4TI Dally Reflector, Greenville, N. C.Monday. December 1, lf

Private Institutions Squeezed

NOW COMES THE REAL WAIT

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Declining enrollment in private colleges ^ universities of North Carolina poses a serioi^ problem not just for those which have seen their enroltanent define, but for the state asa whole.

Traditional^, private institutions have played a major role in higher aucation in this state. This has been true not just from the standpoint of the major institutions like Duke, Wake Forest and others; l^t kewise from the standpoint of the small institutions and junior colleges. More than other institutions, private colleges and universities have felt the squeeze of increasing costs in recent years. Most have found it necessary to make appreciable increases in their tuition and other charges made to students. While the same has been true to some extent for public institutions, the publi(Hnstitutions have been able to partiaBy off-set higho* cdsts with higher state appropriations, an avenue not open to private schools. They continue to see their enrollment move upward.

The result has been that many private institutions, already caught in a cost squeeze, are being further adversely affected by decreasing enrollments. While the smaller enrollment in time may be reflected in decreasing total operating costs at a given institution, the short-term result is a decrease in revenue below budgeted amounts while the operating costs continue at the higher level.

Were the situation confined to just one or two private institutions, there might not be great cause of concern. Most institutions, both public and

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State Manual

RvWILUAIVI A.SIIKK.S

RALEIGH-Every two years the office of the Secretary of State in Raleijih compiles and publishes a tremendously useful and informative edition of the North Carolina Manual

It is no easy task. The wok involved in updating and recording information contained in this handy reference book goes on continually. It is never entirely accurate in ail details concerning stale and Imal government, boards and agencies and the hundreds of public officials which it lists, nor could it be expected to be.

There is such frequent change that no publication issued on a two year schedule could be kept up to date.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

TTie latest edition, that for 1969. came off the presses a few weeks ago and is now being distributed.

RecordIt is the thickest, most thorough edition yet issued and contains more information and matters of record than any of the past

In addition it is more profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, drawings and outlines.

But in many instances it already is outdated, because chalates have been made and have occurred since the material went to the printer.

In such cases, however, the value of the manual lies in the fact that everything in it is a flatter of public, published record

ChangesNo one could have foreseen last July just whatchanges in public office-holding would take place by October or November. This is especially true during a year in which a new governor is inaugurated and a legistive session^s held.

Thus those who use and

peruse the 1969 manual should remember that in many cases it is a record stamped at the beginning of the year 1969, not at the end.

.SectionsThe manuals historical section, of course, remains unchanged and constant. This is spread over more than UK) pages. It contains everything from a listing of all of the chief executives of North Carolina, listing of lieutenant governors, the lexis of the M<Tklenlnirg Declaration of Independence and the Halifax Rt*solves to all of the public holidays observed in North Carolina, the stales population since 1675, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

A si'cond part includes the census listings of i960 and the populations of all counties, cities and towns incorporated within the state.

Another part is entitled political and defines the congressional, judicial and electorial districts and legislative districts.

The manual includes texts of the platforms and outlines the organization of both majM political parlies in North Carolina down to the county level. Nearly 60 pages are devoted to county by county elec'lion returns and presidential returns dating back for 20 years or more.

Agencies Governmental agencies, boards and commissions are listed on pages 341 to425 and information on the General Assembly takes some 70 pages including-pictures and biographical sketches of all members who serxed in. the 1969 session.

The rest of the manual includes biographical sketches of all elected executive officials of the slate. senators and representatives, justices of the Supreme Court, judges of the Court of Appeals and stale administrative officials.

And this year there is an added section on the United State's government.

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private show enrollment fluctuations firom time to time. The fact that 20 of the private.institulioiii in North Carolina this year suffered declines In enrollment suggests the seriousness of the problem.

In past years North Carolina has not sho^ an inclination to become involved fmanciaUy in the affairs of its private colleges and universities. Neither have the institutions indicated any paT^ ticular desire for the state to come to their financial asisistance

In the future, however, it may be necessary for the state to take a serious new look at this complicated and perhaps controversial subject if its private educational institutions are to remain in a strong, healthy and vital role in higher education in

this state. _

If the shift of students from private to public colleges and universities continues, it obviously is going to cost the state many millions of dollars in additional appropriations to public institutions to handle the increased enrollment. Each student at a public college or university in North Carolina receives the equivalent of a scholarship worth several hundred dollars annp^ly through direct state appropriations to the institution.

