Thursday, January 9, 1969

A Welcome Change In The Pattern

The tou^h part of the jpb will be two.fold.

Obviously Gov. Scott isnt going to insist that fn" \Vrth "^CaroniT'chi^ T f''' th.n-e-will'be the problem of'hefpigsma

at small towns and rural areas Neither iithene^ 11"*' 1'*' * information on them-

partment of Consenalion and navalnnmi t ^ sehe.s "hich industry must have to consider them

to take most itTlnriuirial P''*''>' locations. Secondly, there must be a pos-

prospects to cross-road itive approach which can inHiitrp! nn fho qc_

communitie.s all across the state to the exclusion of pleasant cities and towns.

^ ^ Even so, the announced intent of the new administration to seek to steer more industries into rural areas should be of encouragement to manv sections where job opportunities are not what they should be and where youngsters look toward other areas when they begin thinking about a life-time

^ North rarolina o rr. * ,4 1 r ... Development Institute'already h^s en-

upd uiu 1. rf. communities and rural areas which pre-

appro^h which can sell industries on the assets of rurallocations and overcome the suggestion

that they are being steered into the stickSi---------------

Fortunately for this part of North Carolina, the Regional Development Institute at .East Caro-lina University already has done considerable work in helping small communities apd rural areas develen the kind nf nfnrmQfinri vi 4

\elop the kind of information on themselves which industries will need. This important phase of the

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH The impending resignation of Ralph Howland as commis.sioncr of the Department of Motor Vehicles everyone, including Gov. Bob Scott, a bit by surprise.

The governor's office, in the throes of getting organized on Its first full day of work, was caught unprepared. Howland

required by a new Industrial plant arrange proper introductions with the right pros-

-------- pccts, the kind of balanced, broad development

North Carolina has looked forward to mav become a reality.

Make no mistake about It, the pattern of Industrial location in North Carolina will not abrupt-l.v change during the next four years. The majoritv of new industries, we would guess, will still' lean toward those areas which already have considerably industry. Notwithstanding that fact, additional emphasis on the part of the administration in locating industnes in rural areas will have its impact.

The four years could mean manv hundreds of new indu.strial jobs in rural areas where thev are now lacking. Thi.^ new emi^hasis could help'raise per capita income in manv of the states less wealthv

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and offer the further asset of being easilv acces-snble To major communities and yet without the congestion of highly developed areas.

Some Surprise In ResignatioK

Others said they felt Howland had decided to resign

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missioners have suffered at

CtOv. Scott IS to be commended for

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had come in to see Scott but for.several hours the governor's aides denied any knowledge of Howlands submitting a formal letter of resignation effective Feb. 1 and would neither conlirm nor deny the re-porLs.

Finally, during the afternoon, a press spokesman for the new administration raid he expected a statement or comment later in the day.

An obvious implication was that Howland had acted on his ownchoosing to act now rather than to wait out what might be coming later. Disappointment E.xprcssed

eaving the governor s office. Howland told newsmen he was not going to comment that any formal annonnce-ment would come from the governors office at an appropriate time.

Very shortly however the fact of Howlands letter of resignation presented to Scott was confirmed by usually reliable sources.

There were expressions of shock and surprise as the news spread. Many highly placed sources said they hoped Scott would refuse to accept the resignation and ask Howland to stay on as the chief of DMV.

the hands of critical and sniping legislators and legislative committees. Motor Vehicles administration and the State Highway Patrol have been favorite targets of legislative criticism for many years and there has been an increasing amount of criticism of the department lately. Howland was unhappy about this.

First Major Post Howlands was .ne first major administrative post in state government to be vacated following the change in administrations, and he obviously hoped it would be filled in a non-poliiical capacity.

Howland, a former Raleigh and Washington newspaperman, has been on leave from an executive position with Chatham Manufacturing Co., Elkin, for several years. He joined the campaign of Gov. Dan Moore in 1964 in an ad-vi.sory capacity and Moore later appointed him to succeed A Pilston Godwin as DMV commissioner. Godwin was appointed a Superior Court judg Scott had indicated, at least indirectly, that he would postpone making most major administrative appointments for a few months, and apparently did not foresee the DMV vacancy occurring immediately-

Sources said they had no idea about whom Scott might appoint to succeed Howland nor when he might make such an appointment.

