<'Hie DUy Reflector. GreenvlUe, N. C.Thursdiy. July If. I7i

AAajority Should Be Pleased

HOW THE DEBT CEILING REALLY LOOKS! A rl 1111C

Most Pitt County taxpayers have reacted affirmatively to action (rf the Board of Commissioners in holding the county-wide tax rate at the $1.52 level for the new fiscal year.

In doing so the Commissioners have approved a budget of $5.6 million, representing an increase of some $600,000 in authorized expenditures by county agencies during the current fiscal year. While the adopted budget is considerably less than initial requests from various agencies, it does represent an increase of almost 12 per cent over the total budget approved by the Commissioners for the fiscal year just ended. ------

Obviously there are areas of operations particularly the schools where authorized expenditures are considerably below that which officials responsible for those operations felt were necessary for the new fiscal year. Only time will tell whether operations of schools and other agencies can be maintained on a satisfactory basis this year

Lt. Governor Looking Ahead

By BRYAN HAISI.IP

WADESBORO - The lieutenant governship is a hybrid: in the executive branch in theory, in the legislative branch in practice, and without a clearly defined role in either

As the only part - time statewide elective office, its occupant must serve the public while mking a living in private business

It also is a political anomaly a stepping stone to higher things, or a deadend street.

Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Jr., knows the dimensions of the office well His father filled it 20 years ago, and he holds it today.

By one of those nice historical coincidences the senior Taylor served with Governor W Kerr Scott, father of present Governor Bob Scott.

Ive reached the conclusion the office of

lieutenant governor ought to be up-graded. There are a lot of ways in which he could be used more effectively, said Taylor, who practices law in his hometown of Wadesboro when hes not away attending to duties as lieutenant governor.

I expect to talk to

everybody to call him Pat He is modest to a degree uncommon in politicians. His official biography in the state manual takes up a mere dozen lines. That lists, his graduation from the University of North Carolina Law School (1048), service in the U.S. Marine Corps (1945-46) {1951-52), and Anson County representative in the General Assembly for six straight terms, beginning in 1955. He was House Speaker in 1965

The Taylor political style is relaxed and personal. He writes his own speeches and delivers them with more sincerity than polish.

Any future bid for office would be in that vein. He is realistic about the cost and techniques of contemporary campaigning, but he said, "I still hope that in North Carolina the most important fact in an election is the personal^pelationship between the candidate and the people, not who spends the most on advertising or who's got the most elaborate public relations program.

Presiding in the Senate is the,one duty the Constitution gives to the lieutenant governor. It provides also, of

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been lieutenant governor. Im going to suggest that he name a committee to study the office and make recommendations.

Many in state Democratic party circles look for Taylor to run for governor in 1972, in a bid for the same kind of promotion Scott won in 1968. He hasnt discouraged the expectation, although so far he hasnt gone beyond the point of acknowledging interest in the possibility.

Im going to be giving a lot more serious thought to my political future," he said.

While Taylor himself does not set a timetable, it is highly unlikely that he would reach a firm decision until the adjournment of the 1971 GeneraL Assembly. It would be characteristic of him to avoid even the seeming conflict of impartial presiding officer of the Senate and avowed candidate for the governorship.

A public announcement of candidacy, and formal launching of a campaign, probably would not be forthcoming until late summer next year.

Taylor, a boyish 46, is a small town practicing lawyer and looks the part .' A rwtural affability makes it easy for

governor upon the "death, resignation or removal from office of the governor.

Hestands by as acting chief executive upon the Governors absence from the state, an assignment Taylor has twice filled for Governor Scott. He is called on often for speaking engagements and participation in formal occasions as a presentative of the state.

Altogether, demands of the office have reached the point where Taylor is thinking seriously about maintaining an office in Raleigh. Space is available in the State Legislative Building, and funds are available to staff it with a secretary.

As it is now, people call the Legislative Building to get in touch with me. They have to be told that Im not in. and nobody knows when Ill be in, or where I am, he said. It looks bad

With the office open, hell spend more time in Raleigh as the next General Assembly session approaches.

Events of the session will have important bearing on his decision regarding the race for governor. His performance will be watched closely for a reading on his position on issues.

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There can be little doubt, however, that the Cojmmissioners in holding the line on the tax rate responded to the sentiment of the vast majority of Pitt Countians. Here, as elsewhere across the state and nation, there has been a growing sentiment against the heavy tax burden at all levels of government. The greatest amount of pressure has It^en brought where the lightest part of the tax burden really exists, but at the level most accessible to the public the local government level.

