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Important Actions In Coming Weeks

A good many important things have to happen in the legislature in the next couple of weeks if the early June adjournment date set by Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor and House Speaker Earl Vaughn is to be met.

Nor the least of these is the matter of resolving the budget matters of the state for the next two years. While many things influence the length of the legislative session, the usual thing is that most other matters can be quickly disposed of once the money questions are resolved. In all likelihood that situation will exist in the 1069 General Assembly session. <

Governor Scott so far has been successful in obtaining legislative supjiort for his program. While his recommendations on appropriations may be modified bj* the legislative committees working on taxes and spending, all indications are that the final measures will contain just about what the governor wantd. Even so, it is no easy task for

the appropriations committee to reconcile the great quantity of budget requests with the limited amount of funds anticipated from tax sources during the next two years.

^ It would be fine if the General Assembly is able to wind up its business by early June as the presiding officers of the two houses suggested some weeks ago. It is important, however, that the legislature consider carefully the numerous important matters still before it. It would be a mistake for the General Assembly to rush toward adjournment and in the process fail to enact needed measures; or worse still, enact poor legislation.

The state can afford the cost of an extra week or two for the legislature to complete its work without too much haste, and the legislators should also be able to affort the extra time.

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3ig Spenders Becoming a. Routine

On Own Needs

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - The 1969 General Assembly which has n o t dS yet enacted very much of the far - reaching program put before it nevertheless has pent more than $1.5 million OQ its own operation.

By the time of sine die adjournment, probably in m i d or late June, it is expected that legislative costs will have exceeded two million dollars in tax money. And this does not include maintenance and upkeep of the $7 million State Legislative Building itself which is considerable w n i 1 e the Assembly is in session.

Inquiry of legislative leaders and budget officials produces the following report as of May 16 on legislative costs.

Costs Reported The largest item, $848,960.-40, is lumped under members salaries, subsistence, travel, postage, legislative interm program and so forth.

Then there is also a sizable Item of $386,813.54 for other salaries. This gives a somewhat more detailed breakdown.

Salaries for the administrative offices, joint emplo- yesa and loan employes were $134,932.04. '

Salaries for tlje Senate staff including officers amounted to $116,923.0ft..|or the four months perio4_He^ staff salaries were $134,9500.

Computer System Costs The Assemblys newly installed (for this session) Central data processing service (computers) had cost $72,-426.50 during the period.

Other equipment costs included $73,001.35 in purchas e d equipment and $10.267.12 in rentals for a total of $83.268.-

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Supplies and materials had cost $38,088,03. Printing and binding which is done u n d er contract has cost only $2,222 -41 but this is expected to increase greatly bills, resolutions and reports go to the enrolling officers and the printer.

Sliding Scale Approved

The joint Appropriat ions subcommittee has given tentative approval of a sliding scale principle in granting salary increases to most s t a te employes. This was recommended by Gov. Bob Scott.

The scale ranged from seven and one half per cent lor employes already in top pay brackets to about 14 per cent in the low'er brackets.

In the same sessiwi, the subcommittee gave tentative approval to 10 per cent and 10 per cent increases for public school teachers in each year of the biennium.

Watchdog Bill

Apparently some of the most effective floor arguments heard during this legislative session were presented last Friday during debate on a bill to set up a legislative watchdog committee to <v-ersee state government expenditures.

It may have been that most of the House members had not heard much about the bill sponsored by Rep. Norwood Bryan of Fayetteville. It had won quick committee approval.

The concept, of course is not novel. The late U. S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia insisted on a federal watchdog committee in Congress. North Carolina produced two of the most famous Congressional and federal watchdogs, the late Rep. Robert Doughton and former U.S. Comptroller Gen. Lindsay C. Warren.

But in the House in Raleigh last week there was some surprise that so m a n y legislators, especially younger members, wanted extra safeguards and more readily available information. They urged the House to authorize a nine member watchdog committee of legislators to keep *abs on preparation of the biennial budget and then follow up on authorized appropriations.

It is another sign of the new sophistication of space-age America that a manned flight to the moon is looked upon almost as routine.

The flight of Apollo 10 has gone so smoothly since its start that even those closely associated with this major achievement give the impression of viewing it as commonplace. For the man in the street, success has become so much a part of the nations manned space program that whst seemed unimaginable a few years ago now is looked upon as just one more logical step.

