iTke Daily RHIectar. GreiviBe. N.C.TIiBrwlay. Janury 2f, 1172

Only The Tip Of The Iceberg

B% BKVAN HAISI.IP RALEIGH - Local tjovernments in North ('arohna tiad a very good \car in 197) for bond issue proposals Citizens of counties and municipalities approved issues totaling nearly $151 million, for purposes ranging from building needs tcour-

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The narcotics traffic is something bigger than most of us probably think.

Just this week 23 men were charged with ' smuggling 1,500 pounds of bern into the United States.

About 24 hours after that story came out, federal authrwties announced the seizure of one million amphetamine pills exported to Mexico by an American manufacturer, then smuggled into the United States illegally.

A week rarely goes by without disclosure of some such spectacular seizure, find, or arrest.

It must be assumed that there are scores of smaller narcotics finds every week that do not merit national press attention.

All of it. the reported and unreported drugs

Good Year For Bond Proposals

he added, population growth in rural areas and pressure for economic development is creating service demands that can only be met through borrowing Counties Tackle Pollutkm County bonds totaling $7.755.000 were authorized last year for water, sewer and sanitary landfills. Not too long ago. Morrisey observed, that would have been unheard of.

The improved percentage of success with bond issues also reflects greater selectivity on the part of local officials in setting elections, Morrisey suggested.

Public recognition of needs and a better selling job for bond issues were cited as factors by Leigh Wilson, executive director of the N.C. League of Municipalitietl.

I am convinced that if the need is thorough documented and explained, the people wont turn down a sound bond proposal to meet the need, Wilson said.

Where Issues Failed Only two municipal bond elections failed last year. One was a $4,200,000 electric light proposal in High Point, and the other was a $1,750,000 street improvement issue in Fayetteville.

Four county bond issues were defeated in 1971. Wayne voters turned down a $500,000 county library issue. School bonds were rejected in Durham. $17>/2 million; Stokes, %2h million; and Wake, $10 million.

Successful school bond votes were recorded in Caldwell. $4 million; Cherokee. $300,000; Davidson, $10 million: and

Guilford, $18 million.

Community college and technical institute bonds approved were: Caldwell.

$800,000; Davidson, $1 million; Guilford, $3 million; and Pamlico, $150,000.

Counties which approved water,- sewer and sanitary landfill bonds were: Guilford, a total of $6,200,000 for the three purposes; Lee, $1 million for water and $500,000 for sewer; and Hertford, $55,000 for sanitary landfill.

By purpose, the breakdown of municipal bonds approved included: water and sewer, approximately $73 million; street improvements, $10,375,000; electric light and power, $3,645,000; municipal construction. $3,375,000; and recreation, $3,350,000.

Among bond votes coming up early in 1972 are a $4 million school building proposal in Lincoln County; a $2 million technical institute issue in Alamance; and a $5 million issue in Fayetteville, split equally between electric power and sanitary sewer.

ilmuse. auditorium, education and hospitals) to services (streets, water and .sewer, sanitary landfills, and lights).

A report from the Local Government Commission showed a marked upward trend in 1971, both in the number of successful local bond elections and the total amount of money authorized.

The voter mood, resistant to local borrowing in recent years, turned more receptive. Fifty-one local bond issues were submitted last year. Only six failed That compared with 1970, when 48 elections were held, and 11 were lost; and 1969, when 74 issues were submitted and 21 were defeated.

In dollar amounts, the Local Government Commission reported, local voters last year assented to $150.799.000 of the $187,249,000 in bonds they were asked to authorize. In 1970. bond proposals totaled $139,354,000. and $83,284,000 was approved. The 1969 record was $178,025.000 proposed, and $112,605,000 approved.

School Issues Tough

School construction remained the tough proposition. Seven school building bond elections were held last year. Four for a total of $32,300,000 were successful, and three totaling $30 million met defeat.

Glamour issues were those linked to concern for the environment water supply, sewer systems, and sanitary landfills All those passed, and accounted for nearly $80 million or more than half the total amount.

John T. Morrisey. executive director of the N.C. Association of County Commissioners, said the trend shows clearly a urowing awareness on the part of the people of the different kinds of needs facing the counties.

In the past, he noted, counties issued bonds almost solely for construction such as school buildings, courthouses. and hospitals. Now,

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seized throughout the country, represents a nightmare of public and private tragedies that have been averted.

