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Shift In Conservation Targets

BALL AND CHAIN REACTION I

Eixif^sis is shifting to conservation of natural resources and on curbing water and air pollution in North Cardina, Roy Sowers, director of the '^Department of Conservation and Development said in a i^nt talk.

It is true for various reasons, that more people are paying more attention to the danger of pollution and to the merits <rf wise cwiservation practices, he said.

We have initiated a program to reclaim some of our valuable marshlands and to prevent those that are still unspoiled from being dredged without regard to the ecological considerations.

The Department of Water and Air Resources has a vital program to keep our air and streams clean and to enforce rules and regulations which would result in less pollution of our rivers and streams.

The Department of Conservation and Development could take on no more notable task than preventing air and water pollution in the Tar Heel state. Fortunately in many instances we have excaped the choking pollution which has ruined rivers, streams and lakes and nearly poisoned the air of many more industrialized states. The best way to deal with pollution is to prevent it before the deadly process goes too far.

Here in the eastern part of the state, our in-

Demos Expect A GOP Surge

By WILLIAM A. SHIRKS RALEIGH- Toward the dose of swearing-in ceremonies for the new State Board of Elections, Gov. Scott looked across the crowded conference room in the Administration Building and introduced special visitors.

Finally, after recognizing Secretary of State Thad Eure who was the only Council of State member attending, and Chuck Barbour, executive director of the state Democratic party, Scott asked, are there any Republicans here?

From the entire assemblage only one man arose to be recognized as a member of the GOP.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

This, of course, belies the growing strength of the Republican party in North Carolina and the interest and ambitions of the GOP in state and local political affairs during the years that this new board of elections will serve.

Recogn izedDemocra ts are keenly aware of this. There are strenuous efforts being exerted to minimize and blunt the expected GOP surge next year.

One key area is in administration of the state's election laws and this primarily is the responsibility of the new State Board of Elections.

Scott expressed full confidence in the new board and in executive secretary Alex K Brock.

He singled out Brock for special mention. Brock is not appointed by the governor nor does he serve at the pleasure (rf the governor. He is appointed by and serves as a full-time employe of the Elections Board. Scott noted this fact.

Then, he added, "but I would say this. If he were appointed by the governor. I

would reappoint him. I recommend his reappointment by this board.

BrockAlex Brock is recognized in all state govemmervt circles as one of the most knowledgable, most efficient and capable administrative officials in state government. This is what Scott was saying.

A prediction may be now that when the veteran Thad Eure retires. Brock will be the leading Democratic party candidate to become Secretary of State.

He is a lifelong Democrat. He was a key campaign organizer and worker for Dr.

1 Beverly Lake in 1960 and 1964. As executive secretary of the State Board of Elections he impressed ail factions and all political parties with his fairness.

RebuttedNearly three years ago when his seat in the office was hardly warm. Brock rebutted by statistical data and careful analysis charges raised by Republicans in the legislature.

Each year since then Brock has issued a similar analysis of voter registration, county by county, and has delineated the trends. His latest statistical report and analysis was issued the day before the new board was sworn in.

4. The members had it there before them.

BeliefIt is Brocks belief that it is up to the individual voter to choose his party affiliation and to decide for himself on the basis of fa^its available whether partism political hold water.

For example, in 1967 Brock took strong exception to a charge by Rep. Charles Taylor. R-Traiisylvatfla, that the states election laws "encourage rather than deter election irregularities.

He contended that the 1967 General Assembly had

achieved extremely effective and generous accomplishments in regard to election laws. Taylor disputed to whitewash and cover over the real problems He contended that most worthwhih election reforms were

killed.

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dustrial development has just really gotten underway. Most industries are complying with state regulations concerning water and air pollution and this should mean that our area can have the benefit! that industrialization brin^ to an area, while at the same time the water and air are kept clean.

The stiite must carry on a vigorous pollution prevention program if we are to keep our air and water clean in Eastern North Carolina. Since concern Over water and air pollution is mounting all over the nation this should not put us at a disadvantage in seeking good industiy.

