Problems Being Faced Head-On

Gov. Bob Scott has not established his reputation by failing to meet problems headon and it appears that he is ready now to end discord in the states schools.

The governor has called for a statewide conference of concerned citizens for Dec. 6 to tackle the problems and to pinpoint the causes.

He said he wants the conference to formulate a

Another David And Goliath?

Bv BKVAN HAISLIP

RALEIGH David and Goliath makes a great Sunday School Story, but how-well will it translate in politics'^

There are overtones of the Biblical tale it^ the

Democratic primary fight brewing for the U S Senate Sen B. Everett Jordan is a giant in the ranks of party

leadership Years of service have given him a phalanx of friends in high places, the secure position and influence of seniority.

Rep. Nick Galifianakis. younger and less entrenched in the power structure, is a warrior with flair and daring He is a campaigner unabashed by the odds, self-confident in the face of an uphill battle.

That the two will meet in combat for the Senate seat Jordan has held since 1958 now seems certain.

The speculation that Jordan. 75, might choose retirement rather than a try for reelection to a new six-year term has been erased by his own emphatic disclaimers and his energetic demonstration of recovery from last years operation for cancer of the colon.

Galifianakis Near Decision The possibility that Galifianakis would back out of the race after testing the waters has been foreclosed by his continued tight schedule of travel and appearances across the state. The crush of candidates for the Fourth District seat in Congress which he would leave open to run for the Senate also makes a reversal of field unlikely.

All that remains is a formal announcement of candidacy by the Congressman, and that is now on the immediate horizon.

While Jordan and Galifianakis may be the principal figures in the fight for the Democratic Senate nomination, it probably wont be a hand-to-hand match. In fact, the scrap may become a

free-for-all......

Two Mecklenburg state senators. Herman Moore and Jack Baugh, have talked about getting in the race. From time to time, a number of other names have been mentioned as possibilities.

One hopeful who decided a sling-shot campaign couldnt win against the incumbents artillery has gotten out. Dr. Eugene Grace of Durham w ithdrew after a few months whirl as an announced Senate candidate.

Dr Grace. an op-thalmologist. said he couldn't see a chance for anv

Democrat against Jordan. That sweeping prediction included Rep. Galifianakis. whose hometown also is Durham

Primary Only One Step The primary will be simply the first stage in the battle for the Senate prize In the past, the Democratic nomination would have given a ham-merlock on the seat but that kind of prospect will be dim indeed for 1972 Republicans talk confidently about electing a .North Carolina Senator next time around They regard Jordan, if he is the nominee, as vulnerable by reason of age and health. If Jordan should be knocked off in the primary, the GOP counts on lingering bitterness from the fight to benefit its candidate.

Who that will be remains uncertain. Rep. James T Broyhill of Lenior. the first choice of many Tar Heel Republicans, has all but closed the door on the Senate race. Hes inclined to stick with the Congressional post hes held since 1%2.

Jim Gardner. Rocky Mount businessman and '68 GOP gubernatorial candidate, may come forward. Theres a stirring of interest in some circles of the party for a place for Gardner on the 72 ballot Sources close to the family say politics remain much on Gardners mind, and he might be enticed into the U.S. Senate race.

Party Leaders Concerned The outlook for a strong Republican challenge is enough to cause high level concern among the Democrats.

After Jordans illness last year, some party leaders hoped he would withdraw and leave the field to a consensus nominee with the party united against the GOP risk. For the same reason, some now would like to persuade Galifinankis to let Jordan go unchallenged.

In spite of such misgivings, the stage is set for a rousing primary campaign.

The two men are poles apart in appearance and approach. yet each represents an asf)ect of the American success story.

Jordan is a preachers boy who became a millionaire in the free enterprise system. Conservative in style and manner, he epitomizes the Establishment as a textile manufacturer who has moved with the chiefs of business and politics for three decades.

Galifianakis. 43. is a curly-haired Greek who laughs easily and likfs^gimmicks in campaigning. An immigrants son. hes a former Duke University law professor and state legislator.

On the fact of it. politicians rate Galifianakis a long shot in taking on Sen. Jordan. Not much smart money was on David in his celebrated encounter. either.

