4Hie Dally Reflector. Greenville. N.C.Tueedny. October 20. 1070

Untold Value In Coastal Route

The proposed coastal corridor highway linking ilorfolk, Va. to Savannah, Ga. would be of untold value to the eastern part of North Carolina.

From 1-95 to the Outer Banks the present highways to tW north and^outh are poor for carrying heavy traffic volume.

At the East Coast Highway Conference held at

That Periodic Industry Booms

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH A periodic industry which every two years pours several million dollars into the North Carolina economy within the span of a few months is now going full blast.

It's called a political campaign.

Direct bnefciarie's include the advertising media of television, radio, press and billboards, printing companies for brochures and . posters. novelty houses which supply the paraphernalia to attract voters. Barbecue purveyors generally have an increase in business.

Several thousand are employed, some at the top

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paid very well and ranks of volunteers who arent paid at all. Office rent, travel, telephone and postage are items of expense.

TTie product is a crop of office holders, both new models and old designs freshly polished.

ITiis years operation looks like a good one in terms of the flow of money generated. By the time the November 3 general election is past, candidates and parties vdll have spent at least $24 ^o $3 mlUlo In ih siarr.

An Off-Year High

For an off-year, it will be a record figure. It is less than half the total that might be expected for a campaign with Presidential and gubernatorial offices at stake.

^ Unlikb other industry, campgiigning produces no neat balance sheet of inconie. and ejq>mses. Where aR the '*% money comes from and ' where it goes is something no ^ QBe person knows.

Clues but not Rie whole story are contained in reports which must be filed with^ , , Secretary of State Thad-ture. A preliminary listing of contributions and expenditures is due 10 days before the election, and a final tally within 20 days after.

The first of the preliminary reports will reach Eure this week. He has set the deadline for Friday, October 23. Strictly speaking, the legal 10 days before falls on Saturday when his office is closed, so he won't complain if the reports are on hand Monday, October 26.

The parties, individual candidates, all committees set up to receive and spend campaign funds, are required to report under the law.

GOP Sets Pace

One observation which the reports would be expected to bear out is that this year the Republicans are outspending the Democrats. The display

of billboards, ample siq)ply of literature and material, and a high level of activity for GOP candidates generally are indications that funds are available and are being used.

State Republican Chairman Jim Holshouser agreed that more energy, effort and expense is going into the campaign than ever before in an off-year.

However, he said the contributions - expenditures report to be filed by the party may be somewhat less than usual. For the most part, he explained, party state headquarters has given coordination and assistance while county organizations and the candidates themselves have actually raised and spent the money.

The report to be filed by' Democratic state headquartes will list contributions in the neighborhood of $17,000 to $20,000, and expenses near the same level.

Of course, activity at the state level particularly when there are no statewide races barely scratches the surface. The burden of the campaing is carried where the candidates are running; in counties and districts for locl offices and General Assembly * seats; -in Congressional Districts for those contests

Assessing campaign costs on an average basis is an impossibility. TTiere are too many variations between areas of the state, intensity of competition, availat)ility of funds, and the desire of a candidate to win.

For example, a legislative candidate in a rural eastern county with only token opposition would spend only a fraction of what it costs to run in a Piedmont county wjth concentrated population and keen prty competition.

It Costs to Run

Insiders figure the cost jof a campaign for the legislature will run from. $1,500 or less up to $5,^ or-above, fc a metropolitan area of the state, it would not be unusual for a candidate to spent $8,000 to $10,000. TRere is a report of a candidate this time spen-(^ng $75,00a, but that seems almost . certainly an exaggeration.

Taking a conservative average of $3,000 per candidate^ with approximately 122 House and Senate seats contested, gi^^es a total of $732,000.

A campaign for Congress will have a price tag from $10,000 where the race is minimal to $200,000. Again, many factors can account for variation.

There are 10 Congressional contests in North Carolina this year. Taking a figure of $100,000 per candidate would give a $2 million total.

Throw in all the races for local offices, district judges, and others, and an over-all figure of $3 million for this year's campaign industry becomes very conservative indeed,

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Myrtle Beach Gov. Scott said the link is of critical importance to the economic development of our / Coastal Plains and coastal area.

The success or failure of a coastal corridor rests to a large extent on the continued interest and support ^ people such as you at this gathering/ the governor told the group.