At the same time, it must be acknowledged that the seizures re|M*esent only the tip of an icebei^. The drug traffic goes on and on ... permeating every level and extending from big cities to the crossroads; its extent only dimly realizedthe public at large.

Clearly it b a jx*oblem that needs ever-increasing attention at legislative, judicial and enforcement levels. The tide can be sto[q)ed if and when the public is Avilling to accept the necessary steps.

Long Trend Of Red-Ink Budgeting

President Nixons budget, which Congress receives Monday, will be about $246 billion and not surprisingly it is a record.

Also not surprisingly there is expected to be a big deficit this year from $10 to $20 billion.

While the budget would show only a four percent increase over the preceding year, it still represents another in a long series of budgets which have set new spending records.

The deficit, too, follows the pattern of niost budgets in recent years. It all reflects the rapidly rising cost of providing new and expanded services to the public.

Worried Over GOP Primary

leaders from the West the , other night and told a friend he was highly pleased with the response. That meeting took place in Morganton and one man who went said: Jim told us flat-out that he was running.

Ask Gardner about his intentions and he says: I havent completely decided yet. But if I do run, I will be satisfied in my mind that I can win the nomina^pn and the general election. I wont run if Im not convinced of those two things.

Thats nothing more than political talk.

The feeling here is that Gardner will be in a much tougher campaign against Holshouser that he was in 1968 when he crushed John Stickley for the Republican nomination for Governor.

Stickley was a transplanted Charlottean with a Boston accent, who seemed to have \ trouble identifying with the man on the street. He ran well in Mecklenburg but got clobbered everywhere else. Gardher won the nomination by 70,000 votes.

Holshouser has been several years preparing himself for this run at the Governors office. He served as state chairman of his party and won elective office in the State House.

Many of the Partys pros have been committed to him for months and it would seem that Gardner would have a hard time getting this support to come unglued.

While Democrats are worried about the Republican winner, Republicans are concerned about what the man will have to do to win the nomination.

Said a prominent Republican from the West; If its Gardner and Holshouser, itll be a damn blood-letting. Each man will be concerned about winning the nomination and nothing else. A lot of people are going to get mad and getting them back together by November wont be easy.

If President Nixon remains popular in North Carolina, if the Republicans can come up with a serious candidate for the U. Si Senate, and if there arent too many knife-wounds (Continued on page 5)

By JOHN KILGO RALEIGH It might seem strange but Democratic Party leaders in North Carolina are just as worried about a Republican gubernatorial primary between Jim Gardner and Jim Holshouser as some Republicans are.

One Democratic candidate for Govemonr, who didnt want his name used, put it like this;

A Gardner-Holshouser primary is going to make the Republican nominee much tougher to beat in the general election. There is no question about that in my mind. If the Democrats dont get united next fall, we stand a good chance of losing.

Heres the reasoning behind the mans statement: Many Democrats didnt believe Holshouser would have been a competitive candidate in the general election, had he been handed the Republican nomination. But if he beats Gardner, the voters will look upon his candidacy as the genuine article.

Says the Democrat:

' Holshousers problem would have been one dealing with his image. He looks too young to be a Governor. He also isnt well-known in many parts of the state. But a campaign against Gardner will give him plenty of exposure and if he wins, the voters will look at him with new respect. I can hear it now, He beat Gardner head to head. He has to have a lot going for him.

On the other side of the coin, there has never been much question about Gardners ability to run a strong race against the Democrats.

He gave Bob Scott all he wanted in the 1969 campaign, getting nearly 48 per cent of the vote.

Said the Democratic candidate for Governor: Gardner has the looks, the money and the willingness to fight. He also learned a lot in his campaign against Scott. And if he beats Holshouser, the voters will take him even more seriously.

There seems to be no question about Garnders intentions. He held a get-together with Republican

Strength For Today

SUGGESTIVE EVEN TO THIS DAY

Once in history there appeared a man who had everything his heart could desire. 'This man was King Solomon. He had power which made his neighbors tremble. H#tyl such wealth that neither he nor his councilors could compute it. He was among a half clozen of the most learned individuals who have ever appeared in human history. Every indulgence of the flesh was his for the asking, and it seemed that the multitudes of the whole world positively fell over themselves in their excited eagerness to serve him.

