4The Daily Reflector, Qreenville, N.C.Wednesday. January 7,1970

First Clean Air Consortium

NOT AN IDLE THREAT!

Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and N. C7 State have joined together with federal air pollution control officials in a clean air consortium which will be the first in the nation.

The ceremony took' place Monday at the National Air Pollution Control Administration offices in the Research triangle Park. Under the agreement the universities will expand their programs of jointly sponsored seminars, workshops, student institutes, public meetings and technical services on pollution control.

They will also exchange information, services and faculty members and will make their resources available to communities, industries and citizens groups.

We think these three universities and the Research Triangle have involved themselves in the most 4>ressing problem facing the nation today that of cleaning up the air we breathe and preventing further air pollution.

North Carolinas institutions could take on no more important project than this.

It is rapidly being recognized that air pollution is stifling our cities and destroying plant life in rural areas. If we go on as we are now, it could be that our atmosphere would be destroyed in the years ahead.

This concerted effort by three North Carolina Universities and the National Air Pollution Control Administration can marshall the forces to eliminate

some of these problems.

In addition the institutions will be tackling a problem which is more and more affecting our own state. North Carolinas larger cities are growing very rapidly now and as they grow the air pollution problem is also growing.

The clean air consortium will render state and national benefits and it could save our environment for future generations.

Major Undertaking ti Given Committee

Bryan Sought Earlier Start

A 22-member criminal law committee appointed by Atty. Gen. Robert Morgn can render a major service to North Carolina.

Morgan ann^nced the formation of the committee Monday.

He noted there is Va great deal of concern about the problem'of preserving law and order and insuring that equal justice is available to all the people.

the committee will analyze, discuss and con-% sider the need for revision of the criminal laws, the scope of any recommended, revision and the best procedures for accomplishing any revision deemed necessary.

One of the nations problems today is protecting the public from the criminal element and at the same time protecting individual rights.

This committee will have the job of finding ways to do this. It is a major undertaking, but one that needs to be carried out.

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tiALKHitI - .According to liiany ii.sually quotable sources the 1970 s ought toi^e 1 be

State Hep. NorwOixj E Bryan Jr. ot Fayetie>:ille_ agrees..

resources.

(haiige^Man today. Bryan says, has the capability and capacity, to change the face of the earth and. if he chooses' to make it uninhabitable. There must be

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a keener awareness of the environment in which we and all other people must live and -make a.

Soviet Pushes Missile Power

By ART BUCHWALD

tax Break For

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uilh the idea but thinks it sliould have been started sooner.

Bryan, 35, is a lawyer from Fayetteville, a Democrat elected to the state -bgrslature- iri-lW and 1969.

with' an intense interest e()nserv'aTiir~matters on a

broad spectrum.

It was Bryans bill which led ti) estabtishing Of a 42 ineinber Task Force on en-V i r on in e ntaland aa t u ra 1.

The study is designed to bear down on how environment is taught in schools. Bryan believes that unlass young people, the future generations, have an appreciation and understanding of the environmental problems confronting mankind there w ill be further and far more extensive erosion of natural resources.

Our forests will be gone. Our streams and rivers will becesspools. Our nrtarshlands will no longer support a-fisheries industry. says Bryan. The idea is that people must know that there isa bala nceis nature and it is dangerous to upset that balance._______________________________

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - Hard,

can liye with that cut but fears budget-cutting

.pressures will rise^veiT4nore-

WASHINGTON - The government of Ireland has made a radical proposal which I cant help but applaud. They have a bill

There are some dangers inherent to the plan which I think should be considered. If all the creative writers went to Ireland to avoid taxes, we

wanting to deal with the social problems of our time, they might devote themselves to defending the status quo-and keeping the lower

new in tell igence" bn SovieT construction of SS-9 long-range missile sites not only confirms Secretary of Defense Melvin Lairds warning last March against a possible Soviet first strike capability but shows he actually underestimated Soviet progress.

When Laird delivered his warning, he was accused of Trying to scare Congress about the Soviet missile threat in order to win over*

this year when the arms-control talks get down to hard bargaining at their new Vienna site in April.

Thus the strong prospect is that President Nixon will seek an increase in the strategic arms budget this year as a double-barreled insurance policyagainst any sudden collapse in the arms control talks and against the alarming increase in Soviet SS-9s. -

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pen^ng, exernpting creative writers and artists from paying income taxes.