Even so, it is difficult for many of todays adults to realize a generation of young Americans now growing up will not remember the time when there wasnt manned space flight.

Soviet Applies Quiet Pressure

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-The Soviet Union is mounting new pressure on Yugoslavia with some old-fashioned sabre - rattling aimed at Marshal Titos neighbor, Albania.

No serious Kremlinologist really thinks Moscow would seriously ccmtemplate launching the combined sea-air operation needed to attack Albania, Red Chinas tiny, threadbare ally in the Balkans. Rather, they feel the t h r e a ts against Albania are just an indirect Kremlin .method to keep Yugoslavia off balance in the war of nerves against Tito ever since the jnvasion of Czechoslovakia.

Its succeeding. The Yugoslavs were more than a little disturbed by recent articles directed against Albania in two Soviet News papers, New Times and Communist.

These articles described an entire military complex of continental dimensions being built in Albania between the cities of Tirana, Drac, and Valona. This complex is supposed to contain missiles, nuclear weapons, and submarines. Whats more, the Russians claim, a large number of Chinese troops have been stationed along the Mediterranean coast. In conclusion, the Soviet papers warn menacingly, these Chinese bases on the Mediterranean endanger the Soviet Union.

As both Yugoslav and Wst-ern diplomats are well aware, this is sheer nonsense. The only Chinese military exp erts sent to Albania are the ubiquitous books of (Jiairman Maos thoughts. Thus, the true intent of the Soviet articles is either the preparation of an actual assault on Albania or a type of psychological warfare to make Belgrade uneasy. The latter is almost surely the case, requiring Yugoslavia to spend for defense at the accel-rated level in effect ever since the Czechoslovakian invasion.

Nixon Strikes Out

President Nixon invited freshman Republican Sen.

Strength For Today

.. By EARL L. DOUGLASS Folly of War

Of all the follies man ever plunged into, war is probably the least defensible. Here we are, living on a planet able to support all the creatures thereon and keep them happy, but instead we lunge at one anothers throats in war.

Now there have been, and until th end of time there probably will be, wars of defense. The turning-back of the Spanish Armada, with t h e English people under the leadership of Queen Elizabeth I, was one such war. The de-terniinalioii of most of the nation-. u{ the,world to stay clear of Hitlers tyriiny was another justified war of defense. We have policemen in every community, but these officers do not start out in the morn-

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But I Distmctfy Heard Him IntorestingT

William Saxbe of O h i o to a tete-a-tete with nobody else present in the Oval Offce early this month in a vain effort .to change his mind about voting against the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile program.

Saxbe was, naturally, polite and respectful but absolutely adamant that he could not support the P r e sidents scaled-down proposal f(M* the ABM defense of two U.S. long-range missile sites in North Dakota and Montana.

Moreover, Saxbe made it clear that one of his hang-ups was the war in Vietnam. So long as the war continued, Saxbe told the President, he could not go along with a vastly expensive new weapons system.

The Presidents chat wiUi Saxbe (they sat on the sofa together beside the fireplace) is a sign that Mr. Nixon may be starting to realize how deep and implacable is the opposition to the ABM by some Republicans, up to n 0 w, t h e President has made few personal appeals on the ABM.

There may be many more now.

.. Nixons Locked Door

Another e x a m p 1 e of the tightly-locked door maintained for President Nixon by Appointments Secretary H. R. (Bob) Haldeman is the cold shoulder given the one Negro leader who had a decent word for Mr. Nixon in last years campaign: Roy Innis, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Innis did not actually endorse Mr. Nixon but di(i speak of him in considerably kinder terms than he used to describe Hubert Humphrey. W h a ts more, Innis collaborated with Nixon aides in working up the Presidents black capitalism proposals.

But since the election, Innis has not heard a word from either the President or his aides. When Innis telegraphed the President several weks ago asking to see him about the appointment of a Governor of the Virgin Islands (Inniss birthplace), he did not even (Continued On Page S)

ART BUCHWALD

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WASHINGTON - As one of nine judges at the Hickory Hill Pet Show which was held last Saturday, I would like to explain why I have decided to resign rather than subject the pet show to vicious rumors and unsid)stantiated charg e s that have been circulating in Washington for the past few days.

