Monday, February 3, 1969

ECU Science Division Stepping Up

Offering of a masters degree in physics at East Carolina University should be applauded.

The university is moving as rapidly as it can to an outstanding level.

The master's degree in physic* is a part of the overall plan.

Even now work is nearing completion on a $3.5 million science complex behind Austin building. One wing of the building will house the physics department and the new facilities should be of the most modern that can be provided. The physics department will soon be moving to its new quarters, leaving behind the cramped and inadequate facilities in Flanagan building.

Obviously the university ha. reached the point where it is ready to offer the masters in phy.sics and this will be an important addition to the science pro-

Curbs Aimed At Nursing Boarc.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH Legislat i v e notebook;

Dr. W. D. James of Hamlet, chairman of the Senate Health committeeris seeking support for a bill which he says would curb the bureaucratic authority of the State Board of Nursing.

The measure, not yet introduced, would repeal a 1%5 act which James cont ends gave the Nursing Board powers over nursing educat i o n and licensing of nurses in North Carolina. He charg e s that the board has abus e d these powers and is acting unto itself as a legislative, judicial and executive agency. He feels the boards standards and requirements f o r nurse ediwation and licensing are directly responsible for contributing to the shortage of bedside nurses.

Dr. James, a surgeon, operates 1 nursing school at Hamlet

He oontwids that the nursing board has harrassed smaller nursing schools tot he extent that many have gone out of business.

They are requiring idiotic courses such as interior decorating, radio - television electronics and other things to qualify for teaching in nursing schools, he said.

Dr. James missed the 1965 session of the legislature at which the nursing school standards were written into law. He served in the 1963 session but in 1964, on a spur of the moment decision, decided to run.tor Congress against Republican Rep. Oiarles R. Jonas and was defeated.

I opposed that legislation very strongly, James said Im here to see that something is done to give our small nursing schools some consideration over the sup

er-nurses.

At Hamlet, James school allows its student nurses to marry after two years. They marry and stay in the state. At Chapel Hill, they graduate and go to another state for higher salaries.

First Standing Vide The first standing vote of the 1969 General Assembly session cam* in the House last week on Rep. Perry Martins motion to reconsider the vote as a resolution to study possible merger of smaller North Carolina counties.

aMartm, from small .Northampton County, said he felt woMing of the resolution usurped legislative privileges of committee study and debate and was an unwise precedent The resolution was introduced by Rep. Jack Baugh o4 .Mecklenburg County.

Rep. Archie McMillan of Wake defended the resolution saying he interpreted it simply as calling for a study by a Mouse subcommitLe. Baugh won a ruling from House Speaker Earl Vauglin that re-con.sideration would not necessarily mean defeat of the resolution and that it w o u Id be referred to another committee.

On an aye and no vote. Vaughn ruled that the nos .vemed to have it Martin reluctantly a.sked for a standing vote, and his motion failed.

Under Baugh's resolution, the study on possible merger and consolidation of some of the states smaller countie.s will be conducted by the House subcommittee in personnel and long range planning.

Veteran Legislative Employe W. V. C. (Top) Dalton perks up his ears when he hears the twang of a mountain voice in the legislative halls.

A mountaineer hims e 1 f, from the hills of Macon County, Dalton shows visitors from the West special favors and courtesies. I love the folks from back home, he says. But he also loves the legislature of North Carolina and has served almost every sessi(Hi for nearly 30 years in one capacity or another. During the present session, he is an assistant sergeant - at-arms stationed at the ma.s-sive gold doors to the Senate chamber.

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Much of thc*industry now coming to Eastern North Carolina will draw heavily on East Carolina Universitys science division. Announcement is expected this week of the location of Burroughs Wellcome pharmaceutical plant here. No doubt this firm and others will be interested in employing quality graduates in the various fields of science from East Carolina University.

Too, the universitys owm interest in the health field.s will require strength in the basic sciences.

East Carolina University should do all that it can to improve its science programs to the point where they are the best in the nation. The Legislature should back this effort with adequate appropriations. to keep faith with the science oriented industries which are locating in the east.

