Thursdiy, June 13, 1969

A Significant Switch By Justices

HIS NEXT VICTIM ?

In its most recent decision the Supreme Court indicates it is returning to its senses in prescribing regulations which must govern actions of law enforcement officers in carrying out their responsibilities.

Eight of the nine justices joined in the decision which says that the frisking of a suspicious person by a law officer is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment, and that a warrant is not necessary for such a search.

By its decision the court recognized that the law officer can not be expected to obtain a warrant every time he sees a person acting suspiciously. Furthermore, the courts ruling recognizes that for the protection of the officer in carrying out his duties. he should be allowed to search a suspect for weapons without going through a long reel of red tape.

It is equally significant that the decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren recognizes that in the interest of crime prevention and detection,

the officer has the right to stop a person on the street ior investigation even though the officer may not have probable cause to make an arrest.

Armed with this authority, the law enforcement agencies will be able to cope With many situations which heretofore they were not able to move into. It is highly likely that a good many crimes will be prevented and a good many which now go undetected will be uncovered by this authority.

For some time it has been evident that support of law and order needed all the encouragement it can get in this nation. There have been times in recent years when it seemed the decisions of the Supreme Court encouraged defiance of the laws rather than the obeying of them. Some decisions seemed to make the job of law enforcement agencies much more difficult if not almost impossible.

It is most encouraging that this latest decision provides law enforcement agencies with backing which will be effective in strengthening the total law enforcement effort.

Collusion By Some Firms?

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH A report will be made public shortly, within a few weeks, on the six months investigation into a tormy controversy that has rocked Raleigh.

It is the matter of awarding a $1 .5 million state contract for heavy-duty highway motor graders to the only firm whidi submitted a bid and charges that specifica-tkms for the machines were **rigged to block competition.

The charges were denied by state officials last Fall, ^t an investigation was laundied and findings and conclusions were reached se-Teral weeks ago. A formal report is being prepared in the case.

WILLUM

SHIRES

It will be issued by the Advisory Budget Commis s i o n which in its parallel capacity as the states Board of Award conducted the lengthy investigation, including public hearings.

Being Prepared Sen. Thomas J. White of Kinston, chairman of the Budget Commission, is wTiting the report of findings based on detailed testimony and other evidence.

Whites work on the motor grader report has been delayed by certain other duties, both public and private, in-cludmg his serving as perma-ncDt chairman of the State Democratic convention last we^. When it is finished, White wants each member of the investigation commission to give the report full clearance and approval before it is released publicly.

Absolved of Blame It may be predicted that file report, still incomplete, will absolve the states Pur

chase and Contract division of all blame.

P&C apparently attempted in good faith to obtain motor grader bids from as many as 27 firms. It adhered to specifications adopted by a standardization committee appointed by the governor backed up by a five member advisory council.

Furthermore, the r p o r t will say there was no evidence of collusion on the part of anyone except perhaps some of the motor gra d e r firms themselves who refused to submit bids after one of their number challenged the specifications.

How deeply the report will delve into this matter is uncertain. Sources indicaie however that the investigat i o n turned up evidence that a disgruntled motor grader firm - representativ c '%aked*' ^ formation to the press last Fall which resulted in stories containing charges of Rigging specifications. There is some further evidence that such publicity led certain other firms to decide not to submit bids.

Brickfaouses Reply The states Purchase and Contract director, Eston Y. Brickhouse, replied to the published charges in a lengthy statement last December.

He contended at that time that other firms could have submitted bids but elected notor refusedto do so. He said they did not explain why.

Another point suggested by sources was not mentioned by Brickhouse and almost certainly wont appear in the formal report.

That is the possibility that political disgruntlement cn the part of certain moior grader firms led to their decision not to bid on the c(n-tract and to protest the letting. These sources cite evidence that officials of certain firms hoped to embarrass the present state administration and the present State Highway Commission by charging that there was and rigging tions.

It could, of course, turn out to be an axe that cuts two ways.

Considering Incentive Program Is Advisable

Unless North Carolinas Attorney Generals office follovt^s its sometime practice of changing its mind, the 1969 legislature should -give serious consideration to changing state laws to enable the state to participate in the federal welfare incentive program.

Attorney General Wade Bruton ruled this week that North Carolinas present laws will not permit it to participate in the federal program to provide incentive to certain welfare recipients to supplement their welfare checks with active jobs. Most do not By JAME? KILPATRICK do so now because for all practical purposes a dollar is deducted from their welfare check for each dollar they earn.

