IThe Dally Reflector. Greenyille, N. C.Wednesday, March 11.1970

More Hope For Future Years

It is highly significant for Pitt County that the United Fund finally topped its goal this year for the first time ever.

J. Brantley Speight, president of the Pitt Upited Fund reported last week that collections and pledges for 1970 totalled $125,078.94. This was $2,024.64 above the established goal of $123,054.30.

I really have no words nor the ability to fully express my appreciation for what has been done, Speight said in making the announcement. I was told when I accepted the presidency that all the people wed call on would respond, and thats the way it turned out.

For years the United Fund has been coming

Crippled,But Not Not Finished

(This guest column was written for the N.C. Association of Afternoon Dailies by Charles B. Iegram. frm the Hickory Daily Record.)

By CHARLES B. PEGRAM HICKORY It would have felled a man of lesser stature, this fall from a five-story scaffold that resulted in total paralysis from the waist down. But it did not stop Homer Lee Cole of Pleasant Garden, of near Greensboro.

So extensive has been his service to others that he was chosen one of Five Outstanding Young Men of North Carolina in 1969 by the State Jaycees, and announced at a banquet in Hickory.

He was a steelworker with a heavy construction firm when the injury befell him in May, 1961. For six months he languished in a hospital, and then was given mandatory retirement on full medical disability.

Cole learned to negotiate with a wheel chair and crutches, and returned to his trailer home at Pleasant Garden. One of his first moves was to join the Pleasant Garden Baptist Church.

Now without gainful employment, he was persuaded to move his trailer on-site to the Pleasant Garden Community Center under construction and to become resident caretaker. As construction > proceeded, he pounded nails and -helped paint while building his own home, and iqoved there shortly after the community center was completed.

Thr(High his own initiative. Cole organized a mans basketball program in his church, and with his own hands converted an old church building into an acceptable practice area for the team and for youth recreation. He was now well on his way to becoming a fulltime community worker.

In 1962 Cole became director of his churchs Royal Ambassador program for young boys, organized and coached a church softball team which won its league championship, and organized and directed the softball program for the Piedmont Baptist Athletic Union which consolidated the athletic efforts of some 30 churches. In 1963 he entered and coached two teams in this basketball league, which he also was instrumental in organizing.

In 1964 his activities broadened beyond affiliation with church groups. Armed with ideas, he approached the Pleasant Garden Jaycees for support in organization of a football team for non-school players, but was turned down. Discouraged but not defeated. Cole scraped up some $500 from his own

pocket, bought complete football uniforms, organized and coached a team of 17 boys from the community, and entered them in a local Mite League. He coached while positioned on his knees.

In 1%5 he organized a Midget team to give recreational opportunity to a different age group, con tributed $300 of his own money to suit tern up. and coached both the Mites and Midgets. After one season he had to drop the Midget team, because the coaching job was just too big.

In 1966 Cole increased his activities by becoming coach of the Jaycee Little League team, and guided them to a championship in one tournament, runner-up in two others.

He had only one Mite football team, but he organized the parents sufficiently to sponsor, staff, and stage a Benefit Bowl, complete with printed programs, in order to finance the team. The bowl was successful, and Cole organized a banquet to honor the players. He was still coaching one softball team and two basketball teams that were entered in the Piedmont Baptist Athletic Union Leagues.

Also in 1966 he became a Sunday School teacher in the junior boys department, and was pressed into service as a Training Union leader. During the summer of 1966 he served two weeks as chief cook at a state-wide Youth for Christ summer camp.

In 1967 he was involved in Little League action, church softball and basketball team competition, and reorganization of the Midget football team, coaching all of them, with a little help. His Benefit Bowl game was again a success, and he provided a banquet for the two gridiron squads. This program had now grown to such financial end out of his own pocket. The Jaycees did not turn him down when they were approached the second time to sponsor the project.

Little League and church basketball action continued in 1968. That summer. Coles Royal Ambassador boys sold donuts and washed cars to earn a large portion of money necessary to finance a trip for nine of them to the RA national convention in Oklahoma City. Cole took them, of course.

The routine continued through the year: chief cook. Sunday school teacher. Training Union leader. Midget and Mite football teams. Benefit Bowl, awards banquet Then he called upon the Jaycees an organization he joined to help run three basketball leagues with 12 community church teams entered. He (ContinuedOn Page5)

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close enough to its annual goal to keep things going, but each year the drive fell a little short of the amount that had been set.

