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There is mounting evidence that use of drugs In North Carolina is increasing, and it is distressing that its use seems to be increasing among the youth.

Marijuana and LSD appear to be particularly coming into some sections of the state, around military bases and colleges and universities.

Hardly anyone can argue that this is a good thing. Despite all the argumenta about marijuanas not being addictive, no one has yet shown that it has any beneficial effects on the body. On the contrary there is every likelihood that the py.!chlogical effects are bad in many cases and research may eventually show other ill effects from marijuana. There is much evidence that LSD can be harmful in a number of ways.

Whatever effecta either of the drugs might have, they have to be recognized as just another crutch for mankind to lean on and thus they can only impede the full development of the mind.

At Fayetteville, concern has reached the point where an agency called the Inter-Agency Bureau of K.ycotics and Dangerous Drugs has been organized. It is staffed by city, county and U. S. Army Criminal

Investigation personnel to pool information on illegal drug traffic.

It is likely that more efforts such as this are going to be needed if the flow of drugs into North Carolina is going to be impeded. Our best defense against the use of drugs is going to be in efforta aimed at drying up the supplies. This means tracking down those who seek to make fortunes out of this deplorable business.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

R.ALEIGH It cannot and ihould not be readily jsjum-ed that the 1969 General .Assembly suddenly will abolish capital punishment in o r th Carolina.

r>* Sanford was governor but Sanford, also a lawyer, studied several other cases and spared lives of condemn e d men.

Scotts Position

Earlier Scott had expressed the view that, so long as capital punishment is the law of the state, he would judge each case individually.

He indicated he did not like life or death responsibility but said he would exercise his own judgm e n t when such a matter came before him. He did not want to pre-empt the prerogatives of the course and said he would

Con.sidering the w'ay in which building costs are .hooting upward these days, it is gratifying that the city school board has been able to let bids for an addition to Rose High School.

Contracts for the addition totalling $474,141, were let Monday after the school board had considered trimming some of the project costs. It was decided to retain the items which had been considered for elimination, including air conditioning.

It appears the city will be able to build the tvpe facilities which will be needed to earn' out an adequate program at Ro.se High School. Plans are to have the addition ready for the opening of the 1969-70 school year. Thus next fall Rose High should have the facilities which will handle the .students who have been attending C. M. Eppes. Under the de.se-gregation plan Eppes is to be discontinued as a high school after this year.

It is a good thing for the school sv.stem that adeqjiate facilities will be available next fall, the first year of operating one central high school. With enough space and equioment available anv confusion and di.sorientation brought about bv combining the two senior high schools should be held to a mint mum.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Working behind an essential curtain of secrecy, the new Administration has now developed an anti-war strategy which is all but certain to start significant withdrawals of U.S. forces from Vietnam within six months.

The key factor in the equation is what Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird calls phase two in the emergency buildup of South Vietnamese forces. ,

Phase one of the buildup would prepare Saigons army to handle only Communist guerrilla forces in South Vietnam after the mutual withdrawal of both U.S. troops and North Vietnamese regulars. Instead of this, Laird now talks about equipping the South Vietnamese to handle both the Vietcong and North Vietnamese regulars, with steadily declining combat aid from tiie U.S. This is phase two.

The reason Laird is giving extraordinary attention to the phase two buildup is the lack of progress in the Paris negotiations, reducing even fur-tiier the chancealways remotethat Hanoi will agree

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It may. Certainly the cause for doing away with the death penalty has received strong, unexpected support within the past week with statements by the governor, lieutenant governor and the attorney general all favoring abolishing capital punishment.

The statements appear to have caught many legislators by surprise.

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thinking about and talk i n g about so many other things. I hSVe not given much thought to this question. In the House, a member said he has favored abolishing capital punishment all along but the people in my district feel differently.

Personal Conriction

Gov. Bob Scotts statement last week reflecting a personal conviction on the issue was virtually unprecedented. 'Scotts predecessor, Dan K. Moore, had been a f o r m er Superior Court Judge and Moore made clear that he favored retaining capital punishment. He felt it was a deterrent to heinous crime.

