Tufsdy, May 21, 1968

Planning, Coordination Essential

UN-BIASED POSITION I

Grcenville'f Redevelopment Commission, practicing the policy of better-late-than-never, seems to be moving toward a system of more closely coordinating work of the various contractors and agencies involved in construction in the Shore Drive area.

While there are many things which can cause delays in work of a project as complex as the Shore Drive area, it seems to us the Redevelopment Commission should have set up such a coordinating system at the ouset of construction in the area. If that had been done and the desired degree of coordination and cooperation effected among contrators and agencies involved, the new coordinating effort probably would not be required.

The situation came to light at the Greenville Utilities Commission last week when it was revealed that th eUtilities Commission has received a critical letter from the Redevelopment Commission con cern-ing delays in its work in the Shore Drive area. The Utilities Commission asked that all parties involved in construction in the area meet periodically to plan and coordinate work.

If the delays that already have been experienced in work in the area ai^e to be overcome, such planning and coordination is essential. Indeed, without it there are certain to be greater delays than already have been experienced.

As the authority for which all work in the Shore Drive^area is being done, the Redevelopment Commission has the ultimate responsibility to see that the project moves along on schedule and is completed without undue delays. It is the one agency to which all others involved in the Shore Drive area are responsible. As such it should exert its influence by insisting that ail agencies and contractors involved in the project work more closely together in meeting deadlines for completion of the improvements.

Area To Benefit From Sheltered Workshop

Faces The

SteD To Metro

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Ratoigh Bureau RALEIGH Many experts view metro government as ene forward, money - saving atop that can be taken toward aohdng some of the problems ef growing urbanization.

Such a step itself is not with-eut ]x*oblems, hazards and much difficulty in a state so Song rurally - oriented as North Carolina. It is a giant tip but one about to be tak> ee.

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Metro is consolidation of large city and surround i n g uburban and satellite communities and county functions and public services under a single governing unit, paying and sharing proportionately.

Now it is not a complete nor entirely satisfacotry solut i on to all the problems oi urbanization by any means. Nevertheless, evidence indicates that metro can help and apparently has worked well in a few of the Souths rapidly gro-wing urban areas, and that there la a trend toward metro type government as urbanization increaseB .

GoosoUdttfon Voted For several years metro government has been in effect in such exploding centers as Miami - Da^ County, Fla., Jack8(H)Ville - Duval County, Fla., and Nashville - David-on County, Teniu Abo, in fomewhat different form, there have been con-eolidations of small but populous suburban communities and counties to form single govermnental indentitics such as Chesapeake, Va. and North Ms^e Beach, S. C.

Metro hae met resbtance elsewhere because of old, fnniy -wtablisbed political set - upe and aystems, and in the South one may look at Atlanta, Memphis and Birmingham. Virginia clings to its sy-

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stem of complete separation of cities and county but permits consolidation if the parties go to court and argue their case either for annexation or consolidation.

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Growth

It may now, but until very recently North Carolina was an innocent, wide-eyed by stander on the sidelines of any such urbanization proto 1 e m s which brought the metro concept onto the scene.

North Carolina simply had no metropolitan areas which would qualify under the usual definition. And it still ranks 44th in the nation in proportion of urban to rural population, having an urban population of less than 40 per cent compared to the natonal ave-

One - third of the entire population of the U. S. is now concentrated in urban areas containing 1 million or more popubdion. North Carolinas population is slightly more than five million. Its heaviest urban population is in Charlotte Mecklenburg County, an area of 540 square miles, and amotmts to only 341,000. By 1980, this is expected to grow to 520,000 and 425,000 will be living in the city of Charlotte.

Statewide Levy

In a recent dispatch, the executive director of the N. C. Association of County Commissioners, John Morrisey, was quoted as saying at least 75 other countiM are rea(fy to go along on a one per cent miditional sales tax proposition for local purposes.

Morrisey feels this needs clarification. The 75 counties, he says, favor such an additional levy on a statewi<te basis ~ in all 100 counties instead of local option.

Mecklenburg County presently is the only county in the state collecting an additional penny per dollar on sales for local use. This is under a local option law enacted in 1967 which gave Mecklenburg voters a choice of whether to accept the plan.

They did. The tax became effective in March and in the first month produced $426.408 which will refunded by the State Revenue Department.

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It is srratifyinfir that work is about to get underway on the modem new building that will house the East Carolina Sheltered Workshop.

Contracts for construction of the facility were awarded, subject to minor negotiations, last Thursday.

Reaching the construction stage Is the culmination of much hard work on the part of many people.

More than $56,000 was raised through contributions from local governmental units and other sources.

This is combined with a federal grant of $179,364 and a $50,000 -grant from the state Medical Care Commission.