This year, finally, the United Fund drive not only met its goal, but exceeded it.

There is hope now that this fine record can t>e repeated in future years because it has been done once. Too, new industries are coming to Greenville and Pitt County and this seems to spur giving to United Fund.

A number of worthwhile agencies are going to benefit because Pitt County citizens assumed their responsibilities to United Fund. They include: American Red Cross, Association foR^^the Blind, Association for Retarded Children, Boy Scout of America, Carolinas United Community Service, Girl Scouts, Mental Health, Salvation Army and 4-H Clubs.

President Speight, Campaign Chairman J. Curtis Hendrix and all the people who worked so faithfully on this years United Fund campeaign should be commended for their outstanding efforts. We can hope for a rep>eat performance next year now that these men and women have shown that it can be done.

Two Germanies Neo

Continuing Dialogu

West Germany and Kast Germany are at last talking to each other, although the initial talks got off to a rocky start.

Talks on arrangements for the chancellors of the two countries to meet were broken off when West Germany would not agree for Chancellor Willy Brandt to stay out of West Berlin when he came to East Berlin.

Like so many negotiations between communist and western nations, the talks between the two Germanys are delicated at this stage.

Yet dialogue is needed between the two parts of the divided nation and perhaps this has at least started.

Nixon Reform Taking Shop

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON When top officials of the Nixon administration gathered in the Green Room of the White House last Wednesday to be briefed on the long-awaited executive reorganization plan, some Cabinet members felt their worst fears had been realized.

Two outspoken former Governors John Volpe, Secretary of Transportation, and George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development openly complained that the plan would reduce their authority to the benefit of the White House staff. Other less vocal Cabinet officers fully shared their apprehension.

That may, in fact, be the final result of the plan devised by the Presidents Council on Executive Organization headed ^ by Litton Industries chief, Roy L. Ash. But that is scarcely the intent. What Ash failed to convey clearly in Wednesdays briefing was a desire to transform the Cabinet into a genuine policy making instrument, reducing the requests for decisions that reach the Presidents desk.

Implicit in the Ash plan is the transfer of policy -making power from the Bureau of the Budget to the Cabinet. But old Washington hands (including some in the Nixon administration) doubt that the government can be run by Cabinet. Rather, they feel Volpe and Romney are correct in believing that the Ash plan will result, though unintentionally, in ar aggrandizement of the White House staff headed by the tough, brainy John Ehrlich-man.

That conclusion tc President Nixons executive reform would be drenched in irony. When they took office, the Nixon men were deter-

TRUCE OR CONSEQUENCES!

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Strength For Today

By ART BUCHWALD

The Tale Of Six Suits

WASHINGTON I had six suits stolen out of my house a fex\' weeks ago. At least I think they were stolen. The cleaners left them in the

kitchen, but no one saw them after that, so I had to assume that they were swiped. It took 10 days before I discovered

the theft, because every time

mined to scrap thie centralized policy - making machinery developeci under President Johnson. In L.BJ days, domestic policy was made by Presidential aide Joseph Califano and Budget Director Charles Schultz with Cabinet members reduced to administering their departments.

Moreover, Mr. Nixon entered the White House with a surprising naivete about government. Ive always thought this country could run itself domestically without a President, candidate Nixon told Theodore White in an interview. All you need is a competent Cabinet to run the country at home.

Accordingly, the Nixon administration was launched with unprecedented autonomy for Cabinet members, an unstructured White House staff, and decisiMi - making chaos that persists, in part, to this. day. To compensate, the Nixon White House took on some detested characteristics of the LBJ White House.

Ehrlichman gradually approached an eminence in decisicxi - making rivaling Califanos. Budget Director Robert Mayo began

restricting the autonomy of Cabinet officers, for example, killing Volpes proposed Federal takeover of short -haul railroad passenger traffic which had been widely leaked to the press.

Even Ashs council

speculated whether the LBJ operation was all that bad. One staff paper talked of a reform to institutionalize the Califano system. That favorable reference to the Johnson administration was quickly deleted by higher authority.

However, the final Ash plan, on paper at least, differs considerably from the Califano system. The Budget (Continued On F*age 5)

Other Editors Say Ov^e Something

(Washington Daily News)

We can look at the proposition any way we choose, but all our medical schools in North Carolina owe something to the people of our state.

