Time Is Ripe For Postal Changes

Almost everyone agrees that something needs establishment of a commission of experta

to hr done to modrnnzc the V. S. Post Office opera- to propose changes in mail classifications and post-tinii hat ir neerleJ now is implementation of some age rates, subject to review by the seven president-0 the proposals that have been put forward. ially appointed members of the nine man board.

rresrdenf Nixon has now proposed a njan of The reorganization plan was based on rccom-

aetinn which hopefully will put the post cffTice de- mendations submitted by Frederick R. kappel, head parlnient on a business like operation. of former President Johnsons Commission on Postal

Among the proposals which the president has Organization. It holds promise of placing the postal put before Congress is the key plan to convert the operation on a more self sustaining basis, flep.artment. into a government-owned, self sus- More important even than the problems the

taming semce removed from cabinet status. department faces now are the mounting volumes

Changes include: ^ of mail it will face in future years. Handling of the

creation of an independent postal service niountains of mail is going to reqquire rapid changes wholly owned by the federal government and ad- and increased mechanization in the department.

NOW WELL SEE HOW THE DELIVERY IS!

ministered by a nine member board of directors.

new and extensive collective bargaining rights for-postal employees.

bond financing for major imnrovemonts, nmilar to the funding arrangement nowheld bv the Tennessee \*al!ey Authority.

Hard Decisions At Hanc.

Soon

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Rpflerfer Raleigh Bureau

RALIEGH The time has come for tlie legislature to make some hard decisions Obvdously quite a few will have to be made within t h e

next two weeks if leaders are to mf^t a goal of adjournment in mid- June. The leadership is confident it can be done.

SHUltS

Nume-ous kcislative mat

ters remain unresolved, and the key jnay b? laxalion. Either the governor's tax program be apfvraved or- a

tive sources report a growing impatience among tJie

members.

'Were been over the

ground and we've heard a 11 the arguments,' says one

member of the important Finance committee. Its time to start voting and see how we stand

Minds Made Lp Every indication is that the Joint Appropriations subcommittee has its mind made up on what items it will approve and those it will disapprove-Subcommittee sources predict that the group will report an overall 1969 - 71 Appropriations bill wothin a week. It will be more conservative than most observers had expected. Several items strongly recommended by Gov. Bob Scott will be struck entirely and others slashed. What Surprises?

There is speculation about what surprises the 1969 General Assembly may produce in its closing weeks.

There are usually surprises during a legislative sess i o n but these have been few and far between thus far in t h e 1969 session. Almost every-^

tiling has gone according to predictions, but a backlog of controversial issues has been building. Tlie^e could very well explode in the final few weeks and days.

Some surprises may come in the form of supplemental appropriations bills, introduced separately by individual legislators or groups of legislator^ asking for funds for rrrtain projech;. It is known that the Appropriations sub-rnnimittce has looked with favor on several of these bills and plans to recommend them. Others, as usual, will be killed summarily in committee.

Dr. Brandis Honored

Dr Henry Parker Brandis, Km.'ui Protessor of Law' at the L'niversity of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, spoke to trustees of U.N'C on the Charlotte campus and said, one of the mo.st significant virtues of democracy, if it operates properly, is the continuous opportunity it provides _for diimge by -peaceful TTicans^;-'^ -It is true that in its processes, minorities, while having an unrestricted right to advocate, ha^e no r" j it to win.

It is also demonstrable that minorities are capable of making foolish and unjustifiable demands.

Describes Methods Brandis, referring to conditions prevalent in parts of the United States today, said he felt that majorities must consider the justice of minority objectives not merely the unacceptable meth o d s adopted by some minorities and not merely the benefits conferred by the status quo upon individual members of the majority

He said he feels two levels of change are needed. Pro-vrrty, ignorance and inequality of legal rights may be attacked by collective action through legislation, administrative action and the courts. Further. Brandis re-forred to the personal atti-bide as a condition of the human heart to which each of us must be his own legislator, administrator and judge

_ department.

AVe feel the time is opportune to reorganize administration of the department so that~Tt will be * ready to handle the vast volumes of mail it wdll be facing.

Mid City Renewal Is Keyed To The Future

City officials should be pleased that the planning grant for the massive 437 acre Mid City Renewal area has been approved.

The federal advance loan of $42,207 w^as announced by Congressman Walter Jones yesterday.