Dr. Leo Jenkins who presided over the meeting, said, We must state clearly our need, our anticipated benefits, and inform of the service they can expect.

A resolution approved by the group called on the " Secrlary of Transportation to authorize the route and provide special funds through the Coastal Plains Regional Commission.

There is no question in our minds that such a highway is badly needed if the eastern section of North Carolina is to reach its potential. The highway, as prfilposed, would be multi-lane and limited access with traffic approaches and exits providing safe entrance to local points along Ae route.

Since such construction woqld require a new right-of-way it is logical that Greenville, as the largest city between Norfolk and Wilmington, would be in close proximity to the new highway. Thus for the first time Greenville has a chance to obtain an adequate highway, of interstate standards, leading north and south.

Greenville citizens should be interested in this project and lend all their efforts to bringing it about.

'Bounty' Just Might Be Worth Trying Out

Rep. Sam Johnson, D-Wake, has proposed a bounty for drug peddlers.

He says this might be the answer to the controlling o(^e sale of harmful drugs in the state.

Maybe ms is a plan that we ought to look at. Too often, it seems that our law enforcement officers nail the users of drugs but those who sell them go uncaught.

If we really want to make a dent in the drug traffic we must dry up th.e supply sources.

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'Dump Agnew' Talk Is Rising

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Behind a facade of circumspect silence in the upper reaches of the Republican party across the nation. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew has suffered deep possibly irreparable damage resulting from his onslaught against Sen. Charles Goodell of New York.

The partys state leaders, facing a general election Nov.

3, will pot publicly attack the man selected by President Nixon to carry the Republican campaign flag. But in private, their criticism is devastating. In state after they indiet- the Vice . President for disturbing the partys delicately balanced internal harmony.

This apprehension, more than personal regard for Goodells fate, has caused underground anti-Agnew murmurings in the party. Conservative Republican -politicians who disapprove of Goodells new-found liberalisnlf fear Agnew may have unloosed^ the dogs of ideological factionalism that have been chained up since. Goldwater days. Moreover, they blame Mr. Nixon, who should know better, for having inspired his Vic President.

Thus, Ted Agnews political stock is at its lowest since J^is ^ feckless campaigning in 1968, and dump Agnew talk is heard for the first time since early 1969. This coincides with reduced Republican optimism about Nov. 3 and a virtual abandonment of hope for gaining control of the Senate. ^Remarkably, scarcely a month ago, a supremely confident Agnew embarked on his campaign travels, his popularity within the party soaring and hopes

high for substantial Republican victories.

Agnews decline was at his own hand. Even before the Goodell affair, the Vice President was engaging in verbal overkill. Some Nixon political advisers felt then that Agnew was in danger of becoming a semi-comic character because of overblown rhetoric and repetitive attacks on radical-liberals.

With increasing frequency, politicians were grumbling that Agnew was saying the wrong thing in the wrong place. Visiting Arkansas where* Republican Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller faces a diflieuR t'feirdAerm race, Agnew on Oct. 8-9 concentrated on assaulting a familiar targetSen. J. William Fulbright

favorite son to Arkansans whose term does not expire until 1974 anyway. Agnews Arkansas performance was a political non-sequitur. jAs Agnew left Fort Smith, Ark., Rockefeller turned to an aide and snapped: Now I know why my brother (Gov.* Nelson Rockefeller) keeps him out of New York.

The attack on Goodell, culminating in the tasteless description of him as a political Christine Jorgenson, crystallized doubts about Agnew that had been building thiP pasL month. To many Republicans, it broke the ideological armistice that has prevailed since Goldwater and anti-Goldwater forces nearly destroyed each other six years ago.

An angry reaction by key Republicans in Ohio is typical. They noted that Ohios Republican Congressional delegation runs the ideological spectrum from

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Strength For Today

THE tNDEVIATING VNIVERSE

One of the most comforting things in the world is the realization that we live in a universe in which the natural laws are constant and un-deviating in their operation. Gravitation always pulls objects toward the center of the earth. The planets revolve after a pattern upon which the learned can calculate with assurance and accuracy.

When . Prime Minister Churchill was visiting Niagara Fails some years ago. someone asked him how the falls looked as compared with forty years ago when he had seen thern for the first time. Well, replied the Prime Minister with a twinkle in his ey, the principle remains the same. The water keeps falling over.