First, I would like to ex-

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plain that although I accepted a fee of $20 a year for life (which would go to my basset) from the Kennedy Foun-dati<Hi, at no time did I use my office as judge to influence the awarding of blue ribbons to the Kennedy children.

The money offered by t h e Kennedy Foundation had been given to me because of the work I had done in animal

Other Editors So'/ Mr. Eure Objects

(Henderson Dispatch)

We confess to sympathy with Secretary of State Thad Eure in his attitude toward the flock of amendments to the State Constitution that have been proposed in the Legislature. The difference is that the secretary has a personal concern on those issues and we do not, other than trying to be a good citizen. Mr. Eure is a good citizen in every sense of the word, and also is a man of convictions with courage to stand by them.

How many of the proposed amendments will actually be submitted by the Legislature is not known at the present time. But it can be seriously doubted that some of them, perhaps all, are in any sense essential, or that the State will be better off with them than it has been all along without them. What we are seeing in the Legislature now is a sample of what there would be in larger number if sessions were held annually instead of every two years as now.

Never is a regular session held that some members do not come up with one or many more than one changes in the Cornstitution. (Haims are made that the organic law of the State is outmoded, that it needs to be brought up to date and modernized. The way it

seems to us a lot of the so-called modernization would be more harmful than helpful. For example, the agitation for giving the Governor the veto power and allowing him to succeed himself if he could be elected to a second consecutive term.

Secretary Eure said that if any amendment is submitted to voters for the short ballot he would oppose that and all other changes offered. That would give the Governor the authority to appoint most of the State officials who are now and for decades have been chosen by popular vote of the people. That is the way it should continue. But Mr. Eures opposition would carry much more weight if shorn of the personal element involved, as be outlined it.

Without knowing, as it cannot be known yet, just what amendment will be submitted to the electorate, we would almost be willing to join with the secretary in opposing the entire package. In fact, we are inclined to that decision, whatever Mr. Eure may do. But we are ready to take sides with him against the short ballot in particular, and against all the others that have been mentioned, unless more convincing reasons for their approval are trumped up than have been thus far.

husbandry, and I believed that I could make a contribution to the foundation particularly in the area of canine-fe-line relations.

Having accepted the first check of $20, 11 months ago, I decided that I did not nave the time to devote to the work and, therefore, I retum-

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ed the fee to the foundation.

That is all there was to the story. But after an article in Animal World alleging that the money had been paid to me because I could in s o m e way be instrumental in helping the Kennedy children win prizes, I felt it incumbent to point out that one thing had nothing to do with the other-

Its true that I did speak to Mrs. Ethel Kennedy about her children getting blue ribbons in the canine, bird and fish competitions, but at no t i m e did I guarantee that any of her children would be trated as special cases. If they did win six blue ribbons, it was only because their pets deserved them.

It was published in the Pet Home Journal that I also had conversations with Sen. Teddy Kennedy concerning the hamsters and turtles his children were entering in the contest. This is true. But here again I did nothing to justify Sen. Kennedys saying later that he had one of the pet show judges in the bag.

Sometime in April I received a call from Pat Lawford, who said she was sending her children down from New York for the pet show, and since it (Continued On Page 5)

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Jobs

By H. L, SCHWARTZ III Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - WhUe the Nixon administration talks about taking p(ditics out of the Post Office, more and noore jobs are being created in other departments that could be used for patronage.

In the past month, the Agriculture Department has gotten authority to create 20 new positions in the Farmers Home Administration.

A department official said frankly the jobs are of political interest.

We wanted them available but we dont ha^ any plans right now to fill them, he said.

Most other Cabinet members have asked for and received Civil Service Commission authority to create new jobs with fat paychecks that can be filled at the secretarys whim-

Although they could be used for patronage there is no indication of any plans now to ipe more than a handful as a political device.

The jobs in question fall under two categories known as Schedule C and Noncareer Executivf Assignments or NEA.

NEA posts cover the so-called supergrades in the General Schedule or GS scale and carry salaries between $20,0(X) and $30,000. Schedule C covers th# GS15 level$19,780and down.

Besides presidential appointments, the two categ()ris art the main avenue for niring and firing at will, skirting civil service rules that protect most other government employes.