The earliest word of Howland's possible intention to re-.sign leaked out when newsmen heard of a delay in printing special decals for members of the 1969 General Assembly.

These decals permit special parking privileges and provide other identity and are signed with the official signaUire of the commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Howland demurred on affixing his signature to the ne wdecals. This raised suspicions as to Howlands intentions to stay in DMV post.

early in his administration to ^ive the kinyoTaeVive positive .support *ich so Ion? has been needed hy many rural areas.

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NEW YORK (AP) _ Junk mail is regarded bv most people as one of the major nuisances of our times. Or so they say.

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They say, It must cost the government millions of dollars to deliver this junk. Thats what they saybut do they really mean what they say?

In most cases they probably dont. They are simply kidding themselves. Secretly they love junk mail. For junk mail serves a needed purpose in our rut-ridden civilization. It bolsters small egos and acts as a cheerleader in starved lives.

For example, let us suppose you are Henry Quietus Abernathy. You don't really amount to much in the big worlds eye.

You haven't done much In the past, and the likelihood is that you wont do much in the future.

At office or factory your boss regards you as a small cog, a chair filler or wrench turner. At home your frowzy wife eternally berates you for not earning more money.

If you try to order vour kids to do something, tHey laugh at you. Even you fond mother in her heart thinks of you as the dullest of her brood.

Yes, poor Henry Quietus A; nathy, you are a human nullity, pretty small potatoes indeed.

You are, that is, until you come home and pull out a double handful of junk mail from your crowded letter box. Ah, then you come into

your own, Henry Quie t u s Abernathy. You are not at a last-place runner in the hu-man race to the junk mail people. To them Henry Quietus Abernathy is Mr. Biga VIF, a Very Important Fellow.

They ask your dont they, Henry? They need your help, don t they, Henry?

Corporations ask you to test their new p r o d u cts. What do you think of our new plastic walnut wipers, Mr. Abernathy?

Politicians beg for your support. All of us together, Mr. Abernathy, can bring back the old-fashioned pioneering spirit and make this again a land that will serve as a beacon to mankind.

Charities and philanthropies by the score appeal to you. How can we let so many cases of anemia go untreated in Samoa, Mr. Abernathy? Wont you send us a bundle of old clothes, Mr. Abernathy, so that the forgotten poor in

A Strong Wind Blowing

Those who undertake to read the currents of public opinion are engaged in a difficult art Such tides never can be predicted to the fraction of an inch. Mostly its guesswork or just plain hunch. But its a good bet that Californias Governor Reagan has sensed public attitudes exactly in his resolute statement on campus violence.

The Governor ran into newsmen this past Sunday at the Sacramento airport. It was the day before San Francisco State College was scheduled to reopen. Reagan was asked for comment. He paused deliberately; then he laid It on the line.

Those who want to get an education, those who want to teach, should be protected in that at the point of bayonet if necessary. The college has to be kept open.

I dont care what force it takes. That force must be applied.

Hallelujah! That is precisely what should have been said and done all along. It is amazing, in retrospect, that such eminent men as Grayson Rirk of Columbia ever could have lost track of the truth that Reagan stated so bluntly. The campus of a college of university is like any other community. In the presence of violence, the rights of the law-abiding residentsthe students who want to learn, the teachers who want to teachhave to be defended at any cost. These come first. Any compromise with this principle is an invitation to anarchy.

A year or so ago, Reagan's statement would have provoked moans, groans and gasps from the intellectual com-

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Opinions in Brie'

Labor disputes are getting more interesting every day. Australian airline stewardesses, after a long dispute with management, have just won the right to wear a bra of any color under a see-through blouse, as long as they keep their jackets on. - Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

The vigor of our country is no stronger than the vitality and will of all our countrymen.John F. Kennedy.

(Kinston Free Press) Governor Bob Scott has prom.ised his administrat i o n will be one adhering to the open door policy, which invites inquiry and communications from all the people at all times. It is the best approach he could make in face of the many complicated problems and issues facing the Senate.

