Wdnday, April 30, 1969

Task Force Proved Only A Gesture

PSTAGED

The fact that the U. S. Navy task force near North Korea has been sharply cut from 29 vessels to only eight is an indication that from the beginning the move was only symbolic

The big Naval force was moved into the Sea of Japan last week after North Korea shot down a Navy EC 121 reconnaissance aircraft with 31 men aboard. Hardly had the armada reached the Sea of Japan before orders came to shift to an area southwest of Korea. Now the big fleet has been cut to eight ships.

Of counse, we have to recognize that sending the armada to the Sea of Japan in the first place really did not mean a great deal in protecHnr the

0 called spy ships and aircraft which the United

States has been sending to the Korean area. In was a blustering move on tne part of the United States which, with all its power, found itself unable to do anything about the attack without risking another Asian war. Even with the big fleet in the general area, there is no reason why North Korea could not pick off another EC 121 and be back at its own bases before American help could arrive.

We can only hope that American military planners are developing methods of protecting these reconnaisance aircraft and ships. We suspect that is going to involve some quick method of signalling in emergencies and having U. S. aircraft ready to respond quickly to protect our ships. Our best retaliation against viuch attacks will be to make them unsuccessful. This means we need careful planning for quick response.

'Safeguards In safe Auto Tires Are

egal Gambling^ Logical Requirement

By STACIE STEELE Reflector Rideigh Bureau

RALEIGH At the turn of the OHitury, the Womens Christian Temperance Union wage endless and colored war on vice. Their three principal targets were smoking, drinking and gamblmg and^they assured everyone that-partaking of any of the three would result in disease and death.

The North Carolina legislature has studied all three of these so - called vices this session, and has come out ov'erw'helmingly in support of smoking and has yet to act on liquw (by the drink, that is) and gambling. In past sessions however, the Assembly has considistently both liquOT by the drink and gambling on a statewide basis.

Legalized betting to provide a source of untold revenues for the state has been suggested by Cleveland County Sen. Jack White. White says he cannot estimate what the revenues would be, however, the bill provides that 75 per cent of all proceeds be returned to the public via the successful bet makers, with the remaining 25 per cent to go into the states coffers.

Previous experience in North Carolina with legalized betting has proved it to be extremely lucrative, judging from the revenues gained by Currituck County from dog races in 1910 s.

Though the General .Assembly has declined to legalize betting on a statewide basis, Currituck, receiving 10 per cent of the proceeds from dog tracks at .Moyock. was able to clear almost half a million dollars in the five year* period in which betting was gulowed. With these funds, the sparceiy settled county was able to cut its tax rate in half, raise teacher salaries, build new schools and enlarge and remodel the county courthouse.

Morehead City also benefit-ted f(M* a short time from a similarly profitable track.

.An end to legalize betting came in 1954 when North Carolina Supreme Court Judge William H. Bobbitt ruled that allowing Currituck and Carteret County the privilege of legalized gambling while denying it to the rest of the

state was unconstitutional.

The decision held that the act which made pari-mutual betting legal in the first place was unfair in that it allowed that-a county racing commission grant a track franchise to only one principal person, firm, association or corporation, which was in effect granting a monopoly.

Judge Bobbitt also ruled that the 10 per cent return to the county was a rather unimpressive fraction of the gross revenues and is little enough to pay for holding this mmiopoly.

Bobbitt's decision was the climax of a growing concern among North Carolinas that the tracks, profitable as they were, were opening the door for organized crime to come into the state.

The concern was such tiat fhe 1951 General Assembly named a five man investigating team, including Rep. B. T. Falls Jr.; Sen. Terry Sanford, Sen. Lunsford Crew and Rep. Uzzelle Jordan, to look for any underworld ties with the North Carolina track enterprises.

Tarheel legislators probed into the background of operators and stockholders of the dog tracks, and revealed that the principal stockholder one John G. .Masoni of Cleveland, Ohio, appeared to be eminently respectable.

Some other stockholders with names like Boggiano, Lombardo and Costello, however, were linked with gambling investigations in New York C'ty.