With the funds, the city will be able to plan for improving a big, largely residential are adjacent to the Central Business District project.

This will not be a clearance project in the sense of the Shore Drive project. Instead the city will be able to improve streets and public areas and work

with property owners in bringing houses and build- JA^AES KILPATRICK

ings up to standards. Since much of the property within the area is already standard, the project will prevent many sections from the future.

Wih the planning grant, over $2 million xvas re-sene^fl for carrying out the project. For any student of the U.S. made a better presentation.

lers

1 OKing

issue

mucn 01 tne property

ndard, the project will * 7

becoming blighted in ^

M ith the grant the city can prevent many pro- Supreme Court even th

blems of the futui*e

poorest and most amateur student the Presidents re-

Mr. Nixon spoke at some length of the differences, in his mind, that ought to sep-

By WHAYNE EISENMAN AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Two men on the East Coast have been spearheading a drive that has shaken traditional relationships between car dealers apd manufacturers-

Theyre new car dealers and they have complained, separately, before the Federal Trade Commission and the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee about what they consider are inequities in the warranty system and manufacturer-dealer relations in general.

They are Edwin Mullane, a Ford dealer in Bergenfield, N.J., and Ralphael Cohen, head of Merit Motors, a Yonkers, N.Y. Dodge dealer..

Mullane, head of the Ford dealership that bears his name, is an ex-history teacher. He has emerged as an articulate public spokesmen for dealer complaints, most recently before the April hearings of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee, headed by Sen. Philip A.

Hart, D-Mich.

11 ^ I Both men have been the voice

before governmental commit-^ ^ ^ j.j tees for a growing list of dealer g

dent to count him out. He md gripes with manufactiffers over not feel it would be m the pgg^ few years. Mullane best mterests of fee Court g^d Cohen, and the dealers they -for a ^or member sudden- represent as local association

Hanoi Running Out Of Steam?

markable press conference arate a Cliief Justice from ly to be elevated above his

last Thursday was a moment Ws eight Associate Justices, older brothers. 'The President deSers simmered

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHLNGTON - Beh i n d the deliberate flexibility wov-en into President Nixons May 14 speech on Vietnam is the growing belief that the Cc.mmunists will run out of steam after their major offensive planned for this summer has been turned back.

Mr. Nixons low - keyed appeal for still more patience at home coupled wife his refusal to raise false hopes carefully avoided fruitless predictions of the past that the Communists would soon cry for mercy.

But in fact, dangerous weaknesses both in the rear line (North Vietnam) and fee heroic front line (South yietnam) have now bee o m e evident. There is an almost desperate note of anxiety in the appeals by Hanoi for a return to discipline and the hard warnings about the breakdown on the homefront.

An editorial last month in Nhan Dan, fee partys official voice, contains a remarkable revelation of fee lax discipline and growing corruption within fee Communist party. It asks all citizens to check on party workers a euphemism for spying.

Higher party echel o n s must check on lower echelons, lower echelons on higher; party committees must check on party members, party members on party committees; the .masss must check the work of party chapters, and so on this is a correct guideline for making checking a regular activity for the entire party and all the people.

The underlying cause of this command to spy was the ending of U. S. bombing last year. It r&moved the most

that comes once in a life-timel By the time the 40 or 50 reporters trooped out of his office^ we had been granted a revealing glimpse of this Presidents mind at work, in terms of the highest court in fee land.

A few hours earlier, Mr. Nixon had announced h i s choice of Warren E. Burger to succeed Earl Wairen as Cfeief Justice of the United

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appointment, why he made it, what he would seek in other nominations to the Court, how he views the role of the executive and judicial branches. For conservatives at least, the President could not have

There has to be a leadership had to agree wife feat view.

quality, he said, for the Four other names were mcmaing.

over

visible symptom of patriotic hate for fee U. S. and was followed by a drastic decline J^|sciELlin^jin^a_SEto? oL^ wmted

small corruptions (sexual talk about the promiscuity in the capital, for instance, is giving Hanoi the momentary and healthy look of decadent capitalism).

But if fatigue for the endless war is requiring Ho Chi Minh to take serious measures at home, his problems in the South are becoming critical.

The place to start is the drying - up of military recruits for the Vietcong, and that in turn is direcUy linked to the success of what is called Operation Phoenix the exposure and elimination of Communist political cadres in the villages of South Vietnam.