Tackling the pollution and conservation problems are not only desirable; it is essential in North Carolina and all over the nation.

Castro's Paradise Has Proven Empty Promise

If there is anv Question as to whether or not Fidel Castro has created a paradise in Cuba after ten years of controlling that country, oneonly has to look at the numbers of persons still leaving.

An airjift has begun by the United States in 1965 and since that time 173,000 refugees have left Cuba. They are still leaving and each week two planeloads of disenchanted Cubans fly from Varadero, Cuba to Miami which is 200 miles away.

Castro should have convinced the Cubans by now that he could deliver on his promises of improved living conditions. Yet, Cubans are still leaving at the rate of 850 per weekproof enough that there is dissatisfaction in Castros Cuba.

SpliA Widens On Antipoverty

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A bitter struggle over antipoverty legislation has widened the split between Speaker John W. McCormack and liberal House Democrats.

Over McCormacks strenuous objections, liberals Wednesday forced postponement of the controversial antipoverty bill moments before it was due to be called up.

The almost unprecedented action was designed to give backers of the bill, which would continue the present antipoverty program with only minor changes, more time to line up support.

Otherwise they feared defeat at the gands of a Republican - southern Democrat coalition backing an alternate proposal to shift major responsibility for the antipoverty effort from the federal government to the states.

McCormack. under pressure to wind up the current House session by Dec. 20, refused at first to consider demands for a delay. But he was forced to yield during a stormy meeting in his office Wednesday morning.

Rep. Carl D. Perkins,^^D-Ky.. chairman of the Education and Labor Committee and manager of the bill, told the speaker he would not appear on the floor to call it up.

Perkins was backed by most of the committees Democrats, who decided their position at an earlier meeting before confronting the speaker.

Members present at the hour-long meeting with McCormack described it as a rough session in which long standing dissatisfaction with McCormacks leadership was aired and an open threat was made: To oppose him when he seeks re-election as speaker in 1971.

The disiosure that the

antipoverty bill had been called off was greeted by hoots and jeers by the Republicans, who had hoped for a quick vote on the ultimate proposal.

The last minute delay countered a strategic move of their own in which they withheld details of their plan until Tuesday in order to minimize attacks on it.

Supporters of the committee bill hoped mayors, community leaders and others who oppose turning the antipoverty program over to the states will mount a whirlwind campaign to defeat the substitute proposal now that its contents have been made public.

They also hope President Nixon will lend a hand. He has requested passage of the two-year extension bill without crippling amendments. His antipoverty director, Donald Rumsfeld, has called the substitute proposal "disastrous.

There is no indication when the bill will be called up again.

Opinions In Brief

There is always something to worry you. It comes as regularly as sunrise.Bengamin Disraeli.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never doesJosh Billings.

Money may not buy happiness, but it helps you look for it in more interesting places."Arnold Glasgow.

By ART BUCHWALO

Where's All The Unity?

WASHINGTON-President Nixons promise to bring the country together doesnt seem to be working too well. If anything, people are more polarized than theyve ever been before.

A friend of mine, Mrs. Johnston, told me the other day what happened to her

when she decided to fly the Flag on Veterans Day. Mrs. Johnstons been flying the American Flag every Veterans" Day without receiving much comfort. But this year her effort became the cause celebre on the block.

The first person to mention

Other Efditors Say

violence Fails

"A Georgia paper claims the state built a bridge without a road for it. Some change from the old days when states built roads without money for them.Anniston (Ala) Star.

(Jacksonville Daily News)

Every generation, for better or worse, lives by certain self-evident truths, and one that seems to have gained widespread acceptance in our own time is the belief that only violence or the threat of violence can bring about reforms in society.

This is a fantastic misreading of American history, claims philosopher Sidney Hook.

"No one rioted for Social Security or Medicare or for the acceptance by the federal government of the revolutionary principle of a national minimum of welfare payments, says the New York University professor.

"Not a single one of the great landmark decisions of the Supreme Court, including its outlawing of school segregation in 1954 and mandatory state political reapportionment a decade later, was made under the threat of the gun, the mob or the torch."

