Mondiy, February 15, 1968

Replacing An Eyesore With Beauty

Sipning of coiii4*acUs for consi-ruction of a re- oration of an outdoor theatre in the area The es-

taining wall and-e.<planade along the Tar-River planade is bound to prove popular with those who banks is a milestone in Greenvilles development, wish to watch crew races now held on the Tar hv The $390.000 contract with Blythe Bros, was ECU. -

executed by Redevelopment representatives last The uses of the riverside park area with its

week. It calls for construction of a wall along the esplanade are limited only by the imagination of south oank 1.600 feet in length. There will be a fill local citizensand with East Carolina University behind the wall and a 15-foot wide walkway or to draw from that should be practically unlimited esplanade constructed atop. Behind this will be a In addition to beauty, the wall will aer\^e the

low brick wall. more practical purpose of raising the flood level in

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Thus an area which once was the site of numer- the area. Studies of flooding have shown that there us shanties will soon Iwcome one of Greenvilles, would have been only a few oecasions over the nd perhaps the states most beautiful sites. years when water would have risen over the es-

Already the idea of sidewalk art shows along planade.

the esplanade are being discussed. There is consid-

McLendon Saw ^.968 Overtones

Rv WILLIAM A. SHIRES

HALEICiH - Eight months ago at his desk in the State Legislative Building in Raleigh. Sen. L. P. McLendon, Jr faced a paradoxical choice on qu.slion which he felt involved not only principle but the political future of himself and his party.

The question whether he could introduce and support an amendment to bri.ig predominantly Negro N. C. A&T College in Green.sboro under t h e new and surprising regional universities bill introduced by Sen. John Henley of Cumberland?

Mcl/endon, 46, a lawyer and son of one of the states mo.st distinguished attorneys and public .servants, a second termer in the State Senate, was both perplexed and dismay-d.

bill. He supported the ont-university concept for higher education in the state pending

completion of a long - range study by the State Board of Higher Education. Yet he felt compelled to follow the wishes

When the Shore Drive project was first envisioned. one of the aim.s was to restore the old town common north of First Street. The retaining wall construction aasure.s that not only will this be done, but even more. It should be an outstanding, modern asset to Greenville.

Well Do Better, We Hope, For The Future

Approval of a thoroughfare study by the City .unuv. u.r underscorcs once again the necessity of

of the N. C. A&T trustees and for the future groii^of the city,

offered the amendmmt at ^ vjieenville will contract with the State Highway

( ommission for its planning department to undertake the 15-month study of Greenvilles street needs.

The city will make two payments of $2,425 to the Highway Commission for the study which has a value estimated at $12,125.

The plannings will project Greenvilles growth and on the basis of this recommend street patterns which would be suitable as far in the future as 1995.

While such studies are costly and time consuming, it is the type planning that Greenville needs if the city is not to be swamped by the growth which almost surely lies ahead.

Those who planned the citys street in the earlv days of Greenvilles development did not bless us with an adequate system. It is to be hoped that present day planners will do better by future generations.

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But he made his choice and proceeded to defend it by clear explanation and s o f l-spoken Togir^oth in committee and on the Senate floor. It vas .lot a pleasant task and in \arge measure, Mcliendon siood almost entirely alone on the points he made.

Souuds H'arning McLc.idon was the first to Siuiiid warning that Henleys regional universities bill had gone far beyond an innocent little bill to grant East Carolina College a

name change. He said crea

ting regional luiiversities at Boone and Cullowhee in addition to Greenville, proposed by Henley and approved in committee, would have far-

reaching implications.

.Aside from his conviction in favor of the one - universi-tx concept in higher education m North Carolina, Mc

Lendon was plunged directly and personally into this legislative struggle.

N&C A&T is in his district. Guilford County. Its trustees asked McLendon against his advice to offer an amendment to also designate N. C. .A&T as a regional u.ii-vcrsity.

McLendon opposed the entire regional universities

their request and against niy advice. In a sense of desperation in the Higher Education committee, he moved to table the entire Henley bill but was shouted down.

Speaks On Floor Later, on the floor of the Senate McLendon spoke o u t again against the regional universities idea urging the legislature wajt and give it deeper study. He was join- ^ ed eloquently by an Easterner, Sen. Lindsay B. Warren, Jr., of Wayne, but the supporters of university status hammered away and won.

