:4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Tuesday, Jnuary^T. 1970 ^

ComplGtGS A Fobulous Decode

Dr. Leo Jenkins is completing a fabulous decade as president of what is now East Carolina University.

It is an era when East Carolina College grew and grew an(i grew. More students poured into the central Greenville campus. The campus expanded "and was surrounded by the city. It expanded again and this, too, has been surrounded by residences

and business.

On campus buildings have reached skyward. The old College stadium on Tenth- Street came down. In its pace now stands the Music School building and a new $3 million, social sciences building is going up. Nearby is the $4 milliPiLScien^ce^^

building which houses the physics and biology

departments.

Across I4th Street Ficklen stadium has arisen with capacity to expand for seating more than 40,000 football fans. Nearby is the award winning Minges

Coliseum. . . , . ,

What has happened with the university's physical plant' is only an indication of the dreams and drive that are creating a university designed to serve the east in particular and the state as a whole. Dr.

Cracks In The Democrat Wall

Bv WILLI AM SHIRES

Watch for the cracks in the Democratic political wall. They'll be more noticable on the county level Wake County, headquarters and operating center for the party in .North Carolina, is a case in point Raleigh Times county government reporter Martha^ Sloraghan examines the Republican -'Democrat struggle in the capital county.

Democrats who have had things sewn up tight for years are beginning to worry. Cracks are beginning to

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appear in the formerly solid Democratic political wall.

As a new decade begins, politics - watchers have been thinking about the Sixties. Some think the Sixties may be regarded as the fall line in the change over from^. solid Democratic dominance to the grcwth of a reaDitwo-party system.

Take Wake County for instance; Wake hasnt had a Republican state house representative since 1897. But at the beginning of this off-year election, serious Democrats are saying The Republicans have the best chance for local offices thari they've ever had.

Wake continues to be Democratic territory registered Democrats outnumber Republicans roughly eight to one and the Democrats control local

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But looking back over the Sixties, the number of registered Republicans more than doubled from the 1964 to the 1968 general elections while the Democrats increased only nine per cent in the same four years.

Party switching became more and more prevalent toward the end of the decade both on the registraron books and quietly in the voting booth. The most dramatic examples of Democrats voting Republican were in the 1966 Jim Gardner - Harold Cooley race, the 1968 national election and the 1968 gubernatorial race.

Wake voters elected Republican Gardiner to Congress by 24.3.59 to Cooley s

18.451 in 1966. Some political observers attributed Gardner's victory to. his personality specifically to what has been called his running circles a,round Cooley in a televised debate. Others felt Cooley was already politically dead he'd been accused of neglecting to mend the home fences during 32 years in -Congress.

The Republican county chairman at the time, the late Donald Kimrey,' said then The significant thing is the straight party voting shifted toward Republicans. Kimrey was the second highest vote gatherer of the GOP candidates second to Gardner when he ran that year for the State Senate.

The overall increases in votes for Republican can-"didates puts us right in the middle of a two - party system, Kimrey said then.

Party switching is not confined only to the voter. In some cases, candidates have left the Democratic party for hopefully better chances in the Republican arena. In Eenoir County this month, Kinston attorney and former Democratic Party Leader, Fitzhugh E. Wallace, Jr., announced he will be a candidate pn the Republican ticket for the Ninth House of Representative District.

In Wake County, a young attorney recently switched his registration from Democrat to Republican, as did a Negro minister. Though they have not acted yet, observers speculate that both have political aspirations with their newly adopted party.

The registration books in 1968 showed 12',743 Republicans in Wake County to 73,947 Democrats. But in the November, 1968, presidential election Wake went for Nixon with 28,928 votes, to 20,979 for Humphrey and 17.250 for Wallace.

In the same election Wake voters gave Gardner 30,918 votes to Gov. Bob Scotts 33.598.

Many old Democrats feel the party has left them, not that they have left the party." a lifetime Wake Democrat said recently. He and others agree the Democrat Party has become trjo liberal." More Democrats would become official Republicans, some say. if it would allow them to vote in the Democratic primary.

Jenkins fought for a Nursing School. Its building now stands on Fifth Street. He called for the Regional Development Institute and the Child Evaluation Clinic. Both are now in operation and they are a force for good in their respective fields.

