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An Intriguing Mystery Of The Sea

North Carolinas coastal area may be witnessing one of its great mysteries in the death of thousands of large seabirds.

The big birds are known as greater shearwaters and they spent most of their time over water. In the last few days, however, the birds have been coming to the shore to die. So far no one has been able to determine what is killing the birds but a number of agencies are studying the strange deaths.

The Coast Guard, at the request of Rep. Walter Jones, is fljing some specimens to a wildlife research center in Laurel, Md. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has started tests aSd the Smithsonian Institution is to examine some of the birds.

So far there are no^ sound theories as to the cause of the birds death, although there is the possiblity of a virus or some chemical with which the birds might have had contact.

It is an intriguing mystery of the sea as can be found and the sea has come in for more than its share of mysteries. Why do thousands of a strange seabird suddenly flock ashore to die? Per-

Give Ground On

irustees issue

By STACTE STEELE Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH The Senate University Trustees Committee has apparently given ground in a hassle with the House committee to get equal voice in cloosing the 29 members of the University of North Carolina Board of of Trustees.

Rep. Donald Stanford, of Ocange hairman of the House committee, says t h e two groups will meet jointly next week to vote, as has been done in sessions in recent years.

Sen. Hargrove Bowles, hairman of the Senate body, declined to discuss the matter until he has communicated with members of his committee.

The basic issue, that t h e House committee with more members has more weight in choosing the trustees in joint voting sessions, is backed by the staUites which say that the 25 new trustees to be named every two years by the General Assembly, must be done in joint session of the House and Senate.

TTie House with 120 members, would obviously be able to vote in an entire slate over the 50 votes from the Senate.

Bowles, who says that the Senate should have equal say-80, attempted to have the two committees meet separately, with a joint subcommittee composed of equal numbers of Senate and House members making the final decision.

This would have made the two committees have about the same weight in the decision making process.

Scotts Blast Representatives with liberal tendencies in the House are saying that the Governor made a mistake when he blasted Republicans by including the Democrat sponsored watchdog bill as an object of criticism.

Rep. Wade Penny of Durham, one of the sponsors of the bill which was introduced by Rep. Norwood Bryan of Cumberland, says that the Governor may have stirred

up some hornets when he opposed the measure.

Penny declares that this Assembly is very economy minded, and many Democrats have worked long and hard to get some kind of a watchdog bill passed.

Penny, who has been one of the leading opponents of Scotts five cent per package tobacco tax, says that after due consideration, he would vote for a tobacco tax as a last resort.

His main objection to the administrations tax package, he says, is the Asteam roller methods being used to get it through. Penny maintains that the tax package recommended by the -Finance committee should be taken apart and examined befiwe it is passed casually by the General Assembly.

The Finance committee has just as much right to question the uses the money will be put to as the Appropriations committee. Penny says, and if necessary, the tax bill should be re-debated on the House floor for the benefit of all the members.

The Durham legislator says that he has not been informed, to his satisfaction, of the states spending needs.

Its logical to me, that consideration of the needs the state has would be examined thoroughly before a new tax of any kind would be brought to a vote, he says.

Public Reaction

All agree that by making public his conversation with Republican leaders, Scott has gained the upper hand in the public mind.

Some feel that the man on the street is not really aware of the degree of dealing that is done in the General Assembly, so when an attempted deal is exposed by an indignant Governor, the result is scandal.

Rep. Penny, however, says that if deals are to be condemned, it should be known that the administration has been applying pressure all session to get its appropriations and finance packages approved.

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haps some of the many tests now being made will tell us. Then again, perhaps the mystery will never be solved and the incident will become a part of the rich forklore of the North Carolina coast. We shall see.

Time For Legislators To Take Special Care ^

It is at this time in the Legislative session, when things are hectic and legislators have their minds on budgets and revenues, that ill conceived measures are most apt to slip through.

At times special interest bills are introduced late in the session in hopes that they will speed through with little debate and too little study.

Members of the Legislature should be especially on guard for this now. No legislation should be approved without the full study and debate that is necessary to make certain that it is in the best interest of all North Carolina.

