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A 6-Month-Old Letter Is Puzzling

It is a mystery to us why a letter written six months ago by a now retired stale official should come to^liirht at this late date before the ('ity Board of Education.

Vet that is what happened Monday night when Dr. James H. Bearden, a new member of the board, presented a letter from retired state property officer F. D. Turner stating that a site selected on W. Fifth Street as the location for the new Wahl-Coates School was unacceptable.

The letter was apparently written in reply to

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oe Duke Diec. On A Highway

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - Joe Duke, the late Joe Duke, was a newspaperman's newspaperman.

Perhaps only a newspaperman will know wh'at this means. But he was one, truly one of the trade, the craft. And it was a great part of his life.

He was^ Joseph W. Duke Jr., 43 years old, of Durham, but to those who knew, loved and respected him after years of working with him, he w a s Joe. Joe Duke.

WILLIAWI

SHlHEd

It is necessary at times to write of sadness and tragedy and personal hurt. This past weekend was one of those times because Joe Duke died, quickly, swiftly, on a rainswept state highway last Friday afternoon. It was hard to believe and even harder to accept. Surely it was just as hard to believe and even harder to accept. Surely it was just as hard and harder f o r the many more who knew and had worked with him, and loved him for many years.

Qualities We met Joe Duke shortly after he was graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in journalism and eag- erly accepted a job on t h e staff of the Durham Sun.

We worked elbow to elbow at many meetings and conventions and saw each other frequently as the Raleigh-Dur-ham area developed, the Research Triangle came into being and while things were happening.

He w'as energetic, enthusiastic, personable and knowledgeable. He was a sharp newspaperman. He caught detail, and the whys and wherefores, and he knew news values.- And above all he w a s dependable.

We talked frequently on the telephone about stories.

' We went to press parties # and press conferences together. In a few years Joe became state editor of the Durham Sun and then a year or so later assistant city editor. In 1965 he was appointed city editor which is quite an occasion In the life of a newspaperman.

It is both a y mark and a milestone in a newspaper career to become city editor of a paper in a growing exciting city such as Durham.

Joe was thrilled and told us how much he appreciated the challenge.

Ironic As city editor of the Durham Sun, Joe Duke chose to tell the story of Durham, its development, its growth and progress, and its problems as fully, clearly, accurately and objectively as possible. He proceeded to do so.

He had other interests He wanted to be active in community, area, diurch and state affairs and he wasas chairman rrf the Eastern dis-. trict of Civitan Clubs he was on his way to a meeting when his car skidded on a rain-slick road.

Ironically, one of his passions was the subject of liigh-way safety.

^me of Joe Dukes happiest and also most agonizing moments were spent in the press box of Kenan Stadium at Chapel Hill.

He was an ardent follower and wordshipper of the UNC Tar Heels on the football field. If at all possible he woufd not miss a gameespecially an opening game. Often those opening games were against a red and white clad team from Raleigh, and Joe would be apprehensive. Perhaps his most painful moment in the press box was when a Tar Heel player fumbled the ball on the goal line, and a N. C. State back caught it and ran more than 100 yards for a touchdown that won the game.

Report In silent tribute to city editor and friend Ji) Duke, a report will be published this week on the increasing costs of college education in North Carolina. Joe Duke requested the compiling of these figures. The survey was made by another friend, John L. Moorhead, public relations consultant in Durham who represents Home Savings and Loan Assn. of Durham, Chapel Hill and Roxboro.

The survey results, which Duke planned to publish, Indicated that cost differential between a state-supported school and a private institution is widening.

The average annual cost of attending a state-supported school was $1,196.50, and increase of $20.66 from last year. For a private school, it was $2,396.28 a year, an increase of $167.95 from 1 a 11 year.

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a (jue.stion from a local citizen, and so far as we can determine, the city school board knew nothing about

In the meantime the city school board has done its studies which concluded that the school, to be built with state funds, should be in the East Fifth Street area to serve the studens already attending the present Wahl-Coates school on the university campus.

The site has been purchased and school authorities are prepared to turn it over to the state for construction of the new school.

It would seem to us to be a pretty late date to hold up construction of this facility. Not only is the elementary school needed, but the university also needs the building which now houses Wahl-Coates for its academic program.