Rather than see its private institutions forced to the edge of financial disaster which would close their doors. North Carolina might Serve itself, its citizens and the broad scope of higher ^ucation by considering the possibility of providing some financial assistance to private institutions based on the number of North Carolina students enrolled.Employment Shifting To Non-Form Jobs

North Carolinas non-farm emplwment continues to grow, as October figures indicatq.

Labor Commissioner Frank Crane report^ that nonfarm employment totalled 1,702,900 in October, a gain of 4,500 over September.

The increase occurred mostly in nonmanufacturing. Factory employment at 701,500 was actually down 1,800 from September. However aU none-farm employment was up 27,000 over the same month of a year ago.

It is obvious that North Carolinas employment is moving more and more into manufacturing and other non-farm jobs. This is true partially because less people are needed to run the farms and partially because more industry and other business are developing in the state.

Israel's Greatest Money Crisis

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By ROWI.AND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

JERUSALEM - Although details are secret, Prime Minister Golda Meirs urgent request for immediate U.S. credits is getting a slow and much t(*ss than enthusiastic

response from the Nixon administration:

Mrs. Meir desperately notHis the crt'dit. in the form of long-term loans, for a very simple reason; Israel is going broke.

Strapped by defense costs exorbitant by any yardstick (they absorb, for example, 80 percent of the total tax revenue paid to the government), Israel needs an assortment of financial aid from Washington between $2 and billion over the next five years.

Golda laid out the needs to President Nixon. a top economic official told us, but she did not specify exactly how the aid should be arranged. The important thing is that there must be a will inside the White House to help us. and we do not yet know."

What Israel wants is a loan large enough to refinance a national debt that cost $245 million in principal and interest in 1969. up from less than $200 million in 1968. Creditors include Israel bond holders, the U.S Foreign Aid Agency, the U.S. Agriculture Department (for Public Law 480 food credits), the Export-

Import Bank, and the World Bank among otfiers.

With a balance of payment deficit currently at a rate close $^ million this year (up from only $214 million in 1967) and a reserve scraping rock-bottom at $500 million, the grim outline of Israels financial crisis is. ominously clear.

But President Nixon is taking his time about Mrs. Meirs request. He wants to use Israels money appeal as a lever to obtain Israeli help for U.S. peace efforts in the Middle East. Such a lever is needed because the State Department is losing patience with what it regards as Israels continued aU tempts to torpedo all outside efforts by the big powers to find a settlement formula for the 1967 six-day war.

If that is Mr. Nixons game, (Continued On Page 5)Public Forum

To TTie Editor:

If the persons issuing, house to house, the flyer opposing the Utility Bond issue had signed their names or otherwise indicated the source, they might have lent credibflity to their argument. Sincerely,

Warren B. Bezanson Greenville

By ART BUCHWALD

Reporting Haynsworth

WASHINGTON-The news of Judge Haynsworths defeat for the Supreme Court caused soul searching in newspaper city rooms and televisin stations throughout the country.

Sensitive to attacks made by Vice President Agnew on all the media, the liberal Eastern establishment press and three TV networks gathered at the home of Averell Harriman in Washington, D C., to discuss

how to play the story.

One network spokesman said that he felt under the circumstances it would be best not to break the news of President Nixons biggest defeat to the American h people. The SHent Majority would feel we were using our power to criticizing the Presidents failure to round up enough votes for his Supreme Court choice.

A wire service representative felt that even though

Other Editors Say

The Bond Crisis

the vote had gone against President Nixon it was still news. Its true that we would have preferred

Haynsworth to win just so the heat would have been off us, he said, but Im sure the American people will realize that we had no ulterior motive in sending out the Haynsworth story.

A leading newspaper editor said. Perhaps we eould report the Haynsworth

rejection without going into the details of how badly the vote went against him. We could put the story

somewhere in the back of the paper where no one would see it.

