Frrdy, June ?8, 1968

Truckers Open Door To Criticism

Violations i^covered in a 72-hour concentrat- in the concentrated check does sugifest that a great ed check of trucks entering North Carolina from many move violations are taking place than should

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South Carolina gives some indication of the number of truckers violating the states highway regulations every day.

The check at 13 points along the South Carolina border early this week brought to light 349 violations and resulted in 130 arrests and penalties assessed against truckers amounting to more than $35,000.

While the amount of penalties may make the exercise appear a profit-making venture of the Department of Motor Vehicles, the money involved represents only a factor in the matter. If that much in penalties was owed the state by those checked

be. They suggest that the truckers should exercise greater care on their own to avoid violating the states regulations governing the huge vehicles using the highways. The findings also indicate the Motor Vehicles Department might in future months give greater attention to trucks using North Carolinas highways than they have in the past.

Most citizens recognize that the trucking industry pays an enormous amount each year in licenses and taxes for the privilege of moving vehicles over public roads. The truking industry should no more be subject to punitive costs for using the highways than other motorists. At the same

along the South Carolina border, how many other time, it should be expected that the trucking intrucks were there operating in the state from other dustry should exercise every reasonable caution to areas that w^ere likewise violating one or more of see that its vehicles respect highway regulations the states highway regulations. govrning weight, size and other provisions for trucks

The situation does not warrant a blanket indict- just as they respect the law's governing highway ment of the trucking industry for taking advantage safety.

of a state which cannot possibly keep tabs on every ^ Findings in the concentrated check of trucks truck operating on its highways. Yet the findings raises a question concerning the care taken by truckers to avoid violating a number of the North Caro-' regulations.

Aea. Continuingn ' i o, 1 TV . ;Khe Sanh Base Study Indicated 1ST .

By TOXIAM A. SHIRES ministered by separate, priv- ^ ^ ^ ^ CwCoOdi y

ate boards of trustees and private or church-related organizations. But private institut- _

tion and now nearing complc- ^ order to give a broad, ^ propaganda setback for the

comprehensive picture of big- o

R^lecUn Raieigh Bureau RALEIGH A long range

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By JOHN T. WHEELER

SAIGON (AP) - The aban-

The new western anchor of the allied line below th

tion wiH be an ongoing continuing project It has to be.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

An overall, up-to-date report Is scheduled to be submitted in August in plenty of time for careful consideration and thought before convening of the 1969 General Asse m b 1 y. The report is supposed to be the basis for constructive planning and meaningful steps by the next legislature towa r d meeting the challenge and needs of higher educat i o n in North Carolina during the next decade.

But these diallenges and needs are changing and increasing. The present study, which has taken nearly two ye a r s, does not pretend to be the final word.

The Board of ffigher Education itself saj, this blueprint for future devek^ment will be updated on a continuous basis as teng - range planning is a process, not an event It never terminates.

Study Objectives A great deal of change has occurred since the present study was begun in 1966. Some change was foreseen at that time other was not Change, however, has not altered the prime objectives of the long - raftge study. These include allocation of functioiK, the role, scope and optimum size of the various Institutions, both public and IHlvatea total of 71 in the state.

Of course, what the Board of Highr Education recommends regarding private institutions will be advisory only since these schools are ad-

her education and its trend across the state.

Involved In Planning The Boards latest inlerim report points out that private colleges and universities are involved in the planning process in appri^riate ways. Their academic progr a ms and their plans for futufe enrollments are factors to be considered as recommendations are developed concerning the future growth of higher education in the State. The board adds that the sum total of planning efforts by all concerned should simplify the picture and bring abcut better results for money spent by students and the state for higher education.

Role Of Board Such long - range planning in the field of higher education

United States, but it does not reduce the American military position significantly.

Khe Sanh is the first major U. S. base in Vietnam to be abandoned because o? enemy pressure. During the 77-day winter siege of the base by two North Vietnamese divisions, it became a symbol

ing Zone Stud, a suppl]^^ base with an airstrip 10 miles east ART BUCHWALD of Khe Sanh. This area has been in Marine along, and the have taken over activities at any time.

Operations against enemy units along the western portion of the DMZ can be launched as easily from Landing

IS area has

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of American determination Zone Stiid as from Khe Sanh.

stand fast in Vietnam.

Top U. S. officials in Washington and Saigon said that the base would be defended at all costs. Spokesmen for the U. S. Marines pushed the line If we leave Khe Sanh, South China Sea?