Was he happy? Few men have been less so. One of the sourest books ever written is Ecclesiastes, a regretful appraisal of life by Solomon,

the old roue who having indulged in every pleasure and having enjoyed every honor which this world couM bestow came to the end of his life with about the worst taste in his mouth that anyone has ever experienced.

The point does not need to be labored. People^wh^ave their own way in ^etJPhing generally miss hapflmlss by a mile. Strange as it may seem, the people who have to suffer most frequently get the most out of life. The pampered darlings grow up discontented and often drink themselves, worry themselves or bedevil themselves into early graves.

An occasional reading of ' the Book of Ecclesiastes constitutes a wholesome corrective in the field of thought and action.

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By JJ. KILPATRICK

The Second Copernicus?

SAN JUAN. P R. He looks like a professor of astronomy, unwinding at the Faculty Qub after a long day on Observatory Hill. He is slightly bemused by the inability of others to comprehend those Milky Way mysteries that are perfectly clear to him. Bow-tied and bright-eyed, he is no bigger

than a large sparrow or a small owl - but he makes you listen. His name, they say, is Louis 0. Kelso. An uneasy suspicion will not go away that his name is really Copernicus.

By any name, this sawed-off San Francisco lawyer is just now the talk of Puerto Rico. He is the principal

Other Editors Say The Hypocrites

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The liberal campus intellectual crowd likes to talk about freedoms. They enter into learned discourses on freedom of speech, the right to deliberate, ad infinitum.

We notice an inconsistency, however, in the way they apply their liberal academics to actual practice.

Take Princeton University, for instance. Its the very core and heart and center of liberalism espousing individual freedom. What happened there last Saturday is enough to disillusion some of the more faint-hearted of that breed. It takes a really tough and experienced practitioner to continue unabashed with the customary liberal rhetoric after what happened last Saturday.

About 75 Princeton students attempted to prevent members of the school's Board of Trustees from entering Nassau Hall where they were to consider a jM-oposal calling for the retention of a Reserve Officers Training Corps program on the campus.

You see. the liberal student crowd thought there was the possibility that the trustees just might decide to keep ROTC at Princeton, and that would be against the things for which the students stand. They are unashamedly anti-war and antimilitary and therefore they oppose anything that might smack of "jingoism. Ergo, ROTC has to go, no matter that the trustees right to sit and deliberate freely on this matter was being infringed upon by strong-arm tactics strongly reminiscent of Hitler's Brown Shirt hooligans of the early 'Thirties.

In the Princeton episode last Saturday, about 15 members of the schools security forces, after some scuffling and shoving, finally managed to clear a path through the mob for the trustees. The students had locked arms to physically block the entrance, to bodily prevent the trustees from engaging in their peaceful deliberations.

We cite this as one of the many examples of sheer hypocrisy practiced by the so-called liberals on and (rff campus who spend too much of their time preaching about rights and rights and rights but it seems that the only rights that are sacrosanct are their own, for when they themselves are jailed for blowing up a federal building or whatever, they are the first to scream about their rights being violated.

inspiration and chief author of a capital fund plan presented to the Puerto Rican legislature Friday evening by Governor Luis A. Ferre. In the astronomy of economics, the Kelso theory has all the mad simplicity of suggesting that the earth goes around the sun. Everybody knows it isnt so.

This takes a little explaining. I ask you to hold still, because Kelso may be important. If his plan of universal capitalism is sound and a respectable flock^ of hard-headed businessmen have begun to try it the guy may have found a cure for inflation, poverty, and the abuses of welfare. Sure enough, his formula sounds like Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Compound; but Governor Ferre, who is nobodys fool, is risking his reputation on the scheme.

This is the plan: The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, trough its legislature, will create an unprecedented "Proprietary Fund along the lines of our Comsat a public corporaticm, privately managed. Beginning in July, if all goes well, an estimated 800,000 Puerto Rican workers, earning between $500 and $7,800 a year, will become eligible to tniy shares of preferred stock in ie fund.

Assume for the sake of example that 100,000 such workers agree to take 100 shares each at one dollar a share. That is $10million. The Commonwealth then would match this investment, share for share, in common stock in the Fund. It is anticipated that the great bulk of investors would not pay for their preferred stock out of

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Leave

Early?

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Remarks that make guesu leave a cocktail party early: "Everybody think up something clever. Now were going to (day charades.

