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British Election Astonishing

Britains Conservative Party victory of last week is astonishing in light of the pre - election polls that sh(med the Labor Party leading all the way.

The vic^, which means that Edward Heath becomes prime minister replacing Labors Harold Wilson, was totally unexpected because of the polls.

Once again, as happened in America in 1948, voters have shown that the polls are no infallible. In fact, they may actually turn the tide in an election by bringing about a feeling of over confidence in the party with the pre - election lead. They may also

Council Gets Regional Slant

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH -Reorganization with a regional slant will give the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council grassroots touch in helping communities resolve points of racial conflict.

The 20 - member council appointed by Governor Bob Scott took their oaths today (Monday, June 22) in ceremonies held in the Capitols historic Hall of the House

Chairman of the council is Brooks Hays, former Arkansas Congressman and Presidential Assistant, now a resident of Winston - Salem.

Following the swearing - in. Executive Director Fred Cooper introduced staff members and explained the new structure to the council at its first meeting.

Basically, our role is to give assistance at the local level, at the invitation of a local council or community officials, Cooper said. We cant solve their problems. We can help them arrive at the point where solutions can be considered.

The only power we have is the power of persuasion.

In order to strengthen local contact, the councils plan of organization divides the state into four regions. Each region western, northern, southern, eastern embraces the place of residence of five appointed council members. In addition, two staff members (one white, one black) are assigned to and live within each r^ion.

The full council meets quarterly. The five council members in each region will in effect make up an area council, electing a chairman and meeting periodically. Tliey will stay in touch with the two staff members in that region, and give particular attention to problems in the geographic area they know best.

C^per, born in Savannah, Ga., but a Tar Heel since boyhood, came to the Good Neighbor (^uncil from a business background. He was appointed by (Jovernor Scott in March, 1969, and initially served as both chairman and director of the professional staff.

The last legislature split the position, creating the post of chairman as the unsalaried head of the policy - making council and leaving the executive director as the administrator and top professional staff member. Cooper retained the job of executive director.

TTie Good Neighbor Council was created to help communities ease racial tensions brought on my social change.

In many instances, it has provided the leadership in cooling off explosive situations set off by racial incidents.

Under Cooper, the council has expanded its staff from 5 to IS and has strengthoied programs of workshops and training to develop local skills in handling delicate problems.

Cooper looks on the council as necessary in todays climate, but not a permanent fixture of state government. His philosophy is that it should work itself out of a job, and the sooner the better.

The community itself must develop the courage to look at its problems objectively, and the resources to solve them, he said. A step in this direction is the encouragement for communities to set up their own councils good neighbor, human relations, by whatever name.

There are 74 local councils throughout the state, ranging from those which are names on a piece of paper to those with paid staff and active programs.

Dialogue between white and blacks in an atmosphere of good will is the avenue to racial harmony, but it requires still and patience. Cooper said. We all need to change a little, to find a middle ground. How do we do it? Through communications but it must be brought down to a personal level. It cant be done through mass communications, he emphasized.

Hays, one of the nations leading Baptist laymen, accepted the position of council chairman last January with a commitment to proceed on the assumption that the nobler elements in North Carolinas life will be ascendant.

He added ; This course is consistent with the ideal of law and order, for there can be no justice without order. There can, however, be order without justice, and that fact accounts for the councils exertions to promote

imagination and compassion

in the arts of government. Council members named by the Governor, by regions, are:

Western Fred D.

Alexander, Charlotte; Dr. J.

H. Barnhill, Hickory; Miss Hilda P. L. Freeman,

Greensboro; Mrs. Linda M. Roberts, Gastonia; Manly E. Wright, Asheville.

Northern Mrs. J. Marse Grant, Raleigh; Hays; Dr. S.

J. Shaw, Greensboro; Dr. 'Iheodore Speigner, Durham;

Joe Stallings, Chapel Hill.

Southern Dr. J. Seaborn Blair, Jr., Wallace; S.B.T. Esterling, Ellerbe; Marvin Johnson, Wilmington; Joe McLeod, Fayetteville; Hilton Oxendine, Lumberton.

Eastern Dr. Andrew A. Best, Greenville; M. S. Hayworth, Rocky Mount; Howard Hunter, Ahoskie; Dr. Sam McKee, New Bern; Efr. Qarence Shoffner, Weldon.

