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Tytldy, Jurm 15, 1965

Apparent Bid To Thwart Assembly

Several of North Carolinas larger newspapers school accreditation agencies) to do what the In the Piedmont section are still decrying the General Assembly should have done in the first legislatures approval of a two-year medical school placethat is to restrain the empire-builders in at East Carolina College. -* the East who are trying to establish a university at

They continue to reiterate the arguments they Greenville. North Carolina has all it can do in used so ineffectivelyalong with other opponents supporting one university, with its various branches, of the proposalbefore the legislature made its If we are to spend more money on medical educa-decision. It has now reached the point that one is tion, the logical way to do it is to provide adequately justified in asking the question whether some for the medical school at Chapel Hill, sources will attempt to sabotage the proposed It shouldnt be necessary to call m outside

school and override the expressed will of the experts to tell us this. , ,

legislature. The clear implication of the statement is that

Yesterday for example, the Winston-Salem the accreditation agencies should attempt to thwart Journal asserted editorially: the expresied wilhof the legislature by arbitrarily

The pity of it all is, though, that we shall withholding accreditation from a two-year medical now have to relv upon an outside agency (medical school at East Carolina. The suggestion obviously

is that since opponents could not defeat the measure in the legislature they should attempt other meana to achieve the goal.

We can think of nothing more underhanded thai thfs^proposal from the usually fair and competent Winston-Salem Journal.

The legislature has overwhelmingly decided that North Carolina needs a two-year medical school, and that it should be located at East Carolina College. From the outset, proponents of the proposal declared that it must be a top-flight, accredited school. The purpose of accreditation agencies is not to decide how North Carolina shall spend its money. That is the responsibility of the legislature and the legislature has made its decision.

The job of accreditation agencies is to assure that the school achieves and maintains the high standards required in medical education.

For either proponents or opponents of the two-year medical school to suggest that accreditation agencies base their decision on factors other than the high standards required for medical education is a disservice to North Carolina and its people.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

MORTGAGE Legislation to clamp firmer controls and cost celifaigs on second mortgage lending finally came out of a House committee Just In time; for floor debate and enactment In the closing crush the 1965 session.

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6UIRS

For those , who pushed and worked for this new regulatory legislation since early In the session, it had been a long, hard and often uphill fight.

It proved to be one of those tricky and complicated mea- aures designed to afford blanket protection for the public and at the same time avoid Imposing unnecessary, unfair or discriminatory controls. There was no unanimous agreement on how to do this, and even at the finish there were attempts to amend the bill on the floor.

What finally won approval was a legal ceiling of $150 or 10 per cent, whichever is greater, and a limit of six per cent Interest on second mortgage loans.

PROTECT Its sponsors felt this law would do much to protect the public against abuses gnd victimizing In the fonn of* exorbitant hidden charges and fees.

Some of the strongest language heard during the entire legislative session was used in advocating stricter regulation of the second mortgage lending business.

At one point, the flow of second mortgage capital into North Carolina was described as Mafia money being made available for possible get -rich-quick returns.

Examples of borrowers signing notes for nearly double the amount of their loans, plus interest, were cited. There were witnesses who attacked legal thievery, piratical practices and wholesale abuses by unscrupulous lenders.

GROWING On the other hand, there were those who warned against smearing everybody engaged in the rapidly - growing second mortgage business.

They said this field of finance serves a definitely established public need, and that overly restrictive controls would discourage investors and those companies engaged in a legitimate, ethical private enterprise.

.r These arguments and dis-' pute over the actual details and workings of the bill required weeks of legislative

study, rewriting and revising.

At times it appeared that legislators laboring over the bill in committee and subcommittee would throw up their hands. Each time, however, its sponsors managed to revive the measure.

MEASURES There were numerous other measures of highly - controversial nature stacked up for debate, last-minute maneuvering and vote during the final week of the General Assembly,

These Included a possible compromise on a House-passed bill aimed at prtrtectlng the states beer distributors from sudden cancellation of franchises by out-of-state breweries, bills to give the Advisory Budget Commission far-reaching power of review and final approval of all projects and programs, inducing research, undertaken with nonstate funds.