No one went to the lethal gas chamber while Moore was governor. Several were sentenced to die and Moore issued no commutations nor pardons in capital cases, One man was executed while Ter-

not attempt to do so.

Until and unless the General Assembly acts on the issue, this will be Scotts position. But last week he went further by saying he feels the time has come to abolish capital punishment in North Carolina. The statement signaled the start of a new campaign by anti - death penalty supporters in the legislature.

Votes Closer This group has tried for years or more to get capital punishment off the bw books.

One of these days we will be successful," says former Ren. W. C (Buck Harris of Raleigh. I dont know when. But the day will come. Opposes 0?dit Bills The newly - formed N. C. Consumers Council is taking a strong stand against bills relaxing the states credit laws.

It especially opposes a proposal now in the legislature which it says would literally repeal many sections of t h e General Statutes which provide a measure of protection for consumers. . .and makes sweeping changes in the N. C. consumer finance law applying to small loan companies, including allowing these companies to become msurance agencies.

The statement charges that the bill would remove protection now given to homeowners and farmers from unscrupulous second mortgage dealers.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)-Memo-ries are like snowflakes and fingerprints. No two of them are exactly alike.

Now matter how close two people are or how deeply involved in the same event, their memories of it later will vary.

your future by feeling the bumps on your head, which told him what qualities of mind you had or lacked,

A ki thought he was on the road to wealth if he could hold his piggy bank to his ear, sake itand hear more than one clink.

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Some people were afraid to sleep in the light of a full moon for fear it would drive them daft.

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Ones indivdual history, of course, is largely an accumulation of his memories. .And youve got a pretty good collection yourself if you can look back and re m e m b e r when

If a woman wore a wig, she tried to keep it a secret.

The only gals who generally appeared in public clad in miniskirts were those who sold cigarettes in night clubs.

Stenographers usually worked with a pencil struck in their buns.

Only sick people were expected to go on diets.

A family had to be unusually well off to afford two automobiles or two bathrooms.

Moralists were decrying the trend toward twin beds as a precursor of widespread divorce.

If you knocked on someone's front door on Sunday morning and nobody answered, you figured they'd all gone to church together.

When a housewife wanted to sen-e cake for dinner, she baked itinstead of thawing it.

One of the problems of childhood w'as to watch what was going on in all three rings of the circus when you only-had two eyes to see with.

For a sum of money a phrenologist would foretell

Only elderly folks took medicine regularly, and what they took was usually something that the druggist prescribed with the remark, This should be good for what ails you.

In the average small town there wasnt any real reason to stay up until midnight except on .Saturday nightand then only if you were young and in love.

If you saw a home in which the living room blinds were pulled down, you could be pretty sure the couple who lived there were away on vacation or else indulging in a family spat they didnt w-ant the neighbors to see.

For a dime a kid could buy enough penny candy to give himself a stomachache.

^The worst curse of boyhood Was having to spend a Satur-d)ay afternoon beating a rug in the backyard while the rest of the gang were off swimming or playing ball.

There was still some truth to the old saying about girls sweet sixteen and never been kissed, .

The biggest fear in most peoples lives was that sometime they might have to go in debt.

Those were the days; Remember?

WASHINGTON - 'The only bright spot in the news these days is what has happened in Anguilla. In one of the most amazing reversals in modern military history, tiny, helpless and, up to now, ineffectual Great Britain defeat e d the powerful forces of Anguilla and conquered this impregnable fortress.

Little Britain, playing the role of David, smote the Anguillan (kliath, to the surprise of the experts and the delight of those who are constantly rooting for the under

dog.

No one thought the British could do it, said a L o n don correspondent at the national press club bar where everyone was buying drinks. But I believe this proves once and for all Her Majestys government can no longer ^ considered a paper tiger.

The bar rang with cheers. The Anguillans bit off more than they could chew, someone shouted.