If passed, ^his could cause such an unbelievable migration to Ireland that it would make up for all the people that left the country during the potato famine.

might get nothing but novels, articles and stories about the Irish. While everyone admires Irish litera ture,* theres just so much of it that the rest of the world can stand.

Second, without taxes to pay. many writers could become rich, and instead of

Other Editors Say

The Next Priority

W'sources by the 1969 General As.^embly The Task Force -SJalCL

Superintendent of Public Instruction because Brvan

StudyThe study will focus on public education. In the beginning it will include an

wavering Senators in support of the U.S. anti-missile-(ABM) program.

Since then, Soviet construction (rf the highly accurate SS-9, with its dreaded 25-megaton warhead, has proceeded even faster than the construction estimates on which Laird based his

Behind the embarrassing public disagreement between Secretary of State William P. Rogers* and Defense Secretary' Laird over F-4 jets for Formosa is a conflict between tw3)oL_President Nixons cherished projects: the Nixon doctrine for Asia and the hope for better

(Washiiigttm Daily News) .

It has been said many times that some of the rebellious youth of this country- would find another cause even if the Vietnam war should come to an end.

adequate steps to clean the

"classes in their placed

The third possibility is thaji so many writers would turn up on Irish , shores for the purpose of avoiding taxes that th competition would be too great and a large proportion would be hard put to earn money not to pay taxes on.

These are just a few (rf the pitfalls of the plan. There are many advantages to the idea and 1 believe the United States should take immediate a4toB=4o prevent American writers from leaving the

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Winter is the best season for remembering.

Awake or asleep, at any time of the year, man spends a large portion (rf his time "thinking or dreaming about his past.

But in winter, when the storm winds howl like banshees and icicles crackle on the trees, it is particularly pleasant to stay ^t home and recollect in reverie the bygone days, warmed by the bonfire of deaf remembrance Youve survived a lot of wintersand enjoyed a lot of summersif you can look back and remember when

Kids actually did throw snowballs at dignified men in tail hats.

You could guess how cold it had been on winter nights by how far the frozen cream rose out of the bottle the milkman had left on the front porch.

On frigid mornings the youngsters. clad in itchy longjohns, got goose pimples as they scampered downstairs from their beds to warm their backsides around a coal stove.

Bread browned in an over tasted far better than anything produced in later years by an electric toaster. Oven toast seemed more flavored by love.

Rich kids with runny noses wiped them with a handkerchief; poor kids used the sleeves of their sweaters.

Out on the farm one of the most imperative duties after a Hh^vy snowfall was to shovel a path to the outhouse. Even

air. It is hot going to be overcome immediately, and yet the tinie]^for taking corrective action is n(w.

If students and others who

Now we hear that the next cause celebre" will be that of air pollution. Already this

want something fo drniioTn-" strate about will turn their

the

^^ntry' for Irish rtax haven.

The answer lies in the oil depreciation allowance bill. The United States has always been concerned TnorF abouU

grandpa was willing to pitch in on that chore.

It wasnt necessary to take sitting up exercises to stay in shape. Cranking a car4o start a balky engine on a day when the temperature hovered around zero gave any man enough exercise to start a sweat.

Children pleaded with their fathers not to put the family dog out on a freezing night. Please, Papa, if you wont let him sleep wtib^ me, cariH he jiist star trr the kitchen?

Wmfer was a great time for home entertainment in rural arq^ Mother darned socks by the rampllghi While sister read her the bargains in the mail or-

-derca ta logue ;rthe^ - children

iTnefutty specified that the study .should be conducted by t he S ta tc Board of Educa tion." Appropriately. Supt. Craig Phillips appointed Bryan chairman of the study group.

Purposes In a statement, Phillips outlined the purposes which Bryan and co-sponsors had in mind.

Environmental education is defined as . education dealing with the relationship of man and his bio-physical environment and is aimed at producing a citizenry which IS aware of .environmental' I terrela ti onships and processes, understands how to solve environmental prohloms that arise, and is iiijoti'.atexi to work toward their solution,"

These words just l>appencd to come from the preamble of Brvat\.s bill introduced and enacti'd last Spring.

The idea, according to P>i van. IS that young people th(M- in school now should be taught and learn about the problems of air and water pqllutiop, the preservation of land, forests, wildlife, fisheries and all natural

examination of existing curriculum, available textbooks,^courses being taught elsewhere, curriculum guides and materials the need for in-service training for teachers.