Others which were out of committee and in the legislative mill included bills to reorganize the State Board of Higher Education, to make It unlawful for public school officials to pressure, influence or coerce teachers or teacher applicants to join professional organizations, to allow local school units to accept professional organizations, to allow local school units to accept federal grants directly and without state approval, to increase the State Highway Patrol force by 100 troopers in the next two years.

DITTIES Nominated for one of the cleverest ditties of those penned by Sen. Gordon Hanes of Porss^h for the legislative love feast was that for Sen. Lindsay Warren Jr. of Wayne.

Warren was chairman of the Courts Commission which drew up legislation to revamp the states inferior courts and establish a system of uniform district .courts.

Hanes wrote:

Lindsay, Lindsay, youre a sport.

Youve revised the whole dam court.

Ill just bet they were surprised,

To find that theyd been Warrenized.

There were also nominations for the verse composed for Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott, widely expected to be a candidate for governor in 1968. It went:

Our leader wields a wicked gavel,

And spends his nights in statewide travel.

Four years from now he thinks its vital.

To drop the first word of his title.

The Love Love Fea.st committee took note of Sen. Irwin Belks untiring efforts to close loopholes in the states highway safety and traffic laws, and during the spoofing presented Belk with a gadget which Hanes explained was a loophole closer.

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ncertainties S. Future

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) This is a strange year in Washington.

The customary bicker i n g, bellowing and conflict have been absent because Congress, with its heavy Democratic majorities, has gone along amiably with President Johnsons requests and pressures.

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This alone would make 1965 unusual but the comparative stillness spreads further than that.

There has been very little sense of American action, or leadership, except in the Dominican Republic and Viet Nam where the United States has directly intervened.

Those two situations, in which the Johnson administration has been roundly criticized by many at home and abroad, might seem enough to occupy the Presidents time.

But he has found time for speechmaking and other White House activities.

Actually, this is not the first Johnson year in which American foreign participation has been pushed into the background. It was the same in 1964 when Johnson concentrated on domestic affairs and getting elected.

Yet, in the two foreign problems where the United States has put most of its effort the Dominican and the Vietnamese the picture Lsnt clear and the solution is not in sight.

The Dominican ; evolution is far from settled. Where the United States is going in Viet Nam Isnt clear at all. and Johnson isn't doing much to explain it.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is going to start an inquiry into the American role in the Dominican Republic but not Viet Nam.

In Viet Nam over the weekend the United States, once again, was confronted with the most continuing embarrassment of Its long Involvement there: the In.stabillty of the South Vietnamese government.

The United States ha.s made a great point of insisting It is helping the South Vletna-me.se at the request of its government. But the que.stlon l.s bping asked: What gov e r n-mont

South Viet Nam has had eight different governments in 20 months. The last one gave

up several days ago when the president and premier resigned after four mwiths in office.

Now the problem is to get another one which may last a while, and this time will it probably be all milit a r y, which means the South Vietnamese have had no voice in choosing it. So it will not be an elected government.

Out of this repeated demonstration of lack of governmental stability comes the unpleasant question:

If the Americans do crush the Communist guerrillas, w'iU the South Vietnamese government be any more stable than all those that preceded it, or will it collapse in chaoas and civil war, undoing all the American effort?

But this is not the only uncertainty about events there.

It is generally assumed American involvement will be greater. No other cwicluslon is reasonable in view of the con-tinuing American military buildup.

In the end the United States may be doing most, if not all, of the fighting for a people who seem ill - equipped to govern themselves, and if that (Continued on page 5)

By HAL BOYLE

Viet Nam Weatherman

DA NANG, South Viet Nam (AP) Weather is one of the most important words in war.

Every American over here talks about the weather usually in uncomplimentary terms but Capt. Norman F. Jacobs is one of the few who does anything about it.

He forecasts it.