As a result a 12,000 square foot workshop will soon be under construction on the Dail Farm, north of Greenville.

The Sheltered Workshop, which is already op- iasscc t'li erating in temporary quarters, will mean much to JAMES KILPATRICK the entire Eastern North Carolina area.

It would be impossible to cite all the people who made it possible, but this section owes them a debt of gratitude.

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Nixon Vs. Charisma

3reakthrough

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By ROWLAND EVANS add ROBERT NOVAK

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major breakthrough for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in a large state is now being quietly prepared within the highest councils of the Pennsylvania Republican party.

Gov. Ray Shafer is under increasing but kid-glovo pressure from most top - ranking party leaders in the state to yield his favorite - son roie and lead all but a handful of the 64 - vote delegation into the Rockefeller camp some time after the delegates have their first organizational meeting in Harrisburg next Friday.

, To show just how determined the party leaders are, Thomas MoCdbe, the Republican National Committeeman, has pivately informed Shafer that, if McCabes activity for Rockefeller is emtoarrassing Shafer. McCabe will gladly resign as National Committeeman.

Shafer said no. But S.hafer still has not passed a final, definitive word that he will in fact go all the way with Rockefeller. One sticky problem: some party officials fear that defections from Rockefe 11 er might be increased if Shafer gives up his favorite - son position and turns the delga-tion loose. Most party leaders, however, feel Rockefeller needs the psychological boost so badly that the loss of a couple of delegates would be minor by contrast with the loss of a Ehafer endorsement.

Several secret meet i n g s have been held in Shafers office since Rockefeller announced his candidacy on April 30, with one of the most powerful voices for Rockefeller coming from former Gov. William Scranton (who carried the tattered anti - Goldwater banner for the Republican moderates in San Francisco four years ago).

Two major arguments are being made to Shafer: first, that with Rodccfcller as t h e Presidential nominee, the tatc GOP has its best chance in November, with the U. S. Senate seat of Democrat Joseph S. Clark a definile pos-sUMlity, and second, that even H Rockefeller loses the nomi-

the future.

Of the 64 delegates, Richard M. Nixon has atot five, California Gov. Ronald Reagan one or two. Most of the rest are ready to go for Rockefeller.

A Rockefeller breakthrough in the Keystone State is absolutely essential if he is to have any chance at all at the Miami Beach convention.

Sorensen for Veep Arriving in the White House Cabinet room Thursday to attend the swearing - in of Wilbur Cohen as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Vice President Hub e r t Humphrey lotted Theodore Sorensen standing against a wall.

Ignoring all others, Humphrey went briskly up to Sorensen and, sotto voce, said: Ted, since Im offering it to everyone else, how about you being my Vice President?

H u m p h r e ys pleasant-enough tone concealed an undercover bitterness toward President Kennedys chief White House aide, now a campaign worker for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Humphrey deeply resented Sorensens televised charge, first made shortly after Humphrey announced his own Presidential candidacy and repeated agam last week, that he knew for a fact that Humphrey had offered the Vice Presidency on a Humphrey ticket to almost every Southern Democratic Governor.

No one heard Sorensens response if there was one.

Brooke and Nixon Only the fact that he is backing Gov. Rockefeller stopped Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke from publicly rebuking Richard M. Nixon for its criticism of the Poor Peoples March on Washington.

Brooke confided to RQ)ubli-can friends In the Senate on Wednesday that Nixon is apparently convinced that an undercurrent of white backlash is sweepings the country and has determined to make no obeisance to the Negro vote.

But Brooke, the Senates only Negro, decided against ma-(Continned On Page i)

Richard Nixon fought hard through Oregon last week, grinning the grin of the middle-aged Ike and waving his arms like windshield wipers, but all the time he was fighting phantoms.

He was fighting the unshaven shade of the old Nix(m, the d^k who Jost to

"^ack Kennedy in T96d and to Pat Brown in 1962, but mainly he was fighting the phantom of Ronald Reagan and the graveyard ghosts that Reagans men have conjured up. He was fighting, as well, against an unseen Rockefeller, a distant Humphrey. And he was giving it all he had.

In this disembodied sparring match, the glad news from Nebraska scarcely mattered. Nothing mattered, indeed, ex-c^t the here -and - now of Oregon in May rain squall.

the clouds lowering, the azaleas and iris bursting; nothing mattered but the imperative of pushing on, shaking the next hand, meeting the next county chairman, formulating the next variation o the themes of old Numiber Ctae. He is not much of a sprint man, Dick Nixqn,, He is as lonely ^as^ the' long - distanc runner.