The staunchest supporter of university status at East Carolina, Sen. Robert Morgan of Harnett, said he would heartily endorse including Appalachian State and Western Ca-SHlRES rolina because they had been working and planning toward a university status. He opposed N. C. A&Ts inclusion because a campus of the University of North Carolina, UNC-Green.sboro, is located in the same city and bringing in A&T would defeat the purpose of regional universities. McLendon Wont Run How deeply the disappointment of his losing light affeot-ed his decision cant be judged. but McLendon has chosen not to return to the 1969 General Assembly.

This doesnt mean that Mc-I>endon is retiring from politics. I hope to run again for the General Assembly, possibly two years from now, he says. He did not mention regional universities as a reason either, citing the length of biennial sessions, family commitments and his private law practice as things which caused his decision.

Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see if McLendons prediction of political overtones going far beyond the possible loss of (Democrat) votes in Eastern North Carolina on the East Carolina University regional universities controversy come into play this year.

Joins Others In choosing not to seek re-election this year, McLendon joins a list of other 1967 Senate members also going to (Continued On Page 5)

The Mice that Roared and Roared and Roared.

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By JOHN CUNIFF

NEW YORK (AP) - In this age of professional consumerism, a visit through the files of the Better Business Bureau

2 brings a nostalgic reminder of ' how clever, outrageous, and IP preposteriously simple were the ' good old fashioned frauds.

. Clever marketing, deceptive packaging, intricate credit terms, questionable claim.s and other grey areas that now attract Washingtons interest seldom were dealt with in the old days. Consumerism then was far less sophisticated.

Consumer protection today is complicated, as are many affairs directed from Washington. It is concerned with explaining the entire marketplace, in aid-j ing the consumer, for example, in choosing from among 57 sizes of toothpaste, 30 of hairsprays and 200 of paper towels.

But way back about two yean ago consumer protection efforts seldom involved the main business establishment, as they do now, or delved into the complexities of the marketplace. 'Tliey were concerned with outright fraud by patently fraudulent people. Respectable merchants and customers alike were joined in a common abhorence of kuch bounders.

There were, for example, the song shark described in a BBB letter who collected $454,000 in fees from amateur song writers to whom he offered fame, fortune and glamor, and the dance instructor who sold $11,746 in dance lessoni to an elderly woman.

Among the most treacherous deceivers were the promoters

If Only We Had Fished who bilked husbands out of mil-

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Contrary to the euphoric propaganda coming from President Johnsons political advisors in Washington, the California Democratic party is scarcely l-n better shape today than six months ago when Democratic leaders were privately predicting certain disaster ahead.

Both the powerful speaker of the State Assembly, Jesse Unruh, who runs the Democratic show at the state capitel here, and Sam Y o r t y, maverick mayor of Los Angeles, are boycotting the Johnson - pledged delegation (headed by State Att o r n e y General Thomas C. Lynch).

As of this writing, there is no chance that either one of these political power brokers will join the delegation now being put together by Mr. Johnsons White House and California operatives. The Lynch delegation will run against a left - leaning shte of delegates headed by Se.ia-tor Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, whose name, uni i k e Mr. Johnsons, will appear on the Presidential primary ballot next June.

The significance of the Unruh - Yorty snub to the White House can only be understood in the light of the intense White Hou.se efforts to get them to join. In fact, the erroneous assumption in the White House even today is that Yorty will come around sooner or later and allow his name to be included on the delegation. There is only futile White House hope lor Unruh, who has been urging Senator Robert F. Kennedy to challenge the President. But thats only the start of the Presidents deep problem in this snake pit of feuding Democrats.

At a meeting in a locked room at San Francisco Inter

national Airport early last month, leaders of the Johnson delegation held a strategy session with one secret aspect that produced more heat and friction than campaign strategy.

The meeting included the partys high command: tor-mer Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, National Committeeman Eugene W y m an. State Chairman (Charles Warren, Reps. Chet Holifield and George Miller, and key state legislators (not including Unruh, of cour.se). Starting smoothly enough, the meeting soon developed acrimony between Brown and Attor n e y General Lynch.

Brown demanded that Lynch, as stand - in candidate for the President, must wage an all - out campaign, travel the state extensively on speaking tours, and help raise a war - chest for the primary of between $250,000 and $500,-000.

