^ldy, Jgn 8, 1965

lihportant Week For Medical Care

"It's Real Easy Once You Get The Hang Of It"

This week perhaps today will be one of the most important in history for North Carolinas hopes to improve its medical care.

The state legislature, still unblinded by selfish interest attempts to steer it away from its best judgment, will brit)g to a vote the bill which vyill create a two year medical school at East Carolina College.

Screams of anguish were heard from several state newspapers over the weekend after the bill was reported favorably by not one, but three legislative committee.s. One called on citizens in its area to let their representatives know they were against the bill.

We would expect little response from this desperate last minute plea. For despite weeks of freijnent pleadings the papers opposed to this forward step have yet to develop any grassroots

Proposals Wil.. 3e Aaain Hearc.

By WII.IJAM A. SHIRES

FUTURE Annual sessions 0 the General Assembly, four-year ternrs for members and legislative retirement pay are all matters likely to come up for debate again in the future.

In effect, these proposals have gone gurgling down the drain for thl.s session of the General Assembly without ever having reached the floor. But they have left their marks.

Their sponsors arent dis-ouraged. They feel ccmfldent there is enough interest and potential support to Insure further study between sessions and formal consideration at some time in the future.

In fact, simply putting forth the idea of possible altering and streamlining of the long established set-up of the General Assembly was a main purpose behind introducing the bills.

Changing either frequency of sessions or terms of members would require amendments to the state constitution which would have to be submitted to the people for a vote.

^ CHANGES ^. We recognize that its very seldom that a change in the w ay the General Assembly is set up can be accomplished overnight. says Rep. Clyde Harriss of Rowan.

But, he says, there are things to be thinking about and studying.

Harris, former House Finance chairman and member of the Advisory Budget Commission, proposed a legislative retirement plan to make longterm legislative careers more attractive. Without such a plan, he feels many outstanding people are reluctant to devote much time to public service.

Harriss proposal would have provided $25 a month pension for each term for a legislator who had served five or more terms and reached age 65.

This died in committee under heavy opposition Including that of Gov. Dan K. Moore who said it would provide "too much money for too short a period of service. Some opposition sprang from the fact that this legislature already had raised per diem expense allowance for members from $12 to $20.

Harriss made no objection as the House State Government committee killed his bill by Indefinite postponement, feeling he had made his point and was assured it would be studied

further.

ANNUAL Meanwhile, Rep, J, Henry Hill of Catawba, sponsor of the bill for annual legislative sessions, said I'm sure it will come up again, Pfobtiy to the next sessioih^

Hill contends that annual ses-sicHis would enable the General Assembly to keep closer watch on the states needs and fiscal affairs and meet them sooner. He believes it would increase legislative efficiency and not work too great a hardship on lawmakers.

Annual sessions, he said, would be shorter than the biennial sessions which now last four to five months. He also feels there would be more continuity and a closer working relationship between sessions.

STUDY It is understood that the Idea of annual sessions and extending terms of legislators from two to four years will be studied by the newly-reactivated commission on state government.

At the same time, Harriss proposal for an incentive retirement plan is listed among subjects to be handed to an interim legislative research council.

PLANNING -- It came as no surprise that the legislature is acting to set up a new planning commission for the state capital area in the city of Raleigh.

LiOTig range planning for land use and acquisition was demanded a few weeks ago when the governor and Council of State found it necessary to ask for emergency appropriation to acqiiire certain land in the capital complex.

The sJtuati(Mi involved a block which is being cleared by a private investment group planning to build a luxury mote] adjacent to the State Legislative Building. Plans of this group became knowm more than a year ago, but the state had no funds with which to acquire the land at that time. In the meantime, it is expected the price of the land has gone up.

GROUP Senate Appro-priatiwis chairman Thomas J. White of Lenoir proposed the plan ahead commission to be headed by the governor and including one senator, one representative of the city of Raleigh.

This would replace the State Capitol Planning Commission which is expiring and would supersede the Heritage Square Commission which had done some planning but was unable to act directly.

The new commission would formulate long-range capital Improvement plans, determine requirements for central state agencies, recommend acquisition of land, maintain up-to-date building requirements and select sites. It would report to each session of the General Assembly.

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opposition to the medical school.

Happily, the public recognizes that North Carolina is near the bottom in doctors per capita and Eastern North Carolina is below the bottom. This area has less doctors per capita than any state in the union. All the talk about how blessed we are to have three medical schools does not change this.

The legislative committees, sitting as juries in judicial proceedings, have heard the evidence and rendered overwhelmingly favorable verdicts.

Of course there will not be any grass root swell of public opinion against the medical school. And we believe the House and Senate will approve the bill. That is the purpose of legislative committees to determine the need for given bills and then make recommendations to the full legislature. Three committee.s have spoken loud and clearly.