God is undeviating in his operation of the laws of the physical universe. And is it unreasonable to suppose that He is equally undeviating in His enforcment of spiritual laws? We can be sure that forces which affect the direction of lifes events do not operate capriciously. There is a law ?md purpose behind these just as there is behind .the operation of physical laws.

This does not mean that God is bound. Quite ''the contrary. God can do anything and do' it without setting aside any law. But the invariability of spiritual laws does mean that we must comply and submit to the moral demands of these* spiritual laws or take the consequences. The dictum is. Obey and live; disobey and perish.

By Earl L. Douglass

Bird IViiil

By JAMES KILPATRICK

About A Friend In Jai(

ATLANTA Most of us in the newspaper game have worked a police beat now and then. Most of us have covered criminal trials. We have learned the painful truth, over the years, that theres no such thing as equal justice under law, but the truth hurts a little more when an old friend finds herself in deep trouble.

Lee Cameron is such a friend. Shes in Fulton County Jail under indictment for murder.

That is not her real name, of course; Lee and Cameron

are streets in Alexandria. But the story is true and her situation is real; andwhen you hear talk of bail reform, and public defenders, and logjams in the courts, this is what the talk is about.

I met Lee four or five years ago, when she was working for oneu)f the House committees as a top-level secretary, office manager, and general assistant to the boss. Lee knew everything that was going on within the committee where the bills were, how the members stood, when hearings would

Other Editors Say Not Worth Proving

. (The Raleigh Times) '.

A high school isnt supposed'to be an extension of a Marine Corpis barracks. Neither is it supposed to be a place where young men can flout reasonable authority with impunity.

^federal court in North Carolina now is being burdened with a case in which four boys were suspended from schooLbecause the length of thei,r hair didnt comply with the school dress code. The boys have testified that they wore their hair long because it pleased them that way, and that long hair wasnt a device for flouting the authority of school aqthorifies or parents.

On the other side of the case, the vice principal testified that he disliked long hair on men because his service in the Marine Cbrps had left him with the feeling that men should have short, hair. He said the dress code was aek^pted after a fight in a school hallway.

It is (iifficult for someone well past 30 to understand why some young people feel that they must wear long hair. It is difficult not to order them to have it cut an4 keep it cut. But, isnt this feeling one of prejudice instead of reason, and arent we si^-posed to use reason in dealing with people young enough to need our guidance?

A high school shouldnt be run with Marine C^rps style discipline, though it would be easy to fine thousands of adults just now who feel that would be the best way. Marine Corps in its training of men to be combat troops. High school discipline ideally should be designed to help fit young men for life in general, not for combat duty.

At this distance, this case seems to be one where both sides seem determined to prove points not worth proving.

Perhaps the federal judge, who undoubtedly has much more serious matters on his mind, can convince them of this point of view.

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Now is a good time to check up on your mind as well as the condition of your car.

Maybe youve stripped the gears on both without noticing it.

Since half the people you meet seem to be getting balmibr and balmier, how about yourself Are the bats whirring in your own belfrey?

Well, heres an easy way to .find out. Simply ask yourself the following questions:

Do you think that at least one of your neighbors wives has a

be held. Reporters live by the Lee (Tamerons of this world.

We fell into the kind of cup-of-coffe friendship, nothing more, that newsmen fall into with gals on their beat. When I was working the House side, Lee would join me for a sandwich down in the Rayburn cafeteria. Ordinarily we talked nothing more serious than politics, but once, in a blue mood, she sat for an hour at the table, folding and creasing a paper straw, talking of her own troubled childhood.

She was born in 1939 in a small town not far from Shreveport. Abandoned by her parents in infancy, she was raised by relatives she came to. despise bleak-people, filled with Jun-damejitalist cruelty. Lee heard much of hell and damnation from them before she was five; she had endured a good deal of it by the time she was ten.

High school was an agony of rebellions, punishments, and new rebellions. Finally she was graduated, broke free, and fled to New Orleans. There she picked up her secretarial skills, lived the tough life of a single girl in a big city, had a couple of broken love affairs. Finally she came to Washington. Nothing much in the^story so far.

