Tuesday, April 80, 1985

Even This Is Better Than Nothing

I'm Glad They Dont Take s That Seriously

Talk of compromising the Senate redistricting Issue by passing two measures instead of one in the current General Assembly would be a round-about way of accomplishing the task. It would, nevertheless, be far better than the General Assembly remaining deadlocked on the redistricting question and adjourn without affirmative action of any kind.

Redistricting measures now before the General Assembly fall into two principal classifications: those bills which would effect redistricting under the present constitutional provisionssolely on the basis of population-rr-and those which call for a constitutional amendment altering the basis for representation in the Senate.

It has been suggested that the legislature might compromise these two approaches to the problem by passing one measure of each kind. One measure would redistrict the Senate for the session which meets in 1965. The other would present to the people a constitutional amendment providing for^ geographic as well as population considerations in

There has been no redistricting of the Senate since 1941. For two decades, the issue has been deadlocked in a struggle betw'een large and small counties of the state. If the legislature does not resolve the problem during its current session, it is highly prob**ble that action will be instituted in federal courts and the court will order a redistricting plan of its own for North Carolinas Senate. This in itself greatly increases the pressure for affirmative action during the current General Assembly.

In spite of the increased pressure, however, the battle between large and small counties continues. Unless something gives in the next few weeks, there will be a growing possibility of the General Assembly again being hopelessly deadlocked on the question of Senate redistricting.

It is imperative that the General Assembly take action during this session to redistrict the Senate. If the two-bill avenue to compromise is the only one which remains open, the General Assembly

allotting Senate seats. Presumably, if the constitu- should choose that course rather than adjourning

tional amendment received voter approval, it would take precedence over the other redistricting measure. If the constitutional amendment were rejected by voters of the state, the other redistricting measure passed by the legislature would continue in effect.

Complicated as the procedure would be, it would be far better than no action at all tow^ard bringing about redistricting of the Senate during this session.

More Than ' i ne Name Involvec.

By WILLIAM A. SHIREA

DEADLOCK The deadlock In the legislature over the new name of North Carolina State College is based on recognizing far more than a name is involved.

The entire Higher Education bill to Implement recommendations of the Carlyle Commission is at stake and both sides believe the other will capitulate on the name rather than risk wrecking the program.

This Ls why Rep. Sam Whitehurst called last week for supporters of the name North Carolina State University to stand firm, friends, stand firm.

It is also why advocates of the one University concept say they Intend to stand just as firm, and tliat their strategy will be against further compromise.

NAME What would result In this case, in the event that Senate bill 72 is hopelessly jammed in conference committee, Is that the whole Higher Education bill would be placed on tlie line.

Senate bill 72 was approved by the Senate as reported, with the original name. North Carolina State, the University* of North Carolina at Raleigh, in the bill. The House amended it. by a 67-48 roU call vote engineered by the Whitehurst-Wood bloc, to make it North Carolina State University of the University of North Carolina.

The Senate refused last Friday. by voice vote, to concur In the House amendment and Senate president Clarence Stone said he would name a three-member conference committee in the next few days. Hou.se Speaker H. Clifton Blue will do the same.

COMPROMISE - The history Of House-Senate cwiference committee and the theoiT behind it Is compromise. But this one may be different.*

The Whitehurst-Wood bloc in the House has indicated willingness to compromise and says the name North Carolina State University the University of North Carolina at Raleigh would be acceptable.

There are strong Indications, however, that those who favor the Senate - passed versiwi ar e unwilling to compromise.

SHOWDOWN They reportedly feel that by forcing the Issue, placing the entire Higher Education bill on the line, enough votes can be changed In the House at the proper time. They reason that vote-changing can be forced among

enough Houise members who, albeit reluctantly, will accept the name in the original bill rather than risk wrecking the whole Higher Educaticm legislative program.

This strategy works two ways, of course. The Whitehurst-Wood bloc figures that by holding firm it has the strength to force further compromise.

Observers believe a showdown can be forced by the original bill's .supporters at any time they choose, in either of two ways.

One would be by naming a conference committee which would accept the Senate version. No one believes that a conference committee would be named to accept the House version.

WINGS The secOTid way to bring on a showdown is to have the conference committee report it Ls unable to agree.

