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A Good Business Deal For City

ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR MR. FIX-ITI

The Utilities Commission and the City Council m to have madea good purchase in acquiring the Wachovia Bank buildbg at Washington and Fifth Streets.

The structure, which was built by Guaranty Bank shortly before its merger with Wachovia, was obtained at a total cost of $325,000. However, the bank has leased the building for two years at $65,000, which means the Utilities will pay $260,000 for a building and property that is on the tax books at $432,000 and cost $800,000 to buUd.

The building seems ideally^ited for use by the

NCSU Alumni 'Squared Off'

RALEIGH Two alumni of North Carolina State University are squared off in opposite corners for a shaping battle to determine the structure of state * supported higher education.

They are Governor Bob Scott and President William C. Frida> of the Consolidated University of North Carolina.

For both, the stakes are

high. Scott has risked his own political future, and the

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prestige of his administration. on a plan for a single strong board to coordinate budgets and academic programs for the states 16 higher education campuses.

Opposing the Governor. Friday is fighting for survival. The new system; drafted by a study commission and endorsed by Scott, would wipe out the job he has held since 1956 Aside from NCSU undergraduate degrees. Scott and Friday have in common only a fierece commitment to raaponsibilities at hand Difference In Styles the Governor is a farm boy (he's prickly about referenees he feels disparaging to that rural background); President Friday grew up in the textile mili town of Dallas. Mod hairdo and flashy dressing is part of the Scott style; Friday has combed his hair the same for 20 years, keeps a painfully neat ani conservative appearance. Scott inherited entree into Democratic politic from Kis father (State Agrijpulture Commissioner. Governor. U.S. Senator). Friday made it big on his own in the academic world: from assistant dean of students to consolidated university president in five years.

Scott is blunt in the use of power, Friday is soft-selL low-key, but steely fisted inside the velvet glove.

The battleground for the two is the 1971 General Assembly. whose 170 members must decide the issue between them. Weapons are the tools of persuasion; appeals, promises, threats, and public opinion pressures.

The Governor has the advantage in the lobbying department. Both proximity and personn^ on the s^pene give him an edge. Gubernatorial Leverage Even though on the downhill side of his term. Scott had leverage with the legislators which Friday and his lieutenants cannot match. Ironically, the restructure plan itself would give the

Governor appointive power for 12 member boards of trustees for six institutions, a patronage bloc of 72 appointments that could be useful jn lining up votes.

That the outlook now favors Scott was conceded by one in the opposing camp. Gauging Scott strength in the legislature, he commented acidulously; "I dont know whether he has the horses (votes) or not. but he sure as hell has the sheep.

The personalities involved in one factor promising to make higher education the crucial issue for the current Oneral Assembly. In the wings while a study commission worked, it emerged in the fifth month of the session to take center stage.

(Jovernor Scott seized the attention of the lawmakers with a forceful message calling for a sweeping reorganization to clean confusion and disorder out of the system. Backstage political pressures signaled that Scott intended to use the full force of his ad'-ministration for ehctment of the proposal.

Crucial Issue In Focus It was as though an electric shock ran through the State Legislative Building. Adjournment talk and lesser issues receded. Suddenly, it seemed clear that the 1971 session would be remembered for what it does about higher education.

The Tat Heel in the street may well wonder why hi^er education should loom so large on the legislative landscape, and ^hy the camps of Scott and Friday should be arrayed for struggle. What does it matter to him. the average Tar Heel is apt to ask, whether there is a State Board of Higher Education, a Consolidated University of North Carolina, or a State Board of Regents?

As with many complexities, it resolves to a matter of money. Higher education is expensive; North Carolina right now spends $335 million biennially for the purpose, including research and extension programs as well as instruction. *

In the eyes of many legislators, there is a need for . assurance that funds are being used to best advantage. As individuals, they may vote for programs at institutions in their region without regard for duplication; as a group, they cry for efficiency and economy in the system.

Governor Scott says it can best be given through a board over all 16 state institutions. President Friday says academic quality requires that the six campuses of the consolidated university be retained as a unit. The same division of opinion prevailed in the study commission. Legislators must choose, or find a compromise somewhere between the two.

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Utilities Commission. It has the lobby, drive-in window, night deposit and office and meeting rooms needed for the Utilities Commission. It is also directly across the street from City lUll which will keep Utilities and dty offices in close proximity.

Use of the new building by the Utilities Commission will be of benefit to the city because the dty government needs additional room to expand. Once Utilities offices are moved out of Qty Hall this space will be available for the growing needs of dty departments.