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plan of action to restore and maintain a proper climate of learning in our public schools. Something is wrong, my fellow North Carolinians, when fear walks the halls and corridors and lurks in the rest rooms of our public schools. Something is wrong when a youngster has to fear what may lie around the comer, when he has to worry about bring badgered, intimidated, subjected to indignities or indencencies, shaken down for his lunch money, or physically manhandled or assaulted.

It would be easy indeed to sit back and assume that the problems cited by the governor will right themselves. Particularly would it be easy for a governor entering his last year in office to leave such problems to the future.

The problems ar not going to go away by themselves, however, and it is going to take the efforts of the states most responsible citizens to solve them.

More often than not the problems in the schools reflect unrest in the community and generally the answer to this is to solve the great social problems that plague our entire nation.

Gov. Scott made it clear in his talk before the Northern Piedmont Development Association that he wanted to create general concern about the situation. He said he wanted to cause a great wave of public concern in North Carolina that will say to all of society that we are determined that our public schools will be operated free from fear, distrust, vandalism and hoodlumism.

We feel that the majority of our people are interested in the same goal. We are pleased to see the governor take the lead in an effort to find a solution to this problem.

Busing Fuse In Detroit Is Lit

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

DALLAS - With the U.S. Congress up in arms against school busing to attain racial balance, public school authorities are fighting a rearguard action in this deeply conservative city to prevent the bifsihg issue from subverting an educational system that has made a sophisticated adjustment to modest racial busing.

Operating under a district court order issued last summer, some 7,000 secondary school students are now being bused without a single public outburst of the type that brutalized Flint, Mich., early this fall.

Actually, the district court ordered far more extensive busing, but Federal district Judge William M, Taylor, Jr., agreed to delay until January a major part of his busing order which will add another

10.000 or so pupils.

Hanging over the Dallas

independent school system, however, is a legal action by minority appellants seeking more extensive relief from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. It is widely assumed here that the Fifth Circuit, after hearing arguments on the appeal on Dec. 2. will issue a far more sweeping order that could involve the crosstown busing of up to

35.000 students, about une-fifth of the total in the nations eighth largest school district.

For example. Judge Taylors stay leaves intact three high schools with black majorities of more than 80 per cent, one of which (South Oak Cliff High) has only slightly over 1 per cent white enrollment.

In what probably will prove to be a vain attempt to influence the Fifth Circuit (which has handed down some far-reaching school desegregation decrees). Judge Taylor broke new ground in his limited busing decision.

Pointedly referring to the fact that the Fifth Circuit

has applauded imaginative and innovative actions by (lower) courts to wipe out all legally-backed (de jure) segregation in the public schools without inducing white flight to the suburbs or private schools. Judge Taylor ordered a unique form of elementary school pairing by closed-circuit television.

Thus, two predominately white schools are to be linked with one predominately black or Mexican-American school by simultaneous, two-way oral and visual communication. These paired schools and classrooms must share at least one hour a day in regular televised classroom work.

In additipn, these paired white-and-minority elementary schools must have one weekly visit of an educational nature during regular school hours, providing at least three hours of personal contact between the paired classrooms.

This novel approach, a form of arms-length desegregation, was strongly pushed by the Dallas school board, which figures the cost at about $10 million for the first year. Most of that money would go for the closed-circuit television equipment But that part of Judge Taylors desegregation order was immediately stayed by the Fifth Circuit until it decides the appeal. The stay was at the request of black appellants who argued that the Fifth Circuit would never buy such a plan and that therefore the $10 million would go down the drain.

Finally. Judge Taylor authorized any black student in a black-majority school to enroll in any white school of his choice, with free transportation. So far, 1,100 blacks have opted for majority-white schools.

But even with Judge Taylors extremely modest order to desegregate the Dallas system, the mood here is becoming more and more restive. In the most recent Continued on page 5)

STIRRING NOTES!

By ART BUCHWALD

Now Try Laundry Soap?

WASHINGTON - Thanks to the government, housewives are completely confused about the use of phosphate detergents.

First, they were warned that if they used these detergents they would pollute the waters of the land.

Then, after the women of America decided they would give up phosphates and use other kinds of soaps, they were told by the surgeon general to go back to using phosphate detergents.

Because of this confusion we have decided on a question-and-answer format

to clear up this matter once and for all.