'i^umania Has Is Dissenters

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

BUCHAREST President Nicolae Ceausescu, who wields nearly absolute power in Rumania as Communist party boss, was unpleasantly surprised on a recient early morning visit to Bucharests markets when housewives queuing up grumbled candidly about the scarcity and poor quality of food.

The incident reflects both a deepening discontent and a new boldness in airing a little of that disccmtent which now has appeared below the suf-face of Ceausescus authoritarian state. Although Rumanias tight controls were tightened yet another notch after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, there are embryonic signs of dissentspontaneously among the masses and more consciously among creative artists. Like the grumbling Ceausescu encountered at the market, these signs go unreported in the tame Rumanian press.

The food shortage is tiself partially created by a primitive form of dissent; refusal by peasants to plant on their private plots for sale to t h e cities in protest against low prices. A bolder work stoj^age occured at Cluj (Rumanias second largest city) in Transylvania recently with a textile plant sitdown strike which was (juickly supressed by arrest.

Carried away by Christmas caroling last December, students at Bucharest University poured into the streets to demand (celebration of Christmas tame^ Berkeleys tand-ards but pretty daring in Rumania. Many of Rumanias few tourists going abroad have not been coming home, climaxed by the defection in Istanbul of an entire excursion group (including the bus driver, parked the empty bus in front of the Rumanian embassy).

Simultaneously, crea t i v e artists emboldened by relatively little censorship the past two years are surprisingly candid in talking politics. An artist just returned from a trip to Moscow told us in a loud voice in a crowded cafe: I saw in Russia the origin of all our troubles here. Significantly, the play and novel winning this years Writers Union national awards have themes implicitly critical of Communism.

To some seasoned Rumania-watchers, all this adds up to about zero. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of Rumanians remain as intimidated as ever by the ubiquitous securi

ty policeman. Although Ceausescu has ended the dreaded nighttime knock on the doc>r, an imjHTudent remark can still stiuit a career.

Nor is there any loosening of Stalinist centralism through which the party apparatus (xmtrols everything from Bucharest. Tbe government dogmatically sticks to a centrally - commanded economy overemphasizing heavy industry. That means Rumania, <me of Eur(^es richest agricultural nations, today cannot produce beef for Bucharests deluxe hotels and produces little if any food for ordinary citizens tables.

Moreover, the regime is selling the public on its nation that internal liberalization tacked on Ceausescus courageously independent foreign policy would insure Soviet intervention. A student at the University of Cluj, bitterly complaining to us about prohibitions of travel to the West, added: I guess they know what theyre doing. They (kxit want us to be-ome another Czechoslovakia."

Nevertheless, Ceausescu is no Stalin. Rather, his independent forei^ policy unintentionally has given h i m mass popularity unusual for Eastern European CJommunist leaders. Now he wants to keep that popularity, his visit to the markets being (xie of many humanizing attempts.

Once off in quest of popular support, a ruler may find it difficult to mete out the iron measures needed to stifle dissent. Thus, Bucharest students arrested after the Christmas demonstration are back in their classes. The adult editors of Amphitheatre, the magazine accused of stirring up the shidents, were merely transferred to nonsensitive jobs as sports swir-

Opinions In Brief

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be Americas heart, her benedicitions, and her prayers. John Quincy Adams.

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At Life

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Jumping conclusions:

When the world is to omuch with you, the best way to get away from it all is to take a nap. People who take regular afternoon naps worry less and live longer than those who waste their energies hooding over problems about which they can do nothing.

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ART BUCHWALD

The Question Of Teddy

WASHINGTON-The problem of what to do about Teddy Kennedy is haunting the Republicians. The strategy to hit him head-on almost worked. But v(?hat they failed to count on was Mrs. Rose Kennedy, Sen. Kennedys mother.

When Sen. Dirksen attacked Kennedy on the flocM* of the Senate for Kennedys remarks about the Vietnamese war, Dirksen received a telephone call from Mrs. Kennedy ttiank-ing him for the gracious and temperate tone of his speech.

The unflaf^able-Dirksen became flapped and after exchanging some kind words walked out into the hall and told Sen. Kennedy, Your

mother just called me to thank me for my speech.

Last week Sen. Kennedy and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had a bitter exchange on the floix* over Justice Douglas. As of this writing Mrs. Kennedy hasnt called Sen. Thurmond, I can imagine how the conversation will go when she does. Hello Sen. Thurmond. This is Rose Kennedy, Teddys mother.

