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Wednesday, January 29, 1969

Morehead Port Development Needs

Cities and counties of the central Coastal Plains should give their full support to efforts aimed at increasing state appropriations for development of the Morehead port.

The states recommended budget proposes some capital improvements at the Wilmington port, but none at Morehead.

While this newspaper has long supported the development of the AV'dmington port, we feel such a slighting of Morehead would be a great disservice to the Coastal Plains, as well as the state as a whole. The cities of Greenville, Rocky Mount, Wilson, Kinston. Goldsboro, New Bern and other municipalities in this area are seeihg increased industrial development. It is most important that the area have an adequate, easily accessable deep sea port if industry is to continue to come.

The population center of the east is in these thriving, growing cities located in the corridor east of Raleigh. It is logical to assume that these cities

will continue to grow and to attract industiy. If this is to happen, however, it is essential that good port facilities be made available at Morehead.

An excellent four lane highw'ay is now being constructed through the east, on U. S. 70, to Morehead. Greenville is tied into this with a dual lane route along N. C. 11 to Kinston. Thus trucks will have adequate access to Morehead along a first class highway. Adequate rail service is already available.

The central area of the Coastal Plains have a great stake in the development of the Morehead port and this area should do all it can to see that funds are made available.

To us it is not a matterof taking away from the Wilmington port. Both sWuld be provided for. But already we can see that if capital improvement funds are not appropriated for the Morehead port, then that ports facilities are not going to be adequate to handle what they should in the years ahead.

It is a part of the easts development that should be looked after and here in the central Coastal Plains we have a strong enough voice to bring it about.

Lets see that the job is done.

Competing For

Young Voters Legislature Would Be

Taking Logical Step

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH -- A well known North Carolina Democrat was telling an audience in Washington, N. C., that the Democratic party was the first to ay that we care about people.

Meanwhile, at Kannapolis, the chairman of the state Republican executive committee was saying that the Republican party is the party of young people and has much to offer youth.

The GOP chairman, J i m Holshouser of Boone, himself is only 34 years old. But he has been in a position of active leadership in the Republican party statewide and in the legislature for nearly 10 years.

He told a Young Republicans meeting in Kannapolis that the Democrats talk of being the party 7r the voung, but it is the Republican party that offers positions of (political). leadership.

We are interested in the views of the young people, he said.

Sanfords View

Another relatively young Rian prominent in state political affairs for quite a few years, former Gov. Terry Sanford, echoed Holshousers view about young people becoming involved in politics, but from a different standpoint.

I am proud to be in po-Htics and proud to be in the ! Democratic party and together we can shape the destiny of North Carolina because thats what politics is all about, Sanford told an eastern North Carolina audience.

We are not in a political party just to be in, or just because we were bom into it, or just because we want to

win, Sanford insisted. He defied a political party as a mechanism by which to shape political activity and therefore shape the course of public affairs.

Appeal To Youth In effect, both Sanford snd Holshouser were making appeals for partism support by young voters at a time when the state faces the situation of having a Republican president and GOP administration in Washington and a Democratic administration in Raleigh.

Both were looking to the future.

Sanford said, while we may not always understand or support what goes on in Washington or Raleigh, it is best to consider the overall direction rather than the day-to-day decisions of such programs. The answer, he said, lies not in switching party allegiance nor dropping out of the political scene entirely. In North Sarolina, he said, it is working within the Democratic party to get the programs that we, in North C:ar-olina, need and want. Holshouser asked his Republican audiencemostly young voters can we afford the luxury of sitting back and not becoming involved in politics?

GOP Gains Holshouser pointed to definite political gains registered by Republicans in North Carolina in recent years.

At present, there are Republican sheriffs in 28 of the states 100 counties. There are more than 100 Republicans serving on boards of county commissioners. There are 41 Republicans in the General Assembly. There are four GOP members of Congress from North Carolina.

We expect to add two or three more Republican congressmen in 1970 and a Republican governor in 1972, he said.