Lynch, who never wanted to head the delegation in die first place, replied test i 1 y that he did not have time fur any such broad campaign. Others would have to do most of the work, he said.

Moreover, although Brown did not mention it out loud, the strong feeling of ot h e rs present was that Browns domination of the meeting was a clear bid by Brown, who is hardly on speaking terms with Unruh and Yorty, to succeed Wyman as the new National Committeeman.

The strategy session broke up without having fina 11 y come to grips with the precise shape and size of t h e Johnson primary campa i g .i. Thus, with the President pushing for an all - out primary campaign against .McCart h y (in which Mr. Johnson, as an official non - candidate for President, will take no nart at all) his party is still tom by dissension.

WASHINGTON Everyone is second - guessing what we should have done or not done about the hijacking of the USS Pueblo, which, depending on whom you believe, had been either on the high seas, or in the territorial waters of North Korea. ~

What everyone does agree on is that the Pueblo was an electronic snooper, spying on North Korea, and that t h e operation was pretty botched up.

I had no idea what we could have done differently until I bumped into my old friend, Dmitri, a Soviet Embassy employe, whom Im quite sure is a spy.

lions of dollars at Christmas by rebottling cheap cologne In ex-Strangely enough, Dmitri Is well - known fact that P^^sive looking performe bot-seemed very upset about the all Soviet spy ships are fish-

Pueblos capture. ing trawlers. 'Thev are man- Husbands appeared more

Is making it hard on all ned by civilians dressed as guillible than wives, especially

spy ships, Dmitri said. Be- fisherman. Every time thev go itinerant con-

cause of Pueblo, now all spy somewhere, three civilians tracer made his yearly round,

throw their fishing lines over doorbells on Saturday

side of trawler and fish. Then, morning with charity in his

if boat drifts into territorial larceny m his heart,

waters, everyone i.s arrest e d for illegal fishing.

That did happen in Alaska, I admitted.

ships are looked on with suspicion.

But what could we have done differently? I asked Dmitri.

Is not my place to help Americans in espionage, but you went about spying on North Korea all wrong. What would you have done?

Fish.

What do you mean, fish? I said angrilv.

Fish.

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Saying Respect For Authority

Is happening all the

showed homeown'*rs-a basket of rich loam that would rebuild winter weary lawns. Hed scatter a bit on the lawn to show how it was done. A dollar a basket, hed say. Not bad. the husband might reply.

One hundred baskets later, when the black stuff was irrecoverably scattered all over the lawn, the husband came out to check on progress. Thats when he got the bill and the shock of his life.

Consumer protection in the old days was concerned with chain referral plans, home improvement swindles, bait-and-

(Kinston, N. C.^Free Press)

It may be too early to give a full evaluation or the get tough policy against lawbreakers in Miami, Fla., which was instituted during December, but it is significant at this point that the results reflect a growing respect for properly administered authority.

Chief Walter Headley, who sent special squads armed with shotguns and dogs into Negro areas in December in an effort to reduce crimes of violence, seems to be pleased with the initial results as reflected in January statistics. Crimes of violence in January dropped 60 per cent, while the overall criminal rate was 40 per cent below the previous months total.

Chief Headley came in for sharp criticism from civil rights leaders for his get tough policy, but some of the same critics have now praised him for his forthright ac-

berties. Two white patrolmen who stripped a Negro youth to his shorts and dangled him by his heels over a highway overpass, were suspended as soon as the incident was reported by the youths parents. Negro City Commissioner At-halie Range and Dr. George Simpson, president of the Miami Chapter of the NAACP, said prompt action against the patrolmen cooled a pot-tential explosion in the Negro neighborhoods.

What is happening in Miami and which should be of interest to every city where the growing crime rate is an increasing burden and hazard to society, is the fact that decisive authoYity promptly administered enhances, rather than detracts from respect for law and order.

The only requisite for effective law enforce m e n t which cannot be diluted or comprised is that it must apply to one and all alike, with-

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Fishing is less cruel than hunting. The amateur never has to explain that he thought his companion was a fish. San Francisco Chronicle.