Dissatisfaction with tlie dog-racing was not simply based on fear of organized crime. While most residents of the counties in which the tracks were located approved of them, merchants complained that the races were absorbing a good portion of the revenues which would ordinarily go into their cash registers.

It appears that except for the 10 per cent return to the county's all of the profits from the dogrtracks were going out of state.

Sen. White declares that under his bill, organized crime could not get into the track business. He says his bill has built-in safeguards to prevent any such development.

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Enactment of a bill to require safe tires on automobiles in North Carolina seems entirely logical

to us.

A bill in the Legi.slature needs only final approval of certain amendments before tires will be included in the annual auto inspections.

We cannot think of any part of an automobile that should need inspecting any more than the tires. A slick tire can mean a skid on wet pavemept which could throw an auto into the path of another. Old tires also mean the possibility of blowouts which could bring about disastrous results.

Any motorist who is g^oing: to operate a car on North Carolina highways owes it to others to have safe tire^. We feel it is in order that all motorists be required by law to maintain good tires on their vehicles.

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Students Without TV

Niixon Slow In

Chanae-Overs

By GAYLORD SHAW

W ASHINGTON (\P) -The Nixon Administration marks its 100th day in power with scores of holdovers from Dc.m-ocratic years still occupying key jobs in the vast federal establishment.

A government - wide Associated Press survey disclosed that while new Republican faces dominate the upper levels in some deoartments, a dean sweep of Democratic appointees has not materialized.

Some examples;

At the Pentagon, fewer than half of the 29 first-hne civilian jobs have been filled with fresh GOP talent.

Seven of the eight top jobs at the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal antipoverty agency, are still filled by holdovers from the Johnson administration.

Of the 109 slots subject to political appointment in the Agriculture Departments Washington headquarters, the Nixon administration has filled 46-lass than half. There are 38 holdovers and 25 va

cancies.

.Administration spokesmen say XLxon and his cabinet .members have concentrated first on selecting appointees for upper echelon posts before moving on to middle-rung jobs. This is reflected in one estimate that only half of the 1.750 Schedule C jobs confidential or political posts usually in the S15,000 to $30,-000 salary rangehave been filled by the new administra tion.

NixOTi himself says hes more interested in long - term accomplishimen::s than in whats done m the first 100 days of his admimstraticn. I dont count either the days or the hours, he told reporters Sunday. I never thought in those terms. I plan for the

long term.

The Justice Department is an example of the emphasis on filling the highest jobs first. There, only one Johnson holdover is among the eight assistant attorneys general. But the next step down deputy assistant attorneys general and division heads practically everyone stayed on.

At the Defense Department, the Republican regime has a strong flavor of the preceding Democratic administrations of Robert S. McNamara and Clark M. Clifford.

One reason is that Nixon and his defense secretary, Melvin R. Laird, have given regular appointments to seven officials continuing on with policy and administrative assignments they held under Democrats.

These include Dr. John S. Fostar Jr., director of defense research and engineering; Co-^mptroller Robert S. Moot, and 'Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor.

In addition, Dr. Robert 0. Seamans Jr., associate space agency administrator in the Kennedy and Jolmso.i administrations, has been named Air Force secretary John L. McLucas, former deputy research director, has returned as Air Force undersecretary; and Barry J. Shilito, former assistant Navy sec*etary, has been promoted to assistant defense secretarv'.

Pentagon officials acknowledge that Laird has moved more deliberately than either President Dwight D. Eisenhower or President John F. Kennedy did in the department when they brought a parts switchover to the White House. These authorities say the Vietnam war requires some continuity and carryover competence in key jobs.

THE RAPPY OF HEART

A woman past ninety years of age was recently persuaded to leave her home and enter a hospital where she could receive adequate care. For years she had lived in what appeared to everyone to be poverty. She had no furnace in her home, no electric light, and very little plumbing. To the eyes of the neighborhood her house was a place of squalor and disorder.

Yet ever>mne acknowledged that her philosophy of life was something indeed to be envied. She talked continually about her happiness, said that her life had been ftill of so many blessings that she could not know how to eo about numbering them. Wlth everybody along her street pitying her, she never indulged in the least self-pity. Al

though everyone called her unfortunate, she called herself richly blessed.