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"If the government had only listened to me 25 years ago, today wed be ...

You look like someone I met somewhere before, buddy. Have you ever been in jail in Milwaukee?

Weve run out of gin. Cant I make you one with vodka? "Weve run out of vodka. Cant I make you one with gin?

"Im not really blonde, silly. I just decided to dye my hair and have more fun out of life. I get so mixed up at cocktail parties. Look out the window and tell me whether its dawn or twilight.

"Im in the insurance game myself. Not to mix business with pleasure, tell me frankly: What would your wife be worth if you suddenly cashed in your chips right this minute?

"If the government had only listened to me 20 years ago. we could have given Korea back to the Indians. After all, every country belongs to its own natives.

"I think youve made a conquest of our dog Fifi. Ive never seen her take to anyone so quickly. If she does anything in your lap. dont pay any attention. It only makes her more nervous.

"Wliy should I go into the kitchen with you, baldy? Only maids get kissed in kitchens. Hey, everybody, heres some nice news! Good old Jim just phoned and said hed be liere on the next flying carpet. Theres nobody can do card tricks like Jim.

"Oh. good grief! If I had to spill something all over you, why did it have to be a Bloody Mary?

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40 Years

Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGHILL Jan. 20,1932 Two whiskey distilling plants and a similar number of distillers were in the hands of federal officers today as a result of a series of raids in this community during the week. The distilling plant plants of five and twenty gallon capacities were the smallest captured by officers in this community since prohibition became effective.

L. A. Stroud and J. A. Collins left today for High Point to attend the furniture show.

Now playing at the State Theatre is the motion picture Working Girls starring Paul Lukas, Frances Dee. and Buddy Rogers.

Sentiment Costs The Taxpayer

By ELMER R0ES8NER

The American passenger train may be doomed. Highspeed trains along the New Haven-New York-Washin-gton corridor, the passenger-auto trains between Virginia and Florida, and a few other runs may survive,

I, once a peanut butcher on the long-halted Oakland-Antioch railroad in California and a railroad buff ever since, will mourn with hundreds of thousands of others.

The economics are simply against continuing operation of passenger trains, even though sentimentalists favor them. And in a free-enterprise system, economics rules. Although you can still get soapstone griddles and Pears Soap, buggy whips and Congress gaiters are hard to find.

The formation of the National Railway Passenger Corpi better known as Amtrak, was a heroic effort to save part of the railroads by a group of old-timers, Congressmen.

They voted $40 million for the new corporatiwi to run some of the main lines. The $40 million is all gone. It is currently seeking government guaranteed loans of

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$100 million, authorized by Congress when it voted the original $40 million to get Amtraks wheels turning, and would like $170 million more for operating expert^ and new equipment.

And unless Congress waves a red lantern in frcmt of Amtrak, this can go on and on, with requests getting larger and larger as wages and equipment become mqfe expensive over the years.

Hendrik S. Houthakker. former member of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers and new Harvard professor, told the

joint Congressional Committee that the federal budget will probably be swollen by a few hundred million of dollars by Amtrak. It can happen every year.

He pointed out that planes and buses offer alternate satisfactory methods of travel. A[>art from a desire to relieve railroads of an unnecessary burden, the support for Amtrak reflected mostly nostalgia and fashionable prejudice against private cars.

Defenders of the passenger choochoos point out that San Francisco subsidizes its cable cars and is happy with the results. Fares, a nickel many years ago, are now 25 cents and the cable cars attract thousands of tourists who spend many times the amount of the subsidy in hotels, restaurants and stores.

If sentiment for the old iron horses is strong, after most of the Amtrak are halted, there will be nothing to prevent the

railroads from reviving the famous old trains as fanciers' specials. The Twentieth Century Limited, the Cannonball Express and the Santa Fe Chief could make runs again, loaded with publicity-seeking notables, with nonstop champagne parties, with tickets at $500 each or at all the traffic will bear, which is an expression that originated with the railroads.

Suburban Branches Have Problems Too Many a downtown retailer envies stores in the suburbs, wishing he could relocate or at least establish a suburban branch. He may be kidding himself, according to Jack I. Straus, chairman of Macy's executive committee.

Suburbs have the same problems as downtown stores, he told the National Retail Merchants Association, including traffic tie-ups, rising taxes, shoplifting, scarcity of skilled labor and even the air isn't so sweet any more"