We can see no reason for the city and the university to stop planning and construction of the new school on the selected site. This new facility has been hampered by too many delays and if it can be determined that the state, the university and the city schools see eye-to-eye on the planned location then there should be no further hold up in its construction.

Science Enthusiastic In Hurricane-Seeding

If a seeding experiment now being carried out on Hurricane Debbie is successful, man may have found a way to tame such monsters as Hurricane Camille which roared ashore in the Gulf area.

Scientists are bombarding Debbie with silver iodide crystals in hopes that they freeze the storm to death. So far they are enthusiastic about their chances of success, although one spokesman said it may be months before the results can be assessed.

If the experiments are successful, however, we can record another giant leap for mankind, because there is nothing nature can throw at us that is more destructive than a great hurricane.

THE INNOCENT BY-5TANDER AGAIN!

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ART BUCHWALD

Guest Shortage Grows

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itaiys politics Sees Odd Twist

By ROWLAND |?ANS and ROBERT NOVAK

ROME The recent solution of the worst post-war Italian government crisis actually solved nothing at all and shows vividly tie precarious nature of Italian politics and the mortal fear that has seized the center and non-Communist left about how to deal with the powerful Communist party.

For the fact is that if the controlling Christian Democratic party had chosen to go to the country for elections it undoubtedly would have picked up more seats in Parliament and thus strengthened its hold on the govemmenL

Instead of that the Christian Democrats chose to eschew elections and try governing as a minority party, with the badly split Socialists no longer having a place in the government. That decision by the Christian Democrats led by Prime Minister Mariano Rumor and Foreign Minister Aldo M o r o is tantamount to President Nixons vetoing an American election even though the result would be to elect new Republican Senators in, say, Michigan, Texas, California, and a couple of other states.

Mr. Nixon would never be so charitable. Nor would the controlling party in almost any other parliamentary democracy pass up a golden opportunity to cash in on the factional wars plaguing its opposition party.

Thus the basic political problem confrontmg the non-Communist parties in Italy today is not to aggrandize their own partys power but to do just the opposite:find some formula which wUl avoid the polarization of politics that would come from one-party control, either left or right.

In private discussions during tlto height of the crisis early this month, Moro continuously warned against any action, specifically, an early

election, that would exploit the . fragmented, disorganized Socialists whose split over how to handle the Communist party brought down the government and ended the center-left coalition.

Moros fear was that that would radicalize (his word) Italian politics by offering the Communists new openings and, in reactions to that, mobilizing the right wing. Out of that package of political explosives could come chaos.

Accordingly, the decision to muddle along with a babysitter government which might or might not last into next spring shows how fragile and delicate the political underpinnings here really are.

The first brutal test will come very soon for a multiparty parliamentary system which worked badly even during the center-left coalition days of the past six years (only five or six really important laws passed) and which now, with a minority party holding every Cabinet position, is exposed to very conceivable political horror.

The first of these horrors is contract negotiations covering more than three million workers this fall. 'The booming Italian economy, with its 6 percent growth rate and its virile lure backed by nearly $6 billion. in reserves, has developed major social and economic stresses which must be dealt with.

The powerful Communist-controlled CKLI union is demanding, for example, a 20 percent increase in the entry wage for one million metal workers. Demands are on the table for closing the spread between blue and white collar workers, for keeping small, unec<Hiomic plants in the im-i> poverished south open, and for expensive help to southern migrants still streaming north to the incredibly prolific plants of Turin and Milan.

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WASHINGTON- A few years ago I wrote about the shortage of guests on the Riviera and pointed (Hit that while everyone had a villa or a yacht, the natural resources in house guests and boat guests were drying up fast.

Well, they scoffed at my warning, but this year the Riviera is facing its worst _^uest shortag, and the profiteering in guests is unimaginable.

I know, because thats how I am paying for my vacation, r It happened by accident.

It seems that fellow columnist John Crosby showed up in ' Monte Carlo and innocently asked me if I could get him invited to Princess Graces Red Cross gala at which Sammy Davis Jr. was going to entertain.

I pretended it would be difficult but said Id do my best. What I knew but John didnt was that the ratio of women to men along the Riviera was

six to one, and hostesses were willing to pay anything for a single man to sit at one of their tables.

An hour later I was down at the beach making discreet inquiries. I was tipped off that a Mrs. Max Kettner of Nev/ York had three extra women for the gala and was getting desperate.

How would you like to have Crosby at your table? I asked her.