Hanoi can be expected to repeat the American statements on Khe Sanh to bring pressure on the Paris peace talks and to bolster the standing of North Vietnam and

In announcing its decisions to abandon Khe Sanh, the U. S. Command cited not only a big increase in enemy strength and new tactics but also the need to keep U. S. troops^ mobile. Khe Sanh, in short, tied down too many allied troops for its military values and was a sitting duck for North Vietnamese artillerymen.

Not that life will be simple at Landing Zone Stud.

was a goal set out when the world capitals, legislature created the Board One U. S. Marine officer at

the Viet Cong in influential The bulk of the rounds that

hit Khe Sanh were rockets

of Higher Education nearly 15 years ago.

It began as a study commission created in 1953 and instructed to report findings on the ^ole and function of state-supported institutions to the 1955 General Assembly. It became evident quickly that less than two years was not sufficient time for such a task and that no part time study commission could do the j o b adequately. The commiss i on itself recommended a continuing study and coordinating authority by a perman e n t, statutory board, and this was created by an act of the 1955 General Assembly.

It is explicit in the legislation creating the Board as a statutory body that it is not a governing board, bu. a planning and coordinating agency.

The priority assignment is planning. And the law states that the Board should seek cooperation of all of the institutions of higher education and other educational agencies in planning a system. . .that will serve all the higher educational needs of the state...

Khe Sanh openly criticized the American propaganda during the siege, saying that the vulnerability of the position to North Vietnamese siege guns in Laos ended its usefulness.

and mortars, and these weapons can be moved easily to new mountain positions from which they can hit the new main forward base. But shorter Marine lines of communication should bolster the U, (Continued On Page 5)

WASHINGTON - The Committee to Abolish the Registration of Automobiles and the Licensing of Drivers has just opened up a lobby in Washington and I was happy to visit with Roger Crash, their spokesman.

Mr. Crash said, We have formed this organization because the constitutional rights of all automobile drivers are at stake. There is no reasmi why anybody should not be allowed to own and drive an automobile in this coun try without his rights being infringed by local, state and federal authorities.

Obviously youre aga i n s t registration of vehic 1 e s, then?

We certainly are. Most people who drive should not be inconvenienced by some bureaucrat who wants to know what they intend to use a car for. There is a conspiracy in this country to get everyone

to register their automobiles, so they eventually can be taken away from them.

Who is behind tiie conspiracy?

The Communists. They know that America would collapse overnight if their automobiles were confisc a t e d. This country is going through an hysterical period right now. They blame all the automobile deaths and accidents on the drivers.But youre not going to prevent accidents by asking people to register their vehicles. If somebody wants a car to kill somebody, hell find it, no matter how many laws you have.

Youre also against a drivers tests, arent you?

We certainly are. Why should you penalize the law-abiding average driver by making him take a drivers test, just to catch a few nuts who are outside the law?

By asking someone to take a drivers test, you are subjecting him to indignity and guilt by association. You cannot punish the car-loving automobile for pleasure, in citizen who only uses his automobile for pleasure, in order to prevent accidents caused by lawless elements of our society.

ART

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS KNOIVLEDGE AND LIFE To what extent is the world going to be saved by knowledge? Certainly no generation has gathered unto itself so much knowledge as the generation in which we live. We have not conquered all disease, but we have conquered many diseases which in the

fighting battles over issues that engaged the attention of men centuries ago.

The truth of the matter is that with all our amazing knowledge today we have not advanced ourselves to anything like satisfactory living. Races rises against race. Criminality fights law. Disease spreads like a scourge over

past were considered incurab- vast areas. Poverty continues ie. No government in the to exist. It would seem that world is perfect or anyWhere the more we learn the more near perfect, but we know are we conscious of the fact more today about human rela- that our grasp of knowledge tionship than ever before and is weak and almost futile. If

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are more determined than we have ever been that justice will be accorded to all.

Yet with the vast amount of knowledge we haveand our scientific knowledge is certainly stupendouswe are far from happy and sufficient in our everyday living. We suffer from evils that have long plagued the world. We are still

we are going to save ourselves and the world it looks as if it is going to take more than knowledge for us to accomplish this.

Let us seek to know more, but let us realize that faith, kindliness, generosity and unselfishness will do more to heal the sores of the world than will vast knowledge.

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By FOY H. DUNCAN Jane 28, 1928 Local Kiwaninas Have Big Time At Bayview

Despite rainfall , jploud-burst proportions, members of the Greenville Kiwanis Club went down to Bayview yesterday and enjoyed their annual outing. The outing was in Ihe form of a plunge in the rippling waters of the Pamlico bay, dinner at the Bayview Hotel last night and an old fashioned Square dance given at the pavillion at end of the long pier stretching far out into the bay... In the word of President Frank Harrington C, B. Rowlett, and other prominent members of the organization, the affair was a huge success.. . .