The new budget with a tax rate at the same level as last year will mean that County officials and employes have to tighten operations and stretch dollars to an even greater degree than has been done in the past.

It may also mean that citizens of the county may find before the yearls over that they will have to be content with county services at a level slightly lower than they have been accustomed to in the past when budget figures may have been more in line with the need for services.

More Than Arguing An Issue Is Involved

U.S. Attorney General John Mitchells views on the 18 - year - old voting bill so recently signed into law by iresident Nixon, come into direct conflict with opinions of the executive secretary of the North Carolina Board of Elections, Alex Brock.

Brock knows whereof he speaks when he says the voting rights act violates the state constitution and election laws which set legal voting age at 21. He also says the act violates five Articles of the U.S. Constitution; and points specifically to Article One which leaves up to the states the question of the establishment of voting age.

The Attorney General made plain his doubts all states will go along with the act and is anticipating court fights.

President Nixons qualms on signing the bill were dismissed by the observation that any good attorney can capably argue either side of a case.

But arguing isnt winning.

Preparing For Hoffa Release

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON - In what Congressional committee aides describe as a highly unusual" call, the Justice Department telephone both House and Senate Labor Committees recently to check progress of a bill that would

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a route so indirect that only a legal expert would know that Hoffa is the target.

The bill specifically adds kidnapping, perjury, forgery and other offenses to the present list of felonies which are a bar to labor union office. Jury - tempering is not specifically listed. 'That of-

for reelection of the Teamsters Union - thereby easing the way toward his release from jail.

The bill, which the Justice Department drafted last spring and quietly sent to Congress, is regarded by politicians as the first step toward Hoffas possible parole next spring, just before the national Teamster convention elects a new president.

Hoffas present term as Teamsters president ends in July, 1971. Under present law. he could be reelected either in or out of jail. Political speculation among those close to the affair is that President Nixon, a beneficiary in the 1960 Presidential election of heavy contributions from Hoffa, would like to help him get out of jail. But Mr. Nixon does not want to risk a hot political backlash if Hoffa stepped from a jail cell back to his old desk in the union.

Hoffa is now in the fourth year of a five - year sentence for jury tampering. His eight - year sentence for Teamster pension - fund manipulations, which Hoffas lawyers are now appealing, will start after the five - year jury -tampjering sentence if Hoffa is not freed first on parole or by commutation.

The Justice Department bill, now ready for marktip by a Senate labor subcommittee, gets to the Hoffa problem by

an obscure reference to any violation of Chapter 73 of Title 18 of the U.S. (criminal) code jury - tampering. That would take care of Hoffa.

Despite the extraordinary Justice Department interest in the bill, however, it has no chance of passage this year. The House Labor Ck)mmittee has not even held hearings.

A footnote: Journalist

Clark Mollenhoff, whose investigative reporting helped pbt Hoffa behind bars, has told friends that the possibility of Hoffas release is one reason among many others why he quit as a White House aide.

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To The Editor:

Is there nothing we, the citizens of the Greenville area, can do about our utilities? Dont you think it is outrageous, at the high prices we are paying, that we lose an average of 30 minutes of electricity per week?

Do you realize that this spasmodic service is most harmful to all appliances, especially air-conditioners?

If the people of Greenville own the utilities, w^y do they have no voice in it? Sincerely,

June M. Ficklen

Strength For Today

HE RE.MEMBERED There was a British officer who, a generation ago. was sent to a distant outpost in the Empire. His station was in the vy center of the jungle With charactoTStic British toughness of mind, this officer decided that he would not allow his surroundings to get on his nerves, and especially that he would n<X allow himself to forget that he was a Britisher and so go native. Accordingly, he continued religiouoly certain* customs which had punctuated every day of his past life. He took tea in the afternoon, and he never failed to don a dinner coat every evening {Mrecisely the same as if be had been at his home in Kent Nobtess oblige" is the tiame given to that inner

quality of heart which impels men to live up to the best they know. The Britisher in the jungle determined that he would never forget that he was a Britisher. He was not going to let debasing circumstances debase him. He would meet the jungle and its influence with all those refinements of living that civilization had . built up through the centuries He would live among the beasts of the jui^e those who walked on four feet and thoae who walked on two but he would oce go r/vTi to their level.