He also can explain the vagaries of the two monsoon seasons over here, which have most people baffled.

As commander of Detachment 9 of the 30th Weather Squadron, Jacobs has a vital role.

In war, both ground and air operations are to a great degree dependent on the weath

er, and it is his onerous task to predict it accurately as far in advance as possible.

In the operations office of the big Da Nang air base, the captain, 32, who romes from Los Angeles, directs 22 American and Vietnamese Air Force helpers. He also works closely with 20 employes of the nearby Vietnamese civili a n weather station.

Every morning and evening at 8 oclock they send up a large transmitter - carry i n g balloon which rises to a height of 80,000 feet as it sends down data on wind and temperature.

At those same hours other balloons are sent up at hundreds of weather stat ions

around the globe, said Jacobs.

Thus we get an instantaneous picture of the atmosphere throughout the world,

The balloons stay aloft IMi to 2 hours, then expand and burst. Sometimes one of them will fall into our ammunition area and then theres a little excitement.

HAL

Other E<ditors Saying

One Never Knows

BOYLE

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G, DUNCAN June 15, 1925 The efforts of J. J. White and J. H. Waldrop in securing a weekly half holiday for Greenville business hou s e s during the summer mo n t h s have been crowned with success, nearly a hundred business men having signed t h e agreement to observe such a holiday and next Wednesday afternoon will mark the first half holiday of the summer.

All scouts who failed to get their equipment from Camp Leach should call the Scoutmaster,

Miss Florence Phelps, who recently moved to Greenville, was given a surprise party on Friday evening by a number of friends.

Mrs. James Long left yesterday for Raleigh where she joined a party for a three weeks tour of California.

Mrs. Luther Herring won the Governors Cup last Friday afternoon at the Greenville Country Gub by defeating Mrs. Jame.s Picklen in the Ladies Tournament,

(Washington Daily News)

A local lawyer in discussing a court case some time ago made the observation that one never knows what a jury might do.

We feel sure that lawyers on either side of any giv e n case are always apprehensive as to what verdict a jury might bring out. When sentiment runs high in any given case, then factors outside the courtroom often enter into the picture of any given trial anywhere in the United States.

There is bound to be criticism of the outcome of the recent case in New Bern in which three men were charged with dynamiting two cars in what has often been described as an attack by the Ku Klux Klan.

P'irst of all, it was not the Ku Klux Klan on trial as so many people seem to have had in their minds. The defendants were three men and not an organization. The fact that the three men allegedly belonged to the KKK was only a sidelight to the story.

It is easy for any of us to s.it on the sidelines and criticize justice in any given case. In the case recently tried in New Bern, what that jury might have done is open to speculation. The fact that the state admitted that it had no real case against one of the three leads us to won d e r just how strong a case it might

have had against the ot h e r two.

Had the case been allowed to go before a juiT and that jury had acquitted the three men, then far more criticism would have been heard about Southern justice than is being heard right now.

The fact that the three defendants were given suspended sentences is perhaps a subject of more criticism than the fact that the men changed not guilty pleas to those of guilty. It is difficult for an outsider to know what went on in the chambers of the presiding judge when lawyers from tH)th sides discussed the case.

Was justice done? Many think not. but when the case is boiled down to its bare essence, who can really know?

It was an ugly case, and w'e all have to admit that as fact. If the men came out with light punishment as so many claim today, then perhaps it might be well to remember that had it been allowed to go to the jury, they might have been freed entirely.

This is one case where it is difficult to try to judge justice. It is up to the state to prove Innocence. If the state could not iprove guilt, then any .sentence at all might be poor justice. If they are guUtj as they admitted, then the .state would still have had the burden of proving it. Apparently the .state must have felt its CEuse was weak.

About 150 feet off tlie runway Jacobs has an air-conditioned, glass - walled observation shack which he describes as one of the most modem installations in Southeast Asia.

It operates as the weather doe.s 24 hours a day, he said. We send out hourly reports regularly, but sometimes as often as every 10 minutes.

Now, about those mysterious monsoons.