Another significant development the past week gives the public hope for t^en door legislative actions at the 1969 term opening January 15 also. State Sen. N. H. McGeachy, Democrat from Cumberland County, and chairman of the powerful Senate Rules Committee, says he will seek to open most joint appropriations subcommittee sessions to the public.

Chairman McGeachy sa i d: I think this is badly needed so the general public and

most members of the General Assembly will know what happens. TTie committee and the entire Senate should concur in this view and make it legislative policy for 1969 and the future.

There have been times when executive or secret sessions even of special subcommittees in the General Asse-bly have been deemed advisable. Such sessions have been widely used by some in the past. The practice always leaves some doubt as to motives and direction of legisla- and live action which may be discussed in closed door situations. We believe Gove r n o r Scott and Chairman McGrea-chy are correct in the view that the open door policy is fairest to all concerned.

We commend all who will seek to provide that sort of government in North Carolina now and in the future.

munity. No more. The professors and presidents who have cond(Mied the outrages, and sought to appease the firebrands, have gone out of rtyle. Increasingly, the public demand is to expel the Fascist students and to fire the faculty members who enter into conspiracy with them. These militants can respect the rights of others, or they can get out. Its as simple as that, and no phony invocations of tenure or academic freedom or the right to dissent should be heeded any longer.

The firmness voiced in California by Governor Reagan is not unique. Other responsible administrators have taken the same high-principled view. The trustees of Worcester Potylechnic fiistitute adopted a statement of policy last Junea copy has just come across my desk that provides a model for every college in the land.

The Wwcester statement opens by affirming the institutes belief in individual freedom. But academic freedom is not academic license, and the right to criticize and protest is not the right to disrupt or to interfere with the freedom of others. The statement continues:

Students enter Worcester Tech voluntarily. They apply presumably because they wish to further their education and hopefully because they believe Worcester Tech, with its traditions and reputation, is capable of advancing their intellectual attainments. Students cometo learn, to be guided, not to direct. If they do not like some of the rules policies of Worcester Tech, they do not have to enter. But let it be understood that having been accepted, and having decided to enter, they are expected to abide by the laws of our nation and comply with the rules and policies of Worcester Tech. Criticisms and suggestions are always in order (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

Now Anti-Inflotion Insurance

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON -Presidentelect Nixon is now planning to issue this private warning to the North Vietnamesa in Paris: if Hanois negotiators refuse to compromise, they run the risk of a U. S. military reaction possibly including a resumption of full-scale bombing of the North.

That is part of a hard-line stand which the Nixon foreign policy team will resume when they take over tht Paris negotiations on Jan. 21 in an attempt to get down to serious business.

Although the word ultimatum is not being used in discussions by Mr. Nixon and his foreign policy consultants, the effect of the present plan is not far from it But absolutely ruled out is any implication to Hanoi that U. S. action might include the u.se of nuclear weapons.

Thats what distinguishes Mr. Nixons Vietnam scenario from Gen. Eisenhowers Korean ploy in 1953. The Eisenhower warning carried the specific implication that nuclear weapons might be employed. Partly as a res u 11, the North Koreans buckled down to serious bargaining and the war ended that summer.

Word that Mr. Nixon intends to make this start towa r d early settlement of the Vietnam war fits his decision to retain Ellsworth Bunker as U.

S. Ambassador in Saigon, the only top-level carryover from the JohnscHi administration.

Bunker has been skeptical about Secretary of Defc n s e Clark Giffords strong words against stalling at Paris by the Saigon regime. Keep i n g Bunker on the job sho u 1 d give the South Vietnamese new heart and reduce the possibility that panic in Sa i g o n could lead to a government crisis.

Also Iflcely to mollifv Saigon is Mr. Nixons designation of Henry Cabot Lodge to succeed Averell Harriman at top U. S. negotiator at the Paris peace talks. Howe ver, while Lodge was well-loved in Saigon during two terms at Ambassador, he may turn out to be less to Saigons liking in Paris than President Thieu and Vice President Ky think. Before Lodge went to Bonn as Ambassador early last year, he confessed to friends a subtle change of heart about long-range U. S. prospects, induced by the Communist Tet offensive in February.