House Higher Education chairman Gordon Greenwood already has prepared for this possibility.

In a surprise move last Thursday Greenwood called for the unamended House Higher Education bill to be placed on the calendar, making it available to be called up later.

If the conference committee is unable to agree, and so reports that it is hopelessly deadlocked. Greenwood will then have the House Higher Education bill to fall back on and can call it up. It was an unusual maneuver, but the whole fight over the name-changing amendment has been unusual.

Usual procedure in case of identical bills is that one of the measures be sidetracked by indefinite postponement.

GREENWOOD Fresh explosion of the name change controversy in the House brought unexpected headaches to hardworking Rep, Greenwood, a Black Mountain newspaper publisher.

Greenwood, wdth great care and finesse, had guided the Carlyle Commission bl through his higher education committee intact. The name in the original bill weathered a stormy controversy in committee, and it had appeared the big bill w'ould get fairly smooth sailing on the floors.

Veteran legislative obsef\ers said the Whitehurst - Wood bloc caught the Greenwood - ad-ministratlOT forces napping and blamed a lack of political pre-cautl(Mis for failure to beat down the Wood amendment.

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without passing some redistricting legislation.

State Must Be Sure Mistake Not Repeated

It is not enough that state officials determine the cause for and fix the blame for the deadly slug of poison which moved down the Roanoke River killing thousands of striped bass in recent days.

It is equally impcrtant that the state take steps to see that the same thing does not happen again at some future date.

The poisoning of the Roanoke, even though it may have been by accident, took a heavy toll of the game fish for which the water has become famous.

It posed a serious threat to the river and those who use it. Repeated incidents of this kind could eventu-ally wipe out the game fish in the Roanoke and' seriously deplete other wildlife resources along the _

river.

North Carolina, in recent years, has taken By ALVIN TAYLOR significant steps to clean up its rivers and streams and prevent their pollution by industrial and other waste. The state has made giant strides away from the days when its rivers and streams were used primarily as dumping grounds. It can ill afford to return to those days even for brief periods of time.

When the investigation of the poisoning incident has been completed and the blame for the situation fixed, positive steps must be made to assure that the mistake which was made is not repeated.

Solicitor Claims Alibi

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Idea of a peace in Laos is a myth.

If you were weak but getting stronger and figured time was on your side, you <X)uld afford to inch along to get what you wanted. A delay of even a decade or two wouldnt mean much.

The Red Chinese are in that position.

Since they operate on the theory that a c(Hnmunized world is inevitable, they dont have to rush. Since the policy of communism is expansion, what they naturally want is everything in sight.

Laos, right next door and on the road to all the rest of Southeast Asia, is the easiest and weakest obstacle and therefore the logical first step.

The United States, concerned that unless the Laotian fighting stops the Reds will triumph, appeals to Soviet Premier Khrushchev to help arrange the truce which was supposed to keep anyone from winning.

Naturally, since the rest of the world is watching and listening, he says hes all for law and order. But he doesnt say hell step in to be sure no one takes over.

And, if he did, it wouldnt mean much. It would be only a pause. The fighting would begin again, in a month, six months, a year. Its impractical to think Red China will not try to take Laos, if only by a step at a time.

It doesnt even have to use its owm troops. In a country as primitive, confused and divided as Laos, local Communist guerillas are plenty good enough when helped, encouraged and no doubt directed by Red China.

The Red Chinese would be far more direct and far more overbearing and overwhelming if they had now a plentiful sup-

.aos Myth

ply of the nuclear weapons they are trying to put together. That time almost certainly will come.

Thats why the Asia of today, troubled as it is, in a few years will look like an area of comparative calm. The worst days are ahead.

As of now, lacking nuclear weapons, Red China has stopped blustering about seizing Formosa where the United States Nationalist allies, under Chiang Kai-shek, are protected by American air and sea power and its modem weapons.

The present reticence of the Red Chinese about Formosa will also change when they feel stiong enough for a showdown with the United States over For-masa. Its particularly easy to understand why in this case.

Right now Americans are incensed that communism has a stronghold in Cuba, 90 miles from the United States, even though this country never claimed Cuba as its own.