There have been a number of proposals for obtaining additional office space for the Utilities Commission and the city government. One called for construction of a new Utilities building. Another plan was for construction of a new City Hall and Utilities building in the Shore Drive park area. With this new pimchase, the city will obtain a modem office building near the present city hall and this should take care of office space needs for many years to come.

Added to that is the fact that Wachovia plans to construct a major new facility here on the Washington, Fourth, Greene and Fifth Street block, thus it appears that the property exchange will be beneficial to the city as a whole.

The Wachovia building should be a splendid addition to the citys office facilities.

Man Wants Secrets Of Our Family Of Planets

The United States is off on another exciting space venture with the launching of Mariner 9 spacecraft on a Mars exploratory mission.

The big rocket performed perfectly and the craft is on the was in a 247 million mile, month journey which should unlock some of Mars secrets.

That such missions are expensive cannot be denied; however Man needs information about other planets to unravel some of the mysteries of our own world.

Galifianakis Watches Clock

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Fourth District Congressman Nick Galifianakis knows full well that time is fast running out for such talk as, Ith flattered to be mentioned...Im giving it serious consideration, when people ask him whether hell oppose U.S. Sen B. Everett Jordan in the Democratic primary.

Galifianakis has talked to hundreiof people aboutlhat Senate race and now some of them are talking back.

"Come on, Nick, one of them told him last week. Quit the fringe talk. Are you candidate for the Senate or not?

1 understand that people are getting to the place that they want some definite answers from me, Galifianakis said in an interview. "Were getting a type of encouragement that is ungenerated by us. some come by mail, some by telephone, some drop by the office.

If you dont think this means anything to a veteran politician like Galifianakis, listen to this;

, It has surprised me and frankly elated me that weve been getting this response. When someone comes in here and genuinely urges me to be a candidate for the Senate...well. I Im excited almost out of my mind. It puts spikes on my shoes. Now theyre telling me to quit the fringe talk and tell em something definite."

The fringe talk will keep up for at least two more months and about the first week in August Galifianakis will announce whether hell run for the Senate. Make no mistake about it. It would be a big bite to take out of the political npple. Sen. Jordan is going to run again. And N.C. Attorney General Robert'

Morgan, who packs quite a political wallop of his own, is giving that race serious consideration.

But Galifianakis is a maverick politician. He will not worry too much about the opposition. Although he isnt talking about it to reporters, people close t&his say he has an intuitive feeling that hr can be elected to the Senate.

Said one person close to the Congressman: "Nick-tieels there is a vacuum in that Senate spot and he believes he could fill it.

Its also a fact that Galifianakis wants to run for the Senate and unlike many people who go to Washington. Galifianakis likes living there. Also, his congressional district has been redrawn and no longer if Orange County a part of it, which doesnt make the Congressman happy.

"I would not be jlishonest and tell you that Iheres a bunch of money, a pot of gold out there waiting for me to run for the Senate, Galifinankis said. "I dont have a lot of money raised or promised.

If he does run for the Senate, what campaign approach will he take?

"I really love and respect Sen. Jordan. Galifianakis said. "I went to see him while he was in the hospital and

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The bigger danger is that Washington, in attempting to^ protect more people through insurance and other schemes, will merely expand the demand for medical services, not the supply. Wall Street Journal.

"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely," Aristotle.

Strength For Today

WE .NEED IT

Reflect. That's precisely what we dont want to do. We believe that we are a generation of realists. Certainly we know more scientific facts than humanity has known in its history. But this scientific knowledge does not make us happier. Books, newspapers, magazipes. radio arid television keep up a barrage of facts, arid we lie back and - -stfctekeut our lcg^-utter

Reflection? I dont like to reflect, nor does anyone else that I know and associate with. Im not t<) blame for the state of the world today, and you. probaUy. are not to ' blame either. And certainly reflection on the hodgepodge that makes tip modem life will not make things any better.

Well, we can try. Let us stop for a while trying to

make the world better and ask ourselves three questions; One. How did it get this way? Two. What can we do about it? Three. To what extent am I involved?

Movements, plans, in-.

ternational agreementsare these helping very much? '^Might it not be a good thing for all of us if we stopped berating one another and reflected for a while what the present world and its^ froWettis i^ean to iis? : n

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Party Lines In Decline

By J.J. KILPATRICK

Politics is as thick as pollen around Washington these days, and half the town is sneezing. The presidential prospects, as nervous as so many fillies in a paddock, ane getting a little nippy. Yet in the midst of the partisan exchanges, it may be useful to reflect upon one of the most interesting phenomena in our public exchanges, it may be useful to reflect upon one of the most interesting phenomena in our public life the slow decline of party.