We can see a great future for the ECU science program, coupled with industrial and medical growth in Eastern North Carolina.

Crime Control Fight Begins In Washington

If ever any effort is going to be made to grapple with the steadily increasing problem of crime, certainly it should start in the nations capital.

Washington should be Americas safest city not among the least safe as it now appears to be. After all, for the most part, this beautiful city belongs to 200 million Americans and not to the thugs who seem to think that they can run wild there.

There is hope that something will soon be done. Top advisors have drafted a package of proposals, including the hiring of many additional policemen, to crack down on crime in the capital. It will not be any too soon. Major crimes last year rose 28 percent.

There can be no room for sentiment in dealing with this problem. The rights of individuals must, of cour.se, be protected. However, protection of the innocent includes making it safe for law abiding'citizens to stroll down the street. ^

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tasks, suburban wives 19. Yes, but how about all those hours suburban wives spend driving hubby to and from the railroad station and chauWer-ing the kids to school and parties?

Brighter children have more fun in life. Children in the preteens with a high intelligence quotient, tests at Purdue University indicate, tend to be more cheerful, enthusiastic, venturesome and secure. Those with duller minds were Jess emotionally stable, more sentimental and more self-doubting.

Who is to blame for the population explosion? In this country it appears to be the middJe class, not the poor. Exiperts at the Center tor Population Research say the United Statef now has more children per couple than any other modem industrial nation. Why? Because our middle - class parents feel an ideal family has thres rather than two children.

Australias frontier Outback is so dry that one steer may need a square mile for grazing area to survive. A four-year-old boy wept in fright, reports the National Geographic, when rain 'fr:hed his

face. The lad, bom during a long drought, had never seen water fall from the sky.

Juotable notables: Ufe Is like 1 B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story off^ to me to film. I'd turn it down.actor Kirk Douglas.

The chief crime among our disorderly elderly is heres a surprise public alcoholism. A review of 939 arrests of persons over 60 in San Francisco revealed that more than 80 per cent were jailed for drunkenness, 15 per cent for petty theft and other minor crimes. Only 2 per cent involved crimes against other persons; less than 1 per ent were for sex offenses or for narcotics violations.

Health warning: If your arteries are hardening, beware of shoveling snow and then going indoors and taking a hot shower. The combination of undue exertion followed by a heated shower can precipitate a lethal heart attack, says Dr. Henry L. Taylor, University of Minnesota researcher.

Worth remembering; Tell me w'hat are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of our young men and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. Edmund Burke.

It was C. G. Jung who observed, The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamenta 11 y insoluble. They can ne v e r be solved, but only outgrown.

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The miracle or tlie power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, apnli-cation and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit Mark Twain.

WASHINGTON - One of the groups most affected by the change from a Democratic Administration to a Republican one is the lobbyists of vested interests. Having wined and dined Democrats for the past eight years, the Capitals lobbyists must now convince their clients that are in as solid with the Nixon people as they were with the Kennedy and Johnson appointees.

I happened to stop in to visit a lobbyist friend of mine to find out how he was doing.

He was talking on the phone

as I was ushered in. Dont worry about a thing, Mr. Blathering. As luck would have it my sister went to school with Pat Nixon. . .No, they werent in the same class but they used to pass each other in the hall all the time. . . What do you mean I told you five years ago my sister went to school with Lady Bird Johnson?. . .1 did?. . .Oh, yeah, that was my ctber sister. . .You see, I have two sisters. . .Mr. Blathering, I assure you there isnt a member of the Nixon Administration that I couldnt get on the phone right now. , .Yes,

sir, ru call you back.

My friend saw me standing there. Sit down a minute. He then called his secretary. Did Bob Finch call back yet?

No, sir. Ive called him 12 times.

My friend said, Keen calling.

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Other Editors Say dazy Forecast

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

(Kannapolis Independent)

Winters arent what they used to be, say climatologists and they aren't talking about the blizzard of '88.