The bes^way to figlit the degrading , lofi ience fjf anything a by remembei^ng our backipround our mat moments, our good name and our reli^on

By Earl L. Doaglasa

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By JA/MES KILPATRICK

Another Crock At Topic

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column dealing with the phony Dusseldorf Rules for Revolution. The piece churned up such a flood of angry mail that I am minded to have another crack at the topic, if only to remark what might be termed the Credulity Weld.

The Credulity Weld is the opposite of the Credibility Gap. Those who have toppled into the Credibility Gap tend to doubt everything; they do

not believe their mothers under oath.

At the other extreme are those bonded together by the Credulity Weld. Given the least inducement, they will believe anything. They are the original snake - oil suckers. They will believe in wrinkle creams, potency pills, and ten - dollar cures for baldness. They will buy roof repairs from any gypsy who knocks at their door. Generations * of carnival

Other Editors Say The Tardy Congress

barkers have taken these rubes to the cleaners, and still the rubes come back for more.

So it is with some of my good but gullible friends of the anti - Communist Right. They have been royally Dusseldorfed by a piece of transparent fakery. But such is the glue - like power of the Credulity Weld that nothing will shake their unbreakable faith. They will not be moved.

The Dusseldorf Rules, for those who came in late, purport to be nine rules for bringing about a revolution. In the abridged version, the rules were simply captured by Allied forces in Dusseldorf, Ger-

(Christian Science Monitor) This is the time of year with the United States

postal reform. But other measures, some proposed by -atT a few

many, in May, 1919. Since I wrote my earlier column, at leasi titty readers have

long Fourth of July weekend when editorial pages carry a lament concerning how little work the legislators have done, and how latt Congress will be in ad journing, come autumn.

There are always excuses, some valid. This year, the Senate consumed long hours in two virtual, if undeclared, filibusters. One, by Southern senators, concerned school desegregation provisions. The other swirled around the nomination, finally defeated, of G. Harrold Carswell to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. These roadblocks surmounted, the Senate then consumed days and weeks debating Cambodia and the Cooper-Church resolution.

The second session of the 91st (Dongress is not precisely a "do-nothing aggregation It has completed action on several major measures, including reduction of the voting age to eighteen, water pollution, and federal employees pay. It has overridden the Presidents veto of the hospital construction bill. The House has approved the proposed constitutional amendment calling for direct election of the president, and a Senate committee has approved it. The House has also voted

left over from 1969, await action. Among them:

. The big welfare reform proposals, providing a welfare payment minimum and benefits for the working poor.

The controversial District of Columbia crime bill and another measure aimed at controlling organized crime.

. Education proposals, one to give extra funds to schools in process of desegregationg.

Consumer protection measures and a package of seven bills aimed at cleaning up the environment.

An omnibus farm bill, rewriting federal land retirement and price support programs.

Much left to do! Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield began evening sessions June 23, to make up for the delay occasioned by the Cambodia debate. He estimates the Senate probably will carry on until two weeks before the November election with no summer vacation and reconvene briefly after the election. The House is in somewhat better shape. Surely Congress could do better, if legislators kept aware of how time con-sumingly tedious some of their practices are. We say that every year.

version, gold - leafed and deckle - edged, bound in genuine simulated Morocco. This version begins:

On a dark night in May, 1919, two lorries rumbled across a bridge and on into the town of Dusseldorf. Among the dozen rowdy, singing Tommies apparently ready for a gay evening were two representatives of the Allied military intelligence. These men had traced a wave of indiscipline, mutiny, and murder among the troops to the local headquarters of a revolutionary organization established in the town.

Pretending to be drunk, they brushed by the sentries and arrested the ringleaders, a group of thirteen men and women seated at a long table. In the course of the raid the Allied officers emptied the contents of the safe. One of the documents found in it contained a specific outline of Rules for Bringing^ About a Revolution.

The purported rules foUow: Corrupt the young; get them away from religion; get them interested in sex and so on, right down to cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext,

Selves

By BOB HARING Associated Press Writer NEWARK, N.J. (AP) At some point in life, a man loses h|s!identity.

No longer is he Sdney Glutz, captain of industry, magnate of merchandising^, molder of men, maker of millions.

He is Aarons daddy. Or Susies. Or whatever the names of his children might label him.