Making fee usual allowances for over - optimistic reports, it is nevertheless certain that fee Vietcongs political organization has suffered drastically in fee past 12 months, since the end of the 1968 Tet offensive. This means that the manp o w s r base for recruitment of Vietcong guerrillas is steadily shrinking. That, in turn, reduces the effectiveness of the "^Vietcwigs main force units and leaves a combat gap feat can only be filled by fresh recruits from fee North, heightening the problems in Hanoi.

The proof of this gradual decline m the enemys overall position is the continuing postponement of the great offensive of 1969, the planning of which started last August.

The preliminary phase of that operation, in late February, was a failure.

Originally set for March or April, the 1969 offensive was hailed by Hanoi radio t) n 1 y (Continued On Page 8)

(?hief is both the leader of the Court and its top administrative officer. A brilliant Justice he thought of Holmes, Brandis and Ordozo is not necessarily qualified to become a great Chief.

He then explained with great candor why five prospective candidates had b e en eliminated: They had elimi-nated_ themselyes^^^ speculation had turned upon Justice Potter Stewart of Ohio; it was widely believed that fee President would name him Chief Justice, as Roosevelt elevated Harlan

eliminated. Cfearles Rhyne, Inadequate payment by tha former president of fee Arne- manufacturers for work dime rican Bar Assoication, was under the warranty for new too close a friend; Presidents cars.

John Mitchell and Fismer At- , .... , .,

tomey General Herbert -Malr compebtion from th. Brownell were eliminated for ^"Called factory stores that of-the same reason. Tom Dew- Jf dseiwice for,less

ey, at 67, was barred by age. ^ fT.

So the President turned to P"^ent dealers feat handle the

Judge Burger, of the District

jofJMumMa .-Inadyiuate payments to

and saw in him the Chief palti fux of minor Justice he wanted. tects during fee make-ready

It was a highly deliberate choice. Every President car up for the man be-

works differently. Mr. Nixon 5 ^ . .

remarked; as for himself, he General Motors,

stone in 1941. But Justice kjnj f pijes ^ b* detached Chry*/. Ford have in-

Stewart had asked fee Presi-

creased the payments to dealers within the last tew weeks for

Other LQitors bay Even More Fantastic

(Wichita Falls, Tex., Times)

Readers of The Times are aware feat much of the news they see of the outside world beyond the area of North Texas and Southern Oklahoma comes from the cooperative newsgathering agency, fee Associated Press (AP). What they dons know is the revolution that is taking place behind the scenes in the methods by which news is transmitted.

JiLt four decades ago, the Morse code telegrapher sitting before a type\yriter and a clickety-click box which transmitted fee messages was the newspapers source of the AP news report. Then came the teleprinter which replaced the telegrapher' and provided news copy from an

diting fee mechanical processes by which news is reduced to the printed word.

All of this has meant not only the faster distribution of news tough the AP but better edited reports and an extension of news coverage throughout the world. At the annual meeting of the AP in New York City this week, however, what is to come sounds even more fantastic.

Next month the AP will begin computer tests of equipment designed to relay news at a rate of 50,000 words a minute. And AP is also experimenting with a cathode ray tube which calf transmit edited copy at speeds of 1,050 words a minute.

Such marvelous thin.gs in store for newspapers in the immediate future are wonder-

and stand back from such a nomination, and decide it as coolly and objectively as pos- warranties.

sihlc A Sm

The governing question In the Presidents mind, whenever he considers a judicial nomination, will be to ask how a prospective judge re-

And American Motors is conducting surveys in some areas to determine the possibility of an increase-Ford recently closed down Its 15-month old diagnostic center gards his role as an interpre- far from Mullanes dealerter of the Constitution. The planning an experi-

President happens to believe mechanic training pro-

that the Constitution should Teterboro, N.J. This

be strictly construed. A n d dealers with another

he knows that in mak i n g problems, a shortage of

nominations to the Court, a ^oalified mechanics.

President can affect the di- Mullane and Cohen wor-

rection of the supreme law of ^ dealers image in

the land. the public mind.