How do you do, Mrs. Kennedy.

I just wanted to thank you for the nice way you treated Teddy on the floor of the Senate the other day.

Youre very kind, but Im afraid I lost my temper and said some mean things.

Gracious, no. I thought you were very temperate. You did bring up the business at Harvard when Teddy was a stud dent and had someone else take his test, but Ij^ihought you did it in a very nfeesway.

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say

They Have Answers

We wish that more of the critics would reflect on what the alternative would be if Uncle Sam did not stand as a deterrent to Communist encroachment. Deming (N. M.) Headlight.

(Wilmington Star-News)

If this is or ever has been an adult world one of the chronic reasons for many of its woes is that the old folks, or whoever runs it, too often refuse to let a few basic, simple thoughts come to their aid.

For instance, in all this

sorry mess about irre&uonsbile ring leaders trying to take

over the campuses, and about

everything else, and attempting to dictate to the proper authoritivies how to run it all.

These ring leaders and tlieir cohorts are s() obviously in the minute minority that they

might well be entirely ignored except that their noises are so arrogant and raucous.

Yet, most of us keep o*ir ears so attuned to the destructive noises theyre making we dont hear what the very large majority of young people are saying.

But this newspapers Inquisitive Cameraman wanted to know, and Monday he asked his weekly question to eight of them whose pictures suggest they are in their late teens or

early twenties.

If you were a 'college administrator and militant students took over your office, what would you do? asked the Jnquistive Cameraman.

Four of the young people answered forthrightly, and with little verbal trimming, that theyd throw them out. These were Darryl Wiley, David Lanier, Miss Janice Smith and Wed Trask. A fifth, Eugene Morgan, said hed try to reach some understanding compromise with the students, and if that failed Id use force.

The other three questioned were not as decisive in their views.

When five out of eight students, themselvds, suggest the absurdity of the kind of permissiveness and apologies that have allowed the surfacing of the dissidents, then it seems high time the older folks took due notice of what the majority of the young folks are thinking.

Paradoxically enough a baby knows when he needs a spanking, even if his parents dont.

and then you dropped it. A more petty man might have stayed witii the subject for a long time.

Well, Im not a mean man, Mrs. Kennedy, but Teddy really got me riled when he corrected my pronunication of Jose Figueres, former president of Ck)sta Rica.

Teddys always doing things like that. Ive told him since he was a little boy that people pronounce Danish words differently in different parts of the country, but he seems to forget. Your pronunciation is beautiful, Senator, and Im going to speak to Teddy about it.

Thats very kind of you, Mrs. Kennedy. I hope you realize there was nothing personal in our exchange. I was just trying to make a point about Justice Douglas association with a private foundation and Teddy kept interrupting me on the floor.

If Ive told Teddy once, Ive told him a hundred times not to interrupt when somebody else is speaking. I assure you he didnt learn that habit at home.

I appreciate that, Mrs. Kennedy, and I must say in the heat of battle we do lose our tempers. I wasnt questioning Justice Douglas character. I was dealing with the issues of the foundations.

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man who can eat raw claiM and enjoy them.

There has been a lot of criticism lately of America industrial - military complex.* What most of us want to know, however, is how we can be(x>me members of it and get our fair share of the profits from defensive patriotism.

The longer a novelist writes, the lazier he usually is. He expects the reader to weed the prose he should weed himself. It is far easier to write a bad novel of 800 pages than a good one of 350 pages.

Apples now cost up to 20 cents or m(Hre each in Manhattan supermarkets. M their prices go . much hitler, it may become cheaper to see your doctor than to eat an apple a day to keep him away.

/^Nature tries to hide her mis-iakes; half the girls who wear miniskirts frustrate her Iqf revealing them.

We fret about how wt will ever be able to afford to send our children to college, but parenthood is a tough ordeal for birds, too. Take a mother robin, for example^. She must jMwide each of her clarowrous brood of nestfmgs with 14 feet of wOrms every 24 hours. It is a wonder that the orange feathers on her breast dont turn gray.

About the only exercise some people get today is pointing the finger of scorn.

If you want to invest your money safely, lend it to a man who still wears spats. He is too old-fashioned to be dishonest.