Under the new federal program, welfare de partments would disregard the first $30 in earnings ,

of welfare recipients' plus one-third the additional onS tof know earnings in figuring welfare checks. Most states ap- with Robert Kennedv pear in line to participate in the federal work in- i rememteespeciaU^ centive program which begins July 1. 3 day ^LnTnot

North Carolina was slated for a starting quota ago. The primary was still of some 1,300 of its present welfare recipients in two weeks away. Kennedy the new incentive program pointed toward welfare awoke in the Sheraton-Lincoln mothers and older children. In view of the attorney the morning,

generals ruling, this state will have to postpone its mother

participation and its welfare recipients^ wjli find pemselves Without The ihcehtive benefits offered in most other states.

The General Assembly, when it convenes next year, should carefully weigh the merits of making the necessary changes in the state laws governing

welfare payments to permit the states meaningful Sheraton-Lincoln, with

participation in this federal incentive program. deference, is an overcast hotel. Sme of its roonis are as large as two closets, and some are not quite so spacious.

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;One Day With Kennedy

corres-a day

of the 'children -v^re there." Freckles the dog was there. Brother Teddy was in headquarters across the street. It was a typical Kennedy day. It was also an overcast day,

From the window of his eleventh floor suite, Kennedy gazed upon Indianapolis, and Indianapolis gazed back upon him: An Army Recruiting

Station; the White River, sluggish and undistinquished; Jims Barber Shop, the eighth Street Church of Christ Scientist, Kroger, A & P, Frischs Big-Boy priv,lnj motels,"' mobile hottitss, ^r-" B-Q drive-ins; Leos Barber Shop, Bernies Bakery, Bettys Therapy Studio, the Ben Davis Tire & Battery Service.

It was not, one assumed, precisely the Senators milieu. Except that all of America was his milieu. He had swallowed the country in great gulps all springCleveland, New Orleans, Lafayette, At-

By JOHN CUNNIFP AP Business Analyst new YORK (AP) - In happy / times the major airlines share D the skies like busy, peaceful

butterflies, but right now they are competing like hawks.

This week an attorney for American Airlines told a hearing in Washington that in the Pacific area Pan American World Airways had a sorry record of poor service, poor promotion, and high faces and profits.

The next day Pan Am referred to a list of other airlines, including American, that it saW wished to be cut in on the big Pacific territory, and strongly indicated that the result would be to drive Pan Am out.

TTie big fuss will last so long as the Civil Aeronautic Board continues hearings on proposals to restructure air routes between the U.S. mainland and vast areas of the commercially Pacific.

At the moment, Northwest, Pan American and United Air Lines have authority to fly these routes. But a CAB examiner has recommended that Eastern, Trans World and Western airlines also be permitted to carry passengers there.

This tremendous Interest in restructuring routes, not only in the Pacific but in much of the world, comes from a complex of reasons; Security, expanding economies, population shifts, new aircraft, the need for competition to keep prices low.

The security argunient, of course, is one that the nation isnt likely to ignore. Military

lanta. Fort Wayne, Kalamazoo, Sioux Falls, Portland,

Fresno, Burbank. Now it was Bloomington, Ind., first for an audience of factory workers, then for students at the University of Indiana.

Kennedy made his Old

Number One speech that day

on law and order. He tossed men feel that not only^ must air

Security and greater bargain- east Asia but that they must be

Fhey Cause One To Wonder ^ditors saying

Pacific Partners

favoritism of specifica-

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Life is made up of wonders.

Among the things that stir us to wonder:

Why, if hair has to grow in a fellows ears after 40, does it have to be colored gray?

Why a woman who wouldnt ordinarily hurt a fly manages to impale so many passing men with her umbrelia on a rainy day?

Why bystanders are always called innocent?

Why the horse that looks the best in the paddock always looks the worst coming down the home stretch?

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Why a wife who says she never has anything but a tuna fish sandwich for lunch always wants a one pound porterhouse steak when her husband takes her out to dinnner?

Why cats so consistently refuse to use a scratching post of their own and insist on sharpening their claws on the most expensive chair in the

house?

Why the doctor who tells you that you need to go on a diet usually outweighs you by 20 pounds?

Why motherhood is so universally admired but mother-in-lawhood is so widely laughed at? After all, every woman who became a mother-in-law had first to be a mother.