The Housing and Urban Dt-velopment said its NEA and Schedule C positions have increased from 86 to 95 and it wants six more.

Heath, Education and Welfare had 84 positions, now has 95 and is asking for more but wont say how many.

Transportation, which got authority to create five new jobs, was the only other agency quer-ried that declined to say how many more it was seeking.

The Justice Department had 53 positions before innaugura-tion, now has 60 and wants another.

These figures appear to be the firmest, but presumably because of their political nature the number of Schedule C jobs at any given time in any given department may depend on whos counting.

The Pentagon, for instance, reported to the House Post Office and Civil Service (tommit-tee last September that it had 75 Schedule C jobs in the office of the secretary of defense and others scattered in the branches of the service.

It reports no change now in any but the Navy which shows an increase from 14 in the report to Congress to 23 now. It also says the Air Force wants five more positions that would bring it even with the Navy.

The Civil Service Commission, however, says it has 88 schedule C positions listed for the office of the secretary of defense and that the Navy had increased six, not nine.

Although numerically small, the increase in potential patronage positions is occurring at the same time the administration is trying to end the age-old tradition of handing out postmasterships as political plums.

Under a bill now before Congress, the postmaster general would select postmaster candidates from the recommendations of review boards with Mer-it and ability the only criteria-

The slow but steady increase in available political jobs comes to lightperhaps coincidentally (Continued On Page 8)

Colleae Degree Helos In A Bank

ing arresting everybody they can lay hands on- Their presence is a deterrent ,to evil, and they are called into quick action when such action is needed. We have to have international policemen as well as national and community policemen. But this is no justification for worldwide war and killing. A mother bpings a son into the world, raises him lovingly, and then he goes out and dies for a so-c ailed cause, the nature of which he does not understand.

Pacifism? No. Pacifism is unjustified, just as doing away with police departments would be unjustified. But war is hell, as one oi our greatest leaders in past years declared. And it can only lead to worse hells unless we get some sense in our heads and put an end to this folly.

. By ELMER ROESSNER

You dont have to b a college graduate to be a bank presiiient, but it helps. A survey by Heidrick and Struggles of Chicago, an international management consulting firm, shows that 10.3 per cent of the presidents of the nations 300 largest banks never went to college and that 16.1 per cent went to college but didnt graduate.

Of the rest, 33.5 per cent had a bachelors degree, 12.5 per cent attended graduate school without an advanced degree, and 27.7 per cent had graduate degrees.

Furthermore, the better educated have done a lot of taking-over in the last six years. In 1963, 17 per cent had no college education; 26 per cent had some college but no degree;. 38 per cent had bach-lora degrees and only 19 per

cent had graduate degrees. Bigger Banks, More Education

The study also snowed that the larger the bank, the more education the presidents had. While 13.8 per cent of the presidents of banks with deposits under $250 million never went to college, only 2.5 per cent of the presic^ents of banks with $1 billion more in deposits had lifted themselves by their own bootstraps. And in the under-$250 million banks, 23.1 per cent had graduate degrees while 42.5 per cent of the $1 billion-p 1 u s banks had top educational honors.

Curiously enough, of the 300 largest banks, 54.2 per cent of the presidents had law degrees and only 28.8 per c e n t had masters in business administration.

Furthermore the survey, titled Profile of a Bank President, showed presidents are

younger today Ihan they were six years ago, probably due to the retirement of older executives and In influx of younger wiz kids.

Bank presidents today aver-

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age two years younger than si\ years ago and one year younger tiiaii the average president o a nonbank corporation. It shows that ilie median age of bank presidents today is 55, and that the typical

president took over his job at 49.

Low-Paid Profession

he survey also indicated that bank presidents are not paid as well as heads of other corporations. The typi c a 1 president is paid between $50,-000 and $75,000 a year, and only one out of every five is paid more than $100,000 a year. However, bank presidents usually have stock options and other fringe benefits that make them well off. Many art also directors of corporations.

Most presidents came uo through commercial banking experience and the presidents have spent an average of 21 yewrs with present employers.

Yale was the most popular undergraduate school, with Pnncetpn second. Howe v er, Harvard liad grunted more than one-fourth of the advanced degrees held by bank presidents.