ART

(Henderson Dispatch)

What might be termed a crisis for some municipalities in the lack of bids for their bond offerings may be a reflection of tight money. In at least one instance there were no takers, while others marketed their securities within the legal six percent limit. Municipal bonds are tax free, justifying lower quotations than for regular commercial securities.

Neither Henderson nor Vance county has any bonds for sale at present. There has been talk of bond elections, one by the county for schools and the other to flnance water facilities expansion by the city. Offhand, local government ratings are not available, so that it is not certain whether they would be in the AA, A or B classifications.

How long the ng'esent crisis will continue no one can say. But the county praple are of the Reeling uiat enlarged school plants cannot wait too mud) longer. City authorities are just before receiving estimates and plans from engineers as to a lake and a new dam on Sandy Creek to assure a more dependable watCT supply. At the earliwt, it is not likely that wato-bonds will be offered short'of a year, and possibly not as early as that if the mony

emergency does not ease. Consumers can only hope and pray there will not be in the next year or several years another expa*ience such as that in 1968. It has been claimed that acute water shortages come in cycles and at long intervals. But that is no guarantee of freed(Mn from a shortage any summer and autunm.

If State law were modified to allow municipalities to accept interest rates higher than six percent, and if they did, cost of local government will rise well above present levels. And heaven knows it is going up fast enough and too fast.

The pinch of inflation is being felt by governments as well as private citizens and business. No one has discovered a way to check it without risking a remedy that might be worse than the ailment.

Meanwhile, counties and cities may find it necessary to mudcDe through the crisis as best they can, hoping all the while that relief in some manner can be provided. The (Kxidition that has devel(^d may well reflect in proposals which mi^t be considered, to be on the drawing board, with brief or prolonged delays before a start can be made to advantage.

BUCHWALD

Another network vice president said, Thats all right for you people. But if we go on the air and say that Haynsworth was voted down, Agnew will demand equal time to say weve been coloring the news.

A syndicated columnist said, Couldnt we say that -Haynsworth had been rejected by a small vociferous minority of 55 men on Capitol Hill who did not speak for the country.

An editor of a news magazine said, The problem as I see it, is that if we all print and report the same story of Haynsworths defeat we will be accused of speaking with the same voice. Why couldnt some of the media say he won; and some say he lost? In that way we wouldnt be attacked for being a small elite band of opinionmakers who are out to destroy the President.

A third network spokesman said, Its a good suggestion but I feel after re-examining our own coverage of the news (Continued On Page 5)Look At The Capital

DIXIE REPORT

By ED ROGERS WAHINSGON (UPI) Sen. John C. Stennis, D Miss., said today it would be difficult to find a school system more segregated than in the nations capital.

With 188 schools, 56 are 100 per cent Negro, Stennis said in a Senate speech. Only 0.9 per cent of the Negroes are enrolled in 18 mainly while scho(ds while 43 per cent of the whites arc enrolled in the mainly Negro schools.,

Stennis ctled these federal government figures in another of his speeches targeting northern areas where he claims there is as much, or more, school segregation than in the South.

His purpose is to try to take some of the heat of federal desegregation enforcement off the South, where he says schools are being destroyed. Segregation Policy The schools of Washington, D. C.. were segregated by law before the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Stennis said, and his other target states, he said, have one thing in common: Before 1954 each had either had laws or policies that either permitted or required school segregation.

Stennis received some support from a surprising source.

Leon Panetla, chief civil rights enforcement officer of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, told a Senate committee he wanted to end racial isolation everywhere, even though it would mean busing in the north as well as in the South.

Sen. Clifford P. Case, R-N.J., suggested that Stennis might feel Mississippi is getting the full force of the indignation of the country whereas, deliberately, part of the country outside the 3outh is being let off easily.

Yes sir, Panetta said.

Feeling Justified You feel there is some jus-tificatiwi for that feeling? Indeed I do, sir.

I take it you would agree that the remedy is not to let up on the South but to try to make compljance equal all over the country?

That is right.

Stennis is counting on the prospect of equal enforcement producing a Senate majority in favor of legislation intended to bring about eased enforcement.