Lee was a loner. She lived alone, out on Connecticut Avenue. She made few friends on the Hill. As time passed, I learned of two or three men in her life, one of them a captain assigned to the Pentagon, but nothing ever came of the relationships. She was a strikingly beautiful woman, tall, browneyed, auburn-haired; and restless. Her work was useful

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crush on you and would run aWay to Fiji with you if you only gave her an invitation?

If someone asked you to sign a petition to give government Tax relief to a huge corporation because of its many fine services to the public, would you tell him to go stick his head in a barrel?

When a waiter suggests a specialty that isnt on the menu, do you automatically suspect hes trying.to palm off something the chef is stuck with?

How 'about our teen-agers? Arent most of them too lippy and too hippie?

What about marriage? If you had it to do over again, wouldnt you wait another five years so you could sow a few more wild oats?

Is it your conviction that most of the women in the womens liberation movement are frustrated old maids who dont like men anyway?

Have you read this year a book so sexy that you wouldnt feel free to leave it lying around where your kids might find it? It was trashy and not worth a man's time, too, wasn 'tit?

When a bank teller gives you a bill larger than a $10, do you scrutinize it to be sure he isnt trying to give you some counterfeit money he got caught with himself? .,

Are you overwhelmed by the speed with which things are changing today?, Dont you wish some things would stay the way they were?

The mirror tells you that you are getting older but, thank heaven, you dont look like youre simply falling apart the way some of your friends do-true?

. Wouldnt the best possible solution for noise pollution be for everyone to keep his own yap shut two hours more every day?

Those are the questions. Now* lets see your box score:

If you answered no to more than two, you may be in a dangerous state of euphoria. Watch yourself.

If you answered yes to each question, you have a perfect score. You have just the right amount of protective paranoia to keep yourself from being made a fool of by the mentally questionable characters you probably are surrounded by.

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A man is a worker. If he is not that, he is nothing. Joseph Conrad.

Canada's Move To See Impact

By ELMER ROESSNER The establishment of diplomatic relatiom* between Canada and Red China may be the most significant business news of the month. Its effects on American

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business will be felt long after the General Motors strike is a matter of history.

The most important effect, though not immediate, is likely to be the restoration of United States trade with mainland China. There has long been agitation for such trade. There has been a quiet but active lobby In Washington working for such trade, financed^by men and organizations 'that could profit by it. President Nixon

himself has stated that trade with China would be desirable.

This will be long in coming because the price will be high: dropping our support of Nationalist China, which is unthinkable, and spporting Chinas entrance into the United Nations, which would be possible. Red China would have to be hungry for dollars and food to waive the first condition. It would have to lose belly before it lost face.

However, there could be an arrangement. Canada sold wheat to Red China for years before it agreed to establish diplomatic relations.

Ma'ny Other Consequences

The more immediate consequences of Canadas reco'gnition will be . More American support for Taiwan. At the least, the U. S. must buy from Nationalist China an equivalent of what it has been selling to Canada, even if it means accepting more cheap-labor textiles and the

American textile industry roars. It will be imperative that the U. S. support the growth of the Taiwan economy.

An enormous hole in the trade wall between U.S. and Red Celina. There is little to prevent American goods from being sold to Canada and then shipped to China. Even some strategic items may slip through, as they have slipped through to Iron Curtain countries through Western nations in Europe.

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A new flow of mainland China goods into the U. S. While the U.S. will continue to bar Chinese products routed through Canada, it will be a barrier easy to surmount. It will be difficult to spot Chinese components in products labeled made in Canada and it will be easy to smuggle small objects, such as jade, across the Canadian border.

Other Problems

A spy danger. It will be

easier for Chinese military and commercial spies and propagandists to infiltrate the U. S., although a Red agent with a borrowed Hong Kong passport can do it quite easily now.

A flow of dollars to Canada. With vast new markets open to Canada, there will be a flow of American dollars northward. American investors will seek to share in the profits by investing in Canadian companies. American companies with factories in Canada will have other advantages. such as being able . to exhibit at fairs and exhibitions and establishing trade missions in Red China.

Last year. Canada imported $2.9 million in walnuts. $4.3 million in green peaunts. $5 million in' textiles and smaller amounts of other products from China. Canada sold Red Oina $119 million in wheat and $3 million in other products. A new wheat deal is^. now under negotiation*.

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