It is not to violence or the threat of violence that we owe their enactment, he says, but to the growth of enlightenment, the enlargement of the

imagination, and the

development of the

democratic adea.

Not only is the belief in the efficiency of violence a misreading ofJiistory, those who systematically advocate violent means to achieve reform are, whether they realize it or not, "the sappers

and miners of the forces of despotism, libn^rns.

In a democratic i, community, the resort to violence instead of reliance on the due process of a self-governing republic attacks the community at its foundations. Freedom, which is often invoked to justify violence, is itself imperiled by the exercise (rf violence.

Nowhere is this more clear than on the nations campuses where, says Hook, violence has reached such proportions that the whole atmosphere of American universities has been transformed. The appeal to rqj^son is no longer sufficient to resolve problems or even to keep the peace. At some of our most outstanding in>^ stitutions, the appeal has had to be to the courts and the police.

Yet, he says, contrary to some apologists for student violence, most educational reforms in ihost institutions have come about without a show of force, where arguments are the only weapons, where dissenters and protesters have evinced not only zeal but persistence in a good cause.

But where violence has been used, a grievous wound has been inflicted on the fabric of university life. It may take a generation to heal it.

This is what American will need from its idealistic young in the coming generation-fewer reformers and more healers.

it was a neighbor from across the street who congratulated her for flying the Flag and asked har to sign a petition to impeach Justice William Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mrs. Johnston said she wasnt interested in sighing any petitions against the Supreme Court.

Then why are ydu flying the American Flag? the neighbor demanded.

Because its Veterans Day, she said.

"Would you be willing to go to a rally tomorrow against teaching sex education in the schools? the neighbor demanded.

ART

BUCHWALD

Mrs. Johnston said she wouldnt.

The neighbor said angrily, And 1 believed you were a good American.

A little later the neighbors son, a college student, said, "Mrs. Johnston, I thought you were sympathetic to our getting out of Vietnam.

"I am, Mrs. Johnston said.

Then why are you flying the American Flag?

Flying the American Flag has nothing to do with my feelings on Vietnam, Bobby. It is dur Flag and I believe it should be displayed on national holidays.

What about all the innocent pe(q)le whose villages have been burned and bombed, and the profiteering South Vietnamese generals who have numbered bank accounts in Switzerland? Bobby said.

"That has nothing to do with the Flag.

Only sqper-Hawks fly the Flag, said Bobby, as he walked away in a huff.

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Malcolml X Univ. Origins

^ By RICHARD DAW Associated Press Writer DURHAM (AP) - Malcolm X Liberation University publicly traces its origins to a black student movement at Duke University, but its links stretch to many parts (rf the United States and perhaps even into Africa.

A pamphlet which the controversial black separatist univer-si^ uses to recruit students, and sometimes sends to curious whites, states the universitys OTigin simply.

It recounts how an organization at Duke University called the Black Student Movement ran up against a solid wall of racism in seeking a black studies program and decided a counter-institution was necessary for the survival of black pe(^le

Members of the organization referred to in the pamphlet seized the Duke Administration Building last spring. The day ended with a riot during which police battled students on a campus shrouded thickly with tear gas.

Even during the seizure, the name Malcolm X Liberation

University was used. Black students who barricaded themselves in the building tacked up a banner with that name painted on it.

Soon, Malcolm X Liberation University was operating in temporary quarters in downtown Durham under the direction of black militant Howard Fuller.

Duke established a black studies program, but few Negroes enrolled.

Fuller went on to obtain a $45,(K)0 grant from the Episcopal Cliurch and launched the uftiversity on a grander scale last October.

The pamphlet which cites the universitys origins says its curriculum is based on the ideology of pan - Africanism. It .sneaks soecifically to the stages of decolonization and nation

building.

Courses offered during the first year fit into five general topic areas: Independent African Civilization, Slavery, Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism and the Independent African World.

Fuller says that with a two-year course, the university will turnout food scientists, tailors, architects, engineers, organizers, teachers, leaders, black expressionists, artists, medics, communications^ technicians, physical development specialists and linquists.