Bing Crosby? she asked.

Listen, I said, if I had Bing Crosby, I wouldnt be hereI would be negotiating at the palace with Princess Grace.

My boys John Crosby, but hes been a helluva dinner guest in his time. Hes eaten at Bill Paleys house, hes iifoken bread with Mrs. Le-land Hayward, hes had coffee with Desi and Lucy twice. This guy is no bumhes Yale 36, and that gives him a presold table audience right

there.

Mrs. Kettner wet her lips. How much are you psking for him?

It depends, I said. Do you want him for cocktails before the dinner?

Whats the dfference? Mrs. Kettner wanted to know.

Well, I can book h.m for cocktails before the gala at the Hotel de Paris with another party, and that would cut down the price for you. He could join you for dinner around 10 oclock.

ART

BUCUWALD

Other Editors Say

Making Federalism Work

(Kinston Free Preiss) President Nixon has asked the Congress to provide funds for a comprehensive manpower training system as a buffer against rising unemployment and as an improved weapon against poverty.

Other than utilization of a computerized job bank to show where urgent major needs arise, the President- in essence is asking for coordination of the complex efforts in manpower training that have existed in the past. There have been state and local action programs in addition to federal training programs that at times have overlapped some of the other efforts. Some have paid the trainees, but others have not. The President said in part:

The proposed comprehensive manpower training act is a good example of a new direction in making federalism

work. Working together we can bring order and efficiency to'" a tangle of federal programs.

We know full well that a mere suggestion and a promise in this direction does not assure an automatic change of emphasis or better results. It is important, however, that if federal assistance in manpower training is to meet the basic needs where they are most urgent, it must include the complexities of each local and state effort as well. There is no need for waste or duplication if the programs are written and authorized in a manner to meet the total need, and not just segments of area and district efforts which may appeal to certain congressmen.

We trust the Congress will take a good look ^t this proposal and work to imnlement it as rapidly as possible.

I think I should have him for cocktails, Mrs. .Kettner said. But Id better warn you that I dont want to pay more than $1,500 for the evening. Fifteen hundred dollars? I said. Why, I turned down $2,000 from Sam Spiegel for Crosby to lunch with him on rTo yacht, and Oosby wouldnt have had to put a black tie on either. If youre going to start talking chicken feed, Id rather have Crosby, stay in his room tonight.

Ill pay $1,750, Mrs. kettner said.

This is ridiculous. I couldnt get you a golf caddy for ^1,750 tonight. Look, Crosbys a name. You pair him up with one of your female guests, and shes going to be impressedthis guys g o i class. Im not going to sell hir out for a song.

Mrs. Kettner finally agreed to pay as much as Sammy Davis was getting on stage.

I pocketed the money and then rushed back to tell Crosby the news that I had managed to get him invited to the gala.

Tears of gratitude poured from his eyes. How can 1 ever thank you? he said. (Continued On Page 5)

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Debate over development and deployment of the Safeguard anti-ballistic-missiel system that has been proposed to guard the nation against surprise nuclear attack contains so many confusing elements that the average person can hardly be blamed if he is a bit bewildered. Experts on both sides present convincing arguments. A further confusing factor has been the shadow cast over the ABM by the politiq,ally-tainted military-industrial complex issue.

An important contributicn to a better understanding of the Safeguard ABM and the overall question of the military-industrial complex has come from former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, w'ho after a lifetime of public service, much of it devoted to the practical side of negotiating with commcnist nations, hhs no illusions about the kind of world in which we live. On the matter of the so-called military-industrial complex, his views are most emphatic. To him, it is just another one of the witch-hunts that have periodically distracted the people of the U. S. In hi .s opinion, talk about the m'-nace of the military-industr'al complex. . .is surely the strangest witch-hunt of all.

He points out that in 194C,

. . .President Franklin Rfjose-velt referred proudly to our munitions industry as the arsenal of democracy, and observes, I simply cannot imagine how anybody could take seriously the thought that the great soldiers who have so bravely and skillfully defended our country would be. . . in a conspiracy to waste the resources of the U. S. . . .Intensified rigor in congressional review of defense appropria tions may well be appropriate now. What I wish to warn againstand I do so with all the emphasis at my command is any effort to use the attendant issues as an excuse for tampering with defense and foreign policies whiclv| rise from external necessities " and are vital to national exist-4 ence. J

On the question of deploying the Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system, Dean Achesons views are equally strong. He says, We live in a far more dangerous world than did our fathers and grandfathers. When we were unprepared in 1917 and in 1941, we had very strong allies and the width of the Atlantic Ocean to shield us from the consequences of our folly. This is no longer true. To build sn ABM system is a course with a possibility of great gains anci only small losses. To refrain could bring a relatively small saving at best, and catastrophe at worst.

