Tuesday, March 25, 1969

ECU Planning, Building For Goal

As expected, B^ast I'aroliiia luivr>itys request lor iutids to bciii nieuicai tHlucalioii liere ha-s stirred up a sloriti o editorial toniiiienl iii M>nie newspapers of the stale.

8ome maintain that the po^crnor did not mean that action should be taken >o (piickly when he said that the sUle should build another medical school and East Carolina appeared to he the place for it. Others say that East Carolina intends to build the school without prior planning. Still otln rs maintain that the cost would be exce^sive and that the medical program could not be completed <luring Gov. Scotts term of office.

We would remind those who fre that B'ast Carolina is acting hastily that the| governor indicated we should begin now if the need fiu* ph>siiians is to be met by the IHSOs.

As for lark of planning, -w r should point out that East Carolina has been siudied. not only by a team of medical consultants, but also by a special higher education stud\ committer. The administration has carefully fnUoweil the rn ommendatinns of both groups in laying the ground work for two years

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of medical education. The School of Allied Health Irofe.ssions has been established, as the medical cunsnltauts recommended; the biology and physics building was redesigned along lines recommended by the study commission and undergraduate science program^ have been strengthened as recommended by both groups.

Thus planning and, most important, action on the planning and recommendations has been under-x'^ay at East Carolina for some years.

As for the argument that the medical school will not be completed during Gov. Scotts term of office, no one ran deny that. It will not be completed doring any governors term, just as the university at ('hapel Hill, established in 795, is still not complete and hopefully never will he.

The medical education program here will co.st money, just as any worthwhile program Hoes, but it will be funds appropriated over a period of time; an investment to insure the bealth and well being of future generations of North rarolinians.

Nfdhing should stand in the way of getting this medical education program underway no%v at East Carolina University. Too much has already been done for the state to allow' this oppoilunity to pass. North Carolina needs whaf East Carolina U^niversity stands readv to carry out in medical education.

Make Ends Meet Generation

By STAOE STEEI.E Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - So far this iessKwi bills have been introduced in the legislature lo fax i^hisk>, beer, wme, tobacco, gasoline, motor vehjcls, license plates, dirty movies, banks and insurance premiums.

One jokester even went so far as to draw up and circiil-te a bill to tax cus.sing. wj.li the rate of taxahwi dependent on the degree of obsceniic of the word or w'ords used. B' o r lack of a sponsor, howe\rr. this bill never reached the floor of either legislative house.

Legk^lators are ':ek n g WavS to expand the tax base to meet the rising co.t o government.

Meanwhile, a few lawmakers have been thinking along completely different lines and are approaching the problem from another angle. Wa.ste not. want not" seems lo be their motto.

Results of this trend of thought are two bills, both introduced by Democrat;, to set up an office in state government similar to that of the U. S. Comptroller

Cumberland County Rep. Norwood Brv an sponsored one measure to strengthen the fiscal research resources of the General Assembly by creating a legislative fiscal staT."

The same day. Sen. Ernest Hicks of Mecklenburg and Sen. Julian Allsbrook of Halifax County introduced a bill in the Senate and House to establish the office off leei.s-lative comptroller responsbvle onlv to the General Assembly."

Both bills wcHild accomplish tb^ same results, establish an impartial investigative team to study and provide ininr-m.ation about the van o u s budget requests to the legislature.

The main difference between them is that Brvans bill would have the head of this research team appointed by a committee of legislators a n d

the Hicks and All.sbrook bill provides that the governor appoint him.

Both bills are aimed at trimming the fat out of the A budget "

Bryan describes liis proposal as an effort to save money for the state. He says that white the Appropriations and Finance committees of llie legislature h.ave been doing a good job, they've had a iiiffiriilt time finding this fa"

'it's Uiere. but we j u s t can t find it," he says.

The Cuniberiand legislator explains that in judging t h e merit of the various budget re-que.^ts. the only .sources of information for iegi.slalors are the head.s of departinciiLs asking for the funds.

Heeaii.'ie these snurecs are Vikelv to be prejudiced m favor of their own work programs. projects and needs, thev cnthusiaslirally recommend that all their requcss be granted.

,\ fiscal research staff could study these budget items iii a more detached and objejclive manner and report the rp-sults of these studies to t h e legislature.

This staff could also study and investigate tlie workings of any branch of state govern^ ment and suggest ways of economizing.

Ailsbrook feels that an audit of manpower in state government could yield substantial savings.