A man with a new set of false teeth usually brags that he can eat anything. But if you lunch with him at a restaurant, you will notice he orders chicken a la king or orned beef hash more often than he does steak.

Its a funny thing about the business w(^ld-the hard the decisions h executive has to make, the softer is the cushion in his swivel chair throne.

It is true that every dog has his day; it is also true that every day something happens to the average guy to make him feel like a dog.

In reading the M(Hiday morning newspapers, isnt it amazing to note over a period of time how many Sunday golfers are struck by lightningand how few people are hit in church?

One of the best ways to stop the population explosion would be to teach every male child at the age of 5 to cook his own meals and sew buttons < his shirt. '

Watching horse opera dioot-em-outs and pro football games on (lor television can be highly educational. For one thing it teaches the alert viewer to distinguish between ketchup and real gore.

Strength For Today Ad.vQnc6ni0nt Froin Th.G OutsiciG

Who Knows

The world is changing about us in a fashion that makes us dizzy even to think about it. Although we are plaqued with war and violence, just as past have been, nevertheless the most comfortable and significant period in world history, so far as we can discern, is this mid-twentieth century period in which we now find ourselves.

What will it be like a hun dred years, the prospectto put it realisticallyis stunning. We are preparing to go to the moon. The next step will be to visit some of the planets. Some of us remember the and buggy days when a ten or fifteen mile drive was a real journey. It was only a few decades ago that die Wright Brothers were looked upon as crazy because they believed they believed they could fly a

heavier-than-air machine. Einsteins theory or relativity caused him for many years to be bracketed with flie odd balls. Just a little more than fifty years ago the horseless carriage was looked upon with wonder by about half tlie population of our country and derided by the other half. Go back a little before that and we find respectable scientists denying the possibility of any kind of a vehicle going forty miles an hour. The reason they gave for their doubt was that under these conditions a person would not be able to breatlie.

Ai'e we going to be able within the next fifty or a hundred years lo sit down witli people from other planets and exchange ideas with them? Who knows?

B Earl L. Douglass

By E3JHER ROESSNER

In the race for the top spots in the business the odds on the outsider are improving.

Of 203 executives newly ap-x)inted to president in the ast half of 1968, 43 per cent had been with the company five years or less. This coiin-pares with 29 per cent during the same period two years earlier.

And of 73 newly named president who are also chief executive officers, 41 per cent have been with their companies less than one year. They also received hefty salary hikes as well as promotions with 43 per (ieiit getting raises of 30 per cent or better, according to a study by t h e management consulting firm of R. M. Schmitz and Company in cooperation with Dr. W. A. Owens of the University of Georgia.

Curiously, there was little difference in age between newly appointed executives re-garcUess of the position itself. The average age <rf new presidents was 48. Exceptive vice presidents averaged 148 years as did group vice presidents. Prime Time

Senior vice presidents averaged 47 years on appointment and vice presidents averaged 48 years. Apparently if tne businessman doesnt make it big by his late 40s he isnt likely to make it at all.

While some promotees get substantial raises, others do not. About one out of four newly prombted executives queried didnt receive a salary increase. Half of the new sen- ior vice presidents received the same old paycheck.

However, almost three-quarters of all promoted exe-

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cutives did receive a cash bonus. And president- chief executive officers fared best of all with 93 per cent getting higher salaries.

Education can play an important Tole in business suc-

BOESSNER

ess, the study indicates. Slightly more Uian une-fourth of the top pronK)ted executives hold a masters degree. One quarter of the executives

undergraduate degrees are in engineering.

Giant Bubble Brings The Out-, doors Inside ..... -

Large, pliable bubbles held up by slightly higher-than-nor-mal air pressure are not pew. But they seem to be getting bigger. Small blowers keep these structures inflated for a wide variety of uses including, in one case, an Indoor-outdoor sculpture exhibit.

The latest bubble to arise measures 100 feet by 429 feet (covering an acre of ground) and is 20 feet high. It is a trial balloon to see if inflat-ables can substitute for greenhouses.

Developers envisi( the eventual use of bubbles tar re-reation parks, stadiums, campuses, retirement communities, drive-in theatres and out-oorshopping malls, lo name a few.