Those educated at the university, Fuller says, will fulfill the needs of a nation.

The univei^ky here might well serve as a prototype to other educational institutions that will be founded around the country, perhaps even down to the high school and grade school level, Fuller said.

He mentioned at least one already in existence the Center for Black Education in Washington, D. C.

Among the 52 students enrolled at Malcolm X this fall are representatives from a dozen states.

Does the university have links outside the country?

We get moral support from Africans, most definitely, says Fuller.

Asked to be more specific, Fuller mentions Stokely Carmichael, a firebrand militant.

Our connections with St(rftely and his contacts with African leaders lead us to contacts with them, says Fuller.

He declines to be more specific than that.

Public Forum And Strikes For 1970

To The Editor:

During the Thanksgiving holidays, I returned to my home in the town of Greenville. While ther, I decided to do some shopping. In one of the stores, I found discrepancies in the advertised prices and the price actually marked on the item. Also one of the items advertised in your paper was in fact not stocked in the store. When I asked one of the clerks,.! received quite a rude reply. When I told one of my friends (rf this, she told me of a similar incident which had happened to her at the same store.

I decided that this should be reported to the Better Business Bureau and so called the Chamber of (^ommerce. The secretary told me that such an organization did not exist and ther^Vwas nothing that coidd

be done. 1, of course, had writtai the local store and the main office of this misconduct, but still was not satisfied. I was and am concerned that there does not exist an organization to which the public may refer their complaints and which has some regulatory action or control over the business practices of the various stores.

I am writing you in the hope tha t you,will bring the need of such an orgqnizati(m to the attentfonof the public, and in fact urge the formation (rf one. I would be willing to do whatever I could to help f(x-m one.

Thank you so very much for your ssistanc in this matter, and if I can be of any further help please let me know.

Sincerely yours,

Jeannette Runquist

By ELMER ROESSNER Therell be strife and strikes in 1970.

Bring your compass as well as your weather vane, Secretary of Labor George P. Schultz told a group of businessmen in Washington a few days ago. He was nQli^ really mixing his mataphors because there will be stormy weather both at sea and (m land.

ELMER

ROESSNEI^

Labor demands will be tough and high. Many workers feel that gains in recent years have not kept u with soaring (X'ices and, if a recession^ cofning, thevnext

contract n^otiations may be their-last chance to even wages with prices.

Management, too, will be tough. Many executives also fear a recession and they are afraid that if their companies go into a recession With high labor costs, they might not come out (rf it. Furthermore, many companies see rescue from high investories in strikes. A strike would not only help them work off inventories but would also help dealers cut theirs down. .Other Factors Disturiing

Labor troubles will be worsened by rising demands of mincx-ity groups demanding a large share of the jobs. The fact that they, too, have been alerted to the possibilities of a recession speed %ir efforts^to win a "'Irfgfer^hare of - the payrolls. These minority ^roupkNvill be attacking both

management and labor, but in event of strikes they may find thonselves on the side of management. Note that a struck Iowa packer has brought Mexican-American workers and their families from the Southwest to continue operations.

They will be worsened by the Nixon administrati(xis hands-(rff stance on labor disputes unless there Is a cleat- threat to the public interest Unions will feel free to strike without threats from Washington; employero will feel free to take on strikes without governmental pressure to the contrary!*"

Labor troubles will be worsened by other unions jealousy of building trades unions gains. New contracts in the constructiiMi industry negotiated (ikiring the \ fist\ nin months of this year providiiS median increases of

16.3 per cent for 290,000 workers during the first year (rf new contracts. First-year median gain for all other workers was 7.3 per cent.

Curtain Raiser

The current strike aga inste General Electric Is an indicator of whats to come. GE has offered the highest singleyear wage increase in history, 20 cents an hour across the board, which, of course, is inflationary. However, it has refused to make an offer for 1971 and 1972. Increases for certain skills run up to p cents an hour. The total offer represents a 6 percent increase and insurance in creases would bring the total to 7 per cent.

But the unions involved are demaikling almost twice as much aiid waijt similar increases for the next two y'ers. \