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Mr*. Pbelps Entertains

Yesterday afternoon at her home on Evans Street, Mrs. W. W. Phelps charmingly entertained at bridge in hcnor of Mrs. Henry Sheppard of Baltimore. .. Mrs. Garey Hughes, making high .score, was presented a strand of beads. Mrs. David J. Whichard was winner of a novelty needle case for low score. Mrs. Sheppard was given an attractive vase.

Mrs. Hughes and Miss Abiah Person were remembered with dainty handkerchiefs. The table prizes, handkerchiefs, were won by Mrs. C. A. White, Mrs. Curtis Perkins, and Mrs. L. G. Cooper. . . Mrs. P. T. Anthony, Mrs. H. A. Bost, Mrs. S. L. Bridges and Miss Florice Phelps assisted the hostess in serring a tempting salad course. Those invited were: Mrs. Sheppard of Baltimore, Mrs. Gary Hughes of Ashville, Mrs, F. J. Forbes, Mrs. David J. Whichard Jr., Mrs. W. L. Whichard, Mrs. E. G. Flanagan, Mrs. L. G. Cooper, Mrs. P. T. Anthony, Mrs. S. L. Bridges, Mrs. Curtis Perkins, Mrs. C. A. White, Mrs. L. H. Bowling, Mrs. H. A. B(Mt, Miss Abiah Person and Miss Hennle Whichard.

To The Editor

The 1967-68 year, just now drawing to a close as the Center closes for the summer, marks a high point in the history of the East CJarolina Art Society and the Greenville Art Center; the Centers service to the community has been considerably expanded and its sphere of influence extended. A major contribution to our success was the excellent publicity accorded our program by your newspaper, and we are most grateful.

No doubt you are already aware of your good fortune in having a topnotch staff, but I want to add my personal expressicm of appreciation. During the three years of my tenure as director of the Art Center, Rosalie Trotmans spirit of cooperation, competence, and unfailing good nature have been consistently in evidence. Without her and Blanche Hardee, the responsibilities of my job would have been truly umvjeldly. The sense of accomplishment on behalf of the Center, which I feel at this point in time, would be much diminished had I not received the enthusiastic help of these two capable people. Blanches feature article on the

Centers drawing room was beautifully and meticulously done, and aroused a lot of public interest.

Many peq^le complimented the excellent coverage Rosalie gave Fine Arts Festival Week and the Fourteenth Annual Sidewalk Show, co-soon-sored by the Art Center and the Greenville Womans Club. The praise is fully deserved; her article on the Sidewalk Show winners was polished and professional, and had to be done under less-than-ideal circumstances because the jurors selections were delayed. Both Rosalie and Blanche rise to the challenge of feature articles with exceptional competence, and take care of more routine news releases wUh complete dependability.

My own personal Thank you is accompanied and reinforced by the gratitude of the president and entire executive board of the East Carolina Art Society. Our accomplishments would have been less had we not received the unfailing cooperation of The Daily Reflector and its dedicated staff.

Sincerely yours, Mrs. C. W. Walker Director

Mr. Crash, one of the arguments for registering automobiles and making people take a drivers test is that it prevents the vehicles from getting into the hands of children, criminals and unstable people who might cause accidents.

The bleeding hearts and do-gooders use this argument all the time, but the automobile is part of our American birthright. Has it ever occurred to you that in every make their people regi s t e r their automobiles and take a drivers test?

Is your society for doing away with traffic laws as well? .

We are against what would inconvenience a driver in any way. People must be free to do what they want with their automobiles. Our economy depends on motor vehicles. Every time you pass a traffic law you discourage someone from buying a car. Tra f f i c laws do not prevent accidents; people prevent accidents.

How do you propose to repeal the registration and driving test laws that are now on the books?

By launching a mammoth letter campaign. Were going to ask everyone who owns a car to write his congressman and senator demanding the repeal of all laws having to do with motor vehicles. This is an election year and,

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - (Juiet, undercover pressure from Midwest Republicans for a Nixon-LiiKteay ticket, including a scheme for Richard M. Nixon to switch his residence after Election Day if necessary, is about to surface.

It may break into public view today at a closed-door organizational meeting of Ohios delegation in Columbas. At that meeting, a big city GOP chairman possibly Robert Hughes of Cleveland will suggest Mayor,. John V. Lindsay of New York as a city>* oriented Republican ideally suited to run for Vice President if Nixon is nominated.