Since about 1950, a cooling trend has made winters a bit harsher and summers slightly milder in both North America and Europe. Tliis reverses a warming trend that took place during the first half of the 20th century, says the National Geographic Society.

Paradoxically, the ex p erts suspect that man-created pollution is responsible for both trends.

The warming may have been caused by carbon dioxide, produced by burning coal and oil. The cooling may be due to other forms of pollutiondust and smoke and other particles man is spewing into the air.

One scientist with the Environmental Science Services Administration estimates that the carbon dioxide naturally present in the atmosphere keeps the world about 20 degrees warmer than it would be if the gas were totally absent. A 10 per cent increase in the

amount of carbon dioxide, which is an efficient absorber of heat, could raise temperatures in the lower atmosphere by one half a degree Fahren heit.

This is just akou't what the worldwide temperatures increase has been since 1900. It doesnt sound like much, but it was enough to push the crop line on the Canadian prairies 50 to too miles fartlier north.

On tlie other hand, dust and smoke reflect some of the sun heat back into space. We arc currently manufacturing, warn the climatologists, a nebulous veil of dust that is virtually encircling the world.

Mankind evidently has two alternatives before it. Either we pour more carbon dioxide into tlie air to countwactt he effects of Ule dust, and then more dust to counteract the effects of the carbon dioxide, or we stop polluting the atmosphere entirely.

It is not difficult to guess what it will have to be. There is no advantage In being comfortably warm if you cant breathe.

Whats with the Finch? I asked.

Its a long story. In 1966 1 got a letter from Finch asking me to contribute to his campaign for lieutenant governor of California. I threw the letter in the wastepaper basket.

That was a stupid thing to do, I said.

Well, how the hell was 1 do know that someday hed be secretary of health, education and welfare?

What good is talking to him now?

Im going to explain to him the letter got lost, and I dont want him to think I forgot.

Do you believe hell buy that?

I guess not, he said, discouraged. But I have to think of something to c o n-vince my clients Ive got influence with the Nixon Administration. If I could only get invited to one of those Billy Graham prayer sessions at the White House.

Theyre not open to the public, I said.

It really doesnt seem fair, he said. You work with people for eight years, (Continued On Page 5)

Power IJ Bidding

L By ROWLAND EVANS and r ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - No sooner had President Johnson announced his decisi<Mi Dec. 19 in the malevolently contested Transpacific air route case than two major airlines American and Eastern began a quick search for Republican rainmakers.

They were shrewdly looking ahead to the prospect that President Nixon, once in office, might well wipe out his predecessors decision awarding lucrative air routes to Hawaii and the Orimt And that is precisely what happened on Jan. 24, in an atmosphere polluted by suspicion that decisions by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) and Mr. Johnson might have been influenced by rainmakers lobbyists on airline payrolls and lawyers with airline accounts with supposed political power.

Actually, neither American nor Eastern succeeded in their first audacious effoii to secure rainmakers in the new Administration. But the incident confirms that the rain-making syndrome afflicting the regulatory process is fuL ly bipartisan in nature.

Under the Democratic regime, Americans payrolls were brimming with cronies. Although a CAB examiners decision reached aftw* nearly three years of scholarly deliberations awarded American nothing, the politi-cally . conscious CAB itself handed the line a rich harvest of routes to Japan through Hawaii.

However, acting on a State Department recommendation. President Johnson sharply disappointed his old budges at American by killing the boards award of the Tokyo route because of jMotests from Japan. Thus, American joined the list of disappoinlCd airlines lobbying for a reopening of the case by Mr. Nixon. Discreetly, it began scouting about for another law firm.

Its choice: the Parii Avenue firm of Royall, Koegel, Rogers & Wells. Whatever this firm might lack in aviation industry experience is more than made up by its potential as a Republican rainmaker. Superb in their Republican credentials, the firms partners include William P. Rogers, Mr. Nixons Secretary of State.

When Anwican made its proposal, the Rogers firm, immediately realizing the potential for scandal, firmly declined.

