Wtdnesday, Jun 9, 1965

Reflecting Support For Proposal

Overwhelming Senate approval of the measure that opposition to the proposal has stemmed from a to eatablish a two-year medical school at East Car- relatively small group while support of the measure

olina College reflects the^ broad support through- has come from n^any phsicians across the state as

out North Carolina for the proposal. well as from many citizens and legislators.

It remains now to be seen whether the House Within the next few days memberg of the

will join in this positive step to provide for North House of Representatives will decide whether North Carolina this facility which is so sorely needed if Carolina takes this important step forward. The the future medical needs of its citizens are to be Senate acted boldly, positively and in the best in-met. -terest of the state and its citizens by passing the

* We have every confidence the House recog- bill to establish the two-year medical school at

nizes the great merit of the proposel two-year med- East Carolina College.

ical school and will vote into law the bill for its By acting in similar manner, the House will

establishment North Carolina on the road to meeting its

Although opponents of the proposal have been future needs for physicians in every part of the outspoken in their arguments against establishment state, of the school, it has become increasingly evident that legislators recognize the soundness of this ap-

proach to one of Noilh Carolinas great needs. It X T6G JTUOIIC IjlUUCClIlOIl has also been increasingly evident, in our opinion,

^'Yossirl I Agree With-No Foreign VaeationsI I'm-uh-Going Here On My Investigative Junket

Higher

?roiect

r ederal Prices?

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

CXISTS ~ There Is a lot of hush-htlsK eonoem among state officials and legislators about report abnormally high cost comparis<ms admittedly atrucUcHi projects financed With federal money.

WILUAM

SHIRES

Exact figures are difficult If not Imposslbl to pin down. Any cost oomparisons admittedly are esthnates. and even these are mentioned mostly in whispers.

Most state officials, understandably, shy away from making comment publicly about the situation on federal aid building projects. But there is behind-the-scenes concern not only about possible exorbitant costs but about effect upon the states overall, long-range capital improvements program.

And this concern is one reason behind a proposed tightening of state budget control over use all non-state money by state agenciis and In-atltutions ii proposal which has struck fresh alarm in higher education circles because it would also affect teaching and research grants.

BIDDING There have been recurring reports that costs on certain state building projects financed in full or in part with federal funds ran millions of dollars more than would have been the case had no federal money been involved.

This is said to have occurred because federal aid has strings attached and involves red tape, restrictlcm and regulation which discourages competitive bidding by contractors.

Certain conditions are imposed on anyone who receives a cMitract for work financed either in full or in part by federal funds.

Many contractors dislike various federal requirements and conditions, including standards and specificaticms and inspections and either do not bid on the projects or attach correspondingly higher price tags on the work.

Some firms are said to have decided not to bid at all on state projects, and there Is concern that this is having a detrimental effect on the states building program.

concern Whether entirely true or not, these reports have reached ears of high state

hold the state capital improve

ment xkiraestrisgs.

They feel the only way to determine the facts and guage the extent of effect Is to keep a closer budgetary check on such work.

As a result, a coujde of far-reaching bills have been introduced in the General Assembly to give the Advisory Budget Commission a final say-so on all projects whether to provide programs of teaching, research or for any educatitm-al purpose . . .-financed from other than state funds.

The legislaticm would require that details of all such projects be studied by the department of administration and be approved by the Budget Commission.

Alarm has been raised because the bills are viewed as a possible roadblock in the way of obtaining millions of dollars a year in research and teaching grants, both from federal agencies and prvate foundations.

SPONSORS The bills were introduced last week by Sen. Thomas J. White of Lenoir and Rep. A. A. ZolUcirffer of Vance, the co-chairmen of the powerful joint Appropriations committee.

By reasOTi of their chairmanships of Ai^ropriati(Mi5, both will serve on the Advisory Budget Commission for the next two years. White, of course, has been chairman of the Advisory Budget Commission atece 1963.

The states executive budget act sets up the six-member Advisory Budget Commission as the central budget-watching agency, an arm of both the legislative and executive branches. Its membership Includes the chairmen of the Appropriations and Finance committees of the General Assembly and two members appointed by the governor.

ATTACKED - The bUls by White and 2k)llicoffer came under immediate and vigorous attack and were described in some quarters as an open power grab.

They were viewed by some critics as a further attempt to strengthen legislative control over the states institutions of higher learning, particularly the Consolidated University of North Carolina which is the seat of scientific and other research conducted by the state.

The proposed measures would require that each agency seeking grants be required to furnish the Budget Commission a statement of its purpose and details of conditions if any which would be attached to such grant.

Research officials said this would result in delays and complications which might endanger the bulk of research grants t<r the ^vsr^ and- . Its staff members.