What could he do, his aides kept asking, to counter the non-candidacy of Ronald Reagan? It could hardly be ignored. Reagan himself is not around, but a Reagan - for-President office is going great guns in downtown Portland. The Reagan people have spent a fortune on TV time; they have commandeered billboards, bought newspaper space, put a gaudy bus on the road. 'This weekend, Sunday papers in Oregon distributed a paid advertising supple-

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' Questions For

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Parents

(Chicago Tribune)

It doesnt look as if Miss Martha Peterson, president of Barnard college, will be getting any r^onse from the parents of Linda LeClair as to who they think is responsible for the behavior of young men and women in college. Miss LeClair, age 20, dropped out of Barnard classes rather than submit to college punishment for living off campus with a young man. This in effect, closed the issue.

But Miss Peterson5 questions deserve the attention of a great many other colleges and parents as well. She asked Miss LeClair to have her parents write stating their position on the responsibility they carry for you and what they expect of the college. I am particularly interested in whether they consider you an emancipated minor legally or in fact. At what age and for what reason did they grant you the freedom you now enjoy?

The typical parent might have a hard time answering these questions, if only because he has not given the matter much thought. After

all, it seems to have become square to demand any standard of behavior on the part of the young. Ask Dr. Spock. Look at the sympathetic leniency of court after court. Look at the tendency of colleges themselves to shy away from the responsibility. Not many parents would acknowledge the duty to buck this trend, especially if, after years of permissiveness, they are not sure their children would pay any attention.

Not many, we suspect, would dare to assert tiiat as long as they were paying tuition, no matter what the laws said about minority and adulthood, they were entitled to a say in how their son or daughter behaved.

So if Miss Petersons purpose was to suggest that many parents have defaulted in their obligations, it may have some merit. But so does the normal parental response that the colleges (and courts, and baby doctors) are to blame, too. Shunting the blame back and forth is not going to solve the problem, but it may at least result in some consensus as to who is responsible, and for what.

ment, promoting Reagan as the wimiiog Republican. The tabloid boosts Reagan as the candidate who can win, as the roan best qualified to win, as the embodiment of a winning candidate. The inference, of course, is tha: Nixon is not such^a Rea-,

gafs" boys how to hurt a man.

Nixon would have been quite willing to take on a bodily Reagan in the Oregon primary fight. Reagan isnt on the ballot. Nixon has not been able to fight directly against Romney cicr. Rockefeller will not climb In the ring. Here in Oregon,'as in all other primaries, the Nixon challenge is to lick any man in the house. No one arises. He is reduced to forensic whacks at Kennedys hair. Who can make much of this?

One result is that the visiting press inescapably is struck by the letdown contrast of, say, Bi*toy to Indiana and Nixon in Oregon. Bobby hurts upon the scene like a sneeze in a henhouse. He is a celebrity, a happening, a once-in-a-Ufetimc event he is a mans first barbershop shave, a girls first kiss. In Indiana, no less than Nebraska, Bobby has wowed em. He has been Saturday night to Las Vegas.

Nixon is something else. He is more like Sunday afternoon in Peola. He drove out of Portland Tuesday morning in a slow drizzle. Not a soul was on the sidewalks; his advance men had been directed not to make the effiKt. He arrived at an armory to McMinnville (pop. 9,100), but no screaming teeny bqipers were there to meet him. An attentive 2,-000 persons had gathered, but they were mostly undemonstrative oldsters, white haired, helping each other down the steps. There were Nixon girls in straw hats, to be sure, and the high school band was playing, but there was none cd* the electricity, none of the wild exhilaration, of Kennedy on parade.

This is Nixons problem, but paradoxically, it may be Nixons opportunity also. His appeal is to the decent people against the Indecent people, to those who work against those who loaf, to men who raise (Conttooed On Page i)

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Bwloeff Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - Record high totorfft rates wi.l be paid this waik by corporate and municipal bwToweri as a direct result of tba dicUion by the House of Rcprestfitattvis to postpone action on 1 tax tocreaie,

Tha high rates are caused by inflation and the failure of tax p^cy to cool the overheated conomic expansion. This puts the burden of economic restraint atoioat solely on money rates.

Bventuaily, If not now, the record ratea wUl affect every borrower, including the home bityer, the city seeking to build a new water aystem, tha corporation with plans to expand and the U.S. government seeking to finance ite operations.

The postponement of tax action cornea at a time when many of these potential borrowers are actively seeking money. In this week alone more than $500 milUon of new corporate and municipal bond issues will reach the market.

Hi|p)est-grade corporate bonds already are nearing 7 per cent, and in one instance medium grade issue was offered at 8 per cent. The federal government Is paying 6 per cent, and home mortgages now are above 7 per cent in some areas.

This month President Johnson signed a bill permitting increases in the rate of loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration from 6 per cent to 6% per cent. And several ^states now

lifting the ceiling on mortage rates.