It is no sudden inspiration. Republican professionals in other Midwestern states, to-eluding Illinois and Indiani* have privately discussed a N-xon-Lindsay ticket for weeks* Whats more, Lindsays intimates have been mam twart of these discussions.

They also have discussed the obvious handicap to a Ni bc4b nad are residents of New York state. The 12th Amendment to i the Constitution bars a state from giving its electoral vote (in New Yorks case, 45 votes) to more than one of a partys two nominees if they both come from the* same state.' Theoretically, then, a Hxoii-' Lindsay ticket could result in a Republican President and a Democratic Vice President.

But these Midwestern Republicans have a solution. If the Nixon-Lindsay ticket were successful but the result was so close that Lindsay could not be elected without New Yorks, 45 electoral votes, Nixon would' take up official residence become an inhabitant, in the lan^age of the Constitution in some other state. (H course, Lindsay could be the one to move, l^t all the talk has been about Nixon.

Republicans looking to Lindsay as the best running-mate for Nixon have researched the law and find no legal bar to Nixon, for example, temporarily taking up residence in Ohio, the home state of hie mother and father.

The Electoral College doee not meet until mid-December, six weeks after the Nov. 5 election. Thus, taking up temporary' residence in another state, if the vote were so close as to require that, could be done after the election.

This same solution could be used by Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Sen, Eugene McCarthy, both resident of Minnesota, if the Democrats nominate a Humphrey-McCarthy ticket. A possible move of Humphreys residence to the District of (^olumlua hat been discussed by his aides.

Rut that is far less probable than a Nixon-Lindsay shuffle. A native Californian, Nixon moved to New York only after his defeat in 1962 for (governor of California, so a post-election paper transfer of residence would not disturb any deep-seated home ties.

Nevertheless, any arrangement by Nixon to circranvent the Constitution would carry political risks. Research by the Library of Congress discloses that since the 12th Amendment was adopted in 19-

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04, neither party has nominated both President and Vice President from the same state.

One powerful and pro-Nixon Republican leader in Confess, for example, told us that Nixon would destroy his credibility if he ever agreed to the phony sham of establishing

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i Consequences Of Tax Surcharge

Mrs. W. M. Poindexter Jr. and daughta:, Nancye Arthur, are visiting relatives in Winston-Salem and Roaring Gap.

Mrs. Knott Proctor and little son, Knott Jr., left this morning for Morehead City to spend the summer.

Miss Becky Short, who has been spending a few days with Miss Edna Sumrell has returned to her home in Rocky Mount.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Now that some of the dust has settled, it is possible to take a clearer view of the consequences of the new income surtax.

Much of the commentary so far has been of the ouch variety; it has been influenced by the ouch most commentators have felt when they related It to their personal incomes. I, too, have cried ouch, but now that some of the initial pain has eased 1 can reappraise the consequences.

First, further Inflation is not prevented. But, it is being slowed down, nions, however, will increase demands for pay increases to maintain take -home pay. However, with higher taxes to pay and the certainty of more sales resistance, employers will fight demands more firmly. They have to.

Second, sales will decline

and higher prices will be resisted. Treasury figures seem to minimize toe effects on sales. A married man with two dependants and earning $7,-500 a year, would have $1.20 more a week withheld; $2.20 at $10,000 a year; $4 at $15,-000 and $9 at $25,000.

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$11.1 Billion Drain

Families savings are at a record high. Most families are in a position to withdraw a few

dollars a week from their savings to maintain their present standard of living.

But with renewed fears of unemployment, most will hug their savings and buy less. And a tax rise that witooraws $11.6 billion from the spendable income, $8.7 billion this year and $2.9 billion next, is certain to reduce isales by close to those amounts.

Third, unemployment wiU rise, perhaps to more than 4.5 million. Theres a built-in provision in the tax bill that will reduce government employment by 244,000, largely by not filling vacancies, which will keep that many bright young men out of federal service.

Even larger will be disemployment in private indjstry. As consumer sales lag, and as government spending is cut by that $6 billion, few hands will by needed to produce goods.

.Only Few Bargains

Fourth, prices will remain fairly stable. The first Impulse of producers will be to increase prices to maintain after-tax profit. But except in public utilities, this wont be practical. The tax increase will inhibit price hikes in competitive industries and services; with lesser spending power, the gravy wont be there to apoon up.

Fifth, industrial expansion will be cut back. With $6 billion lest in government orders and $11.6 bUUoo lest ta consumer corporate qsending, many projucts will be shelved.

Not all will be, however. M-. ny a corporatioiL seeing a beiw gain in mateM and a ret-'* pite from wage Incrcasee and perhaps, way to use more highly taxed dollars for replacement or expansion, will push plant and equiprneel spending. "