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4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N. C.Thursday, March 26,1970

Encouraged By Nixon's Views

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We see a lot of sensibleness in the presidents statement on school integration aims.

Particularly encouraging is the decision to divert $500 million from the 1971 budget to help pay costs of court - ordered desegregation and of upgrading education in racially impacted areas. This is to be followed up by a sum of $1 billion in fiscal 1972.

One of the main complaints of local school districts has been that their schools were thrown in turmoil by HEW or court ordered integration with little financial assistance to provide the specialized staffs needed to cope with the problems.

We were also pleased that the president has laid down a policy of ending the segregation of teachers by race in all sections of the nation and his statement that desegregation policies will be

Impressions From Florida

(Todays guest column is written" by Holt McPherson. F:ditor of The High Point F'nterprise.)

By HOLT MCPHERSON

GAINESVILLE. Fla -Here we are back at the University of Florida again representing the newspaper industry on the visitation-team of the American Council on Education for Journalism to assess the re- accreditation petition of the University of Florida School of Journalism.

We were here some years back when the school won its initial accreditation and we are impressed with the im-provethents instituted since the earlier visit when it was our privilege to spend also a brief, but happy, visit with the late Dr. G. I. Humphreys, retired president of High Point College who lived here following his arduous duties of piloting the local college through difficult days of the depression.

This time we are quests of Dr. and Mrs Stephen C. OConnell. He is the former Florida Suprene Court justice who turned his back on a candidacy for the governorship to accept the challenge of directing Floridas great university in the higher educational structure of a state vastly upon the move. While living in Fort Lauderdale in the thirties it was our privilege to introduce the aspiring young attorney to the girl he married and that friendship has maintained ever since.

We would share some, impressions gathered in the course of our swing across a Florida that is anticipating quite a boost to its economy when social security benefits are advanced with spring. The program already is pumping around a billion dollars a year into the states financial stream, so the 15 per cent boost is counted upon to add some $150 millions of income for pensioners. Prospects are that most of it will be spent, very little finding its way into savings.

Floridians are making and spending more this year, the increase running around 10 to 12 per cent. Tourist traffic is undiminished by rough days in the stock market, although it had long been felt that a booming stock market was necessary to a successful tourist season.

January freezes are having a short - time effect, as prices advance with scarcer vegetables for the markets. The freeze eliminated the citrus glut and provided a break for an industry threatened with price collapse until the excess crop was clipped in a way that holds off once - threatening

price collapse. Actually, estimates of citrus on - tree values in dollars are as high as they were before the freezes curtailed the crop considerabyly. .

One long - term effect of this years (Told weather and prior years, too is the southward movement by citrus growers to get more temperate weather conditions. It is pushing up land values in southern Florida considerably. Similarly, too. winter agriculture is spreading its acreage despite the scarcity of land and the shortage of labor and foreign competition strawberries, for instance, are pouring into the U .S. market from Mexico.

Manufacturing continues to gain in spite of problems with unions Slowdown of acit-vities at Cape Kennedy hasnt curtailed in the least the sophisticated fields of space work in which Florida continues to grow in stature. At Boca Rton. IBM. is expanding its plant to life employment from the present 1700 to above 2.000 and possible 2.500 by 1972. And the Reeves Instrument division of Dynamics Corporation of America plans a new facility at Boynton Beach to make radar parts, missile control systems and other electronic products that will engage at least 1.200 workers when it attains full operation. Jacksonville is hopeful of landing a half-billion dollar oil refinery that would create lO.iKKt construction jobs over a 10-year period and require some 500 maintenance workers once the heavily automated operation gets into full production however, several other places are in the running for the coveted prize.

F'ew states are as conscious of air and water pollution problems as is Florida. State officials are really getting tough with offending industries and are likely to get tougher as public support grows for more vigorous control. There is business as well as esthetic of billions in private and public funds in programs just now heating up and catching fire tremendously Around Pensacola, four large companies have recieved citations from the State of F'lorida to correct ^wllution from their plants into F'scambia Bay. And theres actually talk of draining Lake Apopka a job that will take months to remove 60 billion gallons of water, sunbake its over -enriched bottom and refill it with clean water. It long has Ix'en a favorite fishing spot, but the problem of its cleaning calls for protection

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pursued with equal vigor in the North as well as the South.