From the angle of youth, Holshouser said the Republican candidate for governor in

1968 was 35, and GOP candidate for lieutenant governor 34 and seven of nine GOP candidates for Congress were under 40. The average age of Republican members of the

1969 legislature is 36.

Certainly the Legislature should go to work immediately to implement a study commissions recommendation for more self rule by local governments in North Carolina.

For many years it is been recognized that tlie countless local legislation which the General Assembly handles every two years, is a pointless procedure. The local bills are virtually always approved by the Legislators, if they are recommended by the local representative. Thus they memely take up legislative time that should be devoted to more important tasks.

More often than not, the municipalities and counties are held up in important projects until the next General Assembly can meet and pass a local bill.

There were a number of specific proposals In the recommendations. The Legi.slature should study these carefully and take steps this session municipal and county governments.

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ART BUCHWALD

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By JOE WING

NEW YORK (AP) - New York is a great place to visit unless you have to visit it five times a week via the Long Island Rail Road.

A^s railroads go, the Long Island is something spec i a 1. Only a minor portion of its revenue comes from freight, and each day on its 343 miles of track it hauls a quarter of a million commuters.

You have to look beh i n d such figures, however, to get the big picture.

Long Island passengers, dubbed Dashing Dans by the railroads publicity office are not dashing that ^ast these days. They have slowed down considerably since the road pulled out of bankruptcy two years ago through its* sale by the Pennsylvania Rail Road to the state of New York for $65 million.

In bankruptcy and under the supervision of a hot railroader named Thomas H. Good-fellow, the Lng Island spruced up the morale of passengers and crews. Trains seemed to run more nearly on time. Passengers could ride tn engine cabs on occasion, borrow umbrellas on rainy days, choose the color of their stations. They were even kept advised by loudspeakers about the causes of delays.

So they started to forget old jokes like the one about the would-be suicide who carried a lunch when he lay down on the tracks lest he starve to death before the train arrived.

Then the Metropolitan Transportation Authority took over under Dr. William J. Ron-an. He figured he would have remaining problems straightened out in a year or two. But some of his moves back

fired.

New trains ordered are not yet in service. Maintanance was cut on old trains, and union men walked out because they said the trains werent safe. Passengers complained they were dirty and decrepit. There was a whiskey reWlion when some of the trainmen balked because road officials were seen cock-tailing, while the train men werent supposed to touch the stuff at lunch. There were strikes and slowdowns and delays in opening doors and shutting doors until I, like others, began asking fellow travelers, as a matter of routine, How did you make out last night?

Finally there was a rebellion. Passengers began to organize and one group demanded a ten-point bill of rights. Another bunch, after weary delays in a cold car, refused to offer their tickets to the conductor. Others here and there followed suit. A few got themselves arrested on that account.

Meantime the road was saying that passengers would have to pay $16 more a month for commutation tickets if the unions current demands were met. Sixteen a month? Thats more than I used to pay altogether for such a ticket, though the tab now runs to $40.

I suppose I could get away from it all by joining one of those car pools that keep forming and breaking ap. But then, how would I read my paper, or make new friends, or kibitz bridge games, dr order a Scotch in the bar car? Its hard to do thi n g s like that In bumper-to-bump-er traffic.

Dear President Nixon,

This will be the first of many letters I will write to you in the next four years telling you how to run the country. Youll be very happy to hear that there is no charge for this advice as I feel its my duty as a loyal American to help the President solve the many problems

of the day.

Now the first thing, Mr. President, I think youre going to have to stop is the jokes. I watched you on television making the rounds of the inaugural balls last week, and while I chuckled as much as you did at everything you had to say, my fear is tha< you cant keep up that high pace

Other Editors Say Ending The Draft

of humor and also perform the duties of President of the United States.

The trouble with being President and using witty lines is that by the third time youve told them everyone in the country has heard them, and you get to sound like a recorded announcement.

ART

BUCHWALD

(Hiristlaii Science Monitor)

Realisin will need to govern the ^President and the Congress when they wrestle with the question of what to do about Americas unpopular military draft. If a Selective Service System is needed to provide manpower for Vietnam, then until that war is more nearly finished, the draft will have to continue.