QWhy does the government tell you one thing about phosphate detergents, and then a few months later tell you the opposite?

ABecause one department of the government never knows what the other department of the government is doing. The Environmental Protection Agency, which worries about clean water, is against phosphate detergents because they casue algae to grow in the water. The siirgeon general is for

phosphate detergents because they are safer for children to eat than caustic detergents without phosphates in them.

QWhere do the soap companies stand?

AThey can go either way,

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To The Editor:

In most court settings there are several groups of people present at a trial or a hearing. Some of these people are: The Prosecuting Attorney, The Defense Attorney, TTie Accused and The Judge

I have lived in Pitt County most of my life and some of the roles I have played have been in the area of Business, Civil Rights, and the role of a Christian. Should we refer to Pitt County as the courtro<mi setting mentioned above, I find myself in this courtroom not as a prosecutor; not as a defender; neither as a judge. I rather consider myself just an observer. And below I shall list some of the things which I have observed in Greenville and Pitt County. They are as follows:

That Pitt County residents generally, and Black people specifically, are oppressed, suppressed and repr^ed in this county spiritually, educationally, politically, economically and socially.

I further observe that because Black people represent the specific object of oppression, they represent the specific means of liberation. That is to say, the liberation of all people in Pitt County is contingent upon the liberation of Black people.

I further observe that essential liberation is a prerequisite to existential freedom, and is made possible only by way of the LIBERATOR, Jesus Christ. That is to say full humanness or the realization of ones truest self is a necessary prior conditim to meaningful educational, political, economic and social liberation.

I further observe that the Black Church in Pitt County is the only institutional manifestation of Jesus CJhrist in our time, thereby the means of liberation. It falls short of this manifestation only insofar as it accepts and affirms the attitudes, beliefs and practices of white (Kristian institutions and white secular society.

I further observe like all people in Pitt Ctounty generally, and all institutions specifically, the Black Oiurch has been affected and infected by the dominate white society, both secular and sectarian. Therefore, the Black Church stands in need of renewal, revitalizing and radicalizing.

D. D. Garrett, President

Pitt Ckxinty Branch NAACP

If You

Look

Back

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - What a fine treasury the human mind is!

It is like an overflowing granary at harvest time, stuffed with the true gold of old memories. Some of those memories, grim or gruesome, have a nightmane quality that disturbs our sleep.

But time has such a soft way with us that most of us are

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at least in their advertising campaigns. When the first publicity about phosphate detergents made the headlines, all the soap companies announced they had new nonphosphate products that would save America. Now that phosphates have the surgeon generals approval, the soap companies are back to their old products and have decided their new detergents wont save the environment after all.

QWhat is the soap companies solution to eutrophication, the process which clogs the water with algae?

AThe soap companies solution is for each community to build new sewage-disposal plants to screen out the phosphates.

(Isnt that more complicated than screening out the phosphates before they go into the detergent boxes?

AYes, it is, but soap companies dont have to pay for the sewer plants.

QWhat is the surgeon generals argument for housewives going back to phosphate detergents?

AHis argument is that 85 per cent of people using phosphate detergents are not contributing to water pollution. Only 15 per cent of the population, mostly around the Great Lakes, are guilty of eutrophication. Ecology people opposed to phosphates say the surgeon general is all wet. Any time you discharge phosphates into water, they affect the quality of water hundreds of '

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more consoled by the past than troubled by it. After he has endured the high-water years of his life, the past means more to a man than the future. He lives in it more, and it comforts him more.

You have years of solace in your own mind if you can look back and remember when

You felt a little hurt when you discovered that the old-fashioned grocer gave a free pickle to every kidand not just you alone.

While you realized your kindergarten teacher couldnt play favorites publicly, you somehow knew that secretly she thought you could gallop to the piano better than any other child she had ever had in class.

It was fun to call up the zoo on April Fools Day and ask for Mr. Fox, Mr. Bear or Mr. Wolf. If you were feeling particularly daring, you might even call up the local cemetary and ask to speak to Mr. Phil Graves.

Every boy under 12 felt he was underprivileged if his mother didnt buy him a skullcap with a whirling propeller on top.