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influence voters to stay home on election day because they feel that their votes are not needed. Some believe that this is what happened in last weeks British election.

This does not mean that there is not a legitimate place for the pollster is sampling public opinion, ^ter all, their mistakes make us forget all the times they are correct in determining how the voters feel about the candidates. The pollsters ef* forts provide the politicians with information they need in determining how to conduct their campaign and where to concentrate their efforts as the campaigning moves on.

The British have proven that the pollsters can be wrong, though, and in a way it is nice to know. If the polls were always correct, there would hardly be any need to hold the elections.

No doubt pollsters will continue to sample the electorates and elections will continue to be held. But sometimes the pollsters are going to be wrong.

Maybe Politicians Should Work On This

Last week we learned that the North Carolina Rural Fund For Development, which has its headquarters in Greenville, had received a grant from OEO for its work involving 20 Coastal Plains Counties.

One of our reporters visited the office to do a story on the RFDs work and found out the office was scheduled to be moved to New Bern in July.

Thus an office which employs several people, with a substantial annual payroll, is being moved from the city almost before we knew we had it.

Perhaps the politicians, who like to take credit for obtaining offices for the city, should go to work on saving this one for Greenville.

Brooke Poses A Compromise

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK

WASHINGTON - A compromise Vietnam troop withdrawal formula by Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, designed to avoid a long hot summer of surly recriminations between President Nixon and the Senate, is posing a difficult political choice for the White House.

The Brooke proposal, though not yet publicly circulated, has been in the hands of the White House for six weeks. It would require the President to pull out the 150,000 U.S. troops scheduled to depart by April, 1971, under the Vietnamization program and to continue that annual rate into the future. TTiat is infinitely milder than the proposal by two extreme Senate doves Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Democrat George McGovern of South Dakota which would ban the spending of any funds at all to finance the war in Indochina as of July 1, 1971.

Thus, Mr. Nixons dilemma: he can accept Brookes compromise without increasing the pace of troop withdrawals, but only at the cost of ceding to (Congress the power to dictate troop withdrawal schedules. TTiat cost is so high that the White House answer, still undecided, is now leaning toward a no to Brooke.

Brooke, a liberal Republican and moderate critic of the war, has attempted ever since the 1968 campaign to keep open his channels to Mr. Nixon unlike many GOP doves. TTius, in the tumult after Cambodia, Brooke sought a middle ground to harmonize loyalty to the Nixon administration with the shrill, increasingly dovish demands of his Massachusetts constituents.

Brooke was particularly concerned over the Hatfield -McGovern fu-oposal, to be offered as a rider to the military procurement bill this summer. While certain to

Strength For Today

A BIG QUESTION Whats the hurry? We can be jretty sure the policeman will ask that when he catches with us on a long stretch of good road and tells us to drive over to the side.

And what, as a matter of fact, is all the hurry about anyway? Most of us do not give ourselves enough time to get to the station or the airport or to the hospital to see a sick friend and so we have to step on it to come anywhere near meeting an appointment.

And this continual hurry is something that can turn a persm from peace of mind to utter distraction. In fact the hurrying type of mind indicates a lack of balance in ones thinking and in ones pers(iality.

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lot of criticism today, and in many cases this criticism is justified, but a reading of the Bible (and especially reading between the lines or verses) clearly indicates that hurry is more often a vice than a virtue. The Creator took six days to put the universe together and on the seventh day rested.

The word cooF has come into prominence today and on the whole is.# criticism of and protest against hurry and excitement.

The Creator doesnt hurry. Nature doesnt hurry as it rolls the seasons about and gives us what is good for us whether we like it or not.

Why hurry?

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

Opinion No Disaster

fail, it seemed likely to pick up 30 to 40 vites and thereby generate heated invective. The Constitutional confrontation between White House and Senate war -making powers, started in the Senate debate over Cambodia, would, accordingly, be prolonged.

Thus, in a May 11 personal letter to Mr. Nixon, Brooke suggested a way out. Asserting strong support for the Presidents Vietnamization program, Brooke added: It is essential to confirm unequivocally that the United States remains dedicated to shifting the burden of self - defense to the Vietnamese themselves and to curtailing direct American involvement in the war.