While we are discussing grass root opinion we might call on persons Jn this area who see the need for the ECC medical school to wire Gov. Moores office today. If every supporter does this we believe the governor might be surprised at the popular reaction.

After all, if opposition to the medical school were to prevail, it would not be a question of saving the states money, it would be a question of costing North Carolina the $4 million which the bill stipulates East Carolina must raise to match the states $1.5 million appropriation. To an investor this would be a pretty good return on his money.

Ambitious Plan Given To Improve Downtown

It was an ambitious plan which Chamber of Commerce - Merchants Association executive director Harold Creech outlined before the City Council last Thursday night.

The plan would be aimed at making radical improvements to Greenvilles downtown area. To do this, Creech called on the council, first to accept a resolution expressing its approval of the project.

Second, he asked the council to consider financing a detailed study of the downtown area, in the hopes that this could serve as a guide for improvements.

Creech said the Chamber - Merchants A.ssociat-ion is planning to conduct a bus tour of other cities to obtain ideas.

Finally he said, plans are being made to enter the All-American City contest and, if Greenville should win this, it would gain national attention.

The only criticism we could offer of this plan to improve the business district is that it should have been started a decade ago. But since it was not, we believe beginning now will do fine.

We can think of no city in this state whose business district has more potential than Greenvilles The only trouble is little has been done about it.

At long last things are moving, thanks to the Chamber Merchants Association. We believe that miracles can be wrought in the citys business district. We heartily endorse the Chamber - Merchants Association project.

Similar Note

By HAL BOYLE

Sky Pilot For Seobees

CHU iiAI, South Viet Nam (AP) The Seabees building a new attack airstrip here have a real sky pilot as chaplain.

He is Lt. George M. Sheldon, Olympia, Wash., a former naval combat flier who flew 71 missions in Korea off the carrier Philippine Sea. He also holds five Air Medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The chaplain, who served 13 years as a line offlcer to the Navy after graduating from Annapolis, is highly popular with the nearly 600 members of Mobile Construction Battalion 10. As one of the Seabees said: We do hard, sweaty work

from 12 to 18 hours a day. When we have a problem, we need someone to talk to who can talk our language. The pa -die can.

Chaplain Sheldon is 6 foot 1, has hazel eyes, closecropped, iron-gray hair and a Lincoln-esque countenance. He wears a gold cross on his shirt and a big colorful Vietnamese jungle hat that makes him easily Idhtlfiable from a distiince.

Seated in a hot tent not far from the supplies-strewn beach. Lt. Sheldon told why he gave up combat flying to preach the Gospel.

A variety of things led me

to the ministry. he said. When I joined the Episcopal Church in 1955, I made a commitment to Christ and his Church. I began to read the Bihlle ais a coherent w'hoQe rather than as bits and piecemeal. Gradually I came to the conviction that this was the work I should follow.

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..n 2 Addresses Under Surveillance

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Two years apart, almost to the day. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made Commencement Day addresses which w'ere identical in several ways.

Both called for peace, both made their appeal to the Russians, and neither mention e d the Red Chinese. The two presidents apparently felt it was hopeless to appeal to the Chinese.

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In those two years the United States took one step nearer to peace and one away from it.

In his talk at American University on June 10, 1963. Kennedy announced the United States would try to work out a limited nuclear test . ban treaty with the Soviet Union. Within several months t h e treaty was signed. Theyve had no test in the atmosphere .since.

The United States has been in an undeclared war in Southeast Asia since last February when Johnson ordered t h e bombing of North Viet Nam. A little over a month ago he sent troops into the Donrdnican Republic.s revolution to save lives, he .said, and to prevent

a Communist takeover.

He has been criticized for both actions at home and abroad but in his talk at Catholic University here Sun day Johnson explained that in both cases the American intention was to preserve peace.

Both presidents expre s s e d concern that American motives are misunderstood abroad, or misrepresented. But. where Kennedy talked of what he called a practical, attainable peace, Johnson talked of ideals, morality and love.

World peace, Kennedy said, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance. submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement T''

But Johnson said the "next imperative of morality among nations is to "integrate the system of nations and people.s of charity, not the charity of callous and calculating dole, but the compassionate charity of learning and love.

This was the second time in four days that Johnson talked about peace and aimed at the Ru.ssians. "Peace is our passion, he said Thursday in Chicago, w'here he defended his action In the Dominican Republic. Sunday he defended his action, there and in Viet Nam.

While Kennedy in his talk listed at least two specific .steps toward peace banning American nuclear tests while negotiating with the Sov i e t Union for a joint agreement not to test in the atmosphere (Conttoued on page 5)

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

It is encouraging to note that more members of Congress are becoming concenied about official and unofficial snooping practices. The chairman of a special House subcommittee has declared that this kind of snooping has become so widespread that a constitutional amendment may be necessary to guarantee Americans their right to privacy.