It must be humbling to be board chairman of-a giant corporation and be known not for a brilliant career in business* a startling innovation in automotives or a daring leap in finance, but because you are Jimmys daddyand hes the best somersaulter in the block. It is humbling enough for humbler men, reluming from the 6:07 or a long day at the office. to hear the .cry of a neighbor child: Bobs daddy, Bobs daddy, come see what we madp.

The triumphs of the workaday world are submerged "somehow to being the father of the maker of a sandpile rocket ship imag ined from three old tires and a broken toy piano.

When the real world does in trude, it is backwards.

To the rising middle-class executive, the cry of a forlorn son; Billys daddy is just greathe drives a truck and he let me drive the wheel.

The loss of identity is a peculiarity of parenthood.

Bachelors, regardless of age, dont have it. A childless couple may be Bob and Jo to grandparent age. Given children, they are reduced to Bobbys daddy and mommy.

Children identify instantly with parents, as a cat arches instinctively at the smell or sight of a dog.

Adults big enough to be par-ents-^hat is, too old to be baby sitters, too young to be grandparentspose a puzzle when they are childless. They are big kids.

The first squawl of the infant starts the change. It is accelerated with walking and attains light speed with group play.

Can Bob come out to play? Now, he asks a 4-year-olds mother, Can Bobbys daddy get our ball?

What must save the corporate chairmanassuming that chairmen and such magnates do have childrenis the rise to the top.

The identity problem is one of youth, or at least, of relative youth, 20s and 30s. Board chairmen, even in todays youth-accented world, tend to be olders.

Board chairmen rarely have toddlers to identify them as, Brians daddy By the time a man reaches the top, his chil-droi have grown and passed from his nest and with them has fled the identity crisis.

Although, come to think of it. it could be even more humbling to be a step further removed in the identity chainto be Jimmys grandaddy.

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In New York City, the towing charge for illegally parked cars is.now $50. Its a nice place to visit but you wouldnt want to park there. -:i Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel.

No DuH AAoments In Fun City

By ELMER ROESSNER NEW YORK-This is an

interim report bn New York, the city that ever>body talks about but does anything about..

Savings banks are jammed with long lines of people They are drawing money out of one bank and depositing it in another to gain all sorts of

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gjff.3 for new dbposits. Some p people are ao loyal to. some oanks that they withdraw depoRita from one branch an^ deposit it in jimther branch, picking up a dock radio injhe

proresi^

The HiAh is now easing oft

as the 30 day period in which banks are allowed to offer

gifts are ending. But it was fun while it lasted and the remaining newspapers were enriched by the added full -page ads, estimated to yield around $100,000 a day, while the give - away season lyaf at its peak.

Books. Rags Hit Two of the citys biggest industries have been hit by recessionary influences. The garment industry, known as the rag trade, has been doubly hit. First because garment buying is usually postponable, a lot of demand has been weakened; second, because the girls cant agree on skirt lengths, stores are limiting orders to immediate needs. . '

The related fur industry is suffering too. For 50 years the conservationists have, been calling on women not to buy furs because killing'the fur -bearing animal speeds the end of species.

Now. for some reason, the

appeals are getting through. Nobody has pinpointed the cause, but racial tensions and campus unrest, blamed for everything else, are not held responsible.

Publishing has also been hit. Higher costs of labor and ' materials have forced book publishers to raise the average price from $4.95 to $6.95, where they are meeting price resistance.

Magazines, squeezed by rising costs, have slashed their free lists.

I feel like a heel, one magazine editor told me, calling up a book publisher for a free copy of a $6.95 book on the chance there might be an article or condensation in it for us, when we havq cut him off a free subscription for our $5-a-year magazine Restaurants. Abortions Newspapers have been hit by unions and practically ail of them have been slowed down by meetings called.

during working hours to discuss new union contracts.

Hospitals are booming. The new law permitting abortions almost on request is giving them 200 more operation a week. Blue Cross and Blue Shield are picking up part of the tab.

It is now possible to get seats in most of the swank East Side restaurants without reservations. Expense account business has been halved. Apparently ad agencies and corporations have signalled employees to cut down on entertaining unless it leads to closing deals.

The weather has been cool and rainy so far this summer-11115"has added to appliance dealers woes, cutting down air conditioner sales

Shea Stadium, home of the Mets, is prospering mightily. Sixteen consecutive games paked in crowds of 30.0IX) or more