\s an example, be suggested that there is no need to have elevator operators m self-service elevators in some of the state office buildings, Allsbrook says this new office would be a tool we need in order to constantly reiew the various departments and acenries of the state in order to have adequate but no* ex-re-icive personnel, to the end that we may levy only taxes necessarv' for economical and efficient operation of govern-mentc.'

Hvcks sees the measure as a wav to stop up the leaks in state government "

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In Miami over the weekend a teen-age Crusade for Decency in Entertainment" drew 30,000 supporters to the Orange Bowl stadium.

The results so far exceeded expectations that there is consideration of making it a permanent organization. Spokesmen .lay the rally was not to prote.st anv'thing, but was for decency. It was organized by teenagers after an entertainer was charged with indecent exposure.

A shirt sleeved crowd gathered in the simshino Sunday afternoon while teen-age speakers gav three-minute talks on God, parents, patriotism, brotherhood and sex.

Professional entertainers such as Jackie Gleason. Anita Bryant and the Rhodes Brothers donated their services,

Tn a nation vvhcrc many people are wondering w bat the yoniigcr generation is coming to, the ral-l.v's executive committee received telephone calls and lette?-<? from all over the country expressing sup-nort a ml inquiring about organizing similar groups ei.<ev'here.

Whaf is the younger generation coming to? l.et's iust vvatcli them. Theyre going to build a better. more decent nation than they inherited.

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

No End To Pornography

Vast Pool Of

Arms To Trade

A Swedish moticwi picture, I Am Curious (Yellow)," went on view the other day at a small theater on Fifty-seventh Street. It took a considerable waiting in line, for word had gone out that this was the hottest filr ever shown in a public hou.se, but patience at last was revarc-ed.

Rewarded" is not the right verb. The spectator who emerges from the Cinema Rendezvous is likely to a^k himself; Where does pornography go from he>e? If this movie may be freely and law

fully exhibited and It just won a reluctant 2-1 verdict from the New York C i r cuit Court of Appeals it becomes a waste of time any longer to ponder restraint by law in the field of obscenity. Nothing will remain, as a legal concept, but the protection of minors. In the light of the Supreme Courts recent armband" decision, guaranteeing school children certain F i r st Amendment rights, even this barrier may not remain f o r long.

In the past year or so, nudity has become almost coin-

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The large irfliix of American, Russian and Chinese weapons into Southeast Asia because of the Vietnam war is leading to a vast pool of second - hand but highly usable arms 1 o r international trade, according to a prominent defense analyst,

Louis A. Frank, a member of the Stanford Researrh Institute, says the war will leave in its wake hundreds of thnu-sands of weapons, ranc i n g from small arms through antiaircraft guns, tanks, mortars, mines and aircraft," that will be sold as surplus.

Frank, who released h i s study in a neuly published book. 'The Arms Trade in International Relations," also said a re - equipping of -NATO forces expected in the. early 1970s will add even more weapons to the surplus available for purchase.

The only restraints on the sale of these used weapons come from the nation's who owned them originally. Such are far from elective, he indicated

The armaments are put on the market, Frank said, because it is usually too cosily to repatriate the weapons

He said the weapons ?ent to .Southeast Asia will find willing buyers not only in S o u th Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

and TTailand, but also in neighboring areas' such as Singapore and Indonesia.

The author, an econom i s t uho specializes in defen.se analysis with the Strategic vStudies Center of the Stanford Research Institute in Washington. gave the follow i n g breakdown on some of the largest arms suppliers;

The United States, t h e world's largest arms produc-linn base with 20.000 compan-jcs, v'^old $11.1 billion worth of new and used military aircraft. missiles and missile systems, .ships, armored vehicles. weapons and ammun* ition from 1962 to 1966. Aircraft sales accounted for 37 per cent of the total laGuUCil were 6.071 Nike Here u I c s SA.\I.s and 3,323 Sidewinder air - to - air missiles mo'^tly supplied to the forces of N A-'TO, Japan and Nationalist China

Soviet Union, the vse^'ond largest armaments industry in the world, exported between 1949 and 1968 more more than .OO jet combat aircraft including 1.2^30 MIG-5s. more than l.lOO MIG 17 sub - sonic fighter - intercept-ers to 21 countries.

.Communist China received nwe than l.noo Soviet j e t planes before military a i d came to a virtual halt in 1961, Moscow's second biggest cus-(Continued On Page 5)

Other Editors Say Aid For Moscow's Friends

Henderson Dispatch!