This is particularly true

with the medical school at the University of North Carolina

in Chapel Hill. And let us say quite frankly that we believe the UNC Medical school is trying honestly to meet its obligations to this state.

The continuing fact is that we need more doctors in North Carolina. And the best chance to get more doctors, vve feel, is to train more N.C. students. And we read that at UNC only 10 percent of the medfcal school students are out-of-staters. We read that each year UNC accepts about 85 such students for training. That would mean that at least 75 of them are North Carolina men or women.

The fact that we have three outstanding medical schools now in North Carolina speaks well for the state. The Duke University School of Medicine and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine do outstanding jobs. But sadly enough, neither of these two schools is limited in any manner as to where the students live. As a result, Duke and Bowman Gray are accepting an unusually large percentage of out-of-state students.

We realize that it is practical to accept some out-of-state students into every phase of university life, including the medical school. Both Duke and Bowman Gray schools operate within North

Carolna, and North Carolina is now considering helping our own medical students financially.

When we furnish medical educations to North Carolina natives, we have better hopes that in later years they will be practicing in this state. And by the same token, when we furnish medical educations to out-of-state students, we suspect that generally they will go back to their home states to practice.

We realize that the state is helpless to do anything about telling either Duke or Bowman Gray how many out-of-state medical students it ought-to accept. But if these two, of their own volition, would agree that it makes good sense to take more North Carolina students, it would be a most wholesome gesture.

And of course, we should not overlook the fact that East Carolina university is now looking to a two-year medical school. And somewhere along the line, we suspect that a four-year medical school must be in the long range planning.

When we read that UNC has 500 applicants for 85 places in medical school, it would definitely appear right now that we have many more young people wanting to be doctors than we have facilities to train them.

It is a continuing challenge, and as we seek more doctors for North Carolina, particularly Eastern North Carolina, we ought to be thinking more and more along the lines of encouraging and accepting more N.C. and Eastern N.C. students.

I asked my wife where my suits were, she said. They're at the cleaners.

My wife w'as naturally very upset when .she discovered my suits were stolen, but I told her not to worry because our insurance poliey probably covered such an ex'entuality and besides, I could use some new suits.

I called my in.surance man and told him I was the victim of the theft of six suits.

He said. What do you want me to do about it?

I said. Give me the money to replace the.six suits.

But if 1 do that, the insurance company will cancei-your policy.

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Dissent

Has Its Dangers

Because theyre looking for any excuse to cancel theft policies these days.

But Ive been paying premiums for 12 years and have nev'er collected a cent from them.

Yes. ^and they appreciate that. That's why you still have your policy. It's only when you try to collect from them that they cancel on you"

I insist on being reimbursed for the six suits. 1 said.

All right. But let me warn you that if you collect for six suits, and they cancel your policy, and then you have a-big robbery, youll be in serious trouble.

Well, how do 1 get six more suits?

You can deduct them as losses from your income tax. How much were they worth? "

About $8,50.

Good, just report it to the police and then deduct it from your income tax.

Thanks for all your help. I called the police department and reported I had six suits stolen. The man who answcred the phone w'anted to know when. I told him. Ten days ago. It shook him up slightly. Why didn't you report it then? he inquired Because I didnt know they were stolen. I thought

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Free speech in the democratic process is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the political processes of totalitarian countries. The idea of placing dissent under the shelter erf law and beyond the reach of the decrees of a ruling party is something totally beyond the comprehension of heads of state and the controlled press of communist or socialist nations. It is probable that the greatest threat of a catastrophic nuclear war lies in the perpetual danger that a tyrannical ruler of a foreign power may nAiscalculate the will of a free society.

The Readers Digest has clearly revealed in an article, From Hanoi With Thanks, the deadly price in lives and treasure that can result from a misreading of the democratic temperament as reflected in peace marches. mora torium-day parades, campus demonstrations and statements of so-called doveish political spokesmen. It is with good reason that many believe such actions in the name of peace have had ghastly conseq uences.

The Digest piece quotes releases from North Vietnamese publications and radio stretching from 1966 through the latter part of 1969. The following are a few of the typical reactions in North Viet Nam to the misnamed peace demonstrations in the United States. On February 27, 1966, the

North Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan is quoted in the Digest as saying, In America the debates on the Vietnamese problem will become increasingly fiercer. The U.S. imperialist rear will be the scene of great confusion, which in turn will exert great influence upon the morale of the U.S. ser

vicemen on the front line. . . ' Again on November 8, 1966, Radio Hanoi reported, The Vietnamese people highly value the protest movenrkent of the American people. We praise the American peace champions who courageously turned the courts which were trying them into forums to condemn the war. .