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Moves A Step Nearer

Free public education in North Carolina has moved another step closer to reality with the General Assemblys action that eliminated text book fees' for elementary grades.

Local school boards throughout the state should further the effort to make public schools really free by eliminating more of the special fees that still preva in most school administrative unite.

Within the past couple, of years since the call went out from Raleigh for the elimination of ft these special fees some progress has been made.

For the most part, however, reductions have been | little more than token steps on the part of local i officials. 5

At the outset of the effort to eliminate local fees in individual schools, it was recognized that | several years would be required for school units to get their finances in order so they could do without the revenue that came from the special fees. It should be a^matter of public concern, however, that so little progress has been made in that direction.

With local school budgets finalized for the new fiscal year, this is the time for the problem of special fees to be given careful attention by the public and by officials.

What sort of schedule of special fees will confront the youngsters in Greenville and Pitt County schools when they report for classes next fall? Will it be evident that officials have made a genuine effort since last year to reduce the list of fees; or gy ALVIN TAYLOR will it be evident that the matter has been passed over with little genuine effort to resolve the problem?

Wide Range In

.-Court

Story Of A $100

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court handed down some historic decisions in the 1964-65 term ending Monday but escaped the torrential abuse of other years for a simple reason.

It did not poke around much in the highly sensitive fields of religion and politics. Thus, with no new l(s on the fire, all the talk of curbing the court or undoing its decisions once more got nowhere.

JAMEB

MARLOW

created a political revolution by its reapportionment decisions which said election to the U.S. House of Representatives and both houses in a state legislature must be made more democratic by giving all voters an equal voice. The court didnt add to them this year. It just stood pat.

In 1962 and 1963 the court brought the roof down by barring official prayers in public schools and of a pledge of allegiance containing the words under God.

And the court upheld the State Department in refusing a ski resort operator a passport to Cuba. He said his only reason for going was to be informed. The department says only those can go whose travel might serve this countrys interest.

The court, voiding a Louisiana requirement that would-be voters must satisfactorily interpret the U.S. or state constitutions, said this test was part of a plan to deprive Negroes of their right to vote, Louisiana has abandoned this requirement but other states have similar ones.

In the labor field the court said an employer may shut down his business for any rea-son he might not want to deal ^th a union but he may not shut down just a part of it to avoid dealing.

Yet. the court agreed unanimously that when an employ-(Continued On Page 5)

Roy Hardee of television station WNCT, you might recall, was named Southern Television Photographer of the Year. The award carried a $100 cash prize and along with the big _ trophy, Roy received a check.

He showed it around to a few friends for a day or two and then one morning as he rushed out on an assignment he left it on a dresser for his wife, Margaret, to deposit.

When he returned that night he asked his wife about it.

T havent had it, she said. You forgot to leave it.

Yes I did. Roy replied. I left it on the dresser,

They both rushed to the bedroom and looked. No check.

, Ftoally they asked thelr^

little son, Lee, about It,

I had It, the little tyke replied. I drew pictures on it and then tore it up.

Roy raced out to the garbage can and dug through it, but all the days refuse had been dumped and he could find lit

tle that remained of the check.

Finally he called Charlotte, where the check was issued and told them of the predicament. They agreed to stop payment on the old check and issue a newj>ne.

Other

Swift

E(ditors Saying Policy Reversa.

City Manager Harry Hager-ty reports that in one local slum area where several houses had been condemned, he spotted a woman crossing a street carrying a toilet on her back.

ALVIN

Again this court, as it has since Chief Justice Earl Warren took his seat in 1954, continued to broaden its protection of individual rights and liberties. Yet, the range of its work was wide.

Here were some of its most memorable actions:

In the first test of the 1964 Civdl Tligbfs^ctrTOe^^ upheld the public-accommoda-tlons section requiring restaurants and motels to serve all races if the restaurants customers or food move in interstate commerce.

Two yeans ago the court, ex- rrii tv i

tending constitutional protec- ___

tions to state criminal trials, *L J-liO J said a defendant had a right to an attorney in all key stages of the proceedings.

This year the court extended this by ruling a defendant In such a trial had a right to face and question witnesses against him.

The court barred state judges and prosecutors from commenting to juries if a defendant exercising his constitutional right to say nothing refused to take the stand in his own defense.

But the court also decided a defendants constitutional right to trial by Jury does not include the right to demand a trial without jury in a criminal case when either the prosecutor or judge does not agree.

One of the most sensational decisions came Monday when the court threw out the conviction of BUlle Sol Estes on a Texas swindling charge because his trial was televised.

"A defendant on trial for a specific crime, the court said,

Is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or a nationwide arena. Trial by television is therefore foreign to our system.

But some justices indicated this is not the last word on televised trials.