These several lines of reas- What is really needed, Coh-oning converged on Warren said, is an informed con-Burger. While fee President sumersomebody who has more has known his nominee since ^ mind than arguing {n*ice. He the Republican convention of should know what hes getting.* 1948, the relationship has While Mullane and Cohen been wholly social. He has have made public criticisms, seen Judge Burger only off other dealers privately have ex-and on, over fee years. No pressed their dissatisfaction, one could object feat consid- And they said they would have erations of close pers 0 n a I niade their gripes public but for friendship play^ any part. tear of reprisals from Detroit, A vital consideration rest- on whom dealers depend for ed in Judge Burgers 13 years franchises and an allotment of

automatic typewriter at dou- ful to contemplate, but they do oth^teL S' uSf Set"* * ble or triple fee speed of the give rise to a couple of linger- a candidate vrith inHLfi afv u u-

S-SiSr?

awesome macmnes busy. And this case, Mr. Nixon studied As a matter of fact T think

any oeiier tor inc ea.se with ions. He knew something of now in Detroit than thev avar which ,t can be transmitted? (Continued On Page 9) did blforid

has been supplemented by a punched tape machine whose product is fed into automated typesetting equipment, expe-

Strength For Today

Heading Into A Housing Crunch

HOPE

In fee 13th chapter of First Corinthians Paul declares: And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Paul put Jove first, and we put it first if we are wise. God is love. His policy for the human race is a loving policy. Without love the home goes to pieces, society is undermined and threatened with destruction. No love, no life.

But although love is first, faith and hope afe factors without which there is no richness to life. There are some people for whom h o pc seems either futile or foolish They keep looking, at the darker side of life. Their constant query is Whats fee use? These people refuse to believe that virtue is its own reward or that anything of a hopeful nature will .spring up

and fill the horizon of t h e i r life wife gladness. The worst is yet to come. If you put confidence in people you will be sadly disappointed. Things are bad and getting worse is their cry. The world is going to the dogs.

Realism is one thing and hopelessness another. No person of any wisdom would close his eyes to the situations of life as they exist. There is plenty in the world and plenty in us to be discouraged about.

But let us never think for moment that hopelessness rules Jht- scehe. It does not. And now abideth hope . . . It indeed abides. With out hope there cpn be no progress no peace.

Life is full of problem.^, but life is not hopeless. There is a future to everything.

Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

'The United States is head-Jng into a frightening housing crunch.

For three consecutive months housing construction declined. In April, new privately owned housing starts were at an annual rate of 1,-543,000. Allowing for destruction by fire, condemnation for new highway.s, etc., condemnation or collapse of old buildings and other losses of housing units, feats a gain of a scant million a year. In New York City, abandon-ment of old apartment build ings has become a serious problem. Owners, unable to pay high taxes and finance improvements i^uired by housing laws, simply walk away. s

Yet the population and. the formation of new families keep on increasing. Malcolm Sherman, vice president of

month roughly 300,000 people are being added to our cities. Thats 3^600,^ a year^ Housing is not keeping up with the increase.

Scarce Mortgage Money %

'The basic reason for the lag in housing is the scarcity and high cost of mortgage money. Many banks are reluctant to lend noijeyx on home mortgages because ijicy can get even higher rates for commercial loans, much at 10 per cent and more.

Savings and loan associations, an important source of home mortgage money, have little left to lend. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board a few days ago relaxed reserve requirements on these associations, but that has released only a small amount of money.

The cost of mortgages has increased far above quoted rates because most lenders

in the first place.

Even on Federal Hous i n g Administration and Veterans Administration govemm e n t-insured loans, lender are demanding 4 or 5 points. That is the borrower gets only $96

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or $95 for each $100 he signs forv

Gouging Denounced Some lenders demand even cnore. At the first annual meeting of the Federal Na-

gougers those who charge as much as an 8-point discount on government - back-___

ed mortgages.

Because of the current high mortgage rates, many people who can afford homes are sitting twt the market, convini-ced that rates will eventually go down. At 8 per cent interest a bargain these days - the cost of a 30 - year mortgage can more than double the price of a home.

Somt borrowers succeed in getting clauses permitting the refinancing of their mortgages, which can mean a great saving if interest rates decline. But lenders are increasingly resisting such clauses.

The housi^ shortage is il* ready stirring Congress. A number of proposals have been made to provide govern-

vjiicmiaii, vn-c picsiucriL oi raies oecause most lenders tinnai a loans for private hous-

the Rouse Co., told a Nation- are now demanding Joints* now^ownS^Ify ^

al Industrial Conference in addiUon. Points are per- 'holders Ravmnia u

Board meeUng that a vary centagcs for granting the loan the nres^^nr

* * [)resident. denounced as gress, ara growing.