In addition it is proposed that the Task Force conduct public hearings on the subject of more extensive and comprehensive environmental education.

Outdoors A spokesman for the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, information specialist Rod Amundsen, predicts that during the 1970s the number ~oT outdo()r*portsmeh. hunters and fishermen, will grow substantially.

But along with this prediction he says it is certain that in, the case of hunters, it will be more difficult to locate places to hunt.

In anticipation of this, he says, the Wildlife Resources Commission is adding to its budget for leasing and developing small game hunting areas. Also, it will spend more money to acquire larger tracts of land which can be developed for both big game and small and in some cases waterfowl.

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warning. Military experts are convinced that the high degree of accuracy built into the SS-9 system conclusively -brands it^s-ihfirst-strike^ weapon to knock out U.S. relatiatory long-range missiles, thus preventing any U.S. counterattack.

The new estimates of Soviet production of the SS-9 strongly hint that Moscow is doing one of two things: using this weapon to increase its bargaining power at the arms control talks, the first phase of. which ended late last month; or using the arms talks to lull the U.S. into false hopes while the Soyiets radically increase their first-strike capability.

The second of these worries Pentagon officials more than the first. The Lorelei effect of the arms talks is already obvious. The mere prospect oL negotiations fed Congressional zeal to cut the new defense budget last month, forcing the Nixon administration to accept new appropriations for strategic weapons a full billion dollars under the amount approved for 1968-1%9.

Lairds intimates say he

relations between the U.S. and Red China.

Laird backs the^ $54.5 million item for a squadron of F-+ jets, wedged into the foreign aid appropriation bill at the last moment in the House, as a natural step in support of the Nixon doctrine. That doctrine, enunciated by President Nixon in Guam last year, is supposed to phase out US. manpower commitments in future confrontations with the Communists just as U.S. troops are being withdrawn ,^ow from VletnamL:__

In place of American troops, Mr. Nixon pledged generous ^S. military equi{J]^oMh back U.S. allies in Asia. The last-minute inclusion (rf the F-4s in the foreign aid bill moves precisely in that direction. For that reason, although the Pentagon never specifically requested the jets, Laird now supports the House and would like to see the $54.5 million kept in the bill.

But Rogers looks at the jets as a backward step in his efforts ^ to open a serious diplomatic dialogue with (Continued On Page 5)

subject is being discussed widely by many young pecle of this country. And let us say that this subject is one which needs to be discussed thoroughly and one which needs some Answers that apparently we do not now have. -------

Several student meetings were held during Christmas by young people deeply concerned by the problems of air pollution.

Actually, those of us who live here in Eastern North Carolina do not realize the gravity of the problem nationwide. We have clean airTiere. and we enjoy the atmosphere without having it beset with smog. But those people in many parts of the country are already having serious problems with air pollution. For instance, we could take a look at parts of California including particularly the Los Angeles

attention toward -problems of i

its oil reserves than it has about its creative reserves.

popped corn in the fireplace, Dad cheweci a pencil as he com-posed a letter to his congressr

area.

Those people know what air pollution really is. And many young people seem to feel that the fecieral government has been tdk slow in taking

our opinion that they will find much more all-out and positive support from the silent majority than has been the case with them in the Vietnam story

Many people feel exactly tlie same way' the young people who are rebelling against the Vietnam war. But for reasons such as patriotism they have refused to take any part. But the story very likely will be much different when it comes to air pollution. This is something which is growing ever more serious, and it is a subject which needs attention nov\. If the energies and efforts of the younger generation can be directed toward this subject, then maybe the day is not tix) far distant when the American government will take the necessary corrective steps.

We see much good which cap come from all-out efforts to rid our cities of smoke, smog, and unclean air.

And we wish any group well in its efforts to realize this state of living.

this. You can always find creative people in the country, but its getting harder ail the time to find oil.

Therefore, the government has provided tax incentives which make the oil industry go out and search for new-wells. The government also makes it easy for the oil people to write off their equipment for taking such big risks. '

Now , I have no quarrel with giving the oil industry a break, and if they can deduct 22 percent of their in^fome from taxes because the^l^ and gas they take out of the ground cant be replaced, then I say bully for thenT"

But writers also have just so many stories, books, novels , and plays (not to mention columns), in them, and therefore the government should give them the same deprec ia tion allowances ^t it gives the oil people.