Why suburbanites dont plant crabgrass on their lawns instead of spending their lives fighting it?

Why teen - age children act like angels in other peoples homes and like fallen angels in their own home?

Why women make their fives more difficult by be i n g zippered up the back instead of in front?

Why everybody smiles at a fat baby and wants to chuck him under the chin, but frowns at a fat man and pokes an accusing finger in his stomach?

Why the more we do for our kids, the more we feel that we are leaving something undone?

Why the boss never gives a guy a merit raise without also dolefully hinting that the firm may go broke before the end of the year?

Whywith all the money it is getting the government still cant afford to put enough glue on its postage stamps to

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(Christan Science Monitor)

Americas relations with Australia and New Zealand bear remarkable witness to the power of ideas and ideals. 'They underline the fact that a likeness of outlook is the strongest bond which any two nations or combinations of countries can have today.

It is sometimes said that the United States and the two English - speaking lands of the South Pacific are drawn together only because oi a common concern over the volcanic eruptions of Asia. Yet this is only half the truth. True, mutual concern over Asia is a powerful factor in this comparatively new relationship among Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Had Asia presented no potential threat to any of the three, this English-speak i n g partnership might have been slower in arising.

But the new relations depend upon much more than this. Its main foundation is a community of ideals which affords firmer groundwork than any shifting concern over this or that threat from abroad.

As several recent series in this newspaper have underlined, the course of development

followed by both the United States and Australia (as well as by New Zealand to a somewhat lesser extent) are remarkably alike. In fact, so much so, that it would be little exaggeration to refer facetiously to Australia as a little America or to the latter as a big Australia. Speaking of his countrys relations with the United States, Australian Prime Minis t e r John Gorton (on a visit to America partly to let his American - born wife visit her old home in Maine) said, I have no doubt America will continue to be the partner of Australia.

Nor do we. For we find something not only heal t h y and hopeful in this increasingly tight likeness of outlock between the Pacific Oceans great Eastern and great Western bulwarks of English-speaking democracy but also foreordained. Each is primar i 1 y interested in the stability of nations and the friendship of men. Neither is imperialistic. Both have shown themselv e s ready to sacrifice lives, time, money, and great cffori to preserve the freedom of choice of a small people in a small land.

ing power for farmers, but mainly he was speaking in rural Indiana for safety on big city streets.

All day long, he kidded his audiences along. No one on the campaign trial could beat him at the art. He told the story of Brother Teddys buttons. Just before we came down here, I asked Teddy to put 5,000 campaign buttons in the car, so'we could give them away. I just opened the boxes, and what do you know? They had his picture on them!

Kennedy delighted in a kind of lampoon demagogue-ry. At Scottsburg that afternoon, his eyes were dancing. I cant tell you how delighted I am to be here This is truly the climax of my campaign in Indiana. Thats what my wife said to me this morning - that I absolutely had to get to Scottsburg. I need your help, but I have to say this: If you dont vote for me, I wont put the summer White House in Scottsburg.

He had a revivalists sure sense of timing in his badinage with the crowds. At New Albany that evening, he had them rocking: Are you really going to help in this campaign? Yes-s-s-s. Nah, youre just going to go home and never think about this campaign again. No-o-o-i Ya mean youre really goln to work? Yes-s-s-s! And so on. It was all done joyously, with a high heart. Kennedy had an immense zest for living.

So we toured Indiana that day Oolitic, Bedford, Seymour Packaged Ice,

Nicks Tire Service, Bills Tune-Up, Ruddicks Garage, the Hoosier Grill, Eds Motel, Dairy Queen, Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop. . . The Indiana (Conttnned On Page 8)

kept strong throughout the Pacific.

But the Pacifics commercial prospects are much more interesting to the airlines.

Japan is now the largest trader with the United States. The Korean economy is expanding. Indonesia, a potentially wealthy nation, seems eager to exploit its resources. All this means business for the airlines.

A remote prospect, but still one that is very seriously considered, is China. If that nation opens her doors to air travel, as have the nations of Eastern Europe, a vast new area of almost unlimited potential could develop.

As these possibilities grow, the American population shifts westward. More of the nation, therefore, is given a Pacific orientation, making possible the development of a growing tourist business, not just to Hawaii, but to lands many thousands of miles beyond.