Dr. Jenkins fondest dream is now in the process of realization that is for a medical school at East Carolina University to serve the needs of North Carolina. Since the idea was first expounded by Dr Jenkins much has been done. The School of Allied Health is already in operation and funds were appropriated for construction of a building by the last

Legislature. The legislators also appropriated funds for planning a two-year medical curriculum at ECU and this program is expected to get under way within a reasonable time. It is almost a certainty that the physician training program wfll be expanded as rapidly as possible into a full medical

school. .

r Dr. Leo Jenkins, East Carolina University and Greenville could have hardly packed more development in the decade of the 1960s. Things have hardly ever been dull here with the dynamic president on the move.

Tonight the Chamber of Commerce - Merchants Association is sponsoring the Leo W. Jenkins Appreciation Dinner. Originially scheduled for the Moose Lodge, it was moved to Minges Coliseum because of the large crowd expected. Nothing could be more fitting than for Greehville to honor this outstanding citizen on theienth anniversary of his presidency. He has meant so much to the university and equally as much to Greenville.

From One Extreme To Another For Skirts

The latest in school dress problems is sending . girls home because of skirt length.

If this sounds like a problem that has been around for some time, you have to realize that in this case an 11 year old girl was sent home because her dress was too long. The young lady wore^a green and black plaid maxi skirt to school because of the temperature.

However the school authorities said the dress created a disturbance among other students.

It all goes to prove that it is not fashions which are unsettling, its how much they^viate from the accepted norms.

Rebellion Stirs On McCormack

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - Rising discontent over the House Democratic establishment among the partys rank - and

- file Congressmen was quieted significantly at last weeks caucus when unusual political awareness was shown by the leadership with the notable exception of Speaker John McCormack.

The feeling by Democratic Congressmen,,, that they simply could not tolerate another year of ineffective, muddled leadership in the House was running high last Wednesday morning when they filed into the House chamber for the first party caucus of 1970r Rep. Jerry Waldie, a promising young Congressman from California, was so disgusted by the do-nothing leadership of the past year that it took the pleas of some dozen fellow liberals to talk him out of introducing a resolution condemning McCormack (though he still intends to offer it at the February caucus).

Indeed, one of the leaders

Rep. John Moss of California was thinking of showing his dissatisfaction with existing leadership under McCormack by first^ resigning as chief deputy whip and then urging all other deputy whips to quit.

But at the caucus itself, the party elders displayed a partisanship missing all last vear and showed realization

Boyle's

Private

Notions

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Jumping to conclusions:

The dandelion should be Americas national flower. It has many of the virtues we like to think of as typically American. It is bold and pioneering, gregarious and democratic, growing with equal grace on ^ lawns of the poor and the rich. Only pretentious snobs disdain, its yellow glory just because it is free to all.

I wouldnt issue insurance on the life of any man who habitu-

En Carder

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Cannon On All Sides

of how deeply dissatisfaction was running.

Rep. Wright Patman of Texas, chairman of the House Banking Committeei introduced a resolution attacking the Nixon administrations tight money policy and quickly 'won unanimous approval. More important. Rep. George Mahon of Texas, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, delivered a remarkable confession of failure by the Democratic leadership in last years outrageously slow and sloppy handling of money bills and promised there would be no 1970 repeat of this politically damaging performance. Even Rep. William Colmer of Mississippi, chairman of the Rules Committee, pledged to expedite the flow of legislation.

What really pleased the dissidents, however, was a stem - winding speech by Rep. Carl Albert of Oklahoma, No. 2 in the House Democratic hierarchy as Majority Leader. Supplying the election - year partisanship rank - and - filers have been demanding, Albert pledged an all-out effort to override President Nixons forthcoming veto of the Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) , appropriations bill.

But none of this moved the major source of rank - and -file discontent: John Mc

Cormack himself.

Poor old President Nixon: The fellow can do nothing right.

At the end of his first year in office, liberal critiiis last week dragged him rudely through the water jumps. Columnist Carl Rowan denounced him for his failure to seek rapport with the ghettos. Columnists Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden gave him hell for the

Haynsworth nomination. Cartoonist Herb Block lumped him wjth rich lobbyists in a conspiracy to leave children in darkest ignorance.