This legislation is the Hluse-passed amendment sponsored by Rep. Jamie L. Whitten, D-Miss., which would forbid HEW to require busing and forced pupil assignment in the South or the North.

If this amendment is killed, either in committee or on the Senate floor, Stennis will introduce an amendment of his own which, if passed, would make all enforcement even stiffer.

Busing Requirement Under this amendment all localities would be required to bus students as necessary to eliminate all - black schools, regardless of whether they stem from* housing patterns or law-enforced segregation before 1954.

It would be Stennis intention to place the burden on the burden on the school district to prove it should be made an exception Instead of on HEW to prove the district is in violation.

Such an amendment apparently would apply in Washington, where the enrollment imbalance is caused by a drastic population imbalance, and sharply drawn housing patterns.

Strength For Tptjay Controls Are A Little Nearer

WHAT WE DO AND HOW

Probably the quality most sought after by those whose business it is to hire people and set them to work is the spirit they maintain. Ability is important. Sohdness of character, even more so. Diligence and the willingness to keep on working until a job is finishedthese things are vastly important.

But if a person dosnt~^ maintain a certain sprit as he ^ goes about his work, his friends will be few and he may soon find himself with the unemployed. The United States never had a more highly educated President than John Quincy Adams, but eVery time John Quincy Adams did a favor for a man, he made that man his lifelong enemy. He lasted one terr as President. His character, however, is revealed in the fact that after his defeat for reelection he

^ran for Congress as representative and served nine terms with distinction and independence. He had a stroke in the House and died in the Speakers Room.

The United States has been fortunate in never having had an evil man as President. One evil man, Aaron Burr, tried to be President but fortunatdy did not make it. He later killed in a duel the man who kept him . from the presidency. Alexander Hamilton.

We have had mediocre Presidents and a few whose greatness gives them a place amonh the outstanding leaders of world history. '

But when all is said and done, the spirit one puts into his work is a decisive factor success or failure.

Not just what we do, but how we do it.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

By ELMER ROESSNER The nation will hear more proposals for wage and price controls in December. It will also hear more suggestions fg^^^it controls.

l^ile retailing will be brisk in December, industrial activity, which has slowed a bit in November, will slow down further. Prices will continue to rise.

ELMER

ROESSNER

The grim fact is that present monetary conUols, designied to halt inflation, are not slowing it. And unless some changes in the approach are made, they will create a recession without stopping inflation.

Wage and price controls are a logical second step. George Meany, AFL-CIO president, has indicated he favors them. And last week the heads of the nations five largest apparel manufacturers united to call for such controls. The White House replied that it was not changing its position, which has been against controls.

Piessures Rising

However, rising public resentment against constantly higher prices may force President Nixon to alter his stand. The consumer price index ros again in October and the figurS will probably show anc^ther, though smaller, rise in November.

While there is yet i)o public denoand for credit controls, it is known that they are being weighed by the Federal Reserve. Limitations on

consumer credit such as were applied during World War II might be an intermediate step before wage and price controls. J

One of the causes of inflationoutside of idle fact that our money nagger has any metallic packingis that, despite hig|i taxes and high interest rates, money is so abundant.

Wages are rising. And while high interest rates make money expensive to borrow, they also increase payments to pe<$le who have svings. These combine to make steady increases in the total personal income.

In addition to |ill the disposable income so generated, credit granters, are selling credit like crazy. Buy now and pay later; use your charge accounts, youf credit cans; have a merry Christmas and pay for it in 19TO or 1971. These are

themes that are loudly , echoed and the echoes will be louder in Decemtier. And each one brings credit controls closer.

Other Lo<ik-Aiieads

Here are more glimpses over the business horizon: .

Cheaper color TV: Trade reports have it that color TV sets are stacking up in manufacturers and retailers shelves. With rumbles of a recession, this can only mean trirfimed prices after Christmas.

Swedes worry: Swedish businessmen, alarmed over . U.S. irritation at the ' governments playing footsie with Hanoi, will step up appeals to modify its posi tion. Hdwever. they neednt (worry. There was a surge of indignation in the U S. when a British auto company con-^ traded to supply Castro with buses, but talk of boycotting the company faded.

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