Most people think South Viet Nam has two seasons: The dry season, when the country is like an arid desert, and the monsoon season, when the skies open and flood down rain in torrents for six months.

The Viet Cong are supposed to welcome the monsoon season, because the bad weather keeps our fighter planes down and they can attack us with less risk of punishing air strikes.

Well, it isnt quite that simple. In a tropical climate such as this, one can expect an afternoon rain in any part of the country at any time of the year, including the so-called dry season, explained the meterologlst.

The worn monsoon merely means weather caused by winds. There are two m o n-soons, not one.

In the summer monsoon the winds blow from the .southwest and it rains heavily around Saigon and the delta region.

But by the time the winds reach Da Nang, several hundred miles to the north, the mountains have wrung out (Continued On Page 5)

Wirtz Builds ; Be volt

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1965 King Featureli Syndicate, Inc.

In pushing his campaign to substitute able - bodied U.S. citizens for migrant Mexicans and British West Indians oa the farms of America. W. Wtt* lard Wirtz. the embatUed retary of Labor, is laying aU sorts of booby - traps for th party of Lyndtm Johnson. The trouble that the Secretary Is causing Isnt widely apparent just yet. But. as Senator Oewge Murpl^r of Galifoml*-

keeps warning us, a revolt of ^ significant proportions Is blowing up. And since it Involves every familys grocery bill, it will be much more than a California proposition.

JOHN

CHAMB'iiJILAUI

Its a case of good Intentions colliding with ancient habits and with certain facts of the calendar that Secretary Wirtz has not considered. The Secretary of Labor, with one eye on Poverty Czar Sargent Shri-vers problems, has had a great vision. Quite commend-ablv he wants to indoctrinate young Americans with ideas of discipline and a willingness to work. So we have a projected program for A.T.s or Athletes Temporar i 1 y Employed in Afdcultural manpower. The Secretary has promised to take care of Ca-Ifornlas harvesting needs by shipping vacationing sc h o ol kids from Texas at $50 a head, or from anywhere west of the Mississippi at a cost running up to $85 in transportation.

The trouble with this Plan is that crops dont accommodate themselves either to the school year or to the average high school boys staying power. At Blythe, on the Colorado River, the temperature in the summer fields is 115 degrees Fahrenheit. You pay a kid to come out there, not too many miles from Death Valley, and he wilts. By then it Is too late to get somebody else.

But even if the kid stands up and some schoolbo y s have always worked In summer he has to go back to .school in September. This is the month in which the California harvesting season is roaring into high. In August, California formers need 348,-000 harvest hands; in September. they need 406,000. But the school athlete component of Augusts 348,000 will be pulling out after Labor Day to go back to playing football.

Because of the unconsidered factors in Secretary Wirtz's plans. Californians have cut their tomato plantings this year from 143,000 acres to 100.000 acre.s.

Since California accoun t s for 70 per cent of the nations canned tomatoes, what thl.s will do to the U.S. housewife next winter is enough to make Republicans happy everywhere. The loss in gro.ss income to Californias farmers because of the unplanted tomato acreage shouW run to $21,-500.000.

The coming disaster In tomatoes means the pizza vote in addition to the votes of housewives and tomato growers. The housewives are already gnimbllng because of the rise in strawberry prices (up 30 per cent, whole.sale, ov-' er a year ago), in asparagus (up 25 per cent), In Imperial Valley jumbo cantaloupes <up .33 per cent), and In Iceberg lettuce (up 180 per cent).

To corpbat the mute pro-#, poganda of thd wholesale price ll.st, Secretary Wirtzs department has tried to blame the middleman for the rise In the co.st of eating. Late In May the Secretary was contending that .shipments of strawberries from California w'ere a mere forty - six carloads behind. But the subsequent figures have been cruel to the Secretary, for by the beginning of June the strawberry shipments were off by 8.50 carloads, and on June 7 the figure ha(l risen to 1,255 carloads. Since a carload Is worth $4,550, what (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

Water Desalinizations Promise

By FARL I.. DOUGLAS.S BUILDING WLSELY

Recently in driving through a real estate development, I was sliuck by the poor quality of the houses being built. It appeared rather evident that the walls were too thin and the outside framework anything but adequate to support .he structure. This reminds one. does it not, of the poor workmanship of which a lot of Js are guilty a.s Wf build our lives. The wails are loo thin. The timbers are not sturdy enough. The foun-dation.s may well buckle and collapse someday.