BLOOD IS NEED5

tion in protection of civil li- out fear or favor.

time, Dmitri said. Suppose switch schemes, charity gyps instead of U. S. Navy ship, health reducing plans anci the United States sent in fish- others, ing tawler. Everyone knows the fish off North Korea are running good at this time of year. So you show up off Wonsan and throw nets out. Torpedo boat comes out and yells, Hey, you dirty capitalistic, rotten, revisionist fisherman, stop fishing in our waters. So your captain yells, Is free waters for fish.

Americans need fish for to win hearts and minds of people in the free world. Drop dead, stupid torpedo boat.

Thats provocative, I said.

Is only stupid fishing captain speaking not voice of U. S. Navy. Torpedo boat gets mad and calls for fishing warden, who boards trawler and arrests captain for fishing in North Korean waters. So what do headlines read? Page 45 it says, American fishing boat arrested by North Korean fishing warden.

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE CAN MAKE LIFE SO

When Grenfell, the great missionary to Labrador, was praised for his years of sacrificial service, he always replied cheerfully; Dont say a word about sacrifice. Its all been such jolly good fun. Fun. we ask. living in a remote pari of the world, away from friend.s and culture? Fun, to be marooned on an ice floe for days and to spend many monhs each year following a dog sled through the snow? Can here be fun in giving up the things which humanity loves best security, comfort, pleasure, fellowship, culture?

Well, the only answer which can be made to such questions is that throughout human liistory thouivands of men

have given up all these things and found abundant life in so doing. St. Paul Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, John Wesley. John G. Patn, mis.sionary to the Hebrides. Father Damien. David Livingstone, Jane Addams-!' these have given up all for the welfare of their fellows and have found, like Grenfeil, that in spite of the hard.ship yes, in fact largely because of it its been such jf lly good fun.

We turn our faces from sacrifice and say it is a painful thing, but it is wlien we craw! inside ourselve^ that we e.vperience real pain and unhappiness. Life, when we

live it whole.somely and to the full, is always jojlv gv>od fiu.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Income taxes will rise in many cities this year, and more cities will levy them. Mayor Lindsay of New York is calling for an increase in the income tax on people who work in New York and live elsewhere and many of the 170 other muncipalities with income taxes are tinkering with their rates. Other citifes are considering such levies. Some are actually being forced to. apply them.

Principal reasons for t h e growth of municipal inc o m e taxes are:

1. The rise in welfare costs as thousands of unemploy e d flock from poverty area, notably in the South and Puerto Rico, to cities,

2. The rise in costs thrust on the cities by the federal government, whose gifts of money for public housing, Medicaid and other projects require malchi.iii funds.

3. Fear of increasing pro- Many states and cities have that a bitter strike is prob-perty and gross receipt taxes, adjusted their tax structures able, with companies us i -i e

which have already driven to win new businesses. The President Johnsons apota 1

millions of families to suburbs Boston Fed found that the hy- for limited wage taSeases

and thousands of businesses pothetical Model Machinery, and unions having none of it.

Inc., would pay $33,046 in lo- But inventories worry bank-cal taxes in Lowell, Mass., ers. Inventories of other mat-

but $46,710 in neighboring rials than steel are beginning

^ to worry banker?. The inven

to rural and other low - tax areas.

Study Proves Burden

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A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released this week shows that local personal property taxes are among the most burdensome in business; that it discourages productive investment and that it discriminates am o n g different kinds of fircns.

Nashua, N. H.

A hypothetical chemical company, it found, would pay $28,473 in Utica, N.Y., while the same establishment would pay $191,634 in Hartford, Conn. ^

For firms with enough leeway in their location decisions, tax differential of t h e magnitude found in this study may be decisive, the b i n k said. It did not suggest local income taxes as an alternate to high property taxes. Perhaps it didnt have to.

Other Business Futures Steel ouput is rising This is almost entirely due to stockpiling in fear of a strike this summer, indications are

tory liquidation so I(mdly hailed last year was far from complete and many (jopora-tions have large stocks on hand. A lag in business would make the loans that catry these inventories a serious problem for both banks and corporations.

Girl Wearing Rope Will Show oB yZt Greta Thyssen will wear a bikini made entirely of nautical rope when the appears ae hostess on the most expensive yacht at the current Na-tiinal Boat Shtjw in New York. The yacht is the $^,000' Hatteras.