Perhaps the most bluntly

worded of the many

messages quoted was

broadcast hy North Vietnamese authorities to

communist troops in South Viet Nam on November 11, 1969. It said, Deeply moved ,by the American

progressives struggle for the great cause. . .Let us further stoke the fire of victory on all battlefields. We must be determined to fight the U.S. aggressors until complete victory. No one will ever know what this single statement cost in American lives on the battlefield.

One of the greatest tragedies of the Vietnamese war is that North Viet Nam has assumed that U.S. home-front morale will collapse just as that of France which led to the French defeat in 1954. Mr. Edmund A. Gullion, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts L'niversity, has expressed his view of Why Hanoi F'ights On" Dean Gullion says, . . .The Americans fight to preserve the right of the South Vietnamese the vast (Continued On Page 5)

Major Cities Are Crumbling

By ELMER ROES^NER

IMAGE AND LIKENESS

Wc read in the sixth chapter of I Corinthians, "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you. which ye have of God*^ and ye are not your own; for yea are bought with a price: glorify (iod therefore in your body.

There is also another passage which speaks of the whole of a believers life being a temple of the Holy Spirit, and another which say that his body is a member, or a part, of Christ. This all indicates the very siicred character of human life. It needs to be considered always when we are thinking of the evil that is within us.

We often ponder that twist of soul which we all have

that inborn disposition to do evil rather than to do good. This is true, but it is also true that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, that we are sacred because we are joined intimately with the divine nature. We are made in the image and likeness of God.

All the major cities of America are crumbling, homes and businesses have been decimated and losses are astronomical, W. L. KifcHner, Jr , vice president

creasing costs and lack of maintenance, he said.

It is also a fact that an increasing percentage of those living in our cities are poor, and the skyrocketing costs of local government increasingly fall on those poor and the others who havent left yet.

ELMER

ROESSNER

Therefore let us not deceive ourselves into h>elieving that we are getting the most oUt of life when in any way we sin against our bodies by dissipation of any king by intemperance, impurity, or any form of bad or irregular living.

When we do such evils, we impiously raise our hands and strike at God Himself.

By Earl L. Douglass

for public affairs of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., told a National Industrial Conference Board seminar at Princeton, N. J.

Urban centers, which are home to nearly .70 per cent of this countrys population, are sinking to their knees iiT a losing fight against the overwhelming forces of blight, pestilence, age,, in-

The results of all this are not surprising. Our cities are decaying, their tax bases crumbling, services are deteriorating, housing conditions are deplorable,, educational systems are swamped and underfunded, unemployment is rampant, welfare costs are orbiting, and discontent and militancy are everywhere.

His Horrible Example

Kirchner cited Newark, N. J., as an example, saying, Newark got there first, hut this is the way all cities are heading.'

It has the highest crime and disease rates of any large

city; the highest population density; the highest

proportion about 12 per cent living in public housing. It has one of the highest percentages of population on welfare, nearly 1 out of 5..

It has the highest f>er-centage of commuters: the

daytime population is more than twice that of the nighttime. It has one of the highest blue - collar populations in the nation, 60 p>er cent, and only about 1 out of 4 of these is in a highly skilled job.

Few Bear Tax Burden

He said Newark has a high property tax rate, getting about 70 per cent of its revenues that way. Yet 70 p>er cent of its land area is

exempted on one basis or

another.

In 1960. it had 2,031 firms employing 10 people or more; today it has only 1,169. Nearly 80 F>er cent of the housing is 50 years old and 40 per cent is

substandard.

The Bell executive noted that Newark and Washington, D. C., were the only two major cities with non-white majorities, but he did not accept the easy explanation conditions were caused, by influx of poor, uneducated and untrained Negroes from the South. He said, Of the 14 million people in the U. S. who ar^ poor by federal definition, fully two-thirds are white. If every one of the Negroes in the United States who is now unerhployed turned white overnight, our society would still he unequipped to hire them.

Business shares the blame -for this condition, he said.

This is not to say that businessmen have done nothing, but we are not totally organized to he effective. What is called for is a broad coalition of government, business, academia and citizenry totally dedicated to the urban affaire task.

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