The president also said the government will not attempt to establish an arbitrary racial balance in the nations schools and where housing patterns cause racial imbjalance the government will attempt to upgrade the educational quality of predominantly black schools.

He said that the administration will not force school districts to adopt busing plans to end racial segregation of schools unless it is ordered by the courts.

Of course, the presidential pronouncement should not be taken as an indication that recently integrated southern schools can return to segregated days. President Nixon made it clear that his administration will insist on an end to de jure segregation without insisting on an end to de facto segregation.

However, it does herald a more reasonable attitude on the part of the government concerning the tremendous problems which are being faced in dismantling (iual school systems.

More Complex, And Costly, Patient Care

A new intensive care unit, which has been put in service at Pitt Memorial Hospital, should be of great help in treating the critically ill.

The unit includes special coronary care monitoring equipment, 13 beds and a nursing station in aiidition to the coronary equipment which will monitor the condition of coronary patients.

Four patients were moved into the intensive care unit on the first day it was opened. The facility has been planned and under construction for several months.

Care of hospitalized patients is becoming more complex as additional equipment becomes available. The intensive care unit at Pitt Memorial should mean better care and treatment for patients with severe heart and other health problems.

Little Joy In Sihanouk Role

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By WILLIA.M L. RYAN .\P Special Correspondent At first blush it might have seemed to some Americans that the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk in C!ambodia was good news. But the more they study it, the gloomier the prospects tend to look for all of Indochina, including Laos and Vietnam.

Prince Sihanouk, from his place of exile in Red China, has called for a liberation army to do battle with the men in Phnom Penh who ousted him last week. It is no idle boast. Sihanouk has a good chance of making a comback and thus rendering the over all situation in Southeast Asia a good deal worse than it was to begin with.

Sihanouk wont need much strength on his own if he is going to get what he calls the help of brotherly nations. The pattern in Cambodia easily could be made to resemble what happened in neighboring Laos,now torn in two by a North Vietnamese in\asion to support a so-called liberation movement.

The Red Khmer Cambo-dias Communist party already exists in that country as the framework for the "liberation movement. It is small, but so was the Lao Peoples party, which consisted of little more than its own central committee. It was enough, however, in I^os, to provide the skeleton around which to build the Pathet Lao movement which now gets its muscle from North Vietnams army.

Should the movement be launched in Cambodia, where there are now reported to be at least 40,0(X) North Vietnamese troops and many Viet Cong guerrillas, the C^m-lx)dian army would probably come out a poor second without substantial outside help.

Cien. Lon Nol, who overthrew Sihanouk and installed a new chief of state, is reported to be relying on the assumption that the ousted ruler has support only among the peasants, with no organizational base. This Xiould be a costly assumption.

The only source of help for the new Cambodian regime at the moment is the United States. Washington, far from wanting to become involved in a third war in Indochina, has been trying to extricate itself gradually from the other two in Vietnam and Laos. Popular opinion in the United States would be unlikely to welcome widened American involvement. People who worry about such matters note an increasing mood" of American isolationism, a growing American unwillingness to commit the country any deeper either to policing or to solving the worlds problems.

This can mean that if Sihanouk successfully mounts his movement, Cambodia is foredoomed to fall into the Communist camp. More than that, it can mean that barring the deeper 'involvement that Washington wants to avoid, Laos would be practically gone, too.

South Vietnam then would be surrounded by hostile regimes on all sides. Its prospects for standing on its own feet indefinitely, not t(X) rosy in any circumstances, would look far from hopeful in these conditions. The rate of U.S. withdrawal might have to be drastically reduced if all the investment of the past 10 years in Vietnam were not to go down the drain.

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THE LAST SUPPER Jesus made ready to celebrate the Passover in a Last Supper with his disciples. On ,ihat occasion Jesus washed the disciples feeL He declared that one would betray^ him even he that eateth with me. They began to be sorrowful and to say unto him one by one Is it I?

There was a contention among his disciples as to which was the greatest. He that is the greater among you. said Jesus, let him become as the younger; and he that if chief,* as he that doth serve.