And the court in effect upheld the California Supreme Court in overturning the con-^victlon of a cwivlct. who stab-*'lied a feUow-prlsoner to deatli. because the confession used against him was taken by officers who did not advise him of his right to an attorney and hte right to stay silent.

In l.N*3 and I9(i4 tlie court

40 Years Ago To(day

By JOHN G. DUNCAN June 9. 192S Tournament forj Governor's Cup here Wednesday.

Tlie ladles touniament for the Governors Chrp, an annual golf trophy, will be^n on Wednesday June 10th. This tr(H>hy Is a handsome silver loving cup which was presented by the Board of Governors of the club and was won last year by Mrs. Jas. S. Plcklen.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)...

Seldom has a swifter reversal in policy been noted than that which President Johnson executed in the administrations approach to the silver shortage. A couple of weeks ago the President announced the government was going to mint several million dollars worth of new silver dollars. Apparently Johnson wasnt familiar ^th the current U.S. silver shortage, but after the outcry which flowed his announcement, he must have gotten on the phone and talked to the people who know about such things. $

To begin with, it was fax from wise to use up such vast quantities of silver on a silver-doUar project in view of the woeful lack of silver. Too, experts pointed out that the silver dollare would never be put into general circulation, but would be gobbled up by collectors.

Thus, the whole project would be a dismal falhue, plus the fact that the national silver shortage would be that much more acute.

In short order, the President cancelled the order calling for the minting of new silver dollars. --

' And now the President has taken one more step in the opposite direction. He has broken 173 years of tradition and asked C(mgress to take all silver out of dimes and quar

ters and shaiply reduce the amount in half dollars. One thing about our President: when he makes up his mind, he goes all the way. He told the lawmakers to act swiftly so that the new silver-le.ss coins could start going into circulation by next year.

Silver is becoming too scarce for continued large-scale use in coins, he told Congress. We must take steps to maintain an adequate supply of coins or face chaos in the myriad transactions of our daily life.

For those. who have any doubts about the value of these new coins, they will have no effect on the purchasing power of the nations coins. The new dimes, quarters and half-dollarswduW

by side with existing coins, which would continue to be purchased until the mint was turning out plenty of the new kind.

The new dimes and quarters would be about as shiny as present-day nickels, but would have a copper-colored edge. The new half dollars would be neai'ly indistinguishable from the present 50-cent piece.

As the President pointed out. much as we would all prefer to retain the silver coins now in use, there Is no practical alternative to a new coinage based on materials In adequate supply.

TAYLOR

Turned out that hers was broken so she took one out of a condemned house and was going to Install it in her own.

In New York CMty, officials are expecting a water shortage this summer. For the psychological effect, water is not served with meals in restaurants. You get a glass of water only if you ask for it.

So, If you plan a trip to the Worlds Fair this summer, be certain you fill your canteen.

Somehow, after the astronauts traveled a ^^^m and a half miles around the world In four days, falling 40 miles short of the planned goal just doesnt seem too Important.

And we see where zip code will soon naean mall will reach its destination anywhere In the state in 24 hours. Now If we can just figure out a system to get it across town in that time.

What with all the fights developing in the legislature during Its closing sessions, the N.C. State University name ochange controversy way back several month.s. ago Is beginning to look like a tea party.

Slaves

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1968, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The ourse of the Dominican Republic has been Its reliance on a single crop, that of sugar for just about half of Its for-eig exchange earnings. This has always made the Dominicans dependent on either U.S. guarantees or a fluctuating world price. Naturidly, the LefUsts, in their pie-ln-the sky promises, speak of the horrors of monoculture, and promise some alleviation when they come into power.

JOHrt CHAMBZBLAIB

" But what haw)cns when Communists do take over In monocultura! lands? Cuba, in the days before Castro, was even more dependent on sugar than the Dominican Republic had ever been; it once earned up to 78 per cent of its dollars from sugar sales. Castro, before his movement deposed Batista, promised an end to monocultural servitude to foreign capitalists. But , today, after six years of freedom frtMTi the Yankee colonialists, Castros Cuba 1s more abjectly dependent on sugar than ever.

So enslaved is Communist Cuba to the need for a good sugar crop that Fidel Castro has had to make symbolic capital for his regime by ap-pearlng in the fields in per-SOT as a cane cutter. The so-clallst cane harvests for 1963 and 1964 were disastrous, falling behind the 6.7 million tons of 1961, the last year of capitalist production,, by as much as 2.9 and 3.1 million tons. Even at a price of 10 cents a pound (the world figure for 1964) the decrease in sugar production meant trouble for the bearded one. So, in a burst of desperation, Castro committed his countrymen to an all-out burst of sugar monoculture for 1965. Hed show the capitalist world that socialists could cut and grind canr^wRh -the best of them.