Even hiidier rates seem likely, and Johnsons warning of lO per cent borrowing costs to the absence of a tax increase now seems more realistic than it did a couple of weeks ago. One of the dangers in such hifj) rates is that they could precipitate a recession.

Another worry concema the stability of the doX, file value of which some economists feel is overstated and could toad to instability in the world*# aeono-my.

A widely held opinion to financial circles is that, once again, the Federal Reserve mty raise the discount rate. This being the rate at which mentoMY banks may borrow, It generally foreshadows increases to the cost of almost every other type of borrowing.

It is the responsiblUiy ef this central bank to expand cr limit the money supply to keep the economy stable rather than inflated or depressed. Since inflation now grows worse by the day, analysts believe the Federal Reserve is compelled to slow economic activity by making borrowing more (fifficult

Although the interest rates ally are few and far between, their frequency in the past 2Vi years Ulustrates the instability of the economy.

On Dec. 6, 1965, the rate was raised to 4% per cent from 4 and remained at that level until April 7, 1967, when it was lowered again to 4 per cent.

From that point on, however, there have been regular increases, to 4H per cent Nw. 20, 1967, to 5 per cent March 22, to 5H per cent April 18. If another increase is made, most likely it will be to 6 per cent.

Although the interest rates that are appropriate to an economy at a given time cannot always be compared, it is difficult to overlook the fact that to 1929 the discount rate wai 6 per cent and that for the next 27 yaars it failed to reach even 4 per cent. At one point it actually fell to of one per cent.

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Labor Fares Better

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

FOR THE INDULGENT TO PONDER

Have you ever sat down and indulged yourself in a good sinful hour of self*pity? There is nothing some people like so much. Others may go to Bermuda, still others wear fine clothes, or drmk expensive liquors, or sate themselves in the sins of the flesh. But as for the people who love to pity themselves all other indulgences are as nothing compared with this one.

They imagine themselves abused, imposed upon by the members of their family and their business associates, snubbed by their friends. Ah, the exquisite flavor derived

from rolling these things under the tongue in bitter recollection or angry resentment. For the person who likes that sort of thing, there is nothing in the long list of human indulgences which compares with it.

Rut snap out of it brother; before all your happiness is gone. Renounce that sugary variety of iniquity before you get moral and spiritual diabetes. Start running now. The danger is so alarming and so imminent that you have not a minute to ^are. The sins of the flesh are bad, but self-pity will Incarcerate you in a land you in jail, but self-pity will incarcerate youi n a prison a thousand times more loathsome.

By ELMER ROESSNER Labor is doing better than the rest of the economy, judging from the report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on major union contracts negotiated in the first quarter of this year.

It found that the median wage and benefit package increase agreed to was 6.2 per cent a year over the life of the contracts. This compares with 5.2 per cent for the year 1967.

This indicates that organized labor is keeping ahead of the rising cost of living, which rose at a rate of 4' per cent a year during the first quarter.

It also indicates that labor is doing better than the rest of the economy. Total personal income rose 2.6 per cent at annual rates in the first quarier.

And, pehaps most significant of all, these sweeter increases in the labor secret of economy indicate that wage Increases are a potent force for

inflation.

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The median, of course, is not the everage. It is the middle figure, with half of those getting more, hall getting less. The BLS figures showed that 4 per cent of the workers got less than an annual increase of 4 per cent, and that 8 per cent got increases of 7 per cent and over. The largest group, 32 per cent, got 6 or under 7 per cent.

Unions in manufacturing in

dustries did not do quite as well as others. Their median increase was 5.0 per cent, while the others median was 6.6 per cent.

While benefits were significant, most of the gains were in cash. The BLS said: Considering wage increases separately from benefita, increaa-s during the entire life of the contract averaged 5.6 per cent of straight - time average hourly earnings annua 11 y, compared with 5.0 per cent for the full year 1967.^

First Years Sweeter The analysis also showed that unions did better in the first year of their iww contracts. The median for the first year wage rate increases was 7.4 per cent. This compares with 5.7 for the full year 1967.

The BLS reported that 44 per cent got raises of from 7 to 8 per cent the first year,

13 per cent got between 8 and 10 per cent in raises, and 6 per cent got more than 10 per cent.

It also found that 14 per cent of the workers to manufacturing got increases of 25 cents and over an hour, and that 16 per cent of the other workers got that much in raises.

How To Control Ossts Of Maktog Mmrnm Copies

Many companies, after installing copier maridnee, find costs running higher than expected. When a macWne is new. many people try it, either to learn how or joet to see how it works. But often costs stay high after the novelty has worn off. Now Buyers Laboratory, 306 E. 45th St.. New York 10017, hu lisued a free list of 15 steps to .take to save costs. Rule No. 5: Dont let emplo-yeei use the machine for personal work.