Rep. Cornelius Gallagher of New Jersey made that statement as he opened an inquiry into activities of the federal government that might constitute an illegal and unwarranted invasion of privacy.

Because of scientific, electronic advances in detection techniques and methods, it is now possible for a law-abiding American without knowing it to be under surveillance from the moment he gets up until he goes to bed. In fact, he may not even be able to snore in private.

In the face of this, there does appear to be a need for a great deal of legislation to curtail invasions of privacy. There are several possibilities that come to mind.

For one thing. Congress could place controls over the manufacture, sale and distribution of electronic devices and other gadgets used for snooping purposes. Now there are those who would say this is an in

vasion of the rights of private' enterprise that is, the right of a manufacturer to make what he wants for legal uses. What other purpose does some of these gadgets have than to detect, snoop, overhear?

And certainly few ordinary citizens would have any use for this kind of equipment. That leaves some sinister conclusions to be drawn for the kind of uses to which this equipment might be put.

So who would protest such controls? The police? Private detectives? Federal agents? Information gathered through such devices is not legal evidence in a court of law, so we must conclude that information gleaned through their use Is for secretive, or questionable reasons.

Another i^roaeh to this problem would be an amendment to the CJivil Rights Act

making electronic snooping a violation of that law.

Also, a bill that would make it mandatory for federal agencies, at least non-sensitive ones, to give up their snooping devices and activities.

But Gallagher thinks even this might not be enough. A new constitutional amendment may be required to build a stronger wall, he maintains.

Invasion of privacy Is becoming such a habit that Americans have become a society under .surveillance.

ures when the men dont get letters from home regularly or dont write home regularly themselves.

"Mail Is the greatest morale builder. The simple words I love you are .still the most important In the world. Chaplain Sheldon, whose wife and two children live in Oxnard. Calif., hasnt flown an aiiplane for nine years, still hankers to now and then,

"But I like this work better. he said. "The thrill of (Continued on page 5)

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Strength For Today

By EARL I., IM)UGI.A.SS DO YOU HAVE IT?

What Is true tolerance?

Certainly it is not a wishy-washy attitude whereby we believe nothing at all, take no stand on moral attitudes, and announce to all and .sundry that they may do the same.

The foundation of true tolerance is firm conviction. We believe certain things with all our hearts. Others belle v e things either slightly or radi cally different. Ail we should demand of those who differ frqjn u.s is that they be sincere, We may disagree entirely with the point of view they hold, but if they are sin-. cere in holding that point of view then we are under obligation to manifest tow a r d them a true spirit of tolerance.

The word tolerance to much

on the lips of modern man. Only too often it means that I will go my way and you will go yours and let us not annoy one another with dissent or argument. This rs a weak, wish washy variety of tolerance, if Indeed, it can be called tolerance at all. For true tolerance is a vigorous matter, intellectually defensible, capable of bringing forth much good fruit. Without tolerance we become bigoted, narrow - minded, small in our concepts of life and mean in our dally actlvltUs,

Let us tje tolerant, toit never let us be wlshy - washy. The more we truly believe something and take our stand on tliat belief, the more are we capable of being truly tol-eiant.

Tolerance Is a virtue of the Intelligent and the courageoua.

By EIJHER ROESSNER Young men planning a lifetime career might well consider the Federal Highway Trust Rmd.

The FMnd was set up in 19.56 when Congress authorized the vast Inter.state highway program was scheduled to be completed in 1972, eliminating the need for the Fund.

But government projects like these never come to an end and die. They dont even fade away. They keep getting bigger and longer-lived A similar case Is the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson Rover. Tolls there were to end when the bridge was paid for. But theri' are always repairs and maintenance, increasing capacity, protecting toils at the Holland and Lincoln tunnels downstream, or something else. By tlie time all three are paid for, it will be time to build another bridge or tunhel and off we go again So II is with the Federal Highway T:iist Fund and the national highway system It Is putting together. The original

program was priced at $28 billion. Now. nine years later, it to up to $46 8 billion.

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What happened was reported by Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whltton, More than,$3.6 billion of the $5.8 ))llllon cast lncrea.se slijice 1961) Is accounted for by 4m-piovi'ments incorporated into the liighway system to provide Increased service, safety and longer highway life

The.se linprovemenl.s were brought ai)0Ul by dhanges In (he law. changes in traffic data, and belter knowledge of high way design Us.s than $2 ))1I-lion of the new total is attri-

Oddity

He resigned from active naval duty in 1959 to enter the Divinity School of the Pacific at Berkeley, Calif. After graduating in 1%2, he served in parishes in the San Francisco Bay area and Salt Lake Ctity before rejoining the Navy.