And he took bread, and when he had blessed it, he break it and gave it to them, saying. This is my body

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Never throughout our history has a man who has lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Theodore Roosevelt.

Strength For Today

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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Bleak Postal Prospect

A strike within the U.S. postal system cannot be condoned, it cannot be excused. and it cannot be tolerated. Yet the long-simmering frustrations that finally boiled over 'last week in New-,-York cry out for understanding. These grievances are not make-believe; they are real.

. This is not to say that the strike was triggered wholly by such guy issues as pay and working conditions. Internal

union politics played a part, especially in New York, and there is little question that radical agitators had infiltrated both the clerks and the latter carriers unions. Postal inspectors had known and warned of this infiltration for months.

Yet the solid weight of postal tradition would not have been tipped out of balance if a combination of circumstances had not reduced the service to a point

Other Editors Say Inspection Futile

(Henderson Dispatch)

If Federal inspection of motor vehicles would eliminate or even substantially reduce the death toll and property damage on U.S. highways it would be a good thing. It has been proposed and in a sense attempted. But no less a person than the undersecretary of transportation admits forced tests by government agents cannot be shown to prevent accidents. Nevertheless, he wants to expand the idea into a nationwide system of diagnosing all automobile ills at a cost of $6(X) to $800 million. Just another outlet for taxpayer dollars and a hike in the Federal budget.

What the high official did not undertake to explain was how Washington can do any better job of guaranteeing motor vehicle safety than the States, which already have inspection programs. One of the principal effects of the plan would be still more government control and regulation of the private lives of the people.

Here iii North Carolina there has been a modest

decline in traffic fatalities last year and so far this year as against comparable previous periods. Whether compulsory inspection has anything to do with that nobody can say for sure. Suffice it to say that there is consolation in the slight improvement in reducing the annual holocaust.

Our theory is that a growing consciousness on the part of motorists of the dangers in loose driving is as - much responsible as anything for the down trend in deaths. In the long run, the remedy lies with individual drivers, who can do more than any government agency. Federal . or State, to improve conditions. Until there is a resolve on their part to exercise caution and common sense on the highways, neither State nor Federal compulsory inspection is going to solve the problem.

Letthe Federal government stay out of this field. The States can do a better job and without any increase in government spending. U.S. inspection would be as futile and ineffective as other regulations.

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) Anybody with common sense loses it in spring.

Anybody in his right mind goes right out of it. Thats the only way to get with the season.

The slush'in the streets dries up. The sun shines warmer. The breeze has a gentler edge. Robins sing, and battalions of dandelions assault suburban lawns in yellow array.

In the office spring is an overpowering opiate. Everybody goes on a spontaneous vacation. Everybody wants to do some-

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of demoralization. Nearly two years ago, in June of 1968. a distinguished study commission reported these Circumstances. Consider, if you please, the plight of the postal clerk.

In the typical case, in the typical city, a young high-school graduate or retummg veteran is attracted to the Post Office bylet us face itthe undemanding nature of the job. There is security here, and respectability; no great skills are required. He applies for the Civil Service examination, and his life of frustration begins.

Weeks elapse. Red tape unwinds. Three months after the process has begun, the patient applicant at last is offered a place: As a substitute. In a small city, the commission found, it may be many years before he makes it to full-time employment. Meanwhile, he lives on hope and works irregular hours.

The wonder is tliat so many clerks, carriers and mailhandlers stick it out until they achieve status as career, annual-rate regulars. The big-city worker, buried in the bowels of a distribution center, struggles with a flood that never ends. His work is tedious, repetitious enervating

For those employees. said the study commissions, few opportunities exist to gain recognition or job satisfaction. Their positions are described and standardized in minute detail. They have little room for creativity or inventiveness. The nature of the work creates added frustration as it affords little opportunity to acquire new skills marketable elsewhere.

Little by little, in most major cities, working con-

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thing besides what hes paid to do.

A glaze creeps into his eyes. Fantasy fevers his brain. He leans back for a moment in his swivel chair, and before he knows it. he is doing all the things he ever daydreamed of doing. He is

Riding a bluebird.

Falling off the end of the rainbow and landing in a pot of gold.