To do this, Brooke enclosed a proposed amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act now under debate that would bar military aid to South Vietnam not, however, to U.S. troops in the field unless the President fulfills the troop withdrawal pledge in his April 20 speech. However, Brooke pointed out, the 150,000-a-year rate could be reduced if conditions change.

Brookes letter, warning against the effects of extraordinary tension between Presidential and Congressional policies, contended that Congressional enactment of the orderly program which you have defined seems to me the most promising approach to resolving that tension.

In the six weeks since Brookes letter arrived on Mr. Nixons desk, the White House has been silent. However, Dr. Henry Kissinger, director of the National Security Council (NSC) looks askance at any Congressional dictation of troop withdrawals, no matter how inoffensive. Other senior Presidential advisers have similar misgivings.

Moreover, there is un-provable feeling inside the White House that anti - war (Continued on page 5)

The Supreme Courts decision of June 15 in the Welsh case set off some jubilation singing among the peacenik choirs, but its ultimate impact upon Selective Service is likely to be more of a nuisance than a disaster.

What the sorely divided Court held in the matter of Elliott Ashton Welsh, in sum, is that religious training and belief as the term is used in the Selective Service Act includes deeply held moral and ethical belief as well. Draft registrants who can prove a history of such moral and ethical convictions may now be exempted from military service as conscientious objectors.

Prior to the Welsh ruling, a C.O. classification had been granted to only 1.2 per cent of the total draft pool. If

the number should triple by reason of the Courts opinion and Selective Service officials think so large a gain is doubtful we still would be talking of a very small number. In any event, draft calls in 1970 are expected to drop to perhaps 165,000 (from the 283,000 of 1969), and local boards anticipate little trouble in filling their quotas.

Nevertheless, the Courts inept performance in the Welsh case will cause local boards some painful headaches. This was a piece of bad law; and paradoxically, it was bad law produced by good intentions.

One of the Courts built-in rules for self restraint and if ordinarily is an excellent rule is that the Court will not decide constitutional questions unless it has to. If a case can be satisfactorily

Other Editors Say N. C. Is 'Magnet'

(Kinston Daily Free Press)

North Carolina has been listed as one of 14 magnet states as far as attracting new families is concerned. The Allied Van Lines of Broadview, El., says that for every four families that left this State in the past year, five new families moved in.

A magnet state is listed as (xie which reports at least 55 per cent of its total relocation activities as being inbound shipments. Vermont, North Carolina, Georgia, California and Florida were among those with most in - bound gains. The state of Florida reported two movements in for every one leaving the state. Hawaii still ranks as a magnet state attracting two movements in for every one leaving the area. Only

Vermont, in cold New England, reported four families moving into the area for everyone that left.

The rank of a magnet state is important in view of the 1970 Census and other data which shows where North Carolina stands among other states. With over 5,000,000 persons now residing in North Carolina, the greatest opportunity for advancement economically and otherwise would be to find ways and means to keep more of those four migrating families (for every five incoming residents at home. This can be done with greater emphasis on educational opportunities that now make it a well -balanced state for agriculture, industry and tourism.

disposed of by statutory interpretation, so much the better. When the Court starts whacking around in constitutional thickets, as the Warren years made evident, good trees are felled along with brushwood. The preferred practice is to leave the Constitution, that poor, battered instrument, alone.

But the Welsh case presented a grave constitutional question that should have been squarely faced. The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. How, then, may Congress constitutionally enact a law granting draft exemption to nay person who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form?

To Mr. Justice Harlan, and to many others, the answer is abundantly clear: The

(Constitution forbids any such law. To grant exemptions based upon religious

training and belief surely is to give an advantage in wartime to young men capable of demonstrating some identification with established religion.

Granted, there is a dilemma here but it is a political and legislative

dilemma. It would be

politicaUy unthinkable, or so it has been thought since Colonial days, to abolish C.O. exemptions altogether. The drafting of young Quakers, priests, ministers, and seminarians would provoke a national outcry. A valid solution may be found, as the Court suggested in the Welsh case, by abandoning religious beliefs as a test and substituting ethical and moral convictions instead.

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - One of lifes little ordeals is writing thank you letters to your host and hostess after a more or less successful weekend at their cottage in the country.

It is difficult enough to feel grateful after the experience, often more bruising than rewarding, but to have to find words to express that dubious gratitude tests the Shakespeare in us all.