One of the things about mother that pleased father most was (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

By GWYN COGHILL Nov. 19,1931 Rain came this morning to break the prolonged dry spell and extinguish forest fires which have swept over this section of the state the last several weeks.

It was announced today that the C and W Flying Service will give a series of free exhibitions on Browns Farm on the Washington highway, near Greenville, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. One of the features of the exhibition will be the bursting of ballons by the plane while in the ay*. Two guineas will also be turned loose from a plane Sunday afternoon and a free ride will be given for each one caught alive.

The annual roll call of the American Red Cross will get under way in Greenville tomorrow morning and the public has been called on to respond liberally to the cause. Pretty girls, representing the Junior Womans (Hub. will make a house to house canvass in an effort to obtain as many members as possible for the 3rganization.

strength For Today ^ew Deal Ploy Revived

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NEVER GIVE UP

We live in an industrial age. When the steam engine came in almost two hundred years ago very few people realized that a new era had dawned. Some of us can remember the first automobiles, with crowds gathering about them in amazement. A few said that they were mere toys and would be off the market in a few years. Now we are not satis^d to stay on the.

and Ciod bless the citaps that have done this. What about those other planets out there? Are some of them inhabited?

From kitchen to airport the landscape is buzzing with energy. When someone suggested to an ancient worthy that vehicles would some day be made that would go forty miles an hour fie was scoffed at * and declared a crackpot. At that rate of

speed we couldnt even breathe was considered a sufficient answer to quiet a lot of these crazy people, or better still, send them to the insane asylum.

Well, our age has become an industrial age whether we want it to be so or not. Asia and Africa are becoming industrialized. We go miles above the turbulent sea and miles beneath its surface.

.-..^.Thi.is an agef.>wander.~ ^

really is a dan^, more hideous, probably, than most poeple realize. Military armament may blow us off the planet, waste matter may lead straight to the cemetery if we dont learn how to neutralize its evil effects.

Remember old Winston Churchill? Never give up, he cried. Never give up. Never give up.

By Earl Doiiglass

By ELMER ROESSNER The Nixon Administration, reviving an old New Deal ploy, is reducing interest rates. The Federal Reserve Board, which is supposed to be independent of the Administration, is obligingly reducing the rediscount rate from 5 to 3^4 per cent. This is the rate at which the Fed loans money to banks and therefore influences all interest rates except revovling credit rates and those con-

President Franklin D'. Roosevelt the rediscount rate was reduced to 1 per cent.

The Feds purpose is not solely to re-elect President . Nixon. At the present time a large amount of federal bonds and notes are coming due and, since the Treasury hasnt the money to retire them, it will have to issue new bonds and notes and it saves the government money if the

interest rate can be forced down while the new issues are coming out.

Another factor is that the Federal Reserve banks have a large accumulation of funds

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because banks havent heen _;toorEam^^ because

buSinesST" states, "dhd municipalities havent been borrowing so much lately, largely because of the state of the bond market and uncertainties generated by the freeze.

Other Consequences There will be other consequences of the cut in the r^scount rate:

. Interest rates on savings accounts will be trimmed, with announcements perhaps

even before this sees print. Rates on term deposits will also shrink. Why should banks pay 5 to 6 per cent for savings when they can get money from the Fed for 43^ per cent?

. The housing boom may get its second wind. Rate of starts of new units are still high and two million units are still possible this year but a cheaper rediscount rate can mean a lower mortgage in-

lw housing is soil hl^.

. Lower interest rates will spur offerings of state and munici^ l^J^ issues, which will bring in money for public works, creating new joto: Hundreds of inillions of dollars in these tax-free bonds hav been voted down or, having been approved, been held off the market because of high interest rates.

Business Stimulant

For the same reason, many plans corporations have shelved b^ause of high interest charges will be dusted off and spending for plants and equipment may spurt.

. This, in turn, may buoy stock prices.

However, the effect on both business plans and the market will depend njuch on how Phase II of the New Economic Plan is applied.

5.5 p|bent even more in special piroimstances, as the Wage Ekiard said, and if corporations are limited to

2.5 per cent in price increases and further iimited in amounts they may pay out in dividends, there will be no burst of business expansion.-.' And if there is no spurt i^"^ dividends thats what the stock market is all about there will be no skyrockets set off in Wall Street.