If there were a writer depreciation allowance based on production, it might be a (Continued On Page 5)

man asking for packets of free government seeds.

There was no plumber to call if the pump on the backyard well froze up. Farm wives tried to melt it with boiling water made from melted snow heated on the kitchen stove.

Lovers skated together on icy ponds and somehow their clasped hands didnt really need knitted mittens to stay warm Those were the winters of yes-terdav. Rember?

Opinions

In Brief

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really re-arranging their prejudices.Edward R Mur row.

If I do not keep in step with others, it is because I hear a different drummer. Let a man step to the music which he hears, however measured and however far away.Henry TTioreau.

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ADMIRATION

Have you ever asked yourself the question:What, as a matter of fact, do I admire most in the world?

Some would say talentthe ability to produce something of artistic value. Others would say that the thing most to be admired is beauty-handsome appearance, good clothes, tasteful appearance of home and its furnishings.

It goes without saying that sound cl^racter needs to be put first in our list of things we admire. Some people have that indefinable thing called grace or graciousness. A charming personality rs sohrething everyone admires.

How about housesour ' own and theliouses gjf others?

Some people are always , ready to back a good cause, they can double up their fists and fight evil. They can sing out and agitatg when some issue of human betterment is under, discussion.

Everything he touches turns to golddo you admire that? How about those people whoare always on hand when sickness or trouble comes down upon a household?

Is self;^(ln^raUpn good or

bad? That depends. If you have achieved something of real significance, if everybody has a good word to say about your kindness and understanding, if your ability makes you stand out pmong your fellowsHiese are good and likely" to create and cultivate goodness whether w live in a big world or a small one.

Criticism has its place in human affairs, but admiration when it is directed toward things and persons worthy of admiration makes the wdrld light up and sihg for

By ELMER ROESSNER You can expect a fright campaign by Wall Street and industrial leaders to pressure President Nixorj to relax the monetary controls being used to check inflation.

Already many executives nd them economists are^ beginning to say that the restraints have already

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joy

The things we admire are usually reflections of our own character and purpose.

By EariL. Douglass

slowed business which is true - so that the task is practically completed ^ which is not true and that dire times will come unless the financial pressures are eased.

. They will make capital of such events as- these m this week alone:

. The Treasury disclosed

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thatUnited States gold stocks fell by $19 million in November.

. That employment is slowing down. The National Industrial Conference Board reported that its help-wanted advertisements index has dr(^ped to its November. 1968, level. Several large Corpora Hons have cut back hiring plans. College recruitment is slowing down, so much so that some undergrads jest that they niay have to work for Dow.

Auto Production Cut

, FiVe Chrysler assembly plant shutdowns were posted for next week and the remaining thrpe for the following week. General Motors tentatively cut first quarter production by 10 per cent or 125000 cars. Ford ; January production appears to be about 13 per cent under a yar ago. These are the results (rf high inventories in ' dealers hands. American Motors January, production wiii be 5 per cent above a

year ago, to catch up for production lost in its recent strike.

. The steel industry conceded that its Christmas week drop In production was the greatest in several years. High inventories and a dropping demand ,were blamed as well as thfe Christmas holiday.

Government bonds dropped to record lows, although some of the selling was attributed to the fact that many investors are taking tax losses. The Treasury was forced to pay aver 8 per cent on 13-week bills.

. Commerce Departments leading economic indicat(*s, an average of sensitive indexes generally foretelling conditions about six months in advance, were dowai 0.6 per cent in November, the department announced. -Sea rey Propaganda

Ail these happenings and announcements will form the basis* for strong demands to relax monetary cqntrols.

Some businessmen and lobbyists will call for a gentle easement of control; others will wage scarey campaigns to call off the war on inflation and let business and labor enjoy the prosperity that inflation engenders, at least for some.

However, there will be resistence. This Week Robert V. Roosa, former No. 1 financial advisor to the j Kennedy adminjstration and now partner in* the private banking firm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., called for a six months freeze on prices, wages and^. dividends to shock the nation out of its inflation mentality.

And,4 perhaps most significant of all is the -fact that the tax reform and Social, Security bill which President Nixon felt compelled to sign this week will bring a revenue loss of $1.6 biliion in fiscal 1972, $4.7 billion in 1973. $6.8 billion in 1974 and $7.5 billion in 1975. .