Adopting Raquel Welch.

Opening a barber shop at the North Pole.

Becoming a holy man atop a mountain in Nepal.

Discovering Adolf Hitler alive but not doing too well as a door-to-door mousetrap salesman in Argentina.

Singlehandedly saving the miniskirt from fashions oblivion.

Being crowned top agent of the CIA for starting a vast tong war in China.

Landing first on Mars, and learning its crimson coloration is due to the fact that business has been bad so long there the planet is drowned in red ink.

Hiring a sky writer to tell his best girl why he loves her.

Heading off the rustlers at Eagle Pass.

Galloping through encircling Indians in time to summon U.S. cavalry troops to the rescu of a stranded wagon train.

Making Mao Tse Tung cry uncle in a hand-to-hand wrestling contest.

Pulling out a champagne cork with his teeth.

Leaping from a crag into a foaming stream in order tp foil a pursuing posse which has mistaken him for a horse thief.

Opening a letter which tells him he has been made a millionaire by a philanthropic stranger.

Listening to his wife tell him she had decided that, after all. he was right and she was wrong.

Getting a kind word from not one but both of his teen-age children.

Sending away a boxtop and getting back Jane Fonda.

Yes, in spring any daydream seems possible. Anything seems possibleexcept* settling down and earning an honest days

pay

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future is the past. Lord

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"To be great means to keep up a great quarrel. Charles de Gaulle.

Sees Passenger Train Revival

which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. And the cup in like manner after supper, saying. This cup is the new covenant in my blo(xl even that which is poured out for you.

Then they sang a hymn and went out into the Mount of Olives.

In his farewell discourses Christ assured his disciples that in the Fathers house are many mansions, that he would prepare a place for them and come again and receive them unto himself that where I am there ye/ may be also. In the world .ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. *

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER While the intercity passenger railroads of America may be dead, at least one authority believes they will be reborn. He is Dr. L. Leslie Waters, Indiana University professor of

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transportation and nationally known expert on transport.

In an estimate of railroads by the end of the cntury, he said:

The passenger will have returned to the railroad, but on separate lines from freight. We will catch up with Japans Tokaido Line and move into an even higher level of service.

Portal-to-portal speeds

will be high on guided air cushions. We will have given up on monorail and resorted to the French system of a guiding rail for air-cushion equipment.

Pride of Japan

That Tokaido Line is a marvel of efficiency and makes the United Statess finest line, the new Washington - New York Metroliner seem like an amusement park ride in comparison. 1 have ridden the Tokaido Line and hope to do so again.

It speeds between Tokyo and Kobe, a distance of 366 miles at speeds up to 125 miles an hour. It is a smooth, no-clicks, no-squeal line, so smooth I have balanced a coin on edge on a window sill while they^lrain ran at top speed.

Stops are for exactly two minutes. Station platforms are marked exactly wire doors will be when the^ train stops and tickets show at

which door to stand. There is one minute for passengers to get off. a bell rings and boarding passengers are allowed one minute. Then the doors close and the train is off.

. Furthermore, you CAN talk to the motorman. He and his assistant sit in a front cab with nothing to do except to report occasionally by radio to a dispatcher. All Cixitrols are automatic.

And the line makes money, although other Japanese rail lines dont.

Other Transport Futures - Dr. Waters, who believes we may exceed this in 30 ye|irs, predicts other changes in U. S. transport. Of freight lines, he said:

The rail network, reduced in size, will connect major* concentrations of industry, and serve areas of large production from mines, forests, and fields. Unit trains will be commonplace for both bulk commodities and con

tainers. Trains are not likely to be longer. Indeed, we will have a mixture of maxi and mini trains. Welded rail and concrete ties will have taken over. Motive power may be switched to electric. Train crews will be only memories.

On other forms of transport, he said: People may be shot through pipelines in capsules. There will be more buses in urban and in-terurban use simply because capacity to produce buses is greater than capacity to provide roads anci parking. Trucking will expand enormously, with many fewer companies, and trucks will be moved with new power packs and new fuels. Major cities will all have international airports to handle jumbo-size planes; tar go will be (Containerized. New ways of corrimunicating will put the post office out of the small mail shipment ' business.