But American was outdone in the quest for Republican influence by Eastern, an airline sadly lacking in Democratic rainmakers. It may well have suffered for t h a t lack. Recommended a rich collectitHi of badly needed routes to the South Pacific via Hawaii by the jH'ofessional examiner, Eastern was shut out of anything at all by the board itself. Thus, nwe than any other airline, Eastern stood to gain by a reopentog of the case.

In view of this, an EJastern emissary discreetly explored the propsect of hiring none other than the Wall Street firm of Nixon, Mudge, R o se, Guthrie, Alexander & Mitchell, another highly reputable firm perhaps somewhat deficient in aviation knowhow but surpassing even the Rogers firm in political clout.

Apart from Mr. Nixon himself, another senior partner John Mitchell is the new (Contiraed Ob Page I)Strength For To(day Continu6d Rise In Housing Volue

BOTH - WITH BALANCE

I have no interest in tlie-ology. Being a practical per son, my intereit is in practical achievement both for myself and the world at large. You can dump theology over-board so far as 1 am concerned.

Thus reason some people, and they could hardly be more mistaken. Before we can have any practical achievements we must have certain theories, thoughts,' philosophy behind these practical schemes. It is bad indeed when the Church gives too much time to speculating on theology and neglects the human aspects of its ministry, but it is also bad, unwise, unprofitable, and intellectually sterile when men try to heave theology overboard and stick to what they

call a practical religioii.s lite.

We can become so practical at timea that we become impractical. A thing does not necessarily work because we attach the word practical to it. In fact, it ean be said with some confidence that the people who are always boasting about thfir practical approach to life are often wanting in their capacity to make any approach to any problem that could be called intellectual or intelligent. Let us still learn, and if we think v e can enclose everytliing witlun the limits which we term practical we are likely to end up disillusioned, disheartcd, and discredited.

Shall I be theoretical or practical? Bothbut with plenty of common .sense and balance.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER R0E8SNER

The ri.se in mortgage inter r.st rates will not slow down home building if builders merchandise mortgages as well as hou.sing.

Interest rates are indeed liicli. In its first financial move, the Nixon administib-lion raised the interest ceil mortgages trom 6% per cen* inq on govei nment-insured to 72 per cent The U.S. insures Federal Housing Admi-ni.stration and Vei?*an .\dmi-ni.stration morrgiiges

This action did not r a i e mortgag3 inSciest rates. It recognized the reality that mortgage interest rates. It sible to get below the new coiling.

Savings and loan association deposits declined last year, causing them to lift their interest rates as hava insuranct

companies. Savings bank rales are up and big commercial banks are little interested in mortgages at any rate. The Silver Lining.

However, unless inflation is checked, and that is not likely in our lifetime, the value of well constructed housmg will continue to rise. The value of a good house, kept in good repair, can be expected to increase 3 or 4 per cent a year if inflation continues at recent rates. Even when housing is not kept up. the land value will ri.se at an even higher rate because of hedging and speculation in land.

In addition, housing in line of suburban growth will increase even more. The growth of tree.s and shrubbery can add a bit.

So, on average, if nou.sing inrrea.tes 4 per cent a year

in value, the cost of an 8 per cent mortgage is reduced by at least half.

Home buyers should make .sure that the mort[| ge caji-be paid of without se^e

, after a few years. Then, if mortgage rates do come down some future day, the home owner can replace the mortgage with one at a lower interest rata.

Other Look-Aheads Here are more things in businesss future:

Clothing prices, despite a lag in current buying, will go up. Labor and material costs have risen.

Major electrical appliances will rise, too. W. H. Dennler, General Electrical vica president, said it if having difficulty holding the priw line and if GE cant, who can?

Carpeting will rise in price at retail. Manufacturers nave boosted their prices around * per cent.

More prolific sheep are coming. TTie U.S. Department of Agriculture has Imported Some Finnish Landrace aheep. After a period of quarantine, they will be distributed to experimental stations and eventually to sheep growers. The breed bears two or four lambs per pregnancy.