All this was expected. But ah. the most unkindest cut of all. as Antony said of Brutus, came not from the liberal left; it came from the conservative right. Human Events, that Cerberus of the

Other Editors Say Looking To South?

(Henderson Dispatch) Speaking to Democratic women or South Carolina in Columbia last weekend, Mrs. Orville Freeman, wife of the former secretary of agriculture in the Jcinson administration, said the South is the key to the partys future political success. She was quoted as saying the^ national Democratic party cant make any headway wTthouL the South:" Mrs. Freeman stressed the need for organization at the precinct and ward levels, and added that women should make more use of p(ls, computers and the electronic media.

What the good lady knows about the South we wouldnt pretend to say. But somebody should have informed her that this part of the country may demand a better deal at the hands of the party of the fathers than it received in the LBJ era. Treatment accorded this section is not calculated to cement party ties. After all, she may have been aware that South Carolina, where she was speaking, gave its electoral vote in 1968 to GOP Candidate Richard Nixon, as did some other Southern States.

It was the Supreme Court, too. that imposed rigid

restrictions upon the Southern States in the management of schools. Nixon himself said when a candidate that he favored freedom of choice for children attending the public schools, only to reverse himself when in office. The Democrats, to be sure, are not accountable for what a Republican Chief executive does, but his predecessor. hTm^lf Trbm IhiFSoulh, Went along with court rulings. He never attempted to influence Congress toward relaxing cruel impositions, which were limited to the South and not made applicable to other parts of the country.

The Democrats control both houses of Congress, as they have since the Eisenhower era, and hence are responsible for legislation that has been enacted.

One wonders if the South, in the light of these developments, will follow the admonition of Mrs. Freeman in an effort to carry States she admitted are essential if the party nationally is to make headway. Or will they demand of a Democratic lawmaking body the logical changes that are wanted and which are only fair and reasonable?

River Potomac, took a long cold look at Nixon after one year. Its conclusion: "Conservatives worried."

To be sure, the watchdog editors conceded, conservatives are not* totally pessimistic. Life in the United States appears better than when the President initially took up residence at 16(X) Pennsylvania Avenue Nixons Vietnamization formula has temporarily defused the war issue and with a bit of luck could extricate us from Viet am with honor The campuses are quieter. The President is trying hard to achieve a balanced budget. Then came the inevitable but:

When all this is said, however, there remains for most conservatives, including ourselves, a genuine unease about the Nixon administration

The editors of Human Events, applying their litmus paper to the past twelve months, could find no conservative coloration. Too frequently it seems as if the Presidipnt has mo real philosophy, that his entire goal is to tranquilizo the electorate rather than to lead it in a certain direction In such areas as defense, welfare, and school desegregation, the administration speaks in double tongues. Four years of such gyrations could end up antagonizing almost everyone.

Well, I have my little differences with Mr. Nixon also. He has failed to provide new - leadership in the State Department. He waffled on his poverty promises by ^ extending the Office of Economic Opportunity His dramatic plans for welfare reform would substitute leukemia for gangrene He erred, in my own view, by proposing to throw good money after bad in the (Continued On Page 5'

ally pours himself a second or third drink of brandy after dinner. .

Purple is the traditional color of royalty, but is the least flattering color to m<)sl of the women who insist on wearing it. Their husbands should be entitled to a divOTce.

Anybody who still thinks that everything that goes up must come down hasnt paid his taxes lately.

If you get tired of sitting on your hands at a long opera sung in a foreign language, the best way to keep from getting bored is to look around and count the number of old ladies who still carry l(x-gnettes.

The best argument for the return of the vest is that it provides a needed variety in die average mans daily routine. It gives him something to spill gravy on besides his necktie.

Nothing restores a fellows faith in a better world than to check the return cup in a phone booth, before making his own call, and find an overlooked dime in it. It warms his heart all day.

An old-timer is a guy who can remmbef when most pdice men who had calluses had them on their feet.

Yesterday the billboard was denounced as the biggest threat to Americas best scenery Today the villain is the feminine maxicoat.

A hj'pochondriac is a miser who will lend you his money but not his medicine.