The jet airplane also has made much of iis possible. And in the future, the jet will play a ig role of another kind. Because of the enormous cost of jets, airlines must develop bigger businesses, larger routes, than they now have.

The Boeing 747, which is due to be in operation before 1970, will cost $20 million. The Concorde, a British-French supersonic jet due in 1971, was expected to sell for $18 million but likely will cost more than $20 million.

In the mid-1970s, when the biggest plane of all, the U.S. supersonic airliner, is expected to be ready for commercial use, the cost of one plane will be up to $40 million. Small airlines wont be able to afford it.

As a consequence, the scramble is on to enlarge routes. Failing to do that, smaller compa-nie are expected to seek mergers with each other or witi larger operators.

Forty Years Ago

A New Boom In Do-It-Yourself

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By FOY H. DUNCAN June 13, 1928 Rockefeller Gives $5000,000 To Old City In Virginia

Williamsburg, Va. The town where Washington and LaFayette planned the defeat of Lord Cornwallis found itself some $5,000,000 richer today, all because of a chance visit of John D. Rockefell era year ago or so. . .But his huge gift, which had been rumored for some time, will go for the noblest undertaking yet attempted by the town fath e r s and residents restoration to its colonial setting as a shnre to liberty and the men who made it possible. . .Mr. Rockefellers presence in Williamsburg for a Phi Beta Kappa fraternity convention a y e a r ago gave the citizens an opportunity to tell him cf the dream they had conceived twenty - five years previously.

and he immediately mended the project..

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Summer Term Opens Today

Glasses began at East Carolina Teachers College Summer School today for 3ie eighteenth summer session. To date the enrollment is 841. The total enrollment will be around 900. . .

Miss Louise Dickinson is at home for a few days from Peadbody Ck)llegc, Nashville, Tenn.

Edwin Tucker and Troy Burnette left this week for a trip to Europe.

Miss Elizabeth Phelps returned yesterday from Greensboro where she has been a student at N. C. C. W.

Misses Victoria Vincent and Elizabeth Edmonds o n are spending the week in Win* tervilifi.

By ELMER ROESSNER

A new boom in doing it yourself is starting. But its a different kind of boom. It is not an upsurge in making bird houses, carving wooden shoes or putting models of the Mayflower in seltzer bottles. Instead, it is the making of household repairs because it is difficult to hire skilled workmen.

In a few areas, competent craftsmen are available. But in most parts of the nation, handymen are in short supply. Even the companies organized to supply repair services are often short-handed, and delays are long.

The big reason is that despite almost four million unemployed, there is a shortage of trained men in industry. No fairly handy man need solicit or wait for home owners with leaky basements or apartment dwellers unhappy about their decor. In most areas he can turn himself in at the nearest plant

and go to work at a good wage.

Contributing Factors

The growth of fringe benefits has had an effect. An odd-jobs man would have considerable difficulty in obtaining and paying for medical and hospitalization insurance, a pension fund, life insurance, visiting nurse services an(I other trimmings, many of them tax free. He gets no paid vacation, no premium pay for overtime.

The growth of paper work has also had its effects. A man who sets himself up in business as a one - man repair service needs a wife who can spend most of the day keeping records for him. He is required to have detailed records for the various income tax bureaus, for city and state business-tax departments, and for a variety of nosey federal and state bureaus.

And If he hires a helper, his record-keeping more thao

doubles, because he must report to a dozen governmental agencies, maintain a variety of insurances and submit to ceaseless audits. He might be tempted to become a bigamist.

BJfim

ROESSNER

This Saturday, you might drop around to your neighborhood hardware store. You may meet a lot of neighbors there buying tools and materials for household repairs. You may also notice that Uie store lias lengthened its line of rental tools, and now carries two lines of paint instead of one. And that tbt owDr ba hi* work

ing, too.

More Airlines Getting Into Hotel Bnsiuess

Many years ago almost every streetcar company in America maintained a park or picnic grounds at the end of one of its lines. This caused people to use the streetcars to get there on Sundays, the slowest day for fares.

Airlines have used the same tacc. Some of the giants, such as Pan Amwi-can, have chains of hot e I s around the world where Americans can get the same service and insults they get in New York hotels. Now Eastern Air Lines and Braniff Airways have gone into hotel and resort ventures. Eastern, with two associated corporations, is planning a 20-square-mile recreational, tourist and residential development on the island of llhweli. Braniff, with other associates, is planning a new chain of hotels around South America.