What everyone wanted to know was how the lightly armed British paratroopers

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and marines managed break through the heavy Anguillan defenses which consisted of one Napoleonic cannon, 12 shotguns, three Ford trucks and 2,000 sheep.

The Anguillans were over-

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The bulletin of the Santa Fe chamber of commerce reports, whereas the tourists used to come to Santa Fe to see the Indians, the Indians now come to town to see the hippies. Ckilumbia (S. C.) State.

Every war this country has fought has seen its share of deserters, sitter-outers, evaders and those who could not in good conscience participate.

TTie Vietnam war is no different, although we sometimes get the impression that all these categories are more heavily represented than in any previous war.

Since the beginning of the massive U.S. troop build-up in Vietnam three years ago, more than 100,000 servicemen have been officially listed as deser ters (absent without leave for more than 30 days).

Until last year, however, the desertion rate per 1,000 servicemen was comparable to that during the Korean War and is still well below the rate during World W'ar II.

More than 85 per cent of those carried on the rolls a.s deserters eventually turn themselves in voluntarily, says the Pentagon. Only 853 deserters have sought refuge abroad, and 40 per cent of these are aliens who have de

cided that U.S. citizenship is not worth the price of military service.

Another matter entirely is the thousands of young men who have signified their opposition to the war or the military by fleeing abroad before they could be drafted. An article in the National Observer puts the number at 50,000 chiefly in Canada and Sweden.

This figure is probably higher than in any previous conflict, though as a percentage of the ponulation. it cannot compare with the Revoluti on-ary War when whole families of dissenters left the United States permanently for Canada or the British West Indies.

Draft evasion and resistance were also notorious during the Civil War. In July, 1963, draft riots in New York City killed an estimated 1,000 persons.

What is remarkable about the Vietnam war is not that so many young men .ire voting against it with their feet, but that, in a war that is the most unpopular in the nations history, there have been relatively so few.

confident, the British correspondent told us. They thought our troops were afraid of their sheep. But we used their overconfidence to our advantage. We pulled our frigates up, and when the sheep saw them, they scattered. The sheepherders tried to rally the herds, but by this time the sheep were so disorganized they couldnt possibly put up any defense.

It proves again that a small, tight - knit, well-trained force of paratroopers and marines can overwhelm a much larger force of sheep if they are determined to do the job.

This was the first military defeat for Anguilla in its history and there is great soul-searching going on now amongst the Anguillan armed forces, which consist of three constables, six deputies and three Red Cross nurs e s. There will probably be a shakeup in the Anguillan military within the next month.

Anguilla - watchers in Washington felt that the consequences of the British invasion would be felt throughout the world.

.Miguilla can no longer be considered a majM- power, a State Department man at the

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to remove its own troops from the South. That makes highly improbable any withnrawal of U.S. forces on a mutual basis.

But since President Nixon is insistent about starting the withdrawal of U.S. troops, some new path out of the dilemma must be found. The path chosen by the President and Laird is to give maximum publicity to phase two of the Saigon buildup, thus creating the proper psychological climate for the start of U.S. troop withdrawal.

In adopting this new position looking toward a partial but unilateral withdrawal of U.S. troops, Laird has moved far from his views of Congressional days. For example, Congressman Laird repeatedly questioned the Johnson administrations offer at Manila in 1966 to withdraw all U. S. troops within six months after Hanoi had pulled its own troops back anti the level of violence had subsided. it looked to Laird like a Trojan horse.

But now as Defense Secretary, by publicizing Saigons eventual ability to handle most of the fighting by itself, Laird has moved well beyond the Manila declarationso far, in fact, that some Pentagon generals are tearing their hair.

Lairds intimates will not discuss the rate or size of any possible unilateral troop withdrawals. The heart of U. S. policy, they say, lies with continuation of hard bargaining in Paris. If these talks finally and utterly fail, they say, President Nixon has many optionsincluding varying degrees of military escalation.