There is a type of person in the world who could not be made happy by any good fortune. There is another type that could not be made un-happy by any misfortune. The difference between them is an inner difference. Utterly alone, this poverty'-stricken old lady lived a life of complete contentment.

Perhaps she was brave, or perhaps she never expected much and was satisfied therefore when she got little. The chances are, however, that behind her amtentment was a well-established faith. She felt herself to be part of a universe managed by an all-powerful God Wio never makes mistakes and Wlw takes care of his creatures.

By Earl L. Douglass

WASHINGTON - There is some question as to what role the communications media are playing in student unrest. Most of us like to think were just reporting the events on college campuses, but there is a gnawing suspicion that our role may be one of participant rather than observer. Have you ever wondered what might happen if the press and TV didnt show up at a student demonstrati(Mi?

Twenty-five students are standing on the steps of tb law building.

OK, igjuys, were taking the building. Is everybody ready for the attack?

We better hold off; the TV cameras havent arrived

yet.

I did alert them. I said we were going to lock ourselves in at noon. They said they were covering the flower show at the Coliseum and they didnt have any cameras available.

Thats a hell of a ncte. Its just like the bourgeois, racist, capitalistic TV media to ignore the revolution. What do we do now?

Let* take the building anyway.

What good will it do? There are no press photographers or newspapermen here either.

Where are they?

I called up the papers and told them what we were going

Public

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To The Editor:

Over the last four years I have followed with keen interest the debate about a medical school in Greenville. The current drive to establish a two - year medical school at East (Carolina University has as its stated motivation the provision of more physicians for Eastern North Carolina.

I wish to propose an alternative plan which I feel would be more likely to serve the recognized need for physicians, and would do so more immediately. This proposal is to establish a branch teaching program of the UNC School of Medicine at Pitt Memorial Hospital on the same order as the one esta-ilished two years ago at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, This program involves senior medical students from the Chapel Hill school rotating for one to two month periods on an elective basis to work as junior interns in the community hospital. There is a need for a (coordinator of the program with the remainder of the staff (ierived from the physicians already practicing in the community. The program at Moses Cone Hospital has had quite favorable response from both the Chapel Hill students and the Greensboro physicians. It is now being expanded to include interns and residents in the specialty of family practice. In Greenville this pro-

Strength For Today p

];^nenomenai i

By ELMER ROESSNER

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The rise of fran(diising is phenomenal.

The independemce is doubtful because most franchisees must agree to run their business exactly as the franchiser demands. Tliey must build an establishment to his speci-ficaticms on a site the franchiser helps them select. They must maintain certain standards, and conduct business in prescribed manners.

Yet it is the very lack of independence that helps win success. Because one franchiser of, say, Bunny Burger Vi-vouacs, must maintain certain standards, so most all, and each franchisees (quality helps sell products of all oth

er Buimy Burger Bivouacs. Why The Boom

There are many reasons for the current boom in franchising. Here is the complex;

The success of many franchise systems has encouraged their own systems and, at the same time, has encouraged many would-be independents to take a fling at free enterprise.

Celebrities have discovered that their fame is a negotiable asset in the franchise field. A dazzling actress or a sensational sports figure, approaching the climax of tiieir careers, can get the presidencies of franchising companies, plus $100,000 or so a year and a share of the profits, which is belter tlian Social Security.

More persons and families have in recent years accumul-

to do and they said they were too busy to cover another student takeover of a building. They said it wasnt news any more.

Did you tell them we were going to tar and leather the dean of the law school? Yeah, and they said to send them a press release on it

ART

BUCHWALD

gram could later be joined by a curriculum for the first two years as well.

There are numerous reasons why such a plan would better serve the immediate needs of Eastern North Carolina than would a two - year medical school. The medical student in the first two years spends the great majority of his time in lectures, laboratories, and individual study with minimal contact with patients and the practice of medicine in the community. The senior student on the other hand would be working side by side with the practicing physician in the care of patients. He thus g^s firsthand contact with the challenges and satisfactions of community medicine. It comes at a stage in his training when he is more apt to be influenced as to the type of career in medicine he will pursue, as well as the locale for that pursuit. The graduate of a two - year medical school would go elsewhere for his clinical work which is far more likely to influence the ultimate utilization of his training. Having a residency program in family medicine in Greenville would make the program even more effective in solving the problem.