So what happened? By forcing schoolchildren, women, factory workers, college students and political bureaucrats to "volunteer for the harvest, Castro has managed to get a sugar crop estimated at something In excess of 5 million tons. This Is still at least 1.5 million below the figure for 1961, when private enterprise was having its last Innings in the Chiban oountryslde. The 5 million tons are coming on to a world market that Is offering 2.5 cents a pound for sugar. In other words, Castro may get less for his fairly big crop of 1965 than he got for his poor showing of 3.6 million tons for 1964. The Soviets, of course, could give him a break by making barter deals with him on favorable terms. But when have the Soviets ever taken pity on a satellite nation simply because It Is In need?

With the example of Con;-munist Cuba In mind, other Latin American nations should be warned that the Leftlst.s have no magic to dispense in the social war to get rid of the curse of monoculture.

A Brazilian Castro would probably end .up by driving the school kids of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Into the fields to work on coffee plan-tatloril. Arid In Chile a Communist government would probably be tearing its collective hair to whip up new record.5 of copper production.

What Latin America faces l.s a general need to diversify in order to get away from the traditional monocultural order.

In Brazil, It Is a matter of escaping a fifty per cent dependence on coffee has been even more pronounced and even more disastrous, Bolivia has been notoriously dependent on the single commodity of tin. In Venezuela It ha.s been oil; in Uruguay and the Argentine it has been beef.

The lesson for the Dominl-(Conttaued on page 5)

?oor' Planning, Mistakes Costly

Little Billy Johnson, tiie 3-year-old .son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A, Johnson who live near Greenville on the Washington Road was struck by lightning and rendered unconscious for several moments during the storm yesterday afternoon. TTie little boy is all right today.

Mr. W. M. Hankins, of Wilmington, is the guest of Mrs. R. R. Bninson. This l.s Mr. Hankins first visit to Greenville In slxty-two years. He was stationed here in 1863 during the CTlvll War, and marched from here to Washington where he embarked for New Bern.

Officers Sam Whltehinst, S. H. Martin, Oscar Bryan, and Eugene Jones, on Monday morning visited Belvolr township and captured a double capacity sleutu plant stilt and poured out BUO galluiiK ol Ix er.

By ELMER ROESSNER

A strong argument for companies creating an International corporate identity now, instead of later, was made in Design Sense, published by the design and consulting firm of Uppincott & Mar guiles. Inc.

Although the publication is sprinkled with amusing cartoons of how not to behave abroad and anecdotes of American firms woes overseas, it is serious about the cost of mistakes and Inadequate planning.

Design Sense points out that tremendous waste can occur when a company decides to enter foreign markets only to find its long-established name, trademark, package designs, slogans or company colors are unintelligible or, worse, offensive In many countries. An example of adjustments frequently necessary Is Rke Krlsples snap, crackle and pop translating into knlsper, knasper, knasper in Germany. And Corn Flake.'. In Noiwax sell

very well under the name of Fllkk Flakk.

ELMER

ROESSNER

These product name changes were easy, the article notes, Ijecause the companys uaine Is a strong international corporate identity. Kelloggs remains constant on the box in every country and language,

WUATS IN A NAME?

But sometimes even a corn-

{>any name won't do for an dentlty. Peoples Car might have rough going In noncommunist countries. But Volkswagens *VW symtiol Is simple and objectionable to no one.

Geometric designs usually

are Inlrniallonal Ircraiisc geo

metry 1.S international. For that reason, an abstract symbol will almost always do for an identity.

But even here there are exceptions. A six-pointed star wont do at all in Arab countries. And five-pointed stars great in the U.S.. just as long as they arent colored red.

The company which has the foresight to establish the right all-purpose corporate identity before it gets involved in international trade may save itself a lot of grief. Otherwise, it can find itself going through linguistic and visual gymnastics every time it enters a country In which its corporate identity is unacceptable. Further, just maintaining different Identities in various areas com-plicate.s communication anti marketing unnecessarily.

The need for an Intematlon-al corporate identity alao applies to strictly domestic companies. Dcslgn Sense main-laliKS. It claims there are no longer national and International markets, only global mar-

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kets. Even firms without international a.splratlons at the moment had best start to think global.

\'vangcs arc taking placo whether sheltered coinpanlcH like it or not. World business patterns are constantly shifting, Global Communications' iiav Improved tremendou.sly ^ even Jn the last ten years and havo opened new markehs and areas previously Inaccessible. Moreover, the size and buying power of these markets am growing with every jump in world population.

At the same time our International competition is increasing, particularly from Europe and Japan. Traditionally ".safe marlwts in Arnerlcj are lielng Invaded by very able competitors from abroad.

The company or/ buslnof s that doesnt kwk ou( past our Ixirders can mlss^great oppur-tunUlea* Ih the hext few di-cR<|es and fted Itself harder pressi d at/ liunic In the bargala.