But the Red Chinese do claim Formosa, 100 miles from mainland China'. So Americans who feel irritated about Cuba can understand how the Red Chinese feel about Formosa.

But, because neither side will budget on Formosa, a clash eventually seems inescapable Just as it probably will be over Cuba unless Fidel Castro is toppled from within. And that doesnt look likely.

The Red Chinese dont have to wait to get stronger in order to try to absorb mainland Asia just south of them and right next door. Here they dont have to attack directly, as they would with Formosa.

For example: the local Communists in Laos are doing pretty well. After Laos, if It falls, the story will be repeated in one form or another with Burma. Thailand and Cambodia.

ABC officers and ATTU agents called City Court Solicitor Ell Bloom aside in court one day recently.

Where were you last Tuesday night? they asked the solicitor.

I dont know% he answered. Why?

The officers held up a patch of cloth. They tunied it over and there was the solicitor's name attached to it.

They explained that they had raided a still in Martin County on the preceding Tuesday night, One of the office i-s grabbed a fleeing bootlegger by the seat of the pants. He was left holding (My the patch of cloth, however, as the bootlegger ripped away.

Bloom said he gave the suit away years ago. WTiafs more he swore he had an alibi for the Tuesday night In question.

place yesterday as police and street department personnel painted new parking spaces along Evans Street.

The idea is to place a yellow no parking zone In between every two parking spaces. This way cars will be able to get in the spaces more quickly.

The work was well supervised. There were a number of police officers on the scene and. at the same time, dozens of early risers downtown prior to store openings stood along the street to oversee the job.

Kibitzers were ail over the

Received a space age dictionary from the American Broadcasting C(MTipany.

It defines Anoxia as: Where there is an absence of oxygen in the tissues of the body or blood cells.

Circumlunar: A mlsslcai set to orbit the moon and return to earth.

Eyeballs out: Force encounter-

Other Editors Saying. Tuition And Religion

Strength For Today

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Most of tlie opposition to the proposed measure to provide tuition grants for Tar Heels attending private or church-related colleges has centered around the issue of the separation between church and state. Passage of the scholar incentive plan has been urged by David Coltrane, economic adviser to Gov. Sanford, along with many leaders in educational and public affairs. Opposition has come from ministers and laymen who feel there is danger of doing away with the traditiixial church - state separaticm principle.

Supporters of the bill are quick to point to the provision that the program would make grants to individuals, and not to churches or colleges. This, they say, doesnt violate the consti-tuti<mal church-state safeguard. The program, it might be pointed out, is being supported by Jasper Smith, business manager of Wesleyan College.

Actually, the church - state question is only indirectly Involved. Supporters believe strongly in the principle of separation. but U. S. Supreme Court decisions can be cited 8uiH)ortlng the constitutionality of the prhiclple involved in the proposed legislation The bill Is in the public Interestparticularly in view of the states standing in the nation, educa-tlon-wlse and we should not lose sight of the main goal: ed

ucation of our youth.

The high court decisi(xis can be used as an answer to the contention by those opposing the bill that it is of doubtful constitutional validity. One point offered by the opposition is admirable: that If any girl or boy wants an education bad enough that persons can get it without the help of the state. But it isnt enough that a prospective student want an education very badly, or is willing to work diligently for it.

The fact of the matter is that It Is quite impossible for some students to complete their higher education without assistance in this day of pressing finances, ination and high taxes. The measure would provide state grants of up to $200 per semester for North Carolina residents enrolled in private or church-related schools.

Meredith College President Carlyle Campbell said, To do nothing might be the most violent acti(Mi that could be taken. He said the program would help alleviate what he termed the econ(Hnic and cultural poverty of our state.

This program, In conjimctlon with the plan for growth of community colleges around the state, would go a long way toward boosting our educational levels as compared with those of other states now enjoying a substantial lead over North Carolina.

Economic self-interest is already having a chastening e^ feet, for racial trouble conspicuously drives away investment.The Times (London).

Keep your words soft, sweet and warm: you never know when you might have to eat them.Wall Street Journal.

We were commiserating the other day with England, its many trials and tribulations. Poor England! And that was before the announcement came that Owen Lattlmore is moving there. It hardly seems fair. Richmond News Leader.