Let us face the fact that there are millions of people in the world and we indeed may \yr among them who k'ive v; t v Inadequate time to the l)ullding and strengthening of character Wp are too busy. The laws of Gtxl ara aevare.

and in our duller and more melancholy moments we call them unju.st. Why cant the moralists, from Mo.ses down, let a guy alone to live his life merrily and get a bit of fun out of It.

It all sounds very well, but there is a Building Inspector who moves about among our structures asking disconcerting questions and pointing out flaws. Too busy? Yet this generation spends more time on recreation than any previous generation. The laws of God hard? Brother, you dont know what hardne.ss is until the world gets through shaking you by the scruff of the neck over a period of say forty years..

Poor workmanship. It is bad, Ijad, bad. Apparently it cah be corrected, for what the Bible calls our earthly houses of this tabernacle take a long time to build.

By ELMER ROK.S.SNER

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's^ famous line in the Ancient Mariner may have to be changed to, Water, water, everywhere, and every drop to drink,

Many areas of the United States find their fresh water supply dwindling as demand Increases.

In the Southwestern states, from Southern California and through Texas, it has become increasingly expensive to maintain adequate fresh water supplies. Even states considered reasonably wet. sucl as New York and Florida, are having their troubles.

Water for domestic home use is not a major issue. 01 the .some 350 billion gallons of water u.sed daily in America, on ly alx)ut 6 per cent goes for human crnisumptlon.

The real pinch Is in agriculture and Industry. Farming accounts for 44 per cent of wa

tpr u.sed and industry takes .50 }j(T fiiwt. Some Industrie.s are i>articularly thirsty.

^ ROESSNER

HUGE (0NSUIV1ITIDN

It requlies 250 tons of water to produce one ton of steel. h;io tons to produce one ton of rayoti. l.(KH) tons in making one ton of new.sprlnl, anti 2,7.50 loim in turning out one ton of svnthetlc rubber

Most ol the wall I agrieni lure "con-siuncs i.s actually lost through evaporation <ir phiiit I;iin.spnatuni. Only 2 p* i citil of the water industry usts

dsappears. But most of t h e remainder Ls contamina t e d and uniil for other u.ses.

Heclamatiou efforts have ea.sed the problem, but havent solved it. New fresh water sources are vitally needed and the government Is encouraging a massive research and dtvelopment program to extract salt from .sea water economically.

Numerous ph.vslcal, chemical and electrical processo.s can b* u.sed to desalinize sea water. They range from .squefzing water through a synthetic membrane, Icavl n g the salt behind, to flash distillation powered by atomic energy.

IKICE KEI)U< TION

The stumbling block has Ix n cost Government a-n d business researrh effort.s, how-ev' i. have heeti so wiecessful lint .some enmp.eiUv, claim Ihev ran now build purifying plants that wiU produce fresh

water from the sea for .30 to 50 cents per thousand gallons.

If this progress continues, we should have the problem licked before It becomes critical. And, in .solving its own problem, the United States will be doing more for the world than all its foreign aid dollars have done In the past two decades.

For. (when the cost of desal-Inlzatlon gets down to 10 or 13 cents a thousand gallons, water will bo cheap enough to make millions of acre of de.-ert and barren land bloom. Large areas with only brack-Lsh or contaminated water available could b< revltallz e d. Vast stretches of land could 1)C wa.shed clean of disease and pesllh'nce.

In direct benefit to mankind, we might even outshine our Rchley/iiK'nlH in agiieul-ture, iiK^icinc, atomic energy andyipace.