Some angles of American foreign policy at times seem to bf' so far fetched and asinine that even the layman can see through the veil. One of the glaring aspects of such practice is the mntniued doling out of foreign aid to nations which are blatanlly sympathetic to communist authorities. Rulers slant their programs toward leftist powers but the flow from Washington somehow continues.

A case in point at the moment is the so - called republic of Peru on the west coast of South America. One government has been ovprturn e d and another has seized t h e reins of control. U S fishirg boats have been attacked and Washington is oblivious to the incidents that have occurred, so that nothing is (lone in protest- The new government has vonted its anger or jealousy on other nationalities as well as American .But ePru goes merrily on its way in fostering the continued stream of anti - American conduct.

pled At the same time Peru is leaning noticeably toward Moscow,

Bui V. S. aid has not been refused. It is still being sup

one nhsprv'ation that has rnme to hand is that eve nt.s there are manifestlv similar In trends in Cuba before Castro spizpd control of the country. frops this mean, then, that Peru is to berome another Cuba as a thorn in the flesh for this coiintrv? And if Peru, which South American nation will bp nexF

The American good neighbor policy appears to be viewed on the soutb^rn continent as merely a vehicle by vhich to milk Imclp Sam of everything tmssible while manifesting an attitude of hostility toward this country, it lias heen said that the Latin .American states are riled because they have not received as large doles as have hepn placed in Europe. They may have a point, but they should get their own house in order before venting their anger against the United States. Under the proper procedure in government here some notice ought to be taken of Ihe.^'e attitudes before more good money is sent after bad.

By ROWLAND EVANS and ' ROBERT NOVAK

monplace in adult" * films. .Acts of sexual interc o u r s e have been strongly implied. But apart from the old stag movies, so far as I know, never has intercourse ever been depicted as explicity as it is in I Am Curious (Yellow)."

The rule of law so far as any rule of law remains in this field is still basically, the rule of the Roth - Alberts decision of June 24, 1957. The Supreme Court held flatly in that landmark case that obscenity has no protection under the First Amendment. And what is obscene? The test, ^ said the Court, is whether lo the average person, applying standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest.

Subsequently the Roth test was significantly enlarged. Material could not be h e Fd legally obscene, said the Court, unless it were utterly without redeeming social importance. It was this enlargement of the old Roth de- . finition that caused the New York appeals court, against its better judgment, to allow I .Am Curious" to be screened.

The decision was a poor triumph of law' over common sense. The heroine of this steamy movie, it is true, does wander about Stockholm asking questions about political and economic policies in modern - day Sweden. This is the stucco of social importance. Rut who is kidding whom? The crowds lined up at the box office had not come to see T-ena interview spnke'Jmen for organized labor. They had come to see this Swedish-language, subtitled film out of prurient interest only.

Where do we go from here?

1 dont know. About ten years ago, following the Roth decision, I wrote a book about the obscenity racket. It wasnt easy, in those days, for a reporter to obtain what is known as hard - core ma-(Continued On Page 5)

WASHLNGTON - A true measure of the Peru military government's position in t he oil dispute with the U.S. may be the appointment of a known (Communist to judge a major aspect of the case.

Judge Luis Beltran Pena Fiol, who maintains close tiM with Fidel Castros Cuba, has been assigned to assess the value of the Talara Refinery of the U. S.-owned International Petroleum Corp. <1-PC) one of the properties seized by the new Peruvian junta.

A member of the Communist party since his student days, Pena fiol jomed the more revolutionary Pe k i n g faction when the Peruvian party split into CJiinese and Russian wings in 1964. He spent the last six months of 1964 in Cuba (addressing a Communist rally in Bolivia, then being targeted for revolution, on his way from Peru to Cuba)

His appointment buttresses suspicions here that the Peruvian court proceedings to fix the value of the expropriated IPC property is a masquerade and that an articially low value will be set. That value will then be subtracted frorn the extravagantly high $690.5 million that the junta claims IPC owes for unjust enrichment" over the past 44 years.

A footnote: A key figure in the Peruvian juntas oil policy has been Ruiz Eldredge, head of the Lima Bar Assn. and one of Perus leading Marxi.sts.

GOP Young Fogies

The Young Republicans have showed again how they enjoy being an inbred little conservative clique by refusing to join a broadbased youth movement to low'er the voting age.

Actually, national 'YR chairman Jack McDonald had tentatively agreed to join t h Youth Franchise Coalition Ian alliance of some 18 groups advocating the vote at age 18) pending approval by the YR executive committee.