A recent public opinion poll

identification at a record low. The number of ^registered Democrats still far exceeds the registered Republicans, but the

significant finding is that nearly one out of four

prospective voters considers himself "independent. Our beloved two-party system is less and less a system. To be sure, the two big buses remain in operation, one labeled Democrat and the other Republican,^ and

doubtless they will chug

along as the principal vehicles for nominating and

Other Editors Say Moonlighting

(WUionTIini)

Hie latest information concerning fees for speeches and articles since the rule was passed requiring fil disclosure of honoraria of $300 or more shows the senators are making mce sums on the side, speaking to special interest groups. The latest information to come to light shows two senators who are potential presidential candidates for next year are Birch Bayh (rf indiana and Edmund S Muskie of Maine. They receivecl more than $40,0(X) each in speaking fees last year.

Six senators ignored guidelines established by a Senate Ethics (^mmittee and failed to report the original source of some speaking fees. Among them was Birch Bayh, who has urged full financial disclosure of all federal officials.

The six Democratic senators, regarded as contenders for the presidential nomination received more than $141,000 for speeches and articles. Sen. Muskie earned $40,865, Sen. George McGovern listed honoraria of $24,035, Sen. Harold E. Hughes, $20,579, Henry M. Jackson, $10,928, and Hubert H. Humphrey, $1,000.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who says he is not a candidate for the presidency in 1972, reported a total of $2,200 from speechs and articles in 1970. Sen. Mark 0. Hatfield, declared honoraria (rf $41,956, more than any other Republican and second only to Bayh in total receipts.

When compared to 1969 the honoraria list is small. Muskie received then $80,183; McGovern earned $63,501 and Bayh increased his total from $38,800 in 1969 to $44,331 in 1970.

The largest single payment for a speech in 1970 went to Hughes who got $5,000 from the Trust for Agricultural Political Education, a dairy industry committee. In addition to the $5,000 fee to Hughes, the dairy groups paid Muskie $3,000 and Sens. Thomas F. Eagleton and Adlai E. Stevenson $2,500 each for one speech each.

Banking and finacial groups paid out $21,550 to 10 senators all but four of them members of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

The money brought in from speaking fees went to a variety of causes. Some used it for office expenses, others for scholarship fees and memorial funds. Sen. Hughes used part of his to defray his daughters medical bills. She had a serious illness and he was not covered by insurance.

electing candidates to public office. But they are carrying fewer regular passengers: they are taking on hitchhikers instead.

The evidence of the public opinion polls is confirmed in a dozen quarters. One recalls, for example, the election last November of Senator Harry F. Byrd. Jr., in Virginia, and Senator James L. Buckley in New York. The former ran as an Independent, the latter as a Conservative, and both won victory through massive cross-overs and defections form the two major parties.

We are hearing more talk than ever of the third parties next year. Eugene McCarthy turmi up in Minnesota ten^ days ago, dropping arch hints and beaming like Available Jon^. Do^ in Alabama, the Little Vesuvius of Montgomery still gives off puffs of smoke. Black leaders are murmuring of entering Congressman John Conyers. Jr.. of Detroit.

A number of factors have contributed to the erosion of two-party loyalties. The decline of the spoils system and the rise of a tenured civil service has played a jftajor role. The day is just about gone when the party faithful could be rewarded with easy jobs from the public purse. The poor no longer look to the party boss for a scuttle of coal or a Christmas turkey: they look to their caseworker instead.

Regional uf^eavals have contributed to the process: The one-party South is gone with the wind. Television is a major factor: as a device for winning votes, two minutes on the tube may "be worth more to a candidate than two days of party shadbakes.

But there is more. A great many middle-aged voters. I suspect, are being influenced by the anti-establishmentarianism of the young. With the extension of the vote in national elections to the 18-year-olds, these political uncertainties doubtless will increase. Next

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By BOB HARING Associated Press Writer

EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J.; (AP) Time is relative.

Maybe Einstein said that. Or maybe it was a fellow on the bus yesterday.

At any rate, it has the ring of essential truth that comes from hoqrs of solitary thought by a theoretical genius or from years of commuting.

It really doesnt matter what time youre on so long as it agrees with those you l^ave to deal with.

The best clock in the world wont help a commuter if it doesnt agree with the one his bus or train happens to be running on that -day.