Mr. Achesons unequivocal views on what he feels to be the irrelevant witch-hunt tor a military-industrial complex, as well as WS equally strong support of an ABM defense, stems from a deep understanding of the communist concept oi negotiation. (in this, he o^rves, The Russians look u^ negotiation as a variety of war. . . .So the Russians dont engage in give and take at the bargaining table. . . .A Russian diplom.at, like a soldier already committed to battle, is only interest-

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USE YOUR EYES -

Blind people cannot see sunsets, but many who enjoy normal sight remember them with pleasure. Many people take a long train journey, pull down the window shade and sleep, if they can do so. They never look out the window on the changing scene that, while not always beautiful, is generally fascinating because of its variety. Towns, highways, rolling fields, dense fqrests tliese are the things we were given two eyes to behold. Tile people, who appear to be happy and contented are tho.se who use their eyes continually to observe life round about tiiem and then ponder.

WordsWorth wrote about daffodils .as folows:

And when upop my couch 1 he

In vacant or in pensive mood

They flash across the inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude.

And then my heart with rapture thrills

And dances withvlhe daffo-fils.'

Look up at the star at night and you will see something different every time you look. Drive over familiar roads and surprise yourself by coming upon scenes and situation.s you never noticed before.

Squalor? Yes, but beauty lies everywhere about us, 'I'lie . people we meet every d a y may have in them the potentialities of greatness. Best of all. they can return the warmth of fellowship if we busy ourselves to get to know them better.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

President Nixons t a x-sharing scheme is perhaps the most cockeyed proposal to come along since Doc Townsend dazzled Westerners with his $50 every Thursday plan and Kingfish Huey Long won Southerners with his every man a king hoopla.

The President proposed that part of federal taxes be divvied up among the states and political subdivisions excepting only special-purpose districts, with no strings to the spending.

That last point answers, at least for the time being, earlier charges that whacking up federal larges.se among t h e slates leads to " Washington domination of local governments

The President proposes the dividing part of federal revenues to political subdivisions under a formula which I cannot decipher and, I imagine, few Congressmen can. although some of their secretar

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Riddle In An Enigma .......

If this formula works out so that federal taxes collected from the wealthier states are diverted to support the proper statesthat is, if Illinois must help pay part of Alabamas spending, and California must pay part of the costs of running Mississippi, then the scheme is outrageous. It is straight from Marxs from each according to his means, to each according to .his needs.

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On the other hand, if it provides tof government collection of taxes in states and cities and then giving hack proportionate shares, less ton

tine (look that up in your Funk, and Wagnals), it is simple federal intervention in the collection of local revenues and further dimming hope that federal taxes will ever be reduced.

Mr. Nixon propose^ that part of the money ttfe federal government collect be turned over to state and local governments without audits or restrictions. While that seems to brush away the suspicion that the scheme is a step to-w'ard more federal control of state and local governments, it does it only for the mo-menT.

What Of Future?

Mr. Nixon can be expected to keep his word. But what of future Presidents, future Congresses?

In the past, Democratic administrations, dividing federal revenues among slates for new highways, have prescribed exactly how these highways must be built. True, this has eliminated the old practice of stales building roads

good for five years by selling 10-year-bonds, which pyramided highway costs and left state taxpayers paying for roads long after they were worn out. But in accepting federal largesse, states have sold their birthrights not tor a mess of pottage but f o r pots oiJmoney from Washington.

The Nixon proposal is putting Uncle Sams foot further into the door, eventually o'-ening the way for centralized control of governmental subdivisions, as it was i Hitler's Germany and as it is now in Brezhnevs Russia.

Furthermore, federal divvies with states, etc., will be regarded as found money. There will be strong temptn-lion among state leg'slators, country supervisors, city councllmen and aldermen ta spend it recklessly, for new murals, statues and raises io' themselves and friends. And if all our officials were not honorable men, s ome of it might find its way into pockets of brothers-in-law.