In short. Lodge is likely to be less a bellicose pleader on behalf of the Thieu-Ky regime and more an advocate of a genuine compromise than he was when he left Saigon in 1967.

Nor do the Bunker and I-odge appointments mean that Mr. Nixon is not mak-ing an end of the war the first business of his Administration or that he has hardened his position. Rather, the President-elect Is determmed to use the Paris forum to hammer out a compromise but is insisting the compromise be genuine. He is ruling out one-wav negotiations.

Mr. Nixon is aware that. If the final settlement has the appearance of a U. S. surrender, however it mav be camouflaged, the impace on the Soviet Union - and U.S. allies around the woHh _ could be disastrous. The appearance of an American defeat, as Mr. Nixons advli-(CoBtinned On Page S)

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Can you sail fa.ster with the wuid or against it^

)Vell, that de|)cnds of cour.se on the run of the tide. If one has the tide with him. he can sail straight into the teeth of the wind by tacking back and forth and make exhilarat i ng progress. But if the fide is running against him, even through our lives. The tide of with the wind he seems only to move at a snail'.s pace.

We are usually held back in the most importaiu of all voyages by the des whieh r,in thrugh our lives, the tide of melancholy can make t h e voyage dismal even though the sails are bellied with a vigorous breeze. Kesentm e nt, self -pity and jealousywhat

tides these are and how they hold lives back, no matt e r how privileged the conditions amid which they exist.

The sturdy souls are the ones who leam to sail against the wind, it can be done, but it takes skill and patience. The sails have to be set in such a way that a wind blowing straight against the boat will carry it not backwards but forwards. .And a good sailor always acquaints himself with the state of the tides when he plans for a sail. He knows what the current can do to him.

So lot us watch the tid e s and let us lever forget that God in his mercy ma k e s them run to our advantage and we, often to our undoing.

Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

Inflation clobbers insurance buyers more than any other group. Savers, its true;-get pretty well chewed up, but they get interest on their savings, which offsets the effects of inflation as long as they are not in a high tax bracket.

The man who took out an insurance policy 20 years ago to guarantee funds so tliat his iirst-born could afford a college education, today finds that he has only enough to get the lad through his soph-more year. And if the college fees have gone up as some institutions have boosted theirs, the boy mav be lucky to pay his way through his frosh year.

It is comforting to know, then, that this month insurance companies will be offering anti-inflation policies in 24

states. Authorization is pending in the others.

These policies increase their coverage automatically by 1 per cent every three months. Not Perfect Hedges

Thus, a $50,000 policy would pay $70,000 after 10 years.

The increase is not for free, of course. Policies with that clause (insurance men don't call them gimmicks) will cost from about 2 to 8 per cent more than comparable policies without Jhe clause

These policies are not a perfect hedge. It is entirely possible that the rate of inflation will in some future years greatly i exceed the current rate. Its still possible that a $50.000 policy taken out today will yield enough for a champagne dinner for two in 1989. But at least it is a lot better than a policy wlose value in inflating dollars con

stantly deteriorates, insurance For Mutual Shares?

Meanwhile, an insurance company has come up with an idea to insure mutual fund investors against losses caus-

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ed by the market. This does not involve inflation, since mutual funds are in themselves hedges against inflation

- Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. proposes to insure investors against any decline in the redemption value to mutual fund shares.

Again, the cost is not cheap. The insurance company proposes charging $60 per $1,000 of insured value, which amounts to 0.6 per cent of the investment. Policies arc to mature in 10, m and 15 years.

The policies would be sold to the mutual funds themselves, who in turn would sell them to investors.

Hareysvilles proposal is pendmg before Pennsylvania insurance authorities. Regardless of how they act, its a safe bet that dozens of othr insurance companies are planning similar proposals, and soon some state ^11 approve

It will be the biggest boon to mutual fund sales since they were first put on the market. Imagine salesmen offering an investment that cant lose and yet could build a fortune!