Mugging has become so widespread that a man who brags at a cocktail party that he has never been assaulted or robbed on the streets is regarded by the othef^ guests as either a liar or

Strength For Today ^n save Economy?

an exhibitionist.

Middle age is that time of life when a fellow who finally gets his just desserts cant enjoy them because they are not on his diet.

One of j the differences between the sexes, zoo keepers say, is that women linger longest at the tigers cages, men at those that house gorillas and the other big apes. There must be a reason, anti the reason probably isnt too flattering to either sex.

I never met a man who said he liked red cabbage and failed to add, patting his st(nach, "but it doesnt like me.

Every fellow feels secretly

guilty because he didnt become

the kind of man his mother

wanted him to be. Bqt if he had,

would he really feel any more at

ease with himself?

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AB.STINEN E

There ar* wme thing.s in life we haVj belter make up our rninds to stay away from Practically everyone except rjofx- pushers and thfXie who are definit-ly hooked would say that ex p<*rirnenlatiori- with habit forming drugs- is too dangerous even to con template A great English man of letters, Thomas DeQuincy '1785 18.59). was a drug addict and wrote a pap<r on "The Confessions of an Opium Eater His suf fering was intense.

There are hundreds of people killed in automobile accidents in the United States every day,, and in the case of one half of these persons, liquor is in some-way involved.

The spirit in which swe people face possibilities^ of addiction*(I can lake it or

leave il< leads to con-, siderable trouble. At first, yes I^lc'ron its harder The nurnfx'r of alcoholics in the t.nited States just about f-quals the i'nrollmerif of men and women in higher eduiaf lonal irijtilutions. Probably not one alc)holic in a hundred felt* when he starfi-rj to drink that he would fx'corne alcohlic H<* cimld lak It or l<*av* if

The growth of drug ad-dictifin in the United Slates today IS so horrifying that the whole nation is , appalled. Why, you can make the .stuff in chemistry labs.

The way to avoid addiction is by abstinence. Those who have chosen the abstinence route usually come to the end of the road with a smile on their lips.

Abstinence pays off.

' By Earl L. Dpuglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

In the two minor recessions in the 1960s, somebody forgot to tell Joe and Maizie Dogikesv the average American cmple, that business was off. So Maizi kept right on spending Joes money and

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Joe didnt do so bad himself.

The consequences were that the recessions were short and business was soon booming again. The chart lines show the gross national product rather ragged in-Us climb, hut the consumer spending curve straight and smoothly rising. ^

That poses the question: Will Maizie Doakes spend America out of the recession to which it seems to be heading, if it hasnt started already? ^

Some Doubts v-

Total retail sales, as calculated by the Department of Commerce, have risen consistently above comparable weeks of a year ago. But the rise has been measured only in dollars. The gain in sales has fluctuated around 2 per cent; the increase in. prices has been around 6 per cent. So it is obvious that Joe alt Maizie are buying less than they did a year ago. And the increase in population makes the per family spendifig even less.

Strange as it may seemrthe standard of living in the richest country it] the world is going down.

There is considerable other evidence that the physical volume of goods sold has lessened. The January post Christmas clearance sales are continuing longer and at deeper cuts than usual. Auto sales have lagged so much that there have been layoffs and shutdowns by the Bi| Three.

Added Effects

Maizie and Joe have also been ' hit by smaller paychecks. The deductions are greater. Social Security taxes have been increased. The surtax is still with us and the change in the withholding rates has-^iven some people mor of the old take-home and many much less.

There two possibilities.

One is that Mi|izie and Joe will say the hell with it, open a, few more imstallment ac-counts and acquire another

handful of bank credit cards and resume spending as if this were early 1%9. That will boost sales, speed up factories and resume hiring.

The other is that the surtax will be allowed to expire on June 30 and that at varying times this year Social Security payments will have been completed ' and paychecks will be fattened, and the Doakes will then start spending with old-time abandon. If Joe Doakes is in the $15,000 a year bracket, his Social Security bill for the ye^ will have been met*some jpb^ay in July. If in the $10,000 bracket, his respite will come in October.

And if the Doakes resume Spending, what happens to the fight on inflation? Thats something only the administration and the Federal Reserve can tell.