Makeup is what a girl finds easier to do with her face than her mind Hartwell (Ga.) Sun.

Governor Sanford has a way of meeting problems head-on that is often detrimental to hi.s own best Interests as a politician. He generally tells the blunt truth about things. This is particularly painful to those who would like to live in the past andor hide from the actual problems of today. Northampton Times-News.

ed in deceleration or re-entry into auto or elevator stopping suddenly. In Atlas, about 8-9 g's.

A hot rocket: Fueled and ready for firing, A rocket In launching condition.

Main stage the booklet describes as: Most powerful nx:-ket engine of a multi - stage rocket.

Scrub: To cancel out a rocket shot either before or during countdown.

Vernier Rockets: Small

rockets for course correction. Window: The time during which a rocket can be launched. The window is so many hours a day.

So It goes. A whole new vo-cabularly is developing from this space age we have so suddenly entered.

Opinions

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The secret of economy is to live as cheaply the first few days after payday as you did the last few days.Richmond (Ky) Daily Register.

3ehinc. rharc. tioice

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Feature* Syndicate, Inc. ^

Ludwig Erhard, the silvery-haired, fresh-checked 66-year-old Economics Minister o West Germany who Is generally credited with being the creator of his countrys economic miracle, has finally been nominated to succeed old Konrad Adenauer as the German Chancellor. Since Erhard believes in a free economic system no cartels, no price contibls, no strangling taxes on business, no progressive inflar tionthis is precisely analogous to the situation that would prevaU if a Barry Goldwater were to be<M)me President of the United States.

You may say that nothing like this could ever happen In an America that Is so wrapped up in Welfare Statlsm that It gives only lip service to the idea of a free ec(Miomy. Nevertheless, It was an organization sparked In America that gave Dr. Erhard his big push toward the top in Germany. If it cant happen here, we helped it happen there.

To understand the movement that gave Dr. Erhard hi* chance of reforming the German economic system along free lines you have to go back to World War H. An Austrian economist who believed In the free economic society, Friedrich Hayek, had been exiled from his homeland by the Nazis. He had found a temporary haven In Ixmdon. where he wTote a book called The Road to Serfdom. This able attack on the regnant philosophies of Keynesian inflationism and seml-soclallst Welfare StatLsm brought Hayek a post in the United States at the University of Chicago. And the Ixwks success In going against the trend of the times stirred the author to thinking that maybe an international organization of free economists, liberal In the old nineteenth century sense, mlpht have s(Mne world-wide influence.

Thus the Mt. Pelerin Society of economists was started. It originally had thirty-eight members, among whom were the American ecwiomist. Henny HazUtt. and the American publicist. Leonard Read. Another great exile to the United State* from his native Austria, economist Ludwig von MLses, was among the band recruited by Hayek for the organization. The exiles and the Americans joined with like-minded colleagues from continental Europe In a first conference at the Lake Geneva resort of Mt. Pelerin, which Ls what gave the little society its name.

All of this took place In 1947, when Europe was still struggling to emerge from the ruination of the war. Almost evei-y-body expected to see some form of socialism triumph everj'where on the old continent. But the Mt. Peleiinltes were resolved that this should not be permitted to happen. One of their ablest recruit* w^a.s a man named Wilhelm Roepke, who now teaches at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Roepke, a believer In something called the social market economy, which might be described as free enterprise with a heart, had a fervent disciple. The disciples name was Ludwig Erhard. Erhard became a Mt. Pelerinlte, drinking deep the free philosophy.

Since Keynesian New and Fair Dealers were riding high In 1947 In all positions of Influence in both the United States and Europe, it Is a minor miracle that the United States Military Government permitted Dr. Eiliard to become Konrad Adenauers Minister of Economics. Poesibly It was because he was one o the few anti-Nazi economists who could still be found In Germany at tl time. He had already served as Minister oi tte Eciwiomy in Bavaria, where he had been tractable. However, he was to prove anything but tractable as bos* of the new West Ger-man economic system.

What Dr. Erhard proceeded to do was to revamp the West German economy along Mt. Pelerin lines. He refused to let the ime-war cartels re-establish themselves along Uie Rhine. On a Sunday in June of 1948, when the Amertcsn Occupatlixi offices were closed for the weekend, he issued an order abolishing all price controls, to take effect on Monday morning. General Lucius Clay, the U.S. MUl-

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE WAITING WORLD

There was a song some years ago which declared that the world is waiting for the sunrise.