Of course the Paris talks may produce conditions, before long, which will permit the United States to begin a major withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. In that case there would be no reason why Congress should not begin consideration of such a measure as that proposed in the Senate just now by seven Republicans and two Democrats a measure to abolish the draft and substitute a well-paid, all-volunteer professional army.

But as of right nowas of this minute the Pentagon maintains that the draft is needed to fill the necessary quotas. Sen. Mark Hatf'eld of Oregon, a major advocate of

the all-voluntecr professional army, argues that only 15 percent of the enlisted men today are draftees. But it is also true that the very exis tence of the draft induces men to volunteer and thus b; f I the totals of the nondraftees.

Few people defend the draft as presently administered. Young men resist losing two years out of their lives. Many denounce the draft because they abominate the war in Vietnam. It is argued that the well-to-do can avoid service, as by remaining in college, so that the poor and the blacks share of the quotas. The draft is also criticized because deferments are administered by local draft boards, so that standards vary considerably.

Whether a professional army would provide sufficient manpower to protect the far-flung interests of the United States, would have to be determined by Congress. The proposal launched by the bipartisan Senate group would increase the pay of enlisted men by $100 a month, thus costing the government $3.7 billion additional a year.

Im not saying you shouldnt have humor in your Administration, because heaven knows the country needs a laugh, but I think you could, turn his problem over to your' Vice President, Mr. Agnew, or if worse your secretary of the interior, Walter Hickel.

As a matter of fact, there are many people in Washington, inducing Congress, the Supreme Court and the Pcn-tagwi, who can p^bvide the laughs for this country, without you having to wclfk on your own humor.

Its a strain to come up with quips every day, and while there is no doubt in my mind that you could do it, I dont want you to feel you have to. Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge did tremendous jobs as Presidents, and I doubt if youll find six humorous things either olie of them said that people are still quoting.

I must admit you had a (Continued On Page i>

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Sen. J. W. Fulbrigbt, chairman of tiie Senate Forei^ Relations Committee, is not the same man who one year ago flatly refused to take testimony behind closed doOTs from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, insisting on public testimony or none at all.

When Rusks Republican successor, William P. Rogers, came to Capitol Hill for routine questioning on his c o n-firmation, Fulbright actually offered a closed - door session to spare him any possible embarrassment.

This is just one piece of evidence to show how sharply the view of the State Department has changed as seen from Fulbrights musty, elegant old Foreign Relations Committee room in the Capitol. There are many ot h e r pieces.

Shortly after the election, for example, Richard M. Nixon telephoned Fulbright, just elected to his fifth Sena t e term from Arkansas, for mutual congratulations. But the exchange was pregnant with Innuendo about the relat i o n-ship between Fulbri g h t, whose sharp criticism c o n-tributed to President Johnsons fall, and the new Administration.

That wasn't their last private talk. After making his early December surprise decision to name Rogers Secretary of State, Mr. Nixon discussed that and other appointments in detail witn Fulbright.

Since then, the relationship has sweetened, creating a mood of civility and cooperation between Fulbright and the State Department dramatically different from the last three years of acrimony.

One reasMi for this unusual atmosphere is Fulbright'* high estimate of both Rogers's ability and his power in the Administration. Rogers has more influence with Mr. Nixon over the control of top-level appointments than any other Cabinet member. C o n-fides a White House aide: Bill Rogers put a hands-off sign at the State Department, and the politicians know he can enforce it.

Thus, Mr. Nixons campaign pledge to clean out the department from top to bottom is a dead letter, and Fulbright gives Rogers much of the credit.

Far more important, Fulbright is convinced that Rogerss view of the war in Vietnam (which destroyed his relationship with Rusk) is close to his own. Having spent the last three years in limbo far outside the perimeter of the Johnson administration, F u 1-brlght is now doing some highly unusual things to hiake life easier for Republican Rogers and his Administration.

For instance, Fulbright is scrupulously rejecting all the Sunday TV quiz shows, on the ground that he might inadvertently say something embarrassing to the Nixon administration on Vietnam.

