square miles of rock and palm trees, a couple of lagoons, a coral reef outside. Honolulu i% 2,800 miles away.

Yet the island boasted a quality even then that ought not to go unmarked today: It had a sense of community; and the Nauruans had a sense of place. They are mainly Polynesians, with tiie d a r k skin, white teeth, broad faces and happy smiles that mark the island people. They lovdf ^ their pitiful speck of coral as Tennyson loved Elngland. They love it still.

Just at^e end of World War% aiiler Australia had taken possession of the island, disaster struck. The worldwide epidemic of pneumonic influenza somehow found its way to Nauru. Within weeks, one-third of her people were dead. The islanders struggled to sur-j^viye. Under the old League of \;Nations, a mandate came into being by which Australia, New Zealand and England took over the islands affairs. Rich deposits of phosphate rock, useful in making superfertilizers, began to,be exploited. Schools came into being. Chinese and other immigrants arrived.

In 1942, disaster struck again. The Japanese shelled the island, seized it, and moved most of the Nauruans to Truk. Once again, a third of the native population died or disappeared. At the wars end, when the Leagues mandate was transferred to t h e U. N., barely a thousand natives had survived. They returned to their tiny rock on Jan. 31, 1946, and took up their task anew.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and

ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The new urgency for a quick, final report from President Johnson s anti-riot commission, now set for February, has sent t h e commission to former Budget Director Kermit Gordon and a panel of experts for help in drafting a long-term program for the Negro ghettos.

Gordon is now head of the Brookings Institution. He is chairman of the new panel, not yet announced, which also includes James Tobin of Yale, a former member of the Council of Economic Advisers; Anthony Downs, a professional urbanologist from Chicago; Michael Sviridoff, who used to be the czar of New York Mayor John Lindsays others.

The decision to switch tha date of the final report f r om next summer to this winter averted what could have been a split in the commission, headed by Rlinois Democratic Governor Otto Kerner. Republican Lindsay, the vice chairman, insisted that for the commission to wait until next summer to propose long-range measures dealing with the deeper causes of urban riots was folly. The commission agreed to move up tha deadline to the end of March, and is now assembling tha Gordon team to design tha crucial long - range program, based on testimony taken by the commission over the past six months and its own expertise.

The task will be formidable, and some members of tha Gordon panel are still unclear just how much the commission expects them to do: whether they should draft an actual report for the commission, or simply engineer a design for a multi-billion dollar jobs, education, and housing program to deal with the ghettos. They will meet today with David Ginsberg, executive director of the anti-r i 01 commission, to get instructions.

Bobby and the GOP

Behind closed doors of tha recent Senate - House conter-ence which worked out details of the emasculated poverty bill, Senator Robert .F. Keih nedy of New York developed an unusual affinity with Republicans in battling on several key points.

Kennedy worked closelj^ with his Republican colleague' from New York, Senator Ja-, cob Javits, and had unanimous support from Republicans House and Senate alikein the key fight of the conference. However, Kennedy and the Republicans were beaten down by House Democrats, who insisted on retaining tha House - passed amendment sponsored by Representative Edith Green of Oregon, which strengthens the power of city hall and lessens the role of tha poor in running ttie program.'

Kennedy and the Republicans also coalesc d, again unsuccessfully, in the closing hours of t conference on a less-publicized issue. They wanted more money used to attract private industry into Negro slums. House Democrats, led by Representa! i v e James OHara, the libe ral from Michigan, insisted on the conventional approach of government spending.

In a head-to-read deb a t with OHara, Kennedy declared that total reliance on government spending had been tried and found wanting

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Prices Rising On Durable Goods

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The basic American currency is not, as generally believed, the dollar. It is the billion-dollar, at least in Washington, where it has been seriously proposed that minor discussions refer to megabucks for simplicity.Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.

By ELMER ROESSNER A new round of higher prices will sweep through the nation. Greatest impact will be in durable goods.

The round was set in motion by the rise in steel prices, but that is not the only factor. The rise in copper prices and the probability of new rises in the price of red metal because of the shortage duq to the strike, and the increase in sulphur prices ' because of the high demand in relation to supply, are contributary.

Soon to come is a midseason rise in auto prices. Ford is still struggling to recoup losses from the auto strike and Ford and the others must mt higher wage costs. In addition, all companies will soon be paying higher Social Security taxes, probably higher state taxes and even^ally higher federal taxes. c)n top of that, steel for autos will cost more. Many Other Products Affected

Appliance prices will also be pushed higher, since they require both copper and steel. Housewares, many of which use copper as well as steel, will also be sharply affected.

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As the steel industry has so frequently advertised, nothing is made without steel, Once again it will be demonstrated that nothing will escape the upward price pressure of more costly steel. Even such a nonmetallic product as bread will eventually be affected. The machines with which wheat is harvested and then converted into flour will cost more be

cause of higher steel prices; so will the machines to mix dou^ and the ovens to bake it; so will the trucks to deliver the bread.

Costlier steel will increase the market for alternate materials. More plastics will be used in autos, where large gains have been made in the last few years. More plastics and more aluminum will be used in housing, appliances, kitchenware and other products.

The aluminum industry has predicted a 7 per cent increase in demand in 1968; with higher steel prices it may go to 10 per cent.

Plastics Rising, Too

However, plastic prices seem to be moving upward. Many producers are studying the effects of Armstrong Corks boost of 2 and 3 per cent in selected lines of vinyl floor coverings.

Prices of many other materials are likely to rise.

Silverware took one spin on the inflation menty-go-round after the Treasury took off the brakes on silver prices, and another spin seems imminent. Speculators have been buying silver and the price is now around $2 an ounce. International SUver has announced that it will increase the prices of its flatware 5 per cent after the first of the year unless silver drops, which it wont. Other companies will follow International Photographic film, which requires silver, has started to move up.

The National Association of Purchasing Agents report, in addition, these products in short supply: nickel and nickel products, castings, molybdenum, platinum, electrical equipment, notable motors, bearings, some chemicals and forgings. Shortages are usually followed by price increases. In fact, almost always.