The world is always waiting for the sunrise. We live In a waiting and expectant world. "Very few headlines amaze us today our expectations go beyond the most hopeful dreams and aspirations of mankind. Just at present we happen to be looking up Into the heavens W(Mider-Ing when we will get to the moon and speculating whether there are people on other planets.

Some centuries ago people were standing on the shores of Europe looking out over the water and wondering about the New World on the other side. In the eighteenth century mankind was in a terrible struggle throwing off old yokes and establishing new forms of government. The nineteenth century was characterized by an industrial revolution and the surging forward of scientists and inventors who changed the world with their gadgets, their amazing new products, their mach

ines which possessed almost the power to think.

We can, of course, go too far In all this. We can keep our eyes upward to such an extent that we will stumble and fall down on our faces. But expectancy (Ml the whole is characteristic of progress.

We live in a waiting world. With threatening evils surrounding us this nevertheless is the best age In which ahy generation has lived In human history.

Best of all, we live in a waiting world an expectant age.

Ma'y Business Outlook Flowery

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By ELMER ROESSNER The May business outlook is flowery. The current rise in business activity will be accelerated by seasonal pushes.

There is little likelihood of a repetition of the May 28 stock niarket debacle of 1962. True, some stocks are overpriced in relation to earnings and prospects, But there arent so many small investors as there were 11 month* ago, ready to panic at the first rumble.

With the steel price Increase and the Inevitable steel wage increase, the danger of inflation has increased and common stocks, as always, offer a pretty good hedge. This, too, will work toward preventing another Black Monday.

OTHER PROSPECTS However, auto sales which are part of retail sales may tend to level off. The taUc-talk about new excitement in 1964 models is beginning, and some shoppers will decide to wait out the new looks. This retardation will be oifaet, at least in part.

by report* that the prices on the new models will be slightly higher. This will cause some buyers to dicker now.

h) addition, new car buyers in May will have almost three ratmths of summer driving before the 1964 models appear.

Labor unrest will begin to appear. The United Steelworkers, as suggested above, are almost certain to reopen their contracts in May and bargain for higher pay. Other unltMis will take their cue and a quite general, though moderate, pay rise may start In the ra(xith. However. it will take almost a year before It spreads through the economy.

LOWER FOOD PRICES Seasonal pressures will probably start food prices down a bit. although sugar prices will continue to rise. As the crop line moves north with the sun, produce prices win tend to decline a bU. Meat prices will also stay at preeent lows or move down as raisers cqt the number of animals they plan to fatten

over the summer. There wl be freezer bargains In beef, pork and lamb.

The Federal tax cut. kmg looked at as a stimulator of retail buying, will fade into the distance. It Is unlikely that any cut can be effective before January 1, 1964. UnUl then, there will be little temptation for far mllies to spend their expected tax savings.

Highway building's seasonal surge will be pushed along by increased state spending. States who have increased taxes as many have done so far this year will have to start giving the taxpayers a little more for their m(mey.

crease the ssle of milk, I ssld, all they have to do Is to cut prices. MUk in those foreign countries is much cheaper than it I* in the United States. He said it was an interesting suggestion and he'd think about it.

ONE EASY WAY TO SELL MORE MILK

A publicity man called to ask me to write something about June Dairy Month, saying it was important because American consumpti(H) oi mUk had fallen below that of many foreign countries.

If the dairies want to In-

SHORT ft SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS A Pennsylvania subdivider I* recmnmendlng h(ne sites an . the ideal gifts for newlyweds. . . Jack Tarver, president of the AUantio Journal and Constitu-Uon. has been re-elected chaiiv msn 0 the board of the Bureau of Advertialng of the Amerloaa Newspaper Publishers Associap tion. . .The Netherlands Flow-er-bulb Association has gone to considerable work to show eating tulip bulbs is not harmful, tt added, "Frankly, they dont taste very good. . .American Cyanamid discovered that ! stalling skylights in its Sanford, Me., plant saves in deetrictty biUs. What wont tl^ think of nextl