But when the executive committee met behind closed doors at Washingtons Shore-ham Hotel March 15, McDonald was cool. He suggested some youth organizations were buying their way into the coalition, a reference to a donation of $1,000 by the Young Democrats. Paul Min-archenko, a AMCA staff e r wiio heacls the coalition and wa.s presenting its case to the YRs, protested that no money is needed for membership.

But YR leaders strongly opposed any attempt at a national law, rather than just state laws, lowering the voting age. And trouble really erupted when Minarchenko recited the coalitions membership.

Tere were snickers when he metioned the NAAiTP and tjhe Southern Christian Lead-rship Conference. Then, one young lady rose to say it was highly improper for the YRs to join any group containing the National Student Assn, and the Americans for Democratic Action.

Overlooking non - ideological organizations such as the National Education Assn. and the student caucus of the Y-MCA in the coalition, the YRs acted. They voted (with only one or two dissents audible) against joining the coalition while professing to support the 18 - year voting age.

Ironically, the executive committee voted immediately after hearing Sen Hugh Scott

(Continneii On Page I)Strength For Today Further Drop-Off In CocoQ Crop

N \Tl RF OF FORGIVEVESS

^'hat can we expect in the way of forgiveness if we acknowledge our sin and present ourselves before God? The pro.mise is that He will blot out cur transgressions. He vill so erase them that not even in his holy eses will they any longer exist Then He will wash us thoroughly from our iniquity, and we can be sure that when the Lxsrd washes a soul thoroughly the condition of that soul is changed from mi.stake and error to goodness and high aspiration,

The result is that God gives to everyone seeking after his forgiveness a clean heart and renews a right spirit within him. The forgiven person walks in a new inspiration and with a spirit of confidence. The unforgivable sin spoken of m the New Tesla-

rnpnt is the sm of calling good evil and evil, good. When a person gets twisted about to such an extent he cannot repent and timrefore cannot be forgiven. No one should be fearful and anxious lest ne has committed the unpardonable sin. The people who have committed the unpardonable sin are not in the least concerned about their error because they ctm.'iider that they have not committed an error. To them evil is good and good is evil.

Those sins which all of iis commit because of our weakness, ignorance and pen'ersi-ty will be forgiven. We can be sure of that. God is more anxious to give us forgiveness that we are to receive it, But if vre really want forgiveness and new life, it is ours for the asking.

By Earl L. Douglass

Bv ELMER ROEbSNER

The third estimate of I h e' 1918-69 world cocoa bean crop by the U. S. Foreign .Agricultural Service indicates a decline of 11.5 per cent from the poor 1967-68 crop. For the fourth consecutive year, production will be less than demand and the diminishing reserves will be drawn upon.

This means still higher prices for cocoa and chocolate and still higher prices f o r chocolate candies.

African prcriiiction is down due to bad weather, and Brazilian production estimat e s have been revised dowmward to less than the prev i o u s year. Only Ecuador. .North America, Asia and Oceania are expected to show increases this year, but those areas are not important producers. Uow Sweet It Is

Meanwhile, the rUvSh of cnn-glomerafes to lake over b i g candy companies in the United States, reported here recently, is gathering speed. Phillip Morris, Inc., has been buying shares of Peter Paul, Inc., suggesting a move to ward a take - over, and R. J . Reynolds Tobacco Co. is reported to be talking merg e r with a large candy company.

Ward F(K)d Co., which took over CTiunky and Schutter two years ago and more recently acquired Blumenthal Bros. Chocolate Co., is reported to be seeking mergers with other candy makers, as is the Green Giant Co. Other conglomerates have taken over a dozen candy companies in recent years, with Beatrice Foods alone acquiring six.

Cans of distinction are coming. Continental Can has developed melliods of shaping be

verage cans, adding embossing, fluting and curves to former straight sides. It has also developed a welded seam for cans that is said to be stronger than the rest of t h e cans.

More Investment, More Taxes

crease of $9 billion over last

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Commerce Departments new survey showing an upward revision of plans I o r spending for plants and equipment this year will have many effects on the economy. Pro-^ jected spending is now estimated at $73 billion, an in

year. '

Reasons for the increase are twofold: Business is convinced that inflation will continue and that new plants and equipment will cost more in the future; business is feartul that the 7 per cent tax allowance may be revoked by Congress as part of the fight on inflation.

However, the sharp rise in spending plans which ar*! inflationary may not only speed the repeal of the 7 per cent allowance but also provide arguments for a continuation of the surtax. The rise in spending plans was a factor in encouraging bansk to increase their minimum lending rate from 7 to 7A4 per cent.

The plans also call for an increase in corporate borrowing, which will tighten tbt money supply.

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