Although Mr. Nixon is not likelv to escalate, it is not absolutely precluded. If Hanoi threw al! its available troops into the current offensive and increased its shelling of Saigon, Hue, and Danang, Mr. Nixon might choose one of a rising scale of possible military reprisals now available on his desk, calation, of course, any chan-

But here, too, Lairds phase two troop- and- equipment buildup for Saigons forces could be a powerful incentive for Hanoi not to push President Nixon too far. If Hanoi (Continued On Page I)

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POOR TYPE OF EDUCATION

There is such a thing as people being educated in anxiety.

There is a type of mother who unwittingly educates her child in anxiety. There are people who spread apprehension among their colleagues. A complete absence of fear may be nothing but foolhardiness and rashness, but the presence of morbid fear is one of lifes most enervating realities. Some people have the fear complex. They are not only fearitol themselvesthey make everybody else afraid. And living with such people or being constantly associated with them constitutes an almost unbelievable education in anxiety. There is such a thing as being definitely educated in anxiety.

The way to cure oneself of this sort of affliction is by entering into a whole new concept of life. 'The anxious per-sins lives in a little area surrounded by high walls; the person who is free of fear walks over a broad domain that is suffused with light and hope. .\nd when one has this complete absence of fear he also transmits this outlook to others. People come to have this hope, to share his enthusiasm.

The next time you fall into a state of morbid fear, ask yourself whether or not you fear something real or are just responding to an environmental influence which has educated you in anxiety. For it is i^sible^to be educated in anxiety.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Mountain climbers explain they do it because the Tioun-tain is there. The nations banks raised their prime rate of interest the minimum rate from 7 to 7^ per cent because its there.

Perhaps a banker here and there went alcmg with the pack because he felt it was his patriotic duty to help put the brakes on inflation, but most probably acteii because borrowers are eager to p a y 7% per cent and up.

And its a glorious deal for the banks, too. They get m(v-ney from savings depositors at 5 per cent; in fact, its illegal to pay more on .^uch deposits. "rhey can get m o ney from corporation deposits at up to 6V4 per cent, the limit set by the Federal Reserves Regulation Q. They can get mcHiey on securities from the Federal Reserve for 514 per cent. Even after costs of deposit insurance, reserves and

handling, theres a margin for a generous profit. Eurodollars Cost More

Banks can get Eurodollars for lending purposes at higher costs. These are dolla r s owned by Europeans, deposited in branches of American banks abroad. Banks paid as much as 8Ts per cent for them last week and this rate of interest attracted another $100 million, bringing the total available to close to $15 billion.

In the first 10 weeks of this year about three billion Eurodollars were loaned to American banks.

Banks can profit on Eurodollars even at high rats of interest They save an estimated 1 per cent because they do not have to pay deposit insurance and are not required to set up reserv e s against these borrowings, as they are required to set up against domestic deposits.

Banks can profit (xi Euro-

_ dollars because much of their lending is at higher rates. The prime rate applies to mo-ney loaned to companies with the highest credit rating. Other companies pay more. Compensating Balances Hsip Banks also increase t h e ir actual interest rates by re

quiring compensating balances. These are moneys left on deposit by the borrowers. A corporation, for example, may borrow $1 million on the understanding that 20 per cent will be left on deposit. If the interest rate is 8 per cent, the corporation is paying an effec

tive rate of 10 per cent.

Banks have other ways of getting funds to lend. T h t Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., which made the wave that increased the prime rate to 7 Mi per cent, now sells participation in its loans to investors on a guarantee to buy back the share either on demand or at a certain date.

'These sales do not come under Regulation Q and there is no limit on the rate paid investors. The bank is reported to have taken in $300 million in fresh funds this way.

It has also been suggested that while banks are limited to paying 6V4 per cent on corporation deposits and commercial paper, bank holding companies are not limited and could borrow money at higher rates and deposit it in their banks. So far, this does not appear to have been done but it is likely that some bank lawyers are considering legal Ejects.