When pressure for more U. S. help to victims of the civil war in Nigeria reached a new peak, Rogers offered to come before Fulbrights committee and review what could be done. Fulbright said thanks, but the testimony was-

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Electric, Steam Cars Not Ready

Strength For Today

THE TRUE KIND AND THE FALSE

What is tolerance?

Some people would interpret tolerance to mean a willingness to reduce ones convictions to zero. Let no man say that the truths to which he subscribes are any more valuable than those held by other men. Truth is way of looking at things. Furthermore truth is a matter of time, or community custom, or prevailing philosophy.

Thus reason some people. But is this true tolerance? The only man, that can be truly* tolerant of the beliefs of others is the man who holds very firm convictions of his own and who is quite convinced of the finality of these beliefs. Because h holds belief

to be such a precious thing, he readily recognizes the disposition of other men to do tha same. The tolerant man is not one who says that beliefs do not matter. They matter a great deal to himin fact, so much that he is willing to endure anything that both he and other men may have the right to pursue their beliefs unimpeded.

A great thinker centuries ago gave us the only formula that will ever work: In essentials, unity; in things doubtful, tolerance; in all thing love.

There is a false kind of tolerance being advocated today and we need to avoid it. It is packed with unwisdom.. Real tolerance and deep conviction go together.

By Earl L, Douglas*

By ELMER ROESSNER

It doesnt look af if the ele-tric car or the steam - engine auto are coming back In the foreseeable future.

There was a burst of enthusiasm over the return of the battery - driven car last year when students from the Califomia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology drove electric cars from coast to coast. The Cal Tech group reported that recharging cost only $25 for their trip while gasoline fuel would have cost, with taxes, from $75 to $100.

Ford, Fiat, Austin, General Motors and American motors disclosed that they were working on electric cars, in fart some had been working on a revival of the battery-powered car for several years. However, since then Ford is reported to have lost its enthusiasm and Henry Ford II remarked, I dont see the electric car as a feasi-^ ble method of transportation in my lifetime. However, Uie BriUsb Ford company is

developing the Comuta, an electric car about half the length of the Mustaftg. Electric milk trucks are common in Britain.

Once Plentfhil

Electric cars are not new. They were introduced in 1887, about the same time the internal combustion eng i n c cars were first put on the market. By 1900 2,000 electric taxis started New Yorks now famous traffic congestion and, in 1916, 6,000 autos and 4,000 trucks were sold. In 1938 the Dtroit Electric Ck). made its last juice btiggy.

The electric auto passed out largely because of its lack of high speed. Most would not get above 25 miles an hour. Battery recharging was often a problem.

Old - timers talk about the famous Stanley Steamer, how smooth it generated power and how nobody had ever let one out to its fullest speed. But the American Automobile Association says steam autos will probably never come back.

Research shows that they required as much as 10 minutes to raise steam bef o r e starting off; that risks of freezing the water supply were great; that more water had to be added every 40 miles, and that a steam car re

quired three times as much fuel as a gasoline - powered car of the same weight.

Still Some Hope

Of course, a steam car could be advised with an auxiliary gasoline motor for quick starts, and water could be insulated and re-used, but nobody secs to be working on the problem today.

Ail m enthusiasm for the

electric car is not lost, however. Dr. Leslie K. Gulton, president of Gulton Industries Inc., which makes electronic batteries among other things, says that a small electric car, somewhat smaller than present compacts, could be sold at $2,000,

They could be mechanically simpler than conventional cars, last longer and require fewer repairs, he added.

Electric . cars would make ideal second cars, he said. About 90 per cent of all trips would make ideal second cars, he said. About 90 per cent of all trips are less than 20 miles, ideal for electr i c cars.

And running around the streets of Dublin today is an experimental electric car developed by Jim Lacey, i lecturer, and Prof. John V. Byrne, both of University College. The car runs on conventional batteries weighi n g 560 pounds and is said to cost about 6 cents for every 40 mil-les to operate.