The padre works as hard as any Seabee himself. He holds six religious services weekly for the Seabees and Marines, helps in the militarys people -to-people program, and is active in the direction of a native oi-phanage. But his greatest satisfaction comes from the endless hours of counseling men who come to him for help

They are typical of the problems of men away from home loneliness, financial difficulties, and worries over the stability of their marriages, he said. "Occasionally, there is a man who doesnt adjust well to military life and believes he is being picked on.

"Our biggest problems result from communications fail-

butable to increases In land acquisition, engineering and constnictlon prices . . .The remaining $200 million in added costs covers estimates for research and administration.

A windfall of higher tax yields than wa.s anticipated reduces the deficit to $3.1 billion for the time being. Several proposals have been made for making up the remaining deficit.

One is to Increase the ex-ci.se taxes which support the fund. But how far can you go? Motor fuel taxes have already risen from 2 cents a gallon in 19,5.5 to 4 cents; tires 5 cents per pound to 10 cents; tnick-bus-traller excises 8 per cent to 10 per cent.

TAX EXTENSION A .second method would be to lengthen the tax collection period pa.st the cul-off date in 1972. A third proposal l.s to tran.sfei to the fund olin r automotive exclsi'.s now u.sed for noir-lilLhway purposes.

Another way 'not hehig run sldereU yeti is a stretch out of

In ine Choice

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1968, King Foaturea Syndlciite, Inc.

Just how does a great university go about picking Ita professors? The appolntmen( of Dr. Conor Cruise OBrlea to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at New York University offers a cast study of cross - purposes complicated by blundering that makes one wonder all over again about the value of a college education. Until recently, OBrien worked for the totalitarian boss man Nkrumant University of Ghana and, before that, was head of t h United Nations operation against Moise TslKHiibe in Katan^

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Universities are supposed to choose scholars for teaching posts. But Conor Cruise 0Bi> ien Is, on the face of things, a most unscholarly man. Skxnt six months ago be wrote an extensive review of a posthumous book by Whittaker Chambers, Cold Friday, for a literary publication. The New York Review of Books, that was almost the opposite of everything that a scholarly literary critique should be. in the first place, it Ignored th contents of a most beautiful piece of writing to concentrate on one small error of fact about a point of Russian grammar that Chambers, since he had died, never had a chance to correct. In the second place, the "review, so-called, was mainly devoted to the proposition that Whittaker Chambers was a "veteran liar. (The review was titled "The Perjured Saint.) OBrien, a Dubliner, couldnt have known much about (Chambers except by hearsay, the hearsay being provided by partisans of Alger Hiss, who happens himself to have been convicted in court and sentenced to jail for perjury on evidence that came as a result of Chambers testimony.

The odd thing a^ut the appointment of OBiTen to t h e New York University faculty is that it came after a great friend of Whittaker Chambers, Arthur Koestler. had turned the job down. Koestler, the author of "Darkness at Noon, a work of great power that exposed the Communists as cynical and barbarous frauds when it comes to honoring the human .spirit, thought highly of Chamberss veracity. He would h a v a brought to New York University a quality of mind that Is conspicuously absent from the Conor Cruise OBrien approach to literature.

OBrien, as a matter of fact, was a third choice for the Albert Schweitzer (Thair. Ahead of him on the list of prospective appointees wae Northrup Frye, of the Canadian University of Toronto, a respected literary critic. The fact that OBrien has been named Albert Schweitzer Professor at New York University has still another irony connected with it. For Schweitzer. the great humanitarian medical man of tropical Africa, was one who deplored the crusade of the United Nations to drive the able Molse Thom-be out of Katanga.

When OBrien was chosen by the UN to give Tshomhe the_ heave i.Jio. he took the Job with alacrity. The West has since changed its mind about Tshombe to the extent of accepting him as the leader of the entire Cong. Katanga toclurtPd. ThiLS Schweitzers Judgment has been vindicated, but the man who did his best to Inflict a defeat on Tshombe will be .sitting In a chair that bears Schweitzer! name.

Its all a most curious comedy. Professor Ernest Van den Haag, who teaches at New York University, finds it exceedingly strange that his col-(Contlnued On Page 5)

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the highway building program past the 1972 target. The fijth method, which no one will ever propose, would be to cut back the program.

Any one or combination of these solutions could be u.sed to end the deficit for now. But costs will still keep rising and better and more expensive ways to do the Job will be found. More elaborate routoe and approaches will be needed. Supporting state roads will be discovered Inadequate. And, of rourse more research and administration will be needed.

Naturally, by 1972, even newer roads will be required and anyway. It would be a sham to dismantle a fine organization like the Federal Highway Trust P\md and disband thoe talented and abljC teams.

SCH0I.AR.4IIIP MUST BE IHED TO E.SrAI*E INCOME. TAXES ^

A pilze d('slgnated as a scho-liirshlp but not required to l) u.sed asa .scholarship l.s taxable income, the Internal Revenu Service has ruled.