A very real fringe benefit of such a teaching program, which would begin almost immediately, is the effect on the

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Chilly

Drama

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBE31T NOVAK

Wheres the reporter from the school newspaper?

The school newspaper said they didnt have any student to spare for our demonstration, but theyd get a fill-in later from one of us.

Boy, this isnt much fun. Hey, here comes a guy with a camera. Up against the wall! Up against the wall!, the university is a fascist cesspool,

I beg your pardon?

Who are you shooting the film for, man?

My cinema class. Would you mind doing that again? Get out of here. Somebodys got to come. What about the radio stations?

No dice. They said we could call in on their telephone talk show if we wanted to, but theyre not sending any to, but theyre not sending anyone over.

Theres got to be some law that the press has to cover a student riot.

If I had known nobody was going to be here, I wouldnt have missed any lunch hour. I want to read my speech telling why we are taking over the law building.

Who cares? You wrote it for the press. As long as theyre not showing up, spare us.

I say we should take over the law building anyway. What good will it do? Nobody will know we did it. It could Keep us in practice.

Why are you combing ywr hair?

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CAIRO A chilling imder-cover drama involving tht capture of an excepticnally prominent Egyptian pilot i* now be^ secretly played out by intermediaries acting for Egypt and Israel, the result of which will decide tht fate of several hundred Jew* under (ietoition here.

(^trary to what is generally thou^t, President Nasser of the United Ardb Republic has tkea significant steps for tiie release stateless Jews who hold no passport and hence are unacceptable to any other country.

Working mainly with the enJ)as^ here represents the United States, the Egyptian govenm^nt gradually released all the foreign Jews trapped here whi the 1967 war broke out, and some Egyptian Jews who asked to get out. It was well along toward final release of some 2(X) stateless Jews in late February and early March when the Egyp-tion fighter pilot was captured in the Sinai desert after parachuting from his stricken MIG-21.

What gave that capture a transcendent drama wa* the identity of the pilot the son of a high Egyptian intelligence official.

For obvious reasons, the Israelis decided to keep him. Wanting him back badly, the United Arab Republic (Egypt) began delicate negotiations through third parties with the Israeli government. It was clear from the start that if the Israeli government could be moved, it would only be through the intercession of the United States, which has more influence with Israel than all other countries put together.

Thus, through diplomatic labyrinth the case finally arrived in Washington where U. S. officials approached the Israeli embassy. Their message if the pilot is not released, the Egyptian government could make no guarantees about continuing its work to free the last 200-odd stateless Jews by now released from the high security prison at Tora and awaiting final departure at Bawaag, a barracks' in the Nile delta).

It had, in short, come down to a hard swap and the Israeli embassy in Washington wught instructions from th* government in Jerusalem. Th* word came back: We hav* this pilot and we think he will talk. In other words, no deal.

As a result of this impasse, the stateless Jews, who with their families total some 800, are stuck at Bawaag and negotiations involving at least five nations have come to a stop. Foremost among these nations is Spain, which had offered legal residence papers to nearly 50 of the stateless Jews. France agreed to take nearly 40, Italy 16, and Austria one.

Thirteen others were permitted to write somewhere as their destination, which is a euphemism for Israel, and 26 decided they wanted to stay in Egypt. It now appears that they will ?ill stay in Egypt, at least until Israel releases the pilot.

Some diplomats here suspect the Israeli motive in retaining the pilot goes beyond the important one of extracting intelligence. They say that Israel has been complaining for years about the treatment (climazed by the notorious spy-trial hangings of Jews in Iraq).

Israel, in fact, has made the plight of the Jews in Arab (Contfamed On Page I)

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One man makes a success and a dozen of his neighbors try to get a piece of the action. No Hit Or Miss Franchising

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Efforts to aid minorities have caused the Small Business Administration to relax requirements, enabling many of those ethnic groups to get money.

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