That explains why commuters spend so much time waiting. So they dont be late, theyre early. And wait. Waiting isnt too bad on a warm spring morning when the trees are blooming and the birds are singing. It is one of lifes lesser joys on a January snow or March rain. Or any season in a railroad station, given the state of the art of railroad station design these days. Actually, it isnt design of these daysrailroad stations all seem to have been built in the late 1800s and to have been pushed steadily downward since. Something to do with the great American death wish displayed by the nations railroads.

For practical purposes, there really is no such thing as the right time.

Whats right .for me may make you miss a plane. Or lose a business deal. Or stand up a lovely lady.

Oh. somewhere there probably is a timing deviceclock would be too ordinary a word which keeps some specific trace of the microseconds in relation to the standings of the stars. But even so the division into seconds, minutes and hours is an artificial thing. And the guy jyho _ runs that perfect timer probably keeps his watch (Continued on Page 6)

40 Years Ago Today

By GWYX COGHILL Junes, 1931 Misses Agnes and Carolyn Fullilove will broadcast from the Raleigh radio station Friday tveniDg from 9 to 9:30 oclock. They will be ac-compainied at the piano by Mrs. Ray ifyson. Mr. and Mrs. John Karsnak will accompariy the musicians to Raleigh.

In a statement made today. Mayor J. C. Lanier again called attention of the public to the city ordinance that requires residents to keep their premises clear of rank growth of vegetation during the summer months to reduce the annual attack of mosquitoes.

Little Miss Martha prances Ward, of Raleigh, is visiting little Miss Elizabeth Wells who lives on Tenth Street.

Carl Joyner has returned from Georgia where he has been attending school.

M. L. Wright left yesterday for Beaufort.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Boswell of Fourth Street, left Tuesday for Durham.

Corruptive If It Is Economical

By ELMER ROESSXER If American business takes seriously the ideas of Professor Lawrenc Zeitlin its ethics and morale level is far worse than even Ralph Nader suspects.

Dr. Zeitlin, professor of Industrial psychology at City College of New York, writes in the current issues of Psychology Today that it may be cheaper to keep a smart thief on a pdyroll than an honest employee who is just so-so.

He did not actually recommend that step, but he jdid point t)u^ the financial

security system, plus the cost of achieving equivalent employee stability by increasing pay or job quality, is greater than the loss of merchandise due to employee theft.

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bargain. he wrote.

He said that allowed theft may be an effective way to keep employees happy. He added that while uncontrolled theft can be disastrous for any business concern, controlled theft can be#eful.

He cited the case of an accountant who told the president of a company the office manager was pilfering about 12.000 a year from petty cash. .

"How mueblare we paying hini now?" the president asld.

The authority droppea surveilence. figuring it was cheaper to tolerate thefts of $10 a week a man.

The trouble with the Zeitlin theory is that corruption corrupts.

If an employee is permitted to walk out with a tenderloin steak dowTi his pants leg once a week, why shouldnt his boss, stopped by a traffic cop. hand him his drivers license with a $10 bill enfolded?

Or why shouldn't a man rated as a $lO-a-week thief, sell a Thermofax copy of plans for a new inveritiop. or aTrewpromoirdriMc^

majority of people who hold high position in tfte world are honest, intelligent and aspiring. Most of them are anxious to get together with other honorable, thoughtful and aspiring persons and see wliat can be done. Common reflection on personal, national, world problems will help a lot.

Reflect.

By Earl L. Donglau

"ethically, of course, it would be more desirable for management to motivate employees by means other than inviting them info the lives of petty crime. Apd he added. "Setting aside ethical and emotional considerations. amangement may decide that the monetary cost of enforcirig honesty is too great. That is. the cost of air effective

prosecuted.. "The evidence. he found, "indicates tRat>iyell over 75 per cent of all employees participate to some extent in* what is known by the euphemism of "merchandise shrinkage.

He contended that dishonest worker may enrich his job in a manner that is very satisfactory for him at a cost to his boss of about 11.90 a day. At* this rate, management gets a

"Keep quiet about it. said the prwident. "Hes worth at least $12.000.

Dishonesty Pays He cited the case of a port authority in a large eastern *clty' that suddenly enforced tight security measures at toJI tooths. Thievery dropped dramatically. But en^ioyee turnover rose so sharpy that the cost of training new men w as more than what had been lost by theft.

And ifan employee's thefts are forgiven, why shouldnt hi expect the same treatment when he sees a charice for a $50.000 hit when the safe is left open?

And how about ^ an imaginary psychology professor^, qualified to become the president of a college, who loses the job because an focompetetit rival took the trustees on a yacht trip' to the Bahamas?