Aside from the unctuous messages one finds in Chinese fortune cookies, which have a lleudo-Oriental deviousness, the so-caUed bread-and-butter note is perhaps Americas most lasting contribution to the world . literature of hypocrisy.

What to say and what not to say? That is the Hamlet-like problem of the embarrassed guest.

Weekend stays vary greatly in character. Some are like safaris in insect-ridden darkest Africa. Some, in athletic households where they play games, are like one long 48-hour obstacle course. Others are seemingly endless endurance tests in either uneventful tedium or bacchanalian revelry.

All of this makes it impossible for a fellow to draft a form letter of thanks to cover every situation, a form letter he could use from youth to old age.

Whether you return to the city a {iysical wreck or in reasonable condition, however, it is better on the whole to adopt a conciliatory and even flattering tone toward your host and hostess.

Your own conduct was probably such that, while you may have much to forget, they may have much to forgive.

On the other hand, if you make your thank-yous too effusive, you run a clear and present riskthey might invite you back again next weekend.

It is better to adopt a middle course.

For example, you might write:

You certainly named your cottage aptly when you called it Linger Longer. I had such an enjoyable time that I wished I could do just thatlinger longer. Hope youll have me back next summer.

That gives you 12 months to think up excuses to evade a possible subsequent invitation.

TTiere is, of course, the mock facetious note :

What a weekend! You will hear from my lawyer as soon as Ive recovered enough to get to him and tell him my side of what happened.

Another tactic is to avoid writing at all. Instead, you phone a week later and say, Just checking up to be sure you got my thank you note. When you are informed it hasnt been received, you express surprise and remark: I suppose the way the postal system is working now, you probably won't get it for 10 years. Its probably collecting dust right now in a dead letter office in Timbuktu.

Opinions In Brief

Our salvation, and our only salvation, ties in controlling the arm of Western science by the mind of a Western philosophy guided by the eternal truths of God.Charles A. Lindbergh.

Some Price Declines Ahead

By ELMER ROESSNER

Malignant inflation persists and it may continue in varying degrees as long as we Eve because the people wont tolerate the strong medicines to cure it, such as much heavier taxes, a return to the gold standard or a deep cut in government spending. Ttiey might take a wage and price freeze, but that would be only a temporary measure that would fail after a short time.

However, there are some price declines in sight, somewhat spotty but stUl bright with hope. Among them:

Food; Price advances have slowed down; a few foods have dropped slightly in price, and good crops and consumer resistance portend even slower advances and perhaps more cuts. Poultry and egg prices may faU below lart year% level and, after moderate rises in summer, meat prices may drop slightly in the faU.

Other Rays Of Hope

Appliances: Some

manufacturers find themselves overstocked and are beginning to cut prices. There may be no general price cuts; consumers will have to search for bargains. However , they wiU find more retailers willing to dicker.

Power tools: Black & Decker, Stanley Workers and

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RockweU have already announced cuts in prices; other mtmufactureres have done some having of jrices and may do more. General Electric has not announced general iice cuts but many of its tools have been sharply cut in price for local

clearance sales.

Home furnishings: Stores buyers have shown a tough attitude this week and many are getting lower prices. Carpets appear to be over produced and some cuts have been made.

It is highly significant in the price picture that the University of Michigans latest survey of consumer attitudes, announced last week, showing that people with money are staying out of the market. The index of consumer sentiment of all families decUned from lOO.O in February, 1966, to 75.4 in ^ril and May, but the mdex for families with incomes of $10,(X)0 and over was down to 72.1.

Other Prices Point Upward

However, other prices will rise, come controls, heU or high water.

Autos: Tough auto

negotiations this fall, with or without a strike, will result in wage increases and,

therefore, price increases on 1971 models.

Copper: Another price hike appears to be in the making.

CJoffee: Coffee rust disease has broken out in Brazil. This has caused heavy losses in other countries in the past and a cut in the Brazilian crop could create higher prices everywhere.

Construction: Higher wage rates guarantee higher prices for both public and private work.

Labor Shortage Persist Despite Higher Unemployment

Even though the unemployment rate is rising this month, there are still areas of labor shortages. Industry Week magazine reports. In the Gary - Hammond area there is an acute shortage of skiEed steel workers, with biland recruiting as far away as Texas, it reports. Total unemployment there is 2 percentage points under the national level.

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